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EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, The University of Western Ontario, 2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Distinction, Major in Studio Arts, Concordia University, 2004
Diplôme d'études collégiales, Fine Arts, Dawson College, 2000
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, selected
2016 Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - "Projections" Bowmanville, Ontario
2015 Museum London - "Nature's Handmade" London, Ontario
2013 Maine College of Art - "Process and Place" Portland, Maine
2012 Tumble Contemporary Art - “Being Constructed – Constructed Being” Winnipeg, Manitoba
2012 Tumble Contemporary Art - “Firstness” Winnipeg, Manitoba
2011 Full Tilt Creative Centre - “Sideshow” McIvers, Newfoundland
2009 Xpace with Minnow and Bass - “(In)Animate” Toronto, Ontario
2006 Cambridge Galleries - “Fibreworks 06” Cambridge, Ontario
2005 ArtLab - "Normal Density” London, Ontario
2005 ArtLab - "Congress" London, Ontario
2005 gallery 96 - "Ficto Zoologoy" Stratford, Ontario
2004 Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery - "Show Off" Montréal, Québec
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Full Tilt Creative Centre - “Sea Dab Jig” McIvers, Newfoundland
2010 TRUCK + 15 Window Project - “Peep Show” Calgary, Alberta
2006 ArtLab - “Kaleidoscopic” London, Ontario
RESIDENCIES
2013 Fresh Milk International Artist Residency with Marla Botterill, St. George, Barbados
1 month residency to work on a collaborative puppet project
2012 Maine College of Art Baie Sainte-Marie Artist Residency, 1 month self-directed residency, New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia
2012 8550 Ohio – Do Do II Session – 2 week thematic residency, Chesterhill, Ohio
2011 Full Tilt Creative Centre – 2 month residency to create work, engage with community and local artists, upcoming collaborative video about floating a shed, part of Newfoundland’s heritage - “The Big Haul”, McIvers, Newfoundland
ARTIST TALKS
2016 Visual Arts Centre of Clarington Bowmanville, Ontario 2015 London: Exhibition Tour with curator Cassandra Getty London, Ontario 2013 Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc.: Artist Talk and Presentation St. George, Barbados
2012 Weymouth Waterfront Library: Artist Talk Weymouth, Nova Scotia
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Projections Catalogue - publication to accompany the exhibition at the The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
REVIEWS
2015 London Community News - "Museum London's Latest Something to Sea" by Whitney South,
2011 Forest City Gallery - “Luxe, vision and the veil between what is real and imaginary" by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser, www.fcgintern.blogspot.ca
2010 Syphon, issue 1, volume 2, by Riva Symko: “hangin’ with some peeps (in Calgary)” - a publication from Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, www.modernfuel.org/syphon
2010 Canadian Art Magazine, Agenda - Alberta, page 38, Spring Issue, www.canadianart.ca
GRANTS
2011 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
PARTICIPATION IN ART EVENTS / FESTIVALS
2017 Nuit Blanche - "Ginger" London, Ontario
2017 Culture Days London, Ontario
2014 DNA - "Carte Blanche" London, Ontario
2013 Artcite - "Summer Art Fest" Windsor, Ontario
2001 SKOL Gallery - Diane Bursato's successful attempt to break the record in Guinness Book of World Records “How to Make A Sculpture in an Emergency" Montréal, Québec