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Profesional Experience
2014 - ongoing

Director of the Biophilium artists’ research program (Professor of Wildlife & Death)
Recruiting and communicating with scientists and artists, facilitating 50 science lectures and 50 artist talks per year. Designing and leading ecology research expeditions. Running the Biophilium Library and Book Club. Writing and lecturing on art and ecology. Hosting Brain Club: the monthly café for neurodivergent artists. Curating collaborative publications and art swaps.


Formal
Education

2015 

Master of Fine Art, Print Media 

 

Concordia University, Montreal

2009

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Arts 

 

Concordia University, Montreal


Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Live Art Performance

2022
2019 2018


2016

Wild Cards 
Death and Photography 
Sci-Art 
Chaos Fungorum 
Arousing Biophilia- Art andScience 
Death Angels and Turkey Tail

 

Roundhouse Gallery, Jacksonville University
Step Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT
Nanotopia, Toronto
Art Arc Gallery, San Jose, CA
Bookshelf Micromuseum, U of Western Ontario

2015

International Artist’s Book Exhibition 
Canadian Microbiology Conference 

 

Bank Street Arts, UK
University of Calgary, Alberta

 

Murmuration 

 

Uncommon Common Art exhibit, NS

 

Flocks of Secrets, Swarms of Lies 

 

The Art Gallery, UCC, Roseburg, Oregon

2014

Here. Now. Where? 

 

Marrakech Biennale, Morocco

2013

OpenSource: Openly Sourced 

 

University of Technology, Australia

 

Portage 
Ultramoderne  
The Year of the Snake 

 

Atelier Circulair, Montreal
Art Mûr, Montreal
Ontario College of Art and Design

2012

Sortie

 

L’Encien Ecole des Beaux Arts, MTL

2009

A Letter to my Lovers 

 

Project:or Film Festival, Montreal

2006

Concordia Juried Graduation Show 

 

EV complex, Montreal

 

Garfin's Print Show  

 

Atelier Circulair, Montreal

 

Momentary Reverse Switch  

 

Loyola Theatre Festival, Montreal

 

Fire Carrier’s Reliquary  

 

Gallery X, Montreal

2005

Zucchini Anomaly  

 

Carnavale Carmagnole, Quebec


Solo Exhibitions

2015
2014

The Shaman’s New Mask 
Entrance(d) 

 

MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
Mouse Print gallery, Montreal

2013

  Gyotaku Prince 

 

Pukaskwa National Park Visitor Centre, Ont.


Public Talks, Panels and Guest Lectures

2023

Exploring the Effects of Artist Residencies 
The Likeness of Birds 
Creative Research for Animation 

 

PAF, Quebec
North Wall Gallery, Oxford
Evergreen College, Seattle

2021
2020

Biophilia 
Death Rituals in Contemporary Art 

 

Creative Mornings, Ottawa
Arizona State University

2019

Science in the Studio 

 

Georgia State University

2017

Science-Art Research Opportunities 

 

University of Ottawa

2016

Science-Art Research Opportunities

 

Trans Cultural Exchange, Boston U

2014

Cave Painting to Transgenics: Biology in Art   

 

Acadia University, Nova Scotia


Teaching
and Workshop Leadership

2024-25
2023
2022-24
2020-22
2014-20
2013-23

How to Thrive in Life and the Studio 
Mortality & Creative Mourning Practice 
Birds, Plants, Mushrooms & Death Rituals  
Digital Microscopy, Wild Fermentation 
Lab Mycology and Sterile Technique 
Mushroom Appreciation in the Field 

 

Host of Brain Club for ND artists
Host of monthly Death Club for artists Wild Webinar Series, TheBiophilium  The Biophilium
Ayatana Artistic Research Program
Arts organisations, national parks

2013

Letterpress workshops

 

Concordia University

2011-13

Print Media Teacher’s Assistantships:
-Silk Screen, Book Arts,
Art & Ecology, Advanced Lithography

 

Concordia University

2009-13

Digital Print Studio Monitor

 

Concordia University


Residencies and Expeditions

2025
2024
2023

 



2022
2019

2018
2017

1 month production residency
1 month research residency
1 month production residency
1 week research expedition
7 week production residency
2 week production residency
1 month production residency
2 weeks at the Festival of Birds
66th Peck Mushroom Foray
1 month production residency
Mapping the Sacred Valley AiR
3 month production residency
Solar Eclipse AiR
SoftWEAR wearable tech AiR

 

Griffin’s Ceramic Studio, Montreal
Psychic Garden, Peru
Dereenacappera, Ireland
Cape Clear Bird Observatory, Ireland
Greywood Arts, Ireland
Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland
Road Books, Ireland
Point Pelee National Park, Ontario
Cornell University/NYMS 
La Ceiba Grafica, Mexico 
Healing House, Cusco, Peru 
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon 
Snaggy Mountain, North Carolina  
Art Scape Gibraltar Point, Toronto 

 

1 month production residency

 

Sachaqa Centro de Arte, Peru 

2015

Art ♥s Science

 

Bio Art Expedition, NYC 

2014

 Sidi Ali Trance AiR

 

Culture Vultures, Morocco 

2013

Silence. Awareness. Existence

 

Arteles Creative Center, Finland 

 

Art in the Park Residency

 

Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario


Conferences, Workshops and Training

2025

Sensing the Dead: Relic Veneration 
Metaphoric Dance 

 

Morbid Anatomy
Blue Ceiling Studios

2023

2022

 

 

2021


2020

Hand Building and Wheel Throwing 
New Moon Mycology Summit 
Art, Ecology and Activism 
Fuck Plants; Eco-Sexuality in Literature 
Fabricating with Fungi 
Analyzing Brain Waves 
Podcasting & the Art of the Interview 
NEMF Conference 
  Carnival of the End of the World Divination 
Field Photography 
Slime Mould and Bio-Art 
Creative Writing 
Watercolour Techniques 

 

Almonte Potter’s Guild
Vermont
Node Curatorial Studies, online
Beyond Form Creative Writing, online
Genspace, online
Genspace, online
Atlas Obscura Experiences, online
Northeast Mycological Federation, online
The Museum of Morbid Anatomy, online
The Camera School, online
Genspace, online
Carleton University, Ottawa
Ottawa School of Art

2019

2018
2017
2016
2015

New Moon Mycology Summit 
Bio-Sonification workshop 
DNA Barcoding 
Fall Fungi 
Skeletal Articulation 
Open Water Diving Licence 

 

Mycelium Underground, Thurman, NY
Co:Lab, Toronto
Genspace, NYC
Queens University Biodiversity Station, Kingston
Museum of Morbid Anatomy, Brooklyn
PADI

 

The Way of the Shaman 

 

Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Ontario

2014

Biological Imaging 

 

School of Visual Arts, NYC

 

Transgenic & Synthetic Biology 

 

Genspace, NYC

 

Binaural Microphone Construction 

 

Eastern Bloc, Montreal

 

Popular Sufism 

 

Prof. Reddad Sadiqi, Morocco

2013

Photographic Printing with Live Yeast 

 

Finish Bio Art Society, Helsinki

 

Hiking at Night Without a Flashlight 

 

Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia

 

Bacterial Culturing for Artists 

 

Anna Dimitriu, Flux Media, Montreal

2001

Drawing, Darkroom Photo & Studio Art 

 

Ottawa School of Art


Awards and Research/Production Grants

  2016
  2014

Ottawa Field Naturalist Art Prize
ORP Art Production Grant

  2011
  2011

Awesome Foundation Grant
Winner of the In FlowVideo Contest

2014

Hexagram Internationalisation Grant

2009

FASA Special Projects Grant

2013

MFA Mobility Award

2006

Art Matters Project Grant

2011

Mechtronix Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Excellence

2005
2005

FASA Special Projects Grant
Prairie Outdoor Art Exhibition Grant

2011

Ottawa Art Gallery Production Grant

2004

Art Matters Project Grant


Current Memberships and Affiliations

Keystone Artist for the Rewilding Art’s Collective (Suzuki Foundation)
iNaturalist Ambassador
Ottawa Field Naturalists Club
Eco Art Space
Kanata Sailing Club


Publications

2023
2022
2021

2020

Lichen and the Transitions of Life 
Underworld Beer from the Rhyzosphere 
Light of Bone and Feather 

Marmalade Milk 
The Crow and The Cormorant 
The Cecropia Caterpillar 
Grand Marshal of the Mushroom Parades 

 

Fuck Plants Anthology
EarthKeeper’s Handbook
The Caterpillar Magazine
Fungiphile Journal
Entropy Magazine
Field and Landscape Journal
NYMS Publication

2018
2017
2015
2014

Germinating Herbarium 
Mi Teleferico 
The Ayatana Guides to Cusco & NYC 
The Mushroom Oracle 

 

Catalogue of botanical art
Atlas Obscura
Maps
Android app, Google Play

 

Ebb and Flow

 

Album, Soundcloud

2013

Counter-Balance 

 

AiR Sidi Ali II Catalogue

 

Both and Neither 

 

Catalogue of prints and essays

Selected Reviews, Catalogues, Articles and Interviews

2023                    Interviewed as an entrepreneur by Shout Out Magazine
2022                    Interviewed as a naturalist by the Meditation Daily Podcast
                            Interviewed as death residency host by Talk Death Daily
2021                    Interviewed as mycological artist by North Spore Magazine
                            Interviewed as research artists by Sci-Art Magazine, NYC
2018                    Interviewed as director of Ayatana by the Science Borealis blog, BC
                            Interviewed as director of Ayatana by the Low Down newspaper, Quebec
2015                    Interviewed as director of Ayatana in Arts and Culture, News Review, Oregon
2014                    Interviewed as artist by Art Business blog, Australia
                            Featured as mycological artist in le/the SensoriuM Catalogue               
2013                    Artist review by culture blog Culture Plus, Quebec
                            Interviewed as mycological artist by culture blog Midnight Poutine, Quebec
2012                    Featured as a print maker in the Stittsville Newspaper
2011                    Interviewed as a mycological artist by CUTV
                            Interviewed as a bio artist by Art web magazine Dream. Love. Grow.
2008                    Interviewed as an artist on the Way Up on Think Twice Radio
2006                    Interviewed about the S.Vestas Flaming Circus on CKRW White Horse Radio
                            Interviewed in Hielo Del Fuego: A documentary film on Montreal circus performers.
2004                    Interviewed as director of Metroglyph artist collective on CBC Radio