guillermina buzio

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Guillermina is a Toronto-based artist, and holds a BFA from the National University of Fine Arts P. Pueyrredón (Argentina), a Bachelor of Media Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and an MFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design.

As a visual artist she has worked in a diverse range of media, including video installation, performance, and painting. Her work focuses on human rights and identity and has been shown nationally and internationally at Toronto¹s A Space and Xspace Galleries and at the Images Festival; Centro Cultural Recoleta and Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires and Bogotá; and at the Ushuaia Biennale, Sao Paulo Film Festival, Bienal de La Habana, and the Bienal Arte Nuevo Interactiva, among others.

During the past few years, Guillermina has been programming for different festivals and venues including: The Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, The Experimental Media Congress, and the Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival in Toronto, as well as the Llamalo H Festival de Diversidad Sexual in Uruguay, among others. She was the programming coordinator and co-artistic director of the aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival. Guillermina also co-creates and facilitates self-representation video workshops for youth and queer Latinos in Toronto, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. She teaches Intro to Video Continuing Studies at OCADU


Films and videos distributed by Vtape, CFMDC, and GIV

 
 

Education


MFA Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media and Design, Ontario College of Art and Design University (2010)

Bachelor of Media Arts (Major: Integrated Media), Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver (2003)

BFA University of Bellas Artes P. Pueyredon, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998)


Curatorial, Programming and Work Experience

2011
Programming Committee, Inside Out Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival
Curator New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Toronto

2010
Curator Hyper-Hyper, Argentina, South corea, Transvideoplay
Made In Oaxaca, experimental mix mexican videos - Hot Shot Gallery
Curator Videophagy, Hot Shot Gallery
Research Assistant, Paula Gardner - Biomapping. OCAD

Jury Member, Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Curator: Rafagas Canadienses Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Steering Committee, Experimental Media Congress, Toronto
Programmer: Videophagy, e-Fagia collective, Toronto

2009
Curator: Oaxaca Experimental, Naco Gallery, the-Alt, Toronto

Curator: CASA (artist in residency) and Centro Fotográfico Mario Bravo: Mix Experimental, Canadian Experimental, Oaxaca Mexico
Curator talk coordinator with e-fagia collective, Curator Havana Biennale Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, member of the curatorial team and theoretical forum coordinator. OCAD, York, UofT

Curator Relampagos Colombianos, Experimenta Colombia, Bogotá
Screening Committee, Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival (2007, 2008)

2008
Festival programmer Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival
Curator: Film and video program, Llamalo H Festival de Diversidad Sexual, Uruguay

2007
Co-Artistic Director/Festival Coordinator, aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival (2005,2006)
Curator Relámpagos experimental selection, CCEBA, Buenos Aires
Curator media Installations Space Invaders, Gallery 1313,TSV, Toronto
Experimental short film programmer, Festival de Arte Digital, Argentina
Experimental programmer, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia (2005, 2006)
Programmer, Centro Cultural Cali, Videoteca, Colombia (2005, 2006)
Programmer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Colombia (2005, 2006)

2006
Programmer, Festival VIART, Caracas, Venezuela
Curator Uncontrolled Reflections, Latin video/film installations, Shift Gallery, Toronto
Programmer, Centro Cultural General San Martin, aluCine, Argentina

2004
Programmer/publicity coordinator aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival

2003
Curator, Film Nights at the Fringe, SAW Gallery, Ottawa

2002
Curator, Helen (back) Pitt Gallery, Vancouver

1998
Co-organizer, festival de Performances en honor a Ana Mendieta, Cuba





Teaching Experience

2011
Intro to Video Editing OCADU

2010
Final Cut Pro workshop Interdisciplinary Masters of art and Design OCADU
Teaching Assistant, Video for Artists, Integrated Media OCADU (2009)
Final Cut Pro workshop, Int. Masters of Arts and Design, OCADU (2009)

2009
Teaching Assistant Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Intro to Communications Studies, OCAD
Huellas, Latin Youth, editing workshops, Hispanic Development, Toronto
Displacement video workshops, ON Council for International Cooperation
Identidad (Centro Literario Maya), video workshop, curatorial workshop, Bienal Arte Nuevo Interactivo, Mérida, México

2008
Mentor, LGBT youth video workshops, Inside Out Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival
Youth Video Workshops, Davenport/Perth community centre, TSV
Huellas, Latin Youth video workshops, Hispanic Development, TO

2007
Video workshops on Global Issues on high schools around Ontario, ON Council for International Cooperation
Co- creator self-representation video workshops in poor neighborhoods Imag-in-acción, Cali, Colombia (2005, 2006)
Latin Youth in Conflict, Toronto, Canada (2004, 2005, 2006)
Experimental videos at VIART, Caracas, Venezuela
Video Workshops Queer Latin Community, Toronto (2004, 2005, 2006)
Video Workshop First Time Video Makers, Toronto (2003,2004)



Selected exhibitions

2011
Performing Borders
Queens Museum, NY

Videoformes Lines
Clermont Ferrand, France

Tell me what you are thinking now
curated by Edgar Endress World Bank Washington

Windows
Director's Lounge Berlin Germany

2010

Artist talk Matiz Nuance collective,
Cinecycle, Toronto

Mid-Life Shelf Life,
curated by MR Vaughn, Buddies in bad Times

videoplay , Orebro International Video Art Festival, Sweden

Performing Borders,
video installation, Function 13 Gallery, Xspace, Toronto

2009
Una mirada a las organizaciones y movimientos artísticos
latinos en Canadá

(curator, artist talk)
10th Havana Biennale, Cuba

Narrativa de Autorepresentación en Video Análisis y
Estética de la Narrativa del Video Arte

(curator, video workshop, artist talk)
Bienal Arte Nuevo InteractivA¹09, Mexico

The Process of making consistent
(performance installation)
OCAD, graduate gallery

Reconciliation
(video)
Images Festival, Toronto
Montage, The Alt, Toronto

2008
Burning Tree
(Video installation)
War Zones,
A Space Gallery, Toronto

PILGRIMAGE OF WANDERERS, ASpace gallery, Toronto
curated by Tamara Toledo

2007
Remnants
(Video installation)
Digital Event,
Xpace Gallery, curated by E-Fagia, Toronto

Museum of Modern Art, Argentina (vos)

85%
(super 8, installation)
Maison de la Culture. Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal
The Short List, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Drake Hotel, LCCA Festival, Toronto
Oaxaca Film Festival, Mexico
Fundacion Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia,
Centro Cultural General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
E32 Lotus, New York, USA
Gallery 1313, Toronto, curated by e-fagia

Archival Sighs
(Installation)

Retratos.com Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru, curated by Luis Lama.
Taller de Manuel, Cusco, Peru.(2000-2003)

BLACK
(Video)
Paysages Mouvants 2009, Cinemateque Quebecoise, curated by Fabrice Montal
Arte NuevA Interactiva, Merida, Mexico (2009)
4ème Festival de films underground de Montréal,MUFF, 2009, Montreal
Rencontres Internationales 2008, Madrid
Pleasure Dome- New Toronto Works, 2008
Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival, Toronto (2008)
Festival de Arte por la Tierra 08, Panamá
Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia
Rehab Film Festival, Toronto

Vos
(Video-super8)
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curators Graciela Taquini, Rodrigo Alonso (2008)
Rehab Film Festival, Toronto
Centro Cultural General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museum of Modern Art, Experimenta Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Toronto University
Vancouver Latino Film Festival
Hysteria: Festival for Women (2008)
LUCIDA: TV series Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008)

nn
(installation)
Memory and Nostalgia
Concourse Gallery, ECIAD, Vancouver (2001)

Respiradero
(Performance)
Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000)

Ruleta de la Vida
(Installation)
Giesso Reich Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998)

Through Your Eyes
(16mm)2002
Parkdale Rehab: Film and Video Festival, Toronto
Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá Colombia
Mercer Union, Toronto
Pleasure Dome, Toronto
Cine Sin Fin East Los Angeles, USA
11th Chicana/o Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
One World Film Festival, Ottawa
Derhulmac, Human Rights Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
aluCine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival
Saint Joseph University, Temple University, Franklin, Marshall University,
Swarthmore College, USA, McGill University, Montreal, Université du Québec
à Montréal (educational screenings)

Pepe
(16mm)
Available Light, Ottawa (2009)
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Arte al Plato, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006)
Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007)
International Vancouver Comedy Festival (2001)
Blinding Light Cinema Vancouver (2001)




Grants and Prizes

2008/2009        
Canada Council For the Arts
Charles Street Video/Images Festival Established Artist in Residence Award
Artist Residency sound vision project, TSV
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Presentation Grant

2006
Access and Career Development Grant,OAC
Emerging Artist, OAC Visual Arts Grant
Visual Arts Grant, Emerging Artist, TAC

2003                 
Through Your Eyes
One World Film Festival, First Prize Winner, Ottawa
Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention