Cecilia Berkovic

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Cecilia Berkovic

Cecilia Berkovic is a Toronto-based mixed media artist, sculptor and graphic designer.

Berkovic received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in New York, and has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. [1] She has been a member of the artist collective Instant Coffee since 2001 and a member of the board of directors at Gallery TPW since 2005. [2] She has also taught at Ryerson University. [3] As part of Mercer Union's international project Advertising By Artists, [4] Berkovic's work was published in The Wire, They Shoot Homos Don't They?, Cabinet, and Border Crossings. Recent work includes poster projects for Nuit Blanche and AIDS Action Now! in Toronto.

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References

  1. "EVENT: "First Comes Love," an installation by artists Cecilia Berkovic and Katharine Mulherin". University of Rochester. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  2. "Gallery TPW: Board of Directors". Gallery TPW. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  3. School of Image Arts 2013-2014. Ryerson University. 2013. p. 65.
  4. "Art Metropole / ADVERTISING BY ARTISTS CECILIA BERKOVIC - STEPHEN ELLWOOD - NESTOR KRUGER - YOKO ONO".
  5. "Mercer Union | Taking [a] part".