Alexis Kyle Mitchell

EDUCATION
PhD (Human Geography & Sexual Diversity Studies) // University of Toronto 2013-2018
M.F.A (Film and Video Production) // York University 2008 – 2010 
B.A. with Honours (Stage and Screen Studies) // Queen’s University // 2002 - 2006

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
Canada Council for the Arts // Digital Now 2021-2022
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (NYU) 2020-2023
Canada Council for the Arts // Concept to Realization 2020 - 2021
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2014 - 2018
Canada Council for the Arts // Media Arts Production Grant, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017
Doc Circuit Montreal Talent Lab at RIDM Festival // November 2016
Joseph A. May Scholarship from the University of Toronto // 2016-17
SSHRC Doctoral Award 2014 - 2018
Steamwhistle Homebrew Award for Silent Citizen at the Images Festival // April 2014

RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS                                                                                     
Cove Park Moving Image Residency // Cove Park, Scotland, Summer 2020
CCA Creative Lab Residency // Glasgow, UK, January 2020
Darling Foundry // Resident, Summer 2019
MacDowell Art Colony // Resident, Spring 2018
Sommerakademie Paul Klee // Fellow, 2017-2019
Commission from Dr. Sara Matthews and Dr. Dina Georgis (Bambitchell) // 2016 - 2017
Oberhausen Seminar // Fellow, May 2016
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship & Residency (Bambitchell) // April - August 2016
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency (Bambitchell) // January & February 2016
Flaherty Seminar Fellowship // Lee Rosenbaum Fellow, 2015
Wilfrid Laurier University Commission // Empire Symbol (Bambitchell) // March 2015
Word on the Street // Commission by Labspace Studio (Bambitchell) // Toronto, Sept 2014
White Water Gallery Commission // An Objective Odyssey (Bambitchell)
Poster VIRUS Commission // AIDS Action Now // September 2013
NES Residency // Skagaströnd, Iceland // April 2012
Pride Toronto Commission // Queeropolis: Toronto 1972-2008 (with Tori Foster)// Summer 2008

RECENT PROJECTS
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) // Film & Video Installation (Bambitchell)
Special Works School (2018) // Video, Sound, Sculpture, Installation (Bambitchell)
The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) // Video Performance (Bambitchell)
Gabey and Mike (2016) // Musical Documentary (collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz)
Sashay Away (2015) // Site-specific Installation for Campbell House, Toronto (Bambitchell)
Empire Symbol, Or A Man and His Mule (2015) // Video and Installation (Bambitchell)
Silent Citizen (2014) // Mixed media installation (Bambitchell)
An Objective Odyssey (2014) // Installation – objects & text (Bambitchell)
Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) // Series of 5 Cyanotypes (Bambitchell) 
The Break (2013) // Video, experimental documentary, Director, Editor
Border Sounds (2011 - 2015) // Sound and video installation (Bambitchell)
CAMP (2010) // Video, 25 mins, Experimental video essay (Director, Editor, Producer)

SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
2022-23
Bugs & Beasts & Other Bodies // The New School // New York, NY, April
The Treasury: Performance Lecture // MVS Speaker Series University of Toronto // March
Before Law (Website Launch) // Mercer Union // Toronto, Canada // December 2022

2021
The Horse Hospital // Bugs & Beasts Before the Law // London, UK, November 26, 2021
Kunstverein Munich // Bugs & Beasts Before the Law // Munich, DE, Oct - Dec 2021
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival // Bugs & Beasts // Chicago, IL, June 2021
Henry Art Gallery // Dolphins, Ships and Other Vessels // Online, March 2021
Henry Art Gallery // Bugs & Beasts (Solo Exhibition) // Seattle, US, Jan - May 2021

2020
Henry Art Gallery // Bugs and Beasts (Solo Exhibition) // Seattle, US, August - April 2021
Kassel DokFest // Bugs and Beasts Before the Law // Kassel, Germany, November 2020
La Casa Encendida // Bugs and Beasts // Madrid, Spain, November
Cámara Lúcida Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Cuenca, Ecuador, November
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival // Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, October
IndieLisboa International Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Lisbon, PT, August
European Media Arts Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Osnabrück, DE, May
Vilnius International Film Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Vilnius, LT, March
International Film Festival Rotterdam // Bugs and Beasts // Rotterdam, NL, January

2019
RIDM Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Montreal, QC, November
Dazibao // Special Works School (Solo Exhibition) // Montreal, QC, November – December
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema // The Break // Paris, FR, October
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival // Bugs and Beasts // Northhumberland, UK, September
Mercer Union // Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (Solo Exhibition) // Toronto, ON, Sept - Nov
La Cinémathèque Française// Stealth // Paris, FR, June
Grande Palais // BLOCC web launch // Bern, CH, April
CCA Glasgow & LUX Scotland // Specia Works School // Glasgow, SCT, April

2018
Anthology Film Archives // Stealth // New York, November
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival // Special Works School // November
BFI London Film Festival // Special Works School // London, UK, October
Videomedeja // Special Works School // Novi Sad, Serbia, August
Union Docs // Special Works School // Brooklyn, New York, May
MIX NYC // Gabey and Mike // New York, New York, March
AKA Gallery // Silent Citizen (Solo Exhibition) / Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March
Berlinale - Forum Expanded // Special Works School // Berlin, February
Gallery TPW // Special Works School (Solo Exhibition) // Toronto, January

2017
Rhode Island Film Festival, International Competition// Gabey and Mike // Providence, RI, August
Im-Mobilities (group show) // Border Sounds // Gallerie KUB // Leipzig, Germany, June
NORD Festival // The People v. The Cock of Basel // Stuttgart, Germany, June
Inside Out Film Festival // Gabey and Mike //  Toronto, Ontario, May
Xposed Queer Film Festival // Gabey and Mike // Berlin, Germany, May
Northwestfest International Documentary Festival // Gabey and Mike // Edmonton Alberta, May
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival // Gabey and Mike // Iowa City, April
Lille Fine Art Museum // Gabey and Mike // Lille, France, April
Leeds Queer Film Festival // Gabey and Mike // Leeds, UK, March
Glasgow Short Film Festival, International Competition // Gabey and Mike // Glasgow, UK, March
Rhubarb Festival // The People v. The Cock of Basel // Toronto, Canada, February

2016
Uppsala International  Short Film Festival // Gabey and Mike // Uppsala, Sweden, October
Modern Fuel Gallery // Empire Symbol + Atomic Ark // Kingston, Ontario, October
Sommerfest // The People v. The Cock of Basel // Akademie Schloss Solitude // June
Les Complices // Screening & Performance of new work // Zurich, CH, May
What’s Your Flavour // The Break // Collectif Jeune Cinema // Paris, FR, March
Santa Fe Art Institute Pop-Up Show // The Atomic Arc // Santa Fe, New Mexico, February

2015
Art Gallery of Ontario - ‘First Thursday’ // Empire Symbol // Toronto, November
Articule Gallery // Silent Citizen // Montreal, Quebec, October  - November
Gallery 44 // Empire Symbol, Or A Man and His Mule // Toronto, September  - October
Memories of the Future // Sashay Away and Where the Trees // Curated by Noa Bronstein & Katherine Dennis // Toronto, Aug - Oct
What’s Your Flavour // The Break // Collectif Jeune Cinema // Paris, July
Outside the Frame Film Festival // The Break // Brava Theater // San Francisco, June
Queer City Cinema // STEALTH // Neutral Ground Gallery // Regina, Saskatchewan, May
A Geographer’s Lens // Nightengale Cinema // STEALTH & Empire Symbol // Chicago, April
Wilfrid Laurier University // Art and Memory at the Borders // Empire Symbol // Kitchener-Waterloo, March
Depth of Field // CAMP, The Break, STEALTH // Cinecycle // Toronto, February
New York University // STEALTH // New York, NY, February
Bangalore Queer Film Festival // STEALTH // Bangalore, India, February
Art Gallery of Windsor ‘Border Cultures 3’// Border Sounds // Windsor, Canada, January - May

SELECTED CRITICAL WRITING AND REVIEWS
Canadian Art // Bambitchell at Mercer Union. Review by Margaryta Golovchenko.
Hyperallergic // Reimagining Cinema from Nature’s Perspective. Review by Ben R. Nicholson, Fall 2019
ArtForum // Critics Pick, Bambitchell, Mercer Union. Review by Steffanie Ling, Fall 2019
MAP Magazine // Against Dialogue, or, We Need to Sing to Mountains. Review by Marcus Jack, Fall 2019
Brooklyn Rail // Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law. Review by Esmé Hogeveen, October 2019
The Senses and Society Journal 14:1 // Surveillance is Meta: Bambitchell Special Works School, by Erica Cristobal, 2019
Art & Education // Adaptable Platforms: Sommerakademie Paul Klee - BLOCC // by Aoife Rosenmeyer, 2018
Canadian Art // Bambitchell’s Surveillance Romance // Review of Special Works School by Additya Aggarwal
Art AIDS America // University of Washington Press // As Long as There are Prisons // Dec, 2015
Catalogue for 'Memories of the Future' curated by Noa Bronstein and Katherine Dennis // November 2015
Akimbo // Review of ‘Border Cultures 3 (Security, Surveillance)’ at Art Gallery of Windsor // Feb, 2014
Blouin Artinfo // Canada’s 30 under 30 // May, 2014 

PUBLICATIONS
Article // Art Papers // An Eye for An Eye—Bambitchell’s Bugs and Beasts Before the Law by Daniella Sanader, Fall 2021
Digital Lives the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures // Eds. Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, Brett Story, UBC Press, Fall 2020
Queer at Camp // Nation-Bonding // Eds. Kenneth Kidd, Derrett Mason, Fordham U Press, 2019
Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture (Routledge) //Eds. Corey Dzenko & Theresa Avila // Interview with Gabrielle Moser
Prefix Photo 34 // A Conversation with Bambitchell & Morehshin Allahyari // Fall 2016
C Magazine: Citizenship // Inventory by Bambitchell // Winter 2015-2016
Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy // Bunk Buddies // Winter 2015
Los Angeles Review of Books // Empire Symbol // Spring 2015
Undercurrents: Journal of Critical Environment Studies // Where the Trees… // October 2015
Mobile Desires: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice (Palgrave Pivot) // Eds. Melissa White and Liz Montegary, Interview with Melissa White // October 2015
Kapsula Magazine: Bad History 1/3 // Where the Trees… // January 2014

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
Screening and Lecture // The New School - Decolonizing Documentary // NYC, April 2023
Lecture // Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto // Toronto, March 2023
Course Lecture // NYU // Arts and the Politics of Resistance // New York, Nov 2021
External Examiner Thesis Defence // Sandberg Instituut // Amsterdam, NT, February 2021
Lecture // Sandberg Instituut // Amsterdam, NT, November 2020
Artist Talk // Mercer Union // Toronto, Canada, September 2019
Artist Talk // CCA Glasgow // Glasgow, SCT, April 2019
Artist Talk // Gallery TPW // Toronto, Ontario, January 2018
Discussion // KW Institute for Contemporary Art // Berlin, DE, October 2017
Artist Talk // Modern Fuel Gallery // Kingston, Ontario, October 2016
Panel // Akademie Schloss Solitude // Biographies and the Production of Space // Stuttgart, DE, May 2016
Artist Talk // Zurich University of the Arts // Zurich, CH, May 2016
Artist Talk // Articule Gallery // Silent Citizen // Montreal, October 2015
Guest Lecture // McGill University // Queer Theory // Montreal, October 2015
Artist Talk // The Campbell House // Memories of the Future // Toronto, October 2015
Panel // American Studies Association Conference // Mapping Violence // Toronto, October 2015
Artist Talk // Gallery 44 // Empire Symbol // Toronto, October 2015
Lecture // Joynt & Mitchell // Intersections Speaker Series at the University of Toronto // Feb 2015
Artist Talk // Oncoming Corner // Artist-led Workshop Series // New York, NY, Feb 2015
Panel // Making and Being Made: Visual Representations of Citizenship // College of Art Association Conference // New York, NY, Feb 2015

SELECTED TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Instructor // HKB Master Platform // Bern, Switzerland // March 2018
Teaching Assistant // Urban Geography // University of Toronto // Jan - May 2017
Teaching Assistant // Field Course in Geography: New York City // UofT // Sept 2015 & 2016
Research // National Film Board & University of Toronto// HIGHRISE Project // Aug 2012-September 2014

COLLECTIONS
University of Pittsburgh // New York University // Collectif Jeune Cinema // McGill University // Wilfrid Laurier University // Deborah Cowen Private Collection // University of British Columbia // OCADU // University of Leeds // Bildwechsel Archives Hamburg // York University // Seneca College // Ryerson University // University of Toronto