EDUCATION
2013 MA: Contemporary and Modern Art History, University of Toronto
2009 Honours BA: Major in Visual Arts, Major in Communication, University of Ottawa
GRANTS / AWARDS
2024 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2018 Newcomer Mentorship Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2017 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2016 Artist Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2015 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2015 Emerging Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2005 Ontario Secondary School Visual Arts Award, Ontario Arts Council
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Monument, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2015 Glide Path, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India
2013 That Same Small War Within You, Truck Contemporary, Calgary, AB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Hamilton Art Fair, Hamilton, ON
2019 Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 MUKË, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON
2016 VOLTA 12, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Midnight Massive, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2016 Papier 16, Montreal, QC
2016 10 Years, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2015 Surface & Stratagem, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 Triumph of the Theraputic, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2015 Bunting, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2015 Launch, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC 2014 Push and Pull, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2014 Montreal Preview, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2014 Art Spin, Toronto, ON
2014 Refined Linen, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2012 Everything and Nothing, N/A, Toronto, ON
2012 Post, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2011 Drawn Together, Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, Italy
2011 Hang With The Best, Toronto Image Works Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 The Billboard Art Project, Billboard on Interstate 90, Chicago IL
RESIDENCIES
2019 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity- Leaders’ Lab, Banff, AB
2017 AZ West- Andrea Zittlel Wagon Station Encampment, Joshua Tree, California
2014 VSVSVS Studio Residency, Toronto, ON
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS WITH OLIVER PAUK
2015 Tensions (with Stephanie Flowers), The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2015 Come Up To My Room, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Nuit Blanche, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Grolsch Open House, Toronto, ON
2014 Sunday Drive Presents Warkworth, Warkworth, ON
2014 Long Winter at The Great Hall, Toronto, ON
LECTURES/TEACHING
2016 Instructor: VADA207: Special Topics in Contemporary Art, Humber College, Toronto, ON
2015 Guest Lecture, Humber College Toronto, ON
2014 Guest Lecture, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
AUCTIONS / BENEFITS
2016 Silent Benefit Auction, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2015 C Magazine Benefit Auction, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 AGM 12th Annual Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
JURIES
2016 Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON
2016 Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012- Present Co-Director, Akin Collective & Akin Projects
2013 Inventory Support, Art Metropole
2012 Research Assistant, Barbara Fischer
2009-10 Gallery Assistant, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Artist Assistant, Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman, Deitch Projects SoHo, New York, NY
2009 Events, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Art F City, Pastoral Romanticism for the Hashtag FOMO Generation, 2015
2015 TOM* Magazine, Summer Issue, 2015
2015 TOM* Magazine, Spring Issue, 2015
2014 Canadian Art, Ruralism: Sunday Drive Takes Art Out of the City, Aug. 29
2014 The Toronto Star, Toronto Art Makes the Trek to Warkworth, Aug. 28
2014 Carbon Paper, Issue 3, Fall 2014
2014 Esse Arts + Opinions, Review: Push and Pull
2009 GQ Magazine, September Issue 2009, Project Upgrade: Artist/Curator Profile
2008 Ottawa Arts Review- Selected Work Vol.2, No.4, Fall 2008
FILM & VIDEO
2010 Works featured in ‘Happy Thank You More Please’. Premiered at 2010 Sundance Film Festival