A N I T A C A Z Z O L A / C V
EXHIBITIONS
(Upcoming) Essential Relations - Co-curated exhibition with Emma Aurelia - Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Oakville, ON - 2024
Homecoming - Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON - Curated by Erin Szikora - 2022
On Walking: Rhythm, Repetition, Movement - Graduate Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON - Curated by Na'ama Freeman - 2022
Botanical Reclamation: Infinite Balance - Outdoor Exhibition - Ontario Reformatory Lands - 2021
Waving a Flag through a Window - Video projection at 10C - Guelph, ON - 2021
Sewing Stewardship - Group exhibition with Jenna Kessler and Christina Kingsbury, curated by Lore Arts - Guelph, ON - 2021
How to Hold You Back Together (Improvised Performance) - IF 2021 - International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (University of Guelph) - 2021
Guelph Arts Council’s ‘Art on the Street’ - Guelph, ON - 2021
Finding the Grid - Window Installation at 10 C - Guelph, ON - June-July 2021
Botanical Reclamation: An Installation Honouring the Resilience of Plants - Outdoor Exhibition - Guelph, ON - Nov 2020
UNMADE - Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, Cur. Jill Price - Group Exhibition - 2019
Objects of Tension and Release - Open Field Collective - Circulating in Guelph, ON and Toronto, ON - 2019
Soft Mapping - Solo Exhibition - Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto, ON - 2018
GradEX 103 - OCAD University, Toronto, ON - May 3-6, 2018
Soft Mapping at 'Our Greenbelt: Celebrating Wellington County' - Guelph, ON - March 27, 2018
All Girls to the Front - Group Exhibition - Take Time, Guelph ON - 2016
PUBLIC EVENTS AND INTERVENTIONS
(Upcoming) A point and a line makes a curve, then a circle - Collaborative weaving performance at Nuit Blanche - Toronto, ON - 2022
(Upcoming) Mending Clinic - Presented by the Cloth Care Collective at Nuit Blanche - Toronto, ON - 2022
(Ongoing) Dye Plants in Curious Spaces - Online Archive - 2021
(Ongoing) Mending Club - Host of bi-weekly mending gatherings - Toronto, ON (2019), Guelph, ON (2020)
(Ongoing) Sad Mattresses - Lead contributor - Online Photo Archive
Community in-the-round Conversation: On Plants, Resilience, and Craft - Guelph, ON - 2021
A Ceremony in Defiance for the Plants - Communal Intervention - Guelph, ON - 2021
Dye & Medicinal Plant Walk Series - Howitt Park, Ontario Reformatory Lands, Eramosa River - With Planting Radiance - Guelph, ON - 2021
Botanical Reclamation: Natural Dye Workshop Series - Ontario Reformatory Lands, Howitt Park, Guelph Outdoor School - Guelph, ON - 2021
Mending a Hole: Knit Garments - Mending workshop - Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, ON - 2019
Mending a Hole: Learning a Practice of Repair - Mending workshop - Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, ON - 2019
Mending a Hole - Mending workshop - The Tare Shop - Halifax, NS - 2019
All Things Will Soften - Site-specific installation performance - Leslie St. Spit - Toronto, ON - 2018
DIY Clothing Repair - Gladstone Hotel - Collaborative - Toronto, ON - 2017
Community Mending Workshop - Take Time - Guelph, ON - 2017
Invasion - Public Installation - Guelph, ON - 2016
RESIDENCIES
Guelph Artist in Residence - 2021
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - Deer Isle, ME - August 2019
ARTIST TALKS
Guelph Guild of Handweavers and Spinners - Dye Study Group Talk - 2021
Artist in Residence talk for the City of Guelph - 2021
Guelph Guild of Handweavers and Spinners Artist Talk - 2021
Botanical Colors Feedback Friday Artist Talk - 2021
OCAD University Sculpture and Installation Thesis Class Artist Talk - 2019
EDUCATION
2018 // BFA with Distinction / OCAD University / Sculpture & Installation, Minor in Material Art and
Design (Textiles)
AWARDS/GRANTS
Ontario Arts Council - Multi and Inter-Arts Projects (Soft Walls Collective) - 2022
Ontario Arts Council - Career Catalyst: Project Grants for New Generation Artists - 2021
Guelph Artist in Residence - City of Guelph - 2021
Jane Graham Memorial Award - Guelph Arts Council - 2020
Ontario Arts Council Touring Grant (The Lifers, Samson Wrote, Tragedy Ann) - 2020
Work-Study Scholarship - Haystack Mountain School of Craft - 2019
Career Launcher Fund - OCAD University - 2019
Canada Council for the Arts - Arts Across Canada Grant (The Lifers) - 2019
Accessing Field Placement Fund - OCAD University - 2018
Nomination - Canadian Folk Music Awards New/Emerging Artist (The Lifers) - 2018
Folk Music Ontario Website Design Award (The Lifers) - September 2018
Nomination - Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award (FMO & OAC) for "Sister" (The Lifers) - 2018
Ontario Arts Council Touring Grant - Sisterhood of Sound Tour with Annie Sumi (The Lifers) - 2018
FACTOR Artist Development Grant (The Lifers) - 2017
Wayne Lum Scholarship - OCAD University - 2017
Sully Corth Memorial Fund Sculpture Scholarship - OCAD University - 2016
AFFILIATIONS
Artistic contributor - Cloth Care Collective - 2019 - Present
Artistic contributor - Soft Walls Collective - 2019 - Present
Member - Guild of Canadian Weavers - 2018 - Present
Member - Guelph Guild of Handweavers and Spinners - 2020 - Present
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Textile Repairer & Empathizer - Mani D'oro - 2021 - Present
Designer - “The Bulletin” - Guild of Canadian Weavers - 2021 - Present
Editor - “The Bulletin” - Guild of Canadian Weavers - 2019 - 2021
Studio Assistant - Meghan Price - 2018 - 2020
Studio Assistant - Adam David Brown and Kristiina Lahde - 2017 - 2020
Gallery Attendant - MKG127 (Toronto, ON) - 2018/19 (Assistance during Art Toronto)
Exhibition Assistant - Spaces Like That - OCAD U Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibitions - 2018