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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
2004Master of Fine Arts Degree, University of Waterloo
1997Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of Guelph
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010Shades of Time, ACME., Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
2009New Paintings, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008Commingle, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
2007Affinity, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006Click, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012Paint 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)
2011The Most She Weighed/The Least She Weighed, curated by Jen HuttonSusan Hobbs, Toronto,      Ontario (accompanying reader)
Mo'Art Mo'Problems, mMOCCA, Toronto, Ontario
2010Non-Identical Abstraction Engine, curated by Jan Tumlir, ACME., Los Angeles, California
Inaugural Exhibition, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
2009Eleventh 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
2008Retelling Anne, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
2006New Models For Abstraction, Kitchener, Ontario
art: to ease crappy conversation, Loop Gallery, Toronto, Ontario *Curator    
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2009Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Ontario , Eleventh RBC Canadian Painting Competition
2008New 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
2010Ontario Arts Council Visual Artist Grant
Toronto Arts Council Visual Artist Grant
2009Canada 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
2008Ontario Arts Council Visual Artist Grant
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2007Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
OSEB Recipient (Visual Artist), Toronto Business Development Centre
2006Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
SSHRC and PREA Research Fellowship, New Models For Abstraction - directed by Robert Linsley
2005Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2004Imperial Tobacco Canada Artistic Development Board Grant
University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship
2003Sylvia 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 
1997Gordon Couling Scholarship, University of Guelph
1996Michael Scotchmer Scholarship, University of Guelph 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011Editors' 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
2010Schad, Ed, Abstraction at ACME., ArtSlant.com, January 12
2009Klaasmeyer, 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
2008Enright, 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
2006Jager, 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
2012OCAD U, Toronto, Ontario
2006ACME., Los Angeles, California, panel discussion on, New Models For Abstraction, moderated by
Jan Tumlir
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2006University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, New Models For Abstraction, directed by Robert Linsley