Lisa Birke has had solo exhibitions across Canada and her award-winning short films have been screened at film/video festivals and media centres internationally, including: Time is Love, International Video Art Program, CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland), Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada), CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, Canada), Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Canada), Athens International Film + Video Festival (USA), Cologne OFF X (Germany and touring), along with many others. The short film Calendar Girls was awarded a “Jury Award for Creative Achievement” at the Arizona International Film Festival (USA), the Jury Award at ForadCamp (Barcelona, Spain) and was installed at Manif d’/Art (Quebec City Biennale, 2017). The Knits screened, most notably, at Slamdance Film Festival (USA, 2018) and the Florida Film Festival (USA, 2018), and was mounted as a solo exhibition at Cambridge Art Galleries (Canada, 2017). A survey program of Birke’s short film work and installation was presented at the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany, 2018) and her newest work The Land of Milk and Honey, an interactive 360 video installation, was included in the contemporary art biennial at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon Canada in the fall of 2020. Lisa Birke is a recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Media Artists Project Creation Grant (for The Knits), grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, along with other awards and scholarships. Birke is currently Assistant Professor of Digital and Extended Media at the University of Saskatchewan.