Visiting Artist Residency Recipient Kelly Walters is an artist, designer and founder of the multidisciplinary design studio, Bright Polka Dot. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity formation, systems of value, and shared vernacular in and around Black visual culture. Kelly was a 2021 Graham Foundation award recipient for her curated exhibition With a…
Visiting Artist Residency Recipient Born in Barbados, Kara Springer lives and works in Toronto and New York. Her practice is particularly concerned with armature – the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She uses photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to confront and engage with architecture, urban infrastructure, and institutional and…
Visiting Artist Residency Recipient Rafa Santos’ work fragments both real and imaginary moments in Caribbean and Mediterranean history with artistic liberty. They address the subject of identity with both a private and a public voice at once. Post-minimalist and undisciplinary in their aesthetic, Santos strives to embed something irrational in the seemingly decipherable composition of…
Visiting Artist Residency Dorian FitzGerald makes monumental paintings of materially excessive situations, using an idiosyncratic technique he has been refining for several years. Past subject matter includes the dining room of Stefano Gabbana’s yacht; Drummond Gardens, the oldest privately held formal gardens in the United Kingdom; the VIP room in the Casa de Musica in…
Visiting Artist Residency Laura Findlay works primarily with painting and sculpture. Her work explores the relationship between destruction and creation through confrontations between naturalism and supernaturalism. She considers the psychic and subconscious communication and knowledge that emerges in response to histories of trauma, to ask how a destructive event can become a constructive origin. Laura…
Visiting Artist Residency Crummey states the following about her practice: I am a visual artist and writer. I offer rhythmic resting places, for tired eyes and exhausted bodies. My research interests include landscape, poetry, and abstraction. I am curious about how the natural and built environment impacts us subliminally, particularly the nervous system. The logic…
Visiting Artist Residency Working in images, video and text, Nour Bishouty’s multidisciplinary and often autobiographical practice draws upon familial and material narratives to explore and rethink the construction of popular identity in relation to narratives and histories of place. Bishouty was a fellow at Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2014/15) and an inaugural…
Visiting Artist Residency Luke Painter is an artist and professor working in Toronto. Recent exhibitions of his work include: Modern Wand at Cambridge Galleries (solo 2017) and Ways of Something at the Whitney Museum of American Art (group 2016). Luke has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the…
Visiting Artist Residency Annie Wong is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her work uses various platforms of participation, social engagement, and collaboration to explore the intersections of the poetic and political in everyday life. Conceptually diverse, her recent works focus on spaces for feminist anger and rituals of ancestral remembrance in the Chinese-Canadian diaspora. Wong’s…
Visiting Artist Residency Meaghan Hyckie is a Toronto-based visual artist. Her work is about space: how to represent it and what it feels like to be in it. Meaghan Hyckie has been a resident at Vermont Studio Centre, the Banff Centre, and was a 2018 Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence. Her work has been supported by the…
Visiting Artist Residency Kotama states the following about his practice: The research that drives my artistic endeavours explores the relationship between image and object through an experimental ethnographic approach. The history and conventions of the photographic medium itself contributes to how I am able to study, subvert and challenge issues of representation, identity and place….
Visiting Artist Residency Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based multidisciplinary conceptual artist. Placing an emphasis on process, gesture and documentation, her work explores the influence of language and loss on the formation of identity with the use of textile-based works and performative actions, which are photographed. DeFreitas has shown nationally and internationally, including Project Row Houses…
Visiting Artist Residency Sidney Masuga is an interdisciplinary artist working between digital and analogue mediums; she holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Coming from a background in illustration her work utilizes symbol, form and abstraction to articulate her interests in language women’s history, data analysis and metaphysics. Places of recent…
Visiting Artist Residency Tina Helen is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Her artistic practice proposes a synthesis of the practical and the theoretical in the understanding and production of images. She is engaged with questions of urban politics, power structures (economic, social or psychological), image politics, cognitive capital, self-schooling, refusal, migration, autism, autonomy, collective…
Visiting Artist Residency Maura Doyle lives and works in Ottawa. Her multidisciplinary practice has included video, ceramics, sculpture, printed matter and drawing. Her most recent work, titled Gone: Removed public art in Ottawa / Anishinaabeg Aki is an artist’s publication commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery. She has exhibited her work across Canada in artist-run…