Artist CV
Tess Martens
Artist CV
Solo Performances
2024 Pinch Me! Is this Real?, Pinch Cabaret #27, Button Factory, Waterloo, Ontario
2024 Tongue Tied, Trial Runners, Ed Video, Guelph, Ontario
2023 I’m Not the Right Fit, LEGS Toronto, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Ode to Katherine, Gary Kirkham & Bo Bardos, IMPACT Festival, Kitchener, Ontario
2021 Alouette, SUMAC Project residency, Ennismore, Ontario
2021 Kitty Cat got your Tongue attached to a Cheap Chain of Pearls, MAI residency,
Montreal, Quebec
2021 Brine & Dine with Renee, MAI residency, Montreal, Quebec
2021 Put Vaseline on Your Teeth, MAI residency, Montreal, Quebec
2021 Celine Dion Tutorials with Tess, FriendClub TV, Leeds, UK, Online
2020 Ashes to Ashes, Pi*llOry, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Wearing Blue Velvet in the Bedroom, (-)FE MALE, Online
2020 Slap It! Twist It! Pull It!, Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 Dancing in the Blue Moonlight, Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 Underneath the Belly, Jelly Belly, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2019 Slow Change, Fall 2019 program for Tangente Danse, Montreal, Quebec
2019 My Yellow Happy Face Balloons, Fall 2019 program for The Button Factory, Waterloo,
Ontario
2019 Teach Me The Trumpet, Hamilton Art Spin 2019, Hamilton, Ontario
2019 Living Diary: Tess Martens, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Slow Change, Common Waters, Idea Exchange at Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge,
Ontario
Group Performance
2023 Sled Construction:101, Holly Timpener, Studio 303, Montreal, Quebec
2022 Boob Tube, Globe Studios, Kitchener, Ontario
2022 Ode to Katherine, Burlington, Ontario
2022 Rights of Passage, Lou Sheppard, York University Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Jellomania, Silence., Guelph, Ontario
2022 We Speak the Same Language When We Speak at the Same Time, Lauren Prousky,
InterArts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2022 Tug-A-War, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec
2021 Take a Slingshot, P*llOry, Toronto, Ontario
2021 Soapbox Construction: 101, Rogers TV: Quintessence Coalition, Montreal, Quebec
2020 Our Lives are On Hold, Spill Yer Tea, Liverpool, England, Online
2020 Two of A Kind, Guelph, Ontario
2020 Within Tree’s Reach, Live Art Club London, London, England
2020 Pandora & Sisters, Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 Dissenting Bodies, VestAndPage and Andrigo & Aliprandi, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2019 Enchilada Western, La Pocha Nostra, Paseo Festival, Taos, New Mexico
2019 Encumbrance by Johannes Zits, Summerworks, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Caregivers, Project Id In-Between Identities, The Helena, The Netherlands
2019 Performance Opera, Project Id In-Between Identities, Makhaaven, The Hague, The
Netherlands
Bibliography
2022 Tug-A-War, Conversation with Tess Martens & Holly Timpener, CKUT Radio Station,
Sheila Ferrando, https://www.ckut.ca/en
2021 Pi*llOry by Holly Timpener, 2021
2019 «Nadia, est-ce que ça va?» et «Slow change»: en quête de bienveillance, Nayla Naoufal,
Le Devoir, November 9th 2019, https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/danse/566567/nadia-est-ce-que-ca-va-et-slow-change-en-quete-de-bienveillance
2019 Common Waters, Canadian Art Magazine,
https://canadianart.ca/agenda/common-waters/
2019 Culture Fancier Interviews Tess Martens, Culture Fancier
http://www.culturefancier.com/posts/2019/3/5/culture-fancier-interviews-tess-martens
2018 Tess Martens, MFA Candidate, Fine Arts, University of Waterloo,
https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/graduate/graduate-student-profiles/tess-martens
2017 Portrait of Tess Martens’ Shantz Scholarship- Art Adventure to Bushwick, Terry O’Neill, https://vimeo.com/241811579
Volunteer Work
2018-2020 Guest writer, www.culturefancier.com, Waterloo, Ontario
2019-2020 Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener & Area, Program Committee member,
Kitchener, Ontario
2018-2019 The Front Room Gallery, Curator, Waterloo, Ontario
2019- 2020 Workman Arts, Member and volunteer, Toronto, Ontario
2017 MAW Gallery, Gallery Assistant, Manhattan, New York
2017 Todd Bienvenu, Studio Assistant, Brooklyn, New York
Scholarships & Awards
2020 Canada Council of the Arts, Venice International Performance Art Week 2020
2019 Now’s People’s Choice Award for Encumbrance at Summerworks 2019, Toronto,
Ontario
2017- 2018 Shantz International Research Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario
Guest Speaker
2019 From Fear, Fixation & Failure, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario
2018 University of Guelph guest lecturer & MFA and Specialized Studios studio visitor,
Guelph, Ontario
Residencies & Workshops
2021 Montréal Art Interculturels, Poisson hors de l’eau, Montreal, Quebec
2020 Venice International Performance Art Week, Dissenting Bodies in Time, with
VestandPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi and La Pocha Nostra, Venice, Italy
2019 La Pocha Nostra Summer Intensive School, Taos, New Mexico, USA
2019 RKG Artist in Residence, Living Diary: Tess Martens, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
2019 Project Id In-Between Identities with VestandPage and Marilyn Arsem,
Performance Art Residency, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019 La Pocha Nostra, Performance Art Workshop, Kitchener, Ontario
Education & Training
2018 Master of Fine Art, Visual Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2014 Recreation Therapy Post-Grad Certificate, Georgian College, Orillia, Ontario
2013 Bachelor of Art, Studio Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
2012 Art Students’ League of New York, New York, NY