Allison Rietta

Allison Rietta’s abstract paintings and collages explore mystic geometry, symbols and patterns, working predominately in watercolours and acrylics. Her work is informed by her graphic design background, and her spiritual practice of sound and meditation. Drawing on the sacred sounds of singing bowls, her pieces exude melodic vibrations in which colours transcend the visual into the auditory. She sees a direct relationship with the healing properties of sound and geometric rhythms as she blends the inner and outer character traits of spirituality with simple shapes and forms.

Allison Rietta (b.1969) grew up in Toronto, Canada, and has lived and worked in Germany, Italy, and the UK. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Toronto, New York and London. Three of her abstract watercolour paintings were featured in British Vogue’s ‘Vogue Gallery’ print issues March, April and May 2022. Allison was longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize UK, and most recently has been shortlisted for the Visual Art Open 2023 UK and International Emerging Artist Award. The Holbrook Hotel has exclusively aquired Allison’s artwork for their new 42-room boutique hotel in Roanoake, Virginia USA.

2022/23 Turps Painting School Correspondence Course
1993 The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada

Group Exhibitions
2025 - Flow Art Space Basel Group Show, Basel, Switzerland
2024 - ‘Winter Parade’, Gagné Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2024 - ‘Peace’, Gallery Lagom, Creemore, Ontario, Canada
2024 ‘Dreaming in Color’, Yellow Studio Gallery, Cross River NY, USA
2024 The Local Gallery for DesignTO, Toronto, Canada
2023 Delphian Open Call Exhibition, Unit1 Gallery, London, UK
2023 ‘A Geometry of Beauty’, Gagné Contemporary, Toronto
2023 Focus Art Fair, Chelsea Industrial, New York, USA
2023 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON / AGH Art Sale
2023 Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2022 The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art, Brooklyn, USA
2022 Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

Solo Exhibitions
2024 'Geometria' Gallery Lagom, Creemore, Canada
2023 ‘Colour of Sound’, Cultural Goods Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 ‘Dream Wheel’, Remote Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2021 ‘Inflorescence’, Image Foundry, Toronto, Canada