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

Using Format