Peter Sramek
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Canadian, born 1951
Projects/Portfolios
Various Projects
Introduction
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Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Slice, Peter Sramek, Book°Sequence Projects, Toronto, 2019
Guangzhou Wedding, Peter Sramek, Book°Sequence Projects, Toronto, 2018
Kde je Sláva - Where's the Glory?, Peter Sramek, Book°Sequence Projects, Toronto, 2017
Piercing time: Paris after Marville and Atget 1865-2012, Peter Sramek, Intellect Books, Bristol, 2013
Peter Sramek's black and white photography of the past 20 years explores historical sites and their representation in photographs. He has produced panoramic series in various European countries, as well as major projects that incorporate rephotographic strategies, based on historical archives. His research in Paris has been supported by a Google Research Award, as well as many smaller grants and his recent book Piercing Time: Paris after Marville and Atget 1865-2012 was released by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press in October, 2013.
His long engagement with ideas related to touristic and cultural travel has more recently taken him to India and Japan. In these series, Sramek has used both a panoramic camera and multi-exposure strip photography. He also works in large formats and he combines film-based and digital processes. His street photography of the 1970s and 80s explored aspects of gender display as seen in fashion and body language, with an emphasis on male identities. Other bodies of work explore theoretical issues of the photographic medium or take on much more personal and emotional subjects, such as loss and desire.
Peter Sramek’s broad ranging art practice incorporates silver photography, digital imaging, handmade books and video installation. His works are in many collections, notably the Musée Carnavalet (Paris), Toronto Public Archives, Art Gallery of Hamilton, National Library of Canada, the Allan Chasanoff Collection (NY) and MOMA (NY). Exhibitions of his rephotographic projects include the Alliance Française (Toronto), the French Institute of Prague and Gallery 345 (Toronto). Recent group exhibitions include the Korean Cultural Centre, Beijing and the New Delhi Art Fair.
Peter Sramek studied photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Minor White and has taught at the Ontario College of Art & Design University in Toronto, Canada since 1976. Over the past 20 years, his administrative roles at OCAD U, in addition to being Chair of Photography and of Cross-Disciplinary Art Practices, have included Associate and Assistant Dean positions in the Faculty of Art and, most recently, he has served one semester as Acting Dean. As a founding member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto and Financial Coordinator for 15 years, Sramek has contributed considerably to the Canadian photography community. His current engagement in developing an international network of collaborating art schools, takes his vision for collaborative cultural practices to a global level.
The International Art Collaborations group has most recently held student shows in Japan, Canada, Finland, South Korea, China and Slovakia. Sramek has presented his experiences with online collaborative studio learning at various conferences including the Society for Photographic Education (Chicago), the National Institute of Design (India) and the Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland).
Peter Sramek lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
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