• {Re}HAPPENING, Black Mountain College, Asheville NC, USA

    The “Draw-a-thon” is an ongoing performative project where drawings are rapidly passed back and forth between participants using a variety of media and strategies. A marathon of drawing, the “Draw-a-thon” will maintain its duration for seven hours hosted by CIRCLES & WIGS. Visitors will be encouraged to join in throughout the performance.

    March 30, 3pm-10pm, 2019
    ReHAPPENING

  • Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting
    Central Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, Canada
    July 14 to September 15, 2018
    KAG Exhibitions

    "In celebration of the Kamloops Art Gallery’s 40th anniversary, Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting, gathers together the most comprehensive selection of works from its permanent collection in one exhibition to date. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to bring a large and diverse group of works, in various media, out from storage and into public view."

  • Best Friends Forever
    The Cube, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC, Canada
    Solo Exhibition, April 7 - June 23, 2018
    Opening April 6 & April 14 BFF Exhibition
    Artist Talk + Draw-A-Thon April 12 Public Programs
    Canadian Art Must Sees

    "The exhibition uses Imi Knoebel’s series of paintings titled 24 farben für Blinky (24 Colours for Blinky), as a departure point. Knoebel painted the series in 1977 as a tribute to his friend, artist Blinky Palermo, following Blinky's death earlier that year. This was a turning point in Knoebel’s practice because of his embrace of painting and his selection of colours based on his feelings for his friend and the works he left behind. Groome and Bartlett will determine the other’s palette from a distance based on the idea of each other from memory. Using the selected palette, one artist creates circles while the other creates wigs consisting of shredded paintings. They will finish and install the work at the Kamloops Art Gallery in the final week leading up to the exhibition, and will continue with an open studio and an artist talk in the week following the opening."
    -Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery

  • Why Colour? Notes on Imi Knoebel, Henri Matisse and colour as quality for Circles and Wigs. Exhibition essay by Manfred Naescher

  • Overly Dedicated Podcast
    Interview with Claire Scherzinger, Episode 17
    Overly Dedicated

  • The Sleepover
    The Lily, Calgary, Canada
    Solo Exhibition March 29 - April 18, 2018
    Opening, March 29 7-11pm
    The Lily
    Canadian Art Must Sees

  • Artist Talk, Das Kapital
    LE SALON, Berlin, Germany
    Thursday March 22, 2018, 8pm
    Le Salon, Das Kapital
    Artist Talk

  • CHARM: Ray~Ray x CIRCLES & WIGS
    Wear it on a bracelet, put it in your ear, clip it to your shoe, hang it from your hat.
    Get one for you and your BFF too at Ray~Ray!

  • Make / Shift
    FELT Galleri, Bergen, Norway
    Solo Exhibition
    Opening October 19th, 2017
    FELT Galleri
    Make / Shift

    Approaching FELT Galleri like a studio, CIRCLES & WIGS will inhabit the gallery, making a continuous, performative, site-specific installation. Over the course of three days, the work will change, offering visitors a different viewing experience as time passes and the work develops. The emphasis of the exhibition will be on process and transformation as opposed to resolution. Referencing an archive of material explorations, Bartlett and Groome, will approach “Make / Shift” with movement and performative actions, encouraging spontaneity and improvisation, while utilising the entire gallery as a site for collaborative exploration as they engage in drawing, painting and collage. In addition, there will be a “Draw-a-thon”, an ongoing performance in which they exchange drawings with each other until completion.

  • We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

    Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

  • Public Collection
    The municipality of Jönköping, Sweden

  • C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction
    Division Gallery, Toronto
    April 18, 2017