This edition in particular demonstrates the impact of our artists world-wide. If you are travelling, make note!
Oreka James – Artist Prize Finalist 2021
Oreka James was part of a group show of paintings, Acts of Will, which recently closed at Nicolas Robert Gallery, Toronto. This exhibition explored the relationship between painter and painting as a thing in itself, in which the role of the painter is to confront a proximity between what is seen and what is felt.
Maria Hupfield – Artist Prize 2023
Diane Borsato – Artist Prize Finalist 2008
Recently at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Collection at the University of Toronto (U of T), a discussion of a book series entitled ARCANA was held. The four books resulted from a collaborative pairing between Maria Hupfield, Diane Borsato, two other contemporary artists and four U of T librarians. The books explore the structure, systems, and holdings of the library.
A packaged, limited special edition of 30 copies of the four-book series is available for pre-order now. Design and typesetting by Hahn Studio. To reserve your copy, write to Erika Biddle at theorema_editions@gmail.com
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka – Artist Prize Finalist 2023
Closing on Feb, 24, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka has been featured in the Montreal Gallery of Patel Brown in a show entitled, Susceptibility to Gravity. Hatanaka’s work intertwines motifs from her cultural heritage with conceptual and thematic elements from nature to create works that map out changes that move people, society, and the land. Her two- and three-dimensional work highlights the expressive quality of washi, a Japanese handcrafted paper that originated in the seventh century.
Lotus L Kang – Artist Prize Finalist 2015
Lisa Myers – Artist Prize Finalist 2020
Oreka James – Artist Prize Finalist 2021
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) announces the list of artists for the second edition of Greater Toronto Art (GTA24), a triennial exhibition showcasing practitioners with a connection to the Greater Toronto Area. Lotus Kang, Lisa Myers, and Oreka James are part of this show which runs March 23 to July 28, 2024. GTA24 will consist of three components: the exhibition, the live program, and the screening program. The show includes newly commissioned work by Kang as well as existing work by James and Myers. The show has a focus on a wide-ranging group of intergenerational voices and proposes the question: what makes art feel contemporary?
Congratulations go to…..
Camille Turner – Artist Prize 2018
Camille Turner’s immersive multi-media installation, Nave (2022) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Through this work Turner reveals the entanglement of colonial Canada in the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans through the links between the nave of a church, the hold of a ship, the tomb, and the womb of the world.
Esmaa Mohamoud – Artist Prize 2019
Esmaa Mohamoud has received the Max Dean Project Support Awards 2006 and 2021
These two Prize Winners will be featured in upcoming TVO Arts Documentaries.
Travelling to New York City?
Lotus L Kang – Artist Prize Finalist 2015
Congratulations to Lotus L Kang on her inclusion in the upcoming Whitney Biennial titled, Even Better Than The Real Thing. The biennial opens to the public on March 20, 2024. Seventy-one visionary artists and collectives will participate in the eighty-first installment of the Whitney Biennial. Lotus L Kang works with sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation.
Travelling to London England?
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
Edward Burtynsky has an exhibition of his work, Extraction/Abstraction at the Saatchi Gallery, London, from February 14 to May 6, 2024. This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of Burtynsky, who has dedicated his practice to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. A centerpiece of the exhibition will be an immersive film presentation of In the Wake of Progress (2022). A never-before-seen element in this exhibition, referred to as the “Process Archive”, will also showcase Burtynsky’s navigation through each of the technological shifts in the photographic medium that have occurred over recent decades. The exhibition will reveal Burtynsky’s life-long observation of humanity’s incursion into the natural world, and the environmental consequences of industrial processes.
Travelling to Paris?
Sameer Farooq – Artist Prize 2023
Sameer Farooq is part of the show Cum Panis: Bread and Its Ecologies, running from February 9 through May 5, 2024, at the Gallery Le 19 Crac, in Paris, France. It’s a group exhibition bringing together international artistic practices about bread, its ecologies and its social, political, economic, cultural and aesthetic effects. The exposition includes objects from the collection of Grenoble Museum and Besançon Museum of Resistance and Déportation.
Recently in the print media…..
Alvin Luong – Artist Prize Finalist 2023
Alvin Luong’s work was recently featured in an article in C Magazine entitled, The Mystery of the Twisted Fantasy.
To purchase the edition of C magazine
Shary Boyle – Artist Prize Finalist 2006
Shary Boyle’s work was the subject of a recent article, Radical Honesty, in the January/February edition of Sculpture, a periodical by the International Sculpture Centre.
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
As part of Edward Burtynsky’s exhibition noted above, Extraction/ Abstraction, he was interviewed by the Telegraph, UK about how his work seeks to raise awareness about climate change.
