Allison Rietta

Allison Rietta is a Toronto-based abstract artist whose work explores mystic geometry as a language of energy, rhythm, and perception. She began her full-time artistic practice in 2020 following a 25-year career as a creative director in branding and marketing within the graphic design industry. Rietta holds an honours degree in Environmental and Industrial Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and furthered her studies through the Turps Painting School (2022–23).

Drawing on her spiritual practice of meditation and sound healing, Rietta’s work is informed by the resonant qualities of sacred sound and the symbolic structures of geometry found in nature and architecture. Through repetition, layering, and variation, her compositions translate vibration into visual form, where colour, shape, and pattern function as carriers of rhythm and inner experience. Her practice moves between precise, structured arrangements and more intuitive, atmospheric fields, reflecting a dialogue between control and fluidity, and between inner and outer perception.

Rietta has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Toronto, New York, London (UK), and Basel (Switzerland). She has been twice longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize (U...

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

Group Exhibitions
2026 (Upcoming) Yellow Studio Gallery, Cross River, NY, USA
2025 - Flow Art Space Basel Group Show, Basel, Switzerland
2024 - ‘Winter Parade’, Gagné Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2024 - ‘Peace’, Gallery Lagom, Creemore, 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
2026 (Upcoming) Akasha Arts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2024 'The Magic of Geometry' The Lobby, Toronto, Canada
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