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SASHA
PIERCE, CURRICULUM VITAE 
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Born 1974, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Lives
and works
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
EDUCATION
2004 Master
of
Fine Arts Degree,
University
of Waterloo
1997 Bachelor
of Arts Degree, University
of Guelph
SELECTED SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Shades
of Time, ACME., Los
Angeles, California (catalogue)
2009 New
Paintings,
CTRL Gallery,
Houston, Texas
2008 Commingle, Greener
Pastures Contemporary
Art,
Toronto, Ontario
2007 Affinity, Loop
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Click, Loop
Gallery,
Toronto,
Ontario
SELECTED
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Paint as Object
(Jeremy
Hof and Sasha Pierce), Jessica Bradley Art
and Projects,
Toronto, Ontario
60
Painters, Humber College
School of Art and Media, Etobicoke, Ontario (catalogue)
2011 The Most She Weighed/The
Least She Weighed, curated
by Jen Hutton, Susan
Hobbs,
Toronto, Ontario
(accompanying reader)
Mo'Art Mo'Problems,
mMOCCA,
Toronto, Ontario
2010 Non-Identical
Abstraction Engine, curated
by Jan Tumlir, ACME., Los
Angeles,
California
Inaugural Exhibition, General
Hardware Contemporary, Toronto,
Ontario
2009 Eleventh RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Musée
D'Art
Contemporain, Montreal, Québec (catalogue)
Eleventh RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Power Plant, Toronto,
Ontario (catalogue)
Showcase.09,
Cambridge
Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2008 Retelling
Anne, Macdonald
Stewart Art Centre,
Guelph, Ontario
2006 New
Models For Abstraction, Kitchener, Ontario
art:
to ease crappy conversation, Loop Gallery,
Toronto, Ontario *Curator
SELECTED
ART
FAIRS
2009 Art
Toronto Fair,
Toronto, Ontario ,
Eleventh RBC
Canadian Painting Competition
2008 New
Art Dealers Alliance
Art Fair (NADA),
Miami, Florida, Greener Pastures
Contemporary Art
NEXT
Art Fair,
Chicago, Illinois, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art
UpART
Fair, Gladestone Hotel,
Toronto, Ontario, Greener
Pastures
Contemporary Art
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Doris McCarthy
Gallery,
University of Toronto Scarborough
The
Donovan Collection,
University of Toronto
Collection of
the Canada Council Art Bank
BMO
Collection
RBC
Collection
AWARDS / GRANTS
2010 Ontario Arts
Council Visual Artist Grant
Toronto Arts
Council Visual Artist Grant
2009 Canada
Council for the Arts Visual Artist Project
Grant
Canada
Council for the Arts Travel Grant,
panel discussion at ACME., Los Angeles
Honourable
Mention Award, Eleventh RBC
Canadian Painting Competition
2008 Ontario Arts
Council Visual Artist Grant
Ontario Arts
Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2007 Ontario Arts
Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
OSEB
Recipient (Visual Artist),
Toronto Business Development
Centre
2006 Ontario Arts
Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
SSHRC
and PREA Research Fellowship, New
Models
For
Abstraction -
directed by Robert Linsley
2005 Ontario Arts
Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2004 Imperial
Tobacco Canada Artistic Development Board Grant
University
of Waterloo Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship
2003 Sylvia
Knight Graduate
Award in Fine Arts, University
of Waterloo
Shantz
Fellowship
Scholarship, University of
Waterloo
Senate
Graduate Scholarship,
University of Waterloo
University
of Waterloo Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship
1997 Gordon
Couling Scholarship,
University of Guelph
1996 Michael
Scotchmer
Scholarship, University of Guelph
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Editors' Pick, The
Most She Weighed/The
Least She Weighed, Magenta
Magazine Online, Volume 2, No.3
Dick,
Terence, Toronto
Akimblog: The Most She Weighed at Susan Hobbs,
Akimbo.ca, August 2
2010 Schad, Ed, Abstraction
at ACME., ArtSlant.com,
January 12
2009 Klaasmeyer,
Kelly, Sasha
Pierce: New Paintings, Houston
Press,
September 22
Tucker,
Rebecca, Where
Emerging Artist Can Shine,
The National Post, September 3, p.TO4
Reid,
Robert, The
Best and the Brightest, The
Record, Kitchener, October 8
2008 Enright,
Robert, Textural
Piercings, Border
Crossings,
Issue
105, Spring, p.24
Dault,
Gary Michael, Sasha
Pierce at Greener Pastures, The
Globe
and Mail,
August 23, p.28
2006 Jager,
David, Sasha
Pierce
brings together sculptures that go from silly to profound, Now Magazine,
December
14, p.86
Olejnik, Wojciech, The
Abstraction Exhibition, http://abstraction.uwaterloo.ca
ARTIST
LECTURES
2012 OCAD
U, Toronto, Ontario
2006 ACME.,
Los Angeles, California, panel discussion on, New
Models
For
Abstraction,
moderated by
Jan
Tumlir
ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE
2006 University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, New
Models
For
Abstraction,
directed by Robert Linsley
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