STEPHANIE AVERY : Curriculum Vitae, The Whole Shebang
Solo Exhibitions
Earthly Delights, painting exhibit, Dirty Laundry, Toronto, 2023
Earthly Desires, painting exhibit, Show Gallery, Toronto, 2023
Post-Democracy, painting exhibit, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, 2022
Showroom, interactive sculptural installation, Geary Art Crawl, Toronto, 2022
New Year New You, sculptural installation, Show Gallery, Toronto, 2022
Game Changer, weekly podcast, virtual, 2021/22
New Condo City, interactive sculptural installation, Geary Art Crawl, 2021
Satisfaction Guaranteed, painting exhibition, Flying Pony, Toronto, 2019
Satisfaction Guaranteed, painting exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2017
Paper Trail, photography exhibition, The Bloor/Gladstone Library, Toronto, 2017
OkStupid, interactive performance, multiple venues, Toronto, 2015-2017
The Punger Games, interactive performance, Culture Days Festival, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, 2014
Ice Cream Machine, interactive kinetic sculpture, Art of the Danforth Festival, Carter’s Ice Cream, Toronto, 2014
Shedding Light, photography exhibition, Contact Photography Festival, Eclectic Revival, Toronto, 2013
Abandoned, emersive photography exhibition, Art of the Danforth Festival, Toronto, 2012
After, photography exhibition, Agora Café and Gallery, Toronto, 2010
Shadow Play, painting exhibition, Hotshot Gallery, Toronto, 2008
Decay Revisited, window installation, Roadside Attractions, Toronto, 2008
Dirt Bikes, window installation, Bike Pirates, Toronto, 2008
Swim, photography exhibition, Lens Factory Gallery, Toronto, 2008
Starry Night, interactive installation, Nuit Blanche, Stanley Park, Toronto, 2007
Group Exhibitions and workshops
Circa, painting exhibit, Worth Gallery, Toronto, 2023
Promise Sparkle Party, live painting, Black Creek Assembly, Toronto, 2023
Double U, painting exhibit, The Local Gallery, Toronto, 2023
Liquid Assets, augmented-reality-enhanced mural, Window Wonderland, Toronto, 2023
The Other Art Fair, mixed-media art fair, Zero Space, New York City, 2023
In-spore-ational, mural, Global Street Art, London, England, 2023
Portrait of a Weary Traveler, mural, laneway jam, Brighton, England, 2023
Funderpass, underpass mural, mural jam, Vaughan, 2023
In Store, interactive installation, Nuit Blanche East Danforth, Toronto, 2023
Glow, mural, KJBIT Collective Fall Mural Jam, Toronto, 2023
Sure as Shuter, utility box mural, 100 Shuter St, Toronto, 2023
Here Comes The Pun: a musical, pun-based treasure hunt, Wavelength Summer Thing, Trillium Park, Toronto, 2023
Collective Collage Mural, Wavelength Summer Thing, Trillium Park, Toronto, 2023
Hands Off The Wall Group Exhibit, Kunstlabor 2, Munich, Germany, 2023
Anemones Like These, mural, Hands Off The Wall Mural Festival, Munich, Germany, 2023
Department of Civilian Art, multidisciplinary art festival, Black Creek Assembly, 2023
All The Small Things, group exhibit, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, 2023
Cycle Track, mural, StreetARToronto, North York, 2023
Do West Fest, live painting, Toronto, 2023
Cave in the City, immersive sculptural exhibit, La-Mashu Artspace, Toronto, 2023
Trampoline Hall, stage design, The Garrison, Toronto, 2023
Fashion Art Toronto, art installation at Toronto Fashion Week, Toronto, Canada, 2023
The Artist Project, mixed-media art fair, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada, 2023
A Good Pun is its Own Reword, artist talk on puns, Dirty Laundry Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2023
Department of Civilian Dance, two new murals, Black Creek Assembly, Toronto, 2023
Be Kind, interactive paint-by-number mural, BGC St. Albans Club, Toronto, 2023
Walking in a Winter Punderland, interactive treasure hunt, Geary Winter Fest, Toronto, 2023
Fix Up Look Sharp, mixed-media group exhibit, Northern Contemporary Gallery, 2023
The Art of Intervention: The collected urban interventions of Shari Kasman, Martin Reis and Stephanie Avery, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, 2023
Parkdale Provincial Park, co-creator of large-scale intervention, 11 Brock, Toronto, 2022
Under 100, group exhibit, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, 2022
Promise Sparkle Party, live painting, mystery warehouse, Toronto, 2022
Wavelength Halloween: Bonnie Trash, interactive installation, ESG Zero, Toronto, 2022
A Nightmare on Roncesvalles, group exhibit, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, 2022
Melting, augmented-reality-enhanced mural, Window Wonderland, Toronto, 2022
Promise Cherry Beach, live painting, Cherry Beach, Toronto, 2022
Buried Pleasures, window installation, Nuit Blanche East Danforth, Toronto, 2022
Levity Lift Off, group exhibit, Levity Micro Gallery, Nelson, BC, 2022
Intangible Adorations Caravan, canvas backdrops for a traveling theatrical caravan show, roaming, 2022
Do West Fest, live mural painting, 2022
On the Fence, group photography exhibit, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2022
The Artist Project, art fair, Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 2022
Being Scene, mixed-media exhibition, Gallery 2104, Toronto, 2022
Culture Jamming Instructor, 5 week course, Workman Arts, virtual
Honest Shop, group exhibit/honesty-based gift shop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2021/22
Figment Interactive Art Festival, interactive workshop, Figment Toronto, virtual, 2021
Christie Pits Artists, mixed-media group exhibit, Ideas Incorporated Gallery, Toronto, 2021
Wavelength Presents: Marker Starling, Nina Savary & Animatist, interactive sculptural installation, 918 Bathurst Centre, Toronto, 2021
Art Battle, live painting competition, The Great Hall, Toronto, 2021
Wavelength Presents: Bodywash + Polite Society, interactive sculptural installation, 918 Bathurst Centre, Toronto, 2021
BigArtTO, large-scale projections, Donald D Summerville Olympic Pool, Toronto, 2021
Emergence, mural, KJBIT Collective Fall Mural Jam, Toronto, 2021
Forever (Bird Botanicals), sculpture exhibit, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 2021
Open Call, group exhibit, Folx Gallery, virtual, 2021
The Punger Games, event organizer, interactive performance, virtual Playa Del Fuego Festival, 2021
Anticipate-A-Day, mobile interactive sculpture exhibit, Shadow Traffic, USA, 2021
Flux Thursday: Anywhere But Here, interactive performance, Flux Factory, virtual/New York City, 2020
Eco Art, mixed-media exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, 2020
Flux Thursday: Culinary Edition, interactive performance, Flux Factory/New York City, virtual, 2020
LIMINAL: Interstices Between and Betwixt, mixed-media exhibition, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, 2020
Progress Festival, immersive theatre festival closing event, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 2020
Being Scene, mixed-media exhibition, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, 2020
Long Winter, immersive inter-arts event, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, 2019
Wavelength Summer Music and Art Festival, music and art festival, Stackt Market, Toronto, 2019
TD Community Sunday, pop-up interactive art event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2019
An Index, mixed-media exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2019
Being Scene, mixed-media exhibition, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, 2019
Long Winter, immersive inter-arts event, Workman Arts, Toronto, 2019
PULP: Paper Art Party, immersive inter-arts event, The Delisle Place, Toronto, 2019
Bursting Bubbles: Creating Context for Evolving Solitudes, mixed-media exhibition, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, 2018
Camp Wavelength, music and art festival, Fort York, Toronto, 2018
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, mixed-media art fair, City Hall, Toronto, 2018
Mindset: Exposure, Contact Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, 2018
Being Scene, mixed-media exhibition, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2018
Long Winter, immersive inter-arts event, Workman Arts, Toronto, 2018
PULP: Paper Art Party, immersive inter-arts event, Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, 2018
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, mixed-media art fair, City Hall, Toronto, 2017
Toronto Timeraiser, mixed-media art auction, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2017
Mindset, Contact Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, 2017
The Artist Project, mixed-media art fair, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada, 2017
Transformation - An Exhibition of Altered Books, The Helson Gallery, Georgetown, 2016
Totally Lost: Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XX Century, photography exhibition, Forli, Italy, 2016
The Rent: Blackout, fundraiser, The Beaver, Toronto, 2016
Day of Delight, immersive inter-arts event, Clay and Paper Theater, Toronto, 2016
Fill’er Up, sketchbook exhibition, Articulations, Toronto, 2016
The Sell Out Show, mixed-media exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2015
Art of Darkness, interactive art event, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, 2015
Strobe, digital production, Flux Factory, New York City, 2015
The Oblique Show, mixed-media exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2015
Curio, shadow box exhibition, Articulations, Toronto, 2014
The Sell Out Show, mixed-media exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2014
The Dan/Dani IV Project, Art of the Danforth Festival, Toronto, 2014
Identity Lost, mixed-media art exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2014
Big Top, mixed-media art exhibition, 99 Gallery, Toronto, 2014
Exquisite Contraption, facility-wide Rube Goldberg machine, Flux Factory, New York City, 2014
Space and Place, mixed-media exhibition, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2013
Render, immersive inter-arts event, Nyood, Toronto, 2013
The Noise Project, residency and mixed-media exhibition, 99 Gallery, Toronto, 2013
Totally Lost: Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XX Century in Urban Management, photography exhibition, Forli, Italy, 2013
NXNE Outdoor Art Exhibit, mixed-media art fair, North by Northeast, Toronto, 2013
The Wonder Cabinet, short story collection and immersive art installation, Flux Factory, New York City, 2013
Toronto Timeraiser, mixed-media art auction, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, 2013
anything ANYTHING, mixed-media exhibition, Flux Factory, New York City, 2013
Banquet, immersive installation, Flux Factory, New York City, 2012
Queen West Art Crawl, mixed-media art fair, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, 2011
Salon des Refuses, mixed-media exhibition, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, 2011
The (Re)Collection Project, mixed-media exhibition, Labspace Studio, Toronto, 2011
Photrospective, photography exhibition, Steelworkers Hall, Toronto, 2011
Continue Y/N?, mixed-media exhibition, Sleeping Giant Gallery, Toronto, 2010
Creation, mixed-media exhibition, Queen Gallery, Toronto, 2010
By the Pound, mixed-media exhibition, Sleeping Giant Gallery, Toronto, 2010
upArt, site-specific installation exhibition, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2010
Queen West Art Crawl, mixed-media art fair, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, 2010
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, mixed-media art fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, 2010
Painted Black, mixed-media exhibition, Sleeping Giant Gallery, Toronto, 2010
The Sunnyside Art Show and Sale, mixed-media art fair, The Sunnyside Pavilion, Toronto, 2010
Art for Chilled Hearts, mixed-media exhibition, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, 2010
Parameters, mixed-media exhibition, Studio 561, Toronto, 2010
Genesis Now, mixed-media exhibition, Rosedale Presbytarian Church, Toronto, 2009
Square Foot Show, mixed-media exhibition, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, 2009
Searching For, immersive inter-arts event, Gallery 345, Toronto, 2009
The Lab Space Sessions 4.0: Deconstructing Hip, mixed-media exhibition, Labspace, Studio, Toronto, 2008
Pedal Revvin’, mixed-media exhibition, Hotshot Gallery, Toronto, 2008
Between Memory and History, Contact: Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, 2008
Contacting Toronto 08: Memories for the City, Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto, 2008
Curator/Organizer
The Art of Intervention: The collected urban interventions of Shari Kasman, Martin Reis and Stephanie Avery, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, 2023
OkStupid, various venues, Toronto, 2015-2017
The Sandwich Show, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2016
Les Rues des Refuses, an independent guide to the off-program art and events of Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008-2016
The Sell Out Show, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, 2014-2015
Flux Factory Iron Chef Fundraiser, Flux Factory, New York City, 2013
Residencies
Museum of Contemporary Art, studio residency, Toronto, 2018-2019
Nomadic Noise Residency, Toronto, 2013
Flux Factory, New York City, 2012-2013
Publications
Togetherness, Drom Artist Collective, 2022
Open Minds Quarterly, Fall 2021 Issue, 2021
Headlight Anthology, 2019
RUB Magazine, 2018
Torontoist.com, Vandalist author, weekly street art column, 2011-2016
The Quilliad, issue 5, 2016
AKIN Colouring Book II, 2016
Emboss Magazine, Nostalgia - Volumes 1 & 2, 2016
The Wonder Cabinet, 2013
Grants
Canada Council professional development grant, 2022
VPF Artist Grant Recipient, Virtual Playa Del Fuego Festival, 2021
Toronto Awesome Foundation Grant, 2011
Production Design
Happy F'K'IN Sunshine, feature film, 2019
Poor Agnes, feature film, 2017
Saturn Devours, short film, 2017
Job Review With a Vampire, web series, 2013
Who Who Who’s Got a Crush On You, play, Buddies and Bad Times Theatre, 2011
Turkey, short film, 2010
Redheaded Stepchild, play, many venues, 2010
A Maude-Lynne Evening, play, Factory Studio Theatre, 2010
Roach Killa, music video for Killin Em feat. Skelitor & Maria, 2010
The Old Prince Still Lives At Home, music video for Shad, 2009
I Guess, music video for Jessie Farrell, 2009
Sunday Bloody Sunday, music video for Colin Munro, 2009
So Beautiful, music video for Jarvis Church, 2009
The Funeral, short film, 2008
Agua del Pozo, music video for Alex Cuba, 2008
21st Century Christmas, music video for Jaydee Bixby, 2008
Ride of the Yoga Valkyries, short film, 2008
Plus set decoration on a multitude of television shows and feature films, from 2007 until 2020
Press
Parkdale Peovincial Park, 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
Education
1999-2003, BFA in Visual Art, York University, Toronto