EDUCATION
1967-68 Kansas City Art Institute, BFA (Painting & Sculpture)
1963-64 Brooklyn Museum School of Art (Max Beckman Painting Scholarship)
1958-63 University of Montana, (Anthropology and Art)
TEACHING POSITIONS
1991-92 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, NS
1985-87 NSCAD, Halifax, NS
1984-85 Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
1981-83 York University, Downsview, Ontario
1979-80 Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1977-78 California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA
1976-78 University of California, Irving, CA
1968-74 NSCAD, Halifax, NS
SOLO EXIBITIONS
2004 Two Hanks, Kling & Bang Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 Two Hanks, CANADA, NY, NY
2002 New Works, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001 New Pictures and Older Videos, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Cultural Geographies, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
1995 Cultural Geographies, Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum, Charlottetown, PEI
1992 Video from the 80’s, Articule Gallery, Montreal, QC
1990 Paradise Burning, Clock Tower Gallery, (PS1, org.), NY, NY
1984 Selected Works, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1981 Delville’s Visit, Juncar/Kulenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Selective Survey, Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven Holland
1976 Selected Works, University of California Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
1975 Notes from Lisbon and Other Works, Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1974 Four Notes Through a Wall and Into the Grass, Gallery Francoise Lambert Milan, Italy 1973 Kepler, Kohoutek & Other Occurrences, John Gibson Gallery, NY, NY
1972 Concert Tone Compressions, Art & Project, Amsterdam, Holland; Gallery Paul Maenz, Twin Hills, Cologne, Germany; Jack Wendler Gallery, London, England
1971 Tuning Fork Concert, K.P.F.A. Radio, Berkeley, CA
1970 Multi Media Installation, NSCAD Mezzanine Gallery, Halifax, NS
GROUP EXIBITIONS
2004 Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Littoral Documents, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2003 7th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2002 Musee de art contemporian de Bordeaux, Seventies: Art in Question, Bordeaux, France
2001 Art Gallery of Ontario, Video Primer & Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Just the Facts?, Ottawa, Ontario
1997 Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany, Kunstalle Krems, Austria & Fotomuseum, Wintethur, Switzerland In the Realm of the Phantoms: Photography and the Apparitions
1995 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Temporary Contemporary, Reconsidering the Object of Art,
1965-75, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection, 1967-1973, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
1991 Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Northern Lights, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Vancouver SkyTrain, Transpositions, Vancouver, BC
1987 Power Plant, From Sea to Shining Sea, Toronto, Ontario
1980 Arts Council of Great Britain, Artist and Camera, London, England
1979 Groningen Museum, Narrative Art, Groningen, Holland
Commune Di Milano, Text/Visual, Milan, Italy
1978 Contemporary Art Museum, Story, Narrative Art, Houston, Texas
1977 Documenta, Kassel, Germany
1976 Israel Museum, The Artist and the Photograph (2nd Triennial of Photography), Jerusalem, Israel
1974 Wallraf-Richarz Museum, Project 74, Cologne, Germany
1973 The Museum of Conceptual Art, Sound Works, San Francisco, CA
1971 Center of Art and Communication, 3,549,000, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970 Museum of Modern Art, Information, NY, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Askevold, David. (exhibition catalog) Eindhoven, Holland: Stedelijk Van AbbeMuseum 1980. Essays by Frederick Dolan, Peggy Gale & Alan Sondheim, texts and images by David Askevold.
Bruce Barber, Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973,(exhibition catalogue) pp.17, 18, 19, 38, 39
Collins, James, Art Forum, 12 (March 1974) pp. 74-75
Documenta VII. (exhibition catalog) Kassel, Germany, 1977.
Dolan, Fred, ÒDavid Askevold: Political Modernism and Postmodernity.Ó Vanguard, #17 (February 1988), pp. 19-22
Extra, Cologne, Germany. #4 (April, 1975) Special issue on David Askevold, bibliography, exhibition chronology, documentation of works from1968-1975.
Flash Art, 38 (January 1974), p.7. documentaion and text by David Askevold, bibliography, exhibition chronology, documentation of works.
Krauss, Rosalind. ÔNotes on the Index: Seventies Art in AmericaÕ October #3, (Spring 1976), pp. 68-81. Reprinted in ÔThe Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist
MythsÕ. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 1987.
Goldstein, Ann, and Anne Rommimer, ÒReconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-75 (exhibition catalogue) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the publishers Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1996.
The Journal, A Contemporary Art Magazine, JournalÕs 40th Issue, LAICAÕs Ten Year Catalog, Number 40, Vol.4, Fall 1984, ÒThe PoltergeistÓ (a collaboration with Mike Kelley) pp. 57-59, Los Angeles, CA
Liberal Art University Experiences. David Askevold in Conversation with Paul McMahon & 3 pg. presentations of game and film pieces: Studio International 183 (April 1972) pp. 156-159.
Lippard, Lucy. ÔSix Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972Õ.New York: Praeger, 1973.
Loers, Veit, ÒMediumististische oder Psychedelische Fotografie? Der Psi-Effekt im Konzeptualismus, Im Reich der Phantome, (In the Realm of the Phantom) fall, 1998, (exhibition catalogue) p. 149, plates 225, 226, 228, 230
Myers, Holly, ÒExploring the Dawn of Digital Expression, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 2001
Narrative Art (exhibition catalog). Bonn, Germany: Booner Kunsteverein, 1979.
Sondheim, Alan, ed. ÔIndividuals: Post Movement Art in AmericaÕ. New York: Dutton
Books, 1977.
Stacey, Robert, and Liz Wylie. ÔEighty/Twenty - 100 years of the Nova Scotia
College of Art and DesignÕ (exhibition catalog). Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1988. Video by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1975. Includes David AskevoldÕs ÒNotes for Explanation and AttitudeÓ
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Canada
Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA
Art Metropole. Toronto, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank. Ottawa
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Ottawa
Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum. Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada
Long Beach Museum of Art. Long Beach, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA
National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa
National Public Library. Ottawa
Van AbbeMuseum. Eindhoven, Holland
Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, BC, Canada
Art Gallery of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario, Canada
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2002 Creation Grant, Nova Scotia Arts Council
2001 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Canadian Office of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa
2000 Creation Grant, Nova Scotia Arts Council
1999 Millennium Arts Grant, The Canada Council
1997 Joan Chalmers Visual Arts Award, The Joan Chalmers Foundation,
Toronto
1995 Visual Arts ÔAÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1993 Visual Arts ÔAÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1989 Video ÔAÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1986 Video ÔAÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1983 Research Grant, Video. York University. Downsview, Ontario
1974 Multi Media ÔBÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1972 Multi Media ÔBÕ Grant. The Canada Council
1964 Painting Award Purchase. The Brooklyn Museum School of Art, NY
1963 Max Beckman Painting Scholarship. The Brooklyn Museum School of Art, NY
1986-88 Board of Directors: Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS
1978-80 Board of Directors: Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), LA, CA.
