RELATED ACTIVITIES
2024
Guest jury for The Golden Colonel: a speculative retirement home for artists at Flux Factory, Governors Island, USA
2021
Guest lecturer for OCAD University (Toronto) x Joshibi (Tokyo) Joint Eco-feminism class
2020
Guest Artist's Talk, University of Waterloo (Online)
Guest Artist's Talk, OCAD University (Online)
Back to the Drawing Board Podcast Episode 057: "Shinobu and Matt are Back! Making Art 'Accidentally'", February 3, 2020
2018
Back to the Drawing Board Podcast Episode 027: "Taking a Break, Artists on Hiatus, with Matthew and Shinobu", October 15, 2018
2016
Artist's Talk for Residency For Artists On Hiatus, OCAD University
2015
Panel on Artist in Residence Cross talk, organized by HAPS & Kyoto Art Center, Japan
2014
Memorable Exhibitions 2014 for M-KOS.net, online contemporary art forum, Canada
Review on Yokohama Triennale 2014 for Cmagazine, issue 124 "STRATA", Winter 2014, pp 64-65
2013
Review on 55th Venice Biennale for Akimbo.ca Part1,
Part2
2012
Ustream talk for the Field Trip Project, Birdo Flugas, Shiogama, Japan
2011
Montreal loves you Japan / Japon, Montréal t'aime - Art fundraiser for Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami relief, Ctrllab, Montreal, Canada
2008
Adjunct Professor,
Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Japan Campus, Art Department, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Artist’s residency at Full Tilt Creative Centre, Corner Brook, NL, Canada
Guest panel for HAMA-CRE! EVENING Vol.30+4 - "Creative City Yokohama", Yokohama,
Japan
2006
Curation of Canadian artists for Readymade: Map at +Gallery & Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan
Artist's Talk, +Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Artist's Talk, remo, Osaka, Japan
Screening and Artist's Talk, Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo, Japan
Artist's Talk, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Artist's residency for the themed commission program Egalité, Trinity
Square Video, Toronto, Canada
2005-6
Curation, subtitling, and touring of “sometimes we make it, sometimes
we use it and a lot of time we hang out for it - Contemporary Canadian Video
Collection” for various
venues in Japan
2003
Juror, Seiji Award, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
Artist's Talk, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's NF, Canada
Artist's Talk, SKOL, Montreal, Canada
Artist's Talk, The 16th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Board of Directors, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON (- 2007)
Artist's Talk, Walter J Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
2001
Artist's Talk, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2000
Artist's Talk, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
Sessional Instructor, Visual Art department, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2016
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Travel Grant
Canada Council for the Arts - Project Grant
2014
Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant
2007
Toronto urban film festival – Best in Category: Urban Ennui
2006
Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant
Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance
Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance
2005
Ontario Arts Council - Visual Arts Grant to Mid-career Artist
2004
Canada Council for the Arts - Creation/Production Grants to Emerging Artist
Cultural Promotion Program, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo
2003
Ontario Arts Council - Visual Arts Grant to Emerging Artist
Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant
2002
Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance
Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance
2001
Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance
1996
Helen Pitt Award (Vancouver Foundation), Honourable mention on Blindness in
Trout
CROSS-CULTURAL / CROSS-LINGUISTIC INVOLVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
1998 - to date