This CV encompasses my personal (ongoing) and my collective (2010-2017) practices. Collective past projects are available at vsvsvs.org.

Education

2020

  • MFA, San Francisco Art Institute

2009

  • B.A. (Hon.) University of Guelph, majored in Studio Art
Projects / Exhibitions / Solo / Group

2025

  • Bending Light and Time, Invision Gallery Projects, San Francisco California

2024

  • IN FLUX: Recalibrating the Unknown, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico California

2023

  • The Deeper We Sunk in Dreams, (Curated by Lexygius Sanchez Calip) Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, California

2022

  • Between Artists (Curated by Brett Reichman), San Francisco Art Institute – San Francisco, California

2021

  • Empty Set (Curated by Blanca ), Vanitas Contemporary – San Francisco, California

2020

  • MFA Exhibition (Curated by Zeina Barakeh), San Francisco Art Institute – San Francisco, California

2019

  • . . . , (Curated by: Merve Sahin), Schafer Gallery – San Francisco California
  • Mistranslation, (Curated by: Jasmine Zhang), Diego Rivera Gallery – San Francisco California
  • In the Fold, Schafer Gallery San Francisco California (Curated by: Mónica Coelho)

2017

  • Desire Lines, Art Spin, Waterfront Toronto, and Myseum, Toronto Ontario
  • Drive-Thru, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto Ontario
  • SOLO: Sailing Stones, curated by Artemis Potamianou, Platform Projects, Athens Greece.
  • SOLO: I want to help us, Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough, Ontario

2016

  • SOLO: at the same time, curated by Nate McLeod, Calgary Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta.
  • SOLO: to space in, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
  • In SITU, curated by Gemma Warren for the Toronto Art Book Fair, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.
  • Showroom, Curated by Sarah Robayo-Sheridan, Art Museum, U of T, Toronto
  • Baker’s Dozen, Curated by CK2, Michael Bailey Gates Studio, New York

2015

  • Curious Artifacts, Curated by Becky Campbell at Art Wall in Athens, Greece.
  • Symbology, public installation for Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
  • Something, something blue, public installation at York Ramp Park, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Vibration Station, curated by Charlie Bierk for Wayhome Festival, Oro Medonte, Ontario.
  • SOLO: Not together, but alongside, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: Drift, Centre Bang, Chicoutimi, Québec.

2014

  • Water Carriers, for C Magazine’s Sauna Symposium, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: things on things on things, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharine’s, Ontario.
  • If every year is a marble, how much marble do you have left?, curated by Yan Wu for This Area is Under 23-Hour Surveillance, Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Posters for Kiosk, as part of Derek Sullivan’s Where do I end and you begin, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Dunk Tank, Art Spin, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Taking [a]part, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
  • You Do What You Love Because You Do One, and Two, and More Than Two, curated by Basil AlZeri as part of Work It, gallerywest, Toronto, Ontario
  • Coat Check, curated by Artemis Potamianou for Platforms Project at Art Athina, Athens, Greece.
  • Temporary Monument, performance curated by Aisle 4 for Art on the Danforth, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Artists’ Block, AGO Next, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
  • MINIMALE 2, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • You Do What You Love Because You Do One, and Two, and More Than Two, curated by Basil AlZeri as part of Work It, gallerywest, Toronto, Ontario
  • How Hard is Your Art, AGO First Thursdays, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Posts and Pillars, Xpace, Toronto, Curated by Jennifer Simaitis and Stefan Hancherow

2013

  • Mystery Tapes, curated by Suzanne Carte and Su-Ying Lee for Under New Management: Video Store, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City, Yukon; Access Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia; Tiers-espace/Third Space Gallery in St. John, New Brunswick; and Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario.
  • SHORTLISTED: Dundas & Islington Public Art Competition, City of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 1-855-IS IT ART, curated by Ami Barak for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: space mods, Cambridge Gallery (Preston), Cambridge, Ontario.
  • Inside Story, Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop Gala, Toronto, Ontario.
  • More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), as part of Micah Lexier’s One, and Two, and More Than Two, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Frozen, Art Spin, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: The Shelf, Xpace Window Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2012

  • Ivory Tickler, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS Mystery VHS, for Gifts By Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: VSVSVS Movies In!, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Less Making, More Breaking, Big On Bloor Festival, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Staging Project, New Traditions Festival, Whippersnapper Gallery/Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario.
  • SOLO: VSVSVS at Art on the Danforth, Curated by Butcher Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Shh!: Silent Auction Exhibition and Fundraiser, mMOCCA in Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • ERI 5: The Resistance to Change, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Accidental Ashtrays, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Giftshop Giftshop, Curated by Sean Martindale and Pascale Paquette as a part of the NOW exhibition at the Toronto Now Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

2011

  • Autofunction, G Gallery, 134 Ossington Street, Toronto (Organized by Derek Sullivan and Shane Krepakevich)
  • VSVSVS Mystery Cans, for Gifts By Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Ghost Hole III, VSVSVS, The White House, and Whippersnapper Gallery, Kensington Market, Toronto, Ontario

2009

  • More is More, Board Of Directors, Toronto
Board of Directors Positions

2019-20

  • San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Student Trustee, San Francisco California
Public Presentations

2016

  • Artist Talk, Specialized Studio Practice, University of Guelph

2015

  • Artist Talk for “Not Together, But Alongside”, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario

2014

  • YYZLAB Roundtable, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Artist Talk, Boarding House Arts Incubator, Guelph
  • Artist Talk, University of Guelph
  • Artist Talk, part of Canadian Platforms talk at Art Athina, Athens, Greece.
  • Competition at the Heart of Play, Artist Talk, First Thursdays at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

2013

  • Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Practitioners Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Show and Tell and Sell, Presentation, Art Metropole (at Daniel Faria Gallery), Toronto, Ontario.

2011

  • Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Alternative, Artist Talk, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2009

  • Artist Talk, Art & Ideas Series, Judith & Norman ALIX Art Gallery, Sarnia
Publications / Press

2023

  • Video Sound Archive. “S8.” Video Sound Archive, October 2023. Web.

2016

  • Dick, Terence. “DIY at MKG127.” Akimbo, August 2016. Akimblog. Web.
  • Blackwell, Adrian. “How to Turn a Foreclosure Crisis Into a Domestic Revolution.” Border Crossings, Summer 2016, pgs 90-95. Print.
  • Moreno, Victor, Supermarket 2016, Shift, May 9th, 2016, Web.

2015

  • Cormier, Stephanie. “VSVSVS.” Border Crossings, Winter 2015, pgs 94-5. Print
  • Travis, Rebecca. “VSVSVS” Canadian Art, Fall 2015, pg. 180. Print.
  • White, Murray. “VSVSVS: At Mercer Union, it’s all for one.” Toronto Star, May 31 2015. thestar,com. Print/Web.
  • Vaughn, R.M. “VSVSVS AT MERCER UNION: A WHITE-CUBE COMPROMISE” June 18 2015. Web.

2014

  • Whyte, Murray. “Taking [a] Part at Mercer Union.” Toronto Star, July 2014. thestar.com. Web.
  • Dick, Terence. “Taking [a] part at Mercer Union.” Akimbo, July 2014. Akimblog. Web.
  • Luo, Amy. “Artist Retreats: Making Space for Artist Projects at Art Toronto.” Canadian Art Online, October 2014. Web.
  • Anonymous, “10 Amazing Art Pieces to see in Toronto.” Azure Magazine, October 2014. Web.
  • ExanTV. “ARTopia – Art of the Danforth.” Video. Youtube.com. Youtube, July 2014. Web.
  • Whyte, Murray. “Taking [a] Part at Mercer Union.” Toronto Star, July 2014. thestar.com. Web.
  • Dick, Terence. “Taking [a] part at Mercer Union.” Akimbo, July 2014. Akimblog. Web.
  • Ireland, Ann. “Meet VSVSVS, Another Group of Seven.” Canadian Art, July 2014. Canadian Art Online. Web.
  • Ireland, Ann. “Strength in Numbers.” Canadian Art, Summer 2014, pgs 66-71. Print.
  • Cooley, Alison. “Episode 1: What is Art?” What It Looks Like Podcast. Cooley: March 2014.

2013

  • Lexier, Micah. More Than Two (Let It Make Itself). 1st ed., Toronto: The Power Plant, 2013. Ex: 211. Print.
  • Sharpe, Emma, Shanley Maguire, and Rhodi Iliadou. “We’re All Adults Here.” Go home Print. Feb 2013: Web. Feb. 2013.
  • Xpace. Volume. 1st ed., Toronto: Sonic Print, 2013. Ex: 40-41. Print
  • Broken City Lab. 1W3KND: On Social Practice and Collaboration, 48 Hours at a Time. 1st ed., Windsor: Ontario Trillium Foundation, 2013. Ex: 172-179. Print.
  • Akin Collective, et al. “Colouring Book” Akin Collective. 1st ed. Toronto: 2013
  • Corsano, Otino. “Quick Draw Artist Interview #31: VSVSVS.” Art Post, October 2013.
  • Rhodes, Richard. “Ami Barak at Nuit Blanche: Revisiting the Readymade.” Canadian Art, September 2013. Canadian Art Online. Web.
  • Whyte, Murray. “At the Power Plant, All Together Now.” Toronto Star, Sept 2013. thestar.com. Web.
  • Rhodes, Richard. “The Rose Without Why.” Canadian Art, Fall 2013, pgs. 144-147. Print.
  • Moser, Gabrielle. “Art Spin: Critical Mass in the Making.” Canadian Art, August 2013. Canadian Art Online. Web.
  • Bruneau, Benjamin, and Sky Goodden. “Oh Canada! 30 Promising Young Art World Stars From the Great White North.” Blouin ArtInfo, January, 2013. Artinfo.com. Web.
  • Bloom, Jess, and Rachel McFarland. “VSVSVS, Artist Collective.” Studio Beat, 2013.

2012

  • Jager, David. “Storefront Sit-In,” Now Magazine, Aug 30-Sept 6, 2012, Vol.31 No. 53, p. 42. Print.
  • Carson, Andrea. “Voca Visits Art Collective VSVSVS.” View on Canadian Art, March 2012.
  • Skrypnychenko, Anuta. “INTERVIEW.” BullsEye Magazine, September 2012.
  • Dyment, David. “Accidental Ashtrays.” Artists’ Books and Multiples, February 2012.
  • Collings, Aurelie. “VSVSVS: Graffiti Removal Removal.” Neurartic, June 2012. Web.

2011

  • Hare, Anastasia and Candice Napoleone. “Noteworthy.” C Magazine, December 2011. Print
  • Levack, Chandler. “VSVSVS Gallery.” BlogTO. October 25, 2011. Web.
  • Vaughan, R.M. “Parallels Exhibition Review.” The Globe and Mail [Toronto] June 2011. Print.
  • Vaughan, R. M. “What’s hot? Loads of colour.” Globe and Mail 21 Jan. 2011: Web. 24 Mar 2011.

2008

  • Kruger, Nestor, et al. “Something, Somewhat, Somehow” 1st ed. Toronto: Art Metropole, 2008
Grants / Awards

2019

  • Presidential Fellowship – San Francisco Art Institute

2016

  • Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants to Visual Artists
  • Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Artist Prize

2015

  • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance

2014

  • Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
  • Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artist Grant
  • Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artist Grant
  • Toronto Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts Project Grant
  • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
  • Toronto Arts Council, Animating Historic Sites
  • Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Projects
  • Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
Selected External Curatorial Projects

2012

  • Jennifer Chan: REALCORE, curated by David Hanes, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2011

  • Duy Khuong Pham: Paper Work, curated by Colleen O’Reilly, Anastasis Hare, and Meghan Bissonnette, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Laura McCoy: Poked Surfaces, curated by David Hanes, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Eat Sleep Breath (And Shit), curated by Maggie Flynn, VSVSVS Gallery and surrounding area, Toronto, Ontario.
Special Events Organized With VSVSVS

2016

  • VSVSVS Fifth Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2015

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS Fifth Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2014

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS Fourth Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2013

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS Third Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Blitz Critz 2.0, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2012

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS Second Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Die OST vol. 4, Luff Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Die OST vol. 3, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Blitz Critz, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Die OST vol. 2, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Die OST vol. 1, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2011

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event featuring Solstice Chamber installation by Sebastian Koever, Laura Kreviazuk, and Wallis Cheung, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • VSVSVS First Annual Summer Residency Program, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto Ontario.
  • Chinese “Lunar” New Years, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Movie Screening (ongoing), VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2010

  • Winter Solstice Potluck Event, VSVSVS Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.