Rory Mahony

                                                                                

EDUCATION

97  MFA  University of Guelph                              

94  BFA (Honours)  University of Victoria            

89  Foundation Studies, University of Ottawa       

73  Film Production,  Conestoga College             

 

AWARDS

20  Canada Council grant, 2 films

13  NISOD Teaching Excellence Award               

13  College Instructor of the Year

      Medicine Hat College             

03  Alberta Art Foundation Project Grant            

03  Ontario Arts Council Project Grant                    

01  Alberta Art Foundation Project Grant            

97  EdVideo Production Scholarship, Guelph        

95  Graduate Scholarship, U of Guelph                 

73  NFB Summer Student Program 

 

PROFESSIONAL

17-20  Member Atelier de L'île, Val David, QC

1998-2014

Full-time Faculty, Visual Communications, BFA

Medicine Hat College 

2006-2011

Program Coordinator, Visual Communications

Medicine Hat College                          

                                                                             

EXHIBITION

Upcoming

25

underFOOT, film for exhibition

Tin Sheds gallery, Sydney School of Architecture

June, 2025​

Pap.Pus, short film, RIFFA entry, 8:21, 2025

Film

24

Cloth Stone Clay, film for exhibition, Indian Ocean Triennial Australia 24, Collaboration with Nien Schwarz

​underFOOT, film for exhibition IOTA 24, Australia

collaboration with Nien Schwarz

Selected Solo

20

Sussurus, film, single channel, col. sound, 4:55

Lifting Stones, film, single channel, col. sound, 5:41

15-18

Talisman, AFA TREX, Travelling exhibition, Alberta

14

LOOP, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB 

06

Bachelor Project, Thames Art Gallery, Ontario, 

04

Bachelor Project, Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB 

99

Other Orders, Cultural Centre Gallery

Medicine Hat, AB, 

99

River, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC 

98

Temporary Site Works, Gabriola Island, BC 

98

POP, Victoria College of Art, Victoria, BC 

97

In Ersilia, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, ONT  

2 PERSON

05

Topophilia,  Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Sask 

Photography, video installation, (With Shirley Wiebe) 

05

Connective Tissue, Squared Gallery, Medicine Hat 

Video installation, (with Laara Cassells)        

03

OH, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario,

Sound installation, (with Sarah Link)   

02

Trace Elements: Fugitive Terrain

Two Rivers Gallery,  Prince George, BC,

Sound installation, Photography,(with Shirley Wiebe) 

2000

Une Collection,L’Alliance Française de Vancouver, BC

(with Shirley Wiebe) 

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

20

Métaphore- Métamorphose, Galerie McCure, Montréal

19

Transit, l'Atelier de Lîle, Val David, Québec

03

River/Water,Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB  

98-2014

Biennial Faculty, Esplanade Art Gallery, & MHMAG 

Medicine Hat, Annual MHC Faculty Exhibition

10

Muster, Trianon gallery, Lethbridge , Alberta, 

(with Craig Cote, Dean Smale)

10

Pages, Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, AB     

05

Momentum, Esplanade, Medicine Hat, AB  

02

Time and Distance Cannot Erase, Thames Art Gallery  

Chatham, Ontario 

01

Time and Distance Cannot Erase, MHMAG

Medicine Hat, AB 

97

Crossing Borders, Castellani Museum, Buffalo, NY 

 

REFERENCE/ PUBLICATIONS

2016-2018

​Talisman- Exhibition Catalogue, Alberta For The Arts 

Travelling Exhibition Program, Curator, Xanthe Isbister

http://www.trexprogramsoutheast.ca/files/2015/08/Talisman

_catalogue_Aug-31.pdf

2014 

LOOP, solo exhibition, Esplanade Art gallery

Joanne Marion- Curator, introduction and a link 

to Thursday's Child: a short online, single channel video distilled from the original 5 channel, video installation:

http://esplanade.ca/artgallery/art-gallery-archived/2014/08/rory-mahony-l-o-o-p

Aaron Nelson, Review, Art Galleries West, LOOP 

Esplanade Art gallery, 2014

http://www.gallerieswest.ca/art-reviews/exhibitions/rory-mahony-loop-esplanade/

Kris Samraj, Review, The Medicine Hat News, LOOP, 2014

http://samraj.ca/columns/2014/9/26/rory-mahonys-loop

2013

​CIRCUS, Poetry, drawings and photography, Medicine Hat, AB, 2013

Gardens in Time, drawings, photography, text, 2013

2006

​Home and Away: The Batchelor Project, Joanne Marion Curator, Medicine Hat, AB

2003

Mary Kavanagh, Catalogue, ISBN 0-9691209-9-0 MHMAG Contribution to the photography

2002

​Bon À Tirer - Garry Newton, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9813393-4-4, PHOTOGRAPHY

Time and Distance Cannot Erase, Catalogue, Thames Art Gallery

​Photo Roman, Catalogue, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 2002, Group Exhibition, photography, Curated by Rory Mahony and Joanne Marion:

Artists- David Hoffas, Brenda Pelkey, Vikky Alexander,

Edward Bader, Donald Lawrence, Stuart Mueller

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COLLECTIONS

Alberta Art Foundation

Esplanade Art Gallery

Medicine Hat College

Private Collections:

Alberta, British Columbia, 

Ontario, Quebec. Nova Scotia