CISNEROS, Domingo 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born January 25, 1942, in Monterrey, Mexico; immigrated to Canada, 1969. Education: Attended University of Nuevo Leon and National Autonomous University of Mexico.

ADDRESSES:

Home—1275 Rang de la Seigneurie, Sainte Emelie de l'Energie, Quebec J0K 2K0, Canada.

CAREER:

Artist. Manitou College, La Macaza, Quebec, Canada, teacher of Native arts and communication, 1974-76; installation and mixed-media artist in La Macaza, 1974-76, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada, beginning 1996. Artist in residence at Canadian institutions, including Vancouver Art Gallery, McMichael Gallery, Western Front, and Banff Centre for the Arts, and in France and the Dominican Republic. Work represented in solo exhibitions, including shows at Carrillo Gil Museum and Galeria de Art Mexicano in Mexico, Mendel Gallery in Saskatchewan, Labyrinth Gallery in Poland, and Windham College; participant in group shows in Canada and elsewhere, including Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, International Multimedia Centre, Salerno, Italy, Casa de la Cultura, Havana, Cuba, Museum of Modern Art, Tampere, Finland, and National Gallery of Canada; work collected at Thunder Bay Centre for Indian Art and Indian Art Centre, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Exhibition curator in Canada, the United States, Cuba, Italy, and Norway; juror of art competitions. Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs, minister, 1978, 1987, 1988. Also worked for film companies in Mexico.

WRITINGS:

(With Jeanne Fabb) Macaza Cycle, [Schenectady, NY], 1979.

Deathwatch, [Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada], 1981.

Cronique Boreale, [Montreal, Quebec, Canada], 1983.

Laurentian Bestiary/Le Bestiaire laurentien (exhibition catalog), text by Anne-Marie Blouin and Carol Podedworny, Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada), 1988.

Mitchi, [Quebec, Canada], 1990.

On the Trail, [London, England], 1992.

Lac Boivin, [Quebec, Canada], 1994.

Priere pour convoquer l'inspiration, [Belgium], 1994.

Contributor to periodicals, including Intervention, Les Lieux Sauvages, Urgences, Natura Cultura, and Inter. Editor, La Rabia, 1962, and Cine-Estudio, 1964-65. Cisnero's writings have been published in Flemish, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Blouin, Anne-Marie, and Carol Podedworny, Laurentian Bestiary/Le Bestiaire laurentien (exhibition catalog), Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada), 1988.

St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998, pp. 115-118.*