EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES
OCADU, Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media & Design (Part Time Program) 2010-2014
-SSHRC affiliated Internship on ‘The Secret Doctrine’ theatre workshop, June 2012
-Fogo Island Thematic Residency, Fogo Island, Newfoundland. May 2011
Banff Centre, Self-Directed Creative Residency in Visual Art, March, 2009
Studio Arts Centre International, Florence, Italy: Painting, Drawing, Art History, 1984
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Part-time studies, painting, Various years
University of Regina, Sask., BFA 1977 with Distinction – Theatre major/Visual Art minor
-Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Selected studio classes,
-Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax, N.S. Selected architecture studies
-Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.Theatre studies
Banff School of the Arts: Theatre program, Stagecraft Apprenticeship, 1975
VISUAL ART
SOLO EXHIBIITONS
2018 Marking Time, Loop Gallery, Toronto (upcoming October 2018)
2014 Deep Circularity, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Toronto (April 2014)
2012 Boundless: Sublime Maelstrom, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener
2011 Boundless: Sublime Maelstrom, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Boundless: Sublime Maelstrom, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan
2007 Boundless: The View From Here Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener
2006 Interior Spaces: LIminal Places, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Ouroboros, Artists x 5, St. Anne’s Anglican Church (upcoming August-Sept, 2018)
2018 Excavation (…closer to where we began), Toronto Design Offsite Festival
2017 Excavation (…closer to where we began), Sculpting New Reads, Word on the Street, Toronto
2017 Élan Vital, Come Up To My Room at the Gladstone, Toronto Design Offsite
2015 Tidelines, IngenuityFest, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (October, 2015)
2014 Deep Circularity, Art Spin, Toronto
2013 Take a penny, leave a penny, Scotia Bank Plaza, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, in collaboration with Martha Griffith
Ovum Quadratum, site-specific installation, Hazelton Arts Festival, Toronto
Veil of Nature, multi-platform installation in collaboration with P. Gruben & M. Gotfrit, Goldthorpe Arts Centre, Vancouver
Ebb and Flow, Video ArtBox, Artist Project, Toronto
2012 Archaean, Gladstone Hotel, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, in collaboration with Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea & Tahireh Lal
2012 Small Works, Arts Etobicoke Gallery, Toronto
2011 Weather, Airspace Gallery, Terminal I, Pearson International Airport, Toronto
2009 Forces of Nature, curated by Christian Bernard Singer, Rouge Concept Gallery, Toronto
Group Show, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County
Homage, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
2008 Made to Measure, Arts Etobicoke Gallery, Toronto
Aeolian, Mysteria Gallery, Regina Sask.
Insomnia, RedHead Gallery, Toronto (affiliated with Nuit Blanche)
Art 401, The Gladstone Hotel, Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto
2007 30th Annual Juried Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga with Visual Arts Mississauga
City at Night: A Tribute to Brian Kipping, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
2006 You Are Here: The Emotional Geography of Place, Eastern Front Gallery, Toronto
29th Annual Juried Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga with Visual Arts Mississauga
Insomnia, RedHead Gallery, Toronto (affiliated with Nuit Blanche)
Whodunit, OCAD, Toronto
Holiday Glow, Engine Gallery, Toronto
2005 Hi-Light, curated by Kelly McCray at Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
Square Foot 2005, AWOL Gallery, Toronto
Whodunit, OCAD, Toronto
2004 Light Falls, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County
Whodunit, OCAD, Toronto
2001 RBC Private Counsel, New Canadian Painting Competition; Exhibition of 5 Eastern Finalists, Gallery One, Toronto
1997-2003 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Annual juried exhibition
REVIEWS, ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
DesignLines Magazine online, January 25, 2018; http://designlinesmagazine.com/best-of-design-week-day-five/
Come Up To My Room 2017: Gladstone Hotel’s Annual Alternative Design Event, pg.37
DesignLines Magazine online,January 20, 2017; http://designlinesmagazine.com/to-design-offsite-2017-day-5/
Toronto Life Magazine online, January 20,2017; http://torontolife.com/culture/art/heres-gladstone-hotel-lookslike-right-now/
Akimblog by Terence Dick on July 3, 2014 ( re Art Spin 2014)
“Must-sees this week: June 26-July 2, 2014”, Canadian Art
http://www.canadianart.ca/openings/2014/06/26/openings-oh-canada/
“Power Play”, Canadian House and Home; March 2009, pg. 107
“RBC Painting Competition: Ten Years”, published by RBC, edited by Laurel MacMillan
“Marian Wihak Interior Spaces: Liminal Places”, catalogue, intro.by Dr. Twyla Gibson, May/06
“The Show of the Summer”, Gallery Going, The Globe & Mail, R9, Aug. 13/05
“Shine the Light on New Shutter Talent”, Peter Goddard, Toronto Star, Aug. 19/05]
“Lightscapes”, 401 Update, Fall 2005, Volume 12, Issue 3
The RBC New Canadian Painting Competition 2001 Catalogue.
“TV or not TV”, Montage Magazine, Winter 1999, pg.29
COLLECTIONS
Cygnus Investment Partners, Toronto
The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Urban Space Property Group, Toronto
The Ontario Power Authority, Toronto
The Salman Partners, Toronto
The Salman Partners, Calgary
Danpack Incorporated, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Private Collections in Canada and the USA
AWARDS & HONOURS
2018 Design Lines Magazine’s ‘Love Tag’ for Excavation (…closer to where we began) for 1 of 100 Best during Toronto Design Week
2017 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Excavation (…closer to where we began))
2017 Design Lines Magazine’s ‘Love Tag’ for Élan Vital, for 1 of 100 Best during Toronto Design Week.
2017 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Élan Vital)
2013 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (w Martha Griffith; Take a Penny)
2012 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (w Gustavo Benjumea: Archaean, Gladstone Hotel, Nuit Blanche)
2012 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Sublime Maelstrom, Rotunda Gallery)
2009 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Boundless: Sublime Maelstrom, Art Gallery of Regina)
2008 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
2007 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Boundless: the view from here, Rotunda Gallery)
2001 Eastern Finalist, The RBC New Canadian Painting Competition
AFFILIATIONS
Member of: CARFAC