BIO
Nicole Katsuras (b. Toronto, Canada) received a Master of Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, UK and has an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. Her work can be found in numerous corporate collections, including CIBC, McCarthy Tetrault, Canaccord, Encana, RBC Capital Investments, Luciano Benetton, Mirvish Collection, Holt Renfrew to name a few. She has also designed an exclusive line of luxury hand-tuffed silk and wool rugs for Stark Carpet in New York City. Currently, Nicole will be part of an exhibition titled Air at Foster White Gallery in Seattle Washington, opening March 7th, 2024.
ABOUT THE WORK
There is a painstaking aspect to the way Nicole makes a painting, her pictures are built as much as they are painted. They are so well built , so beautiful and elaborate, her audience continues to grow in tandem with her deep relationship to painting, especially modern expressive abstraction. The paintings of Nicole Katsuras are uniquely innovative, one of the early pioneers of a technique that involves mixing oil paint into a personal palette of colours, then using an improvised system of irregular mark-making tools to apply the paint onto the surface of the canvas. A single square inch of canvas could support layers of extrusions piled an inch high. For this reason, Nicole was invited to exhibit in Material Matters 2012-2013 at The Courtauld Institute of Art, celebrating both established and emerging contemporary artists who use pioneering media or re-interpret traditional forms of representation. Nicole’s paintings are full of paradox and influence; painterly gestures take from genres diverse as still-life, and portraiture to create figure-ground relationships for the viewer to experience as both objects in space and as an ethereality that is open to personal meaning, joy and wonder. Nicole’s most recent work features a series of bold compositional and chromatic ideas that she has been focusing on since 2007. In the decade since graduation from Central Saint Martins Masters of Fine Arts, Nicole Katsuras has been collected by prominent Canadian collectors like David Mirvish, who specializes in the ongoing legacy of modern painting, Father Daniel Donovan’s historically significant Canadian collection as well as a number of private collections from Vancouver to Toronto, New York to Istanbul.
curriculum vitae
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MASTER OF FINE ART/ CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN/ LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
HONOURS BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO/ TORONTO, CANADA
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MARY COYNE ROWELL JACKMAN POST GRADUATE AWARD
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BENNETT JONES LLP
LUCIANO BENETTON
CANACCORD CAPITAL CORPORATION
CANACCORD WEALTH MANAGEMENT
CARLTON UNIVERSITY
CIBC
THE DONOVAN COLLECTION
ENCANA
EQUITABLE TRUST
FAIRBOURNE
FAIRMOUNT BAKU, FLAME TOWERS, BAKU AZERBAIJAN
HOLT RENFREW
HYDRO ONE
THE KEG STEAKHOUSE COLLECTION
MCCARTHY TETRAULT
MIRVISH COLLECTION
RBC CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
SECTION EIGHT/ITCH PRODUCTIONS
THOMPSON HOTEL, WASHINGTON DC
WALKER WEST LONGO
YLAW
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS FROM VANCOUVER TO TORONTO AND FROM NEW YORK TO ISTANBUL
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2021 SKY MAPS AND DAYDREAMS/ BAU-XI VANCOUVER
2020 NOW MORE THAN EVER/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2020 MARCH 7 - 21 / PROCESS AND IMAGE/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2019-2020 DECEMBER 2 - FEBRUARY 15 /TILT + PULL/ ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY- MOUNTAIN HOME/ ARKANSAS
2019 NOVEMBER 9-23/ PAINTER’S PARADISE/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2015 PARADE/ TRACK AND FIELD GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 CHROMA NATIONAL/ CORKIN GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 COLOUR IN SPACE/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2012 SKY WRITING / BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2011 MEGATHERIUM/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2011 THE ALGONQUIN REPORT/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2010 FURIOUS FROLICS/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2010 LITTLE ROAR/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2009 NEW WORKS/ 13TH STREET/ NIAGARA
2009 SUNSHOWERS/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2008 RED STAYS BRIGHT/ 968 QUEEN/ TORONTO
2007 BLOOMING HIDE/ SPIN GALLERY/ TORONTO
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2021 ART CARES/ ART IN SUPPORT OF FOOD BANKS CANADA/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2020 AWAKENINGS/ GROUP SHOW/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2020 ART CARES/ ART IN SUPPORT OF FOOD BANKS CANADA/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2020 CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION/WADDINGTON’S/ TORONTO
2020 AWAKENINGS/ GROUP SHOW/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2020 MODERN MASTERS-PRIVATE COLLECTION/ 13TH STREET WINERY/NIAGARA
2019 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2019 METHOD II/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2019 IN ASCEND/ 2 PERSON/ CURATED BY RAFI GHANAGHOUNIAN/ SAMARA CONTEMPORARY/ TORONTO
2018 OUT OF THE BUSH GARDEN/ ONSITE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2017 OUT OF THE BUSH GARDEN/ FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI/ VENICE
2013 DECEMBER GROUP SHOW/ CORKIN GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ CORKIN GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 THE GHOSTS OF WILLIAM RONALD/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 WINTER EXHIBITION/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2013 THE WHITE SHOW/ BAU XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2012 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2012 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ BAU XI VANCOUVER/ TORONTO
2012 FRESH FACES/ NEWZONES/ CALGARY
2012 SUMMER EXHIBITION/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2012 SUMMER EXHIBITION/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2012 WINTER/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2012 WHEN NIGHT FALLS/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ VANCOUVER
2011 HIGHLY DESIRABLE/ NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY/ TORONTO
2011 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2011 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ BAU-XI GALLERY/ TORONTO
2011 NUMBER 10 SHOW/ W2 STORYEUM/ VANCOUVER
2011 WINTER EXHIBITION/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2010 ART TORONTO/ ART FAIR/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2010 NUMBER 9 SHOW/ W2 STORYEUM/ VANCOUVER
2010 SUMMER GROUP SHOW/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2010 WINTER GROUP SHOW/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2009 WINTER GROUP SHOW/ MOORE GALLERY/ TORONTO
2008 QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL/ TORONTO
2008 ARTSCAPE/ THE GLADSTONE HOTEL/ TORONTO
2008 LIBERTY MARKET LOFT ARTISTS/ LIBERTY/ TORONTO
2008 TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION/ TORONTO
2007 FIFTEEN/ THE GLADSTONE HOTEL/ TORONTO
2007 QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL/ TORONTO
2007 OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION/ TORONTO
2006 STUDIO TOUR & SALE/ 96 SPADINA/ TORONTO
2006 THE BODY/ KHIASMA GALLERIE/ PARIS
2006 MFA GRADUATE SHOW/ CONCOURSE, LONDON
2006 LANDMARKS/ LETHABY GALLERY/ LONDON
2006 NEW EXHIBITION/ NOLIA’S GALLERY/ LONDON
2006 SUB. SITU 01/ MASHED POTATO GALLERY/ DEPTFORD/ UK
2006 WHERE ARE YOU NOW?/ 12 BOX GALLERY/ SEOUL
2006 8 NEW NAMES/ GALLERY 102:THE TEA BUILDING/ LONDON
2005 MID-TERM EXHIBITION/ CONCOURSE GALLERY/ LONDON
2005 SQUARE FOOT SHOW/ AWOL GALLERY/ TORONTO
2005 PANORAMA/ SPIN GALLERY/ TORONTO
2005 HART HOUSE ART COMPETITION/ J.M. BARNICKE ART GALLERY/ TORONTO
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2020 ART GEMS
2020 GILDA’S GNOME GARDEN
2019 TEDDY BEAR AFFAIR
2019 YWCA
2019 ART GEMS
2018 ART GEMS
2018 YWCA
2017 ART GEMS
2017 NYOTA
2016 ART GEMS
2016 WADDINGTON’S CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART AUCTION
2016 NYOTA
2016 TEDDY BEAR AFFAIR
2015 WATERKEEPER
2015 ART GEMS
2015 TEDDY BEAR AFFAIR
2015 NYOTA
2015 VARLEY ART GALLERY
2014 ART GEMS
2014 WATERKEEPERS
2014 NYOTA
2014 TEDDY BEAR AFFAIR
2013 ART GEMS
2013 VISITING ARTIST/ CRITIQUES FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE PAINTING/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
2013 WADDINGTON’S CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART AUCTION
2013 WATERKEEPERS
2013 AFYC
2013 VISITING ARTIST/ CRITIQUES FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE PAINTING/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
2012 ART GEMS
2012 VISITING ARTIST/ CRITIQUES FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE PAINTING/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
2011 ART GEMS
2011 VISITING ARTIST/ CRITIQUES FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE PAINTING/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
2010 ART GEMS
2010 VARLEY ART GALLERY
2010 VISITING ARTIST/CRITIQUES FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE PAINTING/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
2009 ART GEMS
2008 ART GEMS
2008 ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON
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2020 PAINTING MODERNITY/ THE SOUND/ MARCH 5/ BART GAZZOLA
2016 THE HAPPINESS EQUATION: WANT NOTHING + DO ANYTHING = HAVE EVERYTHING BY NEIL PASRICHA
2013 GLOBAL MORNING TELEVISION PROGRAMME FOR PREVIEW OF ART TORONTO
2013 SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF ZOOMER MAGAZINE
2013 MENTION ON BLOG OH BY THE WAY
2011 ONLINE ARTIST FEATURE, VANCOUVER IS AWESOME
2011 ARTIST MENTION ON THE FILE
2011 ONLINE ARTIST FEATURE: NO. 10 GROUP EXHIBITION, VANCOUVER
2011 LECTURE: EMILY CARR AND HER DAUGHTERS BY JOAN MURRAY AT JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY
2010 NOW TORONTO’S DAILY SLIDE SHOW OF THIS WEEK’S MUST-SEE ART SHOWS BY FRAN SCHECHTER
2010 BITS MAGAZINE
2010 HERE AND NOW INTERVIEW/ OMNI TV
2010 ART SYNC TV
2010 THE DONOVAN COLLECTION BOOK
2010 HERE AND NOW/ OMNI TV
2010 WWW.SNAPDOWNTOWNTORONTO.COM
2010 ONLINE/ MERGE:RISING STARS GLOW IN THE SHOW/ SHE DOES THE CITY
2010 THE BEAT: ARTS IN LONDON
2009 ART/ TORONTO LIFE MAGAZINE/ APRIL
2009 LIBERTY GLEANER/ MARCH/APRIL
2007 HERE AND NOW INTERVIEW/ OMNI TV
2006 STUDENT SHOWS/ TIME OUT LONDON/ SEPTEMBER
2006 ASSIST IN INTERVIEWS FOR FUTURE CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS CANDIDATES FOR MFA 07/ LONDON