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Karin McGinn b. Calgary, Canada
Education
2018 Master of Fine Arts Degree, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Distinction), The Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
Select Group & Solo Exhibitions
2024Virgo’s Garden of Earthly Delights, solo exhibition, Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary
2024 Chroma Summer group exhibition, Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary
2024 a hot minute: an erotic group exhibition (co curated with Carl White), Gallery Merrick, Victoria
2024 a hot minute: an erotic group exhibition (co curated with Carl White), Ashdale Gallery, N. Vancouver
2024 a hot minute: an erotic group exhibition (co curated with Carl White), Christine Klassen Gallery
2023 The Animal Show group exhibition, co curated by Amy Gaulin & Daniel Audet, nvrlnd.boutique
2023 PS. I love you: an erotic group exhibition (co curated with Carl White), 500 Collective Studios
2022 Dear Marcel, Tiny Pedestal @dreamclinicprojectspace (online & in person), The Dream Clinic, Columbus, Ohio
2019 Project Starting Small #77, @projectstartingsmall (online & traveling) group exhibition, curated by Tom Brown
2019 Head over Heels, Group Auction, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
2019 Tendere, Alumni Exhibition, Curated by Mackenzie Kelly-Frere, AUArts University, Calgary, AB
2018 Hardly Soft, Fountain Gallery, Calgary, AB with Sarah Nordean
2017 ACAD Technician's Show, Gallery 371, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2017 a stick in the spokes, Emily Carr MFA Graduate Exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 In(her) Space, Solo Exhibition, The Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB
2016 Pivot, Emily Carr MFA Interim Exhibition, The Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 The Art of Unknowing, Emily Carr MFA Group Exhibition, Mitchell Press Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 Take with Plenty of water: AiR Residency Group Exhibition, ACADSA, Calgary, AB
2015 The Pi Party Group Exhibition, The New Gallery: John Snow House, Calgary, AB
2015 Traces and Process Group Exhibition, The Fluevog Peanut Gallery, Calgary, AB
2014 Organic Matters, Contextural Group Exhibition, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB
2014 Blood Brothers, Solo Exhibition, Marion Nicoll Gallery +15, Arts Commons, Calgary, AB
Residences & Awards
2022 Artist in Residence, Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design, Sydney, NS
2020 Co-founder of Speculative Art Collective: @speculativeartcollective
2019 Placemaking Painting Residency with Richard Brown, The Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2018 Jury Honorarium, The New Gallery
2016 Emily Carr Graduate Research & Travel Award
2015 Emily Carr Entrance Scholarship
2015 UPPERCASE magazine, Creative-in-Residence
2015 Louise McKinney Scholarship, The Government of Alberta
2015 Air Program: Artist in Residency Grant, ACADSA
2015 Miniature Show Project Grant, ACAD
2014 Contextural: Fiber Co-operative, Summer Residency, ACAD
2014 Phyllis Balm Student Award, ACAD
2014 Miniature Show Project Grant, ACAD
Professional Experience
2019/Present Office Manager, Alberta UniversIty of the Arts Faculty Association (AUAFA), Calgary, AB
2019 Studio Assistant for artist Miruna Dragan, Calgary, AB
2017/18 Interim Fibre Technician, Craft + Emerging New Media, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2018 Juror, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
2018 Juror, Buds of Buds, Calgary, AB
2017 Teaching Assistant to Barbara Sutherland, FBRE 300, Selvedge/Salvage, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2016 Production Assistant for artist Alana Bartol, Blood and Bone onsite project, Outskirts of Calgary, AB
2013 Art Instructor (Summer Internship), In-Definite Arts Society, Calgary, AB
Publications, Reviews & Press
2022 Fish Outta Water (image feature) for Emily Carr University of Art + Design 2022 graduate postcard
2018 Karin McGinn, Mis(s)representations: Reimagining Women with Collage and Paint (Graduate Thesis), E-Collections at Emily Carr
2018 Emily Carr University The Show Catalogue
2017 Sunshine Frere, COUNTERACTIVE SUBTERFUGE: Sabotaging the Saboteur, a stick in the spokes exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery
2015 Melancholia, The Air Program, ACADSA Magazine