Mina Totino

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Mina Totino (born 1949) is a Canadian painter currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] Totino's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Berlin. [1] She first came to prominence in the 1985 Young Romantics exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Totino's work is informed by contemporary criticism, especially literary and film criticism that have analyzed the position of the imaginary spectator.[ citation needed ]

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Life and education

Mina Totino was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. [1] She obtained her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1982. [1]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Curatorial work

In 2014, Mina Totino curated Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey at Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC. [10] The exhibition proved significant in marking shifting attitudes and discussions around painting and abstraction. [10]

Writings

Mina Totino has an artist book, I Look Up, Volume One, 1997 – 2000, co-published by Charles H. Scott Gallery and Publication Studio Vancouver. [2]

Awards

Mina Totino alongside Skeena Reece received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA awards on April 11, 2014. [11]

Collections

Mina Totino's work is found in the collections of the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

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