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b. Toronto, Ontario Canada
SOLO
2015 | De jávù Reconstructing the Perception, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora
2014 | ‘The Creation of Visual Syntax’ Curated by Sarah Elizabeth Leonard, The Front Room Gallery, Barrie, ON.
2014 | ‘Reconstructing Reality’ Curated by Ewa Chwojko, Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery, Sutton Ontario Canada
— Supported by The City of Barrie, Department of Culture (Individual Artist Grant)
2010 | ‘Sensory Abstractions’ Curated by Luba Huzan, Coldwater Gallery, Coldwater ON, Canada
2009 |‘Dinner Conversation’. Georgian Dining Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008 |‘EMERGING’, BAC Gallery, Barrie Ontario, Canada
Two Person
2014 |‘Drawing? Painting? Questioning the traditional with Mary Cellucci, Double Door Gallery, Anten Mills, Ontario
2012 |‘Same and Different’ with Mary Cellucci, Le Studio Gallery, Curator Luci Dilkus, Lafontaine, Ontario Canada
— Awarded Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010 |‘Reflections’ The Reflections Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Three Person
2014 |‘evolution’ alongside Floyd Elzinga and David Bruce Johnson: The Bartlett Gallery, Alton, Ontario, Canada
Four Person
2014 |‘Friends in Art, Jennie Clarke, Mary Celluci, Jeanette Luchese, Karen Wild, Art Unique, Innisfil, Ontario
2012 |‘transfiguration’ The Bartlett Gallery, Alton, ON, Canada Aaron Rose, Janice Taylor, Greg Locke, Jeanette Luchese
2011 | Diversity in Art’ Group Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 | ‘Souvenirs’ Double Doors Studio Gallery, Anten Mills, Ontario
2015 | ‘HUMAN RIGHTS? LA CASA DELLA PACE’, Fondacione Opera Campana-Dei-Caduti, Rovereto Italy
2015 | ‘I Colori dell' Arte’ International Review of Visual Art Contemporary, Palace of the Genoese, Salerno, Italy
2015 | ‘0029 survey of Classwar Karaoke’ (sound art) (UK) published curated/founder Anthony Donovan
2015 | ‘eye to eye’ Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, Ontario.
2015 | MacLaren Art Centre ‘Benefactor Art Exhibit’, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario
2015 | ‘Drawing 2015’ John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2014 | Getting to Zero, World AIDS Day, The Front Room Gallery, Barrie Ontario
2014 | stimulus response, Gallery De Goede, 20 Wildmer Street, Toronto
2014 | ‘Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art (Centre) Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2014 | Abstract Journey, Art World Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario. (Five person exhibition)
2014 | HUMAN RIGHTS?'#MEMENTO – FROM WAR TO PEACE.
— Curator: Roberto Ronca, Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti Rovereto, Trento, Italy
2014 | Watershed, Double Doors Studio Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2014 | MacLaren Art Centre ‘Benefactor Art Exhibit’, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2014 | ‘Drawing 2014’ John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto (Jurors: Ed Pien and Dale Barrett (curator)
2014 | 0025 survey of Classwar Karaoke’ (UK) published on-line curated/founder Anthony Donovan
2014Int. Exhibition of the Art of Peace and Visual Contemporary GREAT VISUAL ART'S GOLDEN EAGLE TROPHY 2014
— Archives of Contemporary Architecture, Salerno, Italy - Awarded ‘Trophy of Honour’ Curated by Bruno di Cerbo.
2013 - 14 | ‘Human Rights? 2013" - Migrantes curated by Roberto Ronca, Fondazione
— Opera Campana, Rovereto, Trento Italy
2013 | ‘Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art (Centre) Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2013 | ‘0023 survey of Classwar Karaoke’ (UK) published on line curated/founder Anthony Donovan
2013 | "Human Rights? 2013" curated by Roberto Ronca Ex Convento dei Francescani Neri in Specchia,Lecce (Italia)
2013 | "kaleidoscope - The Artist's Choice" Gallery 21, Tottenham, Ontario
2013 | ‘Run Off’ Quest Art Gallery, Midland, Ontario
2013 | ‘0021 survey of Classwar Karaoke’ (UK) published on line curated/founder Anthony Donovan
2013 | MacLaren Art Centre Benefactor Art Exhibit, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2013 | ‘theEAGLquadriART 2013, EAGL Gallery, Berlin
2013 | ‘Blackwater Art’ White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2013 | January 2013 Group Exhibition, The Bartlett Gallery, Alton, Ontario, Canada
2013 | Creemore Centric VI’ Mad and Noisey Gallery, Creemore, Ontario
2012/13 |‘Mini’ An exhibition of small works, Curated by Suzanne Santin, Marlow Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2012/13 | Rassegna Spettacolo di Arti Visive “ … I colori dell’Arte” Monumental Complex of Santa Sofia for the Arts
— Contemporary, Salerno, Italy Organized by Bruno di Cerbo - Pres.te Association history cultural "THE CASTLE"
2012 |‘Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art (Centre) Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2012 | ‘Water Effects’ Barrie City Hall Rotunda Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2012 | 0019 survey of Classwar Karaoke’ (UK) published on-line curated/founder Anthony Donovan
2012 | ‘Parallax Art Fair New York’ invited by art historian Dr. Chris Barlow (curator) 82 Mercer, New York
2012 | ‘Human Rights? 2012’ Curated by Roberto Ronco - Revorta ITALY (October)
2012 | Upstairs Gallery’ Claustro, Midland Ontario
2012 | ‘Serendipity’ The Bartlett Gallery, Alton, Ontario, Canada
2012 | ‘Waterline~Timeline’ - Orillia Museum of Art History, Orillia, Ontario
2012 | ‘Human Rights? 2012’ Curated by Roberto Ronco - CASTLE ACAYA, Acaya LECCE ITALY (April)
2012 | MacLaren Art Centre Benefactor Art Exhibit, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2012 | ‘The Space DIY and Collective’ Inaugural Exhibition , Barrie, Ontario
2011 |‘Wicked Winter Wonderland’, Alternative Art and Music’, Barrie, Ontario
2011 |‘Group Exhibition’ The Gibson Gallery, Alliston, Ontario
2011 |‘An Alternative Affair’ The Front Room Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2011 |‘Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art (Centre) Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2011 | Trees for Life’, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 |‘TRINITY’ Le Studio Gallery, Curator Luci Dilkus, Le Fontaine, Ontario, Canada
2011 |’Red and the Wolf” Le Studio Gallery, Curator Luci Dilkus, La Fontaine, Ontario Canada
2011 |‘Ripples’ Think Water, Double Doors Gallery, Anten Mills, Ontario, Canada
2011 |‘The Ripple Effect’: A Watershed Art Project, Kathleen Gormely McKay Art Gallery, Unionville, ON Canada
2011 | Gallery Moos‘Works on Paper - Group Exhibition’, Curated by Ruper Young, Gallery ART 11, Montreal, ON
2011 | ’MacLaren Art Centre Benefactor Art Exhibit”, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2010 | Gallery Moos ‘Season’s Showcase’ (Toronto), Burro’s Building, Toronto, Ontario
2010 | OCADU, Whodunit?’ Art Auction, Toronto, Ontario
2010 | ‘Who done it? Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2010 | ‘A Group Exhibition of Women Artists’ presented by Gallery Moos, The Jane Mallett Theater Gallery, Toronto
2010 | ‘Believe to Achieve’ Artworld of Sherway 2nd Annual Spider Jones Fine Art Auction, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010 | ‘International Creations’ Ukraine to Canada, Curator Linda Dimitroff, Graffia Gallery, Spring Lake, MI, U.S.A.
2010 | ‘Scream Inc’, Curator: Leo Madrid Hotel des arts, San Francisco, California, United States
2010 | ‘Expressions in the Abstract’, Curated Paul Cadieux, The Canopy, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
2010 | ‘MacLaren Art Centre Benefactor Art Exhibit’, The Carnegie Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2010 |‘ Symposium of Printmaking’, Graffia Gallery - Curator Linda Dimitroff, Spring Lake Michigan, United States
2009 | ‘Small Worlds: A Group Exhibition’ Joan Ferneyhough Gallery North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘Monsaic’, Labspace Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘OCAD Whodunit?’ Art Auction, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘Who done it? Off the Hook Art Auction’ MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | Italy the Artists’ Muse’ - Curator Bruno Capolongo Gallery Hittite, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 |‘Italy the Artists’ Muse’ - Curator Bruno Capolongo, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2009 |‘A Group exhibition’, Gallery on Queen, Cookstown, Ontario, Canada
2009 |‘Print Exchange’, Group exhibition, Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland
2009 | ‘The Lonely Goat’, Awkward Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘100 Prints’, Open Studio, The Palais Royale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 |‘SDVA Scholarship Exhibition, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘Diamond Jubilee’, Barrie City Hall Rotunda, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | Benefactor Art Exhibition’, MacLaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | 21st Century Abstraction’: A Group Exhibition, Ferneyhough Gallery North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2009 | The Eleventh Hour’ Campus Gallery, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘The Eleventh Hour’, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, Canada
2009 | ‘Starting Point’ Gibson Centre Arts & Culture centre, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
2008 | ‘Who Dun It?’ Art Auction, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2008 | Who done it? Off the Hook’ Art Auction MacLaren Art Gallery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008 | Double Door Gallery, Anten Mills, Ontario, Canada
2008 | SDVA Scholarship Exhibition, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008 | ‘The Black Tie Event’ MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008 | ‘Equinox’, Barrie City Hall Rotunda, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008 | ’S.S.A.C. & Mill Pond's Emerging Artist Exhibition”, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
PUBLIC ART Installations
2010- 2012“Blue Water international Sculpture Exhibit”, Curator John Sauve, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
2010- 2012“Blue Water International Sculpture Exhibit”, Curator John Sauve, Port Huron, Michigan, United States
WRITING
2015‘Gone Once’ pg. 076 ‘Abstract|Ext - A first approximation to abstract literature, by David Quiles Guilló
Catalogues | Book Covers
2013#Migrantes - Human Rights? 2013’ curated by Roberto Ronca - Exhibition catalog - print
2013EAGL quadriART 2013 - Berlin - page 31 - Exhibition catalog - print
2013HO-OH - Silvia Calzolari - 2013 Book of Poetry (cover) ‘The Hidden’ inspired poem [page 15]
Stampato in Italia presso Cromografica Roma S.r.L. Roma, per Gruppo Editoriale L’Expresso S.pa
2013Lust - The Seven Sins - ‘The Effects of Lust’ Spacio Tempo Publication - curator Roberto Ronca
2013 HUMAN RIGHTS - Exhibition Catolague - digital pdf
2012Glimpses of Cookstown (cover design), Innisfil Historical Society
Collections
2014Fondazione Opera Campana Dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy
2013 Campania ‘IL Castello”, Bruno di Cerbo, Salerno, Italy
2013Al Comune di Specchia, Italy
2013Spacio Tempo Arte, Roberto Ronca and Debora Salardi, Verona, Italy
In private collections: Canada, United States, Germany and Italy.
Articles | Publications
2014 ] Good Life Magazine - Summer 2014 - Featured pg. 48
EDUCATION
2009 to ? - BFA Completion Thompson Rivers University, BC (two classed to go)
— Articulation Agreement with Georgian College Barrie, Ontario (Delay due to car accident/health issues)
2008 Advance Fine Art, School of Design and Visual Art, Georgian College, Ontario - Honours
1976 Sheridan College School of Design, Ontario, Canada - Honours
AWARDS and Scholarships
2015 Kandinsky Award for Creativity, I Colori dell' Arte, Salerno, Italy.
2015Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2015 ARTslant - 2nd. 2015 Showcase Winner - Category Drawing
2014 ArtROM - WOMEN IN THE ARTS Edition 4 (Top Ten - Italy)
2014ARTslant - 6th. 2014 Showcase Winner - Category Drawing
2014ARTslant - 5th. 2014 Showcase Winner - Category Drawing
2014ARTslant - 4th. 2014 Showcase Winner - Category Drawing
2014ARTslant - 3rd. 2014 Showcase Winner - Category Drawing
2014 The Great Visual Art’s GOLDEN EAGLE Trophy, Award 2014, Salerno, Italy
2014Curry’s Art Award (HM) ‘Drawing 2014’ John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario - Jury Ed Pein and Dale Barret.
2013 Award for Creativity, Salerno, Italy Spettacolo di Arti Visive :’ … I colori dell’Arte’
2013 City of Barrie Art and Culture Artist Grant, Barrie, Ontario Canada
2012Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Grant
2009Barrie Art Club Scholarship Award, SDVA Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2009Fine Arts "Excellence in Studio Award, SDVA Georgian College Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008Fine Arts "Excellence in Studio" Awards, SDVA Georgian College Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2008Jurors’ Choice Award, S.S.A.C. Emerging Artists (Mill Pond Gallery), Alliston, Ontario, Canada
PROJECTS
2012 - 2010 ARTIST AFLOAT: Simcoe Watershed Art Project - Adhoc art group
A visual arts project, with an environmental theme, created to involve the regional arts communities, within the Lake Simcoe watershed, in the expression and documentation of the cultural diversity, beauty and fragility of Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching. Steering Committee Jennie Clark (Founder), Karen Wild, Carol Deimlin and Jeanette Luchese.
http://www.simcoewatershedartproject.blogspot.com/
SUPPLEMENTAL WORK SHOPS
2009 | Ontario Art Council – Artists in the Classroom
2008 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Tim Lauren
2008/04 | Instruction in working with glass, Huronia Art Glass, Barrie, Ontario
2007 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Tim Lauren
2005 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Stu Oxley
1994/93 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Ceramics, Derek Martin
1982 | Oil Painting with W.W. Gelder, Streetsville, Ontario
1980 | Portrait Painting with Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, Toronto, Ontario
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
— COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2015- 2011 | Celebrate Lake Simcoe, - Committee Member Innisfil Ontario
2012 - 2011 | Innisfil Economic and Development Advisory Committee - Arts, Culture and Heritage Rep IACHC Chair
2013 - 2012 | Director Community Engagement - Innisfil Arts, Culture and Heritage Council
2012 - 2011 | Chair - Innisfil Arts, Culture and Heritage Council
2012 - 2011 | Chair/Steering Committee for the Development of the Innisfil Arts, Culture, and Heritage Council
2012- 2009 | Lake Simcoe Watershed Art Project Artists Afloat- Honourary Member, Steering Committee
2012 - 2008 | Benefactor Art Program, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
2009 - 2007 | Management Committee, Zephyr Art Gallery, Orillia, Ontario
2007 - 2006 | Barrie Art Club – Executive Committee, Newsletter Publication, Barrie Ontario
— PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 | Adopt a Class - Art Program - St. John Pauls Elementary School - A journey in abstraction - drawing to sculpture.
2015| Artist Talk - The Aurora Cultural Centre 2014 | Artist Talk - The Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, Ontario
2014 | Artist Talk - The Front Room Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2014 | Art Talk/Demo - Abstraction - Art World Fine Art, Toronto
2014 | Art Talk/Demo - ‘Sensing Abstraction’ Barrie Art Club, Barrie
2014 | Art Instruction/Facilitator - Workshop - ‘Sensing Abstraction” Simoce County Palette Club
2013 | Art Instruction/Facilitator - Workshop - “Creating differently” Simoce County Palette Club
2012 | Community Art Canvas - Culture Days, Art ceSoir - Barrie, Ontario (September 29, 2012)
2012 | Community Art Canvas - Project Coordination/Facilitator IACHC - Celebrate Lake Simcoe Innisfil Beach Park
2012 | Innisfil Arts, Heritage and Culture Art Council - Logo design/information flyers
2011/10 | Curatorial - Watershed Art Project - Artist Afloat - Marketing and Promotional, Blog Developement - Logo
2011 | Art Instruction/Facilitator - South Simcoe Art Council Summer Art Camp
2011 | Juror, for Town of Innisfil, Student Art Contest
2011 | Art Instructor/Facilitator - Abstract Art - Workshop, Gibson Centre, Alliston, Ontario
2010 | Juror, Bradford Studio Tour, for South Simcoe Art Council
2010 | Art Instructor/Facilitator - South Simcoe Art Council Summer Art Camp set design (child ages 8 -13 years)
2010 | Art Instructor/Facilitator - Abstract Art - Workshop, Gibson Centre, Alliston, Ontario
2009 | Juror, Elementary School, for South Simcoe Art Council, re: Student Art Competition, Everett Art Fest
2009 | Art Instructor/Facilitator - Printmaking Workshop: Gallery on Queen, Innisfil Ontario
A one-day workshop in experimental printmaking
2009 | Art Instructor/Facilitator - South Simcoe Art Council Summer Art Camp Workshops in printmaking
and painting (children ages 8 -13 years)
2015/08 | MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario - Benefactor Program Rental Art Program
2008 | Curatorial - Exchange Exhibition 2008, Initiate and Coordination Two Exhibition - Barrie Art Club, Barrie, and
Zephyr Art Gallery, Orillia in an effort to remove the physical boundaries in regards to collaboration of artists.
1997| Docent, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario (Maple Hill location)
1997 | Art Instruction/Facilitator
— Sunnybrae Elementary School: Developed and Instructed a Mural Project for students grades 7 and 8
1996/97 | MacLaren Art Centre - volunteer - Designed and Digital Art for the “Voice” Volunteer Monthly Newsletter
2015/79 | Graphic Design and Illustration
