Education:
2022 MFA, Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2018 B.Sc., Combined Computer Science and Visual Arts Major, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2018 Environmental Studies Minor, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Employment:
2023 Instructor, ART 262, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2022 Instructor, AE 322, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UVic, Victoria, BC
2021 Instructor, ART 261, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020-22 Teaching Assistant, Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2012-17 Media Lab Assistant, Department of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Residencies:
2018 ONC Artist In Residence Program, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Urban Watersheds, Cedar Hill Recreation and Arts Centre, Victoria, BC
2022 Synoptic Translations, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB
2022 Uncertain Associations, University of Victoria Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2021 Fractured Waves, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2018 Resonant Disintegration, FLUX Media Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 Resonant Disintegration, University of Victoria Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 The Final Frontier, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 Orcas: Our Shared Future, OMSI, Portland, OR
2023 Symbiosis, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2022 Revealing Presence, Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC
2022 From Here On, Victoria Arts Council Gallery, Victoria, BC
2022 Arts Alive Graduate Showcase, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2022 Systems of Creation, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2021 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Mahon Hall, Ganges, BC
2021 Orcas: Our Shared Future, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC
2021 Tip of the Iceberg, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2020 To Fish as Formerly, Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
2019 Waste Land: A Climate Anxiety Haunted House, Victoria, BC
2019 Emerging Digital Artist Award Exhibition, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2017 Another Year, BFA Exhibition, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Festival / Conference Exhibitions:
2023 Light Up the Hills, Langford, BC (Uncertain Associations)
2023 Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Victoria, BC (Acoustic Turbulence)
2022 Illuminate Arts Festival, Fredericton, NB (Evolutionary Forest)
2021 Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC (Generative Architecture)
2019 Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC (Acoustic Turbulence)
2018 Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC (Resonant Disintegration)
2017 Integrate Arts Festival, Victoria, BC (Domestication)
Presentations:
2022 “Digital Reflections of the Anthropocene”, Context and Meaning, Graduate Visual Culture Association, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
2021 “Evolutionary Forest”, Fine Arts Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2021 “Ocean Art, Ocean Science: How 3 Artists are Using Science to Express Care for the Ocean“, Ocean Networks Canada / UVic Fine Arts, Victoria, BC
2021 “Fractured Waves” (Artist Talk), Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2021 “Interactive Data Art and the Anthropocene”, Visual Impetus, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 “Creatively Rooted to Our Climate”, Creative Mornings Victoria, KWENCH, Victoria BC
2019 “Experiencing Ocean Data through Interactive Art”, Science Literacy Week, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2019 “Creating Multisensory Media to Foster Environmental Understanding”, Visual Impetus, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Guest Lectures:
2022-23 “Data Art and Digital Mapping”, Geography 380, UVic, Victoria, BC
2021-23 “Data Visualization and Generative Art”, Art 117, UVic, Victoria, BC
2020-22 “Generative Art”, Art 360, UVic, Victoria, BC
2021 “Sensors for Interactive Art”, Art 306, UVic, Victoria, BC
2020 “Art as Activism”, Art 150, UVic, Victoria, BC
Project Grants:
2022 Dynamic Landscapes: Explorations in Digital Simulation, Research Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Visualizing Landscape Relationships, Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters Program, SSHRC
2013 Forest Rendering Project, Undergraduate Student Research Award, NSERC
Commissions:
2023 Hydrosheds, Engage with Nature Based Solutions
2022 Engines of Change, Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC
2020 Pulse of the Salish Sea , Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
Awards:
2021 Jessie Allan Forsyth Scholarship, University of Victoria
2021 Audrey St. Denys & M. E. Johnson Scholarship, University of Victoria
2021 Scholarship Award, BC Art Council
2021 Finalist for Salt Spring National Art Prize, SSNAP (Carbon Pulse)
2020 President’s Research Scholarship, University of Victoria
2019 Finalist for Emerging Digital Artist Award, EQ Bank (Acoustic Turbulence)
2019 Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art, ProArt Alliance Regional Award
2019 Acoustic Turbulence, UVic Research Reels Competition: First Place Feature Award
2018 VVALS Bursary Award, Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society: Flemming Jorgensen Legacy Artist Bursary Award
2018 Resonant Disintegration, UVic Research Reels Competition: First Place Feature and Audience Choice Awards
Publications:
2023 “Visualizations from a Climate Youth”, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford University (author)
2022 “Ocean, Exploring the Marine World”, Phaidon (artwork contribution)
2022 “Doubling down on wicked problems: Ocean ArtScience collaborations for a sustainable future”, Frontiers in Marine Science (co-author)
2020 “Exploring Environmental Art Through Interactive Data Visualization”, BC Art Teachers Association Journal (author)
2020 “Homeostasis”, Fire Season, Issue 1 (author / artwork contribution)
Media Features:
2022 “Colton Hash, Artist – Victoria”, Akimbo hitlist
2022 “Humanity’s Impact on the Planet for Your Contemplation..”, Edmonton Journal
2021 “Materiality, Interaction and the Other”, Luma Film & Media Art Quarterly
2021 “Student Spotlight: Colton Hash”, Art Beat, Art History Visual Studies Graduate Association, University of Victoria
2021 “Maker Musings: Colton Hash”, MakerLab, Two Rivers Gallery
2020 “To Fish as Formerly Artist Interview – Colton Hash”, Legacy Art Gallery, University of Victoria
2019 “Resonant Disintegration”, Innovation, Shaw TV Spotlight
2019 “Experience Ocean Data Through Interactive Art”, Ocean Networks Canada
2019 “Colton Hash full Interview”, Check The Program (Podcast)
2019 “Ocean Networks Canada Artist Residency – Data + Art + Action”, Focus Magazine, Focus On Victoria
2018 “New Artist Residency Strengthens Connections Between Art and Science”, Galleries West News
2018 “When Art Meets Science”, KnowlEDGE, University of Victoria
2013 Doers, Makers, Thinkers, CFUV