Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
Aron Hill
Aron Hill currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2000 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies. He then completed his MFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work there evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work. He has recently been focused on formalist paintings that recall aspects of minimalism and color field paintings though with references to the figure throughout. He finds conceptual company in the late Modernist paintings produced particularly in Canada. The choice of a restricted medium, acrylic ink washes on prepared raw canvas, forces restraint. The work's graphic nature relies on the sheer flatness this medium produces. Aron has exhibited internationally, occasionally lectures, and writes.
Nicole Collins
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Since the late 1980’s Toronto-based artist Nicole Collins has produced an extensive body of work that encompasses the effects and subsequent affect, of time, memory, accumulation, force and heat on visceral and ephemeral materials, especially through painting with encaustic, the application of molten pigment-infused wax. Themes of mortality, grief, commemoration, and resilience have most recently emerged in the solo exhibition Furthest Boundless at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in 2018. This engagement with the mutable and receptive nature of wax has led to investigations beyond the canvas including performative drawing, digital reproduction, installation, intervention, video, and sound. Solo exhibitions include: The Art Gallery of Ontario (2013), The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (2013) and The Embassy of Canada in Tokyo (2001) and group exhibitions in Toronto, Hamilton, St. Johns, New York, Miami, Queensland, London and Zurich. Publications include: Abstract Painting in Canada (Roald Nasgaard), the 3rd edition of A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Dennis Reid), Carte Blanche, Volume 2: Painting, and The Donovan Collection Catalogue. Collins is Associate Professor of Material and Visual Culture in Drawing & Painting at the Ontario College of Art & Design University.
Curriculum Vitae
NICOLE COLLINS
Toronto Canada
EDUCATION
2009
Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
1988
University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, B.A. Honours, Fine Arts Major
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Furthest Boundless, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Curator Mona Filip exhibition publication
One Shot, General Hardware Contemporary Art, Toronto
2014
untethered, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, essay by Julia Abraham
2013
HEAVY: Black Paintings, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Curator Ivan Jurakic
Giotto’s O, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto, Curator Georgiana Uhlyarik
will it go round in circles?, live drawing performance, First Thursday May, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Canada
perfect, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto
2012
coruscant ascending, Howard Park Institute, Toronto
2011
The Reconstruction, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto
2009
Master of Visual Studies Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto catalogue essay by Ian Carr-Harris
2006
stroke for stroke, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2004
Dimension, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland
2003
branch, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2002
sample, The Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001
one mark, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2000
Path, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1998
Given, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1994
Blessure, Gallery 788, Toronto
Marked, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Edition/4, Art Toronto 2019, release of one.16 multiplier I, limited edition digital print project in collaboration with CMS Art Projects
2018
Unlikely Impulse, with Bogdan Luca, OUR Gallery, Toronto
Imago Mundi: Great and North, OCADU OnSite Gallery, Toronto, Curator Francesca Valente, exhibition brochure
2017
IMAGO MUNDI: Great and North; Artists from Eastern and Western Canada, The Inuit and Indigenous Artists of North America, from the Collection of Luciano Benetton, Curator Francesca Valente, catalogue, Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte, Campo Santo Stefano 2945, Venice
2016
Prescient Arc, collaborative drawing with Margaux Smith for Luminato 2016 at the Hearn Generating Station, part of OCADU Prescience
Open Circle, collaborative live drawing performance, part of Draw to Perform at OCADU Symposium, curated by Ram Samocha
Pillow Talk, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Curators Matthew Ryan Smith and Niki Dracos
2015
Sointula Art Shed Open Studio, Malcolm Island, BC, May 30
Art Toronto 2015, General Hardware Contemporary Art, Booth C28
Perspectives, OCADU Great Hall, Represented Drawing & Painting Program with Student Laura Thippawong, Curator David Griffin
LACIS, OCADU Student Gallery, Toronto, Curator Claire Bartleman
OCADU Drawing & Painting Faculty Exhibition, OCADU Great Hall, Curator Natalie Waldburger
2014
The Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself, After Hours Projects, Toronto, Curators Brett Despotovich and Katherine Piro
Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design University of Toronto, Curator Julia Abraham
2012
Breaking Black, Curator, Essay, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON
ART TORONTO Selected works presented by General Hardware Contemporary Art, Booth 940, Oct 25 – Oct 28, 2012
SCOPE MIAMI ART FAIR, Booth K07 Dec 4 – Dec 9, 2012
Art Spin, final tour and exhibition, Toronto www.artspin.ca
60 Painters, Humber College, Etobicoke, Curator Scott Sawtell
Memento mori; Common Thread International, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, Curator Gareth Bate
2011
Howard Park Institute presents 6 Painters, Toronto
Align, b contemporary, Hamilton, Canada
2010
Aqua Miami Art Fair 2010, guest of BLUNT collective, Miami USA
Taking Shape, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto
Inaugural Exhibition, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto
Red Carpet, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, curator Anda Kubis
Art Spin, final tour and exhibition, Toronto www.artspin.ca
Art School (dismissed), Shaw Street School, Toronto, Curator Heather Nicol, www.artschooldismissed.com
2008
Pulse 2: Film and Painting After the Image, Curator Barbara Sternberg, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Master of Visual Studies Open Studio, University of Toronto
Lightning Strikes Twice, Xpace Gallery, Toronto
Monkey’s Paw Shelf Label Project, Curator Keri Reid and Stephen Fowler, Monkey’s Paw Bookstore Toronto
House Lights Left Bright, 1478 Dundas W Toronto Curator Stacey Sproule,
2007
Hot Wax, The Rooms, St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada
Ann Thinghuus und Nicole Collins, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland
2006
Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St Vincent University Gallery, Curators Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg
Collins Waldburger White: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts
you don’t wanna miss that shit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Curator Katherine Mulherin
2005
Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, New York
informal ideas 04:05, (please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland
2004
Death in the Studio: Studio Death Snapshots, Book Project by Hannes Priesch + Niki Lederer, book launches in Vienna, NYC and Toronto
informal ideas 04-02: landscape, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
informal ideas 04-01: (warm), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland
2003
Motherlode, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Curator Gretchen Sankey
Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland
2001
Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia, Curator Ihor Holubizky
Paintings Painted, Platform Gallery, London UK
Triangle Artists’ Workshop Canadian Participants Exhibition, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
Translinear, Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, Canada, Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue) Curators Ihor Holubizky and Michael Davidson
Translinear, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, Curators Ihor Holubizky and Michael Davidson
2000
Translinear, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, Curators Ihor Holubizky and Michael Davidson
Translinear, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada, Curators Ihor Holubizky and Michael Davidson
Triangle Artists Workshop Open Studios, World Trade Center One, New York City, New York
1999
Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada, Curators Ihor Holubizky and Michael Davidson
Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Show, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto (catalogue)
Toronto: Under 40, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art 1999 Chicago, Seventh Annual Exposition of International Galleries of Contemporary Art, May 7-11, Chicago, USA
Informal Ideas 99.1: (Preview ‘99), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1998
Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Informal Ideas 98.2, 14 Degrees of Abstraction, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Nicole Collins, Michael Davidson, Sheila Gregory, Milly Ristvedt: Paintings, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s NF, Canada
1997
International Juried Exhibition of Encaustic Works, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York
Colour in the Square, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
R&D (Research & Development), York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Curator Patrick McCauley
Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1996
GLO, Archive Inc., Toronto
Juicy Fruit, Art Gallery of Durham, Canada, Curator John Massier (catalogue)
1995
Juicy Fruit, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Canada, Curator John Massier (catalogue)
1994
Mud, 59 Adelaide Street East, Toronto (catalogue)
Merging XVI, Gallery 788, Toronto
1993
Cover Me, Site specific Store-front Installation, 488 Queen Street West, Toronto
Cabinet des Curiosites, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec
Look ‘93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario
1992
Fleshcase, Installation, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada
Roundup ‘92, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto
Contemporary Canadian Painting, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris, France
1991
Chambermade, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada
CKOC Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Juror’s Award
Roundup ‘91, Toronto
1990
Housing: a Right, Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1989
University of Guelph Fine Arts Graduates 25th Anniversary Alumni Show, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada
AUCTIONS AND FUNDRAISERS
2016
Wall to Wall, Fundraiser for Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON
Project 31, Auction Fundraiser, OCAD University, Toronto. The sale of Revelator raised funds for the Indigenous Visual Culture Program
In House, Benefit Exhibition for Paper House Studio, Artscape Young Place, Toronto curated by Emily Cook and Flora Shum
2015
Project 31, Auction Fundraiser, OCAD University, Toronto. The painting one.16.15 sold above estimate, proceeds went towards the Peter Porcal Memorial Scholarship for students in the OCADU Florence Program
2010
Project 31, juried fundraising auction Ontario College of Art & Design
2009
Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
2006
Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
OCAD Drawing and Painting Endowment Collection 2006, Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
2005
Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
2003
Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
2002
Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
2001
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
2000
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Rosalie Sharp Pavillion, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto (catalogue)
1999
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
1998
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
1997
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
1995
Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
David Dorenbaum, anti-matter
Nicole Collins: Furthest Boundless
Emese Krunák-Hajagos, Interview with Nicole Collins, ARToronto
2016
Out of the Bush Garden; Contemporary Artists from Central-Eastern Canada, published by imago mundi, The Luciano Benetton Collection, curated by Francesca Valente, essays by Luciano Benetton, Francesca Valente and Peggy Gale, Antiga Edizioni
Vanessa Zeoli, Pillow Talk, General Hardware Contemporary, review for Art Toronto, Pillow Talk / General Hardware Contemporary
Terence Dick, Pillow Talk at General Hardware Contemporary, review on Akimbo, http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1113
2014
Richard Rhodes, Nicole Collins: Gifts from Italy, Canadian Art Online, June 18, 2014 http://www.canadianart.ca/see-it/2014/06/18/nicole-collins-2/
2013
Murray Whyte, Gallery a haven for unconventional artists, The Toronto Star, November 16, 2013, article about 26 curatorial project. online: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/11/15/art_at_26_two_toronto_artists_help_make_art_around_the_hearth.html
Georgiana Uhlyarik, Giotto’s O, Exhibition Essay, Art Gallery of Ontario
Phil Irish, Nicole Collins Curates as she Creates, Review, Canadian Art Online, January 7,2013 http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/01/07/nicole-collins/
2012
Dennis Reid, A Concise History of Canadian Painting, Third Edition, Oxford University Press
Nicole Collins, Breaking Black, essay for exhibition of the same name, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton Ontario
Pete Smith, Glimpses of Renewal, Review, Canadian Art Online, January 5,2012 http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2012/01/05/nicole_collins/
2011
Mike Hansen, Interview: Nicole Collins, ArtSync TV, December 2011
http://www.artsync.ca/interview-nicole-collins/
Gary Michael Dault, Lunar Caustic, essay http://www.nicolecollins.com/press_pages/lunar_caustic_gary_michael_dault.html
2010
The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s Press, Father Daniel Donovan, Painting: 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
2007
Naasgard, Roald, Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre/Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Jordan, Betty Ann, Artist File: Nicole Collins, article Canadian House & Home, October
Tanja Seufert, Kunst aus Kanada, Attika 2 (Swiss magazine)
2006
Gary Michael Dault, Going Out: Exhibit A; Different Strokes, Review, The Globe & Mail, October 13, 2006
2004
Virginia M. Eichhorn, Rewind: Nicole Collins Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Review, Canadian Art Magazine, Summer 2004, Volume 21, Number 2
Nicole Collins, A Painter on the Threshold, Catalogue Essay: Doris McCarthy: Everything which is Yes, published by University of Toronto at Scarborough
2003
Thomas Hirschmann, Parental Units, review of Motherlode, NOW magazine, September 11-17, 2003
2002
Ihor Holubizky, catalogue essay for sample, catalogue of exhibition at The Embassy of Canada, Tokyo
2001
Michael Coomer, Nicole Collins & Michael Davidson at Platform, Time Out Magazine, London UK,
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)
Gillian Mackay, Gallery Going, Nicole Collins at Wynick/Tuck, The Globe & Mail, April 8, 2000
1998
Blake Gopnik, The List/The Insider, The Globe & Mail, Octboer 24, 1998
Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going: Nicole Collins at Wynick/Tuck, The Globe & Mail, September 5, 1998
1997
Betty Ann Jordan, Gallery Going, Research & Development at the Harbourfront Centre, The Globe & Mail, August 9, 1997
1996
John Massier, catalogue essay for Juicy Fruit, exhibition catalogue
1995
Betty Ann Jordan, Reviews: Dead Industry, Painting Disorders, Posse, MUD, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 1995
1994
Oliver Girling, The Big Picture, Review and cover photo, eye magazine, November 24, 1994
1994
Christopher Hume, Painterly Collective throws MUD in your eye, review, The Toronto Star, November 24, 1994
Ihor Holubizky, catalogue essay for MUD catalogue
Oliver Girling, A quick study on the ideal studio, review of Blessure, eye magazine, September 29, 1994
Artists’ page, Matriart- A Canadian Feminist Art Journal, July 1994
1993
Fleshcase, Artists’ page, Late Harvest Magazine, December 1993
1992
Images of Women, review/listing, Xtra Magazine, February 21, 1992
Deborah Meldazy, Chambermade review, C Magazine, Spring 1992
Judith Sandiford & Ronald Weihs, Gallery Walkabout, Workseen Artists’ Forum, No. 12, Spring 1992
Art Contemporain du Canada, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris France, exhibition catalogue, May 1992
Diana Geddes, Canadian Art on Display at Paris Show, The Toronto Star, May 1992
Roundup 92, Illustrated Exhibition Guide
Kate Taylor, Here we go ‘round the Roundup, review, The Globe & Mail, June 9, 1992
1991
Roundup 91, Illustrated Exhibition Guide, June 1991
Kate Taylor, Decorators to the poor and unknown, review of Chambermade, The Globe & Mail, November 15, 1991
1989
Roundup 89, Illustrated Exhibition Guide, May 1989
GRANTS & AWARDS
2007
The Kathleen Coburn Graduate Admission Award, University of Toronto
2004
Canada Council Travel Grant (Switzerland)
2002
Canada Council Travel Grant (Tokyo, Japan)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (Tokyo, Japan)
2001
Canada Council Travel Grant (London UK)
2000
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
1994
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
1992
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant
COLLECTIONS
The Donovan Collection
Tom Thomson Gallery
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
DFAIT Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada, Ottawa
Private Collections in Canada, US, UK, France, Switzerland and Australia
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2013-2017
26 “a domestic space for art” was a collaboration between Nicole Collins and Michael Davidson, comprised of art exhibitions/events taking place in their home at 26 Mackenzie Crescent Toronto. Featuring local and international Artists, 26 was open to the Public and created a space for discussion through lectures, Artists Talks and casual conversation.
A short documentary on the project by Alec McKay: https://vimeo.com/83354911
2012
Breaking Black, Curator, Essay, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON, Selections from the Collection
2006
Collins, White, Waldurger: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, ON
1994
MUD, Collective Painting exhibition of 20 artists, catalogue with essays by Ihor Holubizky and Anda Kubis
PUBLIC LECTURES, VISITING ARTIST, RESIDENCIES
2020
Professional Art Practice: Integrity and Sustainability in the Studio and Beyond, Presentation/Seminar for The Artists’ Network, Online
2018
Boundless Questions, Panel Discussion, with Artists Tim Whiten and Erika DeFreitas, moderated by David Dorenbaum, Koffler Gallery, Toronto recording here
The Sacred Harp, Talk and Demonstration with the Toronto Sacred Harp Singers, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Engaging the Open Circle, Performance/Presentation for University Art Association of Canada Conference 2018, University of Waterloo, Moderators Prof Jessica Wyman, OCADU and Professor Dan Adler, York University
2017
Being There, Artist talk with Erin Loree, Artist Project 2017, Better Living Centre, Toronto
Furthest Boundless, Presentation for University Art Association of Canada Conference 2017, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, Moderator Prof Risa Horowitz, Open Studio Session A
2016
Micro-residency, Net Result, Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton, curated
by Andrew McPhail and Stephen Altena; a one-day on-site pop-up studio
Panellist, Instrument of Knowledge, Painting as Philosophy, Koffler
Centre for the Arts, Toronto http://kofflerarts.org/public-programsevents/
2016/01/27/instrument-of-knowledge-painting-as-philosophy/
Artist Talk, Canterbury Place Retirement Home, North York, curated by Melanie Santarossa
2015
Artist Talk, Georgian College, Barrie
The Sointula Art Shed Studio Residency, Malcolm Island, British Columbia, Canada, May 2015, travel partly supported by the Office of the VPA, OCAD University, Toronto
Artist in Residence Talk and Workshop: Wax Impressions of Sointula
2014
In Conversation public talk with Richard Rhodes, Editor, Canadian Art Magazine, in untethered, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto
Artist Talk, SPEAKEASY lecture series organized by Adam Brown, 1 Wiltshire Studios, Toronto
Public Lecture Making Reveals Meaning: Decay, Endurance and Transformation in Material Visual Practice Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto
2013
External Guest Critiques, MFA Program, University of Guelph, Guelph
Juror, Greater Toronto Airport Authority Juried Exhibition
External Adjudicator MFA Program, Jessica Massard, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
Public Lecture, University of Waterloo and UWAG as part of HEAVY: Black Paintings, Waterloo
Interview with Georgiana Uhlyarik for the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto (program series included Suzy Lake and Margaret Priest in separate interviews)
Public Lecture Curator’s Circle, Giotto’s O Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2012
Artist/Curator Talk, Breaking Black, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON November 22
2011
Panel: Discussion on Art Fairs, OCADU Drawing and Painting Thesis featuring Luke Painter, Natalie Waldburger (faculty) Alex McLeod and Amanda Clyne (alumni)
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 Ecstasy of Influence or: Copycat! Copycat!, chair Barbara Balfour, York University
Paper: Re-painting Ad Reinhardt’s “Black Painting”, Image and Imagery
Conference, Brock University, Panel title: Borrowing Redoing Creating a Pastiche
Visiting Artist, Brock University Department of Fine Art Guest Lecture
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
2007
Essay contribution to 26: Michael Davidson, Translinear Publishing
2006
Panellist: Art VS Design, organized by XSPACE, OCAD student gallery
2005
Organizer and Panel Moderator: The Value of Art, Toronto School of Art, Toronto
Panel member: Scarborough Arts Council Panel Discussion: Art can teach you but can Art be taught? Centennial College, Toronto
Visiting Artist, Centennial College Creative Fusion Lecture Series
2005/06
Panel member: BIG TALK: Community and Conversations in Art & Design Education Conference, OCAD, Toronto
2004
Guest Artist, Drawing and Painting Program, Ontario College of Art & Design
Jury Member, Mrs. W.O. Forsyth Scholarship, Ontario College of Art & Design
2002
Visiting Artist, University of Guelph
2000
Visiting Artist, Art & Art History Program of University Of Toronto & Sheridan College, Toronto
Artists’ Talk at McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON (Translinear)
1998
Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts
1997-2002
Art Gallery of Ontario Artists’ with their Works program
1995
Visiting Artist, University of Guelph, Guelph
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
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
2020
Presentation: everyone is a teacher; valuing student knowledge and expertise,
in collaboration with Maddie Rose, Artist and DRPT Thesis student. OCADU Teaching Expo
2019
The Role of the “Artist Interview” in Questions of Preservation, co-presentation with Dr. Ruth Del Fresno Guillem and Professor Johanna Householder, at UAAC 2019, Quebec City
Presentation: Sharing Strategies for Collaborative Teaching, with Bogdan Luca, OCADU Teaching Expo
2018
Awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Material and Visual Culture, Ontario College of Art & Design University
Presentation: Engaging the Open Circle: Artist, Student, Teacher and Collaborator: as part of Crossing the Line: Drawing across Borders and Discourses Co-chaired by Professor Dan Adler, York University and Jessica Wyman, OCADU University at UAAC 2018, University of Waterloo
2017
Presentation: Furthest Boundless, part of Open Session moderated by Professor Risa Horowitz, University of Regina at UAAC 2017, Banff Centre for the Arts
2015
Presentation, Learning Through “Failed Painting”, OCADU Teaching Expo, organized by the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre
2014
Assistant Professor, Material and Visual Culture, Tenure-Track Position, Ontario College of Art & Design University
Awarded OCADU Inspired Teaching Award
2004-2013
Instructor/Assistant Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design, Drawing and Painting Program, Courses: Painting Studio 2nd and 3rd year, Materials & Processes; Process as Art the Meaning of Materials; Alchemy and Art; Colour and Composition including English for Art & Design Summer Intensive for International Students, Guest Instructor, OCAD DRPT Thesis
2013
Assistant Professor /Faculty Coordinator, Florence Program, Florence Italy January-April
2011
Awarded OCADU Non-Tenured Faculty Teaching Award
2003-04
Instructor, Ontario College of Art & Design Continuing Studies Program and Admissions Portfolio Clinics
1998- 2006
Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Courses: Contemporary Issues, Professional Studio, Encaustic Intensive Workshops, Drawing as a Contemporary Practice, Basic Painting, Encaustic Workshop, Faculty Student Advisor