EDUCATION

2022 ongoing PhD Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, York University, Toronto ON

2010-2012 MFA, York University, Toronto ON

2005-2009 BFA, w/ Minor in Art History (w/ distinction), Concordia University, Montréal QC

ARTIST TALKS & CONFERENCES

2023/04         Upcoming: Motherhood to motherhoods: Ideologies of the Feminine, Chapman University, Orange CA

2023/05         Upcoming: Congress 2023, York University, Toronto ON

2018 Factory Media Centre, Art & Social Strata Conference, video screening, Hamilton ON

2013 Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Summer Institute Resident Artist, Winnipeg MB

2013 University of Windsor, Emerging Artist Research Residency, Windsor ON

2011 Université du Québec à Montréal, MFA graduate student exchange, Montréal QC

RESEARCH & RESIDENCIES

2021/10-11 Struts Gallery Artist In Residence, Sackville NB

2016/06-08 Thunder & Lightening, Artist Residency, Sackville NB

2013/07 Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Summer Institute Artist Residency, Winnipeg MB

2013/05 University of Windsor, Artist Research Residency, Windsor ON

2011/05-08 Vtape, Research and Recovery Internship, Toronto ON

2010/06-07 Broken City Lab, Storefront Residency for Social Innovation (SRSI), Windsor ON

2010/05-06 Oboro, Artist Residency, Montréal QC

2009/09-10 Emily Carr UAD, Intersections Digital Studio, Research Residency, Vancouver BC

2009/06 Emily Carr UAD, Intersections Digital Studio, Research Residency, Vancouver BC

2009/01-04 McCord Museum, Archives and Documentation Centre, Research, Montréal QC  

2008/02 Banff Centre New Media Institute, Co-Production Residency, Banff AB

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

2014    “Hit the nail on its head” by Logan MacDonald, exhibition essay, Hamilton ON 

2013 CBC Radio Winnipeg, radio interview for Piano Project, Winnipeg MB

2013 Global TV Winnipeg, television interview for Piano Project, Winnipeg MB

2013 CKUW Radio Winnipeg, Art Talk, interview for Piano Project, Winnipeg MB

2011 Terence Dick, Digital Alterities, InterAccess, AkimBlog, Toronto ON

2009 “Invisible Boundaries: Paradise Valley in Detroit, Michigan”, Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Montréal QC

2008 Producer/writer: Intersecting Memory (exhibition catalog) Galerie VAV Gallery, Montréal QC

2006 Illustrator: Consistent Variable Project Workbook Version 1.0, by Risa Dickens, Montréal QC

2005 Illustrator: “Consistent Variable Project”, Worn Fashion Journal – Issue #1, Montréal QC

AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2023                Franc and Mary Joubin, Academic Bursary, York University, Toronto ON

2015 Toronto Arts Council, Individual Media Artist, Toronto ON

2014 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (rec. interAccess) Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON

2014 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (rec. Artcite, Windsor) Factory Media Centre, Hamilton ON

2013 Canada Council, Travel Grant, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg MB

2011 SSHRC-CRSH Graduate Scholarship, York University, Toronto ON

2010 York University, full MFA Scholarship, Toronto ON

2007   Helen McNicoll Art Prize, Concordia University Scholarship, Montréal QC

2008   Buddy Shizgal Abrams Memorial Bursary, Concordia University, Montréal QC

2008 Travel Grant, Banff New Media Institute (BNMI), awarded by FASA Concordia, Montréal QC

07-09 Special Project Grants, Concordia University, Montréal QC

2004 Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Center, Production Grant, Faucet Online, Sackville NB

VOLUNTEER/BOARD MEMBER

2017-18 Factory Media Centre, Hamilton ON

2016 Tutor, Read­Up, Regent Park, Toronto ON - Read­Up offers free reading lessons to youth and children.

2013-14 Trinity Square Video, Toronto Ontario, 401 Richmond W

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2022/11   Remote Possibilities, group exhibition, Struts Gallery, Sackville NB

2022/07 Shushing, video screening, Billboard, Hamilton ON                                                                 

2018/08 Living Room Fall, (selected), video screening, Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton ON

2018/07 Summer in Salem, (invite), film screening, Super 8 Hotel, Struts Gallery, Sackville NB

2018/07 Sails, (selected), video screening, Art Spin Hamilton, Cotton Factory, Hamilton ON

2018/06 Lookout, 13’ billboard w/paillettes, permanent public install, Hamilton ON

2018/03 Glamour & War, (invite) video screening, Art & Social Strata, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton ON 

2018/03 I will save the world by mending, Art & Social Strata, Workers Art & Heritage Centre, Hamilton ON 

2017/09 Lookout, (selected), 13’ billboard w/paillettes, Supercrawl, Hamilton ON

2015/11 we now return you…, (invite, artist mentor), Workman Arts Centre, Toronto ON

2015/03 Bobby, (invite), video install, Long Winter Year Three Volume Five, Toronto ON

2014/12 Flotsam, (invite, group show), video install, Amnua Nanjing Biennial, Nanjing CN

2014/05 Living Room Fall, (invite), video screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto ON

2014/02 The Unfortunate Issues of the Patriarch, (selected solo show) Factory Media Centre Hamilton ON

2014/01 COMMYTAPES, (selected) Long Winter, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON

2013/09 Restitching III, (selected/curated) Coming to Terms, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto ON

2013/08 Lost Found Mended, (invite), Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, Sappy Fest, Sackville NB

2013/07 A Video Novel for Winnipeg, Plug-In ICA (group show), Winnipeg MB

2013/07 You Me Us, ReLoCate Performance Festival (juried, group show), Calgary AB

2013/07 You Me Us, We are all here, Love In Dance Festival (group show), Toronto ON

2013/05 A Video Novel for Windsor, Windsor Issues V.4, Broken City Lab (group show), Windsor ON

2013/01 All the parties…, Come up to my Room (invite), Gladstone Gallery (group show), Toronto ON

2012/12 Standing and Walking, .gif (curated), mMOCCA (group show), London UK

2012/10 Glamour & War, Remix, //The ANNUAL// (juried) Gladstone Gallery, Toronto ON

2012/09 Restitching III, Fibreworks 2012 (curated), Cambridge Galleries (group show), London ON

2012/04 Play Rewind, MFA thesis exhibition, VMAC Gallery 401 Richmond (solo show), Toronto ON

2011/12 Restitching II, CON, 30 Years, Temporary (curated), Loop Gallery (group show), Toronto ON

2011/09 Book of Revelations, Gales Gallery (group show), Toronto ON

2011/06 Knox Pilgrimage, Digital Alterities (curated), InterAccess (group show), Toronto ON

2011/04 I want to sew with you all day, (solo show), Toronto ON

2011/04 China Beach, A little bit of country…(curated), Glendon Gallery (group show), Toronto ON

2011/02 ms monument, China Beach, Art Suite 500, TD Towers, Toronto ON

2010/11 Ambiguous kernel, assured shell—again, curator/producer, SPG, Toronto ON 

2010/09 Chick Flick, Emergence (curated), Oboro (group show), Montréal QC

2010/09 (lynn), Gales Gallery, (group show), Toronto ON 

2010/08 Store Front Residency for Social Innovation, Broken City Lab, (solo show), Windsor ON

2010/07 (lynn), Within This Body (curated), Propeller Center for the Visual Arts (group show), Toronto ON

2010/07 signage, Canadian Landscape Juried Exhibition, Agnes Jamieson Gallery (group show), Minden ON

2009/09 Chick Flick, Feminism Now (curated), Anna Leonowens Gallery (group show), Halifax NS

2009/07 Chick Flick, 35 Days of Unorganized Art, Eye Level Gallery (solo show), Halifax NS 

2009/04 at·trac·tion, Night Vision Nocturne (curated), Galerie Artefacto(group show), Montréal QC

2008/06 estuary, Galerie VAV Gallery (solo show), Montréal QC

2008/02 A Gift for Faye, Intersecting Memory (curated), Art Matters (group show), Montréal, QC

2008/08 (lynn), OK. Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery (group show), Sackville NB 

2008/07 tonal archive, Duo Tone Arts Festival V (curated, group show), Kelowna, BC

2005/09 read to me, Hey Cinnamon, Struts Gallery (group show), Sackville NB

2005/04 Violette, Image is God, The Lift (group show), Montréal QC

2004/07 Chasing Indentidum, faucetOnline (juried), Faucet Media Arts Center (solo show), Sackville NB

2004/07 and so she said, Duo Tone Arts Festival II (group show), Kelowna BC 

2004/06 Serenity, Bratwurst (screening), Victoria, BC

2004/03 Serenity, Super 8 Hotel, Faucet Media Arts Center, Sackville NB 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022-2023, Teaching Assistant, Gender and Women’s Studies, Course: GWST 1501A Introduction to Gender Studies, York University, Toronto ON

2012, Sessional Professor (replacement), Course: VISA 205, Drawing Perception, Experience, Memory (interdisciplinary), University of Toronto, Toronto ON

2012, Teaching Assistant, Course: Performance Art and the Everyday (4th year), York University, Toronto ON

2012, Instructor, Visual Arts, Course: Grade 11 & 12 Visual Art Class, Ontario Ministry of Education Standards, TAIE International Institute, Toronto ON

2011, Teaching Assistant, Course: Crossing Boundaries (interdisciplinary video, photography) (2nd & 3rd year), Visual Arts, York University, Toronto ON

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE: Administration

2016 – 2022, Program Manager, Everyone Rides Initiative (ERI), Hamilton, ON. The ERI is an equity program that removes the barriers that prevent people from accessing affordable transportation and includes art as a means of community dialogue.

2015, Artist Mentor & Project Lead, Workman Arts Centre, Toronto ON. Workman is a non-profit organization providing creative resources to individuals with mental illnesses. I organized, mentored and led a group of four artists through the creative process from project proposals, creative execution to gallery installation in a highly visible Gallery Pop-Up space. 

2013-2015, Program Coordinator, Charlie’s FreeWheels, Toronto ON. Charlie's FreeWheels is a non-profit organization for at­-risk youth in Regent  Park, Moss Park.

2012-2013, Program Manager & Instructor, ArtStarts, Toronto ON. Managing and instructing at-risk youth in creative, skill-building workshops.

2012, Sessional Professor (replacement), University of Toronto, Toronto ON. Course: VISA 205, Drawing Perception, Experience, Memory (interdisciplinary)

2012 , Sessional Professor/Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto ON. Course: Performance Art and the Everyday (4th year)

2012 , Instructor, Visual Arts, TAIE International Institute, Toronto ON. Course: Grade 11 & 12 Visual Art Class, Ontario Ministry of Education Standards

2011, Sessional Professor/Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto ON. Course: Crossing Boundaries (interdisciplinary digital: video, photography) (2nd & 3rd year)

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE: Tech & Industry

2016, Private Screenings Assistant, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto ON. Liaison between film production and distribution companies interested in purchasing films. 

2013-2015, Technical Representative, Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto ON. Liaison between print traffic and film house tech teams.

2012-2014, Technical Representative, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto ON. Liaison between print traffic and film house tech teams.

2006-2010, Research Assistant, Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Montréal QC. I developed innovative technologies and methodologies in immersive projection, interactive video and animated textiles. Managed touring and educational materials.