| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Ingrid Bachmann was born in London, Ontario and lives in Montreal where she is an Associate Professor in the Studio Arts Department of Concordia University. She uses technology and a range of materials, techniques and ideas to explore her interest in the extraordinary in everyday life. She is the founder and director of the Institute of Everyday Life, an art-ideas studio and lab that is housed at Concordia University’s Hexagram Institute for Research / Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. She is a multidisciplinary installation artist, and her work has exhibited in Canada, Europe, the US, Asia and Latin America.
Bachmann holds an MA in modern art history, theory and criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and a BA in interdisciplinary studies and art history from York University in Toronto, Ontario (1990). She has completed many curatorial and digital media projects and has published scholarly papers in addition to co-editing the book Material Matters: The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles with Ruth Scheuing (YYZBOOKS, 2006). Bachmann is very active in the professional arts community as a lecturer, presenter, panelist and visiting artist. She has participated in artist residencies in four countries, including at the Cité des Arts in Paris, France.
Compiled 2014 |