Education
2006 M.A.
Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
University of the Arts London, England, UK
1998-2000 B.F.A., British
Columbia Open University,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995-1998 A.O.C.A.D.
(Honours Associates
Degree), Ontario College of Art and
Design, Drawing & Painting,
Toronto, ON,
Canada
1996-1997 Off-Campus
Independant Study, Florence, Italy
Solo
Exhibitions
2012 Saints, East Side Culture Crawl, Parker Street Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Visions & Vistas, Railtown Actors Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Chatsworth, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Atrium
Space, London, UK
2011 M40, Westminster
Reference Library Exhibition Space, Leicester
Square, London, UK
2009 Antoinette, Bloc Projects,
Sheffield, UK
2009 Metal Head, Look Out Gallery, Regent
College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
2009 The Human Right, Havana Gallery, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
2008 Portraits: West Africa, Queen's Lounge,
Mercy
Ships, Monrovia, Liberia
2007 Malo
Madzi Phiri,
Mandala House,
Blantyre, Malawi
2007 Metal Head, The Butchershop
Gallery (Little Mountain Studios),
Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2007 The Night
my Sister was in Labour
I Ate Pastries,
Cotelère
Gallery, Sheffield,
UK
2006 Warta, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2006 River Warta,
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, ON,
Canada
2004 Water,
A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2012 Square Foot, Twist Gallery, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2012 Bow Arts Open Show 2012, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2011 East Side Culture Crawl, Sweet William Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2010 The
East Side Culture
Crawl, Sweet
William Studio,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 The
Pursuit of Happiness,
The Center of
European Meetings,
Elblag, Poland
2010 War
and the Body,
Blackall Studios,
London, UK
2010 The
Pursuit of Happiness,
Arsenal Gallery,
Poznan, Poland
2009 Small Scale,
Little Mountain
Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2009 Square
Foot, AWOL
Gallery, Toronto, ON,
Canada
2009 Ambrosia,
Cupola Gallery,
Sheffield,
UK
2009 Going
Postal,
Institute of
Contemporary
Art, London,
UK
2009 Pick
N Mix,
Leytonstone
Ex-Woolworths
Space, London,
UK
2009 Canadian Portrait,
Cube Gallery,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
2008 Temptation,
Cupola Gallery,
Sheffield,
UK
2008 The National
Open Art Competition,
Chichester
Festival Theatre,
Curated
by Professor
Maurice Cockrill
RA, Richard
Cork, and Gavin
Turk, (catalogue),
Chichester,
UK
2008 Paint
Landscape
Photo,
Jacana Gallery,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2007 La
Moustache,
Hope Lounge,
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 La
Moustache,
Boa Taverne
Moderne, Montreal, QC,
Canada
2007 Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2007 Group Show, The Old Sweet Shop Gallery,
Sheffield, UK
2007 The Great Klondike Puzzle Rush, Dawson
City Arts Society, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2007 Bloc Studio Artists
Show, Bloc Space,
Sheffield, UK
2007 Open Up,
Bloc Studios, Sheffield,
UK
2007 Happy Birthday,
MacKenzie Art Gallery,
Regina, SK, Canada
2007 Random,
Homestead Gallery, London,
UK
2007 Mail Art,
Struts
Gallery & Faucet
Media
Arts Centre,
Sackville, NB, Canada
2006 MA
Show
2006, Chelsea
College of Art and Design,
(catalogue), London,
UK
2006 Square
Foot, A.W.O.L. Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2006 Real
Proper
Show, Triangle
Space, Chelsea College,
London, UK
2006 The
Banquet, Triangle
Space, Chelsea College,
London, UK
2005 Eastside
Culture
Crawl,
1000 Parker Street Studio,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Square
Foot
NYC, Project
Spaceman, Brooklyn, NY,
USA
2005 Square
Foot,
A.W.O.L.
Gallery,
Toronto,
Canada
2005 In-Portrait,
Butchershop Gallery,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 The
Picnic
Project,
Swoon Gallery, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2005 Form
and
Function, Ayden
Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2005 Group
Show, Studio 88
Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
2004 Holiday
Show, A.W.O.L. Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2004 Euphorbia,
Semiahmoo House, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
2004 Gallery
Artists
Show,
Fosbrooke Gallery, Calgary,
AB, Canada
2004 Square
Foot, A.W.O.L. Gallery,
Toronto, AB, Canada
2003 Supernumerary,
Fanny Larouche Artspace,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2003 Home & Style,
A.W.O.L. Studios, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2003 Viewer
Discretion
Advised,
10th Avenue Studios,
Calgary, AB, Canada
2003 Square
Foot, A.W.O.L. Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2003 Christmas
Show, Fosbrooke
Gallery, Calgary, AB,
Canada
2003 Up,
Untitled Art Society, Calgary,
AB, Canada
2002 Stride
Beastiary, The
Stride Gallery, Calgary,
AB, Canada
2002 The
Art
of Art Giving,
Image 54 Gallery, Calgary,
AB, Canada
2000 Hope,
ManiFest Gallery, North
Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000 Legacy,
ManiFest Gallery, North
Vancouver, BC, Canada
1998 Harmony
Arts
Festival,
Dundarave Centre Gallery,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
1998 Annual
Exhibition, Ontario
College of Art and
Design, Toronto, ON,
Canada
1998 A
Single
Evening Event,
The Village by the
Grange, Toronto, ON,
Canada
1998 Performance
Piece: Untitled Piece
for Percussion Ensemble & 1-4
Artists,
York
University,
Toronto,
ON,
Canada
1998 First
Annual
Figure
Drawing & Painting
Exhibition, OCAD,
Toronto, ON, Canada
1997 Re/membering,
Ontario College of
Art and Design Atrium,
Toronto,
ON, Canada
1997 Arte
Firenze, Vaughan
Estate, (catalogue),
Toronto, ON, Canada
1997 Box,
Ontario College of
Art and Design Atrium,
Toronto,
ON, Canada
1997 Allora...Buh
Buh
Buh,
Bending Spoons Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada
1997 In
Partenza, OCAD
Studios, Florence,
Italy
1996 Minestrone,
OCAD Studios, Florence,
Italy
1996 Annual
Exhibition, Ontario
College of Art and
Design, Toronto, ON,
Canada
1990 Shared
Visions,
Shared Concerns,
Hong Kong Bank of Canada,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
1990 Artists
in the
Schools,
Vancouver Arts Council,
(catalogue), Vancouver, BC,
Canada
1989-1990 For
Earth’s
Sake,
(touring
exhibition)
Vancouver
Public
Library,
Vancouver
Aquarium,
Western
Canada
Wilderness
Committee, “In
Our Hands” Environment
Conference,
Vancouver,
BC,
Canada
1988 Group
Exhibition, Cartwright
Gallery, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
1988 Theatre
for
an Unperformed Opera,
Vancouver
Children's Art Gallery, BC, Canada
Fundraising
Exhibitions
2012 Art-In-Mind, The Maynards School, Devon, UK
2012 Rotary
Art Auction, Red
and White Club, Calgary, BC, Canada
2011 Rotary
Art Auction, Red
and White Club, Calgary, BC, Canada
2010 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
hosted Art Auction,
The Kingswood School, Corby, UK
2010 Rotary
Art Auction, Red
and White Club, Calgary, BC, Canada
2009 Rotary
Art Auction, Red and White Club,
Calgary, BC, Canada
2008 The Little Art Show, Hangman Gallery & Mercedes-Benz,
Toronto, Canada
2008 Whodunit?, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2008 Art
for Life, Rocky Mountaineer Station, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
2008 Rotary Art Auction, Red and
White Club, Calgary, BC, Canada
2007 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art and Design,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2007 The Little Art Show, BMW Toronto, Toronto,
Canada
2007 Rotary Art Auction, Red
and White Club, Calgary, BC, Canada
2006 Whodunit?, Ontario College of Art and Design,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2006 Rotary
Art Auction, Red and White Club, Calgary,
BC, Canada
2005 Whodunit?, Ontario College of Art and
Design, Toronto, ON, Canada
2005 World Aids Day, Pacific
Palisades Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Art for Life, Four Seasons
Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Out of the Rain, Roundhouse
Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Silent Auction Preview (Art
for Life), Jacana Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Rotary Art Auction, Red
and White Club, Calgary, AB, Canada
2004 Rotary Art Auction, Red & White
Club, Calgary, AB, Canada
2003 Foxy Fundraiser, Red Head Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada
2003 Amnesty International Arts Jam,
Pumphouse Theatre, Calgary, AB, Canada
2003 Rotary Art Auction, Red & White
Club, Calgary, AB, Canada
2002 Rotary Art Auction, Euro-Canadian
Cultural Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
2001 Rotary Art Auction, Euro-Canadian
Cultural Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
Grants/Awards
2003 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant,
Canada
1998 Mrs. W. O. Forsyth Scholarship, Toronto,
ON, Canada
1998 David L. Stevenson Scholarship, Toronto,
ON, Canada
1996 Joseph W. Bain Scholarship, Toronto, ON,
Canada
Reviews
and Publications
Vandas, Dave, "We Make Stuff", Book, Vancouver, Canada, 2012
"Psych" (Television Show), GEP Productions
Inc., Art used in film, 2010
"War and the Body Exhibition", Catalogue,
Blackall Studios, London, UK, June 8, 2010
"The Pursuit of Happiness", Catalogue, Arsenal
Gallery, Poznan, Poland, April 2010
Watts, Peter, “Pick 'N' Mix art: Woolworths
Returns as Pop-Up Gallery”, Time Out, June 25, 2009
Love, Emma, “Observations: Plenty of Treats in
Store as Empty Woolworths gets an Arts Make-Over” The
Independent, June 26, 2009
“Paulette Edwards”, BBC Radio: South
Yorkshire, November 8, 2008
“Open Art”, The Audience, Autumn/Winter 2008,
pg. 14-15
“The National Open Art Competition 2008”, Catalogue, Chichester Open, October 2008
“The Marmite Prize 2008”, Catalogue, 2008
"Michal
Tkachenko", PaintBlog, March 13, 2008, World Wide Web:
http://www.paintblog.ca/2008/03/13/michal-tkachenko/
"Mafa
2006", Catalogue, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
London, UK, Sept. 2006
Griffin, Kevin, “Culture
Crawl”, The Vancouver Sun, November 12, 2005, pg. F1
Balzar, David, “Eye Candy: Square Foot”,
Eye Weekly, August 11, 2005, pg. 41“Best of a Good Bargain”,
R.M. Vaughan, National Post, August 13, 2005, Toronto section,
pg. 10
Balzar,
David, “Eye
Candy”,
Eye Magazine, August 26, 2004, pg. 39 (Square
Foot)
Osborne, Catherine, “Painting Jamboree”, National
Post,
December
2003, T.O. p.9 (Supernumerary)
Goddard, Peter, “230 Square Feet of Artwork at A.W.O.L. Gallery”,
Exhibit Review, Toronto Star, August 23, 2003, p. H10 (Square
Foot)
Nurwisah, Ron, “Best Bet: Square Foot”, Eye Magazine,
August
2003, vol.12, issue47, p.58
Katz, Milena, “Human Colour”, Parkhurst Exchange, April
2002
Interview with Jane Urquhart for “The Underpainter”, Art
acquired, CBC Television, 1996
Collections
Beit Cure International Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
Chelsea
College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Artists’ Book
Collection, London, UK
Ernst & Young,
London, UK
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada
Carey Theological College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
Scad Holdings Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Winkchop Productions Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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