CONTACT:
bennywelternolan (at) gmail.com
EDUCATION
BFA Interdisciplinary Fine Arts, NSCAD University, Halifax, 2011.
AWARDS
Grants to Individuals - Visual Arts Creation Grant, Arts Nova Scotia, 2017
Arts Across Canada Grant - Canada Council for the Arts, 2017
Media Arts Scholarship / RBC Emerging Artist Award, Centre for Art Tapes, 2014.
Margo and Rowland Marshall Award for Printmaking, NSCAD University, Halifax, 2009
Alexander J. MacDonald Award, NSCAD University, Halifax, 2009
Millennium Excellence Award, Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Pushing It, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, 2017
Revolution or Reinventing the Wheel, Eyelevel Gallery at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, 2016
Cabin Fever, HERMES Gallery, Halifax, 2015
Vestige, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. 2011.
Popsicles, The Spill, Peterborough, ON. 2008.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Magnetic Attraction: Modules and Components, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, 2018
Passages, Hermes, Halifax, 2017
Gems, Hermes, Halifax, 2017
Big Prints, Craig Gallery, Dartmouth, 2016
East is the New West, Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver. Curator: Sophia Bartholomew, 2015.
PLLX XLP: Where 'L' substitutes for 'O', 'P' for 'G', and 'X' for 'D', HERMES Gallery, Halifax, 2015.
Over the Hill Performance Series, Eyelevel Gallery & Citadel Hill, Halifax, 2014.
World Portable Gallery Convention, Velcro Gallery, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax. Curators: Craig Leonard and Beck Osborne, 2012.
Folks Fest, Eyelevel Gallery, 2012, Halifax. Curator: Susan Wolf, 2012
Building Relationships With Cinderblocks, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax. Curator: Noah Logan, 2012.
Nova Scotia Printmakers, Chase Gallery, Nova Scotia Public Archives, Halifax. Curator: Mark Bovey, 2011.
Graduating Class Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. Curator: Lynette de Montreuil, 2011.
Alt. Photographic Oddities, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. Curator: Jacob Mailman, 2010.
Soapbox, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. Curator: Kate Stinson of the Feminist Collective, 2010.
RESIDENCIES / TALKS / SCREENINGS
Performance: [in]Sites Festival, Peterborough, 2017
Panel: Call and Response: Site Specific Practices, [in]Sites Festival & Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, 2017
Resident Artist, Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?, Eyelevel Gallery at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, 2016
Artist Talk, Cabin Fever, Hermes Gallery, Halifax, 2015.
Artist Talk, Over the Hill, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2014.
Screening, Out of the Centre, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, 2014.
Resident Artist, White Rabbit Open Air Arts, Upper Economy, NS, 2013.
Artist Talk, Vestige, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax. 2011.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Adaptation, Kaashif Ghanie, Hermes, Halifax, 2018
Disposable Income, Nicholas Rosin, Hermes, Halifax, 2018
How Do You Know, Angela Glanzmann, Sam Kinsley, Anne Macmillan, Hermes, Halifax, 2017
I Spy, group exhibition, Corridor Gallery, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax, 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PUBLICATIONS
“Sightlines”, Eyelevel Gallery, forthcoming.
"Halifax artist uses ceramics to comment on Islamophobia", Silas Brown, StarMetro, June 9, 2018
"Muslim artist in Halifax using pottery to fight Islamophobia", Aya Al-Hakim, CBC News Nova Scotia, Jun 06, 2018
"Feminist Data Visualisation + the Politics of Information", Amanda Shore, Visual Arts News, Vol. 39, no. 1, Summer, 2017
"Artist pushes her new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Peterborough", Lance Anderson, Peterborough This Week, Sep 28, 2017
"Becky Welter-Nolan at the Dalhousie Art Gallery", Anna Taylor, Akimblog, March 17, 2016
“Other Conversations”, Mike Langille, p. 39-41, Resolute Parka Catalogue, Sophia Bartholomew, 2016.
“Hill Communication”, Stephanie Taylor, The Coast Vol. 22, no. 17, Sept 25, 2014.
“WPGC 2012 Catalogue”, p.27, Eyelevel Gallery, 2013.
“Y? Because we love you”, Leah Batstone, The Coast Vol. 20, no. 2, June 7, 2012.
“NSCAD Graduation Catalogue 2011”, p. 111, NSCAD University, 2011.
“Free Coffee”, p. 38-39, Students’ Union of NSCAD University, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Director, Hermes Artist Cooperative, 2017 - current.
Administrative Coordinator, Centre for Craft Nova Scotia, 2016-current.
Administrative Assistant, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, 2015 - 2016.
Treasurer, Halifax Crafters Society, 2015 - 17.
Programming Coordinator, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax, 2011 – 2015.
Secretary of the Board, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2012 – 2013.
President, Student Union of NSCAD University, 2009-2010
JURIES
Dartmouth Sportsplex Public Art Commission, Halifax, Regional Municipality, Halifax
Grants to Individuals, Arts Nova Scotia, 2017
Grants to Organizations and Groups, Arts Nova Scotia, 2014.
Emerging Artist Competition, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, 2014.