Holly Timpener
Toronto, Ontario
Montreal, Quebec
Education
2021 - Present Concordia University (Humanities P.h.D. Program)
2019 - 2021 York University (Master of Arts)
2016 - 2018 Concordia University (BFA)
2002 - 2004 Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts
Performances
Year, Title, Festival, Gallery, Location
2023 The Breath that Connects Us, Epicenter Revolutions (Pandora Underground Art Gallery, Berlin DE)
2023 Whip It, Epicenter Revolutions (DOMIE, Poznań POL)
2023 Frans Sniders Re-Make, WASTED (Bunker Piazza Primo Maggio, Udine IT)
2023 Balancing Act: Identity vs. Institution, Third Shift (Saint John NB)
2023 Climb! (Garnett Settlement NB)
2023 The Bitter Heart, score by Enok Ripley, FADO (The Commons, Toronto ON)
2023 Becoming the Cry, Epicenter Revolutions (MainLine Theatre, Montreal QC)
2022 PASSATION: Vastes petites manœuvres, with Sylvie Tourangeau, (Rue Bernard E, Montreal QC)
2022 Moving Towards a Future Self, Epicenter Revolutions, (Espace POP, Montreal QC)
2022 Trans Bible Readings, Epicenter Revolutions, (Place Fort LaTour, Saint John NB)
2022 Embodied Resistance: Past, Present, Future, B#Side the River, (IoDeposito, Gradisca IT)
2022 One Piece at a Time, Epicenter Revolutions, (Concordia, Montreal QC)
2022 Queer Time Embodiment, IGNITION, (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal QC)
2022 Tug-Of-War, Window Project, (La Centrale/Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal QC)
2021 Queer Time Embodiment, (Concordia University, Montreal QC)
2021 Transforming in the Tightening of Time, Epicenter Revolutions (Montreal LGBT+ Community Center, Montreal QC)
2021 Our Bodies in the Pandemic, Doing Feminism in the Pandemic (Feminist Media Studio, Montreal QC)
2021 Ten Years of Memories, (Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto ON)
2021 The Journey, Bonnie Baxter’s Patch Project (Val- David QC)
2021 Regifting you/me, Performance Resolution(s) (FADO, Toronto ON)
2021 Soap Box Construction 101, Lots of Love Festival (Montreal QC)
2020 There is a dissonance and density within my body (Part three), Pi*llOry part five (Gald Day TV, Toronto ON)
2020 Painting the Roses Red, Autumnal Equinox / Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy (Fort York, Toronto ON)
2020 Bubble Tea, with Tess Martens, Ten minute tea (Afternoon Tea Label/ Hamilton ON)
2020 My Life is on Hold, with Tess Martens,Drip Performance Festival (Liverpool, UK/ Waterloo ON)
2020 There is a dissonance and density within my body (Part two), Pi*llOry part four (Collective Space, Toronto ON)
2020 Grief, Presented by: The Holy Gasp (Historic Kiever Synagogue, Toronto ON)
2020 Two Week Tea! GO ON International Performance Art Festival (Samara Contemporary, Toronto ON)
2020 TWO OF A KIND (Toronto ON)
2020 Equinox in Isolation, Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (Facebook, Toronto ON)
2020 pu·ri·fy, International Performance Week (Palazzo Mora,Venice IT)
2019 DIVA, Pi*llOry (Kensington Market, Toronto, ON)
2019 La Pocha Nostra: The Enchilada Western (A living museum of fetishized identities), The Paseo Festival (Taos, New Mexico, US)
2019 Encombrance, SummerWorks (Toronto Arts Media Centre, Toronto ON)
2019 There is a dissonance and density within my body, Pi*llOry (Toronto Arts Media Centre, Toronto ON)
2019 La Pocha Nostra: Posnacional 2: Glosolalia Remix, Encuentro (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico MEX)
2019 Statement of Work, Anti-Conference (York University, Toronto ON)
2018 Artist Protest Project, Queens Park Legislative Building (Toronto ON)
2018 A Link Between, This Is Not a Guerrilla (Espace POP, Montreal QC)
2018 Open Night Session with VestAndPage & Andrigo & Aliprandi, International Art Week (Forte, Venice IT)
2018 J’Attend Le Temp: By Rojin Shafiei (Never Apart & Studio XX, Montreal QC)
2018 Tonada de Luna Llena: By Santiago Tamayo Soler, RIPA (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal QC)
2018 Move With the Vagina, So You Think That Was Dance? (MainLine Theatre, Montreal QC)
2017 Voices Will Be Heard, TouVA Book Launch (SKOL, Montreal QC)
2017 NO OBJECT: Air Architecture, LAPSod (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Helsinki FIN)
2017 Lux est Memorium, Day on the Grand (Brantford Arts Block, Brantford ON)
2017 La Pocha Nostra, Uroborus (Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal QC)
2017 Franz Snyder Re-Make (VAV Gallery, Montreal QC)
2017 When I Become a Woman, Art Matters (Espace Cercle Carre, Montreal QC)
2017 Touch, Le Liveart (Montreal QC)
2016 The Divine War, Studio 7 (John Molson School of Business, Montreal QC)
2016 NO OBJECT: Wandering, First Thursday (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON)
2016 NO OBJECT: In the Water, Naked State (Bare Oaks, Sharon ON)
2016 KINSFOLK: The Construction & Deconstruction of Identity, Nuit Rose (Barbara Hall Park, Toronto ON)
2016 NO OBJECT: Air Architecture, Test Drive (Dance Makers, Toronto ON)
2016 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Lilacs, Body Break (Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto ON)
2016 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Sex in the City (University of Toronto, Toronto ON)
2016 Autosarcophagy (Hierve El Agua & Espacio Centro, Oaxaca MEX)
2016 Hold, Duration and Dialogue (Katsmann Gallery, Toronto ON)
2015 Period Manifesto, FEMINIST FOMONOMO (OCADU, Toronto ON)
2015 When I Became a Woman (Memory Translation of First Menstruation), ITINERANT (The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx NY)
2015 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: The Art of Darkness (Artscape Youngplace, Toronto ON)
2015 How to Become a Witch, LEGS TOO, FADO (Artscape Sandbox, Toronto ON)
2015 Glaciology, Nuit Blanche (The Power Plant, Toronto ON)
2015 Reclaim the Shame (New Edward Gallery, Calgary AB)
2015 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Co-Fusion Lab, Sled Island (Stride Gallery, Calgary AB)
2015 Memory Translation of Menstruation Poem, Pop-Up Performance (Art Von Frei, Berlin DE)
2015 When I Became a Woman (Memory Translations of First Menstruation, Month of Performance Berlin (Meiinblau, Berlin DE)
2015 UNTITLED, Final Project of Jaclyn Horowitz (NYU Berlin, Berlin DE)
2015 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Ricki Racka vs $mart $erve, Art Stars (LARRY BAR, Berlin DE)
2015 Uncontrollable Emotion, Hysteria (SOMA Art Space, Berlin DE)
2015 Untitled, Link and Pin (Rats #9, Montreal QC)
2015 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Sex in the City (University of Toronto, Toronto ON)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Confessional Spanking Booth, M:ST Performative Art Festival (Community Wise Resource Centre, Calgary AB)
2014 Nature, Box Autumn Salon (The Rivoli, Toronto ON)
2014 Woman Nature, M:ST Performative Art Festival (ENMEDIA, Calgary AB)
2014 Intimate Kiss Bomb: With TouVA Collective, Nuit Blanche (C2 Gallery, Calgary AB)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Co-Fusion, Nuit Rose (Artscape Youngplace, Toronto ON)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Sex Magic in Real Time, The Sex Offensive (Propeller Gallery, Toronto ON)
2014 Real Time, Artscape Residency Performance Night (Artscape Youngplace, Toronto ON)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Co-Fusion, Fashion Art Toronto Dressing Room Project (Daniels Spectrum, Toronto ON)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: Co-Fusion, Link & Pin (Hub 14, Toronto ON)
2014 HΩLY JÅCKÅL: My Bed-In, The Sex Show (Gallery 1313, Toronto ON)
2014 Architecture, Long Winter (The Great Hall, Toronto ON)
2014 A Piece of Me For a Price, Long Winter (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON)
2013 Fix This: With Shayla Davis, (Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB)
2013 Shot at Dawn (Hub 14 & University of Toronto, Toronto ON)
2013 6 of Hearts Collective: Untitled, Phantom Wing (King Edwards School, Calgary AB)
2013 Sampson & Delilah, Summer Works (The Great Hall, Toronto ON)
2013 Intimacy (Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto ON)
2013 Accidental Sound Produced by Movement: with Julie Lassonde, (The Tranzac, Toronto ON)
2013 722 (The Pop-Up Theatre Center, Toronto ON)
2013 Weight (The Norman Felix Gallery, Toronto ON)
2012 Parallel Work in Blindness & Grief: with Claude Wittman, (Somewhere There, Toronto ON)
2012 Exploration of Beauty & the Separation of Head and Body, (Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto ON)
2012 Let Her Eat Cake (Roseneath Theatre & Hub 14, Toronto ON)
RESIDENCIES
2023 Epicenter Revolutions, GlogauAIR (Berlin DE)
2023 Epicenter Revolutions, DOMI Gallery (Poznań PL)
2023 Building a toboggan: 101 with Tess Martens, Studio 303 (Montreal QC)
2021 Artist in Resident, B#Side the War/Iodeposito (Gradisca IT)
2021 Fish out of Water, Self Directed with Tess Martens, Montréal, Arts Interculturels (Montreal QC)
2018 VestAndPage: Perception of the Self, International Art Week (Forte Marghera, Venice IT)
2018 Self Directed, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto ON)
2017 Self Directed, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto ON)
2016 Self Directed, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto ON)
2015 Earthdance EMERGE Residency (Massachusetts, NY)
2014 Round Table Residency (Toronto ON)
2014 Are You OUT Of Your Mind, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto ON)
2013 Between Intimacy & Architecture, Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto ON)
WORKSHOPS
Led by Holly Timpener
2022 Bodies●Space●Action●Resistance, B#Side the River (IoDeposito, Gradisca IT)
2019 NO OBJECT: Finding Comfort In Your Body, International Sex Week (University of Toronto, Toronto ON)
2017 NO OBJECT: Performing in the Nude (Concordia University, Montreal QC)
2017 NO OBJECT: Air Architecture, LAPSod (Theatre Academy Helsinki, Helsinki FL)
2015 Performing Memory (Artscape Youngplace, Toronto ON)
2015 Performing Memory (Wolf Willow Studio, Calgary AB)
2015 Memory Sense (Earthdance, Massuchussets NY)
WORKSHOPS
Led by Others
2021 VICTORIA STANTON AND BRIAN SMITH: The interval as a threshold: The exploration of space between place and creation (RAIQ, Montreal QC)
2018 SYLVIE TOURANGEAU: Attitude/Presence/Performative Structure (Gallery 303, Montreal QC)
2017 LA POCHA NOSTRA: (Concordia University, Montreal QC)
2016 EROCA NICOLS: Faking It ‘Til We’re Making It - Practicing What We Think We Don’t Know (Montreal QC)
2016 DORIS UHLICH: More Than Named (Toronto ON)
2015 VICTORIA STANTON: Between Intimacy & Architecture (Toronto ON)
2015 DORIS UHLICH: More Than Named (Montreal QC)
2014 ANDRES GAEANO: Performance Strategies in Contemporary Art (Calgary AB)
2014 ADRIANA DISMAN: Translating Theory (Toronto ON)
2014 ADRIAN STIMPSON: Are You OUT Of Your Mind (Toronto ON)
2014 RITA MCKEOUGH: Wayward Objects (Calgary AB)
2013 VICTORIA STANTON: Between Intimacy & Architecture (Toronto ON)
2013 CLAUDE WITTMAN: Trans Temporary Radio, VIVA! (Montreal QC)
2013 RICHARD MARTEL: Art Action (Calgary AB)
2013 ANDRES GALEANO: Relationship to Object (Toronto ON)
2012 SALLY MORGAN: Series 8:08/Dancing With Landscape (Toronto ON)
2012 DAWNE CARELTON: 10-Week Advanced Improv Solo Dance (Toronto ON)
2012 RACHEL ECHENBERG: Performance Art Workshop (Toronto ON)
2012 DAWNE CARELTON: This Work (Toronto ON)
2012 NAOMI TESSLER: Rainbow of Desire (The Internal Oppressor) (Toronto ON)
2012 SYLVIE TOURANGEAU: Performance Art Workshop (Toronto ON)
2012 CLAUDE WITTMAN: Internal Oppressor (Toronto ON)
2012 DAWNE CARLETON: 0-Week Movement Workshop “This Work” (Toronto ON)
2011 SYLVIE TOURANGEAU: Performance Art Workshop (Toronto ON)
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Il Friuli: Artisti in ‘residenza’ sull ‘Isonzo rileggono la storia del confine (IlFriuli.it)
https://www.ilfriuli.it/articolo/cultura/a-bside-the-river-la-canadese-holly-timpener/6/269237
2022 B#Side the River 2022, arte sul fiume di confine (La Repubblica) https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/cultura/arte-mostre-e-fotografia/2022/07/19/news/bside_the_river_2022_arte_sul_fiume_di_confine-358341129/amp/)
2022 L’artista Holly Timmener al festival B#Sise the River cerca le storie della gente (Il Piccolo, Culture, page 40)
2022 “La resistenza sul corpo” Holly Timpener a Sagrado (Il Gazzettino, page IX)
2021 Pi*llOry *there is dissonance and density within my body (Self Published)
2017 Emergency INDEX: Volume 6, An Annual Documentation of Performance Practice (page 468)
2017 The 7th Sense, By TouVA Collective (page 188)
ARTIST TALKS/INTERVIEWS
2022 Bodies●Space●Action●Resistance (B#Side the River, Gradisca IT)
2022 Tied Together with Mathieu Lacroix (La Centrale/Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal QC)
2022 Tug-A-War Radio Interview with Sheila Ferrando (CKUT Radio, Montreal QC)
2020 Artist Talks Milan Kozomora (Toronto ON)
2018 Women & Their Bodies in Art (Concordia University, Montreal QC)
2013 Getting Laid on Stage, SummerWorks (Toronto ON)