Coral Short
Montréal, Québec
Education
2006
M.F.A. (with Distinction) Performance Art, Media, Chelsea School of Art, London, England
2000
B.F.A. (with Distinction) Studio Art - Fibres, Media, Concordia, Montréal, Québec
Solo Exhibition
2021
Let it Go, Dirt Palace, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Group Exhibitions
2018
IF YOU’VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT - MacIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario,
Future Visions - Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
aubergine, rire aux éclats, selfie - Instagram, Montréal, Québec
2017
Future Visions - Hyperpavilion,Venice Bienale, Italy
2016
Robot Boi - DEEP TRASH from Outer Space, London, U.K.
Mother - The Hidden Valley, New York, USA
2015
Future Visions - CYNETART Festival, Dresden, Germany
Stop Beating Yourself Up - Boxing: The Sweet Science, Robert McLaughlin Gallery Oshawa, Canada
Future Visions - Edgy Redux: Feminist Magic, Montréal, Québec
2014
Queer Prophecies: Future Visions - SF, USA
Future Visions - Les HTMlles and Edgy Women, Montréal, Québec
2013
GAY INCANTATIONS - POSITIVE ASSERTIONS, Visual AIDS, NYC
Queer Objectivity - Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland
Forest of the Future - Collaboration with Andre Azevedo, New York, USA
2012
The Hole-y Army - Best Revenge, San Francisco, USA
Archival Performance Photos - Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2011
Nice to Meet you - Wolf Portrait, Les p’tites soirées d'sous-sol, Montréal, Québec
2010
The Inbetweeners - SKOL Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Guardian - Alice Chilton Gallery, New York, USA
Emotional Relay - Images from the Trisha Project, New York, USA
2008
I Can’t Understand What You are Saying - Double Bounce, X Space, Toronto, Canada
Performances
2022
Choir of Emotions - Des Voix Différentes à l'Université de Montréal, Québec
Floral Sleep - Ada X, Montréal, Québec
Empty - Zoom
2021
Floral Sleep - Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Québec
Dog Rising - FTA - Montréal, Québec
Dog Rising - Atelier de Paris/ CDCN, Paris, France
Dog Rising -Theatre Rotterdam, Netherlands
Empty - Zoom
2020
Floral Sleep - Studio XX, Montréal, Québec
Upchuck - You Do You, Zoom
Pandemic Choir - Together Alone, Zoom
2019
Floral Sleep, Les Jardiniers, Batiment 7, Montréal, Québec
W.W.K.A. - VIVA, Montréal, Québec
Choir of Emotions - Fresh Festival, San Francisco, USA
2018
Fake Orgasm Choir - Festival Phenomena, Montréal, Québec
Floral Sleep - Welt Ohne Außen, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2017
The Awful Plastics - Neu West/ Blurred Edges Festival, Germany
The Awful Plastics - Basket, Berlin, Germany
Choir of Emotions - Sound Acts, Athens, Greece
2016
Fake Orgasm Choir - Queer Gala at the Kopi, Berlin, Germany
Fake Orgasm Choir - Hydra Benefit at Möbel-Olfe, Berlin, Germany
Fake Orgasm Choir - Bildweschel Benefit at Lido, Berlin, Germany
Fake Orgasm Choir - Gender as a Spectrum, Südblock, Berlin, Germany
Queeries - Ausland, Berlin, Germany
2015
You - collaboration with Nabil Vega, Duos, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, USA
Future Visions - CYNETART festival, Dresden Germany
Chimeras - Out of Site, Chicago, USA
Ice Dreams - This Town is Small Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
Scream Choir, Laugh Choir, Plush - Art in the Open, Charlottetown, PEI
Stop Beating Yourself Up - Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
Nesting, Plush - Supercrawl, Hamilton, Ontario
2014
The Insiders, Plush, Croning - Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Nesting - Encuentro, Montréal, Québec
Scream Choir - Notre-Dame Basilica, Encuentro, Montréal, Québec
Scream Choir - OK Quoi?! Festival, New Brunswick
Flânerie - Mountain Standard Time, Calgary, Alberta
Social, Food for Thought, Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, NYC
2013
Plush - L’Entreprise Culturelle, Paris, France, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
We Don’t Want to Marry - NEXT, Paris, France
Stop Beating Yourself Up - Edgy Women, Montréal, Québec
Woven - Hey Queen, New York, USA
The Insiders - The Museum of Vancouver and ACCM, Sala Rosa, Montréal, Québec
Croning - Festival TransAmériques, Montréal, Québec
Leaning - GENDER B(L)ENDER, L'Artère, Montréal, Québec
2012
Hair Forever - HAIRCAKE, Tennis Court, New York, USA
The Hole-y Army - New York Dyke March, USA, Toronto Dyke March, Canada
The Hole-y Army - Marche Officielle des Femmes LGBT, Montréal, Québec
The Hole-y Army - Ottawa Dyke March, Canada
2011
Present - Salacious, Montréal, Canada
The Insiders - Südblock, Berlin, MIX NYC, and Espace des Arts, Montréal, Québec
City of Sighs - Vent Performance Art Festival, Gowanus Open Studios, New York, USA
Guardian - The Floating World, New Jersey Convention Center, USA
Moustache Factory - Bildwechsel Event, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY - Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada
2010
The Insiders - Queer Allstars, El Rio, San Francisco, USA
Grapeful - Greeter for Annie Sprinkle's Wedding, L.A., USA
W.W.K.A. - FAAS, la galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury, Canada
Mole Flanders - Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Moustache Factory - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Til Time Do Us Part - La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
Fluidity - in + body, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Québec
The Crying Machine - TRIGGER, Toronto, Canada
Stationary - La 9e édition du Festival Voix d’Amériques, Montréal
Impermanence - Grace Space, New York, USA
Social - collaboration with Lamathilde, Edgy Women, Montréal, Québec
Film Screenings
2005-present
9th Biennial Queer Arts Festival (Regina), ACT ART 4 (London), Bangalore Queer Film Festival, Bandit-Mages (Bourges) Bent (Manchester), Berlin Ladyfest, Bimovie (Munich), Frauenkultur (Leipzig), Cineffable Film Festival (Paris), Coming Societee/ Consider the Trouble (Hong Kong), Copenhagen Queer Festival, Entzaubert (Berlin), Fairy Tales International Film Festival (Calgary), FEMINA (Rio de Janeiro Brazil), Frauen Film Festival (Köln) Grenoble International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Hamburg Queer Film Festival, Image+Nation (Montreal), IMPRINT (Newcastle/Manchester), Inside Out (Toronto), Kashish Film Festival (Mumbai), Kino Moviemento (Berlin), Leeds Queer Film Festival, MIX Brasil, MIX Milan, MIX NYC, MIX Copenhagen, MUFF (Montreal, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museum La Tertulia in Cali, Colombia, Operating Theatre (Amsterdam) Nuit Blache (Toronto) paranoid paradise (Leipzig) Perverscite (Montreal) Pink Apple (Zurich) Pink Panorama (Lucerne) PO Box Collective(Chicago)Reel Out (Kingston) REEL Pride (Winnipeg) San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Seoul International New Media Festival, This is What I Want (SF) Transcreen: Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Club Wotever (London), Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Video Video Zine (Chicago),VIFF (Vancouver) Vox Feminae (Zagreb Croatia), Wired Women (Studio XX Montreal), Women Make Waves, (Taipai), CIMMFest Festival (Chicago)
Artist Talks
2020 STUDIO XX Mentoring Program, Montréal, Québec
2014 THINK TANK, STAG, Vancouver, Canada
2014 ART NOW, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2014 Queering Cyberfeminism, Les HTMlles, Montréal, Québec
2013 Community Art Practice, New School, New York, USA
2012 Wired Women Salon, Studio XX, Montréal, Québec
2011 VENT Performance Art Festival, NYC, New York, USA
2011 MFA Performance Concordia, Montréal, Québec
2010 Theories of Identities, McGill University, Montréal,Montréal
2009 Feelings, Greasy Goose, Le Cagibi, Montréal, Québec
Artist Residencies
2021 The Wedding Cake House, Providence Rhode Island, USA
2017 Co-director of Hibernate, Quecke, Brandenburg, Germany
2017 Co-director of Murmurs, Betonest, Brandenburg, Germany
2016 Queeries, Ponderosa, Brandenburg, Germany
2015 Studio Li, Montréal, Québec
2014 IDA, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2013 L’Entreprise Culturelle, Paris, France
2012 Allied Productions, New York, USA
2011 Villa Magdalena/ Bildwechsel, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Artist in Residence Out on Screen, Vancouver, Canada