TONYA CORKEY                                                      CURRICULUM VITAE

                                                

 

 

Education 

2015-2016     Queen’s University, Bachelor of Education, Artist in Community Education (ACE)

2008-2012     OCAD University, Drawing & Painting major, minor in English

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Solo Exhibitions

2013    “See you in the future”, Galleria 814, Toronto, ON

2012     "Your Friend, Freddie" XPACE Cultural Center, Toronto, ON

 

Group Exhibitions

2018     Open Studio, 7 Labatt Avenue, Toronto, ON

2017     Art Market, Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto, ON

            Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Only One Gallery, Toronto, ON

            Pretty Peculiar, Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto, ON

2016     Teddy Bear Affair, Children's Aid Foundation Gala, Toronto, ON

            Room With a View, The Studio, Kingston, ON

            Faculty of Education Juried Art Exhibition, The Studio, Kingston, ON

2015     Fall ArtFest, Duncan McArthur, Kingston, ON

            Faculty of Education Juried Art Exhibition, The Studio, Kingston, ON
            30 Under 30, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
            INTERACT Juried Art Salon, Community Exhibition Gallery, Tett Centre, Kingston, ON Silver             Celebration, 239 Princess Street, Kingston, ON
            Figurative, Atrium Gallery, Vaughan City Hall, Vaughan, ON

            37th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON 

            Get Noticed, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON 

2014     The Juried Art Salon, Kingston, ON

            Reconstructing (S)P(L)ACE, Hazelton Lanes Art Festival, Toronto, ON

            Love Art Fair, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, ON

            Hard Twist 8: This is Personal, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

            The Artist Project, Untapped Emerging Artist, Toronto, ON

            Arbitration Place, Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON

2013     Artfest, City Park, Kingston, ON

            The Juried Art Salon, Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Kingston, ON

            Today, From Yesterday and Tomorrow, Gallery 918, Toronto, ON

            Hard Twist 7, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2012     The Memory Project, Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto, ON

            Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Headquarters, Mississauga, ON

            Wellington Street Art Gallery, Toronto, )N

            OCAD University’s 97th Annual Graduating Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

            The Art of the Figure 2012, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

            Domestic Vista, Communication Art Gallery, Toronto ON

2011    The Art of the Figure 2011, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2010    15th Annual Fantasy in the Forest, Perth Rd Village, ON

            Celebration 20, Princess Street, Kingston ON

2009    14th Annual Fantasy in the Forest Art Show and Sale, Perth Rd Village, ON

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Press & Publications

A Big Important Art Book Now With Women: Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists and Projects to Help You Become One by Danielle Krysa, October 2018

The Jealous Curator: Art For Your Ear: Podcast: TONYA CORKEY: experiments, risks…and dryer lint, November 2016

Hi Fructose, Tonya Corkey Creates Portraits Using Dryer Lint, August 2014

The Varsity, Through The Eyes Of The Artist At The Artist Project, March 2014.

Flare: Canada's Fashon Magazine, Portrait for a Lady, Dec 2013

Artisans Bay Magazine, Tonya Corkey, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2013

OTM Zine, The Medium is The Message: Artist Profile Tonya Corkey, issue 13, January 2013.

Pop Curious, Portraits From Lint By Toronto-Based Artist Tonya Corkey, 2012. 

 

 

Awards/Scholarships

2017    Semi-Finalist, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Toronto, ON

2014    Emerging Artist Award, The Juried Art Salon, Kingston, ON

2013    Emerging Artist Award, The Juried Art Salon, Kingston, ON

           People’s Choice Award, The Juried Art Salon, Kingston, ON

2012    Graduate awards honourable mention

2011    The Art of the Figure 2011 honourable mention

2008    Queen Elizabeth Millennium Scholarship

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Related Experience

2016-Present     Secondary school visual art and English teacher, London, UK, Toronto, ON,                                    Kingston, ON

2017                 Artist Talk, Mindfully Alive Retreat, Wales, UK.

                        Artist Talk, Art For Your Ear:Podcast by The Jealous Curator

2016                 Acceptance Speech on behalf of Queen's University's Faculty of Education,                                      Kingston, ON

2014                 Artist Talk, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2012                 Live Painting, The Art Gallery Of Ontario, Toronto, ON