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Education
2019 MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2017 BFA Painting with distinction, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
2000 BSc. Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Representation
VivianeArt, Calgary, Canada
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Art vs. Racism, Spanicarts, Calgary, Canada
Plural Contemporary Art Fair with VivianeArt, Montreal, Canada
2023 Art Toronto with VivianeArt, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
Mythologies of the Interspace, solo show, VivianeArt, Calgary, Canada
“From the Editor…”, Galleries West, 06-06-2023 issue
Plural Contemporary Art Fair (Papier) with VivianeArt, Montreal, Canada
El-Sur Artist in Residence Open Studios, El-Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Being and Becoming—Negotiable Identities, group exhibition, Emerging Young Artists and Mulan International Film Festival,
Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
Art Toronto with VivianeArt, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
Future Fair with Paradice Palase, Chelsea Industrial, New York, NY
Press: “Future Fair Tastemaker Selections: The Here and There Collective”, Artsy, 05-03-2022
won’t want to miss” , Soho House, 05-04-2022
“Back to the Future Fair at Chelsea Industrial”, Ante Mag, 05-07-2022
Hand Pic’d, group exhibition, VivianeArt, Calgary, Canada
2021 Open Studios, Banff Artists-in-Residence 2D, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
Every Woman NFT Gallery show, Superchief Gallery, New York, NY
2019 The 2020 Flat File: Year Seven, juried group exhibition, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, Brooklyn, NY
In View: Future Danforth, juried group exhibition, part of Continuum , Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Bushwick Open Studios, group exhibition, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
Press: “9 Highlights From Bushwick Open Studios 2019,” Hyperallergic, 09-23-19
Cut + Paste, juried group exhibition, SVA Flat Iron Gallery, New York, NY
Press: "Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," Artnet, 08-19-19
Women in the Arts: Artists and Art Critics, episode 29, Transborder Art TV, New York, NY
Now That’s What I Call Love!, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY
2018 Magic Plastic Lounge, SVA MFA Fine Arts Satellite Show, Miami Art Week, Miami, FL
Conflict, juried group exhibition, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
Studio Programs/ Residencies
2023 Artist in Residence, El Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Banff Artist in Residence 2D, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2019 Akin Studio Program at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Artist Lectures/ Writing
2023 Artist Talk : Mythologies of the Interspace, Solo Exhibition, VivianeArt, Calgary, Canada
2023 Open Studios Artist Talk, El Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Hand Pic’d Live Virtual Artist Talk, VivianeArt, Calgary, Canada
2021 Live Virtual Studio Visit Artist Talk, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Banff Artist-in-Residence Artist Talk, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
Exhibitions Chair, Alberta Society of Artists, Calgary, AB, Canada (Winter, Spring, Summer)
2019 Emergence from In-Between Spaces, thesis presentation, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2018 The Cultural Hybrid as Monster, a presentation and discussion, MFA Fine Arts, SVA, New York, NY
2013 Cultural Hybridity, co-moderator and discussion leader, Critical Theory Reading Group, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
Scholarships / Awards
2021 Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Fellowship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2019 The Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement, MFA Fine Arts, SVA, New York, NY
2017-2019 MFA Fine Arts Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Acquisitions
2023 Untitled (Daughters of South Asian Immigrants), (2023), BMO Corporate Collection, Toronto, Canada
2022 Untitled (Awakening the Virgin Saint), (2021) Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Canada
Untitled (The Brunette Odalisque with a Displaced Heart Tampers with Time During an Eclipse),
(2021), Global Affairs Canada, Visual Art Collection, Ottawa, Canada