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EDUCATION
 
   
2001 - Alberta College of Art & Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Sculpture
1983 - Banff Centre, Summer Session, Banff, Alberta
1982 - Emma Lake Summer Workshop, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan
1972-73 - New York Studio School, New York City, Post-Graduate Studies in Sculpture
1967-72

- Alberta College of Art & Design, (Honours Graduate - Sculpture Major) Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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SELECTED
WORK
EXPERIENCE


   
1988-2009 - Preparator, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
1996-2000 - Museum Studies Team-Teacher, University of Lethbridge, Division of Art
1996-97 - Sculpture Instructor/Team-Teacher, University of Lethbridge, Division of Art
1981-88 - Department of Art Technician and Art Gallery Preparator,
The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
1973-78 - Sculpture Instructor (Credit Course), Continuing Education, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
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SOLO
EXHIBITIONS

 
   
2007 - The Offering, Harcourt House Art Centre, Edmonton, Alberta
1998 - ingrained, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
1992 - imprints, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
- Commissioned Installation +15 Level, Calgary Performing Arts Centre
Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1989 - Beacons, 10th Floor Gallery, Environmental Design Department,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
1983 - Prairie Keep, (installation) Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1978 - Dandelion Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
   
SELECTED
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS

 
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2012 (pending) -Green, Art Effects Fine Art Gallery, High River, Alberta
2011 -Mapping a Prairie City:Lethbridge and Its Suburbs, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge Alberta
2010 -Take a Seat, Jensonian Gallery, High River Alberta
2008 - Group Show, High River, Alberta

- The Artist's Circle of Calgary: The New Generation Looking Back, Looking Ahead, The Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

2006 - Current, 30th Anniversay Exhibition, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2005 - Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor:30 Years of Alberta Sculpture, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 - Outer Spaces: Adrian Cooke and Vessels: Roxanne DenHollander, Cultural Centre Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
- miniARTures 10x10x10, Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
- Objective Information, Recent Gifts from the Canada Council Art Bank, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Matchmaking, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2003 - Recent Gifts, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 - The Claustrophobic Forest, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2001 - Closet Practices, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- Their Own Back Yard, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2000 - Vanishing Icons, Exhibition toured throughout Alberta, organized by
Harcourt House/Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
top - The Time Machine. Sculpture in the 20th Century, University of Lethbridge
Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- Beyond the Red Brick School, A travelling exhibition organized by the
Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1999 - Stumble, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- Prairie Skyscrapers, Provincial Museum, Edmonton, Alberta
1998 - Sun Life Commissioned Exhibition, Sun Life Assurance Co., Calgary,
Alberta
- Sentinels, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
- Prairie Album II, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
top - Alberta House Collection (from London, England), exhibited at McMullen
Gallery, Edmonton and McDougall Centre, Calgary, Alberta
- Six Degrees of Separation, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1997 - Remembrance of Things Past: A 20 year Survey, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- Celebrating a Legacy, Alberta Foundation for the Arts 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 - Recent Acquisitions," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1995 - Explorations: Sculpture 95, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
- Basic Tools: Functional adaptations by artists, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia (Guest Curator: Nick Wade)
- Henry Moore in the Pub, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery,
Lethbridge, Alberta (Guest Curator: Robin Peck)
1994 - Looking Back II, 1981-85, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- Reflecting Paradise, Home Oil Tower, Calgary, Alberta, organized by The
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
1993 - The Savage Fields, Environmental Design Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
top - Adrian Cooke, Bill McCarroll, Jeffrey Spalding, Canadian Art Galleries,
Calgary, Alberta
1992 - Nature as Artifact: Alberta Survey, New Landscapes, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- New Works from the Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Fine
Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- Gallery Artists, Barrett Post Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1989 - Alberta Sculpture Survey '89, Calgary Contemporary Art Society, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1988 - Survey Alberta 88, an Olympic Arts Festival Exhibition of Contemporary Alberta Art, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
- nova-realism, Garden Court Gallery, NOVA Building, Calgary, Alberta
1987-89 - Survey: Works on Paper, travelling exhibition organized by the
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
1987 - Focus 87, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1986 - Rituals/Systems, Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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Edmonton, Alberta
1985 - Southern Alberta Creates, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
- A Measure of Success: Graduates of the Alberta College of Art 1963-1973,
Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
1979 - Alberta Works in Wood, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
1977 - Albertawork, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
- Manisphere 14th International Jury Art Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Guest Juror - Clement Greenberg (Travelled to the University of North Dakota Art Gallery, GrandForks, North Dakota
and Memorial Union Art Gallery, North Dakota State, University, Fargo, North Dakota)
1974

- Young Contemporary Calgary Artists Exhibition, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta

1971

- West 71, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES


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2012 -Consultant. Lethbridge Sketch Club Collection, Lethbridge, Alberta
2007 - Visiting Artist, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta
1998/99/07 - Visiting Artist, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
1996 - Designed and executed commission of interior furnishings for Backstreat Cafe, Lethbridge, Alberta
1992 - Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
1991 - Visiting Artist, Prairie Gallery and Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande
Prairie, Alberta
1988 to present - Juror, various Alberta art organizations
1985-88 - Member of the Executive within the Board of Directors, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1983 - Exhibited in Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibitions, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1982-84

- Assistant to the artist (Gerd Winner)and printer (John Will), P.U.L.P Editions, Commissioned Photo-Etching, Art Department, University of Lethbridge

- Assistant to the artist and printer (Tim Zuck), Perspective, Offset Lithograph, Diptych, Art Department, University of Lethbridge

 

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SELECTED
ARTICLES/
REVIEWS

 
   
2006 - The Lethbridge Herald, August 3, 2006, Prairie Landscape Helps Shape Adrian Cooke's Vision by Joseph Anderson
2005 - FFWD, Calgary's News and Entertainment Weekly, July 14 - 20, The Alberta Connection, Form, Space, Concept, Metaphor by Wes Lafortune
2004 - FFWD, Calgary's News and Entertainment Weekly, February 12 - 18, It's a Small World..., by Wes Lafortune
2002 - Meliorist Student Newspaper, University of Lethbridge, Volune 35, Issue 17, January 24, Night at the Trianon Gallery, By Stephen Senft
1998/99 - FFWD, Calgary's News and Entertainment Weekly, December 24, 1998 to Jan. 6, 1999, Creating Fanciful Mountains Out of Prairie Molehills, by Mark Walton
1988 - Calgary Herald, Monday, February 1, Survey Alberta 88,
by Nancy Tousley
1987 - The Edmonton Journal, Sunday, January 4, The Year in Review, by Vivienne Sosnowski
1986 - Vanguard, Summer, Rituals/Systems, by Christine Conley
- The Edmonton Journal, Saturday, February 22, Alberta Sculptors Exhibit Best
Works
, by Vivienne Sosnowski
1983 - Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery Newsletter, March/April, Prairie Keep, by Alf Bogusky
1978 - Artmagazine 38/39, June, Illusion and Simile in Western Sculpture, by Jon
Whyte
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CATALOGUES/
BROCHURES
 
   
2005 - an Alberta Art Chronicle: Adventures in Recent and Contemporary Art, Mary-Beth LaViolette, Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd., Canmore, Alberta
2004 - miniARTures 10x10x10, Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2002 - The Claustrophobic Forest, Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon
2000 - The Time Machine: Sculpture in the 20th Century, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta (Guest Curator: Robin Peck)
1998-99 - The Cairn, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
1995 - Explorations Sculpture 95, Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1989 - Alberta Sculpture Survey 1989
1988 - Survey Alberta 88, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
1986 - Rituals/Systems, Ringhouse Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
1984 - A Measure of Success: Graduates of the Alberta College of Art (1963-84), Calgary, Alberta
1977 - Alberta Works in Wood, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
1974 - Young Contemporary Calgary Artists Exhibition, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
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GRANTS &
AWARDS

 
   
1975-76 - Canada Council B Grant for independent study in England
1972-73 - Canada Council Short Term Grant
1972 - Alberta College of Art, Scholarship
 
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COLLECTIONS
 
   
2009 & 11 Collection of Joan Stebbins, Lethbridge, Alberta
2008 - Artists' Circle of Calgary Collection, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2004 - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1999 - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
- Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- University of Saskatchewan Collection, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Private collections, Lethbridge, Alberta
1997 - Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
1996 - Private collections, Lethbridge and Calgary, Alberta
- University of Saskatchewan Collection, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1994 - Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1993 & 94 - Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1993 - Grant McEwen College, Edmonton, Alberta
1992 - Concordia University Art Collection, Montreal, Quebec
1991 & 1993 - The University of Lethbridge Art Collection, Lethbridge, Alberta
1991 & 1995 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1989 - Nova Corporation Collection, Calgary, Alberta
top - Lethbridge Regional Hospital Collection, Lethbridge, Alberta
1978 & 1987 - Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta
1977 & 1988 - Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
1975 - Alberta House, London, England