Kika Thorne

Kika Thorne is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, curator, and activist.

Life Thorne graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD University) in Toronto, Ontario, in Media Production and Cultural Theory, and went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.

Artistic practice In her early career, Thorne worked largely in film and moving image and also co-founded a feminist, cable television collective called SHE/TV (1991-1998) which aimed to mentor female filmmakers in producing experimental TV. Between 1996 and 2004, Thorne collaborated with fellow artist Adrian Blackwell to produce videos, installations and civic interventions. 2023: What is Welcome? Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Musqueam Territory

2020: Part of the Problem, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin, Germany 2018: A Salve of Sorts, WAAP / Vacation Gallery, New York, New York 2018: Dis[RE]Placement, Centre 3, Hamilton, Ontario

2015: Silva Part I: O Horizon, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia 2015: Geometry of Knowing, SFU Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia 2014: One Possible Arrangement, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario 2013: Things’ Matter, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 2013: I Thought There Were Limits, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2010: Western Front London Edition, No Soul for Sale Tate Modern, London, UK 2008: No Time to Lose, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland 2007: Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 2004-2011: e-flux video rental, e-flux, New York; Artprojx, London; Insa Art Space, Seoul; Portikus, Frankfurt; KW, Berlin; Manifesta, Amsterdam; The Moore Space, Miami; I Bienal de Canarias, Tenerife; Arthouse Jones Center, Austin; PiST///, Istanbul; unitednationsplaza, Berlin; Mucsarnok, Budapest; Location Project, Antwerp; Extra City Center, Antwerp; 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon; Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Paris; Carpenter Center, Boston; the building, Berlin; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; 41 Salòn Nacional, Cali; Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea, Rome; MG+MSUM, Ljubljana. 2003: Zones, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario 2001: The Lefty Show, A Space, Toronto, Ontario 2001: Substitute City, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario

Solo exhibitions 2023: Not for sale! Architects Against Housing Alienation, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Canada pavilion, Venice

• 2019: The Sun, CSA Space, Vancouver, British Columbia 2018: Tax Gentrification! The Public Studio, Toronto, Ontario 2015: The Question of a Hunch, The Work of Wind, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario 2014: Multiplicity of the Singularity, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

2012: medicine, G Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2011: a bar IST a garden IST a cafe IST a reading room , Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany 2010: Singularity, Galerie ZK, Berlin, Germany

2004: Dehomogenised, LRT Commission, Artcity, Calgary 2001: Kika Thorne in collaboration, Unit Pitt, Vancouver, BC,

Film screenings 2004: VS., Latvian House, Toronto, Ontario 2003: Kika Thorne, The Disorder of Things, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, and Kino Bremen, Bremen, Germany 2000: Pleasure Dome's 10th Anniversary Screening, CineCycle, Toronto, Ontario 1997: New Toronto Works Show, CineCycle, Toronto, Ontario 1995: Puberty Film Show, CineCycle, Toronto, Ontario

Collective work/civic interventions

2018–present: Gentrification Tax, Gentrification Tax Action, Toronto, Ontario 2010: SAFE ASSEMBLY (curated), VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia 2003: ambience for a future city, Anarchist Free School, Toronto, Ontario