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

EDUCATION

2026 - Certificate in Creative Non-Fiction, U of Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 - MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1996- BFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
1993- Associate of Visual Arts, Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Test Patterns and Grips, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2022 - Covering the ecstatic body: The Objects of Improvisation, Special Project Booth PS05, Foire Papier, Montreal, QC, Canada
2021 - In this moment there is no sound, Open Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
2020 - Our relationship is beautiful due to the distance, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 - Everyday Objects, South Vitrines, Harboufront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 - Footnotes, Open Studio, Toronto ON, Canada
2018 - knit/wear: a site-specific installation, annie aime, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014 - Letters for Kevin, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2013 - Dark Watercolors, Hotbox Window, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
2012 - Gray/Grey, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, USA
2012 - After, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2011 - For September Second, Amo-Art, Waitsburg, WA, USA
2010 - Over & Over, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalogue)
2009 - Canopy, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, USA
2008 - Field Work, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue)
2008 - Then & There, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
2008 - Paperwork, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalogue)
2007 - Marking Time, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
2006 - Routine Incidents, Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024-2025 - Between Life and Light: 45th Anniversary Show, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024 - Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024 - Homecoming: Celebrating 10 Years in Print, Smokestack, Hamilton ON, Canada
2023 - Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, CanadaWonder, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2022 - Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2022 - What happens in silence, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2022 - I am my own muse: A century of women in photography, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021 - Art Toronto, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021 - Material Slip, Museum of Art, University of Wyoming, WI, USA
2021 - Built to Play, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2018 - Elevation of the Everyday, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, USA
2018 - Material Slip, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, USA
2018 - Contemporary Fibers, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, USA
2017-18 - Dwell, Vitrines, Harboufront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2017 - Other Worlds, Lieutenant Governor’s Suite, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016 - Forsyth, Evans, Brown, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
2016 - CounterPointe: New Collaborative Work by Six Women Choreographers working with Six Artists, Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 - Paperhouse Studio Fundraiser, Topology Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016 - Handmade Abstraction, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 - Hard Twist 10: Memory, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada
2015 - 25: Multiples Toward a Past & Future, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC,
2015 - Entr’acte, Elgin Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014 - Limn: Works from Artists-in-Residence, House 35, Blonduos, Iceland
2014 - Michelle Forsyth: Sandwich Boards, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, Canada
2014 - Thirsty, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
2013 - Michelle Forsyth and Taewon Jang, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
2013 - F’d Up, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
2013 - Cascadia, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY, USA
2013 - Push/Pop, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC, Canada
2013 - Shadow and Light, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, USA
2013 - Grid/Graph, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY, USA

SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS

2023-25 - Established Visual Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 - Individual Visual Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 - Mid-Career Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2013 - Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
2011 - Larry Sommers Fellowship, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA, USA
2010 - GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
2007 - Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2007 - GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
2007 - Second Prize, Young Painters Competition for the Yeck Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
2005 - Professional Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2004 - Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts c/o the Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada