Winnipeg-based artist KC Adams graduated from Concordia University with a BFA and works in medium that includes: sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking and kinetic art. She maintains her own website at www.kcadams.com showcasing her work and digital art projects. KC Adams has had several solo exhibitions, most recently Legacy at the Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, NSW. She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, Circuit City at My Winnipeg at la maison rouge in Paris, France, Cyborg Living Space II, The Language of Intercession at the OBORO Gallery in Montreal and Cyborg Hybrids at the PHOTOQUAI: Biennale des images du monde in Paris, France. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, the Confederation Art Centre in Charlottetown, National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Canada Council’s International residency in Parramatta, NSW. She has received several grants and awards from Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Twenty pieces from the Cyborg Hybrid series is in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, ten Circuit City prints to the Indian and Inuit Art Centre in Ottawa and Birch Bark Ltd. is in the collection of the Canadian Consulate in Sydney, NSW. The CCCA Winnipeg Artists Project was generously supported by the Winnipeg Foundation.

Creator Id: 5
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Year of Birth: 1971
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Saskatchewan
Gender: Female
Mediums: ceramics, drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video

Lorne Wagman studied at the New School of Art in Toronto from 1974 to 1976. He has been exhibiting his unique take on the Canadian landscape for nearly four decades, primarily in the major Toronto galleries. His work is part of prominent private and public collections across Canada.

Creator Id: 633
Year of Birth: 1957
City: Owen Sound
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting

Andrew Valko received his Diploma in Graphic Design and Applied Arts from the Red River Community College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He also studied printmaking with Toshi Yoshida at Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, Japan. The artist's exhibition credits include numerous solo exhibitions in many galleries and auction houses. He has also participated in many group shows, both nationally and internationally

Creator Id: 624
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Year of Birth: 1957
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Czechoslovakia
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking

Randy & Berenicci is an oeuvre spanning more than 30 years, created a unique and evolving body of site-specific and time based art (performance, installation, video, public sculpture). They produced and presented their collaborative work internationally with an extensive history of recognition in art venues around the world. Working in the era of analogue video, they pushed the limits of the medium creating densely architected landscapes through an alchemy of pre-recorded video installations, front and rear projections, miniatures and mechanical effects. They are pioneers of a style of work that combines sensitive and playful reference to site with visionary metaphors infused with historical and cultural references. Poetic and multi-layered, their art is unexpected, surprising and always engaging. Randy Gledhill (b. Winnipeg 1951) currently lives and works in Vancouver. Berenicci Hershorn (b. Toronto 1945) currently lives and works in Toronto.

Creator Id: 500
Collaboration: (Rnady Gledhill and Berenicci Hershorn)
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Gender: Undeclared
Mediums: installation, performance, sculpture, video

Marisa Portolese is a Canadian-Italian and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Portraiture, representations of women, and figures in nature are recurrent subjects in her artistic practice. Autobiography and familial and cultural heritage are equally prominent themes explored through the genre of storytelling, the narrative still and moving image. She often produces large-scale colour photographs, rich in painterly references that concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments regarding identity and spectatorship. She attempts to weave together gesture, affect, and the nuances of the gaze, to create an immersive and emotional landscape for the viewer. Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she produced many photographic projects, which have received critical acclaim and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions widely shown in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Artist in Residence at the McCord Museum in Montreal; her work during this residency culminated as a solo show and a catalogue publication entitled In the Studio with Notman. Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in various journals, magazines, newspapers, art books and periodicals, and she has three published monographs: Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma Chambre (2003), Antonia’s Garden (2012) and In the Studio with Notman (2018). She has been awarded grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 2022, she received a Concordia University Research Fellow Award. In addition, her works are included in various corporate, museum and private collections.

Creator Id: 483
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Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography

Marisa Portolese is a Canadian-Italian and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Portraiture, representations of women, and figures in nature are recurrent subjects in her artistic practice. Autobiography and familial and cultural heritage are equally prominent themes explored through the genre of storytelling, the narrative still and moving image. She often produces large-scale colour photographs, rich in painterly references that concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments regarding identity and spectatorship. She attempts to weave together gesture, affect, and the nuances of the gaze, to create an immersive and emotional landscape for the viewer. Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she produced many photographic projects, which have received critical acclaim and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions widely shown in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Artist in Residence at the McCord Museum in Montreal; her work during this residency culminated as a solo show and a catalogue publication entitled In the Studio with Notman. Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in various journals, magazines, newspapers, art books and periodicals, and she has three published monographs: Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma Chambre (2003), Antonia’s Garden (2012) and In the Studio with Notman (2018). She has been awarded grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 2022, she received a Concordia University Research Fellow Award. In addition, her works are included in various corporate, museum and private collections.

Creator Id: 483
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Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography

Rudolf Bikkers RCA was a Canadian painter, printmaker, educator and entrepreneur. In 1960 at the age of 17, he was the youngest student to be admitted to the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on a six-year scholarship and graduated with honours in 1966. He studied the cello with Bob Reuling for two years, followed by four years with Chrétien Bonfrère at the Conservatorium of Maastricht. In the summer of 1966 he emigrated to Canada. From 1967 to 1969, he taught drawing at H.B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario. From 1969 to 1976, he was Chair of the Printmaking Department at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. In 1975, he established the Master Print Studio “Editions Canada Inc.”, custom printing and publishing many Canadian and international artists, among them Greg Curnoe, Jack Chambers, Ed Bartram, Clark McDougall, Walter Redinger, Claude Breeze, Karel Appel and Paul Jenkins. In 1983, he became the Chair of Printmaking at OCA, (now OCAD University) in Toronto where he taught until July 1, 2012.

Creator Id: 68
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Year of Birth: 1943
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: The Netherlands
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking

Barbara Astman RCA is one of Canada’s most highly acclaimed artists. Her work has received national and international recognition. Since the 1970s she has explored a wide range of photographic and mixed media. Her work is represented in many museum, corporate, and private collections, in Canada, United States, and Europe. Astman has degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, and Ontario College of Art. Active in the Toronto arts community, Astman has sat on numerous boards and advisory committees. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Art Gallery of Ontario and works as a Professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design. In 2011 she was appointed to the Canadian Curatorial Committee at the AGO. In 1995 the Art Gallery of Hamilton organized a major touring retrospective exhibition, Barbara Astman - Personal/Persona - A 20 Year Survey, curated by Liz Wylie. She is represented by the Corkin Gallery, Toronto. Astman has been commissioned for public art projects beginning in the mid eighties. In 1987 she completed a floor installation for the Calgary Winter Olympics. In 2005 she completed a public art installation for the new Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Most recently she completed a public art project in Toronto, the Murano on Bay, comprised of 217 windows with photo-based imagery. In 2008 Astman and AGO Assistant Curator Georgiana Uhlyarik collaborated on a curatorial project for the Transformation AGO Exhibition, dealing with Joyce Wieland and early feminist practice. Astman’s photo-based work was included in the AGO exhibition titled: Beautiful Fiction, fall 2009. In May 2011, her recent installation, dancing with che: enter through the gift shop, opened at the Kelowna Art Galley. Her most recent solo exhibition, Daily Collage, opened at the Corkin Gallery in the fall of 2011. © Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1995 Curator: Liz Wylie.

Creator Id: 31
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Year of Birth: 1950
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: New York
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography, sculpture

Shelley Adler is a contemporary Canadian painter, with a studio in Toronto. Known primarily for her figure painting and portraits, Shelley attended the Edinburgh College of Art, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University, and a Masters of Fine Arts from Boston University.

Creator Id: 8
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Year of Birth: 1961
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Alberta
Gender: Female
Mediums: painting

Especially pertinent to John Abrams' overall program of work is the strategy of using existing cultural objects – film, art, and narratives – that already have systems of signs and signifiers, existing languages. These languages or codes can then be applied – like the artist’s palette of colours – to reconstruct, remake or alter the dynamic of the conversation. This approach allows the artist a chance to communicate to viewers in a common vocabulary and offers a point of entry into the ongoing dialogues that make up contemporary culture. Some of Abrams' wildlife paintings can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Agnes Etherington in Kingston or the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Creator Id: 3
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Year of Birth: 1959
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, painting, video

Susan Turner has exhibited in Canada, Argentina, Holland, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, UK, and the US. Her most recent one-person show was in 2017 at Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT, and prints are included in 2018 in Abstract Mind, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea. In 2016, she produced, wrote, and directed the videos Trembling like a Leaf in the Wind and Clamber. Her video Alien Hand (2002), about the loss of her father to dementia, premiered at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and won a Jury Award at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. Her work is in public and private collections, and has been supported by Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and Jewish Foundation of Manitoba. She is active in Winnipeg’s artist community, taught at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, was a MAWA mentor (Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art), and in 2017 founded ARTA, a Winnipeg artist collective. Additionally, she has curated and designed exhibits for the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada: The Jewish Wedding (2005), Samuel Freedman: Chief Justice of Manitoba (2006), Winnipeg Jews & the Garment Industry (2014), and Synagogues of Manitoba (2016).

Creator Id: 622
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Year of Birth: 1948
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Gender: Female
Mediums: printmaking

Combining found elements with those fashioned by his own hand, David Barnett's work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of history, the essence of his work lies in the age-old struggle between nature and the man-made industrial world. He incorporates Victorian era botanical imagery, ancient anatomical diagrams, and vintage mechanical components along with natural materials. Whether it’s a rusty piece of metal, branches from an oak tree, or tiny turquoise-tipped rooster feathers, the right juxtaposition reveals itself to his—the more absurd, the better. A character is born and a narrative begins to unravel. The theme of flight is recurrent, as is the conflation of anatomy and mechanics. The result is a menagerie of ethereal winged creatures, human and animal hybrids, and fanciful flying machines. In this era of mass-production and instant gratification, it’s his hope that these intimate and meticulously crafted works will also evoke a sense of rarity, delight, and mystery.

Creator Id: 48
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Year of Birth: 1933
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: England
Gender: Male
Mediums: collage, painting, printmaking

Vikky Alexander RCA is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia who is a member of the Vancouver School and was a Professor of photography in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria in Canada. She has retired from teaching and now holds the title professor emerita. She has exhibited internationally since 1981 as a practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism, and as an installation artist who uses photography, drawing, and collage. Her themes include the appropriated image, and the deceptions of nature and space. Her artworks include mirrors, photographic landscape murals, postcards, video and photography. Her work can be found in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the International Center of Photography in New York City, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and at the Deste Foundation, Athens. Alexander is represented by Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, Cooper Cole, Toronto, and Downs & Ross, New York.

Creator Id: 10
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Year of Birth: 1959
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: British Columbia
Gender: Female
Mediums: collage, installation, photography, sculpture

William Pura received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. He subsequently returned to Manitoba where he taught Printmaking, Drawing, Painting and Color Theory at the University of Manitoba School of Art until 2010. Stylistically his work has moved from landscape and figurative issues to geometric abstraction and then back again to more representational imagery. His years in Indiana were formative in many ways, but most significantly he began to explore plein air painting with the encouragement of his friend Richard Nickolson. Experimenting with watercolor, ink wash and oils, the hours spend in the soft atmospheric light of southern Indiana opened up a whole new awareness of color in the landscape. After moving away from his more abstract work, he again embraced the landscape, particularly the urban landscape, which allowed elements of abstraction in the architectural forms to be combined with three important elements: light – as a phenomenon that changes the appearance of objects, changes their colour and with shadow, obscures and creates a sense of mystery; perspective - a pictorial element that changes the viewer’s relationship to the various subjects in the images and can create strong emotional responses to those forms; and memory - a special location, a coming together of buildings and the natural landscape, some combination of elements that evokes a strong sense of place. The CCCA Winnipeg Artists Project was generously supported by the Winnipeg Foundation.

Creator Id: 493
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Year of Birth: 1948
City: Santa Fe
Province: New Mexico
Country: United States
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Gender: Male
Mediums: painting, photography, printmaking

Glenn Priestley is a Toronto-born artist, painter, printmaker and teacher now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He lived his formative years in Scarborough, Ontario, where he attended the Vocational Arts Program at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute. Priestley is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art Fine Arts Programme, where he spent a year in off-campus studies in Florence, Italy, and graduated with an Honours Diploma in 1976. His understanding of the figure was further enhanced through study of Anatomy at the University of Toronto. He has taught drawing and painting at numerous locations and institutions most notably on the faculty of the drawing and painting department at the Ontario College of Art, now OCAD from 1989 through 1996. Priestley's work has been the focus of two museum surveys: The View from Tabor Hill, organized by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery which traveled to the Art Gallery of Windsor, and Glenn Priestley: Variations, at The Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Creator Id: 488
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City: Fredericton
Province: New Brunswick
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting

Pat Badani draws from the fields of art, science, and technology to explore the intersectionality of environmental and social justice issues. She experiments across media to create artistic arguments that blend aesthetics and criticism, charting connections between theories related to art as object, as medium, and art as critique of political and technological networks. Over the past 40 years she has exhibited broadly in museums and art centers, and in dedicated Art, Technology and Science platforms in North and South America, Europe, and Asia including ISEA, Transmediale, ELO, FILE, CURRENTS, and Balance-Unbalance, to name a few. Projects have been distinguished with awards from the Canada Council for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; DCASE; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship @ MacDowell, The Robert Heinecken Trust; and recognized with nominations by Creative Capital, Art Matters, and AWAW.

Creator Id: 38
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Year of Birth: 1951
City: Chicago
Province: Illinois
Country: United States
Country of Birth: Argentina
Gender: Female
Mediums: earthwork, installation, painting, web

Pat Badani draws from the fields of art, science, and technology to explore the intersectionality of environmental and social justice issues. She experiments across media to create artistic arguments that blend aesthetics and criticism, charting connections between theories related to art as object, as medium, and art as critique of political and technological networks. Over the past 40 years she has exhibited broadly in museums and art centers, and in dedicated Art, Technology and Science platforms in North and South America, Europe, and Asia including ISEA, Transmediale, ELO, FILE, CURRENTS, and Balance-Unbalance, to name a few. Projects have been distinguished with awards from the Canada Council for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; DCASE; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship @ MacDowell, The Robert Heinecken Trust; and recognized with nominations by Creative Capital, Art Matters, and AWAW.

Creator Id: 38
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Year of Birth: 1951
City: Chicago
Province: Illinois
Country: United States
Country of Birth: Argentina
Gender: Female
Mediums: earthwork, installation, painting, web

Thomas Corriveau is a Canadian artist and filmmaker from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film, receiving nods at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for They Dance With Their Heads (Ils dansent avec leurs têtes), and at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023 for Marie. Eduardo. Sophie.. He is a professor in the École des arts visuels et médiatiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and was a co-founder with Gisèle Trudel and Michel Boulanger of the arts collective Grupmuv.

Creator Id: 145
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Year of Birth: 1957
City: Laval
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: collage, installation, painting, photography, public art, sculpture, video

Especially pertinent to John Abrams' overall program of work is the strategy of using existing cultural objects – film, art, and narratives – that already have systems of signs and signifiers, existing languages. These languages or codes can then be applied – like the artist’s palette of colours – to reconstruct, remake or alter the dynamic of the conversation. This approach allows the artist a chance to communicate to viewers in a common vocabulary and offers a point of entry into the ongoing dialogues that make up contemporary culture. Some of Abrams' wildlife paintings can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Agnes Etherington in Kingston or the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Creator Id: 3
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Year of Birth: 1959
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, painting, video

Sharon Alward is a performance artist. Her works explore issues related to postmodern religious thought. Through her performances she invites her audiences to question dualistic thinking and to experience a bodily dimension of knowledge. Specifically, her research questions the metaphysical, moral and epistemological role of the contemporary artist through the use of ritual symbolism. Her interdisciplinary investigation into art and religious thought is focused on the performative body. Sharon Alward received her BA from the University of Winnipeg in 1975, her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1985. In 1982 she received a Painting Fellowship to Yale University. Alward's spiritually based performances and video tapes have been exhibited in museums and site specific locations around the world. She has been nominated for an Art Pace Fellowship and a Blizzard award. Her video works have been exhibited by the American Film Institute and the Canadian National Screen Institute. The CCCA Winnipeg Artists Project was generously supported by the Winnipeg Foundation.

Creator Id: 16
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Year of Birth: 1954
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Gender: Female
Mediums: performance

Douglas Walker is a Canadian painter. He attended the Ontario College of Art and graduated with an Honours Diploma in 1981. Walker's early imagery aligned with outsider art and tattoo culture. In the mid-1980s, he produced photograms developed from scratched drawings on plastic, large manipulated black-and-white photographs, sculpture and miniature landscapes, and small oil paintings on panel that evolved into larger works on paper. Douglas Walker creates dreamy scenes of bleak and beautiful landscapes and architectural structures in his distinctive blue-and-white style. His creative influences include suspension bridges, landscapes by J. M. W. Turner, paint jobs on funny cars, skyscraper drawings by Hugh Ferriss, chinoiserie, moon paintings by Chesley Bonestell, blue and white pottery, pin-ups by Alberto Vargas, botanical illustrations, the DIY technique of Henri Rousseau, airbrush illustrations of tools in old catalogues, the fantasies of John Martin, Chinese brush paintings, and children’s books. In his oil-on-masonite works, Walker simulates the effects of time by using a resist technique of his own creation to instil crackles and scratches over elegant brush techniques. Each new work is numbered, the numbers dating back over 20 years. In his public works, Walker uses glass tile to create energetic and elegant blue-and-white murals. An oil and mylar painting is cut into squares and hermetically sealed between two pieces of thick Starphire glass. This archival method permanently protects the painting and is easily repaired in case of catastrophic damage. The scale of Walker’s work ranges from ‘picture sized’ to entire gallery walls, up to 14 by 76 feet. Pieces in his Other Worlds exhibition are custom scaled to fit each gallery.

Creator Id: 636
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Year of Birth: 1958
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture

Winnipeg-based artist KC Adams graduated from Concordia University with a BFA and works in medium that includes: sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking and kinetic art. She maintains her own website at www.kcadams.com showcasing her work and digital art projects. KC Adams has had several solo exhibitions, most recently Legacy at the Parramatta Artists Studios, Parramatta, NSW. She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, Circuit City at My Winnipeg at la maison rouge in Paris, France, Cyborg Living Space II, The Language of Intercession at the OBORO Gallery in Montreal and Cyborg Hybrids at the PHOTOQUAI: Biennale des images du monde in Paris, France. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, the Confederation Art Centre in Charlottetown, National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Canada Council’s International residency in Parramatta, NSW. She has received several grants and awards from Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Twenty pieces from the Cyborg Hybrid series is in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, ten Circuit City prints to the Indian and Inuit Art Centre in Ottawa and Birch Bark Ltd. is in the collection of the Canadian Consulate in Sydney, NSW. The CCCA Winnipeg Artists Project was generously supported by the Winnipeg Foundation.

Creator Id: 5
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Year of Birth: 1971
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Saskatchewan
Gender: Female
Mediums: ceramics, drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video

Marisa Portolese is a Canadian-Italian and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Portraiture, representations of women, and figures in nature are recurrent subjects in her artistic practice. Autobiography and familial and cultural heritage are equally prominent themes explored through the genre of storytelling, the narrative still and moving image. She often produces large-scale colour photographs, rich in painterly references that concentrate on elucidating facets of human experiences in relation to psychological and physical environments regarding identity and spectatorship. She attempts to weave together gesture, affect, and the nuances of the gaze, to create an immersive and emotional landscape for the viewer. Upon graduating with an MFA degree from Concordia University in 2001, she produced many photographic projects, which have received critical acclaim and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions widely shown in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Artist in Residence at the McCord Museum in Montreal; her work during this residency culminated as a solo show and a catalogue publication entitled In the Studio with Notman. Alongside her exhibition record, critics have written about her work in various journals, magazines, newspapers, art books and periodicals, and she has three published monographs: Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma Chambre (2003), Antonia’s Garden (2012) and In the Studio with Notman (2018). She has been awarded grants from the Canada and Québec Arts Councils and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and in 2022, she received a Concordia University Research Fellow Award. In addition, her works are included in various corporate, museum and private collections.

Creator Id: 483
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Year of Birth: 1969
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography

Michael Adamson studied at Carleton University Ottawa,ON (1989-1990), Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto, ON (1992) , The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC (1993-1997) and at the University of Kassel, Hesse, Germany (1996). His work has been widely exhibited, with inclusions in exhibitions at McMichael Collection, Kleinberg, ON; Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, Benetton Foundation, Venice; OCAD Gallery, Toronto, ON; McMaster Museum, Hamilton, ON; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Valley Gallery, Markham, ON; McIntosh Gallery, London, ON; TIAF, Toronto; FFS, Satthci Gallery London; London Art Fair, London; UK; He was founder and curator of Revolver Contemporary (2000-2002) and co-founder of Track And Field Galley (2014) and has self published two studio monographs (Open Country, 2008 and Open Road, 2018) He has been invited to make numerous commissioned works in Canada, the USA and in the UK, noteworthy projects include Kent Council UK: Holt Renfrew, Toronto: Bennet Jones, Toronto. Adamson’s work can be found in numerous private, public and corporate collections in Canada well as the USA and UK. Adamson lives and works in Toronto, Canada and is represented by Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK.

Creator Id: 7
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Year of Birth: 1971
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Male
Mediums: painting

Barbara Astman RCA is one of Canada’s most highly acclaimed artists. Her work has received national and international recognition. Since the 1970s she has explored a wide range of photographic and mixed media. Her work is represented in many museum, corporate, and private collections, in Canada, United States, and Europe. Astman has degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, and Ontario College of Art. Active in the Toronto arts community, Astman has sat on numerous boards and advisory committees. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Art Gallery of Ontario and works as a Professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design. In 2011 she was appointed to the Canadian Curatorial Committee at the AGO. In 1995 the Art Gallery of Hamilton organized a major touring retrospective exhibition, Barbara Astman - Personal/Persona - A 20 Year Survey, curated by Liz Wylie. She is represented by the Corkin Gallery, Toronto. Astman has been commissioned for public art projects beginning in the mid eighties. In 1987 she completed a floor installation for the Calgary Winter Olympics. In 2005 she completed a public art installation for the new Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Most recently she completed a public art project in Toronto, the Murano on Bay, comprised of 217 windows with photo-based imagery. In 2008 Astman and AGO Assistant Curator Georgiana Uhlyarik collaborated on a curatorial project for the Transformation AGO Exhibition, dealing with Joyce Wieland and early feminist practice. Astman’s photo-based work was included in the AGO exhibition titled: Beautiful Fiction, fall 2009. In May 2011, her recent installation, dancing with che: enter through the gift shop, opened at the Kelowna Art Galley. Her most recent solo exhibition, Daily Collage, opened at the Corkin Gallery in the fall of 2011. © Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1995 Curator: Liz Wylie.

Creator Id: 31
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Year of Birth: 1950
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: New York
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography, sculpture

ᐸᓇᐸᓯ ᐊᓇᓴᒐ Barnabus Arnasungaaq was one of the first participants in his community’s sculpture program in the early 1960s. His work has had a great influence on his community and on the art of the Keewatin for more than four decades. Although he created a number of prints and drawings during his career, Arnasungaaq is first and foremost recognized as an important figure in contemporary Inuit sculpture. He continued to make works that embody the wonderful ideographic quality that we have come to associate with the artistic communities of the tundra. During his career, the artist participated in more than 100 group and solo shows in Canada, the United States and abroad. Today his works can be found in important collections, such as the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center, the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, the National Gallery of Canada, the Center of the Dennos Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilizations, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and much more.

Creator Id: 9
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Year of Birth: 1924
City: ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ / Qamani'tuaq [Baker Lake]
Province: Nunavut
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Nunavut
Additional Statuses: Inuit
Community: recZJXig7mWdp3Us2
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: sculpture