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art biography and cvCornelia Peckart graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1987 with majors in Printmaking and Installation Art. She resides in Hamilton, Ontario after stops in Toronto, Berlin, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam. During her journey, Cornelia worked as an artist and educator at a number of internationally recognized art institutions, including the Andy Warhol Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and Villa Zebra in Rotterdam. She has been a teacher at the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts for the past seven years as well as working as an artist educator at WAHC, Centre3, YWCA and Artforms. Ms. Peckart received a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship in photography in 2000 and an Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant in 2009. Thrice nominated for the City of Hamilton Arts Awards; Visual Arts 2011, Community Artist 2014, Art Educator 2015. Exhibitions of her photographs, drawings, prints and paintings have been shown in Canada, U.S.A., Germany and the Netherlands. Artist Statement My formal arts education in the 1980’s focused on conceptual art, installation art and printmaking. I continue to use a conceptual framework in my arts practice when designing installations incorporating sculpture, painting, photography and printmaking. I play with alternate visual perspectives and enjoy re-framing conversations that have become embedded in our vernacular. Often exaggerating conventional opinion, while illustrating darker aspects of our human nature and our consumerist roles in contemporary culture. Exhibitions and Performances 2016 West Hamilton Artist Tour, Hamilton Ontario, Paintings and Prints 2016 Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Gallery, ((Ripple Effect)), Hamilton Ontario, Artist and Collector 2015 Hamilton Biennale, Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton Ontario, Charcoal Drawing in Group Show 2015 James Street Bookseller and Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Watercolour Landscape Paintings 2015 Are You There, CUThere Printmaking Collective ArtForms, Hamilton, Canada, Collaborative Installation 2014 The Super Duper Graffiti Project, Supercrawl, Hamilton, Canada, Performance 2014 Process, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, Faculty Exhibition 2013 Taking The Girls Up North, Supercrawl Friday, Hamilton, Canada, Performance 2013 Paintings, Prints and Books, James Street Bookseller and Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, Solo Exhibition 2012-13 Lyric Theater, Exterior Mural and Exhibition, Hamilton, Canada, Solo Exhibition 2011 Violet’s View, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, Solo Exhibition 2011 The Print Studio, Hamilton, Canada, Block Prints, “Small is Good” 2010 Not Without an Audience, This Ain’t Hollywood, Hamilton, Canada, Solo Exhibition 2009-10 Who Done it?, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, Printed Sculpture 2009 Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada, Performance: Treat System: Part 1 2009 James St. N Crawl, Hamilton, Canada, Performance: Treat System Part 2: A line is a line…, 2009 Good Medicine Project, Hotshot Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Group Show 2009 Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA, Sketch Book Travelling Exhibition 2007-10 AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Square Foot Exhibition 2004-07 Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada, Annual Silent Auction 2005 ROC Zadkine, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Group Faculty Exhibition 2004 Künstlergemeinschaft Augstmühle e.V., Mayen, Germany, Group Exhibition 2001 Studio Exhibition, Pittsburgh, USA, ‘Drawings and Paintings, Pittsburgh Years’ 2000 Brew House Space 101, Pittsburgh, USA, Solo Exhibition 1999 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Regional Focus ‘99, Pittsburgh, USA, 1998 Kiva Han, Pittsburgh, USA, Cornelia’s Alphabet Website 1997 Lascaux Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA, Group Exhibition 1994 World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Canada, Concrete Block Prints and Paintings 1993 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada, Photographic Installation 1992 Round-up, Toronto, Canada, Drawings from Berlin Gallery Representation Framesite, Burlington, Canada James Street Bookseller and Gallery, Hamilton, Canada Awards 2009 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant; The Good Medicine Project, 3rd Party Recommender - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON 2000 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship for Photography, USA Collections ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Canada; Jackman Foundation, Canada; National Library of Canada; McMaster University Library, Canada; Hamilton Public Library, Canada ; Devonk Gallery, The Netherlands; Toronto Reference Library, Canada |