KATE WILSON
Kate Wilson, based in Toronto, seamlessly navigates between site-specific large-scale wall drawing installations, painting, and digital applications. She has garnered both national and international recognition, earning awards from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. Notably, she received the Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies in Paris.
Her impressive exhibition history encompasses various locations and themes. "Real Estate Flowers" was showcased at the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia and "Microbial Baroque" was exhibited at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Other exhibitions include "Collages in Motion and Artificial Dreams" at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, "Curious Lights" at Queen’s University's Union Gallery, and "Cultural, Temporal and Imagined: Land-scape in Recent Contemporary Acquisitions" at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Her work was also featured in "Ecotopia," curated by Amanda Cachia, and toured across notable galleries in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Wilson's residencies have enriched her artistic journey. Notable among these are her engagement with the Ontario College of Art & Design University Digital Painting Atelier, the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence program, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Her participation in group exhibitions spans global institutions including the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, HeK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Recent exhibitions like "Chemosphere," a site project at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, and "the body may be said to think with works by Doris McCarthy and Kate Wilson" curated by Stuart Reid at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, further underscore Wilson's artistic prominence. Her work is included in numerous collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, BMO Financial Group, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
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