Bio
I am an artist and educator based in Tkaronto. My site-responsive work examines our deep relations with colonial structures and infrastructures through a careful attention to the ground, and the different forms of living and dying within it.
For over eight years, I have worked with soil-derived materials to reflect on the technologies of containment found in the places where I live and work: looking at mines, bodies, nests, vessels, institutions, and land. I hold a Master of Visual Studies from University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University. I am currently the Research Associate for the Finding Flowers Project, led by Lisa Myers and Sheila Colla PhD and based at York University. My work has been presented in national and international galleries, public spaces and informal cultural venues.
Grants & Awards
- 2023 TAC Visual Artists Creation
- 2022 TFVA Artist Prize Finalist
- 2020 TAC Visual Arts Project Grant
- 2020 OAC Visual Arts Creation Project
- 2017 OAC Visual Arts Creation Projects
- 2017 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
- 2017 RBC Newcomer Mentorship Award
- 2016 Walnut Studios Career Launcher
- 2016 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
- 2016 Sur Gallery Mentorship Program
- 2015 TELUS Newcomer Artist Award [Finalist]
- 2015 RBC Access Fund
- 2015 Takao Tanabe scholarship
- 2012 Jury Price in 31 Salón Estímulo de Cerámica, Buenos Aires
Press, Publications & Media
2022 Zoë Heyn-Jones, Cooked Earth: Ambivalence in Terracotta, CMagazine
2022 Terrence Dick, Akimbo Review: Toronto Biennial of Art 2022, Akimbo
2022 Mickal Aranha, Why this artist made an 'open-pit gold mine' fragrance, CBC Arts
2020 Rea McNamara, The Politics of Extraction, Studio Magazine, Issue 15.
2019 Lauren Fournier, University of Toronto MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition, Exhibition Brochure, It's Only Invisible When It Works.
2019 Mary Callahan Baumstark, At The Border, Studio Magazine.
2018 Society for the Distribution of Useful Knowledge, Commuting, Issue 2.
2018 The Fighters, Ep. 8, Posbl. Media
2018 Jillian Morgan, This art series is a post-capitalist fantasy, THIS Magazine.
2017 Featured in This Art Works, by MadeleineCo, CBC.
2017 Work featured in NUT Publication, MAWGallery, NYC
2017 Work featured in Accordion, Boston
2017 Interview with Marivel Taruc for CBC OurToronto
2017 Interview with Parul Pandya for Neighbourhood Arts Network
2017 Interview with Alexia Bréard-Anderson for Lexiquette
2016 Article in Creating Momentum, publication by Impact Collective & OCAD U Student Press
2016 Interview with Karina Iskandarsjah for SITESPECIFIC Blog
Featured in The Fighters by Posibl. Media, CBC Exhibitionists with Amanda Parris, and ArtWorks! by MadeleineCo.
Exhibitions
2024 GUT_BRAIN: Destructive Desiresand Other Destinies of Excess, curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz andChristine Shaw, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga
2024 How can I know you?, curated bySuzanne Morrisette, Art Gallery of Burlington
2023 Shoaling, curated by LillianO’Brien Davis, commissioned work in collaboration with Reza Nik for NuitBlanche Etobicoke, Humber Lakeshore Campus.
2023 Persisting Multiplicities, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Instructional Centre Vitrines, Toronto
2022 True Currency, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa [06.11 - 11.5]
2022 Spoil, Artcite Inc, Windsor [05.6 - 06.18]
2022 What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, Toronto Biennial of Art, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga
2021 Of Several Depths, The Plumb, Toronto
2020 what they hold within, with Katheryn Wabegijig, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton
2020 Grounding, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph
2019 It's Only Invisible When it Works, University of Toronto Art Museum, UofT MVS Graduate Show, Toronto
2018 Museo del Neoextractivismo, La Tribu, Buenos Aires
2018 De Pozos, Fantasmas y Regalos Malditos, Museo del Hambre, Buenos Aires
2018 Stalking the Blue Eyed Scallop, Little Sister Gallery, Toronto
2018 For Us, By Us, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2017 Ragged Along, Idea Exchange, PrestonGallery, Cambridge
2017 Mestizaje, The Theatre Centre, Toronto
2017 This Art Works! The Series, CBC Television, Canada
2017 Nut, MAW Gallery, New York City
2017 This is the Artist Objective, Blank Canvas, Toronto
2017 There is Bread and Salt Between Us, Open Space Gallery, Toronto
2017 Consumed, OCAD U Graduate Gallery, Toronto
2016 Exist / Resist, Studio 223A, Pendulum Project, Toronto
2016 Traces, Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone, Toronto
2016 Out of Place, Xpace, Toronto
2016 Carnavalismo, Sur Gallery, Toronto
2016 Mestizaje, Media Billboard at Yonge & Dundas, Toronto
2016 Interstices, Sur Gallery, Toronto
2016 Art Works!, Madeleine Co., Digital Series
2016 Grad Juried Exhibition, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2016 IntraAction, Xpace, Toronto
2016 Video Fever, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
2015 We Wish We Caught This Rabbit For You, 26, Toronto
2015 FUGUE, Artscape Youngplace, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2015 re:GENERATION, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2012 Salón Estímulo de Cerámica, at Escuela Municipal Emilio Villafañe, Buenos Aires