Scott Treleaven


Scott Treleaven is a Canadian artist whose work employs a variety of media including collage, film, video, drawing, photography and installation.

Artwork

Critical writings have invoked references to Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs, Jack Pierson and Nan Goldin, in describing Treleaven's place in "a lineage of obdurate misfits". He attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts. Treleaven's drawings are included in the final segment of 'Outside the Lines' at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, a major 2014 survey of contemporary abstraction.

Films

Treleaven's first film Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary was produced in 1996, a documentary on the queercore scene in the 1990s.
In 2002 Treleaven presented an overview of his independent publishing experiences in a film entitled The Salivation Army which has been screened at MOMA and Art Basel, Switzerland.
In 2005 photographer/director Carter Smith approached Treleaven about adapting his published horror story, Bugcrush, into Smith's Sundance Film Festival award-winning short film. Director Steven Spielberg has openly lauded the film.
In 2008, he appeared in the feature film, The Lollipop Generation by G.B. Jones, alongside Jena von Brücker, Mark Ewert, Vaginal Davis, Calvin Johnson and Joel Gibb.
In March 2011, The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured a program of Treleaven's films as part of the program, curated by artist AA Bronson and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, at The Museum of Modern Art.

Publications and Zines

Concurrent with the documentary Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary, Treleaven created an illustrated zine project called This Is The Salivation Army : a mix of punk, goth, occult, and industrial music aesthetics, alongside homages to iconoclasts like William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, William Blake, and Derek Jarman. The zine was a seeding ground for a variety of concepts and styles that would continue to appear in Treleaven's visual art. Books, zines and independently produced publications continue to be a recurring motif throughout his work.
In 2006 a book marking the 10th anniversary of the This Is The Salivation Army project was published by Printed Matter and Art Metropole, containing an entire reprint of the zines alongside more recent drawings and collages.
Treleaven's contribution to artist publications was most recently acknowledged in the book, In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

Filmography