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ELIZABETH D'AGOSTINO
EDUCATION
1995 BFA Honours, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1998 MFA in Studio Art, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Paradigm of Wonder, Centre de Diffusion Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, Québec
2020 Paradigm of Wonder, Agnes Jamieson Art Gallery, Minden Hills Cultural Centre,
Minden, Ontario
2020 Megafauna and Other Collisions, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
2018 Other Collisions, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Makeshift Tales, Alberta Printmakers, Calgary, Alberta
2016 Makeshift Tales, Open Studio Sales Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Makeshift, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2015 Makeshift, Reynolds Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2014 A Curious Assortment, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Some Assembly Required, George Gilmour Members’ Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Nature Collapse, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Escape from the Land of the Wandering, George Gilmour Members’ Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
Artifacts of the Self-Made, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Under Leaf and Log, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Recent Prints, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Complicated Natures, Nick Novak Scholarship, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
From the Bloom Dreams, Hamilton Printmakers Arts Association, Hamilton, Ontario
Plenty, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Plenty, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Memory Folios, Open Studio, George Gilmour, Members’ Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Journals from the Silk Current, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Drift With Me Darling, Wallspace Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2022 New Perspectives, Wallspace Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 Celebrations of Summer, Wallspace Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2020 Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) 2020, Gladstone Hotel, Invitational, Curated by Astrid Ho and Meg Feheley
2019 Strata, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Both Sides Now, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Going to Ground, Southern Graphics Conference International, Las Vegas, Nevada
2017 Trace, Southern Graphics Conference International, Atlanta, Georgia
2016 Boundless and Borderless, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Boundless and Borderless, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2015 Dwell, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Boundless and Borderless, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
A Commitment to Washi: Canadian Artists Exploring Tosa Washi, Japanese Paper Place Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
A Commitment to Washi: Canadian Artists Exploring Tosa Washi, Kochi Okayaku Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Re: Arrange, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Okanagan Print Triennial 2012, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2011 Elizabeth D'Agostino, Mi Hyang Kim and Michelle Murillo, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009 UpArt, Rooms of Wonder, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Impressit, Galerie d’art St-Ambroise, Montreal, Quebec
2006 In Cahoots, The Inkshop and Olive Branch Press, Ithaca, New York
2004 Time and Place, Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, California
2003 Gros Morne Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Discovery Centre, Woody Point, Newfoundland
Tracing Times, Iziko: Museum of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Tracing Times, Gittens Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Curtains: Open or Closed, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, New York
77th Annual International Exhibition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001 Incarnadine, Tusk Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Curtains: Open or Closed, Gittens Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1999 Combined Talents – The Florida National, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee, Florida
International Juried Show ’99, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1998 Le Petite IV, Alder Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
Selected Mappings - A Journey into Earthscapes, Crossley Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Memory, Moment, Memento, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022. Assistant Manager artsUNITE, Artscape, Toronto, Ontario
2021-22 Project Manager, Made With Pencil Crayons, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Sessional Faculty, Sheridan College, Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design, Visual and Creative Arts, Oakville, Ontario
2015-20 Visiting Artist, Sheridan College, Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design, Illustration Dept., Oakville, Ontario
2016 Sessional Faculty, University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
2013-18 Managing Director, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario
2004-12 Curriculum Coordinator, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario
2004-11 Printmaking Faculty, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Ontario
2001-03 Professor, White Mountain Academy of the Arts, Elliot Lake, Ontario
1998-00 Instructor, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
AWARDS
2018 Toronto Arts Council Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship Program (Mentor)
2018 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2014 Hexagon, Special Projects Fellowship, Open Studio, Toronto
Honourable Mention, Open Studio National Printmaking Awards, Toronto
2008 Honourable Mention, Printmaking, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2007 Visual Arts: Emerging Artist Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2005 Nick Novak Scholarship, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Renaissance Graphic Arts Materials Award, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 Professional Development Grant, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Southern Illinois University Women’s Professional Studies, Carbondale, Illinois
1995-8 Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois
RESIDENCIES
2024 Studio Faire, Nerac, France
2019 Edition/Basel 2019, Druckwerk Studio, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Artist-in-Residence Sointula Shed, Sointula, British Columbia
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Frans Masareel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2004 Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2003 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont,
Artist-in-Residence Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Parks Canada, St. John’s, Newfoundland
PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
2014 Lecture, Open Studio, Hexagon Special Projects Fellowship, Toronto, Ontario
2014 Lecture, Anchor Graphics at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Q and A, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, moderated by Libby Hague and Yael Brotman
2009 Open Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Visiting Artist, Lecture, University of South Dakota, Vermillion South Dakota
2007 Lecture, Nick Novak Scholarship Exhibition, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Lecture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2003 Workshop, Gros Morne National Park Discovery Centre, Woody Point, Newfoundland
2003 Lecture, “Meander”, Gros Morne National Park Discovery Centre, Woody Point, Newfoundland
COMMISSIONS
2022 Vinyl Design Covering for Ice Machine, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
2015 Custom Carpet Design, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, High Commission of Canada (Canada House, Ontario Room), London, England
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Ernst and Young, London, Ontario, Canada
Frans Masareel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Japanese Paper Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, United States
Kay Hannah Associates, San Francisco, California, United States
National Bank, Canada
Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
St Cuthbert’s Mill Paper Company, Somerset, England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Custom Carpet Commission, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada House, Ontario Room, London, England
Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Library Collections, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, United States
North East Normal University, Normal, Illinois, United States
University of Changchun, Jilin, China
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States, Canada
University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, United States
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Camper, Fred. “Fine Adjustments,” Chicago Reader, Section One, October 22, 1999.
Carmount, Laurie. “Paradigm of Wonder” Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, 2020
Folwell, Matthew. “Evolving Printmaking,” Our Neighbourhood (Toronto), March, 2007.
Forbes, Tegan. “Truth and Isolation,” Okanagan Print Triennial 2012. Kelowna: Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, 2012.
Ghaznavii, Corinna. “2007 Scholarship Exhibitions: Elizabeth D’Agostino and Joseph Siu,” in Elizabeth D’Agostino, Complicated Natures; Joseph Siu, Specials. Toronto: Open Studio, 2007.
Gilbert, Barbara and Chris Mitchell. Brochure “upArt Contemporary Art Fair,” Gladstone Hotel, Rooms of Wonder, Toronto, October, 2009.
Kozinska, Dorota. “The Forgotten Art of Drawing,” vie des arts, Number 230, Vol. 47, Spring, 2013, p. 90.
Law, Jenn, “Makeshift Tales” Alberta Printmakers, Calgary, 2018
Norton, Debra, “ A Toronto company is helping keep the ancient art of Japanese paper alive” Toronto Star, Lifestyle section, Saturday, June 9, 2018.
Television interview by ShawTV Sault Ste Marie, aired on program Thunder Bay Live, profile of Elizabeth D’Agostino, November, 2012.
Wylie, Liz. “Call of the Wild,” Makeshift, Kelowna: Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, 2015.
Wylie, Liz. “ Beauty of D’Agostino’s art might be distracting” Kelowna Capital News, Kelowna, 2015
Young, Jean D. “Combined Talents,” The Florida National. Tallahassee: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 1999.