Education

1984-1988 University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada (B.A. Honours, Fine Arts Major)

Starting Fall 2007 candidate in the Masters of Visual Studies Program at University of Toronto

 

Solo Exhibitions

2006
- stroke for stroke, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2004
- Dimension, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland
2003
- branch, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2002
- sample, The Canadian Embassy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001
- one mark, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2000
- Path, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1998
- Given, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1994
- Blessure, Gallery 788, Toronto
- Marked, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto

 

Group Exhibitions

2008
- House Lights Left Bright, Curated by Stacey Sproule, Toronto
- Monkey's Paw Shelf Label Project, Curated by Keri Reid & Stephen Fowler, Toronto
- Pulse 2: Film & Painting After the Image, Curated by Barbara Sternberg, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- MVS Open Studio, University of Toronto, Toronto

2007
- Hot Wax, The Rooms, St. John's, Newfoundland
- Ann Thinghuus und Nicole Collins, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland

2006
- Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St Vincent University Gallery, curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg
- Whodunit?, Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
- OCAD Drawing and Painting Endowment Collection 2006, Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto.
- Collins Waldburger White: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts.
- you don’t wanna miss that shit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, curated by Katherine Mulherin

2005
- Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, New York
- informal ideas 04:05:(please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- Whodunnit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
- Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland

2004
- Death in the Studio: Studio Death Snapshots, Book Project by Hannes Priesch + Niki Lederer, book launches in Vienna, NYC and Toronto
- informal ideas 04-02: landscape, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- informal ideas 04-01: (warm), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland

2003
- Motherlode, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, curated by Gretchen Sankey
- Whodunnit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
- Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland

2002
- Whodunnit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto

2001
- Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia, curated by Ihor Holubizky
- Paintings Painted, Platform Gallery, London UK
- Triangle Artists’ Workshop Canadian Participants Exhibition, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
- Translinear, Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, Canada. Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue)
- Translinear, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

2000
- Translinear, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
- Translinear, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto (catalogue)

1999
- Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
- Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Show, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto (catalogue)
- Toronto: Under 40, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Art 1999 Chicago, Seventh Annual Exposition of International Galleries of Contemporary Art, May 7-11, Chicago, USA
- Informal Ideas 99.1: (Preview ‘99), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

1998
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
- Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- Informal Ideas 98.2, 14 Degrees of Abstraction, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- Nicole Collins, Michael Davidson, Sheila Gregory, Milly Ristvedt: Paintings, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s NF, Canada

1997
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto (catalogue)
- International Juried Exhibition of Encaustic Works, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York
- Colour in the Square, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
- R&D (Research & Development), York Quay Gallery, Toronto
- Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

1996
- GLO, Archive Inc., Toronto
- Juicy Fruit, Art Gallery of Durham, Canada (catalogue)

1995

- Juicy Fruit, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Canada (catalogue)
- Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)

1994
- Mud, 59 Adelaide Street East, Toronto (catalogue)
- Merging XVI, Gallery 788, Toronto

1993
- Cover Me, Site specific Store-front Installation, 488 Queen Street West, Toronto
- Cabinet des Curiosites, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec
- Look ‘93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario

1992
- Fleshcase, Installation, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada
- Roundup ‘92, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto
- Contemporary Canadian Painting, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris, France

1991
- Chambermade, Embassy Hotel, London, Canada
- CKOC Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Juror’s Award
- Roundup ‘91, Toronto

1990
- Housing: a Right, Powerplant, Toronto, Canada

1989
- University of Guelph Fine Arts Graduates 25th Anniversary Alumni Show, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada

 

Grants, Awards & Residencies

2004
- Canada Council Travel Grant (Switzerland)

2002
- Canada Council Travel Grant (Tokyo, Japan)
- Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (Tokyo, Japan)

2001
- Canada Council Travel Grant (London UK)

2000
- Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Fall 2000, New York City, USA

1999
- Canada Council Travel Grant (Newfoundland)

1998
- Toronto Arts Award Protegee Program commission by award winner Suzy Lake

1997
- Canada Council C Grant

1994
- Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant
- Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance

1992
- Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant

 

Teaching & Related
2008
- Paper: Mischief and Malice: Crime in the Museum, Symposium & Online Exhibition. Department of Museum Studies, UofT, Toronto
- Juror: Environs, Scarborough Arts Council. Annual Juried Art Exhibition

2007
- Essay contribution to 26: Michael Davidson, Translinear Publishing
- Panelist: Art vs Design, Organized by XSPACE, OCAD Student Gallery

2006
- Instructor (since 2004), Ontario College of Art & Design, Department of Drawing and Painting, Courses: Materials & Processes; Process as Art the Meaning of Materials; Alchemy and Art; Colour and Composition
- Instructor (since 1998) Toronto School of Art, Contemporary Issues, Professional Studio, Encaustic Intensive Workshops
- Visiting Artist, Centennial College Creative Fusion Lecture Series
- Panel member: Scarborough Arts Council Panel Discussion: Art can teach you but can Art be taught? Centennial College, Toronto

2005
- Panel member: BIG TALK: Community and Conversations in Art & Design Education Conference, OCAD, Toronto

2004
- Guest Artist, Painting Department, Ontario College of Art & Design
- Jury Member, Mrs. W.O. Forsyth Scholarship, Ontario College of Art & Design
- Catalogue Essay: Doris McCarthy Everything which is Yes published by University of Toronto at Scarborough

2003-04
- Instructor, Ontario College of Art & Design Continuing Studies Program and Admissions Portfolio Clinics
- Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Drawing as a Contemporary Practice, Basic Painting, Encaustic Workshop, Faculty Student Advisor

2002
- Visiting Artist, University of Guelph

2000
- Visiting Artist, Art & Art History Program of University Of Toronto & Sheridan College, Toronto
- Artists’ Talk at McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON (Translinear)

1998
- Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts

1998-2002
- Instructor, The Toronto School of Art, Encaustic Painting

1997-2002
- Art Gallery of Ontario Artists’ with their Works program

1995
- Visiting Artist, University of Guelph, Guelph

1994
- Canadian Women’s Art in the Schools, and educational program developed and circulated nationally to secondary schools by the Women’s Art Resource Centre

1991-2004
- Aboveground Art Supplies, Toronto, Director Marketing and Promotions