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Ilene Sova is a multidisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, curator and community organizer based in Toronto, Canada. She is well known for the Missing Women Project, a series of thirty large-format portraits of missing Ontario women from 1970 to 2000. [1] [2] Sova is the Ada Slaight Chair of Painting and Drawing at OCAD University, Toronto.
Sova is the founder of Blank Canvases, [5] an in-school creative arts education programme in Toronto, and was the Artistic Director of Walnut Studios, destroyed by fire in 2018. [6] In 2013 Sova founded the Feminist Art Collective (FAC), [7] a grass-roots, intersectional, feminist, volunteer-led arts organisation. [8] FAC presents feminist conferences, artist residencies and a range of community programming. In her work as an art educator, Sova has enabled interdisciplinary and contemporary art pedagogies through the lens of social justice, to implement strategies of decolonisation and anti-oppression. In 2014 Sova was invited by New Democratic Party Members of Parliament Peggy Nash and Niki Ashton to exhibit the Missing Women Project in Ottawa at the National Women’s Forum on Feminism and the state of women’s rights. Sova is a Board member of Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario [9] (CPAMO) and the Colour Research Society of Canada. [10] In 2018 Sova delivered the Arthur C. Danto Memorial Keynote Lecture at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) on the Missing Women Project.
2021 - Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Award, OCAD University, Toronto
2020 - Emerging Leaders in the Americas [11] Faculty Mobility Grant, Government of Canada
Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD, is a public art university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus is spread throughout several buildings and facilities within downtown Toronto. The university is a co-educational institution which operates three academic faculties, the Faculty of Art, the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Design. The university also provides continuing education services through its School of Continuing Studies.
Jess Dobkin is a performance artist based in Toronto, Canada. She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station.
Jason Baerg is a visual artist, media producer and educator who works in drawing, painting, film and new media. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and developed and implemented the national Metis arts program for the Vancouver Olympics (2010). Baerg lives and works in Toronto.
Sarindar Dhaliwal is a Canadian multi-media artist, based in Toronto.
Barbara Astman is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.
Sara Louise Diamond, is a Canadian artist and was the president of OCAD University, Canada.
Bonnie Devine is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently an associate professor at OCAD University and the founding chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.
Shary Boyle D.F.A. is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto.
Nicole Collins is a contemporary Canadian artist whose work, which takes the form of painting, performance, video, and sound, explores the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on visceral materials. She currently teaches at OCAD University.
FASTWÜRMS is a Canadian artist collective based in Toronto and Creemore. Founded in 1979, FASTWÜRMS originally had three members: Kim Kozzi, born Kim Kozolanka in Ottawa, Ontario, 1955, Dai Skuse born David Skuse in Oldham, England, 1955, and Napo B. born Napoleon Brousseau in Ottawa, Ontario, 1950. The collective was employed as security guards at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa prior to moving to Toronto in 1980. In the mid-1980s, Napo B. moved to NYC and formally left the collective in 1991. Kozzi and Skuse have continued to work in Toronto as FASTWÜRMS.
Rae Johnson (1953-2020) was a Canadian painter who lived in Toronto, Canada.
April Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, photographer, teacher and curator whose practice includes various medias, from photography, film, video and installation.
Zainub Verjee DFA LL. D. DFA DFA is a Kenya-born Canadian video artist, curator, writer, arts administrator and public intellectual. She began her career in the Vancouver arts community of the 1970s, which was steeped in interdisciplinary, intermedia, and intercultural practices. Having made her mark as an emerging artist, she shifted the emphasis of her work to curatorial, administrative and policy arenas. Applying the insight, creativity and criticality of an artist, she has brought “institutional critique” into the workings of the institution itself. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts, Tactical Video Movement, Third Cinema and the post-Bandung Conference decolonization, Verjee has been embedded in the history of women’s labour in British Columbia. In February 2020 she was awarded the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “outstanding contribution to the arts”. In 2021 she was conferred an honorary doctorate by the OCAD University recognizing her outstanding contribution to arts, racial and gender equity She was elected as a Senior Fellow of the Massey College at University of Toronto in the Fall of 2021. Earlier she was appointed as McLaughlin College Fellow at the York University. In 2022 she was conferred Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University, Halifax She was the recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts given by Simon Fraser University, Burnaby in the Spring Convocation of 2023.Her contribution to the pioneering prison theatre program in Canada and for integral role in the formation of the British Columbia Arts Council was recognized by University of Victoria by conferring her with an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in Spring Convocation in 2023.
Barry Ace (artist) (born 1958) is an Anishinaabe (Odawa) photographic and multimedia artist and curator from Sudbury, Ontario. Ace's work includes mixed media paintings, and mixed media textile and sculptural work that combines traditional Anishinaabe textiles and beadwork with found electrical components. Ace has a strong interest in combining traditional and contemporary technologies, aesthetics, and techniques in his artwork.
Annette Mangaard is a Danish/Canadian filmmaker, artist, writer, director, and producer, whose films and installations have been shown internationally at art galleries, cinematheques and film festivals. With a practice rooted in theatrical drama and explorative documentary, Mangaard's films investigate notions and nuances of freedom within the confines of structural expectations. Mangaard's early films are filled with experimental visual effects, footage is often shot in Super 8 and reshot in 16mm and then printed optically frame by frame. The result is a grainy textured look, with images that are saturated in colour.
Karl Beveridge is a Canadian artist. His practice responds to critical contemporary cultural, social, and political issues through the use of collaboration and dialogue. Beveridge and long-time collaborator and partner Carole Condé challenge concepts of ideology, power, and control.
Tsēma Igharas, formerly known as Tamara Skubovius, is an interdisciplinary artist and member of the Tāłtān First Nation based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Igharas uses Potlatch methodology in making art, to assert the relationships between bodies and the world, and to challenge colonial systems of value and measurement of land and resources.
Pamela Edmonds is a Canadian visual and media arts curator focused on themes of decolonization and the politics of representation. She is considered an influential figure in the Black Canadian arts scene. Since 2019, Edmonds has been the senior curator of the McMaster Museum of Art.
Rajni Perera is a painter and sculptor, known for exploring how power works through the imagery of science fiction. She sees in science fiction a way of combating oppression which she combines with her ideas of revolution and social reform. Perera uses mixed media to actively engage in discussion with the viewing audience about the aesthetic treatment of gender and identity politics.
Azadeh Elmizadeh is a visual artist currently based in Toronto.
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