BORN London, UK
LIVES/ WORKS lək̓ʷəŋən territory, Victoria, BC

EDUCATION
1994 Masters in Studio and Environmental Art, New York University, New York, New York
1992 Honours BFA, Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Weather Events, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC
2024 Glacial Resonance, McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, ON
2023 Imaginary Landscapes,  MKG127, Toronto, ON
2023 Glacial Resonance, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC,
2022 Requiem for a Glacier, Columbia Valley Arts Centre, Invermere, BC
2022 Alaska Variations, Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA,
2020 Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
2020 Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
2020 Tom Thomson Centennial Swim, Touchstones Museum, Nelson, BC
2018 Alaska Variations, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC
2018 Alaska Variations, Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, BC
2017 Requiem for a Glacier, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON
2015 (for John Cage), Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
2014 Requiem for a Glacier, Galerie des Arts Visuels, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC
2014 Requiem for a Glacier, Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
2014 Requiem for a Glacier, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC
2013 Requiem for a Glacier, Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, BC
2011 Composition for Light Percussion and Ultrasound, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Northern Symphony, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Below the Surface, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
2004 Brushwork, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2003 Drift, The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2002 Paul Walde, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON
2001 Northern Symphony, V. MacDonnell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Mix Translations, V. MacDonnell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Recent Works, De Leon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Woods, The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1994 Hellbender Museum, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, New York
1993 Shared Accommodations, Virus Space, New York University, New York, New York
1992 Vaporous Vestiges, Rosenberg Gallery, New York University, New York, New York

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017  Records and Wireframes, Paul Dolan and Paul Walde, Dundee Contemporary Arts as part of the NEoN Festival of Digital Media, Dundee, Scotland, curated by Kelly Richardson
2014 Mary Casablanca: collaborative works on paper by Paul Walde and Jason McLean, DNA, London, Ontario
2006 The Power of Nature, Simon Frank and Paul Walde, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario curated by Kristine Germann
2006 Toque Baroque: New Directions in Canadian Landscape Painting, Paul Walde and Ben Darrah, MacLaren Art Centre. Barrie, ON
2006 Toque Baroque: New Directions in Canadian Landscape Painting, Paul Walde and Ben Darrah,WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON
2002 In the Rough: Paul Walde and Yechel Gagnon, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto,ON, curated by Virginia Eichhorn

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art, and Social Practice,  Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, AB, curated by Haema Sivanesan
2023 Supply Chain Issues,  MKG:127, Toronto, ON
2022 Piers, Legacy Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, curated by Kim Dhillon
2021 Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures,  Legacy Gallery,University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, curated by Jessie Demers
2021 HYPER-POSSIBLE,  Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 3rd Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK.
curated by Ryan Hughes and Dr. Michael Pigott
2021 Last Stand: Ancient Forests, Collective Action,  Fortune Gallery, Victoria, BC curated by Jessie Demers
2021 Ecologies: A Song for the Earth,  Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC curated by Iris Amizlev
2020 Cover Me, Hotam Bookshop Gallery, Vancouver, BC organized by Ho Tam
2020 Hiding in Plain Sight, Embassy Cultural House, London, ON organized by Ron Benner
2020 Summer Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London,UK
2018 Ecologies of Landscape, Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON, curated by Mark Cheetham
2018 Work of WIND AIR LAND SEA, presented by University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga Ontario, curated by Christine Shaw
2018  Au Loin Une Île, Mains d’Œuvres, Paris, France curated by Chloé Grondeau
2017 The View From Up Here: The Arctic At The Centre of The World, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, Norway, curated by Julie Decker
2016 The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change In Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, curated by Bénédicte Ramade
2016 The View From Up Here: The Arctic At The Centre of The World, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, curated by Julie Decker
2015 Nature’s Handmade, Museum London, London, Ontario
2014 All Together Now, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario, curated by Barbara Fischer
2014 Open Sound 2014: Sonorus Kingdom, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, curated by Jordan Strom
2013 Paradox, Legacy Art Galleries, Victoria, BC, curated by Mary-Jo Hughes
2013 Now Art, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2012 Polar Shift, Museum London, London, Ontario, curated by Melanie Townsend
2012 8.5×11— Imperial Letters, Tumble Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2011 The Canadian Spirit, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, curated Virginia Eichhorn
2011 Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, Kitchener, Ontario
2011 Searching for Tom, Tom Thomson, General Idea, Group of Seven, Diana Thorneycroft, Brian Burnett, Emily Carr, Homer Watson, et al, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, ON, curated by Virginia Eichhorn
2010 Melting the True North, Susan Feindel, Gita Laidler, and Paul Walde, Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, curated by Petra Halkes
2010 Electric Eclectics 5, The Funny Farm, curated by Gordon Monahan, Meaford, Ontario
2010 Things You Should Know: Faculty Exhibition, The artLAB, University of Western Ontario,London, ON
2009 No Melatonin at Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario,curated by Dave Dyment
2007 Beyond/In Western New York 2007, biennial organized by the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Out of Place: Landscape Displacements and Disconnects, Gallery 96, Stratford, Ontario
2006 Stripes, Checks, Balances, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
2005 The jOKe: Faculty Exhibition, The artLAB, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2004 Travelling Light, Doug Buis, ryanbarret, Catherine Kozyra, Agatha Ostrowska, and Paul Walde, The James Baird Gallery and The Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John’s and Pouch Cove, Newfoundland
2001 Off 17, On the Verge: Rosalie Favell, Maxx Stevens, Mary Green, Dennis Geden, Paul Walde, et al., Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario
1997 The Nature of Representation: Colm McCool, Iris Paabo, Clarissa Schmidt Ingliss, Paul Walde,
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Absence: Gerard Byrne, Grace Kobayashi, Ann Lislegaard and Paul Walde, Salon 95, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Independents Biennial III, New York, New York
1996 Roundabout: Matthew Abbott, John Kalimnyos, and Paul Walde, The See Hear, Brooklyn, New York
1995 Coordination/Subordination, Woodroofe-Croton Initiatives, Brooklyn, New York
1995 Big Country: Paul Walde, David Bierk and Kevin Sonmor, The Art Gallery of Algoma,
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
1994 Myths: Elizabeth Olbert, Carl Fudge, Norm Colton, and Paul Walde, Loren & Lee Gallery, Westport, CT
1994 18th Annual Student Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, New York
1992 Gaming the Game, London Regional and Historical Museum, London, Ontario

PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
2023 Selections from Alaska Variations, Kamloops Art Gallery in collaboration with the Kamloops Symphony, Kamloops, BC
2021 LAND SEA SKY,Experimental Music Unit, Finnerty Cove, Victoria, BC as part of World Listening Day
2019 dark listening, Experimental Music Unit, Flux Media Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
2016 Songs for Glass Island, Experimental Music Unit in collaboration with Camille Norment, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Pyatt Hall in association with Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC- three performances
2015 Music for Mycologists, Experimental Music Unit, Open Sapce, Victoria, BC
2014 dark listening, Experimental Music Unit, Merlin’s Sun Theatre, Victoria, BC
2014 Music for Mycologists, Experimental Music Unit, Surrey Art Gallery in association with the symposium Sound Thinking and the exhibition Sonorous Kingdom.
2013 Music for Mycologists, Experimental Music Unit, Legacy Art Galleries, Victoria, BC
2013 Requiem for a Glacier, Nelson United Church, Nelson, BC
2012 Realization of John Cage’s Lecture on the Weather (1976), The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 Musicworks Launch Concert, Aeolian Performing Arts Centre, London, Ontario, with performances by Paul Walde, A Priori,Cailen Dye, and Audio Lodge of works by Paul Walde and Audio Lodge
2010 Speakers, Forest City Gallery with blackhole factory (DE), London, Ontario ( Audio Lodge)
2004 Northern Symphony: Endless Remixes, with performance by Davy Lahteenma,Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2002 Northern Symphony: Endless Remixes, with performance by Rob O’Flanagan, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario
2001 Northern Symphony: Endless Remixes, with performances by Terence Dick, Sook Yin Lee, Rust Brothers, Mastermind, and Combustien Lente, V. MacDonnell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Index: 1036, with Christine Mathieson, De Leon White Gallery, Toronto, and Forest City Gallery, London, ON
1994 Rhythmic Dissonance, with David Hind, The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
1993 The Social and Natural History of the Hellbender, New York University, New York, New York
1991 The Gaze, Annual Performance Festival, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario

SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS
2018 Moving Image Work No.1: Of Weather (for Geoffrey Hendricks), a 10 day performance of art handlers moving large photographic images of clouds in radio tower field. Performed at the Southdown Industrial Area in Mississauga ON
2017 Tom Thomson Centennial Swim, a live swimming performance with synchronized swimmers, brass ensemble, and canoe flotilla responding to the 100th anniversary of Tom Thomson’s death. Performed at Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, ON
2016 Music for Natural History, Royal British Columbia Museum, two pre-recorded soundscapes and two live performance sound works describing the sounds of the Natural History Galleries created in collaboration with Tina Pearson- four performances
2013 Requiem for a Glacier,a four movement oratorio about the Jumbo Glacier Range performed at Farnham Glacier, BC
2012 Music for Natural History, Royal British Columbia Museum, two pre-recorded soundscapes and two live performance sound works describing the sounds of the Natural History Galleries created in collaboration with Tina Pearson
2011 Epigenetic Switches, commissioned sound installation for the Epigenetics Canada Conference, London, Ontario, a 5 movement music score describing four types of epigenetic gene expressions.
2007 Projection Paintings: Triptychs, the London Convention Centre, Ambassador London event
1999 Xyloanthropocentrism, self-portraits carved in living trees, various locations, Northern Ontario, evolving
1999 Exogenesis, cave paintings, various locations, Rock Lake, Ontario, extant
1991 House Installation, serial projection project, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario

GRANTS and AWARDS
2022 Visual Arts Project Grant, BC Arts Council
2021 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Visual Arts Project Grant, BC Arts Council
2020 Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria
2018 Kenny Doren Award, ED Video
2018 REACH Award for Excellence in Creativity and Artistic Expression, University of Victoria
2017 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Visual Arts Project Grant, BC Arts Council
2015 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2015 Visual Arts Project Grant, BC Arts Council
2015 Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria
2013 Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria
2013 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria
2012 Mid-career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2011 Purchase Grant, London Arts Council and Epigenetics Canada
2011 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2010 Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2010 Mid-career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2009 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council also awarded in: 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2007
2008 CAIP Project Grant, London Arts Council
2008 Mid-career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2004 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2003 Mid-career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2001 Mid-career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1997 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1994 The Prescott Fund Award, National Arts Club, New York, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Rashana, Youtzy, “Tributaries of the Glacial Empire”, PUBLIC Journal, May 2024
2024 Cherniak, Vincent, “Paul Walde: Music of the Glaciers”, Centred, March 2024
2024 Baleeiro, Beatriz, “A new London exhibit features climate change data– made into music”, London Free Press, January 23, 2024
2022 Grande, John K., “Paul Walde: Requiem for a Glacier” Interalia Magazine, Issue 70, February 2022
2021 Hutchinson, Kristen, “Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change”, LUMA Film and Media Art Quarterly, Issue 24: Vol.6
2021 Xing, Angel, “Requiem for a Glacier Sound Performance Translates Climate Change Temperatures into Music Notes”, ArtsHelp, August 9
2021 Benzine, Vittoria, “The Unified Practice of Paul Walde”, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, July, 2021
2021 Hammond, Cynthia Imogen, “Glacier, Plaza and Garden: Ecological Collaboration and Didacticism in Three Canadian Landscapes”, Sustainability 2021
2021 Bunce, Jonathan, “Cold Wave: Circumpolar Artists Matthew Burtner, Paul Walde, Jana Winderen, Terje Isungset, Bear Sonic Witness to Arctic Warming”, Musicworks #139, Spring 2021
2019 Goyer-Ouimette, Geneviève, “Paul Walde’s Requiem for a Glacier: An Act of Resistance for the Environment”, M Magazine, January issue, Pg. 21
2018  Cheetham, Mark, Ecologies of Landscape, catalogue for the exhibition at Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2018  Cheetham, Mark, Landscape Into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA
2018  Grande, John, Art, Space, Ecology: Two Views/Twenty Interviews, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
2017  Priegert, Portia,“Swimming in Tom Thomson’s Shadow”, Galleries West, July 18
2017  Whyte, Murray, “Diving Deep Into Black Waters Of The Past”, Toronto Star, July 10, pg. A3
2017  Van Evra, Jennifer, “Victoria artist to honour iconic painter Tom Thomson with swim, floating brass band”, Q Blog, CBC
2017  Chamberlain, Adrian, “Lake Swim Pays Tribute to Artist”, Times Colonist,June 22, pg. D5
2016  Ramade, Bénédicte, The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change In Photography and Video, exhibition catalogue with chapter “Listen to the Landscape” about Requiem for a Glacier, Ryerson Image Centre and Black Dog Publishing, London, UK. pgs. 39-45
2016  Chamberlain, Adrian, “Art Piece Gets Serious About Animal Mimicry”,Times Colonist, January 14
2016  Priegert, Portia, “Previews: Paul Walde and Tina Pearson, Music for Natural History”, Galleries West, Spring 2016, pg .26
2016 McIntyre, Gordon, Sounds of Nature Will Be Faux Real at Royal BC Museum in Victoria”, The Province, January 5
2015 Patricia Aubé “L’expérience du sacré dans le paysage : Requiem for a Glacier de Paul Walde”, Espace #110 spring/ summer 2015
2014 Warren, Janis, “A Pre-emptive Requiem for Jumbo”, Tri-City News, August 30th
2014 Quinn, David, “Requiem for a Glacier”, Alternatives Journal, July 2014| Art and Media, 40.3
2014 Hardy, Thomas E., “Requiem for a Glacier Mourns Climate Change Losses,” Canadian Art, Jan. 22, canadianart.ca
2013 Tessman, Margaret, “Requiem for A Glacier” Articulate Magazine, Fall/ Winter 2013- 2014, pgs 20- 22.
2013 Hardy, Thomas E., “ PAUL WALDE: “Requiem for a Glacier, Galleries West, October 29, gallerieswest.ca
2013 Staff writer, “Requiem for a Glacier – Totenmesse für einen Gletscher”, Crescendo Magazine, August 1
2013 Inverne, James, “Canadian Musicians Protest Perform Paul Walde’s ‘Requiem for a Glacier’ Atop B.C.’s Mt. Farnham”, July 30, Classicalite.com
2013 Powers, Lucas, “Orchestra holds protest concert on B.C. glacier”, CBC, July 29, 2013
2013 Metcalfe, Bill, “Orchestra plays to BC Glacier in sorrow”, The Vancouver Sun, July 29, 2013, pgs, A1 – A2, front page.
2011 Staff writer, “The Drumming of the Moths”, The Utne Reader, No.166, July-August 2011, p.88
2011 Bunce, Jonathon, “Paul Walde Subverts Nature as Culture”, Musicworks #109 Spring 2011, full feature profile with accompanying  CD, pgs. 29-31, 34-37, tracks 2-4
2010 Halkes, Petra, “Melting the True North”, publication for the exhibition of the same name, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2007 Boyko, Robin ed. et al, Beyond In Western New York 2007, exhibition catalogue with
essay by Angelique Szymanek, the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. ,p.140-141
2007 Dabkowski, Colin, ‘North Stars’ and ‘Focal Point: A Closer Look at the work of Paul Walde’, The Buffalo News “Gusto”, Friday October 12
2007 Moda, Becky and Eric Jackson-Forsberg, “Into the Biennial Part 3” Art Voice, Vol.6, No.41, p.14-18
2007 Scott, Susan, “Paul Walde: Cultural Attraction” Artscape, Issue 19, p.4-5
2006 Beveridge, Sarah, et al. Toque Baroque: New Directions in Canadian Landscape Painting, publication to accompany exhibition also includes writing by Paul Walde and Ben Darrah, MacLaren Art Centre
2006 Frigeri, Leandro, “ Paul Walde: The Shape of Art to Come” The Argus, Lakehead University, Vol. 42, Issue 12
2005 Sauve, Mike, “ From Beaver Gnaw Marks to Mushroom Spores…” The Sault Star, August 5, p. A5
2001 Correia, Pedro, “Paul Walde: Mix Translations at V. MacDonnell” Lola, Winter 2000-2001
2001 Huffman, Bill, “On the Verge of Something Big” Sudbury Star, Feb. 24, p. A10
2001 Listings Editor, “Northern Symphony” featured exhibition, Toronto Star, May 24, p. G10
2000 Dault, Gary Michael. “Animal Magnetism in a Post-Natural World” The Globe and Mail, July 22, p. R10
2000 Hirschman, Thomas. “At the Galleries: Paul Walde, Mix Translations” The National Post, Aug.12,p. W13
2000 Jordan, Betty Ann. “Material Magic” Where Toronto, August, p. 28
2000 Listings Editor. “Paul Walde: Mix Translations at V. MacDonnell” featured exhibition Toronto Star, July 6
2000 O’Flanagan, Rob. “Artist Finds Inspiration Naturally” Sudbury Star, April 29, p. B11
2000 Vaughan, R.M. “Art: Mix Translations *****” Eye Weekly, July 20, p. 36

COLLECTIONS
Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
Museum London, London, Ontario
WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
MacIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario
Dow Jones International, Toronto, Ontario
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Grand Prairie Regional College, Grand Prairie, Alberta

RESIDENCIES
2021 Eden Grove Artist Residency, Vancouver Island, Canada
2015-16 Polar Lab, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
2008-10 Artist in Residence, The Biotron, University of Western Ontario Centre for Climate Change Research, London, ON
2004 Thematic Residency, The Pouch Cove Residency Program for Artists, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland
2003 Self-directed Studio Residency, The Leighton Studios, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta