About Me
Biography
Emerald Repard-Denniston is visual artist based in Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam/Vancouver, and Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a multidisciplinary artist drawn to painting, digital media, and activist work.
Artist Statement
Emerald’s current art practice revolves around contemporary figurative oil painting. Through her practice she plays around with humour, cynicism, and detachment. Emerald explores the influences of Western politics and culture, having conversations around the nuances of cultural criticism. Her research focuses on contextualizing issues within the contemporary and social world, including: issues of representation, diasporic story telling, and feminist/queer theories.
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Education
2022 OCAD University, Bachelor of Fine Arts:
Maj. Arts Drawing and Painting, Min. Art and Social Change, Toronto, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023
She’s Been Haunting Me in My Dreams, Spacer Maker II, TorontoOntario
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Intimacy as Transgression, Red Head Gallery
Toronto Out Door Art Fair, City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square
2022
Tropical Cafe Holiday Art Market, Centre A Gallery
Grand Opening Showcase, Liquidation World
I will Doom Scroll Until my Eyes go Dry, Swell and I fall Asleep and Die, Remote Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Second Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
Emerging Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Fresh Paint/New Construction, Art Mûr Gallery, Montréal, Quebec
GradEx 107 Thesis Show, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
2021
WiTNESS MEDiA, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Grants and Awards
2022
Drawing and Painting Medal, OCAD University
John Madott Fine Art Award, OCAD University
Nora E. Vaughan Award, OCAD University
Student Group Leader Award, OCAD University
Artist Career Launcher Recipient: Partial Gallery
Professional Experience
2022
Framer, Frame It On Bloor
Project Coordinator, Nuit Blanche North York, Ontario
University Recruiter, Admissions and Recruitment OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
Gallery Attendant, Ignite Gallery, OCADU Toronto, Ontario
2021
Gallery Installation Crew, Polygon Gallery North Vancouver, BC
Gallery Installation Crew, Centre A Gallery Vancouver, BC
2019-2020
Art Guru/Teacher, 4Cats Art StudioVancouver, BC/Toronto, Ontario
Curation, Projects, Events
2022
Take Your Shoes Off! Shoes Off Collective Exhibition Catalogue,Catalogue Committee/Fundraiser
I will Doom Scroll Until my Eyes go Dry, Swell and I fall Asleepand Die, Remote Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
#RisingYouth Grant, Bamboo Sticky Rice - Communities inRelation, OCADU
Blue Print for a Collective Home, Shoes Off Collective, Great HallGallery, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
Navigating Identity In the Asian Diaspora, Shoes Off Collective,Ada Slaight Gallery, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
Drawing and Painting Catalogue Committee, Fundraising/Graphic Design, OCADU GradEx
Residencies
2023
Vice Versa Retreat, Duplex Artist Society x Shoes OffCollective
2022
Archives of Ontario: 150 Anniversary of the OntarioSociety of Artists, Toronto, Ontario
2021
What Moves You?: UAL/OCAD Residency, Remote/OnlineToronto, Ontario
Publications
2023
Season 2 Inner Space, AGO Youth, AGO, https://ago.ca/innerspace
2022
A Mark Here, Again. RARARA, Reel Asian, https://rarara.ca/A-mark-here-again
Granola Gworl Head Cover, Toronto Sun, https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ocad-annual-art-and-design-show-back-in-person
7 Must-See Artists at Grad-Ex 107, The Curators Club Journal,Partial Gallery, https://blog.partial.gallery/7-must-see-artists-at-grad-ex-107/
Blue Print for a Collective Home, Toronto Star, https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2022/04/11/azn-artists-collective-launches-second-exhibition-at-ocad-u.html
Cool Down, China Town Stories Volume 4:Heat, China TownToday, https://www.chinatown.today/2022/04/chinatown-stories-volume-4-heat-is-out-now-%f0%9f%94%a5/
2021
Conflict with the Internal Occident and the External Orient, SUSpring Festival, Digital Catalogue http://ocadsu.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/OCADSU-Spring-Festival.pdf
Liberated for a Night, Hardwire Journal, Undergraduate Journal ofSexual Diversity Studies at UofT https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/HARDWIRE4FINAL-compressed2.pdf
2020
Liberated for a Night, The Herd Archive/Volume 3, E-Magazine/Instagram
Gastown Murals of Gratitude, Museum of Vancouver,Vancouver, BC https://gastown.org/muralsofgratitude/