Stefanie Denz

I live on the west coast of Canada on a small island where I teach and maintain my studio. My work can be seen in Rhubarb Designs, Ganges, Winchester Galleries, Victoria and on my website.

I often include found materials besides using traditional surfaces. I am interested in relationships and how that shapes the composition. My narratives include family, friends, movie stills, media sources, architecture, dreams and daily life.
I look for a feeling that is elusive yet familiar, and lies in the construction of the space. The presence of things meeting with the presence of other things including the space, and ideas is an ongoing process that I am witnessing. Studying in the arms of postmodernism, punctuated by eco philosophy, Alice Aycock, Alex Colville, Rainer Fassbinder, and a revived figurative tradition I align myself with folk art, surrealism, psychology, and cinema”

Art Therapy Certification, Vancouver art therapy Institute 2020
BEd, Vancouver Island University 2016
Summer Residency TransArt Berlin 2014
Artist residency Take Berlin 2013
MFA University of Auckland 1989
BFA University of Victoria, 1985

2019 Peonies, Lorsch Germany
2017 Hypnotic Charisma, Faultline Projects, Ganges. BC
2016 Amelia Douglas Gallery New Westminster BC
2016/17 Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC
2015 You and me, Point Gallery Salt Spring Island
2014 SomoS Galerie , Berlin Germany
2013 Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin Germany
2012 Crawling Woman incl.Collab. performance DVOT# 3,Campbell River Pub. Art G., BC
2012 Family History, Duthie Gallery, Ganges. BC