Awards and Grants

2023 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, Nelson Pier Project

2023 Canadian Interiors of the Year, Kicking Horse Café, Inverrnere

2023 Edmonton Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Edmonton Valley Zoo

2022 Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Century Gardens, Calgary

2022 Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Varsity Multi-Service Facility, Calgary

2020 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Architectural Firm Award

2020 Progressive Architecture Award Honorable Mention for the Edmonton Valley Zoo Children’s Precinct ‘Above Zone’, Edmonton, Alberta

2020 National Urban Design Award for the 4th Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary, Alberta

2020 Prairie Wood Design Award – Residential Category for the Courtyard House, Calgary, Alberta

2020 Prairie Wood Design Award – Urban Design Category for C-Square, Calgary, Alberta

2019 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for Sunalta Community Hub, Calgary, Alberta

2019 Mayor’s Urban Design Special Mention for the 4th Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary, Alberta

2018 Prairie Design Award of Merit, C-Square, Calgary, Alberta

2017 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for the Edmonton Valley Zoo Children’s Precinct (The ‘Above Zone’), Edmonton, Alberta

2017 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the Civic District Public Realm Strategy, Calgary, Alberta

2017 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for C-Square, Calgary, Alberta

2017 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the 4th Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary, Alberta

2017 AZ Awards, Award of Merit and People’s Choice, John Fry Sports Park Pavilion, Edmonton, Alberta

2017 Architizer A+ Awards, Special Mention, John Fry Sports Park Pavilion, Edmonton, Alberta

2016 Prairie Design Award of Excellence, John Fry Sports Park Pavilion, Edmonton, Alberta

2016 Prairie Design Award of Excellence, Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory: Pathway Upgrades, Calgary, Alberta

2016 Prairie Design Award of Merit, Edmonton Military Commemorative Monument, Edmonton, Alberta

2015 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the John Fry Sports Park Pavilion, Edmonton, Alberta

2014 Canadian Architect Award of Merit for the Edmonton Valley Zoo Children’s Precinct, Edmonton, Alberta

2014 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Awards of Excellence: National Honour for the Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory: Poppy Plaza, Calgary, Alberta

2014 National Mayor’s Urban Design Awards Certificate of Merit for the Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory: Poppy Plaza, Calgary, Alberta

2014 Calgary Heritage Authority Lion Award for the Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory: Poppy Plaza, Calgary, Alberta

2013 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the Calgary Northpointe Bus Shelter, Calgary, Alberta

2013 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory: Pathway Upgrades, Calgary, Alberta

2013 Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the 1st Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary, Alberta

2013 Recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art membership

2013 Winner of a CEA Award of Excellence in Sustainability, Calgary Public Building, Calgary, Canada

2013 Winner of a CEA Award of Merit in Engineering, Calgary Public Building, Calgary, Canada

2012 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence 1st Street Underpass, Calgary, Canada

2012 Winner of a Graduate Students Teaching Award, University of Calgary

2011 Winner of a RAIC Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Calgary Centre for Global Community, Calgary, Canada

2011 Winner of a RAIC Mayor’s Urban Design Award, Memorial Pathway, Calgary, Canada

2010 Winner of the Alberta Federation of Arts Grant for the Architectural Roadshow. $15,000

2010 Winner of the Western Living Architect of the Year

2009 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the design of Memorial Plaza, Calgary, Canada.

2009 Winner of a RAIC Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the design of Memorial Plaza, Calgary, Canada.

2009 Winner of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for the Canadian Architectural Roadshow.

2009 Winner of a Western Living Designer of the Year- One to Watch

2009 Selected to exhibit three projects in the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008 Selected to present a design Charrette and Lecture during the Copenhagen Biennal, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2007 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the design of the Calgary Centre for Global Community, Calgary, Canada.

2007 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the design of the National Mountain Centre, Canmore, Canada, in association with Saucier + Perrotte.

2007 Winner of a Prairie Design Award for the design of the Sims House, Calgary, Canada.

2007 Winner of a Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the design of Eau Claire Plaza, Calgary, Canada.

2007 Winner of a Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Award for the design of Eau Claire Plaza, Calgary, Canada.

2007 Winner of a RAIC Mayor’s Urban Design Award for the design of the Olympic Plaza Cultural District Strategy, Calgary, Canada.

2007 Selected to exhibit in the Sao Paulo Biennale de Arquitectura, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2006 Winner of a Progressive Architecture Award for the design of the Calgary Centre for Global Community, Calgary, Canada.

2004 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the design of the Varscona Theatre, Edmonton, Canada.

2002 Winner of the Prix de Rome in Architecture given by the Canada Council for the Arts.

2002 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the design of the Truss House, Pender Island, Canada.

2002 Winner of a Prairie Design Award for the design of the Truss House, Pender Island, Canada.

2002 Winner of a Prairie Design Award for the design of the Chisholm House, Calgary, Canada

2002 Winner of a Creative Research Excellence Award from the University of Calgary.

2001 Winner of the national design competition for the 109 Street Gateway, The Art and Design in Public Places Program, Edmonton, Canada. (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2001 Winner of a President’s Circle Award for Achievement in Research and Creative Activity Excellence from the University of Calgary.

2001 Winner of a City of Calgary Heritage Award for Calgary Modern 1947-67 Exhibition design.

2001 Winner of the international design competition for Peep Show, Artcity, Calgary, Canada. (Neil Freeman, Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, Catherine Kim, collaborators)

2000 Winner of the provincial design competition for the Central Hall Design, Edmonton International Airport, Edmonton, Canada. (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators). Mentioned in Canadian Architect Awards Program, December 2000.

2000 Selected as a national participant (one of eight in Canada) in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Symposium Meaning in Architecture, Ottawa, Canada.

2000 Winner of a Prairie Design Award for the design and installation of Calgary Modern: 1947-67.

1999 Winner of a national design competition for the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary, in joint venture with Saucier and Perrotte Architectes.

1999 Winner of a Canadian Architect Award for the Holmes Residence, Cowichan Bay, Canada.

1999 Winner of Third Place in the Millennium Clock Competition. (Mathew Conrad, collaborator).

1996 Winner of an Einkauf Award for the design of Expo 2000 Public Space/Park Design, Hannover, Germany, Arriola and Fiol Arquitectes.

1994 Selected entry (one of ten in Canada) in Reciprocity: National Ideas Competition, Venice Biennale, VI International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator).

1992 Selected entry (one of ten) in the Architectural Ideas Competition, Emily Carr College of Art and Design Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator).

1990 Winning submission for the Rogers Elementary School Provincial Architectural Competition, Victoria, Canada. Hughes Baldwin Architects.

1990 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal, University of British Columbia.

Selected Competitions and Exhibitions Competitions

2022 Boutin, M., Finalist, CMLC Competition for Amenity Building in East Village

2022 Boutin, M., Finalist, MBAC and Chevalier Morales, Montreal Holocaust Museum

2009 Boutin, M., Principal Designer, CultureScape FjordScape, submission for the Oslo Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo, Norway.

2003 Sao Paulo Biennale, Contemporary City Design Competition and Exhibition, Exhibitor

2001 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, The Living Sky, Themeworks Provincial Design Competition, Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Canada. Short-listed entry. ID8 Design Group Inc., (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2001 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Peep Show Entry, Peep Show International Design Competition , Artcity, Calgary, Canada. Winning Submission. ID8 Design Group Inc., (Neil Freeman, Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, Catherine Kim, collaborators).

2001 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Soundscape No. 23, National Competition for the 109 Street Gateway, Edmonton, Canada. Winning Submission. ID8 Design Group Inc., (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators)

2000 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Urban Light Veil, 104 Street Provincial Design Competition, The Art and Design in Public Places Program, Edmonton, Canada. Selected Entry. (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2000 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, The Experiential Field, Central Hall Provincial Design Competition , Edmonton International Airport, Edmonton, Canada. Winning Submission. Marc Boutin Architect/ID8 Design Group Inc., (Ted Bruneau, Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2000 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Palos Verdes Art Center International Design Competition. Exhibited Submission. Marc Boutin Architect (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, Nicole Howard, Troy Smith, Laura Plosz, Jocylene Belisle, collaborators).

2000 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Global Threshold, Provincial Art Competition, Edmonton International Airport, Edmonton, Canada. Short-listed Entry. (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2000 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Waldorf School Design Competition, Calgary, Canada. Short-listed submission. Marc Boutin Architect. (Dave Goulden, Nicole Howard, Tony Leong, collaborators).

1999 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Millenium Clock Design Competition, Calgary, Canada. Third Place winner. Marc Boutin Architect. (Mathew Conrad, collaborator).

1999 Boutin, M., Principal and Project Architect, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art National Architectural Competition, Calgary, Canada. Saucier + Perrotte/ Marc Boutin Architecture Joint Venture. Winning submission. (David Chase, Neil Freeman, Collaborators)

1996 Boutin, M., Project Architect, London Docklands Competition, London, England, Arriola and Fiol Arquitectes.

1996 Boutin, M., Project Architect, Competition for Sant Pau del Camp, Barcelona, Spain, Arriola and Fiol Arquitectes.

1996 Boutin, M., Project Architect, Expo 2000 Public Space/Park Design, Hannover, Germany, Arriola and Fiol Arquitectes. Einkauf award winner.

1994 Boutin, M., Designer, Reciprocity: National Ideas Competition, Winning Submission. Venice Biennale, VI International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator).

1992 Boutin, M., Designer, Building on a Slope, Architectural Ideas Competition, Emily Carr College of Art and Design Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Winning Submission. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator).

1991 Boutin, M., Project Designer, Rogers Elementary School Provincial Architectural Competition, Victoria, Canada. Hughes Baldwin Architects. First Prize.

2023 Collaborative Ecologies, MBAC, City Building Design Lab, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

2023 Landscape Of(f) Limits Exhibition, Milano, Politechnico de Milano

2022 The Equitable City, MBAC, Stantec Gallery, University of Calgary

2013 Layered Landscapes, An exhibition on the sketches of Arthur Erickson, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary.

2013 MBAC Selected Projects, EVDS Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2010 Architectural Roadshow, Exhibition and Lecture Circuit, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal, Halifax

2009 Boutin, M., Selected projects exhibited at the Buenos Aires Biennale 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2008 Boutin, M., Selected project exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

2007 Boutin, M., Selected projects exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2006 Boutin, M., Selected projects exhibited at the Substance over Spectacle exhibition, Vancouver, Canada.

2005 Boutin, M., Designer, Negotiated Space, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

2005 Boutin, M., Supervisor and Facilitator, Now City, student design work selected for exhibition at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Sau Paulo, Brazil.

2004-2005 Boutin, M., Designer, Texture City Touring National Exhibition (New York, Rome, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal) showing the research developed for the Prix de Rome.

2003 Boutin, M., Supervisor and Facilitator, Now City, student design work selected for exhibition at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Sau Paulo, Brazil.

2002 Boutin, M., Designer/fabricator, This Road Leads to Rome, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

2002 Boutin, M., Designer, Atmospheres and Infrastructures, Commerce Place Gallery, Edmonton, Canada. Eight projects selected from the portfolio of id8 Design Group that develop the themes of atmosphere and infrastructure as a means to create art and architecture. (Dave Goulden, Tony Leong, collaborators).

2001-2002 Boutin, M., Designer, Architecture of the Now, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. The design investigated new insights into the contemporary global city and will feature a publication. Designed as an extension of a senior design studio.

2001 Boutin, M., Exhibiter, Peep Show, Calgary Institute of Modern Art, Calgary, Canada. Winning Submission Exhibition.

1999-2000 Boutin, M., Lead Designer/Fabricator/Professor, Calgary Modern 1947-1967. Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary. February 4- April 15, 2000. This was the largest architectural exhibition presented in Calgary and featured seven constructed pavilions developed as an extension of a modern history seminar and a design/build studio. Exhibition won Prairie Design Award (2000), City of Calgary Heritage Award (2001).

1999 Boutin, M., Designer/Curator, Carmen Corneil Exhibition. EVDS Gallery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. An exhibition featuring selections from the Canadian Architectural Archives. (Laura Plosz, collaborator).

1998 Boutin, M., Designer/Curator, Modern Builders: The Architecture of Rule Wynn and Rule, developed as an extension of a seminar in modern architectural history, Architecture Program, Faculty of Environmental Design, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary.

1997 Boutin, M., Designer/Curator, Microscopes and Telescopes: Tracing Inflections of the City, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada., (Alex Percy, Rob Plain, Andrew Tankard, collaborators).

1995 Boutin, M., Canadian Participant in ‘Emerging Generation’, Venice Biennale, VI International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator)

1993 Boutin, M., Designer/ Selected Submission, Bridgeworks, Artropolis 93, Public Art and Art About Public Issues. Artropolis (Tri-annual) Contemporary Art Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada. (Bruce Carscadden, Alan Davies, collaborators).

1992 Boutin, M., Exhibiter, Building on a Slope, Emily Carr College of Art and Design Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Winning Submission Exhibition. (Bruce Carscadden, collaborator).

Education

2021-2023 University Of Calgary, Master of Fine Arts,

Dept of Art and Art History, Calgary AB

1987-1990 Emily Carr College of Art and Design,

Vancouver, BC

1986-1987 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS

Exhibitions

2023 Generated User, Solo exhibition, MFA Show, Nickle Galleries, Calgary AB

2023 Generated User, Solo Exhibition, The Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB

2022 User Generated, Solo Exhibition, The Arnatt Gallery, University of Calgary, AB

2022 Negotiated Otherhood, Solo Exhibition, The Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB

2021 Mademoilselle, Solo Exhibition, Gallery 621, of Calgary, AB

2021 People’s Portrait Prize, Group Exhibition, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB

2021 The Space We Are Not, Solo Exhibition, The Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB

2021 POP Apocalypse, Group Exhibition, Roberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB

2020 Ghost Stories, Volume 2 Juried Group Exhibition, Roberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB

2020 The Leighton Art Centre Annual Juried Exhibition, The Leighton Art Centre, Millarville, AB

2020. Viral,Juried Group Virtual Exhibition(Covid), Kyle Marks Projects, Calgary, AB

2019 Art Calgary,Juried Group Exhibition, The Mona Lisa Art Salon, Calgary, AB

2019 New Craft Coalition, Juried Group Exhibition, Festival Hall, Calgary, AB

2019 Art Now, Saskatchewan Fine Art Fair, Juried Group Exhibition , Regina, Sk

2019 cART Blanche,Invitational Art Experiment, East Village, Calgary, AB

2019 The Leighton Art Centre Annual Juried Exhibition, The Leighton Art Centre, Millarville, AB

2019 Art Calgary-The Mawson Project, Juried Group Exhibition, The Main Gallery, New Central Library, Calgary, AB

2018 Art Now, Saskatchewan Fine Art Fair, Juried Group Exhibition , Saskatoon, Sk

2018 Art Calgary, Juried Group Exhibition, C Space, King Edward Art Centre, Calgary, AB

2018 People’s Portrait Prize, Group Exhibition, C Space, King Edward Art Centre. Calgary AB

2017 Helping Hands Through Art, Juried Group Exhibition, C Space, King Edward Art Centre, Calgary, AB

2015 Birds, Oracles, Profits and Omens, Solo Exhibition, DaDe Gallery, Calgary, AB

2014 Decayer, Solo Exhibition, Gallery, Calgary, AB

2013 Proem, Solo Exhibition, MBAC Studio, Calgary, AB

2023 Roma Series, Solo Exhibition, Prix de Rome Apartment Salon, Rome, Italy

1995 3D Thinking, Juried Solo Exhibition, Orion Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1993, Girl Beams, Juried Solo Exhibition, Vancouver Craft Council Gallery, Grandville Island, Vancouver, BC

1992, Chalice, Juried Group Exhibition, Vancouver Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1993, Therefor I am Still, Solo Exhibition, FG Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1994, Selected Works, Solo Exhibition, FG Gallery, Vancouver, BC Creative

2025 Member of the Board of Directors for Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC

2023, MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalogue and Reception Administrator, Dept of Art and Art History and Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

2023, The Post Miniature Show, Administrator, Dept of Art and Art History, University of Calgary, AB

2021-2023, Student Treasurer, Master of Fine Arts Program, Department of Art and Art History, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

2021-2023, Gallery Coordinator, Department of Art and Art History, University of Calgary, AB

2012-2016, Director and Board Member, Find It Calgary http://www.finditcalgary.ca/our-pop-up-events.html

2003-2016, Painting Instructor, Private Lessons

2003, Painting commissioned by the Canadian Ambassador to Rome, Robert Fowler.

2003, Opened studioama, Rome, Italy, https://allisonmorgan-studioama.com/home.html

1995-1996, Historic scene painter, Dalo’s Antiquities, Barcelona, Spain

1995-1996, Commissioned painter , Barcelona, Spain

1993-1995, Gallery Curator, FG Gallery, Vancouver BC