Draft:Sharlene Bamboat

Biography
Sharlene Bamboat (born 1984) is a Montréal based media artist and filmmaker. Bamboat was born in Karachi, Pakistan and immigrated to Canada as a child. Bamboat received a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Brock University in 2007 and Master of Arts from York University in Cinema & Media Studies in 2009.

Solo
Both, Instrument & Sound

If From Every Tongue it Drips

Video Home System

The Wind Sleeps Standing Up

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Henry Art Gallery (curated by Nina Bozicnik) Seattle, USA

2019 Mercer Union (curated by Julia Paoli) Toronto, Canada

2018 AKA Artist Space Saskatoon, Canada

2018 Gallery TPW Toronto, Canada

2015 Articule Montreal, Canada

2012 Access Gallery Vancouver, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Greater Toronto Art 24 (curated by Toleen Touq, Kate Wong & Ebony L. Haynes)

Museum of Contemporary Arts, Toronto, Canada

2022 Vanishing Act Queer Arts Festival (curated by Adwait Singh) Vancouver, Canada

2019 Dazibao Montreal, Canada

2017 HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, Aga Khan Museum (curated by Swapnaa Tamhane)

Toronto, Canada

2015 Border Cultures, Art Gallery of Windsor (curated by Srimoyee Mitra) Windsor, Canada

2014 We Can’t Compete A Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) Satellite Project Lethbridge, Canada

2013 Tag Team: Gay Premises Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives Toronto, Canada

SELECTED RESIDENCIES
La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile May 2024

The Film Factory, Main Film Montreal, Canada 2021 - 2022

Darling Foundry Montreal, Canada 2019

MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow New Hampshire, USA 2018

Akademie Schloss Solitude, Film/Video Fellow Stuttgart, Germany 2016-2017

Santa Fe Art Institute Santa Fe, New Mexico 2016