nadijahr@gmail.com
Nadijah Robinson is a mixed-media artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada.
Community-engaged, multi-disciplinary, sampler.
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Exhibition History
2020 Artist Residency Exhibition, Open Gallery at Kamloops Art Gallery (Postponed due to COVID-19), Kamloops BC
2017 Museum: No Vacancy, Group Exhibition, Scarborough Arts’ Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough
2017 First Thursdays Feature Artist, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2016 Solace, Group Exhibition, Nia Centre for the Arts at The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2016 Black Canvas, Group Exhibition, Black Feminisms Forum, Bahia, Brazil
2015 Art Gallery of York University, Pride Artist Project - The Mourning Dress, Toronto
2015 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Soucouyant, Cell Phone Video Short, Co-director, Toronto
2014 Exposed: Deciding Centre, Group Exhibition, Nia Centre for the Arts at 918 Bathurst, Toronto
2013 That’s So Gay! Group Exhibition, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2013 Church Street Murals, Muralist and Lead Artist, Toronto
2013 Margin of Eras, Group Exhibition, Pop-Up Location, Toronto
2013 Syncopation: Life in the Key of Black, Curator,TD Then&Now Series,Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
2012 Black Infinity, Solo Exhibition, Accents on Eglinton Bookstore, Toronto
2012 Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Group Exhibition, Accents on Eglinton Bookstore, Toronto
2011 Mayworks Festival: Resilience, Group Exhibition, Raging Spoon, Toronto
2010 Boom Bip, Feature Artist Exhibition, Canteen Artshop and Gallery, Ottawa
2010 Index, Graduate Exhibition, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
2009 Jacqueline Fry Shortlist, Group Exhibition, Gallery 115, Ottawa
2008 Global Review: a Critical Revision, Group Exhibition, Gallery 115, Ottawa
2008 Safe Sex in the City 2, Feature Artist, Arts Court Studios, Ottawa
2007 Agitate’s Queer Dance Experience, Feature Artist, Saw Gallery, Ottawa
Residencies
2020 Kamloops Collaborative Youth Arts Residency (Postponed due to COVID-19) Kamloops, BC
2015 FRESH MILK Barbados International Artist Residency, Barbados
Grants, Awards, Publications
2018 Marvellous Grounds: Queer of Colour Histories of Toronto. “The Mourning Dress: Creating Spaces of Healing for Black
Freedom.” Eds: Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware, Toronto
2018 Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto, cover art. Eds: Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, Syrus
Marcus Ware with Rio Rodriguez , Toronto
2015 OAC Access and Career Development Grant, Toronto
2015 Black Like We: Troubleshooting the Black Youth Experience, Book Anthology, Toronto
2015 Our Schools/Our Selves Journal: Constellations of Black Radical Imagining: Black Arts and Popular Education, Toronto
2013 CUE Grants - Artist Micro-grant Project Funding, $800, Toronto
2012 Womynation Artist Collective Funding, $1200, Toronto
2009 First Place Award Winning Artist - Jacqueline Fry Bursary Award, Ottawa
Collaborations, Collectives
2017 Coaching Circle Collective Training, Toronto
2014 - 2017 Whippersnapper Gallery Board Member, Toronto
2014 s.o.s. curatorial collective, Toronto
2013 The Dandelions: Queer and Trans* Performers in the Wind, Mural with Elicser Elliott, Toronto
2013 QTPOC Peoples History of Activism Mural with Syrus Ware and Aemilius Ramirez, Toronto
2013 CUE Grants, Artist Mentor, Toronto
2012 Womynation Artist Collective, Toronto
2010-2013 T-Dot Renaissance Artist Collective, Toronto
2008-2010 Agitate! Ottawa Queer People of Colour Collective, Ottawa
Arts Education Work
2019 Storyteller and Facilitator, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto
2018 Art Tour Host, Neighbourhood Arts Network, Nuit Blanche x STYLL x Scarborough, Scarborough
2017-2019 Executive Director, Art City in St. James Town, Toronto
2016-2017 Power Kids Family Programs Coordinator, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
2016 Black Arts and Fibres Facilitator, Freedom School Black Liberation Summer Camp, Toronto
2015 Education Officer Children and Youth, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2014 - 2015 Artist Educator in Residence, Power Youth Program, The Power Plant, Toronto
2014 Artist Educator, Mural Archive Project, s.o.s. curatorial collective, Toronto
2013-2015 Gallery Attendant, The Power Plant, Toronto
2012 Teaching Intern, Oasis Alternative Secondary School: Arts and Social Change Site, Toronto
2011-2012 Media Group Facilitator, The Art Centre at Central Technical School, Toronto
2008-2009 Director of Education, Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, Ottawa
2007 Curriculum Writer and Development, Lost Lyrics, Toronto
Education
2012 Bachelor of Education - Intermediate/Senior - Visual Arts and Politics
Urban Education Stream - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - University of Toronto
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Visual Arts, Global Politics Minor - University of Ottawa
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