Derek Hunter is an interdisciplinary visual artist, environmentalist and whirling dervish, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from NSCAD with a BFA, and is now pursuing his MFA at Simon Fraser University. He frequently collaborates with New York based artist Mary Mattingly, as well as with his wife and partner Mira Hunter. His most recent piece Time Machine features 65 disposable cameras fixed to a 350 degree rail made from reclaimed lumber, activated by electromechanical solenoids. The photographs, which feature Hunter's wife Mira who is a second-generation whirling dervish, are animated in a sequence, giving the audience the visual experience of revolving around a whirling dervish, caught in a single moment. The images, often displaying unusual exposure disturbances anomalies, are scanned and made into two films which will play simultaneously within a wooden yurt, installed at the SFU School for Contemporary Arts exhibition space at 611 Alexander Street in Vancouve. Hunter is relocating to New York in the fall to work on the floating art exhibit, Waterpod™. He will also be debuting a companion piece to Time Machine, working title Time Bomb. Time Bomb is a different look at reparative/restorative potential in art. Inspired by Fischli/Weiss and Mary Mattingly's future human Navigators, it will playfully document a moment when nature and the common animal will raise a malakoff cocktail in the name of environmental injustice, through bullet time photography, stop motion animation, super 16 film, video and a rotating tripod machine.

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EDUCATION
Simon Fraser University                                                        2006-
8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6                           Graduate Candidate
http://www.sfu.ca/sca/

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design                                    2000-2002
20025163 Duke St., Halifax, N.S., B3J 3J6                               Bachelor of Fine Arts
http://www.nscad.ns.ca

Capilano College Studio Art Program                                      1997-1999
2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, B.C., V7J 3H5                  Studio Arts Program
http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/programs/fine-arts.html              Diploma

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008/Time Machine, SFU Studios, 611 Alexander, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2003/Golden Double Happiness, Capilano College Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
2002/Interaction Research Corporation, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008/Experimental Empire, SFU Studios, 611 Alexander, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2008/The Dark Between, Beaumont Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2007/Interaction Research Rendezvous, SFU Studios, 611 Alexander, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2007/FREE, SFU studios 611 Alexander, Vancouver, British Columbia.                                                 
2006/Mary Mattingly’s Forecast: An Environmental Disaster Opera, Whitebox Gallery, New York, New York.
2005/We go Round and Round in the Night, Philip Feldman Gallery at PNCA, Portland, Oregon. 
2004/The Life Boat, during Art Basel, Miami, Florida.                               
2004/Art Under Foot, Roundhouse Community Center, Vancouver British Columbia.
2002/Snag: Innovative Tools & Future Prospects, Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
2002/Proxemics: NSCAD/OCAD Jewellery, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada/Ontario College of Art&Design Gallery, Toronto.
2002/Drawing Marathon, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2001/Eyewear Exposed, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2001/Out 888, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2001/Land of Rage, Media Installation, Press Building, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1999/Upcoming Artists, 3rd Ave. Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
1999/Graduation Exhibition, Capilano College, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
1998/Singular, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia.

AWARDS
School of Contemporary Arts Service Award, Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts, 2007.
Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts, 2007.
MFA Scholarship, Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts, 2006.
Mackenzie Fund Scholarship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, 2001.
Alex Sosnowsky Arts Bursary, West Vancouver Senior Secondary, 1996.
Passport to Education, British Columbia Ministry of Education, 1996.