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Tanya Louise Workman
b: 1972, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Lives and works in Toronto, ON
EDUCATION
2016- Candidate, Master of Fine Arts (low residency), Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME (Expected November 2020)
2009 Photojournalism diploma, Loyalist College, Belleville, ON
2002 Post-graduate certificate in Creative Writing, Humber School for Writers, Humber College, Toronto, ON
1995 Bachelor of Journalism, with Honours, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Allergic to Lilacs, Members’ Gallery, Gallery 44, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED
2019 An Index: Artists of the Akin Studio Program, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, ON
2018 Skin Rubbed Smooth, fourth-annual Liminal Sounds audio exhibition, Earlid (online)
2017 Portrait: Within Time + Space, South X Southeast Online Gallery, Molena, GA (juror, Elizabeth Avedon)
2017 #SeeBeyondMyFace, Metro Hall, Toronto, ON
2017 Mindset,CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON (juried)
2017 Being Scene, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (juried)
2016 In/Impatient, Workman Arts’ Pop-Up Gallery, CAMH, Toronto, ON (site-specific installation)
2016 Mindset, CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON (juried)
2015 Being Scene, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (juried)
2015 The Darkroom 4.0, CONTACT Photography Festival, 918 Bathurst, Toronto, ON (juried)
2011 Oaxaca XV, Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
2009 Cancer Connection, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON (website gallery audio interviews)
2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Ben Navee Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
2008 Magnum Toronto at CONTACT, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, ON
SCREENINGS, PROJECTIONS + ARTIST TALKS
2017 “Allergic to Lilacs,” Slideluck Naples II: Liquid Modernity, Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, Italy (screening)
2017 “Allergic to Lilacs,” Slideluck Toronto IV: (unbelong), CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, ON (screening)
2016 “Allergic to Lilacs,” Open Show Toronto #17, Belljar Café, Toronto, ON (screening. Q+A)
2016 Mindset artist talk for CAMH PhotoVoice group, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2014 Re-Storying Disability with Project Re•Vision, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON (screening, panelist)
2012 Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies, Guelph Festival of Moving Media, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, ON (screening, panelist)
2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto, ON (screening, panelist)
CURATION + EXHIBITION| TEXT
2012-2013 Kids Who Can, PhotoSensitive in partnership with Easter Seals Canada (touring: Vancouver, BC; Regina and Saskatoon, SK; Montreal, QC; St. John's, NL; Halifax, NS; Fredericton and Bathurst, NB) (text)
2012 Kids Who Can, PhotoSensitive in partnership with Easter Seals Canada, Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto, ON (text)
2011 The Fuel of Life: Through a Young Lens, PhotoSensitive in partnership with the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto, ON
ARTIST RESIDENCIES + INTENSIVES
2019 GUSAC (Gutenberg Sound Academy), Mainz, Germany
2018-19 Akin Studio Program at MOCA, Toronto, ON
2017 AIR Winter Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
2016-17 Workman Arts Incubator Studio Program, Toronto, ON
2014 Collisions and Borders, Gallery 44 and Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2002 Self-directed writing residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY | PUBLICATION AS AUTHOR
2015 "What Happened to Your Face? Living With a Facial Difference,” The Doc Project CBC Radio (audio documentary producer & co-subject)
2009 “My face, my truth, my picture” (excerpt), NPAC.ca, News Photographers Association of Canada.
2005 “My face, my truth, my picture,” Essay and photos, Ideas section, tToronto Star
BIBLIOGRAPHY | PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGUES, INTERVIEWS
2017 Being Scene exhibition catalogue, Workman Arts
2015 Being Scene exhibition catalogue, Workman Arts
2015 Online artist interview for Workman Arts’ Being Scene exhibition by Catherine Jones, Audioboom
2011 Cancer Connections: Images of Hope and Courage From Across Canada, ©PhotoSensitive, published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
2011 The Fuel of Life: Energy in the 21st Century, ©PhotoSensitive, printed by Flash ReProductions
2011 XV Years of Mary Ellen Mark’s Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Editorial Arte Oaxaca
TEACHING
2017 Teaching assistant, Intro to Podcasting, Workman Arts, Toronto, ON
2011–13 Digital storytelling workshop co-facilitator,/ Project Re•Vision, Toronto, ON
ARTS JURIES
2017- Workman Arts representative, Technical Advisory Committee, Phase 1C Therapeutic Art Installations, CAMH: The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON
2017 Jury advisory committee member, Mindset CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
2015- Member, Workman Arts. Toronto, ON
2013 - Member, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2011 – 2012 Writer, contributing photo editor, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON
2010 – 2011 Project coordinator, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON
2010 Photo/subject researcher, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON
2009 Intern, audio interviews producer, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON
2009 - Member, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON
2009 Intern, Magnum in Motion, Magnum Photos, New York, NY
2009 Editor, Photographer’s Q&A, NPAC.ca, News Photographers Association of Canada website, Toronto, ON
2008 Intern, Falkland Road Inc./Mary Ellen Mark Photography, New York, NY
2001-2007 Copy editor, the Toronto Star, Toronto, ON