Montina Hussey

Montina (b.1989)is a metis artist who graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. She currently resides in Toronto painting nostalgic imagery fuzed with contemporary expressionism. Montina is in the studio daily, often collaborating with her toddler, creating original and commissioned work.

Each painting evolves as a wrestling match between loose, gestural paint and the restraint needed to pull it together into an emotionally charged subject. The varied themes blend and melt into each other within a highly saturated colour palette.

Montina's paintings explore subjects and emotions translated from ancestral healing, mediations, dreams, and repressed memories. Mirroring the human condition, each piece is full of overlapping marks of information. Her practice works with the subconscious layers that make up the self and her painting is the vehicle for capturing these energies and directing them into a healing experience.

BFA in Drawing and Painting OCAD Universiry

Fairs

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 2021, 2022

Riverdale Art Walk

Toronto Artisan Market

Residencies

Mothra, Artscape Gibraltar Point, October 2019

Solo Exhibitions

Transfiguration: A Case Study on Epigenetic Memory, Bainton Gallery, Blyth, Ontario, 2016

Ancestral Overlap,White House Studio Projects, Toronto, Ontario 2016

The Inbetween, York Lane Art Collective, Stratford, Ontario 2018



Select Group Exhibitions

Brazen Sexual Stigma Overcome, Project Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2013

Reversion, Moniker Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2014

Open Studio, OCAD University, Florence, Italy, 2014

Contrapuntal, Mayday Club, Florence, Italy, 2014

Annual Florence Program Show, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, 2015

Prospettiva, OCAD University, Florence, Italy, 2015

Enough, WIMA(Women in Art and Music), D-BeatStro, Toronto, Ontario 2015

Florence 40th Celebration,OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario 2015

GradEx, OCAD University, Toronto,Ontario 2016

Female x Female, York Lane Art Collective, Stratford, Ontario 2017

Shedding Light on the Shadow, Artusiasm, Toronto, Ontario 2018

Toronto Visionary Art Exhibit, Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2018

VAM Exhibition, The Freedom Factory...