Curriculum Vitae

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

EDUCATION / APPRENTICESHIPS

2021 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Victoria

2010 – 2014 Apprenticed for totem pole carving with Calvin Hunt and John Livingston

2010 Studied Repoussé and Chasing, Italy and New York
2007 Studied under Robert Davidson, Repoussé and Engraving

2000-2006 Apprenticed under Master Carver Art Thompson and John Livingston

2005 Studied Traditional Box Bending with Bruce Alfred

2001 New Zealand Art Exchange, Canoe Carving

1997 Apprenticed under William Cook for Silversmith and Engraving

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2020 Teachers Assistant to 1st year Sculpture University of Victoria, Victoria BC

2019 Teachers Assistant to 3rd year Sculpture at University of Victoria, Victoria BC

2017 Audain Professor for the Pacific Northwest, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018 Hosted a Memorial Potlatch as hereditary chief of the Ma’amtagila tribe for my grandmother and aunt at Alert Bay’s traditional big house for 700 people for a full day feasting and sharing culture, history and dance.

2018 Hosted a Feast at Adams River. A political statement against the government by accessing our traditional lands for ceremony and feasting. Bringing traditional title as hereditary chief to the traditional lands of my ancestors.

2012 Hosted a Feast at the Nimpkish River. To activate my chieftainship inherited from my mothers side.

2012 Hosted a feasted at Alert Bay’s traditional big house, honouring my eldest daughter in a coming of age ceremony and naming my son.

2010 Hosted a Potlatch at Alert Bay’s traditional big house for 900 people, taking on the position as a chief of the Ma’amtagila people and family role.

2010 Hosted a Feast in Matilpi Village, gathered all the members and elders who had not returned for 40 years. As hereditary chief I initiated a return and activated the lands through ceremony and traditions to stake claim to the land. Also a naming ceremony for my daughter and connecting her to her traditional lands.

RESIDENCIES

2017 Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood WA
2017 Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
2017 Vancouver Airport Residency, Douglas Reynolds Gallery, Vancouver BC

REPRESENTATION

Leaf Modern Gallery, Victoria BC (artist, owner)

Spirits of the West Coast Art Gallery, Courtenay BC

Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver BC

Douglas Reynolds Gallery, Vancouver BC

Inuit Gallery, Vancouver BC
Steinbrueck Gallery, Seattle WA

Stonington Gallery, Seattle WA
Arctic Raven Gallery, San Juan Islands WA

Spirit Gallery, Vancouver BC

Aesthete Fine Art Gallery, Prince George BC

Lattimer Gallery, Vancouver BC

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022 The Apology, Leaf Modern Gallery, Victoria BC

2022 2.7%: A Conceptual Show, Leaf Modern Gallery, Victoria BC

2021 Artist of The Month, IC Contemporary, virtual gallery

2021 A Closer Look, Leaf Modern Gallery, Victoria BC

2021 Mother Tree Cry: The Last Stand, installation, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby BC

2020 Culturally Modified, MFA exhibit, Empty Gallery, Victoria BC

2019 KWAGŪL STYLIN’, Arctic Raven Gallery, Friday Harbor WA

2017 Shapeshifting, Fazakas Gallery, Victoria BC
2015 Behind the Gold Veil, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River BC
2014 Ravenous, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2012 The Skin I’m In, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2012 The Spirit Within, Steinbrueck Gallery, Seattle WA
2011 Continued Exploration of the Form Line, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC

2011 Convergence/Divergence, Landscape and Identity on the West Coast, The

Legacy Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2010 Innovative Visions of the Form Line, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC

2007 Form Line, Arctic Raven Gallery, Friday Harbour WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021-2022 National Portrait Gallery of Canada, online exhibition, In Keeping with Myself
2019 Deluge Gallery, Victoria BC

2018 Potlatch 67-67, The Potlatch Ban Then & Now, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox BC 2018 Sole Train to Night Market, Fluevog Shoes, Victoria BC
2016 Divergent Convergence, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver BC
2016 Culture Shift, Contemporary Native Art Biennale, 3rd Ed, Art Mûr, Montréal QC

2014 White Before Labour Day, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 Inappropriate, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver BC
2013 Urban Thunderbirds/Ravens in a Material World, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2013 Difference and Repetition, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria BC

2012 Ebb and Flow, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo BC
2010 Giving Traditions, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2009 Group Exhibition, Steinbrueck Gallery, Seattle WA
2008 Inspired Reflections, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2007 Gathered Treasures, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2007 Group Exhibition, Douglas Reynolds Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2004 Canada Council Art Bank, Washington DC
2004 Story Tellers, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC
2003 Group Exhibition, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC 2002 Tribal Miniatures X, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria BC

CURATORIAL

2013 Urban Thunderbirds / Ravens in a Material World (co-curated by LessLIE, Rande Cook and Nicole Stanbridge)

ART FAIRS

2021 New York Art Fair, via Fazakas Gallery, New York US

2021 Art Toronto, via Fazakas Gallery, Toronto ON

2018 Art Toronto, via Fazakas Gallery, Toronto ON
2018 Seattle Art Fair, via Fazakas Gallery, Seattle WA

2018 Papier Montréal, via Fazakas Gallery, Montréal QC

2017 Art Toronto, via Fazakas Gallery, Toronto ON
2016 Art Toronto, via Fazakas Gallery, Toronto ON
2014 Art Toronto, via Fazakas Gallery, Toronto ON

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS

2021-2022 Totem, private commission

2014 Shaman Pole, private commission
2012 Quench, 8ft totem water fountain 100 year centennial, City of Duncan, Canada

2012 26ft totem pole, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands
2009 House Post panels, First Peoples House, University of Victoria, Canada
2007 28” totem, multiple interior installations including two 8ft x 8ft carved sliding doors, private commission

AWARDS / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2017 Audain Achievement Award for BC
2012 Perpetual Art Award for Quench, City of Duncan

2015 Fulmer Award in First Nations Art, BC Achievement Foundation
2015 Acknowledged at the Governor Generals Awards Dinner, invited by King and Queen of the Netherlands for the only totem to stand in the Netherlands, Rideau Hall, Ottawa ON
1995 Henry Hunt and Mungo Martin Award, Victoria High School, Victoria BC

FILMS

2021 “Before They Fall” Documentary by Ecologyst Film, screened at Whistler Film Fest and Vancouver International Mountain Film Fest.

2019 “Tree Of Life and Its People” Short Documentary by Rande Cook, executive produced by Rande Cook, screened at Friday Harbour Film Festival and Courtenay Film Festival

2009 Collaborated with filmmaker Broderick Fox for his film “The Skin I’m In”, screened at Victoria Film Festival

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Yo! Wiksas?/Hi! How Are You?, Exile Editions, ISBN: 978-1-55096-828-6

2013 Urban Thunderbirds/Ravens in a Material World, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, ISBN: 978-0-88885-373 -8

SELECTED PRESS

2018 Lee, Fred. “Fred Lee’s Social Network: Bill Reid Anniversary”, The Province

2017 Threlfall, John. “Sacred art, sacred teaching” University of Victoria, Visual Arts Blog 2017 Spaulding, Heather. “ First Nations artists at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art,” San Juan Journal
2015 “Rande Cook: Behind the Gold Veil,” Vancouver Sun
2014 Amos, Robert. “First Nations Art, meet squirrels,” Time Colonist
2014 Madden, Aaren. “Ravenous, Alcheringa Gallery,” Focus Magazine
2014 Cino, Kate. “Ravenous with Rande Cook and Carollyne Yardley,” Art Openings

2014 Willey, Philip. “Ravenous: Carollyne Yardley and Rande Cook,” Exhibit-V
2013 Rogers, Janet. “Decolonization, Indigeneity, education, and society: Urban Thunderbirds, Ravens in a Material World,” BC Musician’s Magazine
2013 “Chief Rande Cook’s totem pole becomes centrepiece of Dutch exhibit,” North Island Gazette
2012 Kossmann.dejong verbeeldt verhaal Totempaal, de Architect

2012 Smart, Amy. “Totem goes Dutch,” Times Colonist

TELEVISION, YOUTUBE, RADIO

2016 Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Museum TV

2014 Quiroz, Efren. “Ravenous: Opening Reception,” Exhibit-V
2014 Quiroz, Efren. “Interview with Carollyne Yardley & Rande Cook,” Exhibit-V

GUEST SPEAKER AND EDUCATIONAL PANELS

2022 Panel Discussions about “Before They Fall”. Vancouver International Mountain Film Fest.

2021 Guest Speaker. University of Washington, USA

2020 Guest Speaker. University of Washington USA.

2016 Guest Speaker. Sidney Fine Art Show Opening Night, Mary Winspear Centre

2017 Panel Speaker. “Reconciliation and resurgence: How Indigenous artists are re-imagining the story of Canada”, Panel with Sheila Rogers, Andrea Walsh and Carey Newman, Ideafest, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

2017 Guest Speaker. “How the study of First Nations design in museum artifacts translates into design into the contemporary art world,” University of Washington State, Pullman WA
2017 Guest Speaker. “Traditional forms of the Northwest Coast in glass and contemporary works,” Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
2017 Guest Speaker. “Art and First Nations practice of today: A look at the evolution of Northwest Coast Art,” North Island College, Courtney BC
2017 Guest Speaker. “History of the Northwest Coast and the art collected and held in collections spread around the world, and the art created today,” San Juan Islands Museum of Art, San Juan WA
2016 Guest Speaker. “Bringing Awareness of Indigenous Law, and its’ connection to land and resources, and how art reflects with political justice,” National Chiefs Assembly, Vancouver BC
2016 Guest Speaker. “Artifacts of the N.W.C. and their place within international collections, and accessibility for studies and the modern art world.” Museum Volkenkunde, Lieden NL
2012 Guest Speaker. “The living culture and the art of today post potlatch ban.”

Museum Volkenkunde, Lieden NL
2012 Guest Speaker. “Speaking to relationship building through art and its living culture.” Canadian Embassy, Lieden NL
2004 Guest Speaker. “Relationship building through art and its living culture.” Canadian Embassy, Lieden NL
2004 Guest Speaker. “Forms and complexities on developed designs of traditional/classical formline used on bentwood boxes.” National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC

JURY PANEL AND COMMITTEE

2016-2018 Art in Public Places Committee, Victoria City Hall, Victoria BC
2017 First People’s Arts Council
2016 British Columbia Arts Council
2015 First People’s Arts Council
2014 British Columbia Arts Council
2012 British Columbia Arts Council
2012 First People’s Arts Council