Artist Bio

E. Jane Mundy

Education	1978 – 1981     Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - Applied Arts Diploma - Photography Program, Graduated on Presidents Honours List – awarded  – Spectacle Makers Guild Award 1976 – 1977       Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, General Arts, Kitchener, Ontario – completed 1st year from a Bachelor of Arts Program
Qualifications	Photojournalism, Documentary Photography, Audio-Visual Presentations, Environmental Portraits, Annual Reports, Photography Instructor, Black & White – Colour Darkroom Technician, Layout Design
Professional Experience	From 1981 – present, Freelance Photographer – Working for different clients photographing various assignments and projects. Specializing in documenting First Nation Communities in North and South America. 1987 – 1991 – Managed and operated a commercial photographic studio in Kitchener, Ontario – R.J.M. Photographics
Audio Visual Presentations	Children of Nicaragua – dual projection presentation on the Children of Nicaragua Guatemala – Dual projection presentation on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala Vision Without Borders – Audio-Visual presentation on the Cultural Wealth of Brugges The Return of the Pink Panther – Dual projection presentation for the Children of U.N.E.S.C.O. First Nation Artists of Manitoulin  - Presentation on the artists and craft workers Reserve Life – Audio-Visual presentation of the native life on Missississagi and Sagamok First Nations Sunbeam Home – Slide presentation on handicapped children                           The North Shore of Lake Huron – Presentation on sailing.
Solo Exhibitions	Wounded Boys – Courageous Men – Over seventy pieces of work which includes environmental portraits, historical photographs, poetry and written statements by the men who attended two training schools in Ontario, Canada. This exhibition is a statement on Institutionalized Child Abuse. Canadian Anishnabe Friendship Centre, Toronto, Ontario, May 1995 MacKenzie Hall, Windsor, Ontario, May 1995 Pembrooke Community Centre, Pembrooke, Ontario, August 1995 L.I.N.K.U.P. Conference, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., September 1995 O.I.S.E. – Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Toronto, October 1995 The Stone Angel, Ottawa, Ontario, January – March 1996 L.I.N.K.U.P. Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 1998 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, Oct. 1999 Elders of the Anishnabe – Thirty-five black and white environmental portraits of the elders from several different reserves in Northern Ontario. The Timber Village Museum, Blind River, Ontario,  June 1999 Anishnabe Spiritual Centre, Espanola, Ontario, Spring 1993 Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre for Indian Art, Ontario Summer 1989 Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, January 1989 Centre for the Study of Canada, Plattsburgh University,  New York, October 1988 Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, April 1988 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Summer 1987 Museum of Indian Archeology, London, Ontario, Winter 1987 Toronto Metropolitan Reference Library, Toronto, Ontario, October 1986 Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, West Bay, Ontario, Summer 1986 Children of Nicaragua – Forty black and white environmental portraits of the children in a war torn country.  A fund generated from the exhibition was donated to the orphans of Nicaragua. London Regional Children’s Museum, London, Ontario, February 1988 St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario, December 1988 S.J. Zack’s Gallery, York University, North York, Ontario, April 1988 Toronto Metropolitan Reference Library, Toronto, Ontario, October 1987
Group Exhibitions	Northern Visions – A group exhibition of four Canadian Artists – Shirley Cheechoo, Blake Debassige, Gordon Waindebence and E. Jane Mundy, Ontario House, New York City, New York. Vision Without Borders – U.N.E.S.C.O., Paris, France – exhibition traveling  throughout Europe, Japan, Africa, China, South America and Canada. Vision Without Borders - Toronto Metropolitan Reference Library, January 1987 Plessisgraphe, Montreal, Quebec, Women Photographers of Canada, February 1996 Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario, June 1982 Deja Vue Photographic Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, April 1981
Published Work	The Sound of the Drum, Author – Beth Southcott, Boston Mills Press, Ontario Oriental Painting in the Golden Horsehoe, Beth Southcott, Boston Mills Press, Ontario A Paintbrush in my hand–Daphne Odjig- Roz Vanderburgh and Beth Southcott, Natural Heritage, Toronto, Ontario 1992 Images of Canada, Key Porter Books, Toronto
Awards	Ontario Arts Council – Exhibition Grant for the Children of Nicaragua Ontario Arts Council – Exhibition Grant for the Elders of the Anishnabe Ontario Arts Council – Project grant for the Ontario Anishnabe Women 1986 Award of Merit – Associated Church Press, San Antonio, Texas 1986 Award of Merit – The Canadian Church Press, Toronto, Ontario The International Visual Communications Award ’85 – Vision Without Borders, Brugges, Belgium
References	Vello Muikma – Photographer 114 Heatherside Dr., Willowdale, Ontario, Canada – 416-877-5311 Bernd Krueger – Photographer Golden Lake, Ontario, Canada – 613-625-2879 Tom Szuba – Photographer 212 Gainsborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 416-461-1234

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