for just about ever, 2022, Graphite on bristol, laser-etched mat board, acrylic, 21.5 x 25 in (54.6 x 63.5 cm)
Tuhkauksen Jälkeinen, 2022, Jacquard woven wool, upholstry foam, butcher’s twice, embroidered patches, 44 x 37.75 x 1.75 in (111.8 x 95.9 x 4.4 cm)
hard parts with x.s. emblshmnt, 2022, Components from anatomical skeleton, plastilene, armature, clothing, plaster, encaustic, custom-printed cover-alls, jacquard-woven wool, used footwear, 34 x 17 x 38 in (86.4 x 43.2 x 96.5 cm)
Urrrrr- Leica, 2020, Graphite and acrylic gouache on paper, 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
the little negative of the leitz camera, 2020, Graphite on paper, 10 x 12 in (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
seeing as searing in, 2020, Graphite on paper, 6 x 7 in (15.2 x 17.8 cm)
left: Hashtag Vortices I, 2020, Coloured pencil on paper, 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
right: Radiate as Burial’s Care, 2020, Graphite on paper, 12.5 x 12.5 in (31.8 x 31.8 cm)
replace the bars of the cage with my bones and replace the bones of my body with the bars + other futures the poets prophesied, 2020, Graphite and coloured pencil on paper, 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Paul Kajander
b. Vancouver, CA
Lives and works in Halifax, CA
Education
2007 MFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA
2004 BFA, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2002 Film History and Museology Studies, UEA, Norwich, UK
2001 Concordia University, Department of Art Education, Montréal, CA
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2023 F.F.F.F. (with Isabelle Pauwels), Unit 17, Vancouver, CA
2022 Iso Kokko, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2020 Peering in the flushing, Trilobite et le Pneu, Montreal, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2019 maximum suffering along the way, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2019 Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2017 Blink Shock Blood Shot, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2014 All Beneath the Moon Decays (with Allyson Vieira), Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 Stock’s Room, Project Broom Gallery, Seoul, KR
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Ring Ring Ring, pal project, Paris, FR
2023 Negotiating Borders, SAW Centre Gallery, Ottawa, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2023 DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Paju, KR (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2023 A forged spider’s web, Unit 17, Vancouver, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2022 Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2022 A Rhythm, Not a Plot, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2019 Barely Fair, Julius Caesar, Chicago, US (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2019 Gallery Galerie Galería, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, US (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2018 Lojong Exercises, Kikospace, Toronto, CA (as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander)
2017 Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London, CA
2017 Dust is Dancing, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, CA
2016 Pleasure Faire, (organized by Brian Mann), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, US
2015 Untitled (But Unnamed), New Media Society, Vancouver, CA
2015 All The Instruments Agree, The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, US
2015 Through A Window: Visual Art & SFU 1965-2015, Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2014 Universal Studios, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,KR
2013 What Cannot Be is What, Banner Project, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2013 Dimensions Variable, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Int’l Residency Exhibition, Seoul, KR
2013 The Real DMZ Project, Cheorwon-gun & Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2013 Stock’s Room, Project Broom Gallery, Seoul, KR
2011 Rehearsal Research, Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2011 Ron Tran: It knows not what it is, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2010 Sunday is the New Saturday, Every Letter In the Alphabet, Vancouver, CA
2010 Funny Business, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, CA
2009 Black Hole is Also Supernova, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA
2008 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler, Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2008 The Silence of Infinite Space, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2007 Sendai Contemporary Art Network: Light and City, Shiogama, JP
2007 Green, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2006 Since Before and After, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, CA
2006 Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, CA
2005 Anxiety of Influence: New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, US
Screenings & Special Projects
2014 Composer & Sound Effects Producer for Isabelle Pauwels's «,000,»; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York, US
2014 Life’s Work: Experimental Documentaries, Montréal Underground Film Festival, CA
2012 The Beacon for which We Long at Nautical Dusk and Dawn, Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, CA
Press
2023 Angel Callander, ‘Paul Kajander Iso Koko’, Esse Magazine, Issue 107
2019 Jenine Marsh, ‘HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander’, Canadian Art
2019 Ben Shannon, ‘In Conversation’, www.residenceeditions.co
2014 Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, ‘Top 3 of 2014: Time Travels’, Canadian Art
2014 Jae-un Lim, ‘Canadian Artist residing in Seoul, Paul Kajander’, korea.net
2014 Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, ‘All Beneath the Moon Decays’, Frieze Magazine
2014 Britt Gallpen, ‘All Beneath the Moon Decays’, Drain Magazine
2014 Fran Schechter, ‘It’s Greek to Them’, Toronto Now
2014 Woo-young Lee, ‘Korea seen through eyes of foreign artists’, The Korea Herald
2014 Sun-Min Lee, ‘Art exhibit portrays Korea through foreign eyes’, Korea JoongAng Daily
2013 Shelley DeWees, ‘Paul Kajander and the DMZ Project’, Groove Magazine
2013 Maria Lind, ‘Can a show about the real world be too close to the real world?’, Art Review
2013 Sun-Min Lee, ‘Exhibition paints new picture of life on the line’, Korea JoongAng Daily
2013 Woo-young Lee, ‘Art questions what DMZ means to Koreans', The Korea Herald
2013 Ines Min, ‘Examining the Real DMZ Through Art’, Blouin Art Info
2011 Allison Collins, ‘Three Unfinished Actions at Western Front’, Art Slant
2009 Vanessa Kwan, ‘Black Hole is Also Supernova, I Found This: A Partial Conversation’, Richmond Art Gallery
2007 Aya Takada, ‘Spectacle in Video’, Sendai Contemporary Art Network
2005 Vishal Jugdeo, ‘Live and Loud’, UCLA New Wight Biennial
Writing
2021 ‘Every Moment is a Chance to Get Sometime that Lives On’ Vishal Jugdeo interviewed by Paul Kajander, Peripheral Review
2014 ‘Maybe Not, Forever: Interview with Kim Beom’, Millions Magazine
2013 ‘Correspondence: Interview with Isabelle Pauwels’, Isabelle Pauwels monograph, Presentation House Gallery
2009 ‘Words From Vancouver’, Exhibition Catalogue, Transcontinental Divide, HPG ARC
2009 ‘Square Configuration (Decorum) Study’, Vishal Jugdeo Exhibition Essay, HPG ARC
Artist Talks & Workshops
2015 In Conversation with Kim Beom, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2014 Visiting Artist: Korean National University of the Arts, Visiting Artist
2014 What You Believe Is What You Say, Artist Talk with HaeAhn Kwon and Jung-hyun Kim, Art Sonje Center
2014 Silence and Slow Time, artist talk, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 Now that there is nowhere, lecture performance with Luuk Schroder, Seoul Museum of Art, KR
2013 Semiology & Structuralism Across Disciplines, Special Lecture, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
2009 In Conversation: Colleen Brown & Paul Kajander, moderated by Vanessa Kwan, Fillip, Vancouver, CA
2009 Visiting Curator: Undergraduate Studio Visits, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2008 Juror: Chester Fields Photo Contest, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Awards & Residencies
2017 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant for Visual Artists
2015 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant for Visual Artists
2013 National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, International Residency Program, Changdong, Seoul, KR
2012 Guesthaus, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, US
2012 BC Arts Council Project Assistance for Visual Artists
2010 Theatre of Erosion, The Banff Centre, Banff, CA (Lead Artist: Geoffrey Farmer)
2010 Rehearsal Research, Western Front, UBC & Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, CA
2007 BC Binning Drawing Fellowship, UBC, Vancouver, CA