Professional Training:
University of Calgary MFA Mixed Media 2008
Lakehead University BFA Printmaking 2006
Royal College of Art Printmaking 2008
Lower East Side Printshop, NY Print Intern 2005
SACI, Florence Print & Painting 2003
Sir Sanford Fleming College Painting 2001
Thesis: Re-Presenting the Built Environment, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Employment:
2013-present: Instructor. Visual Art, School of Arts & Education, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, Alberta
2017: Instructor. Media Studies and Professional Communications, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2017: Curatorial Assistant, Red Deer College Permanent Collection
2009-12: Instructor. Visual & Performing Arts, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2010: Tutor. Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning, Kamloops, BC
2009: Print and Paper Facilitator, Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Exhibitions:
2024 Body, Public Photography Exhibition of Alberta Artists, Exposure Festival, The Alberta Society of Artists, Calgary, AB
2023 Roe 2.0, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Moving Parts Never Stop, Artribute Art School, Red Deer, AB
2022 Nervous Systems, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2022 inside out, outside in, Lacombe Performing Arts Centre, Lacombe, AB
2021 Body Beautiful, Multicultural Heritage Centre, Stony Plain, AB
2020 The Other Passport, (Heather Huston and Jill Ho-You), Crowsnest Pass Art Gallery, Frank, AB
2019 Ooh, Look What You Made Me Do, Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah
2018 The Body Electric, International Conference on Residency Education, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Halifax, NS
2018 The Body Electric, Associated Medical Services, AMS Phoenix Conference, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Thinking of Place Too, Impact 10, International Printmaking Conference, Santander, Spain
2018 Printed Bodies, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
2017 White Light (Tara Franco and KJ McAlister), white Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2017 The Other Passport (Heather Huston and Jill Ho-You), Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2015 Terminal Work, Alberta Printmakers Society and Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, AB
2015 New Works, Corridor Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2015 Expectation of Privacy, Curator Justin Diggle, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee
2014 Public School Project, Alberta Printmakers Society and Artist Proof Gallery, AB
2014 Pipelines and Borderlines: Collected Works, Beverly Arts Centre, Chicago, IL
2014 Self Portraits – Within the Artist*, CARFAC Alberta, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary
2013 Terminal Work, Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland
2013 A Token Gesture, Impact 8, Curator Stefanie Dykes, Dundee, Scotland
2013 918 Letterpress Ephemera Show*, Samford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL, USA
2013 Paper Exchanges*, Lake Country Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
2012 Connecting the Dots*, Thompson Rivers University Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2012 Curiosities, Fast and Dirty Collective Project, Edmonton, AB
2012 Works on Paper, National Arts and Heritage Academy, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia
2011 Lineage, Arnica Artist Run Centre, Kamloops, BC
2009 Pipelines and Borderlines, Traveling Exhibition of Prints (Canada, United States and Mexico)
2009 Exchange Exhibition of Prints by Young Artists in Japan and Calgary, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2008 Culmination: MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
2008 Printmaking & Sculpture Interim Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008 Prints from the University of Calgary, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
2007 The Emerging Landscape, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2007 As Above, So Below, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB
2007 Recent Prints, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB
2007 Landmarks, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB
2006 Co-Emergence, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Calgary, Alberta
2006 1st Year MFA Exhibition, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, Alberta
Grants:
2019 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Funding
2012 Comprehensive University Enhancement Fund, Thompson Rivers, University, Kamloops, BC
2010 Comprehensive University Enhancement Fund, Thompson Rivers, University, Kamloops, BC
2008 Tim Mara Printmaking Scholarship, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2008 URGC Special Projects Grant. Community Outreach Publication. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2007 Graduate Research Scholarship, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2006 Graduate Research Scholarship, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Curatorial Experience:
2024 Co-Curator with Luke Johnson, TBA, Viewopoint Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2016 Co-Curator with Erin Boake, Prairie Contemporary, Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2013 Curator, Cyborgs & Posthuman Culture, Arnica Artist Run Centre, Kamloops, BC
2011 Curator, Right Behind You, The Speakeasy Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2010 Co-Curator with Ashok Mathur, Mondegreens, The Speakeasy Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2008 Co-Curator with Heather Huston for viewpoint gallery Constructed Geographies, Impress: Prints, Artists and Ideas, www.glenbow.org/impress. Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Artist Talks:
2022 Nervous Systems, with Dr Liane McTavish, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2021 Over My Dead Body, Artist Talk, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2021 Artist Talk, University of Utah, Salt lake City, UT
2020 Artist Talk, Prairie Impressions, Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, Edmonton, AB
2020 Artist Talk, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2007 Artist Talk, Non-Traditional Silkscreen Surfaces, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Juror:
2022 Red Deer Arts Council Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2017/22 Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2020 Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize, Edmonton, AB
2018 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta
2013. Rooted in the Arts, The City of Red Deer, Red Deer, AB
2012 Central Interior Regional Arts Council (CIRAC), 100 Mile House, BC
2008 The Banff Centre, Thematic and Self-Directed Residencies Summer 2009
Professional Experience
2022 Public Art Commission, City of Red Deer, Collaboration with 7 Red Deer Polytechnic students $4300
2022-present Red Deer Gallery Connections Committee Member, Red Deer, AB
2021-present Vice Chair, Red Deer Arts Council Board, Red Deer, AB
2021 Artist Residency, Gushul Studio, University of Lethbridge, AB (one month)
2013-19 Gallery Committee Member, Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2017 Curriculum Development, ART 391/393 Contemporary 2D Strategies and Technologies I & II
2014-15 Part Time Faculty Representative, Faculty Association, Red Deer, College, Red Deer, AB
2014 Consultant, Marjorie Wood Gallery Advisory Committee, Kerry Wood Nature Center, Red Deer, AB
2012 Getting to the He(art) of Living With Inherited Cardiac Rhythm Disorders. Living with Cardiac Rhythm Disorders and Congenital Heart Disease. The Canadian SADS Foundation Conference. Edmonton, AB
2012-13 Board Member (Vice President), Arnica Artist Run Centre Board, Kamloops, BC
2010-12 Gallery Committee, Visiting Artist Committee, Visual & Performing Arts Department, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2009 Volunteer Studio Technician & Board Member (2006-2009), Alberta Printmakers’ Society and Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, AB
2008 Mentor, Work Study Mentor Program at The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2008 Photograveure Printing Assistant for David Morrish, Martens Visiting Scholar in Art Series, University of Calgary, AB
2008 Consultant for Impress: Prints, Artists and Ideas website for Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB. www.glenbow.org/impress
2008 Santo Mignosa Portfolio Exchange, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2005 Print Intern, Lower East Side Printshop, NY. With Master Printer James Miller and artist Jean Shin
Workshops
2017 PIY: Print it Yourself, Sewer Grate Printing Workshop, Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery
2017 Etching, Visual Art Society Workshop, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2016 Linocut, SummerScapes, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2016 Cyanotype, Visual Art Society Workshop, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
2016 Linocut, Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery
2015 Monotypes, Sylvan Lake Library, Sylvan Lake, AB
2014 Relief Printmaking, SummerScapes, Red Deer College, AB
2012 Polyester Plate Lithography, Kamloops Printmakers’ Society, Kamloops, BC
Collections
2015 Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
2012 Headbones Gallery, The Drawers, Vernon, BC
2008 Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California
2008 Velvet Antler Print Shop, The Banff Centre, Alberta
2008 The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2008 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2006 Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Press and Reviews
Lungs, Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cover, May 2024
Issue 5: Sanctuary, Tendon, John Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/sanctuary/
Agnieszka Matejko, Five Artists Ponder the Pandemic, Galleries West, March 2021.
https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/five-alberta-artists-ponder-the-pandemic/
Maryann Valentine, A Hybrid of Old and New Art and Anatomy, Using a CNC Router, Tech Directions, January 2020.
http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?m=6340&i=650109&p=20
Julia Krolik, Creators – Marnie Blair, Art the Science, June 2019.
https://artthescience.com/blog/2019/06/10/creators-marnie-blair/
Maryann Valentine, CNC’s Anatomy: Marnie Blair and the Textbook Art of Carving, Sign Builder Illustrated, September 2018. https://www.signshop.com/dimensional/equipment-materials-a-software/blair-cnc-anatomy-carving/
Daniel Cleghorn Bloom, Fade, Repeat. Alberta