GILLIAN FRISE
1 Fermanagh Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 1M1 647-444-9453 | gillianfrise@gmail.com
Visual Arts, Installations and Multimedia Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Original Mother, She is You, PMC Wychwood Art Gallery, Toronto 2023 This Burning Liquid Being That I am, The Drey Gallery, Scarborough
2022 Woman in the Woods, Show Gallery, Toronto
2013 Wake Up You Sleepy Heads, (((Parentheses))) Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2008 New Watercolours, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto 2003 New Drawings, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto 2002 New Drawings, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2023 Art Toronto, Toronto Art Fair with The Drey Gallery 2019 Never Better, Show Gallery, Toronto
2013 Misfits, (((Parentheses))) Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2011 TeddyFest, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 2010 TeddyFest, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2009 Let’s not pretend it’s real, Paul Petro Multiples
2009 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2009 Stuff, books, tins, toys and things, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2007 Group Show, KIAC, Dawson City, Yukon
2007 Group Show, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2006 Group Show, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2005 TAFFI, Toronto Alternative Art Fair at the Gladstone Hotel
2005 Wake me up before September ends, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto 2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2005 5 Artists Show, Junction, Toronto
2005 Group Show, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2003 The Water Project, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2003 The Gallery Artists’ Show, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2002 The Portrait Challenge, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2002 A New Heaven, A New Earth, Finalist Exhibition, Imago Competition 2002 Lookout Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Art Gallery of Ontario Sales and rentals, Birdwatching
2001 Art Systems, Toronto, Self-Porn, video installation
1999 YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Chi-Ching, video screening
1997 A Space, Toronto, Nylons, art performance
Education
1997 M. Ed. Counselling Psychology, OISE, University of Toronto Simone de Beauvoir, Women’s Studies
B.A. Honours Cultural Geography, McGill University
Reviews
Akimbo Lizzy Hill, June 4, 2013
Akimbo Terence Dick, Nov 12, 2009
Globe and Mail Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going, September 2003 Toronto Life, Betty Ann Jordan, Art in July 2002 The Toronto Star This weekend in June 21,
2002 The Toronto Star Galleries, May 30, 2002 (image reproduced)
Lola Egon Von Bark, Shot Gun Reviews, 2001
Now Magazine Cameron Baily,1999
Grants and Awards
2009 Best Watercolour Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2007 Artist Residency, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, Yukon
2005 Drawing Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2004 Toronto Arts Council Grant, level one 2003 Toronto Arts Council Grant, level one
Visual Art Collections
Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt George Hartman Collection
