About Me

Stephanie Avery is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist with a degree in visual art from York University. With an emphasis on interactivity and empowerment, Stephanie's practice intervenes with familiar spaces, objects and imagery to imbue her subjects with new meanings and narratives. Being especially interested in our collective relationships to the spaces we inhabit, Stephanie explores the world with an equal balance of joy, curiosity and skepticism: a balance she strives to represent in her practice. Her work is both playful and critical, and nothing she does is without a hint of mischief. Stephanie’s goal is to inspire new perspectives and initiate dialogue about elements of contemporary culture that are often taken for granted. She has exhibited widely within Toronto, notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Media Arts Centre; and internationally, at Atrium (Forli, Italy), Flux Factory (New York, USA), Shadow Traffic (New York, USA) and Playa del Fuego (online/Tamaqua, USA).

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The Museum of Bad Gifts Is a Celebration of Outlandish Objects, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024

Museum of Bad Gifts an homage to the awkward, the unwanted and the inappropriate, CBC News

Showing Off The Best Of The Worst At The Museum Of Bad Gifts, City News, 2024

Museum in Toronto is new home for weird, and unwanted gifts, Global News, 2024

At Toronto’s ‘Museum of Bad Gifts,’ where unwanted presents are ‘another person’s treasure’, Toronto Star, 2024

Oh You Shouldn’t Have, Toronto Scoop, 2024

Toronto's newest immersive gallery is an old house marked for demolition, CBC Arts, 2024

The Bold, The Fleeting, The Beautiful, Spacing, 2024

A look inside a Toronto house covered in art, CBC News, 2024

Toronto’s Newest Art Installation Will Soon Be Demolished, CityTV, 2024

Artists completely transform Toronto home set for demolition, CBC News, 2024

A labour of love,’ 40+ artists in Toronto transformed a soon-to-be demolished house into a free public mural, NowToronto, 2024

Toronto House Slated For Demolition Now Transformed Into a Surreal Wonderland, BlogTO, 2024

Colourful mural installation helps bid adieu to Toronto house slated for demolition, CP24, 2024

Art on Barton, The Awesome Foundation, 2024

Abandoned Toronto houses spark intense debate about gentrification, BlogTO, 2023

Development vs. preservation: Street art on abandoned homes sparks debate, Toronto Sun, 2023

Pink Shirt Day, CBC News, 2023

New Provincial Park Lands In Abandoned Toronto Wasteland Slated for Development, BlogTO, 2022

20 Artists to Check out at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 2018, NOW Magazine, 2018

Toronto OkStupid Group Therapy Session, Torontoist, 2016

OkStupid: The Best Worst Online Dating Messages, She Does the City, 2016

Sandwich artists get to the meat of the matter at Kensington Market gallery, The Toronto Star, 2016

Punny or Die, The Varsity, 2014

Cooking With Cajones, The L Magazine, 2013

Awesome Foundation’s first Toronto winner will turn the city into a number puzzle, The Toronto Star, 2011

Awesome Foundation’s first grant winner, Stephanie Avery, to play connect the dots with Toronto, Toronto Life, 2011

The corporate-free alternative to Nuit Blanche: Les Rues des Refuses, This Magazine, 2009

If the refuse it, don’t lose it, The National Post, 2009

Les Rues des Refuses Blache State, Torontoist, 2009

Renegade Nuit Blanche Offers Art Alternatives, BlogTO, 2008