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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, Canada.
2020 the seeds float away, the Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada.
2018 PLANT/PIXEL, 8eleven (presented in partnership with Images Festival), Toronto, Canada.
2017 fluorescence, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Canada.
2016 relatively gentle ways of touching, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada.
2014 La Nouvelle Terre #3, curated by John Hampton, Vidéographe,Montréal and Neutral Ground, Regina, Canada.
2014 Behind the High Grass (part four), O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada.
2014 Behind the High Grass (part three), University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Canada.
2013 Behind the High Grass (part two), Skånes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden.
2013 P-19720, Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2013 P-19720, Friends, Glasgow, Scotland.
2013 Movement Never Lies, curated by Rachel Anne Farquharson, O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Through the Window, Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, Canada.
2013 Foundation 3.14, Bergen, Norway.
2012 The Vibrating Self, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, Canada.
2012 Behind the High Grass (part one), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA.
2012 Enclosed, Centre Clark, Montréal, Canada.
2011 Enclosed, Stride Art Gallery Association, Calgary, Canada.
2010 (t)here, Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2010 EVERYTHING NEXT TO EACH OTHER, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada.
2009 Day, Drawn Day / Bimensions, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax,Canada.
2008 Soft Turns, OPTICA, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 allgrowrhythms, commissioned for Shoalings, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis, (Etobicoke) Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada, September 23-24.
2022 arabidopsis, Curated by Art & Public for the Interactive Community Wall at The Gardens At Assembly Park, Vaughan, Canada.
2021 BLOOMDOOMROOM, curated by Emma Welch and Daniel Hunt, the plumb, Toronto, Canada.
2018 Island[s], curated by Julie René de Cotret, Art Museum at the University of Toronto (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery), Canada.
2016 Nature’s Lesson, curated by Oana Tanase, Bucharest Art Week, Bucharest, Romania.
2015 RE/ACT The Art of breaking and building, curated by Aage Langhelle, prinz-georg // raum für kunst, Berlin, Germany.
2015 Technologies of Perception, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada.
2013 A Noble Line, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada.
2013, 2011 SESC_Videobrasil 18th and 17th International Contemporary Art Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 The Indivisible, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
2012 New Horizons, Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic: Baroniet Rosendal, Norway & Kunstraum T27, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Now&After ‘12: International Video Art Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
2011 Alternative Now: 14 Media Art Biennale WRO 2011, The National Museum in Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
2010 Oath of the Homunculi, Interaccess, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, Norway.
2009 The Austerity Cookbook, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA.
2007 Salvaging Utopia, Truck, Calgary, Canada.
SELECTED GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2023-4 Gallery 44 Artist Residency, Toronto, Canada.
2023 Toronto Arts Council, Individual: Visual Artist Grant.
2021 Canada Council for the Arts: EXPLORE AND CREATE: Research and Creation Grant.
2021 Toronto Arts Council, Individual: Visual Artist Grant.
2020 Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career: Visual Artists Creation Projects.
2016-9 School of Environmental Sciences Artist Residency, University of Guelph, Guelph.
2019 Canada Council for the Arts: EXPLORE AND CREATE: Research and Creation Grant.
2018 Canada Council for the Arts: EXPLORE AND CREATE: Research and Creation Grant.
2018 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance.
2017 Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career: Visual Artists Creation Projects.
2016 Canada Council for the Arts - Project Grant for Visual Artist.
2015 Residency, Themed Commission Program: Technologies of Perception, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada.
2015 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artist Mid Career Grant.
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Paris Residency, La Cité Internaionale des Arts, Paris, France.
2013, 2011, 2009, 2007 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artist Emerging Grant.
2013 USF Verftet Residency, Bergen, Norway.
2012 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artist Grant.
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistance to Visual Artists – Career Development Grant.
2008 Joseph S. Stauffer Prize.
2008 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistance to Visual Artists – Project Grant.
SELECTED PRESS/TEXTS
2023 ART+PUBLIC UnLtd Studio Visits: soft turns, interview with Emma Welch, artpluspublic youtube channel.
2023 universal, timeless, celestial, by Weiyi Chang, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
2023 chiseled in the stony flesh of the planet, by Weiyi Chang, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
2020 A book is already a library, exhibition text by Kate Whiteway, the Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada.
2020 2006: A Verdant Odyssey, by Tak Pham, Esse magazine, no. 99.
2016 Sensing the Image: Embodied Art Criticism, Master of Fine Arts in Criticism and Curatorial PracticeThesis by Alana Marie Traficante, focuses on our and Aleesa Cohene's art practices, published in Toronto, April 2016.
2015 In conversation with soft turns, Interview with Julie René de Cotret, Syphon 3.1, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre.
2014 Video Interview for La Nouvelle Terre #3, youtube video: http://youtu.be/X3hmWcpOpJE.
2013 Soft Turns: The Tree of Life, by Sophie Lynch, Canadian Art Blog (August 19, 2013).
2013 Kunstreisen, Radio NRK P2 Norway, Saturday February 23, 17:30-17:55.
2012 Reason & Emotion: Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic, catalogue, essays by: Rebecca Partridge, Randi Nygard and Simon Harvey.
2012 The Vibrating Self, by Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Canada.
2012 Dérives en nacelle, by Marie-Ève Charron, Le Devoir (Montréal). Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
2012 Storytelling in the Gaps, by Weston Teruya, exhibition text, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA.
2012 Mechanical and Disorienting Perceptions, by Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre, exhibition text, Centre Clark, Montréal, Canada.
2012 Stride Gallery Catalogue 2011-2012, Stride Gallery. ©2012, ISBN 978-1-897551-13-4.
2011 Seven Hours of Daylight: Soft Turns find solace in Sweden, by R.M. Vaughan, Canadian Art (Fall 2011).
2010 A dizzying reminder of the fate of words in the e-book age, by R. M. Vaughan, The Globe and Mail (Toronto). Saturday, December 10, 2010.
2010 Outopia: The no-place references of Soft Turns (catalogue essay), By Elizabeth Matheson, Catalogue: /mm just add water.
2010 Fiction Loop/Time Is Something, by Patrick Howlett, Produced as part of the YYreZidency program, Copyright © 2010, YYZ.
 
 
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