BIOGRAPHY

Amalie Atkins, creator of Minema Cinema Productions, creates cinematic fables through a blend of film, textiles, installations, performance, and photography, imprinting a fictional world, firmly grounded in the prairies, onto everyday life. Atkins’ longest film project to date, The Diamond Eye Assembly, premiered in 2019 as a three-film installation in a solo exhibition at the Remai Modern Saskatoon reviewed by ARTFORUM in September 2019.

 

Atkins has had other major solo exhibitions at The MacKenzie Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, KAG/CAG, Art Gallery Evergreen, and 12:14 Contemporary Vienna.  Her photographs have appeared on the covers of Canadian Art Magazine, Visual Arts News, Grain, CV2, and MUZE magazine (Paris). She has exhibited widely internationally, including Armenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, Berlin, the UK, and New York City.

 

Atkins’ work has toured with major survey exhibitions, most notably MASS MoCA and the Textile Museum of Canada. Her film Transvection was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Atkins’ work is featured in the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection, as well as corporate and institutional collections in Canada and Europe. Amalie Atkins was the recipient of the Locale Art Award for Western Canada in 2011, and was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012 and 2013.