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/ 

Using Format