Carrie Chisholm

Carrie Chisholm, AOCAD, MFA is an award-winning creative professional who draws inspiration from her engagement with arts and culture communities and institutions at home and abroad.

She is a strong proponent for capacity building in the culture sector and has made valuable contributions through events/project/operations management, governance, strategic visioning/planning, public relations, volunteerism and audience development in the arts sector.

When not championing her cause, Carrie methodically devotes her time to her mixed media art practice, interspersing 2D (drawing/painting) and 3D (sculpture/installation) applications. She is particularly fascinated with the optical affects and illusions generated by the elements of line, colour and light such as ornamentation, pattern, transparency, shadow-casting and reflection.

These interests have been mined over the course of Carrie’s practice, which commenced after the completion of her studies in Florence, Italy in 2000.

2017: Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Publishing,
Editing, Writing Intensive, Royal Collage of Art, London, UK
2005–6: Master of Fine Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
1999–2000: Advanced Visual Studies Certificate, Ontario College of Art and Design, Florence Campus, Florence, Italy
1993–98: AOCAD – Communication & Design, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada

Solo and Dual Exhibitions
2023: Mademoiselle Inaccessible, Art Quarters Gallery (Window Installation), Toronto, Canada
2021: The Gilded Age, Jean Leon Gallery – Alliance Francaise, Toronto, Canada
2011: The Registry, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada
2010: The Lucky Country/Le Pays Chanceux, Galarie Wilder & Davis, Montreal, Canada
2009: Channelling Chanel, Howard Park Institute, Toronto, Canada
2007: Alluring Contradictions of Consumption (Nuit Blanche), AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005: Often Imitated, Never Duplicated, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002: Paperdolls, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, ON - Pare, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
2000: Nascendre e Scoprire, Webpuccino Gallery, Florence, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025: Femi9 Energy, Withrow Commons Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2024: LIGHTSHOW (Invitational Fundraiser), Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022: Summer Salon, Art Quarters Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2021: Summer Salon, Art Quarters Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019: It’s not me, it’s you, Glenholme Ave. Pop-up Gallery (curated by the AWOL Collective), Toronto, Canada
2019: An Index (curated by Marjian Verstappen and Marsya Maharani), Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto, Canada
2017: Bombay Sapphir...