CURRICULUM VITAE – JANINEMIEDZIK
EDUCATION
2015 MFA University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
2012 BFA (with distinction) OCAD University
Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 UNOxUNO, El Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Affixed. Public art project, commissioned by Assembly Park,Vaughan , Canada.
2020 Tie-Dye For Germans. Angell Gallery.Toronto, Canada.
2019 ProTem. Public Art Commission by DesignTO. Toronto, Canada.
2018 Squidge. Public art project, commissioned by Big OnBloor Festival. Toronto, Canada
2018 ProTem. Public art project, commissionedby The Bentway Conservancy. Toronto, Canada
2017 Clown Car. Public Art, The WestToronto Railpath.
2016 WAYS.Outdoor Sculptures commissioned by Fieldwork Collective. Maberly, Canada
2016 NoFixed Address, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Canada
2015 A Clown Car Pulls Into A Smart Centre,Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2015 BLAZE, (3-story wall-work forArtscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada
2014 I Was Here, (with Jennie Suddick) PM Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 Hedge, Wedge, Mantle and Façade.Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Canada
2014 Zig-Zag Wanderer. Capacity 3Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2013 Facade, Xpace Cultural Centre,Toronto, Canada
2012 Accordian Fold, Relative Space,Toronto, Canada
2009 Palimpsest, Drabinsky Gallery,Toronto, Canada
2009 OH, (with Donna Akrey), List Gallery,Toronto, Canada
2009 Power Play, Fountain Contemporary,Toronto, Canada
2008 New Electric Ride, Distill Gallery,Toronto, Canada
2006 (t)HERE, Eastern Front Gallery.Toronto, Canada
2004 Transient Fixation, Eastern Front Gallery,Toronto, Canada
2003 Life After Lamu, Eastern FrontGallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Doors and Windows, Picolli Design,Toronto, Canada
2002 There I Was, O'doumas Gallery,Guelph, Canada
2002 Kikois, Picolli Design ,Toronto,Canada
2002 RecentPaintings, the 606, Toronto, Canada
2000 Kikois, Wallace Ave. Studios,Toronto, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Coulombe, Krüger,MacDonald, Miedzik, Uyeda, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2016 Fixations& Saccades, University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Waterloo, ON
2015 Flights and Landings, Typology Projects, Toronto, ON
2015 Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2015 No Pressure, Capacity 3 Gallery,Guelph, ON
2015 AllThe Singles, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, ON
2014 So It Goes, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON
2013 Same Difference, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON
2013 Zavitz Gallery, University ofGuelph
2012 No End, Six 20 Seven Gallery,Toronto
2012 Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto
2012 anonyme zeichner ARHUS Art Academy, Denmark
2010 Deep Summer, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009 Power Play, Fountain Contemporary,Toronto, Ontario
2009 Anonyme Zeichner, archive selection, Fruehsorge Contemporary,Berlin, Germany.
2008 Queen West Art Crawl, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto ON
2008 anonyme zeichner, No.9 , KunstraumKreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2008 47th annual T.O.A.E, Nathan PhillipsSquare, Toronto
2006 Conexus, Mendel Art Gallery,Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2007 You Are Here, Eastern Front Gallery,Toronto
2007 Emerging Canadian Painters, Parts Gallery, Toronto
2005 45th annual T.O.A.E, City Hall,Toronto
2005 Queen West art Crawl, TrinityBellwoods Park, Toronto
2005 The Drawing Show, Eastern Front Gallery, Toronto
2004 R.A.W. Select, Now Lounge, Toronto
2004 New Gallery Artists, Parts Gallery,Toronto
REVIEWS and selected WRITING
2020 Tie-Dye For Germans, Danny O’Quinn, Border Crossings Magazine,Summer 2020
2020 Tie-Dye For Germans, Stephanie Cormier, Peripheral Review, June2020
2020 Tie-Dye For Germans, Exhibition Essay, Bill Clarke, February , 2020
2016 Fixations and Saccades, Ivan Jurakic, Exhibition Essay , September 6, 2016
2015 Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Aaron Weldon, July 14, 2015
2014 I was here, Terence Dick, PM Gallery, Akimbo review , August 19, 2014
2014 The Edge of Activity, Jasmine Reimer,Evans Contemporary, June 16, 2014
2012 Wardens Today, SaganMacIsaac,Thursday August 30th, 2012
2011 This Week’s Must See Art, FranSchecter, Now Magazine, June 19, 2011
2011 Along the Mink Mile, Leah Sandals,National Post, July 15, 2011
2009 Abstraction With the Brakes Off,Donald Brackett, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
2009 Archive Selection Zeichner ExhibitionCatalogue. Blüetenweiss, Berlin, Germany
2008 Bestof Toronto, Mondo Magazine.
2008 You Are Here, Michelle Tarnopolsky,Eastern Front Gallery
2007 TheBig Picture, the National Post, R.M Vaughan.
2006 (t)HERE, Riverside Quarterly, Clarissa Lewis,Toronto
2002 Labour of Love, ETC news, Toronto,Ontario
2002 R.A.W.Select Show, television interview, City T.V., Toronto
2000 Arts on Air, CKLN radio interview forthe exhibition, ‘Unravelled’
AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Ontario Arts Council Project Creation Grant
2018 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
2016 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2015 Canadian Federation of University Women Scholarship
2013 College of Arts Scholarship, University of Guelph
2013 Deans Scholarship, University of Guelph
2012 Ann K. Adler Award for ContemporarySculpture
and Pictorial Art, OCAD University
2012 Relative Space Commission Prize, OCAD
University
2011 Curry’s Art Scholarship, OCAD University
RESIDENCIES
2023 El Sur , Tlalpan , Mexico City, Mexico
2018 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Independent International Residency, Banff, AB
2012 Nomadic Residents Creation and Collaboration Project Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh
Toronto, ON
2008 This Neck of the Woods Para-site roving residency, Mercer Union Centre for
Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2006 Paul Butler’s Rolling Thunder CollageParty Invitational, Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2020 OCAD University, Beyond Pictorial Conventions, Guest Lecturer, Toronto, ON
2019 OCAD University, Painting in the Expanded Field, Guest Lecturer, Toronto, ON
2017-18 OCAD University, Drawing and Painting Thesis Program, Alumni Artist, Toronto, ON
2018 OCAD University, Many Voices Program, Artists Talk, Toronto, ON
2017 OCAD University, Painting in theExpanded Field, Guest Lecturer, Toronto, ON
2016 University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Fixations and Saccades, Artist Talk, Waterloo, ON
2016 Gallery Stratford, No Fixed Address, Stratford, ON
2015 OCAD University, Beyond Pictorial Conventions,Guest Artist, Toronto, ON
2011 OCAD University, Drawing and Painting,Collaborations, Toronto, ON
2010 OCAD University, Colour Explorations, Guest Lecturer, Toronto, ON
2009 Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON