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Education

2017
2010
MFA studio, Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design, OCAD University
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Visual Arts Studio (Honours) cum laude, York University, Toronto
 

Selected Exhibitions

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2020

2018
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2016

2015
2014

2013

2012

The Shape of Memory, Modern Fuel, Canada
La Pluma y la Espada. La Casa de la Salamandra, Collateral Exhibition, Havana Biennial
Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk, Barbados and Centre for Culture, Lublin, Poland
The Return, Gladstone House
an archive is an archive is an archive, Der Greif Guest Room: Franziska Kunze
A Return to Foul Bay, Member’s Gallery, Gallery 44
Transit, Members’ Exhibition, Gallery 44
Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art & History, Canada
Lumière Unama'ki | Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Photobook Awards EI 2020, Encontros da Imagen, Galeria do Paço da UMinho, Portugal
The Persistent Evidence, Samara Contemporary, Toronto
Come up to my Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
TD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Art Prize, Quest Art, Midland, Canad
The View from (T)here, Magic Pony, Toronto
Thames Art Gallery Juried Art Exhibition, juried by Kendra Ainsworth, Chatham, Canada
Carifesta XIII, Barbados
The Bridge, Grenada Contemporary, Grande Anse, Grenada
Facade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Grito de Libertad, Bienal Internacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay
Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery of Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Tracings: Recent work from W5Art Collective, curated by Pamela Edmonds, WARC Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Aesthetic Objects of Desire, Contact Photo Festival, Unpack Studio, Toronto
Dystopias on Art & Technology, e-fagia event'13 curated by Julieta María and Arlan Londoño, Gallery 1313, Toronto
Facade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
trinidad+tobago film / 12 festival - New Media, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Grants

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2021
2019
2017
2014

2012
Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Travel Grant to Media Arts Professionals, Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Ontario Arts Council Arts Education Grant as a member of W5Art Collective

Awards
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2020
2018
2016

2015
2010
2009
2006
2005
Special Mention, Annual Urbanautica Institute Award
Shortlisted, Annual Urbanautica Institute Award
Special Mention, Annual Urbanautica Institute Award
Juror Prize National Merit, TD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Group, Quest Art Gallery
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
OCADu - Dean's Scholarship
OCADu - Dean's Scholarship
BMO 1st Art Nomination in Photography
York University Continuing Student Scholarship
Two Bronze awards (Photography), NIFCA, Barbados
One Silver award, Two Bronze awards (Photography), NIFCA, Barbados

Residencies, Talks and Publications

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2016
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2009

Virtual Artist Talk, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada
Avant-Femme/Avant-Garde, L’AIR Arts Curated Professional Program, Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, Paris, France
Women’s Residency coordinated by April Hickox, Gibraltar Point Residency
Instagram takeover, Womens’ Photo Alliance NYC @wpanyc
Feminist Photography Network Island Residency
In This Place, Humanities Arts and Society Magazine
Outside In, University of Arts London and OCADu Online Conference
Dynasty, Feels Zine Issue 09: Aging
Island Time 02 Artist Residency, 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects, Newfoundland
Artist Talk, The View from (T)here, University of Toronto Visual Strategies, Toronto
Island Time 01 Artist Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands
Artist Talk, Instituto Superior des Artes, Havana, Cuba
Artist Residency and Talk, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Worktable Participant, Symposium on Decolonial Aesthetics from the Americas, organized by e-fagia in collaboration with FUSE Magazine and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery / Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
Artist Talk, Aesthetic Objects of Desire, Unpack Studio, Toronto
Artist Talk, Dystopias on Art & Technology, Gallery 1313, Toronto
Sync Resist, edited by Alex Fischer
Dissecting the Narrative, AGYU


Professional Experience

2016-25
2020-24
2018-21
2015-20
2013-25
2012-16













2011-15

Director, Unpack Studio Havana Art Residency: an evolving Toronto/Havana art-based platform.
Special Event and Fundraising Committee, Gallery 44, Toronto
Board Member, Gallery 44, Toronto
Exhibition Programming Committee Member, Gallery 44, Toronto
Member. Gallery 44
Director, Unpack Studio, an evolving art-based Toronto/Havana art-based platform. Managed a Toronto-based independent studio space co-curated and organized events:
The Glass Between by Rebecca Belmore, as part of Decolonial Aesthetics from the Americas
8 by Björn Kämmerer, as part of Images Festival 2013
Ilusionada by Jesus Gastell – exhibit, talk, residency and workshop
From Mouth to Mouth by Maryam Taghavi & Zoya Honarmand
After the Embrace by Agustin Rojas – exhibit, talk and workshop
jä be jä – collective exhibition
I can’t sleep by Jose Andres Mora as part of Nuit Blanche 2014,
Lecture by Cuban curator Dannys Montes de Oca & artist Ossain Raggi
Conversation with Adriano Alves Pinto, Executive Director of the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, in collaboration with e-fagia
Countermodels workshop in collaboration with Gendai Gallery
Hosted No Reading After the Internet – Decolonial Aesthetics
W5Art Collective. Members: Alexandra Gelis, Buseje Bailey, Grace Channer, Margarita Macdonald and Alexandra Majerus





 
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