Kim Tomczak
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Kim Tomczak

Canadian artist (born 1952)

Kim Tomczak (born 1952) is a Canadian artist known for his work in performance art, photography and video art. Born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1952, he graduated from the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design) in 1975.2

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Born 1952.1

About

Tomczak has collaborated exclusively with his partner Lisa Steele since the early 1980s.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: video artist, university teacher, television producer, artist, videographer.4 5

  • Date not recordedFounded Vtape3

Tomczak's work has been shown at the Paris Biennale, the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Video Biennale in Vienna (where he received first prize for a tape co-produced with Lisa Steele) as well as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Documenta 8 in Kasel, Germany, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. His work is in many collections including: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Oakville Galleries.

Tomczak is a co-founder of Vtape, a Toronto media arts resource centre.

Tomczak is a professor at University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

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Personal life

  • Born1952, Victoria6 7
  • CitizenshipCanada8