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).
Press
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
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