CV — Tiffany April

Tiffany April is a visual artist working in painting and light-based installations. She deconstructs the hierarchy between human and non-human beings and instead considers the human body as engrained in ecological processes. April uses sensuality and simplicity of forms woven in space to place the bodily on the same plane as the technological and the organic.

CV

2019 MFA - University of Ottawa
2014 BFA (Honours) - Concordia University

Education

2023 If You Discover Fire - Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2020 When You Sense the Forest Breathing - Wall Space
Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2019 The Surgeon and the Magician - The Ottawa Art
Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Solo Exhibitions

2024 CIBC Feature, sponsored by the Khare and Czernik Group, Ottawa, ON
2024 City of Ottawa Art Collection - New Acquistions 2024, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2024 TwelvebyTwelve, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2024 Held Together, Annexe Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2023 Renaissance, OttDesign Club X Wall Space Gallery Zine Launch + Pop-up exhibition, Ottawa, ON
2022 Material Presence, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
2022 Industrial Geometry, Annexe Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Studied Tranquility, Annexe Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Holding Pattern, DIrect Purchase Acquisition Exhibition, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Salon, Nosy Mag + Congrego, Club Saw, Gallery Saw, Ottawa, ON
2021 Emergence, Art Image, Gatineau Cultural Centre, Gatineau, QC
2020 OSA Emerging Artists Exhibition, Queens Elizabeth Cultural Centre, Oakville, ON
2019 Fresh Paint/New Constructions, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, QC
2019 SWAP, MFA exchange show, Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2018 Fresh Paint/New Constructions, Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, QC
2018 ICAPU (Ulsan City Art Project), Ulsan City, South Korea
2017 Reclaiming the Screen, Possible Worlds, Ottawa, ON
2017 Melange, Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
2017 BYOA (Self-portraits), RIA Artist Project Room, Ottawa, ON
2015 Image and Word, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany
2014 Reflections, Galerie Luz, Montreal, QC
2013 Combine2013, Galerie FOFA, Montreal, QC

Group Exhibitions

2022 The Artist Project: Untapped - Toronto, ON
2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair - Toronto, ON
2020 Outside In/Inside Out - Microcosm, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Public Projects/Fairs

Professional Development

2023 BEAMS Sound, Media, Movement and Visual, Artist Residency - Viljandi, Estonia
2021/22 Mentorship Program, Turps Correspondence Course - London, UK
2021 Creative Coding, mini-course with Conor Byron, DARC - Ottawa, ON
2015 TAKT Residency - Berlin, DE

Collections

2021 Invest in Canada
2018/21/24 City of Ottawa Art Collection

2023 Petal Projections - Summer Issues, Toronto, ON
2023 Ottawa Design Club Zine - Renaissance, Zine 0006, Ottawa, ON
2021 The Racket Reading Series - Issue 49, San Francisco, CA
2021 Nosy Mag - Print Issue 01, August 2021, Ottawa, ON
2021 Ottawa Design Club Zine - RAW, Zine 0003, Ottawa, ON

Publications

2022 Explore and Create Grant: Research and Creation, If You Discover Fire — Canada Council
for the Arts
2020 Creation and Production Grant — The City of Ottawa Cultural Funding
2020 RBC Emerging Artist Award Shortlist
2020 Exhibition Assistance Grant — Ontario Arts Council
2019 René Payant Award — Outstanding Thesis Paper
2018 Stonecroft Venice Scholarship
2018 Charles Gagnon Masters in Fine Arts Entrance Scholarship
2017 University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship

Awards & Grants

2024 Artist Talk — Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON.
2022-2023 Teaching — The Ottawa School of Art, Introduction to Studio Painting I & II, Ottawa, ON
2022-pres. Curator — Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Teaching — University of Ottawa, ART2913A (Painting and Image: Materiality and Process),
Ottawa, ON
2020-2021 Board Member — Studio Selection Committee, Event Planning, and Fundraising, Studio
Space Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
2020 Artist Talk “One Year Later: An Artist Talk with Tiffany April” — Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2020 In-Conversation with Catherine Sinclair — Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2019 Co-curator — Islands From an Island Exhibition, Gallery 115, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
2018 Marketing and Social Media — Stonecroft Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Ottawa, ON
2018 Internship in Set Design — Great Canadian Theatre Corporation, Ottawa, ON
2017-2019 Teaching Assistant — University of Ottawa, ART4919A (Painting and Practice), ART1361
(Art Histories I), ART3116A (Art and New Technologies), ART4989 (From Studio to
Exhibition), Ottawa, ON
2017 Artist Talk — RIMAV, L’Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC
2016-2021 Gallery Associate — Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2016-2017 Organizer and Host — P(a)INT&DRAW life model drawing, Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts,
Ottawa, ON

Related Experience

Representation

Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON