Upcoming (2018/2019)
TBC, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Division of Labour, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Canada
I believe in living, Untitled Art Society, Calgary, Canada
Eating and Drinking in the Library, Artist in the Libraries Program, Toronto, Canada
TBC, (Residency and Exhibition) ArtYard Contemporary Art Centre, Frenchtown, NJ / USA
Laboratoire itinérant d’Art action, Vaste ET Vague Artist Run Centre – Quebec Canada
The Recovery Of The People Is Tied To Recovery Of Food, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017
Everyday Objects, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
The Art Of Propagation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Creative Time Summit, AAFG, The Power Plant/AGO, Toronto, Canada
There is Bread and Salt Between Us, OCAD University Gallery, Toronto, Canada
ALMANAC/ with MAGGIE GROAT: SUNS ALSO SEASONS, Kitchener /Waterloo, K.W Art Gallery
CONSUMED: Preparing New Eating Rituals, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Laboratoire itinérant d’Art action, Vaste ET Vague Artist Run Centre – Quebec Canada
The Recovery Of The People Is Tied To Recovery Of Food, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Unsettling, (Residency and Exhibition) Doris McCarthy Gallery (UTSC), Scarborough, ON
Photorama 2017, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016
On The Table, The Dunlop Art Gallery – Regina, Saskatchewan
Protectives, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Let Me Tell You About My Day, Will You Tell Me About Yours? AGO Toronto, Canada
TBDTBD, YTB Gallery, Toronto, Canada
DOORED 24, Life of a Craphead, DDL, Toronto Canada
Canadian Belongings, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Performing Pedagogies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Place Settings, Doris McCarthy Gallery (UTSC), Scarborough, ON
Edition; Toronto Art Book Fair, Toronto, Canada
Photorama 2016, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015
Looking closer (publication and facilitated performance), Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
The Post Card Project II, The City of Ottawa/ Ontario Scene (National Arts Centre- City of Ottawa Community Arts & Social engagement, Ottawa, Ontario
Welcome Suad and Shafi, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
The Very Long Lunch, Sunday Drive Art Projects – Warkworth, Ontario
Small Soft and Round, TPFF/AGO, Toronto, Ontario
Free $ervices for Visual Artists, Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
DOORED 22, Life of a Craphead, DDL, Toronto Canada/ Rotterdam Netherlands
2014
The Death of Performance Art, 7A11D International Performance Art Festival – Toronto
You Are What You Eat, You Are, Owens Art Gallery/Mount A. University – Sackville New Brunswick
The Post Card Project II, The City of Ottawa, Community Arts and Social Engagement, and the City of Ottawa Archives
Trying Something New, ARTSCAPE Youngplace – Toronto
You Do What You Love Because You Do One, Two and More Than Two, SAVAC– Toronto
It is Not Guided, Nor is it a Tour, Art Gallery Of Ontario (First Thursday) – Toronto
A Problem So Big It Needs Other People, SBC Gallery Of Contemporary Art – Montreal
The Mobile Kitchen Lab/Lecture TALK TALK TALK, Concordia University Fine Arts Department – Montreal
2013
TMKL Condensus, PERFOLINK International Performance Art Festival – Santiago, Chile
Give Me 5 minutes, I Will Give You Experience, LONG WINTER, Toronto
TMKL: Extended, VIVA ART ACTION!/Centre Clark – Montreal
The Artist Grid, ART METROPOLE – Toronto
Leisure Lounge, Whippersnapper Gallery – Toronto
The Post Card Project I, Ottawa Art Ottawa Art Gallery /Creative Cities Conference Ottawa
Soft Served Dinner, FEAST IN THE EAST – Toronto
Sight Specific/TMKL, FADO/ XPACE Cultural Centre – Toronto
2012
28, Gallery West – Toronto, ON
Pertinent Gestures, 401 Richmond: Nuit Blanche – Toronto, ON
Mortal Coils, VIDEOFAG – Toronto, ON
Mortal Coils, Shudder Gallery – Vancouver, BC
The Performance Dinner Party, Don Blanche Residency Project, Shelburne-Ontario
Virtual Season, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Non-Canadians/Canadians, Transmuted International Performance Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
TO | DF, The White House Studio Project – Toronto, ON
2011
Hairy Cards, Trampoline Hall – Toronto, ON
Sheroes, NACO – Toronto, ON
The Free Shop, Nuit Blanche – Toronto, ON
Collage/Collage, Toronto Palestine Film Festival – Toronto, ON
Plinth Action, Art Spin – Toronto, ON
Plinth Action#1,2,3,4, The White House Studio Project, Kensington Market – Toronto, ON Opening/Closing, Performancear o morir” – Chihuahua, Mexico
Residencies
Art Gallery of Ontario/ Song Dong Communal Courtyard Residency Program, Toronto Canada 2016
YTB Peers Residency Program, Toronto Canada, 2016
Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency, Toronto Canada 2015
MOKS Air 2014 Residency, Mooste Estonia 2014
S.B. Residency, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada 2013
Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency, Toronto Canada 2013
Don Blanche residency, Shelburne, Ontario Canada August 2013
Don Blanche residency, Shelburne, Ontario Canada September 2012
Performancear O Morir residency/encounter in Chihuahua, Mexico 2011.
Start House/Art Dubai, Amman Jordan 2010
PAF (Performing Arts Forum – summer forum), St.Erme – Reims France 2010
Awards and Grants
Toronto Arts Council, Artist in the Libraries, 2017/2018
Canada Council for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant, 2016
Ontario Arts Council, Access and Development Grant, 2016
Ontario Arts Council Emerging artist Grant 2015
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant 2013 /2014 /2015/2016
Toronto Art Council Emerging Artist Project Grant 2013
Residency, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada 2013 (Award)
Artist Health Alliance: Insurance/Award 2013 /2015
Formal Education
Bachelor of Arts, Communications & Visual Arts
2001-2005 University of Ottawa – Multimedia – Performance & Interactive Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts
1998-2001 American University in Cairo; Transferred to University of Ottawa
Publications/Interviews/reviews
Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World, essay on A Problem So Big It Needs Other People at SBC exhibition by Erin Silva edited collection (edited by Martha Langford) published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016
Book on Swiss Books (Corinn Gerber) published in conjunction with the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2015
http://tokyoartbookfair.com/en/exhibitions/2712/
This Could Be The Place (Critical essay), by: Indu Vashist – Kapsula, Dec 2014
Intimate Kitchens (review/Interview), by: Sharlene Bamboat – NOMOREPOTLUCKS, October 2014
http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/intimate-kitchens-sharlene-bamboat-interviews-basil-alzeri/
A Problem So Big It Needs Other People (review), by Kari Cwynar – C MAGAZINE, July2014
Eat, Labor, Love (review/Interview) by: Rea McNamara – Blouin Artinfo, November 2013:
http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/990965/eat-labor-love-basil-alzeris-mobile-kitchen-lab
The Archivist in The Kitchen ( Feature), by Gina Badger – Fuse Magazine, March 2013 http://fusemagazine.org/2013/04/36-2_alzeri
Performance Plus (review), by David Jager Now Magazine 2013
http://www.nowtoronto.com/art/story.cfm?content=191566
Emergency Index 2011 – publication:
http://www.emergencyindex.com/project.html
The Free Shop (review), by Fran Schechter – Now Magazine 2011
http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/nuitblanche/2011/story.cfm?content=182898
Teaching /Artist Talks and workshops
2011-2019
OCAD University, Artist Talk, Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, 2019
The Art Of Propagation, Artist talk/performance: Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, 2017
Queen’s University, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Panel Discussion / Performing Pedagogies – March 2016
SAVAC, Artist Talk – Feb 2016
University of Waterloo, This Could be the Place – June 2014
York University, Decolonizing Anti-Racism Conference – May 2014
Concordia University, Workshop: Breakfast, Lunch and a Doggy Bag with David Szantso – January, 2014
Concordia University, TALK TALK TALK Lecture series, Concordia University Fine Arts Department. January, 2014
OCAD University, Site and Intervention: Critical Practices, Toronto Canada – 2013
XPACE Cultural Centre sight.specific – FADO Emerging Performance Artist Series panel discussion, Toronto Canada -2013
Pecha Kucha Night, Ottawa St. Brigids Centre for the Arts, Ottawa Canada -2013
The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d’art d’Ottawa, Ottawa Canada -2013
Chopo University Museum/Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City Mexico -2011