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EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Major in Drawing, Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts, formerly ACAD)
RESIDENCIES
2024 Early Career Writers of Fiction residency, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Minhrpa (Banff)
2022-24 Artist as Changemaker Residency, Trico Changemakers Studio, CADA, and Mount Royal University, Moh'kins'tis (Calgary)
2023 Feminist Art Collective (FAC) residency, Artscape Gibraltar, Mnisiing (Toronto Islands)
2023 Action on Ableism retreat, John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton)
2019 Momus Emerging Critics Residency, Concordia University, Montreal
2019 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation (CAAF) Residency Program, cSPACE, Moh'kins'tis
2018 New York University (NYU) Summer Studio Residency, New York
SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS / HONOURS (SELECTED)
Canada Council for the Arts
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Calgary Arts Development
Calgary Foundation
2024 Myra Paperny Endowment for Emerging Alberta Writers, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
2024 Freefall Magazine Annual Prose & Poetry Prize, shortlist
2019 Canadian Art Writing Prize, Runner-up
2018 M:ST & Luma Quarterly Critical Writing Prize
2018 20th Annual RBC Painting Competition, Finalist
2016 President’s Honour Roll
2015 Third Year Drawing Merit Award, AUArts
2015 Drawing Community Service Scholarship, AUArts
2013 President’s Honour Roll, AUArts
2013 Advanced Standing Entrance Scholarship, AUArts
VISUAL ART
SOLO EXHBITIONS
2023 Pulp, Eastern Edge Gallery, Ktaqmkuk (St. John's, Newfoundland)
2019 Louie Fermor, Gallery 505, Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, Moh'kins'tis (Calgary)
2018 HY DRA TION Queer Dance Parties, Vol. 7: Space Ice, Artist in Residence, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Moh'kins'tis
(Calgary)
2015 Process and Poetics, Marion Nicoll Gallery, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis
DUO EXHBITIONS
2024 Pansy Club Presents: Club Carousel, with Rainbow Elders, Sunalta Community Hall, Moh'kins'tsis
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023 Pansy Club, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Moh'kins'tis (Calgary)
2023 Pansy Club, Teahouse, Moh'kins'tis
2023 Since We Saw You Last, TRUCK Contemporary Art Moh'kins'tis
2022 More Than a Party, ATB Art Vault and AUArts, Moh’kins’tsis
2022 Generic Lesbian Party, Dark Arts, Moh'kins'tis
2020 Buns Vol. 6: Heartache, Buns Queer Dance Parties, Tubby Dog, Moh'kins'tis
2019 CAAF Connection Studio Residents' Exhibition, cSPACE King Edward, Moh'kins'tis
2018 Art Toronto with RBC Painting Competition, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Tkaronto (Toronto)
2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, The Power Plant, Tkaronto
2018 NYU Summer Studio Residency Open House, New York University Steinhardt, New York
2018 People’s Portrait Prize, cSPACE, Moh'kins'tis
2017 We Are Not an Island: Queer Zine Fair, Sled Island, Moh'kins'tis
2016 The Garden, Femme Wave Feminist Music and Arts Festival, Pop-up show, 1314 1 Street SW, Moh'kins'tis
2016 A Map of Hollow Spaces, Memorial Park Library, Intersite Visual Arts Festival, Moh'kins'tis
2016 UnShelved, Luke Lindoe Library, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis
2014 You Need To Be This Tall To View The Artwork, Main Mall, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis
2014 Queeriosity Presents: Subversive Reclamations, Marion Nicoll Gallery, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis
2014 Embodiments, Rabbit Hole Gallery, Okatok (Okotoks)
2014 My Favourite Ones Are the Mad Ones, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis(Calgary)
2014 ACAD’s First Small Press/Zine Fair, AUArts, Moh'kins'tis
PUBLICATIONS / WEBSITES FEATURING ARTWORK
2024. cover art, Room issue 47.4, Vancouver
2023 'Pulp by Louie Fermor', Riddle Fence, online, St. John’s
2022 'Disability Stories, Disability Pride Alberta, online, Edmonton
2020 cover art, longcon Magazine, Issue 5, Halifax
2019 'RBC Canadian Painting Competition 1999-2018 Catalogue', Toronto
2017 Free Roots, Vol. 1, Issue 001, Toronto
ARTIST TALKS / PANEL DISCUSSIONS / WORKSHOPS
2024. Speaker, Arts Advocacy, Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation, Moh’kins’tsis
2024 Panelist, Arts Funding, ArtsCommons and RBC Emerging Artist program, Moh'kins'tsis
2023 Artist talk, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, NL
2021 Speaker, Grant writing workshop, Elephant Artist Relief Society, Moh'kins'tsis
2018 Speaker, Artist talk and image share, NYU Studio Summer Residency, New York
2016 Moderator and speaker, Professional Opportunities for Emerging Artists, AUArts, Moh’kins’tsis
WRITING
SELF-PUBLISHING PROJECTS
2019-20 Publisher, writer, and interviewer, Studio, online (studiopubication.com)
REVIEWS
2020 ‘Milton Lim: whitepages’, Canadian Art, Spring 2021 Issue, Tkaronto (Toronto)
2020 ‘Review: TILTING (1), TILTING (2), Blackwood Gallery’, C Magazine, Issue 147 October 2020, Tkaronto
2019 '‘Review: Reza Rezai’s MEHMOON at TRUCK Contemporary Art’, Studio (self-pubished), Moh’kins’tis
INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)
2020 ‘Disrupt the Everyday and Point to the Critical: Interview with Alana Bartol’, Studio (self-published)
2019 'Context, Tokenism, And Trans Solidarity: An Interview with Dan Cardinal McCartney', Momus
2019 ‘Futurity and Material as Intention: Interview with Tsēmā Igharas’, Studio, Vol. 1 (self-published)
2019 ‘Memory and Reality, A Daughter and an Artist: Interview with Natalie Lauchlan’, Studio, Vol. 1 (self-published)
2017 ‘Queers and Our Counterparts’, Luma Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 007, Moh’kins’tsis
ESSAYS (SELECTED)
2020 'The Feminine, the Grotesque, and the Reclaimed', Canadian Art, Tkaronto (Toronto)
2019 ‘Through Cis-Tinted Glasses, Pt. I: De-gendering the way we look at figurative art’, Studio (self-published)
2019 ‘Homo-Sighting: The Consent and Refusal of Queer Performance in Ryan Danny Owen’s Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow’,
Luma Quarterly, Vol. 4, Issue 014, Moh’kins’tsis
2017 ‘Just Between Femmes', exhibition text for Maddie Alexander’s Dancing on My Own, Femme Wave Feminist Music and Arts
Festival, The New Gallery, Moh’kins’tsis
2016 ‘Sadness as a Theory of Time’, exhibition Essay for Kate Jackson’s Nothing is Too Empty a Place To Go, Stride Gallery,
Moh’kins’tsis
2016 UnShelved, Exhibition Catalogue, AUArts, Moh’kins’tsis
2015 'Ugly is Taught', NoD Magazine: Gender Issue, University of Calgary, Moh’kins’tsis
PROFESSIONAL (SELECTED)
2024 Sync Alberta intensive course for disabled arts and culture leaders, Sync Leadership
2023-24 Volunteer, Calgary Climate Hub
2023-24 Guide and public program delivery, Calgary Public Library
2023 Grant writing mentor, Alberta Media Arts Association One2One program
2023 Advisory, Shape the Canada Disability Benefit
2022 Disability advisory panel, Centre for Sexuality
2017-18 Board Member, Treaty 7 Dyke and Trans March
2017 Jury Member, HY DRA TION Queer Dance Parties Artist in Residence
2016 Intern Engagement Coordinator, Stride Gallery, Moh'kins'tis (Calgary)
2013-15 Director, Queeriosity, AUArts
2015 Winter Jury Member, Marion Nicoll Gallery, AUArts
2014 Fall Jury Member, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary
2014 Member, ACAD Feminist Book Club
2014 Volunteer, Calgary Dyke and Trans March
2013-14 Student Ambassador, Admissions Department, AUArts