NATASHA LAVDOVSKY CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2019- 2023 Concordia University, Masters of Fine Arts, Intermedia Program, Montreal, QC
2003-2009 Princeton University, Bachelor of Art History and Studio Art, Princeton, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Eco-Vanity, Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2018 Rootless, Pop-Up Show at Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC
2009 In The Elements, Lucas Gallery, Princeton, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Gorse: A Remedy for Hopelessness, City of Victoria Art in Kiosks Program, Victoria BC
2021 Various videos, Ministry of Casual Living Window Gallery, Victoria BC
2020 Maureen V, online exhibit by Concordia MFA students, Montreal, QC
2020 Various performance videos, Flux Media Window Gallery, Victoria, BC
2019 Site of The Not Yet, Peripheral Hours, Montreal, QC
2019 Look Show, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC
2017 Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2017 Fine Art, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 Art Victoria Now, The Atrium Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 Fotofilmic, Pulp Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2014 Walk the Line , Museum Editions, New York, NY
2013 Thanks, But No Tanks , Kay Llnagaay Haida Heritage Centre, Haida Gwaii, BC
2012 All Island Art Show, Kay Llnagaay Haida Heritage Centre, Haida Gwaii, BC
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 David Suzuki Foundation, Rewilding Art Prize
2021 Canada Council of the Arts, Research and Creation grant
2020 The Textile & Materiality Cluster student research grant, Concordia University
2019 The Scholarship Program’s Individual Arts Award, BC Arts Council
2019 Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship Award, Concordia University
2019 Concordia University GSAAC Award, Concordia University
2019 Out of Province Fee Remission Award, Concordia University
2017 Best in Photography, Victoria Arts Council
2009 Francis LeMoyne Page Visual Arts Award, Princeton University
2009 Canadian Studies Research Grant, Princeton University
2008 The Lawrence P. Wolfen '87 Senior Thesis Award, Princeton University
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Lichenology citizen science (community practice art) contributed to a peer- reviewed scientific report: Without an over-arching biodiversity protection act, what
protections exist for biodiversity in British Columbia? A case study of Oldgrowth Specklebelly Lichen (Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis), Neilson, Maingon, Lavdovsky.
2020 Interview for experimental music video, Sleeping, The Haida Gwaii Observer, online publication (May 2020)
2019 Discussion of Lichen Wigs Exhibition, General Programming, University of Victoria Radio, CFUV 101.9
2019 Exhibition Review, "Site of The Not Yet" Group Show, The Link Newspaper
2018 Art Review of "Rootless" Exhibition, Exhibit-V Blog, http://exhibit-v.blogspot.com/2018/10/rootless-review-by-tamara-yewchuk.html
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
2023 Member of Sooke Arts Council & Victoria Arts Council
2022-2023 Member of South Vancouver Island Mycological Society
2021-2023 Member of Northwest Lichenologists Association
2020-2022 Member of Milieux’s Textiles & Materiality Research Cluster, Montreal QC
2020-2022 Member of Milieux’s Biolab research cluster, Montreal QC
2018-2019 Member of MediaNet (media arts collective), Victoria, BC
2018-2019 Studio Member at Xchanges Studios, Victoria, BC
2013-2019 Crossgrain Photographic Society, Xchanges Studios, Victoria, BC
COMMISSIONS
2010 Intercontinental Hotel Times Square c/o Museum Editions, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Hotel Eventi, New York, NY
East Pyne Rotunda, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ