Kika Thorne
Kika Thorne is the programmer/curator at VIVO Media Arts Centre. A transplant from Toronto, where she curated for Pleasure Dome, YYZ, Images and Anti-Loft - she was the Artist Run Culture Editor at MIX Magazine and the Coordinator at the Centre for Media and Culture in Education, U of T. She has written for Public, Fuse, MIX, C Magazine, Mercer Union, the AGO, and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris.
Kika Thorne completed her MFA at the University of Victoria in 2007 where she studied with artists Lynda Gammon, Luanne Martineau and philosopher Taneli Kukkonen. She has participated in creating collaborative temporary public sculptures to protest the erosion of democracy but only recently emerged as an autonomous sculptor since her return to the West Coast. These large-scale ambient abstractions are suspended in tension, and appear to construct an agreement out of ordinary materials. The Pink Black Hole was included in Gasoline Rainbows at the CAG and Octave is currently on exhibition as a part of Enacting Abstraction at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Previous exhibitions include Zones, Art Gallery of Hamilton; The disOrder of things, Kino Arsenal, Berlin; Old Habits Die Hard, Berlin, Norwich, Oslo, Dresden, Istanbul; E Flux Video Rental, Berlin, Budapest, Boston, New York, Austin, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Paris; Canary Islands Biennale of Art & Architecture; Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; State of Emergency, Open Space, Victoria; Street Scene, Murray Guy, New York; Elastic, The Apartment, Vancouver.