MICHELLE FORSYTH

 

CURRICULUM VITAE


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Born: Vancouver BC, Canada 1972
Lives: Toronto, ON, Canada

EDUCATION

2002
1996
1993

MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
BFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Associate of Visual Arts, Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

2021
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2012
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Covering the ecstatic body: The Objects of Improvisation, Special Project Booth PS05, Foire Papier, Montreal, QC, Canada
In this moment there is no sound, Open Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
Our relationship is beautiful due to the distance, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Everyday Objects, South Vitrines, Harboufront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Footnotes, Open Studio, Toronto ON, Canada
knit/wear: a site-specific installation, annie aime, Toronto, ON, Canada
Letters for Kevin, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Dark Watercolors, Hotbox Window, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Gray/Grey, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, USA
After, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
For September Second, Amo-Art, Waitsburg, WA, USA
Over & Over, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalogue)
Canopy, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, USA
Field Work, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
Then & There, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
Paperwork, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalogue)
Marking Time, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
Routine Incidents, Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
2022

2019
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2022
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2021
2018
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2013

Wonder, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
What happens in silence, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
I am my own muse: A century of women in photography, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Material Slip, Museum of Art, University of Wyoming, WI, USA
Built to Play, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Elevation of the Everyday, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, USA
Material Slip, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, USA
Contemporary Fibers, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, USA
Dwell, Vitrines, Harboufront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Other Worlds, Lieutenant Governor’s Suite, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON, Canada
Forsyth, Evans, Brown, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
CounterPointe: New Collaborative Work by Six Women Choreographers working with Six Artists, Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Paperhouse Studio Fundraiser, Topology Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
Handmade Abstraction, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Hard Twist 10: Memory, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada
25: Multiples Toward a Past & Future, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC,
Entr’acte, Elgin Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Limn: Works from Artists-in-Residence, House 35, Blonduos, Iceland
Michelle Forsyth: Sandwich Boards, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, Canada
Thirsty, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Michelle Forsyth and Taewon Jang, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
F’d Up, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Cascadia, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY, USA
Push/Pop, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC, Canada
Shadow and Light, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, USA
Grid/Graph, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY, USA

SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS

2019
2015
2013
2011
2010
2007
2007
2007
2005
2004

Individual Visual Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON, Canada ($13,888 CAD)
Mid-Career Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
Larry Sommers Fellowship, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA, USA
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
Second Prize, Young Painters Competition for the Yeck Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
Professional Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts c/o the Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada