Bruno Vinhas
Textile Artist & Curator
SELECTED CARREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Full CV upon request
AWARDS •2016 Art Showcase Award, College and Institutes Canada •2016 Dr Anna Templeton Award. Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador •2016/2017 Awards Program for Study and Workshop Grants. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador •2016/2017 Centenary of responsible Government Scholarship. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador •2018 ArtsNL - Multidisciplinary Art Grant in Partnership with Corie Harnett - Ori Project •2021 Neighborhood Dance Works - Roberta Thomas Legacy Award with Valentina Gaia-Lops - Body House Project •2023 Mary MacDonald Award - Excellence in Visual Arts - VANL/CARFAC
PUBLISHED WORK •2019 Curatorial Essay. Crafted Beasts. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador. September 1, 2019 •2020 Preserving Spaces - Studio Magazine . Published on-line on July 23, 2020. Edited by Nehal El-Hadi. Editor in Chief. •2021 Curatorial Essay. SENSORIUS: Where the Skin Meets the Eye. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland Quarterly. 2021 •2022. Curatorial Essay. 50th Anniversary - Council of Newfoundland and Labrador. Curatorial Overview . Co-Written: Bruno Vinhas & Mireille Eagan. Published 2022. ISBN:978-0-9697026-6-5 •2023 Inquires, Studio magazine, April 2023, Vol. 18 No. 1 •2024 Curatorial Essay - Here+Now: Collected Works from Canda’s Atlantic Coast - Craft Alliance Atlantic Association - Collect Art Fair Catalogue •2024 Made in Canada: Sustainable Fibre Arts Conference - Unsustainable Magazine - Australia, April, 2024 •2025 Curatorial Essay - Here+Now: Connecting Culture + Landscape Through Water - Craft Alliance Atlantic Association - Collect Art Fair Catalogue •2025 HERE + NOW - Connecting Culture + Landscape through Water - Studio Magazine Published on-line on February 26, 2025. Edited by Lera Kotsyuba. Editor in Chief. •2026 Curatorial Essay – The Power of Objects: Voices of Contemporary Craft - Craft Alliance Atlantic Association - Collect Art Fair Catalogue •2026 Curatorial Essay. Beyond the Curatorial Frame. Eastern Edge. Arts For Equity Project. February 2026 •2026 Catalogue Foreword: Songs from the Forest – Opus I A Meditation on Nature, Form and Material . Ralph Simpson: Songs From the Forest – Opus I March 20 – April 25. Sunsbury Shores Gallery. New Brunswick. Canada
VIDEOS | TALKS | WORKSHOPS | RESIDENCIES •2018 Guest Speaker: “Material Cultural and exhibition spaces”, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Folklore Department, Dr. Kelley Totten. NL •2020 Developper and host of Craft Conversations Online Series - April - July 2020. NL •2021 DUMB HIGH - Winnie Churchill. NL •2021 Digital Artist-In-Residency. The Gathered Gallery. Summer 2021 •2022 - Tangible: with curator Bruno Vinhas, The Rooms. NL •2023 Embroidery Workshops - Iqualuit, NU - Baffin Chamber of Commerce •2024 Cape Spear- Sound Symposium NL •2024 Finding Your Voice through Craft - Bruno Vinhas - Craft Conversations Series •2025 Guest Speaker: Amplifying Craft panel, moderated by Dale Jarvis for the 2025 Heritage Conference. The Rooms. NL
NEWS ARTICLES AND MENTIONS •2008 Cenario- Policarpo Quaresma: uma aposta cenica no pais que nao terminou - PPGAC Repertorio Magazine - Luiz Marfuz – Brazil •2011 Giselle, from Dublin’s Gay Theatre Festival - Fringe Festival - Dublin, Ireland •2014 You Shall not Pass - Gabrielle Coppola - New Zealand •2016 Viewing the world differently - CNA online Magazine •2017 Craftgasm: A Unique Craft Fair and Fashion Show Broke Ground and Barriers on Saturday Night at the SPACE - The Overcast NL •2017 Final Works on display - CNA online Magazine •2017 Emerging designers showcase work in St. John's - The Telegram •2017 The Future of Local Fashion: Textiles Program Final Exhibition and Show Features Naturally Dyed Star Trek Inspired Gowns, Gender Fluid Fetishwear, Cosplay, and More. - The Overcast NL •2018 Fashion on the Rock - the Newfoundland Fashion Renaissance - Maritime Edit - Volume 4 -Spring 2018 •2018 Some Stellar ArtsNL Projects to Get Stoked about in 2018. - The Overcast NL •2018 Highlights of the CCNL Annual Member Show. - Katherine Walters •2018 Wendy Rose: ‘Shaguya Twain’ — that does impress me much. - The Telegram, July 8, 2018 •2018 St. John's artists combine Canadian and Brazilian experiences to create 'Ori' - Tara Bradbury - The Telegram - November 1, 2018 •2018 Ori: The Exhibit Behind The Performance - Patrick Dawson - Critical Academic Essay for the Folklore Dept Course at Memorial University of Newfoundland, November 2018 •2018 Ori - Sharon King Campbell •2018 Ori - Arts and Culture Centre St John's NL •2018 Audience tags along in this compelling drama told through dance - TWendy Rose - The Telegram - November 2, 2018 •2019 Textile and Truth Telling - Kristen Harris Walsh for The Dance Current - January 2, 2019 •2019 What Crafts Get you Trough the Winter- CBC Cross talk with Ramona Dearing - January 8, 2019 •2019 Crafted Beasts - Visual Arts News •2019 Trio of exhibitions opens at Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador - The Telegram - Wendy Rose - October 14, 2019 •2019 Crafted Beasts of Newfoundland and Labrador - Downhome Magazine - Dale Jarvis - October 9, 2019 •2019 Lunch Bunch with Andrew Hawthorn – CBC Radio •2020 Here's how some cultural sites are using universal design for more accessible spaces - Andy Bulman - CBC News - August 15, 2020 •2020 Featured Member - CARFAC National •2020 Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador – VANL •2020 An Orkney Jumper - by Joanne B Kaar, Scotland •2020 Community Conversation: FARR AiRs Karen Ann Pink & Shawn O’Hagan, Lead by Bruno Vinhas •2021 Heart by a thread: St. John's artist uses textile to embroider the story about his experience with high-functioning depression - Tara Bradbury -The Telegram - July 3, 2021 •2021 Exhibition Text for Bruno Vinhas’ “When it Stopped” | Robyn Love •2021 Pivot Like an Artist: The Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador •2021 Queer Amnesty Ireland - Art Show •2021 Weekend AM- “ When It Stopped” - Heather Barret •2022 Handcrafted goods blend beauty and tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador - Globe & Mail •2023 Tangible: Crafting the Future on the 50th Anniversary of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador - by CRAIG FRANCIS POWER, January 2023 •2023 Play That Shines Spotlight on Gender-Based Violence to Debut at LSPU Hall, April 2023 – VOCM •2024 - A Celebration of Craft - ARTMag- London, UK, Mar 19 •2024 - Collect London - 2024 Here + Now - PEI Crafts Council •2024 - 9th Annual St John's Short Play Festival •2025 Collect Week: Bruno Vinhas - 5 Minutes with a Friend - Selvedge Magazine •2026 The Power of Objects: Atlantic Canadian Craft at Collect. Pasha Moezzi. Studio Magazine. Online Exclusive
EXHIBITIONS
Artistic Process •2024 Corpo Terra – Sound Symposium|9th Shorts Play Festival in partnership with Ana Luisa Ramos ( musician) and •Vanessa Cardoso-Whealan (dancer) •2024 HoldFast Festrival – Nowwhere Fast- the Last Beat, St John’s NL (Solo) •2023 Fare & Square - Eastern Edge Gallery, NL, 2023 •Annual Members’ Exhibition 2022 – Potluck - Eastern Edge Gallery, NL, 2022 •2022 Fare & Square - Eastern Edge Gallery, NL, 2022 •BODY HOUSE, with Bruno Vinhas & Valentina Gaia Lops, Art as a Tool for Change Symposium, NL, 2022 •When It Stopped, rOUGUE Gallery, NL, 2020 (solo) •2020 Members Exhibition - Eastern Edge Gallery, NL. 2020 •Earth Day, online exhibition curated by Ashleigh Downey, Ireland, 2020 •Ori, live action exhibition and dance theatre in collaboration with Corie Harnett, Barbara Barret Theatre, NL, 2018 •Annual Member Exhibition, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, 2018 •Celebrate Craft – Annual Member Exhibition, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, 2017 •We Made It - Fashion show and Art Exhibition, College of the North Atlantic, NL, 2017 •Trial Run, collective exhibition curated by the instructors of College of the North Atlantic, NL, 2016 •Forget Me Not, collective exhibition curated by Sharon LeRiche, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, 2016
Curatorial Processes Solo ( Selected) •2026 Arts For Equity. Eastern Edge. February 2026 •2026 Collect - The Power of Objects: Voices of Contemporary Craft, Craft Alliance Atlantic Association, Somerset House, London, UK. February - March 2026 •2025 Collect - Here+Now: Connecting Culture + Landscape Through Water, Craft Alliance Atlantic Association, Somerset House, London, UK. February - March 2025 •2024 Collect - Here+Now: Collected Works from Canda’s Atlantic Coast, Craft Alliance Atlantic Association, Somerset House, London, UK. February - March 2024 •2024 Empty Table ( Kristen Piecery) Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL,April- May 2024 •2022 - 50th Anniversary of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL,September – December 2022 •2021 SENSORIUS: Where the Skin Meets the Eyes, the first local exhibition focusing on the disable-identified community, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, August 27 to October 1, 2021 •2021. Room For Happiness ( Anastasia Tiller). Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, March-April, 2021 •2020 Murmurs ( teresa Kachanoski). Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, August -September, 2022 •2020. Light!, exhibition of works by the CCNL Clay Studio. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, October -November 2020 •2019 Felt-ed, exhibition of works by Lois Martin, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, November 2019 •2019 Crafted Beasts: A Cabinet of Curiosities of Newfoundland and Labrador Beasts, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, October 2019 •2019 MUGUP! A Curated Ceramics Show, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, January 2019 •2019 Timeless, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, January 2019 •2018 Stories from Across the Land - A Nunatsiavut Artists Exhibition. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, November 2018 •2017 Rustic Revolution - in memory of Murray Swantee. Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, October 2017
Curatorial Processes Partnership ( Selected) •2022 Tangible: Crafting The Future On The 50th Anniversary Of The Craft Council Of Newfoundland And Labrador, with Mireille Eagan, The Rooms, NL , 2022 •2020/2021Textile: Craft and Apparel Design Program of the College of The North Atlantic, provided curatorial assistance to students for online graduation exhibition, NL, May & June 2020 •2019 HandiWERK! A curated queer collaboration, co-curated with Kai Bryan, NL, August 2019 •2019 Textile: Craft and Apparel Design Program of the College of The North Atlantic, provided curatorial assistance to the students for graduation exhibition, NL, June 2019