Education
2006 – 2008 Masters in Fine Art: Sculpture - Slade School of Fine Art: University College London - London, United Kingdom
2002 - 2006 Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture/ Installation - Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto. Canada
2001 Foundation Studies Certificate - Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto, Canada
2000 Ontario Secondary School Diploma - Wexford Collegiate Institute - Toronto, Canada
Exhibitions
2023
x-in-waiting (The App)/ London Ontario Media Arts Association/ London, Canada
2022
Performance: Thrice the sapien/Task-Negative/ Galerie Nicolas Robert/ Toronto, Canada
Soon and Very Soon/ Mayworks Festival – Hilton Hotel/ Toronto, Canada
2021
Re-connect Art/ Prague Biennale Projekt/ Prague, Czech Republic
x-in-waiting/ The Social Distancing Festival/ online
2020
Presently/ Art Gallery of Peterborough/ Peterborough, Canada
Quarantine Qapsule/ Myseum curated by Tea Base/ Toronto, Canada
Performance for video - x-in-waiting: Chiminea/ Gloryhole Deathtrap 5: Variety Show/ Toronto, Canada
2019
The thirst is real / Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival / Edmonton, Canada
YYZ 40th Anniversary Exhibition / YYZArtists Outlet / Toronto, Canada
2018
Oracular Spectacular - 20/20 20 Artists 20 Hours / Locust Projects/ Miami, Florida, USA
Solo Exhibition - A certain amount of hand holding/ Orleans Gallery – Ottawa School of the Arts/ Ottawa, Canada
Solo Exhibition - Between you and I/ YYZArtists Outlet / Toronto, Canada
2017
Onderweg/ Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg/ Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
2016
Play Together Stay Together/ Miami New Media Festival - Perez Art Museum Miami/ Miami, Florida, USA
Are we having fun yet?/ Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/ Symposium / Katzman Contemporary/ Toronto, Canada
2015
Solo Exhibition- Zones of Discomfort / MART/ Dublin, Ireland
P3 Persuasive Participatory Performance/ Hospitalfield Arts / Arbroath, Scotland, UK
Play Together Stay Together/ Video art International Festival FIVAC, Camagüey 2015/ Camagüey, Cuba
2014
6 Minutes in the (w)hole / Episode 5 Regionalism: What it Looks Like Podcast, Canada
2013
Burning of the Vanities/ Fahrenheit Festival : Artcite Gallery/ Windsor, Ontario
Performance Collaboration/ Hashtag Gallery/ Toronto, Ontario
2012
COMMENTATOR V_2/ Points of Access: Whippersnapper Gallery / Toronto, Canada
Small Meteorites/ Flux Night 2012/ Flux Projects/ Atlanta Georgia
Site Specific Installation/ Santorini Biennale 2012/ Santorini, Greece
Audio Project/ Blue Skies Kite Flying, Stargazing and Rainbow
Chasing Festival/ Organised by Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Rep Theatre and the
Science Centre/ Dundee, Scotland
Video Screening/ ANEMIC Festival of Independent Film and New Media Art / Francophonian Alliance/ Prague, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibition: Other Random Encounters/ The Artel/ Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Video Screening/ King St Alternative Film Festival/ Toronto, Ontario Canada
2011
Video Screening/ Videoart International Festival, Camagüey 2011/ Camagüey, Cuba
Video Screening/ Athens Video Art Festival/ Athens, Greece
Video Screening/ Espressioni: Performing Art Video Festival/ Milan, Italy
Rural Idyll 2/ Dodnash Farm Bentley/ Ipswich, United Kingdom
Video Screening/ Danube Video Art Festival/Stadtkino Grein, Austria
Video Screening/ Festival Oodaaq d’images poétiques 2011/ Rennes, France
2010
Utopia Project Archive 2006- 2010/ Institute of Contemporary Greek Art/ Athens, Greece
Video Screening/ Videoart International Festival, Camagüey 2010/ Camagüey, Cuba
Solo Exhibition: Smashy Smashy/ Monster Truck Gallery/ Dublin, Ireland
Beyond the Dustheaps/ The Charles Dickens Museum/ London, UK
Video Screening/ Plovdiv Night of Museum & Galleries/ Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Video Screening/ OSTRALE`010 International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts/ Dresden Germany
Bringing Sexy Bach: Video Screening/ Videoholica Video Art Festival/ Varna Bulgaria
Harsh Lines and Spongy Surfaces/ Hackney Wicked Festival/ London/ UK
A Man Walks into a Bar: Nine Trades of Dundee/ Commissioned by: DJCAD & Scottish Arts
Council/ Dundee, Scotland
Solo Exhibition: It Only Takes One Bite/ Kuona Trust Gallery: Triangle Arts Trust/ Nairobi, Kenya
2008
Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show/ Slade School of Fine Art/ London, United Kingdom
FacePlant (Polish)/ UCL Cloisters/ London, United Kingdom
2007
Slade School of Fine Art Interim Show/ Slade School of Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2 Nights of Ladder Climbing/ Parker McMillan/ London, United Kingdom
2006
It Happens Here/ OCAD, 100 McCaul Toronto, Canada
2005
Four/ X-PACE/ Toronto, Canada
See It Here Before It’s Everywhere / OCAD 100 McCaul/ Toronto, Canada
Lost in Space/ Sixty Four Steps Contemporary Art/ Toronto, Canada
Go West: Thesis Exhibition/ Gladstone Hotel/ Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Potential/ X-PACE/ Toronto, Canada
Williamsburg Bridging: Freezer Burn/ Galapagos Art Space/ Brooklyn, New York , USA
2004
Inter/ Dis: The Connection Dialogue/ Mindcontrol Gallery/ Toronto, Canada
The (Un)Concious Nature of Sculpture/ Eastern Front Gallery/ Toronto, Canada
2001
Cameralinks 2001/ Gallery 44/ Toronto, Canada
Residencies
2018 Orleans Gallery / Ottawa School of the Arts/ Ottawa, Canada
2015 MART/ Dublin, Ireland
2015 Hospitalfield Arts/ Arbroath, Scotland, UK
2015 Artist Village/ WARP Contemporary Arts Platform/ Bruges, Belgium
2011 Rural Idyll 2/ Dodnash Farm Bentley/ Ipswich, United Kingdom
2010 Kuona Trust/ Triangle Arts Network/ Nairobi, Kenya
2007 Utopia and Violence/ ASFA Site/ Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Grants/ Awards/ Honours
2021 Ontario Arts Council Grant - Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals
2020 Ontario Arts Council Grant - Mid-career Visual Arts Creation Projects
2019 Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation Grant
2018 Ontario Arts Council Grant - Exhibition Assistance
2018 Ontario Arts Council Grant - Mid-career Visual Arts Creation Projects
2015 Ontario Arts Council Grant - Access Grant
2015 Toronto Arts Council Grant – Mid-career Individual Media Artist Grant
2012 Ontario Arts Council Grant – Points of Access
2010 Scottish Arts Council Grant - Nine Trades of Dundee Commission
2007 Nominated by Slade for the Red Mansion Art Prize (Residency)
2006 Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship
2006 Shortlist for the Mudge Massey Traveling Scholarship
2005 Honorable Mention: Ontario College of Art and Design
2004 Louis Odette Sculpture Scholarship
2000 Mike Safka Sculpture Award
Professional Experience
2021 - Present -- Board of Directors, YYZ Artists Outlet - Toronto, Canada
2023 -- Speaker: Pratt Institute of Fine Art: Studio Writing Symposium - David Yu and Dena Yago in convo with Christine Negus
2022 -- Jury Member: Ontario Arts Council: Skills and Career Development for Indigenous Arts Professionals and Arts Professionals of Colour - Toronto, Canada
2022 -- Jury Member: City of Toronto: Cedar Ridge Creative Centre - Toronto, Canada
2022 -- Jury Member: Mayworks Labour Arts Catalyst - Toronto, Canada
2022 -- Jury Member: AGO X RBC Artist in Residence Program - Toronto, Canada
2020 -- Ontario Arts Council Juror, Ontario Arts Council - Toronto, Canada
2015 -- Jury Member: Artscape Youngplace Community Fund Projects, Artscape Youngplace - Toronto, Canada
2014 -- Speaker: How Objects Work – Smashy Smashy, Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto, Canada
2010 -- Speaker: Mapping the Future of Public Art in Scotland Symposium, Visual Research Center Dundee Contemporary Art - Dundee/ Scotland
Press & Bibliography
Catalogue: Locust Projects: The 20th Anniversary Retrospective
Catalogue: Videoholica / 2008 - 2014 Videoholica Special Selection Winners. pg. 85
Catalogue: Nine Trades of Dundee/ 2010 Exhibition DJCAD
Review: Vaughan, RM. Au revoir, Zsa Zsa dahling. Editorial/ National Post 27 Aug.05, sec. T: TO8-TO9.
Installation Photo: ed. Johnston, Ann Dowsett. Maclean’s: Guide to Canadian/ Universities ’05. 2005. pg.163
Published Writing
ArtSlant Reviews/Interviews/Editorials (2008 - 2012) - Library of Congress
ArtSlant Reviews/Interviews/Editorials (2008 - 2012) - The New York Art Resources Consortium