Sharon Ruttonsha

Sharon Ruttonsha began her career in commercial design and later graduated from OCAD University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts.
Notable among her exhibitions, was a three-part project called "Reinventing Eve" which dealt with topics related to women's lives. The resulting exhibitions, seminars and outreach programs were funded, in part, by the Ontario Arts Council. In 2006, a collaboration with the performance group The Healing Divas resulted in a dual media art show/performance titled "In Search of the Common Place".
Her work has appeared in Artfolio Fine Art Catalogue, Synchronocity Magazine, Magazin'Art, Biennial Guide to Canadian Artist in Galleries, and Les idees de Ma Maison.

“Ruttonsha’s paintings define a spectrum of relatedness: sometimes large and imposing, other times close and intimate; some flooded with light, others bathed in the light and dark tensions of chiaroscuro; almost monochromatic or with rich layers of colour optically blended into consistent values; positioned against a ground or viewed without reference to time or place. All of these explorations speak of the capacity that painting has to say what is felt, to act as a medium between art and life”.
Michele White, Curator

OCAD University, Bachelor in Fine Arts/Drawing and Painting

The Art and Found Show

The aliveness of Me, Hashtag Gallery, Toronto

The Bliss of the Commonplace, Etobicoke Civic Centre

Harmony, Twist Gallery, Toronto

Commffest Global Film and Arts Festival, Toronto

Into the Light, The Studio and Stacks Gallery

Branksome Hall Art Show

Undertones, Academy of Spherical Arts

The Square Foot Show, AWOL Gallery

WhoDunit, OCAD University

Art City Monster Mash, Gladstone Hotel

Hot & Cold - the best of contemporary Canadian Art - Art on 5th, Austin, Texas

Memory of a Place, Palette Gallery, Toronto

Reinventing Eve, Parts I, II, III

Northern Lights, Latitude Fine Art, Houston, Texas

Art Expo, New York City

Gems of Hope, Art Auction, Toronto

Personal Mythologies, Gallery 503