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March 17th - 20th, 2022
Wave screens at the 17th Athens Animfest, Greece.
March 3rd - 9th, 2022
Wave screens at the PRIDE Queer Film Festival, Perth, Australia.
February - May, 2022
UK Curator, Lee Campbell, has included my new film How To Clean Your Closet in a collection of works titled HOMO HUMOUR : Comedy & subversion in LGBTQ+ film & artist moving image.The program will tour the UK and Germany.
• Southend-on-Sea, Metal Culture, UK
• London, The Bridge House Theatre, UK
• Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, UK
• The Künstlerhaus Hamburg – FRISE, Germany
January 26th - February 2nd, 2022
My latest film Wave has its' premiere at the 17th Annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival in Louisiana.
October 17th - 24th, 2021
Broken Relationship screens at the 26th annual Seattle Queer Film Festival in the Ultraviolet program.
October 14th, 2021
Broken Relationship screens at the Image+Nation Festival in Montréal.
October 10th, 2021
Broken Relationship screens at the 24th Antimatter [media art] festial in Victoria, BC.
May 6th, 2021
Outcognito screens at the AFX – The Animation Festival of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
April 7th, 2021
frostbite screens on CFMDC TV in the Mourning Rituals during the pandemic program curated by Alex Butler.
March 25th, 2021
HOPE screens in the Queer Emergencies program at the Toronto Queer Film Festival.
February 20th, 2021
Broken Relationship wins the Director's Choice Award at the upcoming 40th Black Maria Festival in New Jersey.
February 1st, 2021
Broken Relationship screens in the Boy's Night program at the Festival Des Images Aux Mots de Toulouse, France.
January 12th - 24th, 2021
Broken Relationship screens in the program Fractured Screens at the Film Maudit 2.0 Festival in Los Angeles.
November 10th, 2020
Ann Arbor Film Festival screens summer 1975 in the Alternative Cinema: Ann Arbor Animation Shorts program at Colgate University in New York.
November 23th to November 29th, 2020
HOPE screens in the Canadian Diversity Film Festival.
August 24th - September 20th, 2020
1975 (kiss) screens in the Seoul International Extreme-Short Film Festival.
August 21st - September 25th, 2020
Broken Relationship screens in the exhibition Material Synthesis online exhibition @ DiffractiveMedia.Space a White Page Gallery in Upstate New York.
September 10th - 20th, 2020
Broken Relationship screens at the Sydney Underground Film Festival in the LSD Factory Programme.
June 18th, 2020
= screens at Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Series, No. 4: Pride Month, Hoboken Museum, New York, U.S.A. Award-winning selected shorts from the Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival collection celebrating the LGBTQ community and Pride Month. Festival Director Jane Steuerwald will lead a Q&A with the audience
April 1st - 30th, 2020
Outcognito is screened at the NewMediaFest2020 (online)
2020 April 6th until the end of the pandemic
Thomas Edison Black Maria Virtual Film Festival, a curated programme of films showcasing award-winning selected shorts from the 2020 season and the Festival's archive.
February - June, 2020
HOPE is included in the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival tour · Plains Art Museum, Fargo · Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative, Bismarck · Taube Museum of Art, Minot
January 2020
OUT screens at the Mindie - Miami Independent Film Festival,Florida, USA
January 20th, 2020
Gravity is screened in the program of shorts, Excellent Suits, at the Filmhauis Cavia, Amsterdam, Holland (presented by Images Festival).
January 2020
OUT screens at the Experimental Edge, Florida, USA.
September 15-25, 2019
OUT screens at the Mindie - Miami Independent Film Festival,Florida, USA
September 2nd, 2019
Camp screens in The Wake-Up! Memorial (online) [self]~imaging against Intolerance.
May 21st - 22nd, 2019
Camp is screened as part of the 6th International Holocaust Conference in Riga, Latvia.
April 28th - May 14th, 2019
summer 1975 is screened alongside a chalk drawing work from my installation Draw the Line in an exhibition titled La Collezione Queer at Ospizio Giovani Artisti, Rome, Italy.
February 6th - 10th, 2019
Outcognito screens at the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival in Tampa, Florida, USA.
January -18th - February 16th, 2019
Outcognito takes part in a queer media art viewing experience titled QALEIDOSCOPE: Refraction, Abstraction, and Play in Queer Media Art. It is a tour of films programmed by Queer City Cinema. The tour travells to the following locations: Open Space, Victoria, BC; Northern United Place, Yellowknife, North West Territories; Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta; Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Definitely Superior Art Gallery;.
December 14th, 2018
1975 is included in the book The First 50 published by Aggregate Space Gallery.
October 11th – 21st, 2018
Outcognito screens at the 21st annual Antimatter (Media Art) Festival in Victoria, BC.
October 5th – 14th, 2018
Outcognito screens at the Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, USA.
August 23rd – September 3rd, 2018
Outcognito make its’ Canadian premiere at the 42nd Montréal World Festival in Canada
February 8th, 2018
= is screened at the Reelout Festival in Kingston in the Gays Of Our Lives: Shorts Program.
December 20, 2017
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series/Taiwan will be screening the film 1975 at the Film Center at National Chiao Tung University.
September 21, 2017
UK Arts Journal, Unlimited Imprint, publishes three of Wrik's digital prints in their Dark issue.
June 14-17, 2017
= screens at the first Toronto Queer Film Festival.
May 28th, 2017
Fruit Machine screens at Inside Out Festival in the
CFMDC Local Heroes Programme.
March 29th 7:30 pm, 2017
1975 (Slate #6) is being auctioned off at OCAD University's Project 31 in support of student awards.
March 22nd, 2017
Wrik's Wall work series of photos is in the upcoming UK Journal Unlimited Imprint. Please sign up for a free subscription.
February 24th, 2017
Pleasure Dome will present a retrospective of Wrik's works at OCAD University. Please see poster for details.
November 19, 2016
1975 (kiss) will screen at the Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival, London, UK.
November 9, 2016
Camp is selected as part of the Shoah Film Collection in the The New Museum of Networked Art .
October 12-23, 2016
summer 1975 screens at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival.
September 15-25, 2016
A Place to Stand will premiere at In/future at Ontario Place. Curated by Art Spin.
September 2016
summer 1975 is included on the Ann Arbor Film Festivals' AAFF DVD Volume 9.
April 25, 2016
Cologne OFF presents In the Name of Truth: Time, Peace & Humanity in Los Angeles. = screens in the Temporary-Contemporary program.
April 2 - May 28, 2016
summer 1975 screens at the Stockholm Experimental & Animation Film Festival.
March 31, 2016
summer 1975 is awarded a Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
March 11, 2016
closet case will screen at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in Paris for the book launch of GRIMACES DU RÉEL by Latifa Laâbissi.
May 1-9, 2015
Overcome exhibits in the Seattle TRANSMEDA & Independent FILM Festival in the U.S.A.
April 18, 2015
summer 1975 exhibits at the Index Arts Center in New Jersey, U.S.A.
March 21 & 22, 2015
summer 1975 screens in Festival Parachute Zero Act II, Paris, France
February 26st, 2015
1975 (kiss) screens at the NowOrNever International Film Festival.
January 31, 2015
Manipulator exhibits at Galerie Colbert à L’Inha, Paris, France.
January 23-24, 2015
1975 (kiss) screens in the Montevideo Festival of New Cinema in Uruguay.
September, 2014
summer 1975 screens at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.
September 11, 2014
TUFF Filmmaker Spotlight on Wrik Mead. A selection of shorts from 1975 will be screened every 10 minutes on 63 subway screens across Toronto.
July 31, 2014
1975 shorts screen on Art Spin tour and are projected on the Victory Soya Mills silos.
June 25, 2014
I'm Not In Love screens in The City's in Flame! currated by Don Pyle.
March 31 - May 24, 2014
PayneShurvell at the Hospital Club presents A Bright and Guilty Place II. A group show with works on paper by Wrik Mead.
March 27 - April 2, 2014
winter's end screens at the 1st International Festival of Artistic Film Lublin/Poland
anuary 02, 2014
The Mind's Lost Continent (Abigail Addison) puts 1975 on the TOP 10 ANIMATIONS OF 2013
October 11, 2013
Artlyst interviews Wrik about his show Draw the Line at PayneShurvell Gallery in London.
October 5, 2013
Manholes (Kevin) screens at Nuit Blanche in Fly By Night at the Gladstone Hotel.
September 13, 2013
Artlyst puts Draw the Line on the top of "Our pick of the latest Emerging Art..." list
September 12, 2013
Artlyst tweets video of 1975 at opening at PayneShurvell. See it at https://vine.co/v/h1LgLwexXbQ
September 13 – 26 October 2013
PayneShurvell is delighted to be showing Wrik Mead’s ‘1975’, an hour-long animation depicting one year of the artist’s fractured life along with a series of original works on paper. Draw the Line is curated by Mark Waugh. Private view Thursday, September 12th.
August 1, 2013
CDNartists interview with Wrik posted on YouTube.
March 31st, 2012
Manholes (Brian) will be exhibited in The New Toronto Works show presented by PleasureDome.
March 2nd, 2012
Wrik, Mark Cauchi and Rui Pimenta will present their collaborative paper/presentation "The A/porias of Skin" at the conference Philopolis Guelph: a feast of philosophy at Guelph University.
March 2012
witner's end will screen in the ColgneOFF programme at the Generation Loss Festival Manila in the Philippines.
February 2012
witner's end will screen in the ColgneOFF programme at the CeC - Carnival of e-Creativityin Sattal/India
February Sunday 12th, 2012
I'm Not In Love and K-Town will be exhibited at The 33rd Rhubarb Festival on Sunday night.
February 2012
winter's end will screen in the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
November 2011
witner's end will screen in the 21st Semana del Cine Experimental de Madrid, Spain
November 2011
Wrik's installation work Overcome will screen at the Spokane GLBT Film Festival.
November 2011
winter's end will screen in Mexico City in the CologneOFF VII touring exhibition
October 2011
Wrik Mead, Rui Pimenta and Mark Cauchi present a reading/performance called The A/porias of Skin a t the Image & Imagery conference on lLterature and the Arts at Brock University.
October 2011
winter's end screens at the 14th Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, B.C.
October 2011
'm Not In Love and K-Town continues on to Ed Video in Guelph and in New York
October 2011
I'm Not In Love is featured in Magenta's online magazine article on K-Town.
September 2011
witner's end will screen in Riga, Latvia and Budapest, Hungary in the CologneOFF VII touring exhibition
September 2011
Wrik's space age video for I'm Not In Love will play in the K-Town exhibition at Angell Gallery Sept 20-24, Xpace Sept 27-Oct 2 and run all night on Oct 1 for Nuite Blanche.
September 2011
winter's end will screen at this years CologneOFF VII; Colgne International Videoart Festival. The programme will then head out on a world tour.
August 25th 2011
PayneShurvell Gallery will be exhibiting Wrik's works Manholes (David) and Interrogation at the art:gwangu art fair in Korea
August 2011
witner's end will screen in Beirut, Lebanon in the CologneOFF VII touring exhibition
August 25th 2011
Wrik has also collaborated with artist Rui Pimenta. Their installation work will be shown at the Art Spin exhibition.
July 8th 2011
Wrik's video installation work will be exhibited in the Art Now section of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.
June 2011
Wrik shot and edited The Black Heel Marks video for the single "Switch". Soon to be released! Keep an eye out at www.northernresearchstudio.com.
June 2011
Wrik is collaborating with artist Barbara Sternberg (2011 Governor General's Award winner) on the Diana World Tour project. The camera is modified by artists and shown in a variety of venues around the world.
April 2011
Manholes (Kevin) part of the Close UP Vallarta International Video Festival in Mexico
February 2011
Galeria Omar Alonso in Mexico will exhibit Manholes (Kevin) in their Rojo Exhibition.
September 2010
Manholes (Brian), a new video work, will be exhibited at ArtSpin presented by Median Contemporary.
August, 2010
winter's end will get its' world premiere at the Montréal World Festival.
June, 2010
Wriks' installation piece, Manholes (David) will be exhibited in A Bright and Guilty Place at the PayneShurvell Gallery in London, UK.
March 4-7, 2010
Wrik's video installation work will be on exhibition at The Artist Project Toronto.
December 10, 2009
toybox has been selected as a finalist in the 2009 Perv International Short Film Competition.
November 29, 2009
Wrik's photo based work, Atlas #11 will be up for auction at LINEART2009 which suppports the Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youthline.
November 20-27, 2009
Prick screens at the 19th Madrid Experimental Cinema Week.
September 1st, 8th & 15th. 2009
FIAE presents Bare and Ache at the Iris - International Festival of Queer Animation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
July 11th. 2009
Bare screens at the PRISM Film Festival in Prince George, BC.
June 25th @ 7:00. 2009
The Toronto Animated Image Society's annual showcase will screen Bare at the National Film Board of Canada.
June 2009
Prick screens at the Internationales Videofestival Bochum in Germany.
May 15th, 2009
Liz Renzetti's inflated ideas about toybox appear in her blog for The Globe & Mail's coverage of the Cannes Festival.
May 16th @ 8:00, 2009
BOY will be shown at the 4th Edition of The Montreal Underground Film Festival (MUFF) as part of the Cake, Docs and Blue Angels programme.
May 2009
Bare premieres in Toronto at the 19th Annual Inside Out Festival.
May 28th-June 6th 2009
Prick and Mum will screen at the Fairytales Festival in Calgary.
April 2009
BOY screens at the 24 Torino GLBT Festival in Italy.
April 24th to May 3rd 2009
Both toybox and BOY screen at this years Miami Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
March 7th 2009
Prick will screen at Pleasure Dome's annual New Toronto Works Show.
February 19th-20th 2009
BOY premieres at the International Guerrilla Video Festival in Dublin.
February 20th 2009
The Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois will be showcasing films from MUFF and Bare will be part of the program.
February 2009
Prick will screen at Cupido's 25th Anniversary in Oslo, Norway.
February 18th 2008
Cinemental presents Toybox in an animated shorts programme.
November 29th 2008
Cineworks will be screening Wrik's short film Deviate with Derek Jarman's Blue for World AIDS Day at the Pacific Cinemateque in Vancouver.
November 27th-29th 2008
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers will screen Grotesque as part of their Surrealism on Film event.
November 2008
Image+Nation in Montréal screens toybox.
November 2008
Bare, Prick & Ache take part in the 3rd International Festival of Erotic Animation which opens at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and travels to Sao Paolo and Brasilia.
October 23rd-26th 2008
Goodness gracious! toybox screens at the PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN
February 20th 2009
The Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois will be showcasing films from MUFF and Bare will be part of the program.
February 2009
Prick will screen at Cupido's 25th Anniversary in Oslo, Norway.
February 18th 2008
Cinemental presents Toybox in an animated shorts programme.
November 29th 2008
Cineworks will be screening Wrik's short film Deviate with Derek Jarman's Blue for World AIDS Day at the Pacific Cinemateque in Vancouver.
November 27th-29th 2008
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers will screen Grotesque as part of their Surrealism on Film event.
November 2008
Image+Nation in Montréal screens toybox.
November 2008
Bare, Prick & Ache take part in the 3rd International Festival of Erotic Animation which opens at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and travels to Sao Paolo and Brasilia.
October 23rd-26th 2008
Goodness gracious! toybox screens at the PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN
October 2008
Prick screens at the Out Takes Dallas Festival.
October 2008
Bare and Prick screen at the Brussels Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Perlen Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Hanover
October 31st 2008
MUM (dir. Julia Creet) co-written, camera and editing by Wrik screens at the Jewish Eye - World Jewish Film Festival in Isreal (Julia will be attending)
October
Bare screens at Gay & Lesbian film festivals in Barcelona, Tampa, Ptitsburg, Fresno and Seattle and Mix 21 in New York.
September 2008
Grotesque & Filth are broadcast on Souvenirs From Earth the first TV station broadcasting a 24/7 program of Film and Video art across Europe.
September 28th, 2008
Propeller TV in the UK broadcasts Frostbite, Grotesque, Filth, Manipulator and Prick in the Film First Strand. They'ill also be included in future schedules - please keep a look out on Propeller's daily listings
September 14-27 2008
Bare screens at the Antimatter Underground Film Festival in Victoria, B.C.
September 11-14 2008
Prick screens at the Sydney Underground Film Festival
August 23rd 2008
toybox screen at the Montréal World Festival as part of the Focus on World Cinema section.
June 5th-14th 2008
toybox screens at the Queer City Cinema Festival as part of the Sense and Sensuality program in Regina, Canada.
May 16th 2008
Bare and Prick screen at the Montréal Underground Film Festival.
May 6th 2008
MUM (dir. Julia Creet) where Wrik was co-writer, camera and editor premieres at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
May 5th 2008
www.wrikmead.com is launched!
