Beth Howe
Exhibitions Solo
2018 ‘Iona’, Shunpike Storefronts Public Art Projects, Seattle, WA
2017 ‘Monument: Coding a Woodcut’, Snap Gallery, Edmonton AB
2016 ‘Monument: Coding a Woodcut’, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg MB 2008 ‘Beth Howe: Environs’, Mercer Union, Toronto
2006 ‘Under Construction’, Dyan Marie Projects, Toronto, ON
‘New Lines: Drawn, Stitched, and Sculpted’, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA ‘Topograph’, MADE Design, Toronto
Exhibitions Group
2022 ‘LAPS 22nd National Print Exhibtion’, Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA
‘What a Relief!’ Cannon Gallery, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 2020 ‘Wooden Storytellers’, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA
2019 ‘ClothCulture’, Lake Country Art Gallery, BC
‘Stitching, Weaving, Coding’, SF Design Week Feature Exhibition, San Francisco ‘Stitching and Weaving in the Digital Age’, Currents New Media Festival at Currents 826, Sante Fe
2018 ‘Prinstallations’, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA ‘BIG INK II’, Bend Art Center, Bend OR
2016 ‘Code and Noise’, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA 2014 ‘Anne&Mark’s Art Party 2014’, San Jose, CA
‘Missed Connection/Connection’, San Francisco State University, CA 2013 ‘Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair’ Exhibitor, Seattle Center, October
‘Edition Lidu Art Books Wanted 2013’, B1 – Centre for Contemporary Design, Prague, Czech Republic. Traveled to Tabook Festival of Independant
Publishers, Gallery 140, Tábor Czech Republic
‘LIBRO: the liberation of the Book, Emily Carr Univ of Art and Design Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012 ‘Remaking Research’, Emily Carr Univ of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC 2011 ‘In/Out’, Wallace Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University, Mass.
‘The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work’ OR GALLERY off-site, Vancouver, BC ‘Obsolete Concepts’, Gallery, Oshawa, ON
2010 ‘Constructed Territories’, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH ‘Books, Records -’ CODE Screen, Exhibition No. 9 Curated by Dave Dyment for the Vancou ver Olympics, Vancouver, BC
‘Obsolete Concepts’, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON 2009 ‘At Variance’, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
‘e-xhibit’, Christopher West Presents, Indianapolis, IN 2008 ‘Obsolete Concepts’, A Space, Toronto, ON.
2007 ‘Best of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition’, First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON ‘REPORTS’, The Explorers Club Research Collections Department, NY, NY ‘MadeReady’, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2006 ‘Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition’, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON ‘Re-Shelving Initiative’, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS
2005 ‘To Have and To Hold’, Minnesota Center for the Book, Minneapolis, MN
Public Collections
Artist’s Books and Drawings in Special Collections at:
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC University of California at Berkeley, CA
Femmarte Foundation, Toronto, ON Collection of the City of Toronto, ON Neutral Capital Collection, New York, NY
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of San Diego, CA Mobilivre Traveling Book Arts Collection, Montreal, QC
Auchenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA CalPoly San Luis Obispo, CA
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Herron School of Art Library (Indiana/Purdue University), IN
Honors + Residencies
Banff 2D Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Oct-Dec 2021 BIG INK at Whiteaker Printmakers, Eugene, OR July 2018
Kala Art Center, Collaborative Artist-in-Residence, Berkeley, 2014-2015 + 2016 Featured Research Project, Remaking Research Symposium, Vancouver, 2012 Banff Project Residency, Banff Centre, Alberta June-July 2012
Djerassi Resident Artists Program Honorary Fellowship, Woodside, California, April-May 2009
Work featured in Canadian Art Magazine Gallery Hop Gala and Auction, Toronto, Sept. 2007
Murray Koffler Founding Chairman Purchase Prize (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition), 2006
Framework Foundation Purchase 2005, 2006, and 2007 San Francisco Art Institute Books Arts Prize 2002 and 2003
San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Student Grant 2001, 2002, and 2003
Writing Curation Presentations
SGC 2022 Madison: Our Shared Future. Panel Presentation: Drawn with Device
Artist Book: ‘Paikeselaiul’, Publisher Perro Verlag, Mayne Island, BC, 2019
IMPACT 11 Conference Hong Kong, Presentation: ‘Robots + Rembrandt - Technical and Archival Research In Printmaking’, 2020
‘Oh Look What You Made Me Do’, Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Symposium, Print Portfolio, 2019
Artist talk: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA, 2018 Artist talk: SNAP, Edmonton, 2017
Artist talk: Martha Street Gallery, Winnipeg, 2016 Artist talk: University of British Columbia, 2016
Workshop: Coding a Woodcut, hosted by Martha Street Gallery and University of Mani- toba Architecture FabLab, Oct 2016
Conference presentation: FLUX PORTLAND SGCI 2016 The Edge of Yesterday and To- morrow. The Same But Different, or How Not to Auto-Tune Your Prints, March 2016 Curation:‘Pertaining to a Structure: works from UBC Rare Books and Special Collections and Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Artist Book Collection’. Co-curated with Larissa Beringer, Irving K. Barber Center, 2015
Curation: ‘Close Reading: Artists’ books and publications from Emily Carr University of Art and Design’, Port Moody Arts Centre, 2010
Writing: ‘The Encyclopedia’, Get on the Bus - An Anthology; (San Francisco: City/Space), 2006
Press + Reviews
‘Prinstallations @ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art’. David M. Roth. Square Cylinder. 3/18/2018.
‘Arts and labour: Duo combines traditional printmaking and cutting-edge technology’. Steven Leyden Cochrane. Winnipeg Free Press. 11/10/2016.
‘Translations and Reversals: Coding a Woodcut. The work of Beth Howe & Clive McCarthy’. April Dean, Snapline (a publication of Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers), Summer 2016
‘Beth Howe’, Lori L. Ferguson, Haverford Magazine, Spring/Summer 2016
‘Seen as It Was Conceived: Or Gallery’s “The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work”, Sean Michael Nelson, Satel- lite Gallery, August 11, 2011.
‘The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work: Office Hours’, Bryne McLaughlin,
Canadian Art, Aug 4, 2011
‘Constructed Territory’ at Wright State: Exhibit explores Real and Imagined Landscapes’,
Jud Yakult, Dayton City Paper, Dec 22, 2010
‘Time and place in this space’, Travis Murphy, Fast Forward Weekly, June 18, 2009 ‘It’s a Small Big World’, Andrea Williamson, Shotgun Review, June 3, 2009
‘Tracking Suburbia; Do You Like Stuff?’, Ken Johnson, New York Times, October 14, 2005 ‘Do You Like Stuff?’, Adam E Mendelsohn, Art Monthly, October, 2005 (pp 34-35)
‘Do You Like Stuff?’, Christopher Howard, The Brooklyn Rail, October 22, 2005
Education + Teaching
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA BA with Honors, Haverford College, PA
Associate Professor, Print Media, Emily Carr Univeristy of Art + Design 2008-present
Grants + Awards
SSHRC Connection Grant 2023-2024 ‘Collective Description of the Wosk Masterworks Print Collection: a knowledge exchange for printmakers, archivists, and librarians’
Banff BAiR 2D Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, 2021
SSHRC Institution Grant, 2019 ‘Robots and Rembrandt: Technological and Archival Re search in Printmaking’