Scott Bertram is an abstract painter whose practice centres around ideas of improvisation, finding meaning within unintended stimuli, and playing with the dynamics of perception. He was a semi-finalist in the 12th RBC Canadian Painting Competition and has received many other awards including funding from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Scott Bertram currently lives and works in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

SELECTED CV

EDUCATION

2010 MFA, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS

2007 BFA, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC

2006 Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 We Cannot Say It Is There, And Yet We Cannot Say It Isn't, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC

2020 Distance. Motion. Moment., Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB

2017 PULL, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Project Room Studio, Courtenay, BC

2015 A Piece of the Ground, A Piece of the Sky, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

2014 Syncopate For, Forest City Gallery, London, ON

2012 Taking Shape, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC

2010 Unfixed, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC

Subject to Change, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Flux, SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC

2021 The Line Between, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC

2020 FIFTEEN, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2019 Approaching Painting, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC

2018 JuxtaPositions, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Horizon Felt, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC

Framed Spaces: Contemporary Canadian Painting Exhibition, Arcite Inc., Windsor, ON

2015 Bus, FINA Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC

2014 El Arbol de la Garceta, Fentrol Cultural Ajijic, Ajijic, Mexico

2013 Extreme Painting, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC

2011 Voices of Fire: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Abstraction, curated by Benjamin Klein, Galerie SAS, Montreal, QC

2010 12th RBC Canadian Painting Competition (The Power Plant, Toronto, ON; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS; Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB)

AWARDS

2024 BC Arts Council Individual Arts Grant

2022 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant

2020 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant

2019 Canada Council Concept to Realization Grant

Canada Council Professional Development Grant

2018 BC Arts Council Project Assistance Grant

2011 Honourable Mention - HRM Contemporary Visual Art Purchase Program

2010 Semifinalist - 12th RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture & Heritage Presentation Grant

2009 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Joseph Armand Bombardier

BC Arts Council Senior Scholarship Award

2008 BC Arts Council Senior Scholarship Award

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2022 Artist Workshop, Enrique Martinez Celaya Studio, Los Angeles, CA

2018-19 Advanced Mentored Study with Enrique Martinez Celaya, Anderson Ranch Arts Centre,

Snowmass Village, CO, USA

2017, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC

2014, Spark Box Studios, Picton, ON

Bus from Guadalajara, Ajijic, Mexico

TEACHING

2017-Present, North Island College, Courtenay, BC

2012-14, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2012-13, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

2010-11, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS