Alison Keenan CV

Education

2011 Simon Fraser University. Certificate in Liberal Arts

2008 Emily Carr University BFA (Visual Arts)

1977 Scholarship, Atelier of Gobelin and Aubusson Tapestry, Cairo, Egypt

1960 Arts Educational College, London, England

Grants/Awards

2020 Artist of the Month Award. The Union House Project. Instagram

2015 City of Vancouver. Community Grant. Chinese Cultural Centre

Telling Stories: A Visual Arts Exhibition

2002 City of Vancouver. Project Grant. Roundhouse Community Centre

If Images Speak a Thousand Words…?

1996 Canada Council. Jean A. Chalmers Fund for Crafts. Coordinator.

Community Tapestry for Dr. Peter Aids Centre. Vancouver, B.C. Design Team

1990 Elizabeth Keeling Award. Fabric Arts Guild. Vancouver, B.C.

Artist Residencies

2021 LEΓ‘A Artist Research and Residency Centre. Galiano Island B.C.

2019 Artist Residency at #casagallerysandelcabo@13feetoffthegroundmexico

2017 Graniti Murales Project. Sicily. granitimurales.org/the-residency-program

2014 Lord Byng Secondary School. Fine Arts Department. Vancouver, B.C.

Summer painting Residency SS. Master 19222 heritage steam tugboat. Granville Island

2013 Summer painting Residency SS. Master 19222 heritage steam tugboat. Granville Island

2012 Ballet BC Residency. Ballet BC studio Vancouver BC

Murals

2020 Rooftop Garden Mural. Sidney Manor. Yaletown. Vancouver, B.C.

2019 Penticton Art Gallery Mural for Vision 20/20

2019 Treehouse Mural for British Properties with 13 feet Off the Ground Collective

2018 Sweet Harmony Mural designed by Morgane Billault + 13 feet Off the Ground Collective

2018 Big Pets Mural. Designed by Angela Gooliaff for SPCA. City of Vancouver.

2017 Graniti Murales Project. Sicily. granitimurales.org/the-residency-program

Corporate and Private Collections

Permanent Collection of the Centre Cultural Columbien Vancouver.

Museum of Modern Art, Giza, Cairo. Egypt.

International Centre for Diplomats, Zamaleck, Cairo, Egypt.

Rosamilia Archives, Sarno, Italy. Craft Association of B.C.

Vancouver – Point Grey Community Office of MLA David Eby.

Private collections Vancouver B.C. Taipei Taiwan, New Jersey, N.Y

SS Master Steamship Society. Maritime Museum. Vancouver, B.C.

Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche, Treviso, Italy

Dr. Peter Centre Vancouver B.C.

Brooklyn Library. Brooklyn. N.Y. U.S.A.

Musee Georges de Sonneville, Gradignan, France

Vera Public Library Archive. Thessaloniki. Greece

Graniti Murales Art Project Graniti. Messina. Sicily

Sidney Manor Yaletown Vancouver B.C.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Surreal Landscapes and Imaginary Worlds Lipont Gallery Richmond. B.C.

2018 Eagles and Peregrine Falcon Gallery Window for VanCity. Vancouver B.C.

2018 Raven and Crow. Gallery Window Art Beat Harmony Arts Festival. West Vancouver, B.C.

2014 The Tree: Literal and Figurative. Gallery Window

Chinese Cultural Centre Museum. Vancouver B.C

2011 Street Dance Part 2 Port Moody Art Centre Port Moody, B.C

2008 Aftermath: Recent Paintings Jericho Arts Centre. Vancouver. B.C

Selected Invitational/Juried Group Exhibitions

2026 Clocking in for Unpaid Labour. The Outlet Gallery Port Coquitlam B.C.

2025 The Immanence Art Centre. Montparnasse. Paris. France

2025 Clocking in for Unpaid Labour. Deer Lake Art Gallery Richmond B.C.

2025 Art in a Box – A Polyphonic Exhibition Langue de France Rhodes Greece.

2025 Art Incognito Exhibition. B1 Gallery. Beaumont Studios Vancouver, B.C.

2024 13 FEET Forward. A reunion Art Exhibit. B1 Gallery. Beaumont Studios Vancouver, B.C

2024 Dada Phone – Tribute to Schwitters Day of Art. Pirna, Germany

2024 Place, Memory & Distance Atelier 8.18 Vancouver B.C.

2022 Retroavangarda. Korekta Gallery. Warsaw. Poland. Elia

2022 Art Rental Exhibition. CityScapes Art Gallery. Vancouver, B.C.

2022 arTHANKS exhibition Paneficio Gallery. Vancouver B.C.

2021 ArtRich21 Richmond Art Gallery. Richmond. B.C.

2020 Igniting Hope PoMoArts exhibition. Port Moody. Online. Zoom and Facebook.

2019 Avian Alphabet. The Fort Gallery. Langley. BC.

2019 Puertas 13 Feet off the Ground Collective. Pez Gordo Gallery. San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico

2018 Bare Minimum 13 Feet Off the Ground Art Collective. Off the Rail Vancouver B.C.

2018 Imago Mundi: Great and North OCADU OnSite Gallery, Toronto

2018 Dreaming of Canada. Art Gallery of St. Albert. Alberta Canada

2018 ARTSPEAK SHOWCASE Exhibition at Silk Purse Arts Centre Gallery. West Vancouver

2018 From Where We Stand. 13 Feet Off the Ground Art Collective. Port Moody Art Centre

2018 Luppolo Exhibition. Vancouver, B.C. 13 Feet Off the Ground Art Collective.

2017 13 Feet Off to Sicily. Main Space Vancouver B.C.

2017 Artisan Series Vancouver Edition. Semi-Finalist Winsor Art Gallery Vancouver B.C.

2017 Imago Mundi: Great and North. Palazzo Loredan. Venice. Italy.

2017 The Summer Group Exhibition I: Work on Canvas. Lipont Art Centre Vancouver, B.C.

2017 150th Anniversary Canada Exhibition. Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice

2017 Your City/Your Countryside. Musee Georges de Sonneville. Gradignan. France

2016 International Mail-In Art Exhibition. Federation of Canadian Artists Vancouver, B.C.

2016 Lord Byng Gallery Exhibition. Vancouver B.C.

2015 Moving Forward Looking Back ECUAD 90th Anniversary. Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Vancouver, B.C.

2015 Imago Mundi Project, FONDAZIONE BENETTON STUDI E RICERCHE, Treviso, Italy.

2015 Telling Stories: The Connections between Us Chinese Cultural Centre. Vancouver, B.C.

2015 The Thread of Life. Sheffield Art Centre. England

2015 Harbour Art Exhibition Vancouver Maritime Museum B.C

2014 The Tree: Literal and Figurative. The Chinese Cultural Centre Museum. Vancouver B.C.

2013 Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books. University of Akron. OH

2013 Water Works. Vancouver Maritime Museum B.C.

2012 In Camera: the working dancer. Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC.

Sans Brush CityScapes Community Art Space North Vancouver B.C.

On-Line Publications Catalogues/YouTube pages

2024 Everything Bananas Assembly magazine published by miriskum.de DU

2020 Lockdown instagram.com/fronteerlockdown

2020 The Gashlycrumb Tinies Alphabet inspired by Edward Gorey. Ontario and Portugal

2019 Art Insider: An Artist Collective’s Adventure in Mexico. Ferry Building Gallery. West Vancouver.

2019 Italian Television. TGR Sicilia. Cameo of Mural in Graniti. 13/03/2019

2018 tricitynews.com – Collective was still on a high after Sicily

2017 13feetofftheground.com

2017 gazzettadesud.it Oct 31/2017 – Artiste canadesi colorano Graniti.

2017 Gazzetti Online – “12 Canadian Artists Paint Centuries Old Walls” in Graniti Sicily

2017 150th Anniversary Canada Venice Biennale

istitutoveneto.it

labiennale.org

2015 Telling Stories Exhibition opening video. youtu.be/OZ6hmLq-kOI

2015 Telling Stories: The Connections between Us.

gallerieswest.ca – Chinese Cultural Centre Museum

Moving Forward Looking Back. ECUAD 90th Anniversary. Page 24.

2015 Zine in a Box edition three. Starnberg. Germany stampzine.blogspot.ca

2015 Oh West Canada! Contemporary Artists from Western Canada. Luciano Benetton Collection. Italy

2014 The Tree: Literal and Figurative Exhibition Catalogue. Co-author, sassamatt.com