EDUCATION

Current MFA Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design, OCAD University, Toronto

2025 B.A. and Advanced Diploma, Art and Art History, University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, ON

1998 Master’s of Engineering, Dean’s Honor List, Chemical Engineering, McGill University

1996 B. Eng., Chemical Engineering, McGill University, QC

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025 Teaching Assistant, OCAD University, ON

2024 - 2025 Art Instructor, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON

2010 - 2025 Art Instructor, Home studio, Mississauga, ON

2000 - 2006 Project Manager/Engineer, CAE Inc., Montreal, QC

2000 Process Engineer, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, New York, NY

1998 - 2000 Software Engineer, CAE Inc., Montreal, QC

1996 - 1998 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, QC

 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2025 Academic Excellence Award, Department of Visual Studies, Class of 2025, UTM

Annie Smith Graduate Grant, Annie Smith Travel Grant, Sheridan College

2024 Honorable Mention, 72nd Open Juried Exhibition, Color and Form Society, Etobicoke

2023 Margaret Laidlaw Memorial Scholarship in Art and Art History, University of Toronto

The Women’s Art Association of Canada Rheta D. Fines Scholarship, Toronto

Akimbo “Let’s Talk About Me for a Minute” Award

Faculty Award for Excellence in Painting 4, Sheridan College

2022 Kama Paints Award for Excellence in Painting, Art and Art History, Sheridan College

Spyderworks Resilience Award, Second Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts, Art Gallery of Mississauga

2019 1st Place Juror’s Award, Artists of Halton & Peel Juried Exhibition, Oakville

2018 2nd Place, Visual Arts Mississauga Annual Members Show, Mississauga

1998 NSERC Scholarship, Dean’s Honour List, Master’s of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, QC

 

EXHIBITIONS

2026 “Looks Good on Paper”, Juried exhibition, Propeller Gallery, Toronto

“Rhodo Art Collective Group Exhibition”, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga

“We are Still Here - Technically”, group exhibition, Xpace, Toronto

2025 “Into the Un/Known”, group exhibition, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto

 

2025 “A Spore on Its Journey”, Solo exhibition, the Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, the 2025 Art and Art History Graduate Exhibition, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga

2024 72nd Open Juried Exhibition, Color and Form Society, Etobicoke Civic Gallery, Toronto

“The Middle Child”, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto

“And Thereby Hangs a Tale”, Art and Art History Group Show, Erindale Theatre, UTM

Shelley Peterson Student Art Juried Exhibition, Art Museum, University of Toronto

2023 “Chromophilia”, Art and Art History Group Show, Erindale Theatre, UTM

Shelley Peterson Student Art Juried Exhibition, Art Museum, University of Toronto

Lakeshore Art Trail Annual Juried Show, Port Credit, Mississauga

2022 ArtWorks - Arts on the Credit Annual Juried Show, Port Credit, Mississauga

“The Middle Child”, Art and Art History Exhibition, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto

Second Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts, Art Gallery of Mississauga

2021 “The Qi of Water”, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Jan. 12 - Mar. 16, 2021

Arts Drive, Arts on the Credit, Mississauga

2019 Artists of Halton & Peel Juried Exhibition 2019, Joshua Creek Heritage Centre, Oakville

Cabbagetown Arts and Craft Show, Toronto

Arts on the Credit Annual Fine Art Show, Port Credit, Mississauga

2018 Society of Canadian Artists 50th International Open Juried Show, Papermill Gallery, Toronto

Visual Arts Mississauga Annual Members Show, Mississauga

Arts on the Credit Annual Fine Art Show, Port Credit, Mississauga

Art in the Park, Visual ArtsMississauga 

2017 Society of Canadian Artists 49th International Open Juried Show, Papermill Gallery Toronto

Arts on the Credit Annual Fine Art Show, Port Credit, Mississauga

2016 Colour and Form Society Biennial Juried Show, Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery Toronto

ArtWorks Oakville 17th Annual Juried Art Show, Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville

Mississauga Art Society Fine Art Show, Visual Arts Mississauga

2015 ArtWorks Oakville 16th Annual Juried Art Show, Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville

Mississauga Art Society Fine Art Show, Visual Arts Mississauga

2014 Mississauga Art Society Fine Art Show, Visual Arts Mississauga

2012 Beaux-Arts Brampton Open Juried Show, Brampton

Art in the Park, Visual Arts Mississauga 

2007 Symposium de Sainte-Rose Juried Show, Laval, Quebec

2006  La Semaine des Arts Visuels de Mont-Tremblant, 16th edition Juried Show, Mont-Tremblant, Québec

2005 Comme Unique Art, 14th Anniversaire, Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Exposition 2005

INTERVIEWS

• OMNI TV coverage on “The Qi of Water”, Feb. - Mar. 2021

• Sauga 960 Radio interview, Dec. 2018