Kent Tate


Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia. Tate is known for his single-channel video installation works.

Early life

Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba. He grew up in Germany until he moved with his family to Ottawa, Ontario.

Exhibitions

Tate has exhibited in Canada since the early 1980s. exhibiting in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
In 1982 Jennifer Oille reviewed Tate's A.R.C. satellite installation in Toronto, the Museum of Post-Habitation, in Vanguard, describing Tate's conversion of a soon to be abandoned dwelling into a museum. The exhibition ended with Tate's performance, Ending All Occupation.
In 1984 he and Joe Average exhibited Survival of the Will, The 1984 Show at Open Space Gallery in Victoria, BC.
In 1985 the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver presented Tate's exhibition No Rest for the Restless.
In 1986 he presented the installation The Chemical Chamber at the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver. Archival material related to the exhibition is held in the
Western Front Fonds at the University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections.
In 1988, Tate exhibited The Stalker installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.
In 2012 Tate exhibited Movies for a Pulsing Earth, a ten-year retrospective video/sculptural installation at the Art Gallery of Swift Current. The piece toured to the Moose Jaw Museum and Gallery in 2016.
In 2019 he presented the exhibition Peneplain at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.

Filmography


  • Sensors 2019
  • Carbon Sky 2019
  • Furnace 2019
  • Cornucopia 2019
  • Rupture 2018
  • Catalyst 2018
  • Velocity 2017
  • Utopia 2017
  • Inventory 2016
  • Isolated gestures 2014
  • Prairie Grizzly Talks with Kent 2013

Awards