Curriculum Vitae

Awards:

2017                           Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Artist’s Grant

2014                           First Prize, John B. Aird Gallery, Contemporary Drawing Exhibition

Group Exhibitions:

03/20 Drawing Unlimited, Propeller Gallery, Unsettling, Residential Schools, drawing.

02/20 AKIN open studio at MOCA, Unsettling; drawing series.

01/20 Salon 14, Propeller Gallery, #Hilma, Me Too; “When you’re a star…”, drawing.

10/18 Window Box Gallery, Location, location, location: an Urban Landscape, installation.

09/17                          Visual Arts Clarington, Body/Burden, installation; Coming of Age, - woman collaboration,

06/14                          Erring on the Mount, Peterborough, Paths of Righteousness, drawing installation.

02/14                          First Prize, John B. Aird Gallery, Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Frack drawings.

06/11                          Fotoartcollective, on-line gallery, SkyFold, digital images.

06/11                          Propeller Gallery, juried exhibition “They’re All Hybrids”, Nexia, drawings. 

09/09                          Artspace, Tread Softly (a.k.a They said she wouldn’t make it in the big city), one-minute video co-produced with Ramune Luminaire.

05/08                          Contact, juried exhibition of digital and film-based work, two photographs Ad Infinitum from Lint body of work.

05/07                          The Constructed Image, juried exhibition of digital and film-based work, three photographs from Fold body of work.

06/06 - 09/06              Back Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan curated by Elizabeth Matheson, three of drawings from Corpo body of work.

05/06 – 07/06             Triple X, Juried Visual Arts Ontario Anniversary Travelling Exhibition, three of drawings from Corpo body of work.

10/05                           OMy, Untitled Artist’s Proof; giclee print, acrylic and collage.

03/05                           TSA Gallery, Sock it to me; mixed media wall sculptures.

04/04                           Independent Studio Program, TSA, paper works and drawings.

04/04 – 05/04             Sherway Gardens, vitrines, Twist Ties; paper works.

03/03 – 06/03             Free Times Café, Toronto; Sculptural works and prints.

03/03                           Botanical Artists Society, juried show for Canada Blooms, Toronto.

01, 02, 03                    Group Student Exhibitions, Toronto School of Art, Toronto.

Solo Exhibitions:

08/15                           Rebecca Gallery, Paths of Righteousness, mixed media on paper.

08/14                           Rebecca Gallery, Surface Tension, encaustic on board;

08/13                           Rebecca Gallery, (de)Compose, encaustic on board

08/12                           Rebecca Gallery, (de)Compose, encaustic on board

04/12                           ASpace Gallery, vitrines, (de)Compose, encaustic on board & ceramic object

05/11                           Moes Ossington vitrine, (de)Compose, encaustic on board & beaver sticks

10-12/09                      Queen Mother Café, SkyFold, oil paintings on board.

06/09                           Rebecca Gallery, SkyFold, oil paintings on board.

01-03/08                      Art Gallery of Peterborough, Corpo, stairwell installation including drawings on paper, projections, and paper works.

07/06                           Rebecca Gallery, Rage Against the Machine, drawings on mylar and paper.

02/04                           TSA Gallery, Twist Ties; paper works.

02/03                           TSA Gallery, Toronto; Nothing at the Centre; works on paper, foam core, prints, sculpture.

12/02-03/03                Organic Metal Gallery,  Toronto; Sculptural works from selected series.

02/02                           Rebecca Gallery, Toronto; obsessionrepressionexpressiondepression.

10/99                           Private, Toronto; Strands.

Studio Tours:

06, 07, 08, 09              Kawartha Studio Tour, juried by the Art Gallery of Peterborough, studio location 452 Lasswade Road, North Kawartha, ON.

06, 07, 08, 09              Apsley studio tour.

10/03                           Bathurst Annex Studio Tour, drawings and prints.

Catalogues:                 Coming of Age, Essayist Pam Patterson, Visual Arts Clarington, ON.        

                                    Back Talk, Curator Elizabeth Matheson, Dunlop Art Gallery, SK.

Juror:

06/2016                       One Earth, One Chance: Climate Change Exhibition, Toronto, ON.

09/2008                       Junction Arts Festival Annual Exhibition, Toronto, ON.

03/2007                       Be(longing), Scarborough Arts Council Annual Show, Toronto, ON.

Curator:

03/05                          TSA Gallery, Sock it to me; a collaborative exhibition.       

Other:

2017                           Film Editor, The Gender Lady, The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen, feature length film.

2015                           Film Editor, Finn with an Oyster: the story behind Toronto’s City Hall, feature length film.

11/08 –                      Member of Cantala, women’s choir; Board member 2016 – present.

09/05 - 07                  President, Toronto School of Art.  Member of board since 2000, also 2012.

10/06 – 07                 Board member, A Space Gallery, an artist-run centre, Toronto, ON

Art Studies:

03 – 04                      Independent Studio Program, Toronto School of Art

00 – 03                     Diploma Program, Toronto School of Art

99 – 06                      Susan Low-Beer Studio, weekend intensive courses, clay sculpture.

- 99                            A variety of courses from Three Schools, Arts’ Sake, Gallery of Ontario, Sir George Williams University.

88 -                             Environmental and community activist, consultant, mother of three, Co-chair of Auto-Free Cities conference, Chair Better Transportation Committee, executive of Parent-Teacher Associations, member of Environmentalists Plan Transportation, executive of Rail Ways to the Future and Palmerston Area Residents Association. Interim Executive Director of Working Women Community Centre, Willow Breast Cancer Resource Centre; consultant to Willow on diversity.  Member of student council and board of Directors, Toronto School of Art.  Secretary 2000 – 03/; 2011, President (2003-2008), Board member Sierra Club Canada Foundation 2014-present; film editor, Finn with an Oyster: The Story Behind Toronto’s New City Hall, 2015.