Susana Reisman

born 1977, Venezuela

Toronto-based Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela, has lived in Mexico City, and studied in the United States. She received an BA in Economics from Wellesley College (Boston) and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY), where she also taught for a number of years.

Reisman is a visual artist interested in the ways we interpret, construct, classify, and experience the world around us. Working primarily in photography and sculpture she creates diverse bodies of work that address ideas of transformation and standardization.

Recent group and solo exhibitions include Standardizing Nature: Trees, Wood, Lumber (Gallery 44, Toronto), More Than Two curated by Micah Lexier (Power Plant, Toronto), Like-Minded (Plug In ICA, Winnipeg), Selective Affinities (Peak Gallery, Toronto), On the Scale of History (Artcite, Windsor), Photodimensional (Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago), A Sense of Departure (Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY), Feria Iberoamericana de Arte: XI Salon CANTV (Galeria CorpBanca, Caracas), and PRC/POV: Photography Now and the Next 30 Years (PRC Gallery, Boston). Her work is held in public and private collections including the Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Artist website: www.susanareisman.com

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Sharon Switzer

born 1966, Canada

Toronto-based Sharon Switzer is a media artist and curator. She has, since the early 1990s, exhibited across Canada and in the U.S, as well as at international art fairs with Corkin Gallery.

For the past 10 years, her curating has focused on bringing contemporary art to public spaces. She founded the not-for-profit curatorial organization Art for Commuters, and produced the Art in Transit program as well as the Toronto Urban Film Festival, offering artists an opportunity to show their work in the public spaces frequented by urban commuters.

Switzer has an MFA from the University of Western Ontario, is a Graduate of the CFC Media Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. She is represented by Corkin Gallery, Toronto.

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Rita Maas

born 1956, New York, USA

Rita Maas received her BFA in Photographic Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 1981. Shortly thereafter she established a successful commercial studio in New York, NY shooting award winning campaigns for major advertising and editorial clients. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly Art Institute of Boston) in 2013.

Her fine art work has been awarded numerous honors and has been included in several notable exhibitions. Most recently her work was selected for exhibition in the international photography festival, GuatePhoto 2015, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. In 2010 Maas was named by Dr. Rebecca Senf as one of “The Ten Most Exciting Photographers I Learned About This Year,” and was invited in 2015 by Senf to exhibit her work at the Norton Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum. Over the past decade Maas has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Filter Space as part of Filter Photo Festival in Chicago, IL; Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, among others.

Maas’ work is held in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lishui Museum of Photography in Lishui, China and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. She most recently served as visiting artist and adjunct professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY and has acted as guest lecturer at University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

Maas’ work concerns itself with the conditions surrounding photography and examines photographic materials and processes while reflecting upon themes of reproduction, representation, perception, and interpretation.

Artist website: ritamaas.com

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Michael Cook

born 1982, Canada

Michael Cook has been delving into underground and marginal spaces since 2003. While focused on urban drainage and sewer systems, his inquiries have also included utility networks, abandoned hydroelectric and nuclear infrastructure, and railway landscapes. He has engaged in graduate studies in geography and holds a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture.

Cook’s series Water Underground was exhibited as a public installation for the 2013 CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto; his work has been also been exhibited at Fort York, the Toronto Free Gallery and the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology. Cook has contributed words and photographs to HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets (Coach House Books, 2008) and Water (Alphabet City, 2009), and his photographs have also appeared in Domus, The BLDGBLOG Book, Canadian Business, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Hamilton Spectator. Cook appeared in the documentary film Lost Rivers (Catbird Productions, 2012).

In 2015, he was named one of Canada’s 100 greatest modern explorers by Canadian Geographic, alongside such luminaries as Ed Burtynsky, Les Stroud and Chris Hatfield.

He lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Artist website: www.vanishingpoint.ca

Christopher Bennett

born 1975, USA

Chris Bennett is a Photographer currently living in Detroit, MI. He received his BFA from Indiana University and MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School’s Limited Residency Photography Program. He has exhibited his work at Froelick Gallery (OR), the Oregon Historical Society, Camerawork Gallery (OR) The Phoenix Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art (IN), Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Fe, NM), INOVA (Milwaukee, WI), Klompching Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Circuit Gallery (Toronto) and Kominek Gallery (Berlin).

Artist website: www.christopherbennett.net

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Dima Gavrysh

born 1978, Kyiv, Ukraine

Dima Gavrysh is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 after studying photography and motion picture imaging in Kyiv, Ukraine. Gavrysh has worked as a documentary photographer in 1998 – 2010 with major publications and news agencies such as Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and Agence France-Presse. He has also worked on multiple projects around the globe, including collaborations with Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Population Fund, and numerous embeds with the US Army in Afghanistan. His work has appeared in a variety of international publications, including The New York Times, Stern, Paris Match, Time and was exhibited both, in the US and internationally.

Over the past four years Dima has been exploring the American war in Afghanistan through video installation, photography, appropriated imagery and data visualization.

His first book Inshallah was published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) in 2015.

Artist website: www.dimagavrysh.com

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Jon Wyatt

born 1975, England

British photographer Jon Wyatt’s work documents the detachment of modern culture from our physical landscapes, both in the context of landscape iconography, national identity, human ecology and ecosystem transition; and through the perspective of vast spans of time and geologic processes. His work has been published in PDN, National Geographic Traveler, Orion Magazine and The Times amongst others and exhibited in Europe, SE Asia, the US and Canada.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Historically cultures have turned to their natural environment as a source of inspiration for collective identification. Myths, memories and cultural virtues are projected onto a landscape, its characteristics mapped, elaborated and enriched. Over time that landscape moves beyond the role of a cherished homeland, acquiring iconic status and becoming imbued with moral and spiritual significance. Painters, writers and photographers help create and venerate these landscapes, which come to embody a national identity and the aspirations of a society.

Increasingly this bond between a culture and its physical landscape is deteriorating, becoming eroded as we adapt the environment to own ends, rather than allowing it to shape who we are. This is the framework within which I photograph – searching for tools within the landscape that articulate this growing spiritual and cultural detachment. Amongst the issues addressed by my work are those of national identity and iconography, conservation and the ethics of land ownership. Developing further the concept of vast spans of geologic time, other work looks at ecosystem transition and extinction, topographical shifts, seismic events and tectonic processes.

Artist website: www.jonwyatt.co.uk

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Shelagh Keeley

Shelagh Keeley (born Oakville, Ontario) lives now in Toronto after spending 23 years in New York City and Paris. She received her Honours BFA in Art History / Anthropology from York University, Toronto.

Keeley has an extensive international exhibition history over the last 30 years and has traveled across the globe. Keeley’s recent production includes a commission by the Power Plant, Toronto, to create two new installations for the venue’s large clerestory walls (2014/2015), and by MoMA, Library and Archives, NYC, for a new research project / performance with choreographer Lin Snelling (2014/2015).

In 2013 she created a major on-site commissioned wall drawing installation at Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, for the exhibition In Order to Join (2013). This exhibition traveled on to the Goethe-Institut / Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (former Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai, India (2015), and included the Barcelona Pavilion photographs.

Keeley’s larger record includes exhibitions at: Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India (2013); Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2013); Nuit Blanche, Paris (2012); McMaster Museum of Art / Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (2010); Vancouver Art Gallery (2017, 2010); Caoyang Village Public Art Project, Shanghai (2009); National Gallery of Canada (2008, travelling exhibition), RAM Foundation, Rotterdam (2008); Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2007); Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi (2004); Printed Matter, NYC (1998), Indianapolis Museum of Art (1995); John Gibson Gallery, NYC (1994); Exit Art, NYC (1993); MOMA P.S.1 Museum, NY (1992); and DIA Art Foundation, NYC (1989).

Her work is in the collection of major international public institutions including: the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain Paris; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Musées de la Ville de Paris, Paris; the Getty Museum, Santa Monica; the Harvard Art Museum, Boston; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; the Yale University Art Gallery, CT; the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.

Artist website: www.shelaghkeeley.com

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Paulo Catrica

b. Lisbon, Portugal

Paulo Catrica studied Photography at Ar.Co (Lisbon,1985) and History at Universidade Lusíada (Lisbon, 1992). He received his MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmith’s College (London, 1997) and was awarded a PhD at the School of Art and Media from the University of Westminster.

Since 1998 his work has been exhibited internationally, recent venues include Presença Gallery (Oporto, 2016), Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (Guimarães,2015), Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa,2015), C.A.A.A. (Guimarães, 2014), Modern Art Centre, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2013), FruitMarket Gallery (Edinburgh, 2012), The Bluecoat (Liverpool, 2012), Milton Keynes Art Gallery (2011), EDP Museum (Lisbon, 2011), Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art Gallery (Lisbon, 2011), Circuit Gallery (Toronto, 2010), The Mews Project (London, 2011), Fundacio Foto Colectania (Barcelona, 2010) and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2010).

His work is in numerous public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, Finland, France, UK, Germany, India, Brazil and Canada.

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