Curriculum Vitae
David Poolman is an artist working in drawing, sound, video, print media, and sculpture. Since 2015 Poolman has worked with artist Jeremy Drummond as Never Met a Stranger, a collaborative platform for the production of art and experimental media, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture, and an ongoing archive of field recordings, interviews, and documentary resources that collectively explore relationships between perception and representation, industry and the environment, and landscape and culture throughout central Appalachia and the rural North American south.
For the past 25 years, Poolman has screened work in festivals and exhibited in galleries both nationally and internationally. Selected festivals include European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL), Festival der Nationen (Austria), X Film Festival Chileno Internacional (Santiago), ECM Videoformes (Clermont-Ferrand), Videolisboa 5 (Lisbon), and Video-Film-Tagen Thuringen & Rheinland-Pfalz, (Gera). Gallery exhibitions include Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto), University of Toronto Art Gallery (Toronto), Zieher-Smith (New York), Georgia Scherman Projects (Toronto), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Museum London, (London), and TRUCK Artist Run Centre, (Calgary). His videotapes are distributed through Vtape (Toronto). Poolman lives in Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Sound in the joint Art and Art History program at the University of Toronto (Mississauga)/Sheridan College.
EDUCATION
2000
University of Windsor
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking
Windsor ON
1998
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Diploma in Visual Arts
Vancouver BC
1993-1995
Concordia University
Art History
Montreal PQ
TEACHING POSITIONS
2008-present
Associate Professor of Drawing and Sound
Department of Art and Art History (a joint program with the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Sheridan College. Oakville ON
2006-2008 /2002-2005
Sessional Instructor of Foundation Studies, Video, Sound, Painting, and Practicum Studies
University of Western Ontario. London ON
2006-2008
Sessional Instructor in Print Media
Department of Art and Art History (a joint program with the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Sheridan College. Oakville ON
2005-2006
Associate Professor of Drawing and Time-Based Media
Drake University. Des Moines IA
2002-2003
Sessional Instructor of Studio Fundamentals
University of Windsor. Windsor ON
2001-2002
Sessional Instructor of Print Media
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Vancouver BC
SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2025-2020
Everyone’s a blob. 13 Cedars. Rowley NB
Dark Holler. Alchemy Arts and Moving Image Festival. Hawick, Scotland
2019-2014
Onions, Life, and Hotdogs on Parade. Zalucky Contemporary. Toronto ON
Queer View of Tomorrow. Art Gallery of Guelph. Guelph ON
Food for Thought. Harbourfront Galleries. Toronto ON
Like a Statue. Georgia Scherman Projects. Toronto ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre. Kingston ON
Carte’ Blanche. DNA Artspace. London ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Gallery 101. Ottawa ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Espace F. Matane PQ
BYOB Powerball w/ Matthew Williamson. The Power Plant. Toronto ON
2013-2008
30x30 PT. 2. Artcite Inc. Windsor ON
Assembled: A Video Mixtape. Vtape. Toronto ON
Bring Our Curses Home. Art Gallery or Windsor. Windsor ON
Grätüitöüs Umläüt. Punch Gallery. Seattle WA
LOLA: London Ontario Live Arts Festival. Curated by Paul Walde. London ON
Ray and Carl. The Parker Branch. London ON
Blueblood. Harborfront Gallery. Toronto ON
Skid. Openstudio. Victoria BC
Slawomir Grabowy and David Poolman. SNAP. Edmonton AB
Deaderer. University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Waterloo ON
The Ballad of Louis the Monkey II. Harbourfront Galleries. Toronto ON
2007-2000
The Fall. Museum London. London ON
Seasons in the Abyss. Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax NS
Ritual and Repetition. Eastern Michigan University. Kalamazoo MI
Playing in Traffic. Red Bull Performance Space. Toronto ON
South of Heaven. Stride Gallery. Calgary AB
Box Social. Forest City Gallery. London ON
00130 gallery. Helsinki Finland
To a Watery Grave PT 1. University of Toronto Art Gallery. Toronto ON
To a Watery Grave PT 2. Mount St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. Halifax NS
Narrative Threads and Other Yarns. University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me. Museum London. London ON
Hello. curated by Clinton Walker and Sheila Heti. The Drake. Toronto ON
Video Salon. Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art. Kelowna BC
Apparently/Apparently Not. Zieher-Smith Gallery. New York NY
Important Canadian Art. Zieher-Smith. New York NY
Cubed. Eastern Edge Gallery. St. John’s NF
Useless. Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. Forest City Gallery. London ON
A Little Bit of Nothing. TRUCK Artist Run Centre. Calgary AB
Front. Pekao Gallery, Toronto ON
Do Try This at Home. Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery. Halifax NS
Videoculture: Thirty Years of Video Art: Tracking. Art Gallery of Windsor. Windsor ON
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS
2025-2020
What Does the Land Know? Dazibao Gallery. Montreal PQ
Pantalla Fantasma. Guipuzkoa. Basque Country, Spain
2019-2014
Board and Bread: Moving Images Works from London or Thereabouts. Videofag. Toronto ON
2013-2008
Art: Screen. Orebro, Sweden
Oslo Screen Festival. Oslo, Norway
ART SCREEN. Gothenburg, Sweden
WPA Experimental Media Series. Curated by DJ Spooky screened at, The Phillips Collection. Washington DC, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore MD, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College. Silver Spring MD, and The International House Philadelphia PA)
Movieola Network. Toronto ON
Artist Television Access. San Francisco CA
Cepa Gallery. Buffalo NY
Visible Verse. Pacific Cinematheque. Vancouver BC
21 Les Instants Video. Montreal PQ
Festival Miden. Athens, Greece
Zebra Poetry Film Festival. Berlin, Germany
European Media Arts Festival. Osnabrueck, Germany
20th Century on Video. Athens, Greece
17 Days. Eastern Michigan University (Kalamazoo MI) / University of Buffalo (Buffalo NY)
2007-2000
Trunk 07. Nordic Video Art Festival. Östersund, Sweden
Out of the Ordinary. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. Montreal PQ
Sadho Festival. New Delhi, India
Photophobia 9. Faucet and Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton ON
Chicago Underground Film Festival. Chicago IL
Transformer Gallery. Washington DC,
Temps D’images. USINE C. Montreal PQ
Flatpack Festival. Birmingham UK
Alternative Film and Video Festival. Belgrade, Serbia
Visible Verse. Pacific Cinémathèque. Vancouver BC
Terminal Frontier. Presented by Intermission and Video In. Vancouver BC
Re-production. Kilkenny Arts Festival. Kilkenny, Ireland
Chicago Underground Film Festival. Chicago IL
Astoria Festival of Moving Images. Astoria NY
Darklight Film Festival. Dublin, Ireland
FLOW. Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. TRUCK Gallery. Calgary AB
Tortured in Paradise. studio 27. San Francisco CA
Films on Forgetting. Curated by the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago IL
Mid Ulster Film Festival. Omagh, Ireland
13 instances. The Lamplighter. Vancouver BC
A Slack Oddity: the 8th Triannual Review. Slack Video. Hull, UK
Videolisboa 5. Lisbon, Portugal
No Rhyme or Reason: A Miscellaneous Category of Filmic Events. Owens Art Gallery. Sackville NS
Island Film and Video Festival. Prenelle Gallery. London UK
Third International Film & Video Festival. Museum of New Art. Detroit MI
Show Me. The Redhead Gallery. Toronto ON
Notes from Underground vol. 5. The Drake. Toronto ON
Mercury Theatre II: The New Barbarians. Presented by IAS and Video In. Vancouver BC
These Millions. Kyber Club. Halifax NS
Down the Drain. CBC broadcast ZED TV. Vancouver BC
A Little Bit of Nothing. Struts Gallery. Sackville NB
European Media Arts Festival. Osnabruck, Germany
Festival der Nationen. Ebensee, Austria
Digidome Contemporary New Media Festival. Paved Arts. Saskatoon SK
X Film Festival Chileno Internacional. Santiago, Chile
Post-Production. Candia dell'Arte Theatre. Toronto ON
Snackonart Liquid Television Projek. MNN-TV, BCAT-TV. Manhattan and Brooklyn NY
Red Square Film and Video Show. Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati OH
IndieKINO International Film Festival. Seoul, Korea
ECM Videoformes. Videotheque Epherme. Clermont-Ferrand, France
ECM Videoformes. Galarie Garde a Vue. Clermont Ferrand France
Video-Film-Tagen Thuringen & Rheinland-Pfalz. Gera, Germany
Red Square Film and Video Show. Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati OH
Vancouver Island Film, Video, and New Media Festival. Vancouver Island BC
PUBLIC LECTURES / INTERVIEWS /RESIDENCIES
2025-2020
Radio Interview. The Edge of America with Josh Bearman. WRIR. Richmond VA
2019-2015
Artist in Residence. 2 ROOMS. Duntara NF
Artist in Residence. University of Windsor. Windsor ON
Artist Lecture. Modern Fuel Gallery. Kingston ON
2013-2008
Artist Lecture. University of Richmond. Richmond VA
Panel Discussion. Research and Intersections with Practice. Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto ON
Artist Lecture. University of Windsor. Windsor ON
Radio Interview with Jennifer Dorner. Quebec AM. CBC Radio
Artist Lecture. OCAD Curatorial Class. Ontario College of Art. Toronto, ON
Radio Interview. Metro Morning. CBC Radio
2008-2003
Artist Lecture. Mount Allison University. Sackville NB
Artist Lecture. Openspace Gallery. Victoria BC
Artist Lecture. Sheridan College. Toronto ON
Artist Lecture. University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
Curator Lecture. Videopool. Winnipeg MN
Artist Lecture. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Artist Lecture. McMaster University. Hamilton ON
PUBLISHED WORKS / WRITING / BOOK COVERS
As Never Met a Stranger
Any-Angled Light. Any-Angled Light. (LP)
Field Recordings from Grassy Creek. Martha Spencer. (CD)
Upon My Word and Honor. John Haywood. (CD)
The Parlor Room Sessions. John Haywood, Kevin Howard, Russell Griswald. (CD)
Photos from the Field. Jeremy Drummond/David Poolman. (Photographic Suite)
As Has It: Interviews and Field Recording from Appalachia. Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. (Book/Double CD)
The Fries Sessions. Eddie Bond, Karen Carr, Donald Hill, Peco Watson. (CD)
Dark Holler. Jeremy Drummond/David Poolman. (Blu-Ray Disc)
Things Left Behind. Thornton Spencer. (CD)
Old Time Mountain Music and Other Songs. Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. (LP)
The Uncommitted. The Uncommitted (LP)
The Uncommitted. (Limited Edition Cassette)
Other
Some Theories. Kathryn Mockler and David Poolman. (Artist Book) Toronto ON
Several Slayers. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
36 Doritos. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
The Man Who Ate His Book. The Best of Ducts, Volume II. Philadelphia PA
Listening to the Landscape: An Early Warning System. David Poolman (Essay accompanying Rod Strickland's Public Sculpture for the Thames Art Galley). Thames Art Gallery. Chatham ON
There was a Time when Fire was the End of All Things. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
Silence. Debris. Duration: Two Works by David Merritt. David Poolman (Catalogue essay for David Merrit’s Travelling Exhibition). Museum London. London ON
The Purpose Pitch. Kathryn Mockler. Mansfield Press. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
The Saddest Place on Earth. Kathryn Mockler. BC Books. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
Onion Man. Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
2025-2002
Artist/Publisher. Never Met A Stranger. Richmond, VA (art/publishing collaboration with Jeremy Drummond)
Artist. The Shape of Loss (collaborative drawer for Louise Noguchi's project at the JCCC. Toronto ON )
Artist. Any-Angled Light. (collaborative sound project with Jen Dorner, Alex Geddie, Mike Glendon, Kamryn Mcfarlane, and Mike Vass)
Artist. Some Theories. (artist book collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Visual Arts Editor. The Rusty Toque. (online journal collaboration with Kathryn Mockler et. al)
Artist. The Old View from Nowhere. (collaborative series of exhibitions with Jennifer Dorner)
Artist. The Reluctant Narrator. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Artist. Deader and Deaderer. (book, installation and video project with Roman Tkaczyk)
Artist. Shout Outs! (sound collaboration with Matthew Williamson
Artist. The Reluctant Narrator. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Artist. Reindeer in the Mountains. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler and Mike Vass)
Curator. Spark Video Canada. (curatorial collaboration with Jeremy Drummond)
Artist. The Ballad of Louis the Monkey. (sound and photography collaboration with Andrew Hunter and Gord Glendon)
Artist. Preface. (video collaboration with Gord Glendon)
Artist. Full Contact Piano. (video collaboration with Shawn Bristow)
VIDEO CURATORIAL PROJECTS (w/ Jeremy Drummond)
2010-2003
Ok, Quoi? Strutts Gallery. Sackville NB
The Process of Weeding Out. Videopool. Winnipeg MN
Teleport. ADA Gallery. Richmond VA
I Could Shoot That. Museum London. London ON
Prune Belly: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Sushi Performance and Visual Art. San Diego CA
Dogbite: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. The Red House. Sofia, Bulgaria
Teenage Moustache: Recent Canadian, American and European Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Program 4: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery.
Drop and Give Me Twenty: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Four pounds in Two Days: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Wolf Notes: Recent Canadian, American and British Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Dogbite: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Balchik, Bulgaria
future_feed_forward. Museum London. London ON
No Music Festival Benefit Video Screening. Forest City Gallery. London ON
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE
2015-2010
Visual Arts/Media Arts Committee. Toronto Arts Council. Toronto ON
Advisory Board Member. Temporary/Contemporary. Sheridan Institute. Oakville ON
Advisory Board Member and Interim Chair. Blackwood Gallery. University of Toronto (Mississauga). Mississauga ON
Gallery Board Member. Mercer Union. Toronto ON
Gallery Board Member. Trinity Square Video. Toronto ON
Director and Gallery Board Member. Forest City Gallery. London ON
PRESS
2020-2003
Dark Holler. Ben Nicholson. Map Magazine. Glasgow UK
Dark Holler. Jamie Dunn. The Skinny. Edinburgh UK
Old Time Mountain Music and Other Songs. Emily Pothast. The Wire. London UK
The Old View From Nowhere. Kerry Reid. The Kingstonist. Kingston ON
Poking the Iron Bear. Chris Long. The Metropolitan. Victoria BC
Death and the Middle Finger. Michael Davidge. Blackflash Magazine. Saskatoon SK
Playing in Traffic. Exhibition Catalogue, Archive Gallery. Toronto ON
Metal Mayhem at Stride Gallery. Andrea Black. FFWD Weekly. Calgary AB
South of Heaven. Lee Henderson. Exhibition Pamphlet. Stride Gallery. Calgary AB
Narrative Threads and Other Yarns. Exhibition Pamphlet, University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
A Reflection on Alone. Dominik Szymanski. Scene Magazine. London ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. ESPACE Magazine. Montreal PQ
Apparently/Apparently Not. MIX Magazine. Toronto ON
Useless: David Poolman and Tanya Read. John Deal. View Magazine. Hamilton ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. Lee Henderson. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Useless. David Lee. Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton ON
A Little Bit of Nothing. TRUCK Gallery. Calgary AB
A Little Bit of Nothing. Salida Magazine of Visual Culture. Calgary AB
Sextet. Christopher Young. The Flint Journal. Flint MI
DISTRIBUTION
Vtape, Toronto ON, Canada
VIVO, Vancouver BC, Canada
Videographe, Montreal PQ, Canada
David Poolman is an artist working in drawing, sound, video, print media, and sculpture. Since 2015 Poolman has worked with artist Jeremy Drummond as Never Met a Stranger, a collaborative platform for the production of art and experimental media, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture, and an ongoing archive of field recordings, interviews, and documentary resources that collectively explore relationships between perception and representation, industry and the environment, and landscape and culture throughout central Appalachia and the rural North American south.
For the past 25 years, Poolman has screened work in festivals and exhibited in galleries both nationally and internationally. Selected festivals include European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL), Festival der Nationen (Austria), X Film Festival Chileno Internacional (Santiago), ECM Videoformes (Clermont-Ferrand), Videolisboa 5 (Lisbon), and Video-Film-Tagen Thuringen & Rheinland-Pfalz, (Gera). Gallery exhibitions include Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto), University of Toronto Art Gallery (Toronto), Zieher-Smith (New York), Georgia Scherman Projects (Toronto), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Museum London, (London), and TRUCK Artist Run Centre, (Calgary). His videotapes are distributed through Vtape (Toronto). Poolman lives in Toronto and is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Sound in the joint Art and Art History program at the University of Toronto (Mississauga)/Sheridan College.
EDUCATION
2000
University of Windsor
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking
Windsor ON
1998
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Diploma in Visual Arts
Vancouver BC
1993-1995
Concordia University
Art History
Montreal PQ
TEACHING POSITIONS
2008-present
Associate Professor of Drawing and Sound
Department of Art and Art History (a joint program with the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Sheridan College. Oakville ON
2006-2008 /2002-2005
Sessional Instructor of Foundation Studies, Video, Sound, Painting, and Practicum Studies
University of Western Ontario. London ON
2006-2008
Sessional Instructor in Print Media
Department of Art and Art History (a joint program with the University of Toronto, Mississauga)
Sheridan College. Oakville ON
2005-2006
Associate Professor of Drawing and Time-Based Media
Drake University. Des Moines IA
2002-2003
Sessional Instructor of Studio Fundamentals
University of Windsor. Windsor ON
2001-2002
Sessional Instructor of Print Media
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Vancouver BC
SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2025-2020
Everyone’s a blob. 13 Cedars. Rowley NB
Dark Holler. Alchemy Arts and Moving Image Festival. Hawick, Scotland
2019-2014
Onions, Life, and Hotdogs on Parade. Zalucky Contemporary. Toronto ON
Queer View of Tomorrow. Art Gallery of Guelph. Guelph ON
Food for Thought. Harbourfront Galleries. Toronto ON
Like a Statue. Georgia Scherman Projects. Toronto ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre. Kingston ON
Carte’ Blanche. DNA Artspace. London ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Gallery 101. Ottawa ON
The Old View from Nowhere. Espace F. Matane PQ
BYOB Powerball w/ Matthew Williamson. The Power Plant. Toronto ON
2013-2008
30x30 PT. 2. Artcite Inc. Windsor ON
Assembled: A Video Mixtape. Vtape. Toronto ON
Bring Our Curses Home. Art Gallery or Windsor. Windsor ON
Grätüitöüs Umläüt. Punch Gallery. Seattle WA
LOLA: London Ontario Live Arts Festival. Curated by Paul Walde. London ON
Ray and Carl. The Parker Branch. London ON
Blueblood. Harborfront Gallery. Toronto ON
Skid. Openstudio. Victoria BC
Slawomir Grabowy and David Poolman. SNAP. Edmonton AB
Deaderer. University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Waterloo ON
The Ballad of Louis the Monkey II. Harbourfront Galleries. Toronto ON
2007-2000
The Fall. Museum London. London ON
Seasons in the Abyss. Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax NS
Ritual and Repetition. Eastern Michigan University. Kalamazoo MI
Playing in Traffic. Red Bull Performance Space. Toronto ON
South of Heaven. Stride Gallery. Calgary AB
Box Social. Forest City Gallery. London ON
00130 gallery. Helsinki Finland
To a Watery Grave PT 1. University of Toronto Art Gallery. Toronto ON
To a Watery Grave PT 2. Mount St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. Halifax NS
Narrative Threads and Other Yarns. University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me. Museum London. London ON
Hello. curated by Clinton Walker and Sheila Heti. The Drake. Toronto ON
Video Salon. Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art. Kelowna BC
Apparently/Apparently Not. Zieher-Smith Gallery. New York NY
Important Canadian Art. Zieher-Smith. New York NY
Cubed. Eastern Edge Gallery. St. John’s NF
Useless. Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. Forest City Gallery. London ON
A Little Bit of Nothing. TRUCK Artist Run Centre. Calgary AB
Front. Pekao Gallery, Toronto ON
Do Try This at Home. Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery. Halifax NS
Videoculture: Thirty Years of Video Art: Tracking. Art Gallery of Windsor. Windsor ON
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS
2025-2020
What Does the Land Know? Dazibao Gallery. Montreal PQ
Pantalla Fantasma. Guipuzkoa. Basque Country, Spain
2019-2014
Board and Bread: Moving Images Works from London or Thereabouts. Videofag. Toronto ON
2013-2008
Art: Screen. Orebro, Sweden
Oslo Screen Festival. Oslo, Norway
ART SCREEN. Gothenburg, Sweden
WPA Experimental Media Series. Curated by DJ Spooky screened at, The Phillips Collection. Washington DC, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore MD, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College. Silver Spring MD, and The International House Philadelphia PA)
Movieola Network. Toronto ON
Artist Television Access. San Francisco CA
Cepa Gallery. Buffalo NY
Visible Verse. Pacific Cinematheque. Vancouver BC
21 Les Instants Video. Montreal PQ
Festival Miden. Athens, Greece
Zebra Poetry Film Festival. Berlin, Germany
European Media Arts Festival. Osnabrueck, Germany
20th Century on Video. Athens, Greece
17 Days. Eastern Michigan University (Kalamazoo MI) / University of Buffalo (Buffalo NY)
2007-2000
Trunk 07. Nordic Video Art Festival. Östersund, Sweden
Out of the Ordinary. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. Montreal PQ
Sadho Festival. New Delhi, India
Photophobia 9. Faucet and Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton ON
Chicago Underground Film Festival. Chicago IL
Transformer Gallery. Washington DC,
Temps D’images. USINE C. Montreal PQ
Flatpack Festival. Birmingham UK
Alternative Film and Video Festival. Belgrade, Serbia
Visible Verse. Pacific Cinémathèque. Vancouver BC
Terminal Frontier. Presented by Intermission and Video In. Vancouver BC
Re-production. Kilkenny Arts Festival. Kilkenny, Ireland
Chicago Underground Film Festival. Chicago IL
Astoria Festival of Moving Images. Astoria NY
Darklight Film Festival. Dublin, Ireland
FLOW. Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. TRUCK Gallery. Calgary AB
Tortured in Paradise. studio 27. San Francisco CA
Films on Forgetting. Curated by the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago IL
Mid Ulster Film Festival. Omagh, Ireland
13 instances. The Lamplighter. Vancouver BC
A Slack Oddity: the 8th Triannual Review. Slack Video. Hull, UK
Videolisboa 5. Lisbon, Portugal
No Rhyme or Reason: A Miscellaneous Category of Filmic Events. Owens Art Gallery. Sackville NS
Island Film and Video Festival. Prenelle Gallery. London UK
Third International Film & Video Festival. Museum of New Art. Detroit MI
Show Me. The Redhead Gallery. Toronto ON
Notes from Underground vol. 5. The Drake. Toronto ON
Mercury Theatre II: The New Barbarians. Presented by IAS and Video In. Vancouver BC
These Millions. Kyber Club. Halifax NS
Down the Drain. CBC broadcast ZED TV. Vancouver BC
A Little Bit of Nothing. Struts Gallery. Sackville NB
European Media Arts Festival. Osnabruck, Germany
Festival der Nationen. Ebensee, Austria
Digidome Contemporary New Media Festival. Paved Arts. Saskatoon SK
X Film Festival Chileno Internacional. Santiago, Chile
Post-Production. Candia dell'Arte Theatre. Toronto ON
Snackonart Liquid Television Projek. MNN-TV, BCAT-TV. Manhattan and Brooklyn NY
Red Square Film and Video Show. Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati OH
IndieKINO International Film Festival. Seoul, Korea
ECM Videoformes. Videotheque Epherme. Clermont-Ferrand, France
ECM Videoformes. Galarie Garde a Vue. Clermont Ferrand France
Video-Film-Tagen Thuringen & Rheinland-Pfalz. Gera, Germany
Red Square Film and Video Show. Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati OH
Vancouver Island Film, Video, and New Media Festival. Vancouver Island BC
PUBLIC LECTURES / INTERVIEWS /RESIDENCIES
2025-2020
Radio Interview. The Edge of America with Josh Bearman. WRIR. Richmond VA
2019-2015
Artist in Residence. 2 ROOMS. Duntara NF
Artist in Residence. University of Windsor. Windsor ON
Artist Lecture. Modern Fuel Gallery. Kingston ON
2013-2008
Artist Lecture. University of Richmond. Richmond VA
Panel Discussion. Research and Intersections with Practice. Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto ON
Artist Lecture. University of Windsor. Windsor ON
Radio Interview with Jennifer Dorner. Quebec AM. CBC Radio
Artist Lecture. OCAD Curatorial Class. Ontario College of Art. Toronto, ON
Radio Interview. Metro Morning. CBC Radio
2008-2003
Artist Lecture. Mount Allison University. Sackville NB
Artist Lecture. Openspace Gallery. Victoria BC
Artist Lecture. Sheridan College. Toronto ON
Artist Lecture. University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
Curator Lecture. Videopool. Winnipeg MN
Artist Lecture. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Artist Lecture. McMaster University. Hamilton ON
PUBLISHED WORKS / WRITING / BOOK COVERS
As Never Met a Stranger
Any-Angled Light. Any-Angled Light. (LP)
Field Recordings from Grassy Creek. Martha Spencer. (CD)
Upon My Word and Honor. John Haywood. (CD)
The Parlor Room Sessions. John Haywood, Kevin Howard, Russell Griswald. (CD)
Photos from the Field. Jeremy Drummond/David Poolman. (Photographic Suite)
As Has It: Interviews and Field Recording from Appalachia. Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. (Book/Double CD)
The Fries Sessions. Eddie Bond, Karen Carr, Donald Hill, Peco Watson. (CD)
Dark Holler. Jeremy Drummond/David Poolman. (Blu-Ray Disc)
Things Left Behind. Thornton Spencer. (CD)
Old Time Mountain Music and Other Songs. Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. (LP)
The Uncommitted. The Uncommitted (LP)
The Uncommitted. (Limited Edition Cassette)
Other
Some Theories. Kathryn Mockler and David Poolman. (Artist Book) Toronto ON
Several Slayers. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
36 Doritos. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
The Man Who Ate His Book. The Best of Ducts, Volume II. Philadelphia PA
Listening to the Landscape: An Early Warning System. David Poolman (Essay accompanying Rod Strickland's Public Sculpture for the Thames Art Galley). Thames Art Gallery. Chatham ON
There was a Time when Fire was the End of All Things. David Poolman (Artist Book) Toronto ON
Silence. Debris. Duration: Two Works by David Merritt. David Poolman (Catalogue essay for David Merrit’s Travelling Exhibition). Museum London. London ON
The Purpose Pitch. Kathryn Mockler. Mansfield Press. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
The Saddest Place on Earth. Kathryn Mockler. BC Books. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
Onion Man. Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books. (Book Cover for Poetry Collection)
ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
2025-2002
Artist/Publisher. Never Met A Stranger. Richmond, VA (art/publishing collaboration with Jeremy Drummond)
Artist. The Shape of Loss (collaborative drawer for Louise Noguchi's project at the JCCC. Toronto ON )
Artist. Any-Angled Light. (collaborative sound project with Jen Dorner, Alex Geddie, Mike Glendon, Kamryn Mcfarlane, and Mike Vass)
Artist. Some Theories. (artist book collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Visual Arts Editor. The Rusty Toque. (online journal collaboration with Kathryn Mockler et. al)
Artist. The Old View from Nowhere. (collaborative series of exhibitions with Jennifer Dorner)
Artist. The Reluctant Narrator. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Artist. Deader and Deaderer. (book, installation and video project with Roman Tkaczyk)
Artist. Shout Outs! (sound collaboration with Matthew Williamson
Artist. The Reluctant Narrator. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler)
Artist. Reindeer in the Mountains. (video collaboration with Kathryn Mockler and Mike Vass)
Curator. Spark Video Canada. (curatorial collaboration with Jeremy Drummond)
Artist. The Ballad of Louis the Monkey. (sound and photography collaboration with Andrew Hunter and Gord Glendon)
Artist. Preface. (video collaboration with Gord Glendon)
Artist. Full Contact Piano. (video collaboration with Shawn Bristow)
VIDEO CURATORIAL PROJECTS (w/ Jeremy Drummond)
2010-2003
Ok, Quoi? Strutts Gallery. Sackville NB
The Process of Weeding Out. Videopool. Winnipeg MN
Teleport. ADA Gallery. Richmond VA
I Could Shoot That. Museum London. London ON
Prune Belly: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Sushi Performance and Visual Art. San Diego CA
Dogbite: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. The Red House. Sofia, Bulgaria
Teenage Moustache: Recent Canadian, American and European Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Program 4: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery.
Drop and Give Me Twenty: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Four pounds in Two Days: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Wolf Notes: Recent Canadian, American and British Video Art. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Dogbite: Recent Canadian and American Video Art. Balchik, Bulgaria
future_feed_forward. Museum London. London ON
No Music Festival Benefit Video Screening. Forest City Gallery. London ON
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE
2015-2010
Visual Arts/Media Arts Committee. Toronto Arts Council. Toronto ON
Advisory Board Member. Temporary/Contemporary. Sheridan Institute. Oakville ON
Advisory Board Member and Interim Chair. Blackwood Gallery. University of Toronto (Mississauga). Mississauga ON
Gallery Board Member. Mercer Union. Toronto ON
Gallery Board Member. Trinity Square Video. Toronto ON
Director and Gallery Board Member. Forest City Gallery. London ON
PRESS
2020-2003
Dark Holler. Ben Nicholson. Map Magazine. Glasgow UK
Dark Holler. Jamie Dunn. The Skinny. Edinburgh UK
Old Time Mountain Music and Other Songs. Emily Pothast. The Wire. London UK
The Old View From Nowhere. Kerry Reid. The Kingstonist. Kingston ON
Poking the Iron Bear. Chris Long. The Metropolitan. Victoria BC
Death and the Middle Finger. Michael Davidge. Blackflash Magazine. Saskatoon SK
Playing in Traffic. Exhibition Catalogue, Archive Gallery. Toronto ON
Metal Mayhem at Stride Gallery. Andrea Black. FFWD Weekly. Calgary AB
South of Heaven. Lee Henderson. Exhibition Pamphlet. Stride Gallery. Calgary AB
Narrative Threads and Other Yarns. Exhibition Pamphlet, University of Lethbridge. Lethbridge AB
A Reflection on Alone. Dominik Szymanski. Scene Magazine. London ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. ESPACE Magazine. Montreal PQ
Apparently/Apparently Not. MIX Magazine. Toronto ON
Useless: David Poolman and Tanya Read. John Deal. View Magazine. Hamilton ON
Apparently/Apparently Not. Lee Henderson. Forest City Gallery. London ON
Useless. David Lee. Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton ON
A Little Bit of Nothing. TRUCK Gallery. Calgary AB
A Little Bit of Nothing. Salida Magazine of Visual Culture. Calgary AB
Sextet. Christopher Young. The Flint Journal. Flint MI
DISTRIBUTION
Vtape, Toronto ON, Canada
VIVO, Vancouver BC, Canada
Videographe, Montreal PQ, Canada