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Solo exhibitions

2020 Flux Factory / Know The Ways  / New York City, USA

2019 Ashburton Public Art Gallery / Atlas of Nowhere / Ashburton, New Zealand, curated by Shirin Khosraviani

2018 Sheridan College / River Credits / Mississauga, Canada, curated by Marsya Maharani

2015 Stantec Window Gallery / Chromatone / Toronto, Canada, curated by Gelare Danaie

2014 Huntclub Gallery / Pollinate/Illuminate / Toronto, Canada

2013 OCAD University Graduate Gallery / Low Voltage High Starch / Toronto, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Indonesia National Gallery / INSTRUMENTA II - Machine Magic  / Jakarta, Indonesia, curated by Gesyada Annisa Namora Siregar

2018 White House Studio / EcoFeminIsms  / Toronto, Canada, curated by Victoria Clough

2017 Zalucky Contemporary / Onions, Life, and Hotdogs on Parade / Toronto, Canada, curated by Juliana Zalucky

2016 Art of the Danforth / Living Rooms / Toronto, Canada, curated by Asad Raza

2016 Galleria Shopping Center / Gallery Galleria / Toronto, Canada, curated by Aisle 4

2016 Flux Factory / Fung Wah Biennale / New York & Philadelphia, USA, curated by Sally Szwed, Will Owen and Mattias Borello

2014 Montreal Insectarium / Traces / Montreal, Canada,  curated by Han Zhang

2014 Art of the Danforth / Bloom in the Night / Toronto, Canada, curated by Jessica Vallentin

2013 Xpace Cultural Centre / Toronto Harbour / Toronto, Canada, curated by Cameron Lee

Community Arts Projects

2017 Davenport Perth Neighbourhood and Community Health  Centre / Portraits of Davenport / Toronto, ON, A portraiture project with community members at DPNCHC.

2015 Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre / The Peregrine Project / Toronto. A habitat building project for the waterfront neighbourhoods.

Curatorial Projects

2019 MOCA Toronto / An Index / Toronto, Canada.  A group exhibition featuring 26 artists from the inaugural AKIN studio program at MOCA Toronto. Curated with Marsya Maharani.

2018  YTB Gallery, FAG (Feminist Art Gallery), Public Studio, Margin of Eras Gallery / The Architecture of Care / Toronto, Canada.

A group exhibition  featuring , Yan Wen Chang, Kristina Guison, Tzazná Miranda Leal, Mani Mazinani, José Andrés Mora, and Diana VanderMeulen. Curated with Geneviève Wallen.

2017 YTB Gallery and Images Festival / Pick it up, put it down / Toronto, Canada.

A mobile screening featuring Tobias Williams, Alicia Mersy and Sara Graorac, Bonnie Tung, Toughguy Mountain and JP King. Curated with Humboldt Magnussen

2016 YTB Gallery  and Katzman Contemporary / There is no outside / Toronto, Canada.

Group exhibition featuring Callum Schuster, Tau Lewis, and Luke Siemens. Curated with Humboldt Magnussen.

2016 YTB Gallery / The Complete Unknown /  Toronto, Canada.

Group exhibition featuring Bonerkill, Britta B., Topher Kong, Sofy Mesa, and Wiliam Andrew Finlay Stewart.

2015 YTB Gallery / Escape Plans / Toronto, Canada.

Group exhibition featuring Katie Bruce, Paul Chartrand, Brette Gabel, Mary Grisey, Stefan Herda, Daniel Griffin Hunt, and Mary Ma.

Education

2014 OCAD University / MFA / Toronto, ON Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art Media and Design (IAMD)

2011 Otago Polytechnic / BFA / Dunedin, New Zealand Major in sculpture, minor in drawing.

Awards and Grants

2019 Canada Council for the Arts - Professional Development for Artists

2018 Banff Centre Artists Award

2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create

2017 Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant

2017 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

2016 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant

2016 Ontario Arts Council Community Arts Grant

2016 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

2016 Toronto Arts Council  Community Arts Grant

2015 Neighbourhood Arts Network RBC grant for newcomer artists.

2015 Artstarts and Toronto Arts Council Platform A Microgrant

2014 Sustainable Design Awards, Finalist

2014 OCAD University 3 Minute Thesis Competition, first place winner

2014 OCAD University Graduate Scholarship

2013 OCAD University Graduate Scholarship

2012 OCAD University Graduate Scholarship

2011 Dunedin School of Art award for excellence in sculpture

Auctions 

2020 The Plumbraiser / The Plum, Toronto

2018 Art Attack / Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto

2018 Timeraiser Toronto / Powerplant, Toronto

Residencies

2019 Flux Factory / New York City, USA.

2018 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity / Outdoor School / Banff, Alberta, Lead by Amish Morrell, Diane Borsato, and Tania Willard

2017 Artscape Gibraltar Point / Winter Island Emerging Artist Residency / Toronto, Ontario, lead by Andrew Lochead

2013 School of Making Thinking / Summer Hiking Residency / New York, New York

Employment

Member of Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery - with Humboldt Magnussen, Marsya Maharani and Geneviève Wallen.

Selected Public Programs and Appearances 

2020 Bawaadan Collective / Credit River / Interview about my 2018 map named Credit River. Presented on YouTube as part of a nineteen episode web series. 

2019 MOCA Toronto / Night Visions - MOCA Goes Dark / a party at MOCA Toronto for An Index. Featuring performances by Leone McComes, David Nuff, Jieun June Kim.

2018 Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery / The Hidden Village / Pirate radio program featuring interviews of community organizers, activists and business owners in Parkdale. For the exhibition The Architecture of Care, presented in collaboration with Geneviève Wallen.

2018 Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery / Neighbourhood Tour / Tour of Parkdale given by artists and housing activists showing hidden sights of resistance and community. For the exhibition, The Architecture of Care. Presented with Geneviève Wallen.

2018 Gardiner Museum + Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery / Eyeblink: Smash The Patriarchy / Performance event and party inspired by the early feminist video of Yoko Ono, for her solo exhibition The Riverbed. Featuring performances by Annie Wong, Ronnie Clarke and Kelsey Whyte.

2017 Artscape Gibraltar Point / You Saw Nothing / Public performance concluding the Winter Island Residency.

2017 Art Gallery of Ontario + Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery / The Van Delivers / mobile screen truck showing No Name by Tobias Williams. Presented in collaboration with Humboldt Magnussen.

2017 Madeline Collective / How to Make Art for Bees, episode in a web series produced by CBC and OCAD University.

2016 Luminato Festival + Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery / Post Apopcalypse / Dance party at the Hearn Generating Station, accompanying exhibition Doom's Day, A Survival Guide, curated by Geneviéve Wallen. Party featuring performance by Alex Beriault.

Press and Criticism 

2019 Gallagher, Jasmine, From Erewhon to the Atlas of Nowhere, Essay, Ashburton Art Gallery, June 2019.

2019 Feeney, Warren, Review of Atlas of Nowhere, Artbeat, August 2019.

2019 Diack, Lucinda, Powerfully Meaningful: review of Atlas of Nowhere, Latitude Magazine, June 2019.

2017 Hampton, Chris,  Van serves as roving art gallery for video creators in Images Festival Review, Toronto Star, April, 2017.

2016 Cochrane, Kristen, Get in Formation for Toronto’s Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery Review Amuse blog and Vice, July 2016.

2016 Lyle, Eric, Fung Wah Biennial, Review, Art in America, July, 2016.

2015 Peters, Diane, Now Open, Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery, Review, Toronto Star, July 2015.

2014 Mullin, Morgan, Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery, Review, Now Magazine Toronto, December 2014.

2014 Wray, Britt, Toronto Harbourfront, Review, Xpace Cultural Centre, February 2014.

Invited Talks, Presentations and Lectures

2019 Lunchtime Lectures, artist talk, Annie Smith Centre, Sheridan College. Thursday, November 7.

2019 How To Take Rejection, educational talk at OUTREACH Symposium, Gallery 44. Wednesday, August 8.

2019 Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery, presentation on the history and mandate of the gallery. Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga & Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Thursday, March 4.

2019 Maps of Erewhon, artist talk for solo exhibition, Atlas of Nowhere, Ashburton Public Art Gallery. Wednesday, July 10

2019 Curatorial Incubator, presentation part of Feeling Queer About Feminist Art, invitation from Allyson Michell and Deirdre Logue, York University. Wednesday, March 6.

2018 Seeing nature, practicing nature, botanical illustration workshop at Sheridan College Student Union. Tuesday, October 30.

2018 The Nylon Fly, panel discussion supporting Eco|Femin|Isms exhibition, OCAD U & Whitehouse Studios.  Wednesday, October 24.

2017 Artist tour for exhibition Onions, Life and Hotdogs on Parade, Zalucky Contemporary, Saturday, June 24th

2016 Exhibition Tour By Artist, exhibition and neighbourhood tour, Art of the Danforth Festival. Thursday, August 25.

2015 The Beauty of Close-up, artist talk for solo exhibition Chormatone, Stantec, Thursday, June 4.



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