SOA HONOURS EXHIBITION
An archive of everyday experience, a ritual to partake in consistently, and a coping mechanism through which to enjoy existence. Writing, drawing, objects, and ritual are cornerstones of Auger’s work. Their style is naive and colorful by nature and includes icons such as chimneys, bricks, buildings, candles, and other everyday occurrences. This is all achieved with pencil crayon, alcohol-based markers, and gel pen.
I am an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba. I began working with ceramics in 2018. My works are heavily inspired by queer identity and lived experience at the intersection of queer marginalized communities. Living in Manitoba has allowed me to move freely between both urban and rural communal experiences. I am the by-product of cultural mixing and drift, and I celebrate that with every fibre of my being as I bring about new dialogues in my works.
Tayler Buss is a lens based artist currently working on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through photography, video, and sculpture, her practice explores themes of digital and physical materiality. She has shown locally in galleries such as PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, aceart, and The Edge Gallery, and was a muralist for the WalltoWall Mural Festival in July 2020. Her first solo show, Red, was held at Flux Gallery in May 2019.
After a 20-year absence I returned fall of 2019 to complete my BFA. I began
this series of oil paintings in my 3rd year and continued working on them
throughout the next 2 decades. During that time, I was the village bicycle of
kitchens, worked in many, many restaurants. My influences are Warhol, Damien
Hirst, and whatever catches my eye on social media. I was intrigued by Warhol’s
attempt to complete 1000 works in a single day, after he heard that Da Vinci
accomplished 1000 works in his lifetime. As of February, I graduated with my
BFA. Better late than never.
I don’t have much of my work up on my social media, but if you want to see
pictures of the dogs in my life, Deannaizcool on the Instagram, if you want to
wish me a happy birthday you can do so on the facebook.
When my series is finally done, it will be printed as a book.
Tamiko Chase Kavanagh is a designer and artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba - Treaty 1 Territory. They excitedly bold design and even bolder narratives.
They design digitally and physically - they also
work with installation and illustration. Playful
investigation and a considerate approach to
research are key components to their practice.
As a queer, mixed-race Japanese-Canadian artist,
the intersections of race, culture, and gender
also play a crucial role in Tamiko’s work. When
designing, they like to work closely with clients
to create exciting and uncompromising visual
identities and product
Edtie Doll is an illustrator, a painter, an animator, and a filmmaker. He primarily focuses on storytelling across vast mediums. His artistic style ranges from caricature illustrations to graphic novel imagery.
Ren Lam is a Chinese-Canadian graphic designer+illustrator who is
living and working and learning on Treaty-1 Territory, Canada.
Despite being frustrated with language’s shortcomings, they never
shut up. It’s called perseverance! Their work explores+experiments
with materiality, language, and form. They want to try everything,
and approach every project with a sincere, playful, all-or-nothing
attitude. Intense and experimental and thoughtful design is the goal.
Overall, they hope to take in and produce diverse perspectives
through design.
They are trying their best to have as much fun as they can.
Wendy C. Lloyd is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, who
combines digital technologies such as laser design with
traditional techniques to make each of her creations special
and unique.
Regardless of medium, there is often an element of narrative
found in her work. She uses humor to turn stories from
personally lived experiences and observations into relatable
and memorable art.
Her studio, The Make Bank is located in an actual bank in
Weldon, Sk. Her canine Bank Manager Peaches makes sure she
takes lots of walks to meet the town and inspire her work.
Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Chase Martin is a
multidisciplinary emerging visual artist who graduated
from the University of Manitoba with an Honours
BFA in 2021. His practice focuses on painting, working
in a Post Analogue style that synthesizes digital and
material visual languages.
Chase has exhibited in group shows at la Maison des
artistes and Ace Art Inc. In 2019, he exhibited a series
of large scale pencil crayon drawings for his first solo
show, Off my Fridge, at Allegria Galleria. In 2020,
he participated in Wall to Wall: Mural and Cultural
Festival, producing a mural for Wannabe’s Diner in
Winnipeg. In 2021, Chase will exhibit a new series of
paintings during an upcoming solo show at la Maison
des Artistes.
Karrie McEwan is a Two-Spirit Anishinaabe
graphic artist based in Treaty 1 territory,
Winnipeg Manitoba.
I am passionate about illustration and
design and how I can combine the two.
Creating characters and stories for them
is always a goal of mine. One of the biggest
challenges is how I can incorporate my own
heritage through graphic illustration while
maintaining those strong activist ideas
through the characters and ideas I make.
I am an emerging female queer artist situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Recently graduated from BFA, honors program offered through The University of Manitoba. painting and printmaking are my chosen medias I use to express my struggle with mental health issues as well as the relationship of the physicality of the human form.
Hanna Reimer is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1-based multidisciplinary artist currently working towards a BFA (HON.) at the School of Art, University of Manitoba. For the better part of four years, fabric, especially striped fabric, has heavily influenced her work. She has been recognized by her peers and community, commissioned for private as well as public artwork including murals around her hometown, and currently works as a Workshop Facilitator and Art Squad Programmer at Art city, an artist-run community arts centre that provides free art workshops to children and residents of the underserved West-Broadway area.
Halley Ritter is a contemporary painter, printmaker,
installation artist, and curator living and working on
Treaty 1 Territory.
She’s fixated, in her life and work, on the subjects
of memory and collective identity in the context of
contemporary Jewish culture. Halley is, and likely
always will be, continuously working toward creating
a specifically Jewish visual language to reflect the
nuanced cultural experience and all of its complexities.
Autistic and Queer, Emily developed keen interest in her changing technological environment and the media it brought with its evolution. The iconography of old pixel graphics, cellphone charms, sailor moon, and many other nostalgic cultural call-backs are keystones to her current hyper aesthetic practice. Now she leans into the aesthetics of the internet, both past and present, and has refined her practice while completing her undergrad at the University of Manitoba. Nominated for several academic awards, the future of her practice looks bright and full of technicolour.
Sun (Benny) Banghao, Chinese graphic designer
who is living and working and learning on Southern
China and Treaty-1 Territory, Canada.
Being passionate about the graphic industry,
creating graphic designs, visual arts, and also work
with website design. Thinking critically is the goal
for me while presenting a subject matter, which I
wish my works may provoke ideas and influence
actions on both an individual and public scale.
Sarah Thompson is a chronically ill and disabled multidisciplinary artist working with the theme of identity and disability within her works. All her works are inspired from her experience as a person with Ehlers Danlos syndrome, using her work as an act of visibility for the invisible disorder.
Ernest Zarzuela (he/him) is a Filipino-Canadian designer based ivn Treaty-1 territory, Canada. Through esoteric and rhizomatic process and contemplation with a key interest in image-making, identity and language, his work often involves experimentation and intersection across different mediums, both digital and analog, such as illustration, typography, motion graphics, collage-making and screen printing to then applied in his approach to design. Sincerity and delicateness are very important to his methodology.
Rachel Wagner is a graphic designer and artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba who holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. In her pursuit of design, she prioritizes function and aesthetic through a series of bold, yet systematic visual elements. All of her work strives to bring forth an innovative mindset that retains versatility in order to be applicable across the realms of print and digital media.
