Events

1. Rites & Remedies

March 12 to May 24, 2013

Dadian Gallery, at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion Washington DC

Solo exhibition featuring sculpture and two dimensional work.

2. Book Launch:

December 20, 2012, 4 to 6 pm

Renison College Lounge, Renison College at University of Waterloo

This book features Paul Roorda's encaustic drawings and a memoir by Marianne Brandis.

3. Berlin Residency Open Studio Exhibition

November 23 to 24, 2012

GlogauAIR Studios, Berlin, Germany.

4. The End of the Book

July 14 to August 26, 2012

Grimsby Public Art Gallery

This two-person exhibition, with Jane Adeney, opens Friday, July 13, 7 to 9 pm.

5. Days of Rain

March 17 to May 6, 2012

Lamlash, Ontario

This site-specific installation accompanies Flood and Fiction at Durham Art Gallery. The church is located in Lamlash, Ontario, at the intersection of Grey Road 3 and Concession Road 6.

6. Flood and Fiction

March 17 to May 6, 2012

Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario

Using water from the River Styx, vintage glass, life jackets, weathered paper, water safety manuals, and pages from "The Book of the Flood" this exhibition explores climate change through the lens of historical and mythological flood narratives.

7. Open Book: An Explorations of Books as Art

February 27 to March 29, 2012

Whitestone Gallery, 80 Norfolk St, Guelph, Ontario.

Group exhibition. Opening reception on Saturday, March 3, 2 to 4 p.m.

8. Pharmakon

September 22 to 25, 2011

Critical Media Lab, Kitchener, Ontario

Pharmakon: that which can both cure and kill. The pharmacological work in this group exhibition, explores the concepts of irony, indeterminacy, and opposition by combining radically divergent elements in the same physical space.

9. Blake Prize Exhibition

September 16 to October 15, 2011

NAS Gallery, Darlinghurst, Australia

The Blake Prize, established in 1951 is an open art prize that challenges artists to explore the religious and spiritual in art. Paul Roorda is one of the finalists whose work is being shown in this exhibition.

A Recent Publication: 'God is Dead' and I Don't Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements With the New Atheism

Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010

A chapter of this book is dedicated to the images and artist statement for works from Paul Roorda's exhibition "The Skeptic's Gospel". Cover art by Paul Roorda.

Bravo! TV - Monday, May 11, 2009, 8:30 a.m.

Paul Roorda was featured on The Artist's Life, a television show profiling the work of Canadian artists. Each episode is a glimpse into the vision guiding the artistic process as expressed through the thoughts, words, and daily experience of the artist. This episode of the Artist's Life first aired on BRAVO! on May 8, 2005.

Canada Council for the Arts

I would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.