Nickolaas den Boer III

Born December 25th, 1979

Languages: English, Dutch

Eyes: Green

Hair: Brown

Skin: White

Sex: Male

Race: 7/8 Aryan 1/8 Jew

 

EDUCATION
 
Ontario college of Art & Design 1998-2000
Hunter Education / Firearms Safety diploma - 2007
 
ART EXHIBITIONS
 
DATE
GALLERY
CITY
TITLE
INFO
Sept 2000 Studio Gallery Toronto Riverdale art walk Tandem show with Scott Mcgovern
Oct 13, 2000 Art System Toronto "Homoschtank" Tandem show with Scott McGovern - Artist & Curator
Showed sculpture, paintings, video & collage.. Performance by nihilist spasm band
Nov 2000 Public Art Toronto "Moose in the City" Decorated one of those ugly fibreglass Moose for the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation
Dec 8, 2000 Art System Toronto "The Idiots" Group show - Drawings & paintings
2001 Queen W Toronto "The Car Show" Parking Lot show - Sculpture - mennonite buggy
Aug 4 2001 Art System Toronto "The weather is Here, Wish you were Beautiful" Group show - Video / Animation
Aug 13, 2001 NOW Lounge Toronto "Gunt" Solo show - Photo Collage -
Dec 14, 2001 Art System Toronto "The Dark Movement" Group show- performance / installation
March 22, 2002 Helen Pitt Gallery Vancouver "Wreck Room" Group show - Video
April 12, 2002 Art System Toronto "Sell or Die" Group Show / Auction - digital prints & sculpture
June 2001 Westwing Gallery Toronto "Dead Teenagers" Group show
July 12, 2002 Art System Toronto "...More & More Curious" Group Show - Sculpture installation
July 27, 2002 Art System Toronto "The Catholic Show" Group show - Co-curated with Jubal brown - Showed mixed media / sculpture / performance
Oct 4, 2002 Rev Cabaret Edmonton "Funkshon" Group show - Photo collages
Oct 18, 2002 Metro Convention Centre Toronto Toronto International Art Fair Representing the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Collage Party
Nov 15 2002 Art System Toronto "The Destroyers" Group Show- Collage
April 15 2004 Innis Town Hall Toronto Images Festival Featured Video: Trench Coat Mania
May 13 2004 Maple Leaf Tavern Toronto "The Maple Leaf Show" Curated / produced the show. Showed digital prints, paintings, & video.
March 1 2007 Well & Good Gallery Toronto "The Boardroom" Group show - digital print & sculpture
Oct 10 2008 Elora Centre for the Arts Elora "The Dissection Collection" Solo show - photo collage
     
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
     
Summer 2002 Riverdale School of Art Instructor – Photocollage classes
June 2002 Houselink Conducted workshops with mentally challenged adults – mural project
2005 OCAD Taught web design to integrated media students
     
LIFE EXPERIENCE
 

Performed in the circus 2001- 2004 Stilt walking / puppeteering

Property Manager of MTCC#783 20 Brockton Ave. Toronto Condominium 2005-2008
Manager - Toronto Band- Run With The Kittens: 2006-Present
Dropped out of the Ontario College of Art & Design to join the circus
Owned a 1979 El Camino with dragons, planets, and a naked woman airbrushed all over it.
Smoked crack in Regent Park- Toronto 2004
Renovated a turn of the century Ice House - Oro Medonte Ontario 2004
Butchered over 30,000 chickens 1992-1998
Survived 2 major car accidents
Held Nintendo Power Magazine world record for Ghost Valley level of Super Mario Kart 1995
Converted a school bus to a recreational vehicle & joined Toronto band -the Ludes in 2004 & toured accross Canada
Built a Playhouse for children
Been offered cash $ in exchange for impregnating women on 2 different occasions
Restored a 1976 Trojan Express Cruiser 31' boat called the 'asskipper'- 2002
Acted in a made for tv film called Prince Charming 2001 with Christina Applegate & Martin Short. I am in a store scene with them trying on pants. Also: background performer in Driven & Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Manager at the NOW Lounge 2001
Purchased 2 story commercial building in Toronto - 2003 - Renovated into mostly off the grid Artist Studio
 
PRESS
 

Bluprint magazine - cover & feature

Lola 8 - winter 200-2001 feature article on my art show called 'Homoschtank' / Art System feature
NATIONAL POST - ARTICLE FOR PLAYHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
NATIONAL POST - ARTICLE FOR IMAGES FESTIVAL - VIDEO- TRENCH COAT MANIA