CCCA Canadian Art Database New Artists

New artists are being added on a regular basis.

Robert Houle is a member of Sandy Bay First Nation, Manitoba and currently lives and works in Toronto. As a child Robert was taken from his family and placed in the Sandy Bay Indian Residential School. He moved to the Assiniboia Indian Residential School in Winnipeg for High School. He received a B.A. in Art History from the University of Manitoba, and a B.A. in Art Education from McGill University and studied painting and drawing at the International Summer Academy of Fine arts in Salzburg, Austria. Robert taught native studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto for fifteen years.

Shaun Morin graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art, in 2004. His art work ranges from oil paintings on canvas to mixed media on paper as well as hand made booklets and street art. Shaun is also known as The Slomotion, which is his nom de plume.

Mélanie Rocan is a Manitoba-raised artist whose paintings sensitively explore fragile subconscious states. She has an MFA from the painting program at Concordia University (Montreal).

Douglas Smith was educated at the University of Manitoba in the Fine Arts Diploma Program. He majored in ceramics and continued as a sculptor in clay for several years, eventually making a shift towards drawing and painting.

Born into a Jewish-Hungarian family in 1925, Eva Stubbs immigrated to Canada with her parents and brother in 1944 and settled in Winnipeg. In her early twenties, while convalescing from tuberculosis, Stubbs made the decision to enroll in the Fine Art program at the University of Manitoba. Over ensuing decades she furthered her training at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States, the Banff School of Fine Art, and the Tokoname Clay Workshop in Japan. Stubbs taught art classes while raising a family through the 1960s.

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Lois Andison was born in Smiths Falls, Ontario. She currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She received her BFA (Honours) from York University in 1990 graduating First Class with Distinction. She also studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology where she Graduated with High Honours and was awarded the Board of Governors Silver Medal. She is represented by Art Mûr in Montreal and by Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto. Her kinetic sculptures/installations investigate the intersection of technology, nature and the body. Using movement to initiate an exchange with the viewer, Andison's work poetically explores social and technological concerns through the construction of the hybrid art object. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, her sculptural installations have been shown in Toronto, Montreal, Lethbridge, New York and Mexico City.

Aliana Au was born in Guandong, China. From 1967-1970 she studied Chinese painting with Professor Au Ho-Nien in Hong Kong. From 1970-1973 she studied with professors R. E. Williams, Arnold Saper, Bob Sakowski, Ivan Eyre, George Swinton, and Robert Bruce at the School of Art, University of Manitoba. From 1977-1978 she studied painting with Ivan Eyre and graduated in 1978 with a Diploma in Art.

Following the Hungarian Revolution, Louis Bakó's family emigrated to Canada. He graduated from the School of Fine Art at the University of Manitoba in 1966, after which he worked as a set designer for the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the National Film Board. He eventually became a city planner but has continued to practice visual art in his studio.

Aganetha Dyck is a Canadian artist who is interested in environmental issues, specifically the power of the small. She is interested in inter species communication. Her research asks questions about the ramifications all living beings would experience should honeybees disappear from earth

A practicing artist for 30 years, William Eakin was educated at the Vancouver School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. His photographs have been exhibited across Canada and in the United States, The Netherlands, France, Japan and Taiwan.

Cliff Eyland is a painter, writer and a curator. He studied at Holland College, Mount Allison University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since 1981, he has made paintings, drawings, and notes in an index card format.

Throughout his education, Ivan Eyre studied under important artists including Ernest Lindner and Eli Bornstein. Eyre graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Manitoba in 1957 and spent the following year at the University of North Dakota. Returning to Canada, he began to teach at the University of Manitoba where he was appointed Full Professor (Painting and Drawing) until his retirement in 1993

After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba in 1969, E.J. [Ted] Howorth  embarked on a professional career in art, specializing in printmaking. In the 1990s he returned to school, receiving a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota. In 1995 he was appointed to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, R.C.A. E.J. Howorth

Shortly after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 135,000 people were evacuated from an area extending 30 kilometers around the damaged reactor. In 1994, eight years after the accident, David McMillan read a magazine article describing the condition of the area, which became known as the exclusion zone. Many of the artifacts of the citizenry were left behind, and thousands of acres of formerly productive farmland were left to lie fallow. His photographic interests had long been in the relationship between nature and culture, so the subject seemed very rich in possibilities.

Nancy Paterson is an electronic media artist working primarily in the field of interactive installations. Research interests include internet infrastructure and visualization leading to a PhD (Dec 09) in Communications & Culture from York University with a thesis entitled "Bandwidth is Political: Reachability in the Public Internet." From 2010-12 she held a two year SSHRC postdoctoral award for research at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto and currently is an Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto where she is faculty representative and chair of the Pension committee. Nancy is also Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video, a media access centre in Toronto. Nancy is co-investigator on IXmaps research, funded by the Office of Privacy Commission Canada (2013) with Andrew Clement, Faculty of Information University of Toronto. This project geographically visualizes the routes taken by end user's URL requests over the internet presenting information about fundamental core internet exchange points along the path.

William Pura received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba followed by a Master's of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University in the U.S. He subsequently returned to Manitoba where he has taught Printmaking, Drawing and Painting at the University of Manitoba School of Art.

Don Reichert is a Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he is also notable as a photographer and digital media artist. Born in Libau, Manitoba in 1932 to parents who had immigrated from Austria, he studied art in Canada, Mexico, and England. He taught for many years at the University of Manitoba. Praised early on by the critic Clement Greenberg, Reichert has produced work that is held in many notable public, corporate and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and the Canada Council Art Bank, among others.

Dominique Rey immerses herself in the world she is using as material, whether that means living with exotic dancers in South Carolina for her series Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir (her photo essay from this body of work published in Border Crossings won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards); or working on Les Filles de la Croix, a seven year project on a disappearing order of nuns that has taken her to Brazil, Argentina, and France. Her fascination with the representation of the other, the marginal figure, plunges inward in her newest work Erlking to explore the unconscious other within.

Diane Whitehouse studied painting at the Birmingham College of Art. She did postgraduate work at Bergen Kunsthandverskole, Bergen, Norway. After immigrating to Edmonton, Alberta she became a Canadian citizen. Subsequently, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she continues to live and work.