BORN

1972 in Ottawa, Canada

EDUCATION

1997
BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
EDM House, Van Der Mieden Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2015
Kevin Schmidt: The Commons, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Kevin Schmidt: A Sign in the Northwest Passage, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta

2014
Braunschweig Kunstverein
Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Newfoundland
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

2013
EDM House, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2011
A Sign in the Northwest Passage, as part of Subjective Projections, Bielfelder Kunstverein, Germany
Don’t Stop Believing, Justina M.Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
A Sign in the Northwest Passage (billboard project), The Power Plant, Toronto
Epic Journey, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

2010
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver

2009
Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp, Belgium
Wild Signals, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin

2006
Catriona Jeffries , Vancouver

2005
Fog, Mercer Union, Toronto
Burning Bush, Artspeak, Vancouver

2004
Fog, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver

2003
Untitled Landscape (in collaboration with Phil Dion), Xeno Gallery, Vancouver
Small Waves, Cold Water, Access ArtistRun Centre, Vancouver
Our Favourite Places, Forest Arts, Edinburgh

2001
Our Favourite Places, False Creek Community Centre, Vancouver

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Felder Intervention #2, Farbvision, Berlin, Germany
Lichtparcours 16, Branschweig, Germany

2014
Alexandra Baumgartner / Robert Devriendt / Sophie Jung / Mahony / Agnieszka Polska / Kevin Schmidt, Insitu, Berlin
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, The Jewish Museum, New York
Sympathetic Magic, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

2013
Crossing Channels, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Parallel Biographies, Audain Gallery, Vancouver
L'Avenir (looking forward), Montreal Biennial
Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal
Acquisitions and Archives, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver

2012
Untrue North, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
True North, Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Zoo, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

2011
Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Up North, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton

2010
Magnetic Norths, Galarie Leonard & Bina Ellen at Concordia University, Montreal
unfinished business, Waterside Project Space, London, UK

2009
SongShow, ArtLab Gallery at the University of Western Ontario, London
Sentimental Journey, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Loaded, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
How Soon is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery
2008 Psychology of a Pawn, Participant Inc, New York
Sweet Dreams, Nuit Blanche, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
Wild Signals, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Our Changing Landscape, Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada
The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, Vancouver Art Gallery
eXponential Future, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver

2007
Sound and Vision: Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Depiction Part IV: Film Program for the IFFR 2007, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Looking up from US, de Kist, Groningen, The Netherlands
The Banal, SBC Galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal

2006
Canada Dreaming (Desires And Ideas For The Future By Artists Of The Biggest Country In America), Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Sound and Vision: Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art – A Selection of Works from the MMFA, NGC and AGO, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
DOMESTIC MULTIPLEX , Banff Centre, Canada

2005
VOX, The System of Allusion, Montreal,

2004
Important Canadian Art, Ziehersmith, New York
I Wanna Be a Popstar, Club Transmediale, Berlin
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Old Habits Die Hard, Norwich Gallery, UK; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Old Habits Die Hard, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin

RESIDENCIES

2011
Fogo Island Residency Program, Newfoundland

2008
Ted Harrison Artist Retreat, Whitehorse, Yukon

2011
Fogo Island Residency Program, Newfoundland

2008
Ted Harrison Artist Retreat, Whitehorse, Yukon

AWARDS

2017
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award

2008
VIVA Award, The Jack & Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia