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Nicole Collins is an artist whose practice focuses on the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on visceral materials, primarily through painting but also with installations, interventions, video, sound and multiples. Since 1994 she has shown in 10 solo exhibitions including The Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, and many group exhibitions in Toronto, New York, London, Zurich. Her work has been featured in magazines, newspapers and books including Time Out London, Canadian Art Magazine, Canadian House & Home, numerous reviews in The Globe & Mail, Roald Nasgaard's major survey Abstract Painting in Canada, Carte Blanche, Volume 2: Painting (2008), and The Donovan Collection Catalogue among many others. |
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In her work Collins exploits the dynamic metaphorical possibilities of paint to communicate the fragility and resilience of life: physical, intellectual and spiritual. Her work has explored accumulation, excavation, deconstruction through carving, scraping, peeling and melting and reconstruction. In an essay on Collins' work artist and writer Ian Carr-Harris states: "To take apart, to put together, to die and to be free- these are powerful models by which to forge one's insertion into the cycle of existence. And it is this that Nicole Collins is intent on revealing". Collins is member-at-large on the newly inaugurated association, Colour Research Canada and is an award-winning and influential educator whose courses at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCADU) regularly generate wait-lists. She lives and works in Toronto with her husband artist Michael Davidson and their daughter. |
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| Nicole Collins | ||
| Website: | www.nicolecollins.com |
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| also see: | www.ccca.ca | |
| Blog: Always Paint First | ||
| YouTube | ||
| Vimeo | ||
| Gallery Representation | ||
| Toronto: General Hardware Contemporary | ||
| Hamilton: b contemporary | ||
| Education | ||
| 2009 | Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto | |
| 1988 | University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada |
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| B.A. Honours, Fine Arts Major |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | The Reconstruction, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto | |
| 2009 | MVS Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto | |
| 2006 | stroke for stroke, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto | |
| 2004 | Dimension, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland | |
| 2003 | branch, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 2002 | sample, The Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2001 | one mark, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 2000 | Path, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 1998 | Given, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 1994 | Blessure, Gallery 788, Toronto |
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| 1994 | Marked, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto | |
| Group Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | The Apartment Show, Howard Park Institute, Toronto |
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| Align, b contemporary, Hamilton, Canada | ||
| 2010 | Taking Shape, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto |
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| Inaugural Exhibtion, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto |
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| Red Carpet, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto | ||
| Art School (dismissed), Shaw Street School, Toronto, curator Heather Nicol | ||
| Givins Shaw Public School, Toronto |
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| Project 31, OCAD Fundraising Auction, Toronto | ||
| 2009 | catalogue essay by Ian Carr-Harris |
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| start Profs, work by professors from art institutions across Canada, Studio 21, Halifax |
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| 2008 | Pulse 2: Film and Painting After the Image, | |
| curated by Barbara Sternberg, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| MVS Open Studio, University of Toronto |
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| Lightening Strikes Twice, Xpace Gallery, Toronto |
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| Monkey’s Paw Shelf Label Project, curated by Keri Reid and | ||
| Stephen Fowler, Monkey’s Paw Bookstore Toronto |
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| House Lights Left Bright, curated by Stacey Sproule,
1478 Dundas W Toronto |
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| 2007 | Hot Wax, The Rooms, St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada |
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| Ann Thinghuus und Nicole Collins, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland |
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| 2006 | Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St Vincent University | |
| Gallery, curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg |
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| Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto |
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| OCAD Drawing and Painting Endowment Collection 2006, | ||
| Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto. |
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| Collins Waldburger White: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts. |
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| you don’t wanna miss that shit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, | ||
| curated by Katherine Mulherin |
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| 2005 | Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, New York |
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| informal ideas 04:05, (please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto |
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| Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland |
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| Death in the Studio: Studio Death Snapshots, Book Project by Hannes | ||
| Priesch + Niki Lederer, book launches in Vienna, NYC and Toronto |
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| informal ideas 04-02: landscape, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| informal ideas 04-01: (warm), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland |
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| 2003 | Motherlode, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, curated by Gretchen Sankey |
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| Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto |
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| Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland |
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| 2002 | Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto |
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| 2001 | Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, | |
| Brisbane, Australia, curated by Ihor Holubizky |
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| Paintings Painted, Platform Gallery, (see Exhibition 25)
London UK |
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| Triangle Artists’ Workshop Canadian Participants Exhibition, | ||
| Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto |
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| Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Translinear, Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, Canada |
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| Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue) |
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| Translinear, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada |
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| 2000 | Translinear, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada |
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| Translinear, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada |
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| Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Rosalie Sharp Pavillion, | ||
| Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| 1999 | Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada |
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| Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & | ||
| Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Show, | ||
| Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Toronto: Under 40, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Art 1999 Chicago, Seventh Annual Exposition of International | ||
| Galleries of Contemporary Art, May 7-11, Chicago, USA |
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| Informal Ideas 99.1: (Preview ‘99), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 1998 | Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & | |
| Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| Informal Ideas 98.2, 14 Degrees of Abstraction, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| Nicole Collins, Michael Davidson, Sheila Gregory, Milly Ristvedt: | ||
| Paintings, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s NF, Canada |
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| 1997 | Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & | |
| Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| International Juried Exhibition of Encaustic Works, The Gallery | ||
| at R&F, Kingston, New York |
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| Colour in the Square, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| R&D (Research & Development), York Quay Gallery, Toronto |
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| Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
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| 1996 | GLO, Archive Inc., Toronto |
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| Juicy Fruit, Art Gallery of Durham, Canada (catalogue) |
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| 1995 | Juicy Fruit, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Canada (catalogue) |
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| Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, | ||
| Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| 1994 | Mud, 59 Adelaide Street East, Toronto (catalogue) |
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| Merging XVI, Gallery 788, Toronto |
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| 1993 | Cover Me, Site specific Store-front Installation, | |
| 488 Queen Street West, Toronto |
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| Cabinet des Curiosites, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec |
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| Look ‘93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario |
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| 1992 | Fleshcase, Installation, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada |
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| Roundup ‘92, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto |
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| Contemporary Canadian Painting, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris, France |
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| 1991 | Chambermade, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada |
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| CKOC Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, | ||
| Canada, Juror’s Award,
Roundup ‘91, Toronto |
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| 1990 | Housing: a Right, Powerplant, Toronto, Canada |
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| 1989 | University of Guelph Fine Arts Graduates 25th Anniversary | |
| Alumni Show, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada | ||
| Collections | ||
| 2011 | The Donovan Collection | |
| 2006 | The Donovan Collection | |
| 1999 | The Donovan Collection | |
| Grants, Awards, & Residencies |
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| 2007 | The Kathleen Coburn Graduate Admission Award, | |
| University of Toronto |
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| 2004 | Canada Council Travel Grant (Switzerland) |
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| 2002 | Canada Council Travel Grant (Tokyo, Japan) |
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| Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (Tokyo, Japan) |
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| 2001 | Canada Council Travel Grant (London UK) |
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| Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Fall 2000, New York City, USA | ||
| 1999 | Canada Council Travel Grant (Newfoundland) | |
| 1998 | Toronto Arts Award Protegee Program, commission by award winner Suzy Lake | |
| 1997 | Canada Council C Grant |
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| 1994 | Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant |
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| Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance |
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| 1992 | Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant | |
| Bibliography |
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| 2010 | The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s Press, Father Daniel Donovan, P | |
| ainting: Shifting Loci.06 (2006) page 76 | ||
| 2009 | Painting: Hot Wire, 2001 selected as illustration for Psychology – From Inquiry to | |
| Understanding by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Laura L. Namy, Nancy J. Woolf, | ||
| Kenneth Cramer & Rodney Schmaltz. | ||
| 2008 | Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting, Magenta Publishing for the Arts |
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| 2007 | Naasgard, Roald, Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & | |
| McIntyre/Art Gallery of Nova Scotia |
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| Jordan, Betty Ann, Artist File: Nicole Collins, | ||
| article Canadian House & Home, October |
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| Tanja Seufert, Kunst aus Kanada, Attika 2 (Swiss magazine) |
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| 2006 | Gary Michael Dault, Going Out: Exhibit A; Different Strokes, Review, | |
| The Globe & Mail, October 13, 2006 |
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| 2004 | Virginia M. Eichhorn, Rewind: Nicole Collins, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, | |
| Toronto, Review, Canadian Art Magazine, Summer 2004, Volume 21, Number 2 |
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| 2003 | Thomas Hirschmann, Parental Units, review of Motherlode, | |
| NOW magazine, September 11-17, 2003 |
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| 2002 | Ihor Holubizky, catalogue essay for sample, catalogue of exhibition | |
| at The Embassy of Canada, Tokyo |
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| 2001 | Michael Coomer, Nicole Collins & Michael Davidson at Platform, | |
| Time Out Magazine, London UK, |
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| 2000 | Gary Michael Dault, don’t look at me like that, | |
| Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 2000, Volume 17, Number 1 | ||
| (see also Fast Forward: Toronto in same issue) |
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| Gillian Mackay, Gallery Going, Nicole Collins at Wynick/Tuck, | ||
| The Globe & Mail, April 8, 2000 |
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| 1998 | Blake Gopnik, The List/The Insider, The Globe & Mail, Octboer 24, 1998 |
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| Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going: Nicole Collins at Wynick/Tuck, | ||
| The Globe & Mail, September 5, 1998 |
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| 1997 | Betty Ann Jordan, Gallery Going, Research & Development at | |
| the Harbourfront Centre, The Globe & Mail, August 9, 1997 |
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| 1996 | John Massier, catalogue essay for Juicy Fruit, exhibition catalogue |
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| 1995 | Betty Ann Jordan, Reviews: Dead Industry, Painting Disorders, | |
| Posse, MUD, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 1995 |
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| 1994 | Oliver Girling, The Big Picture, Review and cover photo, | |
| eye magazine, November 24, 1994 |
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| 1994 | Christopher Hume, Painterly Collective throws MUD in your eye, | |
| review, The Toronto Star, November 24, 1994 |
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| Ihor Holubizky, catalogue essay for MUD catalogue |
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| Oliver Girling, A quick study on the ideal studio, review of Blessure, | ||
| eye magazine, September 29, 1994 |
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| Artists’ page, Matriart- A Canadian Feminist Art Journal, July 1994 |
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| 1993 | Fleshcase, Artists’ page, Late Harvest Magazine, December 1993 |
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| 1992 | Images of Women 1992, review/listing, Xtra Magazine, February 21, | |
| Deborah Meldazy, Chambermade review, C Magazine, Spring 1992 |
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| Judith Sandiford & Ronald Weihs, Gallery Walkabout, | ||
| Workseen Artists’ Forum, No. 12, Spring 1992 |
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| Art Contemporain du Canada, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris France, | ||
| exhibition catalogue, May 1992 |
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| Diana Geddes, Canadian Art on Display at Paris Show, | ||
| The Toronto Star, May 1992 |
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| Roundup 92, Illustrated Exhibition Guide |
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| Kate Taylor, Here we go ‘round the Roundup, review, | ||
| The Globe & Mail, June 9, 1992 |
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| 1991 | Roundup 91, Illustrated Exhibition Guide, June 1991 |
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| Kate Taylor, Decorators to the poor and unknown, | ||
| review of Chambermade, The Globe & Mail, November 15, 1991 |
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| 1989 | Roundup 89, Illustrated Exhibition Guide, May 1989 | |
| Curatorial Projects | ||
| 2012 | Breaking Black, The McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton. Works from the collection. | |
| 1994 | mud, Adelaide Street East, Toronto. | |
| Teaching & Related |
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| 2010 | Guest Instructor, OCAD DRPT Thesis |
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| 2009 | Panel: Facing Down the Screen, panel discussion organized by Bogdan Luca, | |
| contributed video: melt | ||
| 2008 | Paper: Stroke for Stroke/Re:Paint, UAAC Conference, | |
| Panel: The Agony and Ecstacy of Influence or: Copycat! Copycat!, | ||
| chair Barbara Balfour, York University |
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| Paper: Re-painting Ad Reinhardt’s “Black Painting”, Image and | ||
| Imagery Conference, Brock University, Panel title: | ||
| Borrowing Redoing Creating a Pastiche |
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| Visiting Artist, Brock University Department of Fine Art Guest Lecture |
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| Paper: Surface Disruption, Intention and the evolution of Broken | ||
| Painting, Mischief and Malice: Crime in the Museum, | ||
| Symposium and on-line exhibition, Department of Museum Studies, | ||
| University of Toronto | ||
| Juror: Environs, Scarborough Arts Council Annual Juried Art Exhibition |
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| 2007 | Essay contribution to 26: Michael Davidson, Translinear Publishing |
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| Panellist: Art VS Design, organized by XSPACE, OCAD student gallery |
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| 2006 | Assistant Professor, CLTA contract position, Ontario College of Art & | |
| Design, Drawing and Painting |
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| Organizer and Panel Moderator: The Value of Art, | ||
| Toronto School of Art, Toronto |
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| Panel member: Scarborough Arts Council Panel Discussion: Art can | ||
| teach you but can Art be taught? Centennial College, Toronto |
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| Visiting Artist, Centennial College Creative Fusion Lecture Series |
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| 2005/06 I | nstructor, Toronto School of Art, Contemporary Issues, | |
| professional Studio, Encaustic Intensive Workshops |
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| Panel member: BIG TALK: Community and Conversations in Art & | ||
| Design Education Conference, OCAD, Toronto |
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| 2004 - present | Instructor, Ontario College of Art & Design, Department of Drawing | |
| and Painting, Courses: Materials & Processes; Process as Art the | ||
| Meaning of Materials; Alchemy and Art; Colour and Composition |
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| Guest Artist, Painting Department, Ontario College of Art & Design |
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| Jury Member, Mrs. W.O. Forsyth Scholarship, Ontario College of | ||
| Art & Design | ||
| Catalogue Essay: Doris McCarthy Everything which is Yes, | ||
| published by University of Toronto at Scarborough |
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| 2003-04 | Instructor, Ontario College of Art & Design Continuing Studies | |
| Program and Admissions Portfolio Clinics |
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| Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Drawing as a Contemporary Practice, | ||
| Basic Painting, Encaustic Workshop, Faculty Student Advisor |
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| 2002 | Visiting Artist, University of Guelph |
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| Visiting Artist, Art & Art History Program of University Of Toronto & | ||
| Sheridan College, Toronto |
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| Artists’ Talk at McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON (Translinear) |
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| Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts |
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| 1998-2002 | Instructor, The Toronto School of Art, Encaustic Painting |
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| 1997-2002 | Art Gallery of Ontario Artists’ with their Works program |
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| 1995 | Visiting Artist, University of Guelph, Guelph |
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| 1994 | Canadian Women’s Art in the Schools, and educational program | |
| developed and circulated nationally to secondary schools by the | ||
| Women’s Art Resource Centre | ||
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