Education
2019 University of Waterloo / MFA studio art
University of Waterloo / Fundamentals of University Teaching Certificate
2016 Concordia University / BFA studio art and English literature
Residencies & Creative Incubators
2024 Regidency / The Registry Theatre / Kitchener, ON
2023 AGO x RBC Emerging Artist in Residence / Toronto, ON
Regidency / The Registry Theatre / Kitchener, ON
2022 Studio Kura / Itoshima, Japan
COVE/COVOX / Inter Arts Matrix / Waterloo Region
2021 Co-Create Residency / Otherwise Studios & Bumaroo Collective / Guelph, ON
Art Incubate sponsored studio program / Waterloo, ON
2018 The Maple Terrace Residency / Brooklyn, NY
2017 Caetani Cultural Centre / Vernon, BC
2016 Fish Factory Creative Center / Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Upcoming: Artcite Inc. / Windsor, ON
2023 open channel neutral agent / SPACEMAKER II / Toronto, ON
You can tell me more / Art Spin Public Sweat x UWAG / Waterloo, ON
2021 To build tiny monuments is to gather what's there / Museum of Jewish Montreal / Montreal, QC
2020 Shapes I’ll Never Be / Rotunda Gallery / Kitchener, ON
2019 The Finally Frontier / Gallery Stratford- Steelbox Art Lab / Stratford, ON
JunkDrawerPhantomDressUpSoirée / University of Waterloo Art Gallery / Waterloo, ON
2018 Dress Rehearsal / Student Art Innovation Lab / Curated by Tait Wilman / Waterloo, ON
2017 Just3Things / Unlovable Gallery / Toronto, ON
2016 Don’t Be Sour, Sweetie / Kafein / Montreal, QC
Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals
2024 Laugh Embassy for The Wrong Biennial / curated by Tasneem Lohani / Pagal Canvas Backyard / Bengaluru, India
2023 Small File Media Retrospective / The Cinematheque / Vancouver, BC /
Stay With Me / CAFKA Biennial / Waterloo Region, ON
2022 Breaths, Monuments, Offerings / School of Art Gallery / Winnipeg, MB
Indelible Discards / Xpace Cultural Centre / Curated by Bunkr2 / Toronto, ON
2021 Show.21 / Idea Exchange - Queen's Square / Cambridge, ON
PLAY / Platform Centre for photographic + digital arts / Winnipeg, MB
MoveObjectOn / The Plumb / Toronto, ON
First Edition / Not For Viewing / London, O
The Intense Pleasure of The Small File / Small File Media Festival / Colgate University / Madison County, NY
Small File Media Festival / Simon Fraser University / Vancouver, BC
2020 Friends and Lovers / Curated by Tee Kundu / Button Factory Arts / Waterloo, ON
Flat Files at OyG: 2020 / Curated by Will Hutnick / Ortega y Gasset / Brooklyn, NY
2019 Fresh Paint New Constructions 2019 / Art Mur / Montreal, QC
Out of The Blue / Good Sport Gallery / London, ON
2018 Queen West Art Crawl - Art After Dark / Toronto, ON
2017 Artists in Wonderland / Hosted by Lucid Dream collective / OCAD U / Toronto, ON
Live Longer, Piss Off Your Heirs / Curated by Olga Korper and Taiga Lipson / Propeller Gallery / Toronto, ON
2016 Fjöllistakvöld / Fish Factory Creative Centre / Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland
Meet me on the tarmac / Galerie Art Mur / Montreal, QC
Multitudes / Galerie Onze / Montreal, QC
2015 01.VAV//2015 / VAV Gallery / Montreal, QC
This is the End / Gallery X / Monteal, QC
Nuit Blanche Montreal / Studio 427 / Montreal, QC
2014 Actions Speak Louder, and Other Linguistic Paradoxes / Gallery Carte Blanche / Art Matters Festival / Montreal, QC
Events & Curatorial Work
2023 Cha Cha Real Smooth: Art With Instructions / Studio Fuzion / Kitchener, ON
Black Tie Soup Night / Art Gallery of Ontario / Toronto, ON
2022 Clouds and Storms by Amber Lee Williams / Lumen Festival x S.A.I.L. / Waterloo, ON
This horizon line is bent at the waist / Apollo Cinemas / Kitchener, ON
2020 There is no u-haul big enough for my move to sky castle / Lumen Festival / Waterloo, ON
Goody Two Shoes: Works From The Permanent Collection / Gallery Stratford
2019 Buoyancy: Poolside Performances / Collaboration with Jordyn Stewart / Cambridge Art Galleries in association with BRIDGE
Dying on Mars / Collaboration with Slumber Party Collective / Waterloo, ON
Public Projects and Site Specific Installation
2023 A Hole in the Ground / Curated by Sheila McMath for Inter Arts Matrix / Kitchener, ON
2022 The Beasting / Kitchener, ON
2021 Mural design/ DTK Art Walk / Kitchener, ON
Collecting Dust / Waterloo Region
Turn the lights off and go to sleep / in collaboration with Christie Shen / The Window Gallery @ Art Incubate / Waterloo, ON
There is no u-haul big enough for my move to sky castle / Lumen Festival / Waterloo
Explore Waterloo Region / Art Fresco Public Art Project / Waterloo Region
2020 Electrical box design / Commissioned by Gallery Stratford / Startford, ON
Published Writing
2024 My cuttlebone is a broken heart and it propels me forward / BlackFlash 40.1: Surfce
2023 Becoming Slime: A Field Guide to a Gooier Life / Peripheral Review
SUM #2
2022 Untethered Magazine vol. 12
Poem for HOAX Publication
2021 In defence of belly button lint and the hole that is nothing / Public Parking Magazine
Conferences and Talks
2023 Artist Talk / Hole: Artist and Writer Program / Silverfish
Artist Talk / AGO x RBC Emerging Artist-in-Residence Lunch and Learn
2022 Artist Talk / X-Camera Series / Inter Arts Matrix
Artist Talk / School of Art Gallery / University of Manitoba
2021 Writer Talk / CreativiTEA Series / Homer Watson Gallery
Artist Talk / Digital Diasporas Series / Museum of Jewish Montreal
2020 Panelist / Artists' Archives: Ephemera, Evidence, Decoys / UAAC Annual Conference / University of British Columbia
Panelist / Maker's Forum 2 / Small Files Film Festival / Hosted by Simon Fraser University
2019 Panellist / GSEC Annual Conference - Breaking the Archive / University of Alberta
2018 Presenter / Keith & Win Shantz International Research Scholarship Lecture / Unversity of Waterloo
2017 Featured Poet / Nuit de l'Art hosted by Montreal Underground Collective / various venues
2015 Featured Artist / An Anti- Oppressive Art Night hosted by Free Press Libre / Café Artere / Montreal, QC
Grants, Scholarships and Awards
2023 Arts Awards Waterloo Region / Emerging Artist Award
Ontario Arts Council / Exhibition Assistance for Open Channel Neutral Agent
Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Project Grant / Heartbreak and Hardening
pat the dog theatre company microgrant / Giant Bowl
2022 Ontario Arts Council / Career Catalyst Project Grant for New Generation Artists
COVE/COVOX / Inter Arts Matrix / When we speak at the same time we speak the same language / funded by Canada Council for the Arts and The Ontario Trillium Foundation
pat the dog theatre company microgrant / Snowdoku
2021 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Project Grant / Collecting Dust
pat the dog theatre company microgrant / Watch Me
Ontario Arts Council / exhibition assistance for To build tiny monuments is to gather what's there
2019 Ontario Arts Council / exhibition assistance for The Finally Frontier
2017 Keith and Win Shantz fellowship scholarship / University of Waterloo
2016 FASA Special Project Grant / Concordia University
CCSL Special Project Fund / Concordia University
Teaching
2023 Facilitator / List Poems workshop / CAFKA Youth Council
2022 Facilitator / List Poems workshop / School of Art Gallery / University of Manitoba
Co-coordinator and facilitator / Text Collective Writer’s Residency / Button Factory Arts – online
2021 Facilitator / Clutter Collaborator- digital sculpture workshop / Museum of Jewish Montreal
Instructor / Drawing / Button Factory Arts - online / Waterloo Region
Facilitator / List Poems workshop / Button Factory Arts
Facilitator / Mischievous Painting workshop / Button Factory Arts
2020 Facilitator / The Privilege of Clutter workshop and discussion group / KW Article Club
2018 TA for FINE 230 (printmaking) with Tara Cooper / University of Waterloo
Sessional instructor for FINE 150 / University of Waterloo
2017 TA for FINE 100 with Eva McCauley / University of Waterloo
Relevant Employment and Volunteering
Present Board Member and Programming Co-Chair / CAFKA Biennial
Installation, art handling and other gallery work / University of Waterloo Art Gallery
2021 -
2022 Scenographer / DiSCoVer by Cosmic Fishing Theatre Company / (contract)
Studio Assistant / Sun Drops Studio / (contract)
Writer / Loft17 Creative / (contract)
Librarian / Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre
Digital and Communications Coordinator / Local Art For Local Walls
2019-
2022 Digital and Communications Coordinator / Art$pay
2021 Programming Committee Member / CAFKA Biennial
2019-
2020 Assistant curator / Gallery Stratford (contract)
2019 Outreach coordinator and program facilitator / Student Art Innovation Lab (contract)
2018 Studio Assistant for Rachel Eulena Williams / Brooklyn, NY (contract)
2017-
2019 Mentor for graduating studio arts undergrads / University of Waterloo
2016 Studio Assistant for Philip Beesely Architects / Nuit Blanche preparation for Ocean in collaboration with H&M / Toronto City Hall
Links, press, misc
Local Artists Collaborate in Inter Arts Matrix’s “A Hole in The Ground”- Community Edition
AGOInsider interview about Black Tie Soup Night
X-Camera artist talk
Essay for Breaths, Monuments, Offerings by Halley Ritter
Essay for Indelible Discards by Talia Golland, Megan Maclaurin and Sohpia Oppel
MJM Artistic Director's thoughts on 'To build tiny monuments'
Blog post on Fresh Paint/New Constructions
MFA Thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14604
Niv Mag artist feature September, October & November
Stratford Beacon Herald on The Finally Frontier
Art Mur Fresh Paint New Construction 2019 catalogue