Education

2020-current

• PhD candidate, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto

2015

• Summer Institute of Art, European Graduate School, Switzerland

• Master of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph

2013

• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

Publications and Presentations

2024

• Care/full Looking: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Account of Painting, Genealogy of the Posthuman, forthcoming: June 2024

• Care/full Looking: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Account of Painting, Beyond Humanism Conference Series “Technologies-Ecologies and the Networks of Posthuman Care”, conference presenter, Posthumanities Research Centre, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, July 2024

2023

• “A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” Ecocene: Journal of Environmental Humanities, June 2023

• “The Affect of “Unfixing” the Canadian Tundra,” conference presenter, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Toronto

2022

• “A Shadow is a Colour, a Body is a Shape, an Edge is a Line: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting, Part 1” 2, Borderland, November 2023

• “A Shadow is a Colour, a Body is a Shape, an Edge is a Line: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” Part 2, Borderland, November 2023

2012

• “Contemporary Landscapes”; artist talk, Cityscape Gallery, Vancouver

• Undersides; web publication, Vancouver

• Reimaging Water; exhibition catalogue, Vancouver

• Goodnight Goodluck; exhibition review, Tri-City News, Vancouver

• Goodnight Goodluck; exhibition review, Where Magazine, Vancouver

• Goodnight Goodluck; art on transit, BC Translink, Vancouver

2010

• Uitkyk: exhibition catalogue, Distell Foundation publication, Cape Town

Solo Exhibitions

• 2023 Entangled Terrains, Special Projects Gallery, York University

• 2015 Silver Mirror Woven Veil, G Gallery, Toronto

• 2012 Goodnight Goodluck, Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody

• 2010 No Matter How Temporary, Knysna Art Gallery, Knysna, South Africa

Selected Exhibitions

2024

• Fresh Paint / New Construction, Art Mûr, Montreal

2023

• Intelligence Unboud, Foreign Objekt, Berkeley California

2022

• Colour and Form, Etobicoke Civic Center Gallery, Toronto

• With-and-For, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto

2015

• This is a Demo, Summer Institute of Art, European Graduate School

• Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto

2014

• Back to the Future, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto

• So It Goes, Boardinghouse Gallery, Guelph

2013

• Biggie Smalls, Zavitz Gallery, The University of Guelph

• Same Difference, Boardinghouse Gallery, Guelph

• play/ground, IE Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

• Graduation Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

• The Landscape of Abstraction, Gam Gallery, Vancouver

2012

• Going to Sea; Maritime Museum, Vancouver

• Ethereal Landscapes; Cityscape Gallery, North Vancouver

• Reimaging Water, Emily Carr University, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver

2010

• Uitkyk; Distell Foundation, Cape Town

2009

• Animal; VEO Gallery, Cape Town

2008

• Arternative Gallery, Cape Town

2007

• Discourse; Iart gallery, Cape Town

Awards

2023

• Lawrence Heisey Graduate Award in Fine Arts

• Academic Excellence Fund

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2022

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship

• Academic Excellence Fund

2021

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2020

• York University Graduate Scholarship

• York University Graduate Fellowship

2018

• City of Zurich Subsidized Artist Studio

2016

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2015

• University of Guelph Dean’s Scholarship

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2014

• College of Arts Graduate Travel, Research and Creation Award

• Ontario Graduate Fellowship

2013

• Ténot Fondation Bursary

• Tony Sherman Graduate Scholarship

• University of Guelph Dean’s Scholarship

• Board of Graduate Research Scholarship

• Masters Growth Fund Entrance Scholarship

2012

• John David Carr Memorial Scholarship

• Kwi Am Choi Scholarship

2006

• Langara College Drawing Award

2005

• Langara College Bursary

Non-refereed Contributions

2023

• “Care/full Looking: Some Notes Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” blog post, Foreign Objekt: Intelligence Unbound. Posthuman Art Network, online

• “A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Noticing the Queerness of Form in Visual Arts Practices,” blog post, Foreign Objekt: Intelligence Unbound. Posthuman Art Network, online

• Journal of Posthumanism, Peer reviewer

2022

• A Beginner’s Guide to Painting; Interview, Excalibur

• For the Love of Painting, facilitator of community painting group, Toronto

Residencies

2023

• Foreign Objekt Residency and Intelligence Unbound Program, Posthuman Art Network, online

2014

• CAMAC, France

Work Experience

2023

• York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Course Director VISA 2024 – Painting: Colour and Composition

2020-2023

• York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2021 – Painting: Approaches to the Human Figure; VISA 2024 – Painting: Colour and Composition

• York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2081 – Introduction to Drawing; VISA 2025 – Painting: Techniques and Materials, ARTH 3710 – Memory and Place

2020-21

• Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto Assistant to the Director

2013-2015

• The University of Guelph, Guelph School of Fine Art and Music Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant