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Born 1970
Education
1997 M.F.A. Performance Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
1992 B.A. Women’s Studies, Oberlin College
1991 Independent Study and Travel in Europe, Antioch Education Abroad
Grants and Awards
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2008 Ontario Arts Council Reserve Grant
2007 Banff Centre Thematic Residency: Imaginary Places, RBC Residency Scholarship
2007 Ontario Arts Council Grant Award
2006 Toronto Arts Council Grant Award
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant Award
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Grant Award
2005 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Ante Chamber Playwriting Unit
2004 Nightwood Theatre Groundswell Playwriting Unit
2004 K.M. Hunter Artist Award Nominee
2004 Ontario Arts Council Grant Award
2003 Toronto Arts Council Grant Award
2002 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant Award
2000 Astraea Foundation Grant Award
1998 Astraea Foundation Grant Award
1997 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant Award
1997 Endesha-Daniels Award for Outstanding Performance in Visual Arts, Rutgers University
1995-97 Two-Year Teaching Assistantship Award, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
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2008
The Power Plant, Power Ball 10: Decadance, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Mirror Ball”
Rhubarb! Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Everything I've Got”
2007
INTIMACY: Across Visceral and Digital Performance, London, UK, Performance, “Fee for Service”
Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Toronto, ON, Curator, “NYC Invasion”
Assn for Research On Mothering Conference, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Requiem for Leisure Time”
The Box Salon, Curated by Louise Bak, Toronto, ON, Performance/Installation, “Seven Windows”
The Other Gallery, Banff Centre of the Arts, Performance, Untitled (Ear Piece)
Performance Mix Festival, New York, NY, Performance, “Afterbirth”
2006
Nieuwpoorttheater, Emporium XX Festival, Gent, Belgium, Performance, “Fee for Service”
ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, WARC Gallery, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Fee for Service”
Fado/OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto, ON, Performance, “The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar”
Summerworks Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Emergency Exits”
Studio 303, Montreal, QC, Performance, “Restored”
Rhubarb! Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “The 10 Obstructions”
California College of the Arts, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Unexpected Developments”
2005
Toronto International Art Fair, Interactive 05, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Attending”
The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Avant-Vardville”
2004
Nightwood Theatre Groundswell Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Emergency Exits”
The Second City, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Queer As Tuesdays”
65 Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Installation, “Marry Me”
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Performance, “Attending”
Dixon Place, New York, NY, Performance, “Emergency Exits”
Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Toronto, ON, Performance, “The Confessional”
We're Funny That Way Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “All I Can Eat”
WOW Cafe Theatre, New York, NY, Performance, “Carnal Carnival”
Driftwood Theatre, Whitby, ON, Performance, "Trafalgar 24"
The Toronto Women's Bookstore, Toronto, ON, Performance, "The Bookworm"
The Rivoli, Toronto, ON, Performance, "New Work"
Public Performance at Eaton Centre Shopping Mall, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Restored”
2003
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Performance, “An Ontario Bride Seeks American Wives”
Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH, Performance, “Three Vignettes”
Studio 303, Montreal, QC, Performance, “Edgy Women Series”
Rhubarb! Festival, Toronto, ON, Performance, “From the Waist Up and Down”
Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Attending”
Inside/Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto, ON, Video Screening, “Silent Portrait Series”
SPIN Gallery, Toronto, ON, Wegway Second Annual Juried Exhibition, “Silent Portrait Series”
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON, Video Screening, “Silent Portrait Series”
Alley Jaunt, Toronto, ON, Video Screening, “Silent Portrait Series”
Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY, Video Screening, “Mostly Music”
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Strange Sisters”
Lula Lounge, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Clowns Are Fools, Too”
Cheap Queers, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Magic Trick”
Pope Joan, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Spring Fling”
Clown Hall, Toronto, ON, Performance, “New Work”
2002
The Kitchen Street Festival, New York, NY, Performance, “Fantasy Foto Booth”
Cheap Queers, Toronto, ON, Performance, “My Best Red Dress”
Pope Joan, Toronto, ON, Performance, “Crossing Borders”
2001
Bronx Museum of the Arts at Casa Esperanza, Bronx, NY, “A Sharing”
The Kitchen Street Festival, New York, NY, Performance, “Talk to Me”
The Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, Performance/Installation, “The Mad Chef”
La Salle Rossa, Montreal, QC, Performance, “My Best Red Dress”
Public School 3, New York, NY, Installation, “Fountains of Youth”
The Satellite School, Bronx, NY "Affirmation (from the poem by Assata Shakur)"
Touring: NY, RI, MA, QC, Performance, “Utopia Roaming: New Works”
2000
P.S.122, New York, NY, Performance, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
LaMama Etc., New York, NY, Performance, “My First Christmas”
Dixon Place, New York, NY, Performance, “One Night Only”
WOW Cafe, New York, NY, Performance, “NickMsg”
Public Performance on Subway Car, New York, NY, “The Other Subway Series”
The Yankee Ferryboat, New York, NY, Performance, “The Big Boat Extravaganza”
Empire State Building, New York, NY, Performance/Installation, “Women’s Restroom Project”
The Fieldston School, Bronx, NY, Performance, "My Friend Frannie"
Touring: NY, MI, TN, IL, TX, OK, Performance, “Utopia Roaming: New Works”
1999
P.S.122, New York, NY, Performance, “Haman on the Land”
CBGB's, New York, NY, Performance, “New Work”
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Performance, “Madison Queer Garden”
Dumba Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY, Performance, “Gay Shame ‘99”
Touring: NY, NJ, PA, CA, Performance, “Utopia Roaming: New Works”
1998
P.S.122, New York, NY, Performance, “Avant-Garde-Arama”
The Brecht Forum, New York, NY, Performance, “The Scientist Inside Me”
Los Kabayitos Puppet Theater, New York, NY, Performance, “The Two Boobs”
Gallery at CBGB's, New York, NY, Performance, “Futuristic Superhero”
Out on the Edge Performance Festival, New York, NY, Performance, “Utopia Roaming”
Washington D.C. Women's Festival, Washington, D.C., Performance, “Before I Met Her”
OCAD Gallery, Toronto, ON, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Troubling Customs”
Touring: 12 Cities throughout New York State, Performance, “Utopia Roaming”
1997
WOW Cafe, New York, NY, Performance, “The Lesbian Afterlife Carnival Extravaganza”
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition
Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition
Hunter College, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition
Civic Square Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, Solo Gallery Exhibition, “Evidence of an Afterlife”
1996
The Knitting Factory, New York, NY, Video Screening, “Fugitive Dyads”
WOW Cafe, New York, NY, Performance, “Eat Out: A Lesbian Dinner Theatre Extravaganza”
WOW Cafe, New York, NY, Performance, “Countdown to (Lesbian) Blast-Off”
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Performance, “What the Flux?”
Civic Square Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, Video Screening, “Fugitive Dyads”
Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ, Group Gallery Exhibition, “In Flux”
1995
WOW Cafe, New York, NY, Performance, “New Work”
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY, Performance, Al Hansen Memorial Performance
1993
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Greetings and Wishes...”
Crystal Quilt Gallery, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Open/Shut”
Crystal Quilt Gallery, New York, NY, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Women’s Ways of Seeing”
1992
Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Clevld, OH, Performance, “My Julie Andrews Obsession”
ICA Gallery, Oberlin, OH, Solo Gallery Exhibition, “Before and After”
Art For Us Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Group Gallery Exhibition, “Healing Our Pain”
Visiting Artist Performances, Lectures and Workshops (1998-present)
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Amherst College, Bard College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Buffalo State University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Hampshire College, McGill University, McMaster University, New York University, The Ontario College of Art and Design, Penn State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Rutgers University, Skidmore College, State University of New York at Albany, State University of New York at Binghamton, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Swarthmore College, Syracuse University, University of California at Irvine, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Texas at Austin, Vassar College, Yale University, York University
Conferences
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Free Fall Festival: Culture Congress, Harbourfront Centre and The Theatre Centre, 2008.
Panel: “Art and Activism”
INTIMACY: Across Visceral and Digital Performance, 2007, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Paper: “The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar”
Association for ReInterSexions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads, 2004, New York, NY
Panel: “ReGenerations: Thirty-Something Artists Talk About Their Work”
College Art Association Conference, 2000, New York, NY
Paper: “Queer Sites/Sights: The WNBA at Madison Queer Garden”
Feminist Intersections into Privilege Conference, 2000, New York University, New York, NY
Workshop and Performance: “Autobiography and Performance”
Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, 1999, Barnard College, New York, NY
Paper: “Play as a Site of Subversion and Transgression: The Utopia Roaming Project”
Celebrating 30 Years of LGBT at Rutgers University, 1999, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Lecture and Performance in conjunction with Gallery Exhibition: “The Utopia Roaming Project”
Women Working Within/Without the System Conference, 1999, New York University, NY, NY
Workshop and Performance: “Taking it to the Streets: Art and Social Change”
Matrilineage and Feminism Conference, 1999, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Lecture and Performance: “On the Road: The Utopia Roaming Performance Art Project”
Symposium for New Teaching Assistants, 1996, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Lecture: “On Teaching for the First Time”
Teaching and Professional Experience
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2007
Sessional Lecturer, “Visual Strategies”
Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto
2006
Sessional Lecturer, “Women and Art”
Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto
Internship Sponsor and Supervisor (Performance Art)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
1999-2001
Internship Sponsor and Supervisor (Performance Art)
New York University, New York, NY
1997
Artmaking Instructor (Instructor of Record)
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
1995-1996
Photography Instructor (Instructor of Record)
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
1993-1995
Research Assistant to bell hooks
Selected Bibliography
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“Roundup” Toronto Life, March 2008.
“Jess Dobkin: Lactation Satation” Lilith Magazine, Winter, 2008.
CBC-TV, CBC News at Six, Interview, February 6, 2007.
“Top 10 Art Shows of 2006” NOW, December 28, 2006.
“The List to End All Lists” Eye Weekly, December 28, 2006.
“2006 Round Up: Best Performance Art” X-tra, December 21, 2006.
“Love Bites” Eye Weekly, December 14, 2006.
“Best of Toronto: Best Performance Artist Jess Dobkin” NOW, November 1, 2006.
Mariko Tamaki, “Nature vs. Nurture: Interview with Jess Dobkin” Kiss Machine, September, 2006.
CBC Radio One: SOCKET, “Family: Interview with Jess Dobkin” August 30, 2006.
Stephanie Rogerson, “Sense and Sensibilities” NOW, July 20, 2006.
Alwynne Gwilt, “Mother's Milk: Straight Up” The Toronto Star, July 14, 2006.
“Belly Up to the Boob." Toronto Sun, July 14, 2006.
“Love Bites” Eye Weekly, July 13, 2006.
CBC Radio One: Ontario Today, Interview with Jess Dobkin, July 13, 2006.
CBC Radio One: The Contrarians with Max Paris, Interview with Jess Dobkin, July 13, 2006.
Anthony Reinhart, “Expressing Herself About Breast Milk” The Globe and Mail, July 13, 2006.
CIUT Radio, Interview with Jess Dobkin, July 1, 2006.
The CH 5:30 News, CHTV, Interview with Jess Dobkin: The Lactation Station. June 20, 2006.
MTV Canada, Interview with Jess Dobkin: The Lactation Station. June 20, 2006.
“Breast Milk On Tap as PShane McAdams, “The Wedding Project” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2004.
Bethany Clarke, “The Wedding Project” Sugarzine, October, 2004.
Terri-Lynne Waldron, “Limitless Lesbians” X-tra, October 28, 2004.
“Second Annual Juried Exhibition” Wegway: Primary Culture, No. 6, Fall, 2003.
“Don’t Miss” Time Out New York, September 11-18, 2003.
Jon Kaplan and Glenn Sumi, “Scenes: Puppet Power” NOW, February 27, 2003.
Chris Brisbane, “Rhubarb Festival Spawns Inspired Artists” Toronto Observer, February 15, 2003.
Robert Crew, “Stage Art on the Edge” The Toronto Star, February 6, 2003.
Scott Anderson, “Keep Your Fork, There’s More Rhubarb Pie” X-tra, February 6, 2003.
Regan McClure, “Drag Me Under the Mistletoe: Review” I-SPYLSBN, January 2003.
Sunny Lee, “Call Me Crazy...” Time Out New York, January 18, 2001.
Deborah Van Selt, Interview, 90.3FM CKUT Radio, Montreal, QC, March 17, 2001.
Charles Monroe Kane, Interview, 1240AM Public Radio, Chicago, IL, April 10, 2000.
Gabi Horn, “They Got Game: Lesbians for Liberty” The New York Blade, August 13, 1999.
Alisa Solomon, “Madison Queer Garden” The Village Voice, August 11, 1999.
Frederick Kaimann, “Puppets and Proud of It,” The Home News and Tribune, October 10, 1999.
Mimi Hanaoka, “Lesbian Rocks the Proverbial House,” The Swarthmore Phoenix, March 5, 1999.
“Check it Out” Girlfriends Magazine, June 1998.
Wayne Hoffman, “Three for the Road” The New York Blade, March 27, 1998.
Clover Paek, “An Interview with Jess Dobkin,” I Love You (QND), 1998.
Adrienne Onofri, “Her Burning Tresses” Off-off Broadway Review, 1997.
Megan Moorhouse, “Oh, Those Crazy Thesbians!” The Daily Targum, April 10, 1997.
Chris Jordan, “The Great Beyond” The Home News and Tribune, March 7, 1997.
“Press Pick: Eat Out” The New York Press, April 6, 1996.
“Healing Our Pain: A Review” What She Wants, November, 1992.
“Q/A Performance Artists” The Cleveland Reader, April, 1992.
Affiliations
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YYZ Artists' Outlet, Board of Directors (2006-present)
Universities Art Association of Canada (2001-present)
College Art Association (1992-present)
Queer Caucus of the College Art Association (1996-present)
Dance Theater Workshop (1997-2000)
Henson International Puppet Festival (1998)
WOW Cafe Theatre Collective (1994-97)
Art for Us Gallery (Founding Member, 1991-93)
