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ESACA Happenings 2020 2021

Despite the difficulties of the last year and a half, ESA’s Contemporary Art community has continued to engage with the world.

Grade 11 student Jane Forrest has been compiling a list of esaca exhibitions and publications during Covid and we thought we would share what she has found. This is a department cv in process, so if you see something that has been missed please let us know and we will be happy to add it.

Thank you to everyone in our community and to those who support us. This is a remarkable and inspiring document.

Etobicoke School of the Arts Contemporary Art Department Happenings 2020-2021

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020

Unwashed, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

UNWASHED


https://www.mwg-bayreuth.de/Aktuelle_Mitteilungen/unwashed.html

Niya Gao
George Dales
Sarah Johnson
Jayln Young
Juliet Di Carlo
Jordan Clarke
Erika Vytas
Tate Novak
Christian Webster
Evan Bulloch
Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak
Grace Qian
Stella Woods
Shane Ackerley
Lucy Hanna
Vivian Tran
Ruby Davies

Meet Me In Between – Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
https://www.albrightknox.org/timelines/2020-ak-teens-future-curators-exhibition

Niya Gao (lead image) “A City of Individuals”
Olivia Graham “Perceptions”
Neltje Green “Laundromat” “
Keira Das “Callum”
Skye O’Hearn-Smith “Not Quite Yet”
Amnna Attia “Autobiography”
Dessa Ely “House Keys”
Tate Novak “Reclamation #18”
Mathilda Stock “Untitled”
Joy Wilson “Ophelia Series”
Vivian Tran “A Bed’s Width Apart”

Liminal, The Six Hundred, Toronto, Canada
https://www.blurb.ca/books/9912142-liminal-interstices-between-and-betwixt

Shane Ackerley (Cover)
Esther Kim
Grace Qian

Arts Etobicoke Shifting Environs, Toronto, Canada

Chloe Baker
Jordan Clarke
Niya Gao
Vanessa Marshall

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021

Show off – Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Alberta
https://www.auarts.ca/degrees-and-programs/teen-programs/show-art-competition/showoff-art-competition-grade-12

Award of Distinction – Dessa Ely “Best Friends”
Award of Excellence – Violet Kumagai “Nostalgia”

Amelia Bidini-Taylor “Wood Carving Series”
Andrew Conway “Mom and Mom”
Anika Poch-Mckee “Ron’s Home-Cooked Meal”
Calla Solderholm “Geno”
Dessa Ely “Best Friends”
Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”
Jessica Jiang “The Hidden”
Lola White “Mended Sweater”
Violet Kumagai “Nostalgia”

The Presence of Absence – Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo New York
https://www.albrightknox.org/timelines/2021-ak-teens-future-curators-exhibition

Julia Yoo (lead image) “Perpetual Foreigner II”
Sadie Withers “New Years 2019”
Abby Brock “Throw Up”
Monet Parker “I Made You A Cake”
Lisa Doan “Hopelessness”
Jessica Jiang “Liberation”
Jessica Jiang “Salvation”
Naomi Foster “Heritage”
Dessa Ely “Peoples Archives”
Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection”
Natalie Turcotte “Adrift”

Functions of Art – US Gallery Contemporary, Toronto, Canada https://www.usgallerycontemporary.com/

Abby Brock
Amy Ai
Andrew Conway
Anna Evans-Cook
Chloe Baker
Chloe Stanford
Christian Webster
Dessa Ely
Emma Bolden
Evelyn Novak
Georgia Dales
George Tucker-Pieczonka
Geri Hart
Grace Qian
Hana El-Sharabasy
Hannah Durst
Jane Forrest
Jessica Jiang
Julia Yoo
Kate Snider
Margaux Wilkinson
Maya Kachra
Miguel Caba
Parker Lily Tuson-Morse
Sarah Johnston
Serena Mancuso
Shane Ackerley
Violet Kumagai
Zoe Jarozsynski

Through the Window – Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario

Through the Window…

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection”
Hana El-Sharabasy “Bedroom”
Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”
Jessica Jiang “The Unreachable”
Maya Kachra “Insignificance”

Pandemic Perspectives – Experiences Canada
​​https://experiencescanada.ca/all-exchanges/virtual-gallery/

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection”
Dessa Ely “Peoples Archives”
Jane Forrest “Floating”
Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”
Jane Forrest “Breakthrough”
Maya Kachra “Disfigurement”

Between Cultures – Online Exhibition
https://www.betweenculturesart.com/gallery

Dessa Ely “Grandparents”
Julia Yoo “nobody taught us how to fix a leaky ceiling”, “Perpetual Foreigner”

NFT Art Show, Jada Art Fair
https://mintable.app/Art/item/Empty-Highway-Empty-Highway-Oil-on-Canvas-December-2020-30-x-40-inches/jBQGt1dJXWqoTAG

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”, “Breakthrough”

My Pandemic Story, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Jane Forrest “Schools are Closed”

Scale, The Six Hundred, Toronto, Canada
https://redbeansgroup.com/t6scale

Shane Ackerley
Amelia Bidini-Taylor
Amnna Attia
Chloe Baker
Jenny Chen
Niya Gao
Sophie LeBlanc
Violet Kumagi

Flash Forward Incubator Program, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
https://www.magentafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Magenta-FFI-2021_Catalogue.pdf

Chloe Baker
Dessa Ely
Evelyn Novak
Francesca Leblanc
Jane Forrest
Julia Yoo
Juliana Perika
Maya Kachra
Noa De Gasperis Tedesco
Olivia Joseph
Simaiya Shirley
Viva Egoyan-Rokeby

Because I Am A Girl

Dessa Ely
Anna Evans Cook
Maya Kachra

Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome Italy

Maya Kachra

Pandemic Perspectives, Experiences Canada, Toronto, Canada

Maya Kachra

AWARDS 2021

Gold Medal – Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA
Kate Snider (digital art)

Silver Medal – Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA
Dessa Ely (Mixed media)
Evelyn Novak (Mixed media)
Miguel Caba (Painting)
Chloe Baker (Photography)
Monet Parker (Film)
Julia Yoo (Photography)

Gold Key – Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA
Jane Forrest (Short Story)

Silver Key – Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA
Jane Forrest (Painting)

Honorable Mention – Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA
Lisa Doan (Painting)
Jane Forrest (Painting)

TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery – The Youth Project

Maya Kachra – Finalist, TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery, The Youth Project
Jane Forrest- Winner, TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery, The Youth Project

OAEA Secondary Design Contest, Ontario Art Education Association Toronto ON

Student Art Contest 2021


Winner Jane Forrest “Floating”
Jane Forrest, Honourable Mention “Empty Highway”, “Breakthrough”

Get to Know Art Contest, Wild Neighbours Society
https://www.gettoknow.ca/2021-winners-gallery
Winner, Jane Forrest “Endangered”

Pandemic Perspectives, Experiences Canada
Jane Forrest, Gallery Award, Ages 16 -19 https://experiencescanada.ca/all-exchanges/virtual-gallery/

GRAD EXHIBITIONS 2020

Margaux Smith – Night Drawing Weird Things, Toronto ON
Grace Qian – Coming Home Exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Grace Qian – Covid-19 Portrait Exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Grace Qian – Unwashed, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Grace Qian – Liminal: Interstices Between and Betwixt, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Jaime Pattison – Crain Corporate Communications, Detroit
Jaime Pattison -Fresh Looks, University Student Center Eastern Michigan University Gallery
Isabella Vella – Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont Rail, Toronto, Canada
Ingrid Repic – 2020 Festival of the Body, OCADU Great Hall, Toronto, Canada
Dexter Barker-Glenn – Art Matters, Gallery LUZ, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Juliet Di Carlo – 48 hour Film Festival, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture ; Dawson City, Yukon , Canada
Juliet Di Carlo – Photophobia Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton & Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton ON Canada
Juliet Di Carlo – Envision, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
Noah Brown – Absent Friends, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Shane Ackerly – Liminal, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Isabella Vella – Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont Rail, Toronto

GRAD EXHIBITIONS 2021

Keiran Brenan Hinton, Art with Heart, Casey House, Toronto, ON, Canada
Sophia Oppel – being both opened up and flattened – University of Toronto
https://www.visualstudies.net/projects/so.html
Shane Ackerley – Close For Comfort, Artlab Gallery & Cohen Commons, London, Canada
https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/artlab/exhibition_archive/20202021.html#AJE19
Laura Hudspith – Passion & Pretense, Be Contemporary Gallery, Innisfil, Canada
Keiran Brennan Hinton – Day Breaks, Night Falls, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany
Keiran Brennan Hinton -Towards Sentimentality, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, USA
Keiran Brennan Hinton – Art Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, Canada and Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario Canada
Keiran Brennan Hinton – Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
Margaux Smith – Earth to Sky, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Margaux Smith – Goethe Institute, Toronto, Canada
Margaux Smith – Fossil Record General Hardware, Toronto ON
Margaux Smith – Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont unit 10, Toronto ON
Parker Lily Tuson-Morse – SMFA Painting and Drawing Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Parker Lily Tuson-Morse – Expired by Perime, 337 Newbury Street, Boston
Parker Lily Tuson-Morse – SMFA Print Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Vivian Tran – Unrest, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, United States
Vivian Tran – Photo and Digital Media Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
Vivian Tran – Duct Tape, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States
Grace Qian – 60th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Grace Qian – Finding Space Exhibition, SVA Galleries, New York, NY
Michelle Nguyen -Bau-Xi Gallery, Granville, Vancouver
Michelle Nguyen – Art Toronto with Bau-Xi Gallery
Juliet Di Carlo – Available Light Film Festival, Yukon Film Society, Whitehorse, Canada
Varvara Nedilska – Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada
Laura Hudspith moveObjects On, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto, Canada https://theplumb.ca/
Sophia Oppel moveObjects On, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto, Canada https://theplumb.ca/
Kendra Yee, Patel Brown Gallery, Artifacts of the Horizon, Toronto, Canada

PUBLICATIONS 2021

Ultraviolet Magazine https://issuu.com/ultravioletmagazine/docs/ultravioletmagazine2021

Jane Forrest (Cover) “Empty Highway”
Olivia Joseph “Between Two Gardens”
Jessica Jiang “Salvation”
Sadie Levine “Inner Demons”
Maya Kachra “Bliss”
Dessa Ely “Best Friends”
George Tucker-Pieczonka “Quiet”
Jessica Jiang (Back Cover) “Every Family”

Original Magazine, London UK

Dessa Ely https://www.originalmagazine.uk/home/dessa-ely
Amnna Attia https://www.originalmagazine.uk/amnna-attia?rq=amnna%20
Geri Hart https://www.originalmagazine.uk/geri-hart?rq=geri%20hart
Mara Gibea

Asian American Arts Zine, #4
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65443539/asian-american-arts-zine-volume-4

Dessa Ely “Family and Identity”

Zenerations Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Art/Poetry

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection”
Jane Forrest “Floating”, “Empty Highway”, “Best Friend”

Growth Virtual Magazine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fOMGlPZxsfxTXsfwyNm1EsnXt04mqu6u/view

William Bastianon “Operation Clara”
Evelyn Novak “My Room”, “Living Room”, “Tate’s Room”
Jessica Jiang “Every Family”, “Magic!”
Hana El-Sharabasy “Lana Jeans”
Juliana Perika “Untitled”
Dessa Ely “Best Friends”, “Child”, “Love”, “People Archives”
Calla Solderholm “Algo”, “Hapho”, “The weight of Individual Being”
Violet Kumagai “Pink and Purple Girl”, “Sketchbook Embroidery”
Chloe Stanford
Amy Ai “Childhood”, “Judgements”
Viva Egoyan-Rokeby “Addiction”, “Love” “Noor”
Maya Kachra “Tainted Clarity”
Daria Khodabandehloo “serenity”, “SELF”, “rediscovery”
Sylvia Dai “Heritage”, “Untitled”
Lola White

The Handmaid’s Tale
Mara Gibea
Kyah White

Polemical Zine, Issue 16, Volume 1 “future”
Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee

World Garden Magazine, Issue 1
Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee

Maya Kachra Publications:
2021 Oyster River Pages, Issue #5
2021 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Vol. 1, Issue #1
2021 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Artist Feature in the Bagel Hole
2021 The Youth Magazine, Artist Feature
2021 Us Gallery Contemporary, Vol. 2
2021 Flash Forward Incubator, Still Life
2021 The Youth Project, Mental Health, Finalist
2021 Ultraviolet Magazine, Vol. 25
2021 Growth Magazine, BAM Collective, Vol. 1, Issue #1
2020 Us Gallery Contemporary, Vol. 1, Issue #1

The Trinity Review, Issue 133.2
Andrew Conway
Vivian Tran
Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee
Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

The Trinity Review, Issue 132.2
Jessica Jiang
Jordan Clarke
Juliet Di Carlo
Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak
Vanessa Marshall

The Trinity Review, Issue 132.1
Niya Gao
Vivian Tran

Trinity Review, Spring, Issue 132
Jessica Jiang
Jordan Clarke
Juliet Di Carlo
Michaela Yormol-Matusiak
Vanessa Marshall

The Trinity Review, Issue 131.2
Toko Hosoya
Sadie Phillipson
Vivian Tran
Christian Webster
Juliet Di Carlo
Vanessa Marshall
Denny Reynolds
Calla Soderholm
Grace Qian
Erika Verhagen
Niya Gao

A5 Magazine, London, UK
Abby Brock – February 2020 Edition (Portfolio #35)

Toronto Public Library Young Voices 2020

Jessica Jiang
Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak
Niya Gao
Ashley Kim

Toronto Public Library Young Voices 2021
Josephine Komlos
more to come!

Jane Forrest Publications
2021 Ambre Magazine Issue One, Niagara Falls, Canada https://issuu.com/ambremag/docs/issue_one_ambre_
2021 Perfumed Pages Magazine, Issue One https://issuu.com/perfumedpages/docs/mag
2021 Trick Magazine Collection, Toronto, Canada https://trickzine.com/2021/06/04/pandemic-anxiety-an-oil-painting-collection-x-jane-forrest
2021 Lit Space Magazine Collection, International http://litspacemagazine.blogspot.com/2021/07/oil-painting-best-friend-by-jane-forrest.html
2021 Young Voices Magazine (Back Cover), Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada
2021 Ridgewood Zine Issue Five, Brooklyn, United States
2021 Flash Forward Incubator Catalogue, Toronto, Canada
2021 That Gray Zine Issue Seven, Texas, United States
2021 Serpentine Zine, Volume Two, Missouri, United States
2021 From The Future Magazine, Issue Two, Paris, France
2021 Art In Between, Artist Highlight, Boston, United States
2021 Us Gallery Functions of Art Volume Two, Toronto, Canada
2021 Our Generation Magazine Issue One, Louisiana, United States
2021 Fourall Magazine Issue Eight, London, United Kingdom
2021 Season Three Collective Zine, Issue Three, New York, United States
2021 Honeyfire Literary Magazine, Issue Five, Manchester, United Kingdom
2021 Aspects Of Magazine, Issue One, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2021 BKK Unzine Issue Eleven, Bangkok, Thailand
2021 Unlocked Project Artist Highlight, Montreal, Canada
2021 Moonlight Magazine, Issue Three, International
2021 Maythorn Magazine, Issue Two, Lahore, Pakistan
2021 Moonlight Magazine, Issue Four, International
2021 Footprints on Jupiter Issue One, California, United States
2021 Zenerations Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
2021 Justice For Society Magazine, Issue Seven, Toronto, Canada
2021 Markham Teen Arts Council, Friday Feature, Markham, Canada
2021 Young Revolution Magazine, Toronto, Canada

GRAD PUBLICATIONS
Keiran Brennan Hinton, Sharp Magazine

Keiran Brennan Hinton on Painting Everyday Spaces and the Role of Sentimentality in Art


Keiran Brennan Hinton, Forbes Magazine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/briennewalsh/2021/06/23/in-keiran-brennan-hintons-paintings-home-becomes-self-portraiture/?sh=76cdbeed44b6
Keiran Brennan Hinton, Le Monde Newspaper
https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!5770923
Margaux Smith “Homes” Spacing Magazine, Summer 2021 Issue 57

Spacing Magazine


Michelle Nguyen – Interview in Public Parking
http://thisispublicparking.com/
Andre Ethier, Flood Magazine
https://floodmagazine.com/88903/in-conversation-andre-ethier-and-ian-oneil/

ARTCON – July 2021
Ruby Roberson – How Art Impacts Daily Life

William Bastianon – The Value of Research In Creative Practice

Cole Canning & Kate Snider – Intro to Character Design

Amnna Attia, Sasha Steiner, Emma Bolden, William Bastianon – Apply to ESACA

Jane Forrest, Ava Tkaczuk, Dessa Ely, Evelyn Novak – Staying Creative During Quarantine

Abby Brock – Writing And Its Relation To Art Making

Rivka Mitchell – The Importance of Arts In Diverse Fields
Panelists include Taima Humbert, Olivia Kerr, Hana Brath, Adam Badzynski, Shane Ackerley, Jordan Clarke, Stella Woods and Dorina Sim
Luca Soldovieri – Positive Value Of Community In Art and Life
Panelists include artists Parker Lily Tuson-Morse, Vivian Tran, Sophia Oppel, Sadie Philipson, Claire Calderwood, Spencer Julien, Juliet DiCarlo and Dexter Barker Glenn

Stefanie Cristello, Amnna Attia, Dessa Ely – A Talk With Stephanie Cristello

Brendan Fernandes, Stefanie Cristello – Stefanie Cristello and Brendan Fernandes

Sasha Suda, Hana El-Sharabasy, Isabella Delius, Andrew Conway – An Interview with Sasha Suda

CURATORIAL TALKS
Stephanie Cristello – Theodora Allen’s “Saturnine” A Conversation With Curator Stephanie Cristello, Flaunt Magazine
Stephanie Cristello – Alternate Assembly , Featuring Sean Raspet, Hurong Ngo, Elizabeth Henaff
Dessa Ely – Artery Toronto On The Rise Speaker, Artery, Online on Bramble

GRAD AWARDS
Shane Ackerly – The Western University Scholarship of Distinction
Shane Ackerly – Western University Faculty
Vivian Tran – Painting and Drawing Department Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

CURATION
Dessa Ely – Flow State, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada
Amnna Attia – The Presence of Absence – Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Abby Brock – Because I am a Girl – Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Canada

2020 – 2021 School Year PD 11
2021 Graduating class secured approximately $20 million dollars in post-secondary school scholarship offers – new record for Portfolio Day