Ana Rewakowicz is a Canadian/Polish artist/designer and researcher based in Montréal. In her works she explores questions of identity as expressed through clothing and habitation. In contrast to the stable mass of monumental sculpture and architecture, her costumes and structures are an air-filled, mobile art form concerned with places and the people that activate them. Incorporating materials such as rubber, polyurethane, reversible foil, fans and solar panels, Rewakowicz harnesses technology to build intimate public experiences and fashions based on function and traveling interiors. Her art has been shown and experienced nationally and internationally in Mexico, USA, France, Belgium, Estonia, Scotland, Germany, Norway, Finland and Mongolia. Most recent exhibitions include: Festival @rt Outsiders, Paris, France (2009), FREEZE, Anchorage, Alaska (2009), Liverpool Biennial, UK (2008), ACT, Stiftensen 3,14, Bergen, Norway (2008), Manif d'art 4 Biennal, Québec, Canada (2008), Wäinö Aaltosen Museo, Turku, Finland (2007), Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany (2006), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2005) and ISEA 2004 Tallinn, Estonia.

97 - 01 Concordia University,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Master of Fine Arts, Open Media Department

98 - 99 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
MFA Studio Arts Exchange Program

95 - 96 Digital Media Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Interactive Multimedia Applications and Production

89 - 93 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Experimental Arts Department, AOCA

solo exhibitions

09 "Ice Fracture" (collaboration with Kobayashi+Zedda Architects in Whitehorse, Yukon), FREEZE project organized by Anchorage Museum and International Art Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA (2009)
ice casts of traffic pylons, LED lights, motion detectors

08 "Experimental Plant Incubator" (collaboration with Annu Wilenius), Generaattori Gallery, Pori, Finland (2008)
PVC, fans, water pump, plants.
"Air Cleanser" (collaboration with Annu Wilenius), Rosenlew Factory, Pori, Finland (2008)
Polyethylene, house plants, factory air vent

07 | Dressware 2, AKA Artist Run Centre, Saskatoon, Canada

06 | Green Line Project, land-art intervention, Lauttasaari, Finland
Travelling with my inflatable room, HIAP Project Room, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Dressware and other inflatables, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada curator: Gaetane Verna

05 | A modern-day nomad who moves as she pleases, Plein Sud, Longueuil, Canada
Participation in Albright-Knox Art Gallery Beyond/In Western New York 2005.
Ice Dome Project, Lachine Canal, Montréal, QC, Collaboration with Steve Topping

04 | Travelling with my inflatable room, a series of public interventions across Canada
The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge),
Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops), AKA (Saskatoon), Artspeak (Vancouver)

03 | Air Space, YYZ, Toronto, ON
Living in a Bubble, L’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda (QC), Canada

02 | Air, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada
Uniblow Outifts, Khyber Centre, Halifax, Canada
Faites de beaux rêves, Musée du Québec, Québec City, Canada

01 | Inside Out, La Chambre Blanche Gallery, Québec City, Canada
Sonar, site-specific installation, Piscine St. Michel, Montréal, Canada
Collaboration with Lorraine Oades and Ingrid Bachmann

07 | Acting Between: body, space and time, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, Canada
Haptic, Cafka, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, Canada

06 | Canada Dreaming, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, curated by Justin Hoffmann
Sonar, WADE, Toronto, Canada
CAMP(sites), Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Canada
Blown, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, curated by Donna Wawzonek

05 | L’Envers des apparences, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Curator: Gilles Godmer.
Un refuge dans la ville, Musée regional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada
Curator: Lisanne Nadeau

04 | SleepingBagDress, ISEA 2004 (www.isea2004.net), Tallinn, Estonia
Desert, 6e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montréal
Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Trois-Riviére, Canada, curator:Gaston St.Pierre
Buy-sellf, ALaPlage, Toulouse, France
Performance et photographie: Shoot, Dazibao, Montréal, Canada
Curators: France Choinière and Michèle Thériault

03 | Vitae, Mexico City, Mexico
Buy-sellf, Quartier Éphémère, Montréal, Canada, curator: Josée St-Louis
Dress, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada, curator: Lynn Beavis

02 | Skinjob, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada, curator:  Camille Turner
La demeure, Optica Gallery, Montréal, Canada, curator: Marie Fraser
Fluid, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Visueleyez, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
Heterosexy, Gallerie B-312, Montréal, Canada, curator: Kevin de Forest

01 | Oasis, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal, Canada, curator: Sylvie Gilbert
Tissue Urbain, Conseil Des Arts Textiles du Québec, Montréal, Canada

07 | Honorable mention for the SleepingBagDress Prototype, Palm® and enRoute Magazine
Mobility Design competition: http://www.enroutemag.com/e/october07/design_a.html
Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

06 | Permanent Collection, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (QC), Canada
Antrev Fellowship Award, Montréal, QC
Studios-apartments Residency Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Inter-Arts Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

04 | Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

03 | Honorable mention for Uniblow Outfits, Selfware competition, Graz, Austria
Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

02 | Media Arts Research/ Canada Council for the Arts
Prêts D'œuvres D'art Collection, Musée du Québec, Québec City, Québec

01 | Visual Arts Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Visual Arts Research/Creation, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

residencies/symposia

07 | The Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

06 | Studio-apartment of the Finnish Artists Studio Foundation, Finland
Art Omi International Artists' Residency, NY, USA
Subtle Technologies Symposium, Toronto, Canada

04 | Wearable Futures: Hybrid Culture in the Design and Development of SoftTechnology,
University of Wales, Newport, Wales, UK
This Neck of the Woods residency, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Informal Architecture, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
ISEA 2004, (www.isea2004.net/) Tallinn, Estonia
Air, Foam (http://fo.am/tension), Brussels, Belgium

03 | New Work Residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada

selected video festivals and screenings

06 | Carnivalesque: Videos of A World Inside Out, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
Curators: Miriam Jordan and Julian Haladyn

05 | Wolf Notes, Spark Video Canada, London, ON, curatored by Jeremy Drummond, David Poolman

03 | TRANZ<--->TECH, International Toronto Media Arts Biennial, Canada
Spark Video International, Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, USA

01 | 20th International Festival of Films on Art, Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal, Canada,br>20th International Festival of Films on Art, Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Video Primer, Art Gallery of Ontatio, Toronto, Canada
Corporeal Carnivals, Musée du Québec, Québec City, Canada
TRANZ<--->TECH, International Toronto Media Arts Biennial, Canada

workshops/lectures

07 | Inflatable structures Workshop, Ted Harrison Artists Retreat Society, Whitehorse, Canada

06 | Lecture, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Inflatable structures Workshop, Concordia University (Montreal) and Bishop’s University,
(Sherbrooke), Canada
Lecture: L'Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

05 | Lectures: St. Lawrence University, Canton, USA, FOAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium
Musée d’art contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec

04 | Lectures: University of Ottawa, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, University of
Lethbridge, The University College of Cariboo, Kamloops, Canada

03 | Lectures: Queen's University, Kingston, University of Waterloo, McGill University, Montreal,
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada

02 | Lectures: University of Regina (SK), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

01 | Lectures: Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, La Chambre Blanche, Québec City, Canada

selected bibliography

Ana Rewakowicz - Dressware and other inflatables, texts by Craig Buckley, Cynthia Hammond and Gaetane Verna, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Responsive Architectures, Subtle Technologies 2006. Eds. Philip Beesley, Sachiko Hirosue, Jim Ruxton, Marion Trankle, Camille Turner. Toronto, Ontario: Riverside Architectural Press, Canada, 2006, 216-217.
Blown: Seema Goel, Ana Rewakowicz, Max Streicher and Robert Zingone. Wawzonek, Donna and Nick Lary, Ed. Annette Hurting. Regina, Saskatchewan: Dunlop Art Gallery, Canada, 2005, 14-17.
Unboxed, Engagements in Social Space, Eds. Jen Budney and Adrian Blackwell. Ottawa, Ontario: Gallery 101, Canada, 2005, 70–76. Point and shoot, performance and photography, Eds. France Choinière, Michèle Thériault, with critical essays by Diana Nemiroff, Rebecca Schneider, Jan Peacock and Karen Henry, Montréal, Québec: Dazibao, Canada, 2005. Un refuge dans la ville, Nadeau, Lisanne, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada, 2005. Spilled, Curators: Colleen Brown, Lorna Brown, Melanie O’Brian. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Artspeak, 2004, 28-29 ISEA 2004,12th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Eds. Tapio Mäkelä and Mare Tralla. Helsinki, Finland: m-cult, 2004, 112. Entre ciel et terre, curator : St. Pierre, Gaston. Trois-Rivières, Québec: Éditions d’art le sabord, Canada, 2004, 36. Buy-Sellf. Bordeaux, France: Association Zebra 3, France, 2004, 30-31. www.buy-sellf.com. 4 installations pour le Grand Hall du Musée du Québec. Ed. Lisanne Nadeau. Québec City, Québec: Musée du Québec, Canada, 2003, 44 – 59, 112-120. Selfware.file.02 (The politics of Identity), quarterly magazine NAME OF MAGAZINE?, Graz, Austria: MiDiHy and MVD, 2003, 66. Bulletin 27, Bouillet-Chalem,Mariette, Coordination: Vivian Paradis, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada, 2002, 4-6.

selected articles/reviews & interviews

Elovirta, Arja. Vihreä veto yli synkän virran? Taide online magazine, http://www.taidelehti.fi/ (2007).
Strickland, Tom. Dressware and Other Inflatables. Para-Para 122 (Summer 2006).
Giguère,Élise. Gonflée à Block, Voir, Montréal (December 1, 2005).
Chen, Cecilia.Dressware: SleepingBagDress (1), C-Magazine no. 87 (Fall 2005): 43.
Mathieu, Marie-Christiane. Developing and Understanding of Places, Parachute no.119 (Summer 2005): 130-154.
Tousignant, Isa. Keeping up Appearances, The Hour, Montréal (June 9, 2005): 32.
Delgado, Jérôme. Derrier le latex, La Presse, Montréal (May 28, 2005): 16.
Sluys, Shawn Van. Negotiating homelessness, Onsite Magazine 13 (2005): 46-47.
Delgado,Jérôme. Voyager Léger, La Presse, Montréal (March 20, 2005): 15.
Lamarche,Bernard. Porter son habitacle, Le Devoir, Montréal XCVI, no. 54 (March 12-13, 2005): E5.
Youds,Mike. Artist sleeps well in gallery courtyard, The Daily News, Kamloops (October 14, 2004): A10.
O’Brien, Stacy. Artist bouncing off the walls, Lethbridge Herald (October 6, 2004): A1, A2.
Pearce,Dianne. Eight rooms. Eight artists. Eighth days in a Mexican Hotel, Mix Magazine 29, no.4 (Spring 2004)
Zorde, Izida and Sarah Hollenberg.Asking the wrong questions: six artists respond, C Magazine 81 (2004): 32-38.
Osborne,Catherine.Here's an idea that just might float, National Post (September 6, 2003): B5.
Tremayne,Terry. Blurring Figural Notations, Onsite Magazine 10 (2003): 4.
Giguere,Amélie. La demeure, ETC no.61 (Spring 2003): 27-31.
Charron,Marie-Éve. Espaces à occuper, Le Devoir, Montréal (September 29, 2002): F10.
Martin,Annie. Air, exhibition brochure Forest City Gallery. London, Ontario, 2002: 5-8.
Roberts,Rebecca.Uniblow Outfits, Espace, no.61 (Fall 2002): 39-40.
Redfern,Christine. Second Skin, The Mirror, Montréal (May 16-22, 2002): 48.
Ana Rewakowicz, Surfacing Journal 23, no.2 (Summer 2002): 12-13.
Nadeau,Lisanne. Inside Out, Inter Magazine 80 (Winter 2001): 54-55.
Côté, Nathalie. Chambre à air, Québec Voir (February 15-21, 2001).
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. L'Art De Demain, Voir, Montréal (April 4-11, 2000).
Les Artistes en 2000, ETC no.52 (Winter 2000-2001): 16.
Bouillet, Mariette. 48 heures/hours 48 chambres/rooms, Inter Magazine no.74 (1999).
Around the Galleries, Sutherland, Giles, The Times (Scotland UK), October 6, 1999
The Brian Morton Show, Jeffrey, Moira, BBC Radio Scotland UK, October 5, 1999