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Christos Dikeakos – CV

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Christos Dikeakos Curriculum Vitae Born 1946, Thessaloniki, Greece

Lives and works in Vancouver

Education

1970 BFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 Patisserie Duchamp, Chernoff Fine Art, Vancouver BC

2017 The Hastings Mill Store Museum, site specific exhibition of a tableau size group portrait

photograph of the Native Daughters of BC, Old Hastings Mill Store Museum,

Vancouver BC

2015 NEXT: Christos Dikeakos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Passageways, Capture photo festival, YVR airport, Richmond BC

Christos Dikeakos: Trouble in Paradise, West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver BC

2014 Chistos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names, Walter C. Koerner Library, University of

British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Nature Morte, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

2012 Christos Dikeakos: Pâtisserie Duchamp/Puis-je fumer?, Confederation Centre Art

Gallery, Hamilton ON

2011 Pâtisserie Duchamp/Puis-je fumer?, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University,

Hamilton ON

2010 Puis-je fumer? May I smoke Duchamp? Museum London, London ON

2009 The Apartment, Vancouver, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

Panorama Pictures, Akau Inc, Toronto ON

2005 Christos Dikeakos, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

2002 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

1998 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names and Recent Works, Art Gallery of North York, North

York ON

1996 Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names: Athens, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

BC

1994 Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON

Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK


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Skwachays/Hole in Bottom, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

1992 Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1988 Canadian Archeological Institute, Athens, Greece

Epipeda Gallery, Athens, Greece

Canadian Culture Centre, Rome, Italy

1986 Christos Dikeakos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1985 Christos Dikeakos: Recent Works, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver BC

1973 Christos Dikeakos, Mezzanine Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax NS

https://nscad.cairnrepo.org/islandora/object/nscad%3A5202

1969 Mirror Reflection, Student Union Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

BC

Paper and Felt Installation, Student Union Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

BC

Process Grass Sculpture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 The Poetics of Space, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

Leftovers: Topographies of Chance, Trapp Projects, Vancouver BC

Views from the Collection: The Street, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

The Poets Have Always Preceded, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver BC

2017 Sites of Assembly, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

Pictures from Here, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2016 An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of Modern Canadian Environment,

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal QC

This Is It with It as It Is, curated by Wil Aballe, AHVA Audain Centre for the Arts,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

2015 B.C. Almanac, Presentation House, North Vancouver BC

Melancholy Bay, Belkin gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Eye to Eye, from the private collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft,

Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver BC

Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015, SFU Gallery, Simon Fraser University,

Burnaby BC

The Poetics of Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2014 Satellite Gallery, Vancouver BC, February 14 – March 29

2013 Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk'wa, from the Michael's and Inna O'Brian Collection, Morris

and Helen Belking Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

The Photo Show 1969/2013, AHVA Audain Gallery, University of British Columbia,

https://nscad.cairnrepo.org/islandora/object/nscad%3A5202


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Vancouver BC

Auto Motive, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON

2012 1969-1972: Christos Dikeakos, Charles Duke, Peter Miller & Alexander Stewart, Robert

Smithson, Volker Bradtke, Düsseldorf, Germany

Back to the Land, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON

C.1983: Part II, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver BC

Works from the Permanent Collection Modern and Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of

Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

2010 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of

Toronto, Toronto ON, travelled to: Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University,

Halifax NS; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC; Art Gallery of Alberta,

Edmonton, AB; Badischer Kunstverin, Karlsuhe, Germany

The Game Show, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC

2009 Homage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2008 Photography 101, Confederation Centre of the Arts Gallery, Charlottetown PEI

Our Changing Landscape: Perspectives on and Interpretations of British Columbia (series

III), Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC

Visions of British Columba: A Landscape Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2006 Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York NY, USA

Out of the Blue, Abington Art Centre, Jenkintown PA, USA; travelled to: Gallery

Bergen, Paramus NJ, USA

Radical Regionalism, Local Knowledge and Making Places, Museum London, London

ON; travelled to: Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

75 Years of Collecting: First Nations: Myths and Realities, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

274 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

2005 Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown PEI

2004 Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton ON

Reality Check, Illington Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary AB

2003 Robert Smithson in Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955 to 1985, Presentation House

Gallery, North Vancouver BC

2002 New Media, Artwork from the 60's and 70's in Vancouver, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby

BC

This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2000 The Single Tree, London Regional Art Museum, London ON

Traversing Territory, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR, USA

1999 Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Vertical Cities: Documenting Hong Kong and Vancouver, Charles H. Scott Gallery,

Emilly Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC

1997 The Ghost of the Machine, Unrealized Public Projects, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily

Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC


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Road Movies in a Post Colonial Landscape, The Art Gym at Marylhurst College,

Portland OR

1996 The Culture of Nature, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamploops BC

The Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of North York, North York ON

1995 Survey Results show…, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON; travelled to:

Oakville

Galleries, Oakville ON; Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary AB;

Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherine ON; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB

Displaced Histories, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa ON

The Recovery of the Public World, Conference and Festival in Honour of Robin Blaser,

poster design with Alex Hoss

World Tea Party, Presentation House, North Vancouver BC

1994 Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

BC

1993 Artropolis '93, Vancouver BC

Oraf & Christos Dikeakos, Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC

Working Documents: Drawings by Vancouver Artists, Artspeak, Vancouver BC

1990 North of the Border: Contemporary Vancouver Art, Whatcom Museum of Art,

Bellingham WA, USA

Transpositions, Skytrain Station Installation, Vancouver BC

1988 It's Classical, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC

Urban Subjects, site-specific installation, Vancouver BC

1987 Artropolis, Vancouver BC

Homage to Marcel Duchamp, Forest City Gallery/London Regional Art

Gallery/McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London ON

1986 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery T.O.O., Vancouver BC

Making History: Recent Art from the Pacific West, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

BC

Open Site, the Centre Which Is Time, Dazibao Gallery, Champ de Visiur, Champ de

Fouilles, Montreal QC

1977 Brisbane Exchange, Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver BC; travelled to the Institute of

Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia

1973 Canada Trajectories '73, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France

Vancouver Show, Seattle Pacific Northwest Gallery, Seattle WA, USA

West Coast Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1972 Art Probe, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Scan: A Survey of Canadian Art Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1971 Collage Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Contact 71, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, USA

Image Bank Postcard Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia,


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Vancouver BC

45º 30' N – 73º 36W + Inventory, Sir George Williams University, Montreal QC

Ovum10, Gallery Dumunem, Brno, Czechoslovakia

Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Paw Gallery, Bennington VT, USA

1970 Image 7: BC Almanac, National Film Board, Ottawa ON

950,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1969 New Attitudes in Photography (The Photo Show) Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Robert

Smithson, Dan Graham, Douglas Heubler, Bill Vazan, Illyas Pagonis, Robert Sandilands,

Robert Kinmont, N.E.Thing Co., Donald Burgy, Student Union Building Gallery,


Groups, Student Union Building Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York NY, USA

Public Art Commissions

2013 The Music Lesson, Canada House, London, United Kingdom

2000 The Lookout, produced in collaboration with Noel Best, False Creek, Vancouver BC

Selected Public Collections

Audain Art Gallery, Whistler BC

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa ON

Canada House, London, United Kingdoms

Canadian Museum of Contemporary

Photography, Ottawa ON

Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK

Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University

of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Museum of Anthropology, University of

British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art,

Toronto ON

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON

Oakville Gallery, Oakville ON

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC

Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City

UT

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Vorres Art Museum, Peania, Greece

Awards & Tributes

2013 Royal Canadian Academy of Art induction

2012 Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Visual Art

1994 Tribute for Christos Dikeakos, Western Front Society, Vancouver BC

1993 Canada Council Grant

1971 I.O.D.E scholarship, University of British Columbia, Thea Koerner Foundation


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Award

1970 Canada Council Grant

Professional Services and Cultural Boards

2017 Capture Photography Festival 2018 juror with Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art

Gallery curator), and Kimberly Phillips (Contemporary Art Gallery curator)

2016-2018 Vice President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art

2015-present Board member of the Griffin Projects Art Gallery, North Vancouver BC

2013-2016 Member of the nomination committee of the Royal Canadian Academy of

Arts

2012-present Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

2011-2016 Member of the Museum of Anthropology External Advisory Board, University

of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

2006-2010 Appointment to the British Columbia Arts Council

2001-2007 Trustee, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Chairman of Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Chairman of the Programme Committee, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

BC

2001 Council of the Expatriate Greek Nations, Thessaloniki, Greece

1995 Juror, the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto

ON

1994-1995 Fundraiser and speaker for the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC

1990-1994 Member of the Western Front Fundraising Committee, Vancouver BC

Member of the Contemporary Art Gallery Fundraising Committee,

Vancouver BC

1993 Juror, VIVA Awards for Visual Arts, Vancouver BC

1990-1993 Chairman of the Acquisitions Committee, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

BC

1988-1994 Board member and chairman of the acquisition committee at the Vancouver Art

Gallery

1987-1991 Board member of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1987-1988 Consultant, Magiciens de la Terre, worldwide exhibition of contemporary art,

Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

1986-1990 Vice-Chairman of the Board, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC


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Chairman of Fundraising Committee, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Member of the Planning Committee, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Member of the Fundraising Committee, Western Front, Vancouver BC

1987-1989 Long Range Planning Committee Member, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

BC

1985-1989 Board Member, Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society, Vancouver BC

1981-1984 Commissions manager for Robert Davidson, Museum of Man, Gatineau QC

1983 Consultant, Northwest Coast selection of the Exhibition of Vancouver Art &

Artist 1931-83, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Arranged the inaugural ceremonial dance performance by Robert Davison and

the Haida Rainbow Creek dancers, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1969-1971 Curator/Co-director, S.U.B. Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Curatorial

1988 Nomi Kaplan: Brooklyn Illuminations. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of

Art & Design, Vancouver BC

Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC;

travelled to: 49th Parallel, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, The Power Plant,

Winnipeg Art Gallery

1983 Recent Prints: Robert Davidson, Maple Ridge Gallery, Maple Ridge BC

1974 The Summer Script, Ian Wallace solo show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver BC

1973 West Coast Lokas: Al Neil, Assemblages and Collages, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

BC

Three Photographic Attitudes: Nina Rakinsky, Fred Douglas, Lynn Phipps, Vancouver Art

Gallery, Vancouver BC

1972 Bill Bissett, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Alternative Press Show, Fine Arts Gallery, university of British Columbia, Vancouver

BC

1971 The Collage Show, Fine Arts Gallery, university of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

1970 Sound Show, Fine Arts Gallery, university of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

1969 Perivalon, Student Union Building Gallery, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

D’Arcy Henderson, Student Union Building Gallery, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

New Attitudes in Photography (The Photo Show), Student Union Building Gallery,


1968 D’Arcy Henderson and Ian Wallace, two person show, Student Union Building Gallery,


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Lecturer

2007 Guest lecturer, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

2006 Guest lecturer, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

2001 Guest lecturer, Contemporary Public Sculpture, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

1995 Guest lecturer, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

1994 Guest speaker, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK

Guest speaker, Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor ON

Guest speaker, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Guest speaker, Art Gallery of North York, Toronto ON

Guest lecturer, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC

Guest speaker, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

Guest lecturer, Art Teachers Symposium, Robson Square, Vancouver BC

Guest lecturer, Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC

Guest speaker, Hellenic Diaspora Cultural Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece

Guest lecturer, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom

Guest lecturer, Studio Media Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

1989-1990 Guest lecturer, Vancouver Art Gallery

1989 Guest lecturer, Westcoast Art and the International Context, Emily Carr College of

Art and Design, Vancouver BC

Guest lecturer, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC

1988-1989 Instructor, seminar on Arts & Artists in Vancouver from post-war period to present, Art

History, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC

1988 Guest lecturer, Photographic Works of Theodore Wan, Vancouver Art Gallery,

Vancouver BC

1987-1989 Lecturer, Art Education Programme, Historical & Contemporary Canadian Art,

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

1986 Instructor, Art History, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC

1984 Guest lecturer, Collage & Assemblage in the 20th Century, University of Victoria,

Victoria BC

Guest lecturer, The Canadian Archeological Institute, Athens, Greece

Guest lecturer, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

Guest lecturer, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver BC


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1971-1973 Teaching assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Department,


Selected Public Talks

“Conversations on Contemporary Collecting with Marshall Webb.” Lecture, Vancouver Art

Gallery, Vancouver BC, November 15th, 2018.

To Gordon With Love. Guest speaker, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver BC, November 9th, 2018.

“Alex Morrison.” Capture Speaker Series, Capture Photo Festival. Artist conversation, Inform

Interior, Vancouver BC, April 4th, 2017. https://vimeo.com/215285695

“Panel: Lewis Baltz.” Capture Photo Festival. Panelist, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver

BC, April 2nd, 2017.

“Overlapping Art and Literary Practices of Collage and Photography.” Artist talk, Brock

University, St. Catharines ON, October 14th, 2016.

“Discussing the Major Themes of the Audain Collection.” Meet Our Artists, Audain Art

Gallery, Whistler BC, October 1st, 2016.

“The Geopolitics of Contemporary Art and Representations of Ruin.” Artist talk, facilitated

by Samuel Roy-Bois, University of British Columbia Okanagan, September 19th, 2016.

“A discussion about the BC Almanac with Michael deCourcy, Christos Dikeakos, Andrea Kunard,

Michael Morris.” Panelist and presenter, Presentation House, North Vancouver BC, November

28th, 2015.

“Northwest Coast Basket and Fiber Arts.” Artist talk, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC,

September 14th, 2015.

“Artist Talk: Nature Morte.” Artist talk, West Vancouver Gallery Public Talks, West

Vancouver gallery, West Vancouver BC, May 23rd, 2015.

“The Okanagan Regional World as a Photographic Subject.” Artist talk, University of British

Columbia Okanagan Campus, Kelowna BC, September 29th, 2014.

“The Erasure of Terminal City: a new topography of the capitalist picturesque.” Keynote

speaker, The Life And Death Of The Arts In Cities After Mega-Events – Vancouver

2010/London 2012 from ACME Conferences, Simon Fraser University Woodwards

Building, Vancouver BC, August 13th, 2014.

“The Photo Show.” Artist talk, Noon Time Artist Talk: Christos Dikeakos from Art History

and Visual Arts Department of University of British Columbia, Audain Art Centre

Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, October 30th, 2013.

“Vancouver, Speculations on False Creek.” Public talk, Round House Community Center,

Vancouver BC, November 12th, 2011.

“Vancouver, Speculations on False Creek.” Public Talk from Centre A Public Talks, Centre A,

Vancouver BC, November 9th, 2011.

“Puis-je Fumer/Duchamp May I Smoke?” Artist talk, McMaster University Museum of Art,

https://vimeo.com/215285695


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Hamilton ON, 2011.

“Vancouverism.” Maraya. Artist talk, Center A, Vancouver BC, January 25th, 2009.


Selected Bibliography

Books and Exhibition Catalogues

Arnold, Grant. Topographies. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1996.

_____ (ed.). Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012.

_____ et al. Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation. Vancouver:

Vancouver Art Gallery, 2004.

Baldissera, Lisa. The Tremendous Elusive: Emily Carr and the Canadian Imaginary. London UK:

Canada Gallery, 2016.

Bellamy, Dick et al. Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955 to 1985. Vancouver:

Presentation House Gallery, 2003.

Bellerby, Greg and Trevor Boddy. Vertical Cities. Vancouver: Charles H. Scott Gallery, 1999.

Berringer, Patricia. “Nothing has Changed, Everything's Different.” Christos Dikeakos: Sites

and Place Names. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, 1992, pp. 18-19.

Blaser, Robin. “Mind Canaries.” Christos Dikeakos. Vancouver Art Gallery, 1986.

_____. “Mind Canaries.” The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser. Berkeley and Los Angeles:

University of California Press, 2006.

_____ and Scott Watson. Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery,

1986.

Bratishenko, Lev and Mirko Zardini (ed.). It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern

Canadian Environment. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; Heijningen, the

Netherlands: Jap Sam Books, 2016.

Brayshaw, Christopher. Lookout: Christos Dikeakos and Noel Best. Vancouver: Concord Pacific Group,

2001.

Brodovitch, Sophie and Jennifer Cane (eds.). Our Changing Landscape: Perspective on and

Interpretations of British Columbia. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery, 2010.

Budde, Rob. “Here/Hear.” The Capilano Review: Eye To Eye, vol. 29, no. 3, summer 2016.

Burnham, Clint. “False Hood.” Christos Dikeakos. Vancouver: Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 2002.

De Baere, Bart et al. Intertidal Vancouver Art and Artists. Antwerp: Museum van Hedengaagse

Kunst Antwerpa (MuHKA) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of

British Columbia, Vancouver, 2005.



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De Courcy, Michael. B.C. Almanac(h). North Vancouver, British Columbia: Presentation

House Gallery, 2015.

Dickenson, Victoria et al. The Good Lands: Canada Through the Eyes of Artists. Vancouver,

British Columbia: Figure 1 Publishing, 2017.

Dikeakos, Christos and Jane Rankin-Read. Christos Dikeakos: Pâtisserie Duchamp/Puis-je fumer.

Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2011.

Greenville, Bruce. Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names: Vancouver/Saskatoon. Saskatoon:

Mendel Art Gallery, 1994.

_____ and Scott Steedman (eds.). Vision of British Columbia. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery

and Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.

Holubizky, Ihor, Dr. “Thinking Through Christos Dikeakos: The Collector, the Photographer

and the Enigma of Things.” Next: Christos Dikeakos. Vancouver, British Columbia:

Vancouver Art Gallery, 2015.

_____. Radical Regionalism, Local Knowledge and Making Places. London, Ontario: Museum of

London, 2006.

Lewis, Glenn. New Media: Artwork from the 60's and 70's in Vancouver. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery,

2002.

Lippard, Lucy R. “In a word.” The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society.

New York: The New Press, 1995.

Mastai, Judith. Sites and Place Names and Recent Works. North York, Ontario: Art Gallery of

North York, 1998.

_____ and Lois Allan. Traversing Territory. Portland: Portland Institute of Contemporary Art,

2000.

Modigliani, Leah. Endangering and Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscape of Vancouver

Photoconceptualism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.

O'Brian, John and Peter White. Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and

Contemporary Art. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.

Morrison, Darrin. Christos Dikeakos: Trouble in Paradise. West Vancouver Museum, 2015.

Narusevicius, Vytas. “The Photo Show: 1969/2013 – Exploring the Photo Conceptual

Archive.” Exhibition essay by the curator. 2013.

Payne, Carol. Displaced Histories. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,

1995.

Reality Check, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2003.

Plested, Lee. “the poets have always preceded: art and poetry in Vancouver, 1960 – present.”

Exhibition essay. North Vancouver BC: Griffin Art Projects, 2019.

Sava, Sharla. “Christos Dikeakos: Olympic Village Landscapes.” Anthology of Exhibition

Essays 2008/2009. Vancouver: CJ Press (Catriona Jeffries Gallery), 2009.


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Seline, Janice. Survey Results Show. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1997.

Wallace, Keith. “Sites and Place Names.” Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names. Vancouver:

Conteporary Art Gallery, 1992, pp. 5-13.

Zaslove, Jerry. “Geological Poetics – A Triptych for Kladno.” Kladno+Zaporno. Prague:

Muzeum Poldi Kladno, 2005.

Reviews and Articles

“Playing Homage: Shooting for the Stars.” Canadian Art online, posted September 11, 2009.

“Vancouver After the 2010 Winter Olympics.” Canadian Theatre Review, fall 2015, issue 164.

Prefix, November 2015, issue 32.

Barton, Adriana. “Candid Cameras” Reflections of the city by Vancouver's top contemporary

artists.” Where Vancouver, August 1999.

Bentley Mays, John. “Undermining the points of civic pride.” Globe and Mail, November 6,

1993.

Boddy, Trevor. “Sisters of invention, looking at urban mythmaking.” The Vancouver Sun, July

17, 1999.

Brenner, Luiza. “’Pictures from Here’ Uses and Confuses Photo-Conceptualism, Depicting

Vancouver Through Various Lenses in Time.” Beatroute online, July 20, 2017.

http://beatroute.ca/2017/07/20/pictures-uses-confuses-photo-conceptualism-depicting-

vancouver-various-lenses-time/

Brent Ingram, Gordon. “Topographies.” review, art/text (Los Angeles), May/July 1997.

Browne, Colin. “Location Hunting False Creek: An Interview with Christos Dikeakos.” The

Capilano Review, 3.10, Winter 2010.

Burnham, Clint. “Images Explore Issues of Heart and Home.” The Vancouver Sun, December 10,

2005.

_____. “Artworks challenge and intrigue,' The Vancouver Sun, Jun 3, 2006.

Cole, Meredith. “Back Room Deals.” SAD Magazine, issue 22, May 20, 2017.

Dault, Julia. “A Room of One's Own.” The National Post, June 15, 2006.

Favero, Elissa. “Secluded Corner, Hirsute Bed, Floorless Entrance: Dwelling on the

Vancouver Art Gallery's The Poetics of Space.” Arcade Magazine, issue 33.1, spring 2015.

Emery, Tony. “Art Probe.” artscanada, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, issue 166-168, February-March 1972, pp.

75-76.

Godfrey, Stephen. “Home is where the Art is.” Globe and Mail, April 18, 1986.

Griffin, Kevin. “C. 1983: When artists starting experimenting with photography.” The

Vancouver Sun, March 27, 2012.

http://beatroute.ca/2017/07/20/pictures-uses-confuses-photo-conceptualism-depicting-vancouver-various-lenses-time/

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Harris, Mark. “Christos Dikeakos at the Coburg Gallery.” Vanguard, Vol. 14, No. 4, May 1985,

p. 40.

_____. “Christos Dikeakos at the Coburg Gallery.” C Magazine, Summer 1986.

_____. “Christos Dikeakos.” Border Crossings, Vol. 28, Issue 3, August 2009, pp. 131-132.

Herring, Elizabeth. “A 'ploy' on words.” The Athenian (Athens), April 1988.

Holubizky, Ihor, Dr. “Street Scans.” 2012.

Jeffries, Bill. “Bystanders in Terminal City: The Street Photograph in Vancouver 1955 to

1985.” Geist, Vol. 11, no. 47, Winter 2002, pp. 31-32; 56-57.

Jenkins, Megan. “Review: Pictures From Here.” SAD Magazine online, May 30, 2017.

http://www.sadmag.ca/blog/2017/5/30/review-pictures-from-here

Johnston, Eve. “Flying with Icarus.” The Vancouver Sun, February 6, 1986.

Keziere, Russel. “A Visual Fest of past and present.” Maclean's, April 21, 1986, p. 73.

Lauder, Adam. “Robert Smithson's Vancouver Sojourn: Glue Pour, 1970.” Canadian Art, Vol.

32, No. 2, summer 2015, pp. 91-94.

Laurence, Robin. “Ideas of Nature, Culture Flow in River-Themed Collection.” The Georgia

Straight, October 16, 2003.

_____. “Christos Dikeakos: Domicile/drift.” The Georgia Straight, December 22, 2005.

_____. “After the Fall: Christos Dikeakos and the changing landscape of the Okanagan.”

Canadian Art, Special 30 years issue, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall 2014, pp. 142-147.

_____. “Colin Smith and Christos Dikeakos put new twists on landscape photography.” The

Georgia Straight, April 8, 2015.

_____. “New Jeffries gallery puts on celebratory Parade.” The Georgia Straight, March 28–April 4, 2019.

Lempesis, Dimitris. “PHOTO: Pictures From Here.” Dreamideamachine ART VIEW online

magazine, 2017. http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=28392

Lindberg, Ted. “955,000.” artscanada, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, Issue 144/145, February 1970, p. 50.

Lord, Barry. “B.C. Almanac.” artscanada, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, February-March 1971, pp. 42-45.

Lowndes, Joan. “Film Board okays West Coast Nudes.” The Vancouver Sun, November 13,

1970.

_____. “West Coast nudity disturbs NFB chiefs.” The Vancouver Sun, November 10, 1970.

_____. “Don't Ask what these collages mean.” The Vancouver Sun, April 3, 1971.

_____. “Paris Likes Us!.” The Vancouver Sun, July 20, 1973.

Mahoney, Jeff. “Smoke gets in art's eyes.” Hamilton Spectator, February 16, 2011.

Mastai, Judith. “Christos Dikeakos: Vancouver/Hole in Bottom.” Canadian Art, Vol. 11,

No. 4, winter 1994, p. 83.

_____. “Post Colonial Landscape.” Blackflash (Saskatoon), Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 1996, p. 10.

_____. “A Dialogue of Place and Time” Interview with Christos Dikeakos.” C Magazine, Issue

http://www.sadmag.ca/blog/2017/5/30/review-pictures-from-here

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53, May-August 1997, pp. 14-21.

_____. “Art on the Street.” Canadian Art, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 2000, pp. 60-67.

McMillan, Murray. “A Different Vancouver goes on display in Ottawa.” The Vancouver Sun,

November 20, 1970.

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[interviews].” Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment (Kelowna BC, University of British

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Scott, Michael. “Places of myth now lost forever in reality sites and place names: Athens.” The

Vancouver Sun, September 24, 1996.

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2000.

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1970.

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Writings by the Artist

Artist's Statement. Christos Dikeakos: Sites and Place Names. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery,

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1992.

“An Introduction: The 1969 Photo Show SUB Art Gallery UBC.” Exhibition essay by the artist. The

Photo Show: 1969/2013 – Exploring the Photo Conceptual Archive. 2013.

“BC Almanac Street Scans Carrides Notes.” 2011.

“Beyond the Narcissistic City: Urban Nomadic Homelessness in Vancouver's Olympic

Village Site.” Culture Politics (Duke University), November 2010, Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 320.

“Double Portrait of Robin Blaser.” Collapse #2. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Forum Society,

1996.

“Glue Pour and the Viscosity of Fluvial Flows as Evidenced in Bottle Gum Glue Pour, Jan 8

1970 9:30 to 11:30.” Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation.

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2004.

“Sites & Place Names.” Front Magazine (Vancouver), May-June 1992, Vol. III, No. 5.

“Some Background Notes for Sites & Place Names: Vancouver/Saskatoon.” Christos Dikeakos”

Sites and Place Names: Vancouver/Saskatoon. Vancouver: Mendel Art Gallery, 1994, pp. 5-

11.

“A Vast and Featureless Expanse: the car rides and street scans, 1969/71.” Unfinished Business:

Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery

and West Coast Line, 2005.

With Colin Browne, “Suppliants (The Sacred Way).” The Capilano Review, Fall 1996, pp. 72-93.

With Jeff Wall. Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1988.