SANDRA BREWSTER 1973 Born in Toronto, ON, Canada Currently lives and works in Toronto, ON, Canada Education 2017 Master of Visual Arts, University of Toronto, ON, Canada 1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada On View / Forthcoming 2022 I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada (March 2022) 2021 Fragments of Epic Memory, curated by Julie Crooks, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada (July 31, 2021 – January 2, 2022) Position As Desired: Exploring Black Canadian and Black British Identity, Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Canada House Gallery, in partnership with the High Commission of Canada (London, UK) (July 2021) online now 2020-21 Sandra Brewster: From the series Blur and Smith, Optica centre d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC, Canada (on through April 3, 2021) Resolution: A Century of Photographic Art, Museum of London, ON, Canada (on view through May 16, 2021) Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 Sandra Brewster: Token | Contemporary Ongoing, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Blur at Third Horizon, IPC Art Space, Little Haiti, Miami 2019/20 Sandra Brewster: Blur, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada Sandra Brewster: Walk on by…, video installation; presented by TD Bank on screens at Bay and Queen 2019 Sandra Brewster: Blur, Agnes Etherington Art Cetnre, Kingston Sandra Brewster: Town Girls Beneath, With accompanying text by Canisia Lubrin, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON, Canada Token | Contemporary Ongoing, curated by Sally Frater, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Token | Contemporary Ongoing, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (essay by Nehal El-Hadi) 2017 It’s all a blur, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada (Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival) A Trace | Evidence of time past, (UofT MVS Thesis Exhibition), Art Museum, University of Toronto, ON, Canada 2017 Assemblage, Never Apart Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada 2016 blur, The Franklin, Chicago, IL, USA 2015 From Life, Onyx Building, Toronto, ON, Canada 2013 Mohammeds, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2010 Listen, (curated by Suzanne Luke) Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada 2009 Guyana Art, A Space Gallery Windows, Toronto, ON, Canada Face (for the run of Toronto the Good), Factory Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada 2008 Strip, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2007 4 Series, Canadian Heritage, Toronto, ON, Canada GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM 2006 OverTime (as part of bcurrent’s rock.paper.sistahz5 festival), The Trane Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada 2005 Taking Place, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Reflections on Cool, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON, Canada 2004 Stance, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2003 Cool, Studio Show on Beatrice Street, Toronto, ON, Canada 2002 Cool Pose, Zsa Zsa, Toronto, ON, Canada Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Identity in Flux, curated by Svetlana Mladenov, organized by VISART, Rajko Mamuzić Gallery, Novi Sad , Serbia; travelling to National Gallery of Macedonia Skoplje in Northern Macedonia; Tivat Cultural Center Gallery in Montenegro What Carries Us: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic, guest- curated by Bushra Junaid, The Rooms, St. John’s, NF, Canada 2019 Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, curated by Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, Silvia Forni, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, NFL, Canada; travelling, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada (publication forthcoming) Undomesticated, Koffler Gallery, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON, Canada Ad Infinitum, curated by Magda Gonzalez-Mora, Proyecto Arsenal – Indie Alternative Artspace, Old City Havana, Cuba; as part of collateral exhibitions of 13th Havana Biennial Are You My Mother?, curated by Jennifer Matotek, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada Sandra Brewster: Blur, Commission, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada 2018 Lagos Photo Festival 2018, Lagos, Nigeria contact landing(s), Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent, ON, Canada Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, curated by Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, Silvia Forni ROM Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC, Canada (travelling; publication) An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens & at Centennial Square, Oakville, ON, Canada Common Cause: before and beyond the global, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, Canada 2017/8 Movers and Shakers, curated by Betty Julian, Prefix Institute for Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON, Canada 2017 Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity, Photographs from the Wedge Collection (curated by Kenneth Montague), organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, travelled to Art Gallery of Windsor, ON, Canada 2016 Minimum Requirement (curated by Earl Lee Mornings and Ari Val), Silent Funny, Chicago, IL, USA New Found Lands (curated by Pamela Edmonds), eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL, Canada Enraged, Inertia ran off (curated by the Red Tree Collective), Hamilton, ON, Canada Un|Fixed Homeland (curated by Grace Aneiza Ali), Center for contemporary Art, Newark, NY, USA Family Business, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL, USA The Mecca (curated by Ray McAuliffe), JCT Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2015 Performing Blackness Performing Whiteness (curated by Darren Miller), Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, PA, USA 2014 Addis Foto Fest National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Confluence: Shifting perspectives of the Caribbean revealed in Caribbean Carnival Toronto (curated by Pamela Edmonds, Sally Fraser), PATTISON subway platform screens and billboards throughout the city GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM 2012 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month (curated by Pamela Edmonds and Sally Frater), Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto - in conjunction with Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, ON, Canada 2011 Serious Play (curated by Pamela Edmonds), SPACE, London, UK 2010 (RE) Visions (with Camille Turner and Stephen Fakiyesi, curated by Sally Frater), The Print Studio, Hamilton, ON, Canada 2009 Fortune Tellers, (curated by Kimberly Mayhorn), FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2008 Movement 08 (curated by Stephen Fakiyesi), The Production House, Etobicoke, ON, Canada lVI salón de debujo de santo domingo, Museoo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2007 Art House Affair, (curated by Stephen Fakiyesi), The Production House, Etobicoke, ON, Canada Alter To (curated by Amelia Jimenez), Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON, Canada Fleeting Face (curated by Teresa Ascencao), A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Group of Six (as part of bcurrent’s rock.paper.sisthaz6 festival), Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON, Canada 2006 Perspectives (curated by Julie Crooks), National Film Board of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada 2005 10, Trane Studio & Lounge, Toronto, ON, Canada The Hero Project (with Grace Channer and Camille Turner, curated by Natalie Wood), Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada 2004 Something for Everyone, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2003 The Michael Jackson Project, Zsa Zsa, Toronto, ON, Canada 2002 Untitled, A Space Windows (with John Abrams), Toronto, ON, Canada The Last Stop, St. Norbert Arts Centre, St. Norbert, MB, Canada Black History Month Open Juried Exhibition, Kathleen Gormley McKay Art Centre, Unionville, ON, Canada Through My Eyes, Through My Spirit (curated by Starr Jacobs), Spadina Historic House and Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada Human Rights Through Art Exhibit, City Hall and other venues throughout Toronto, Scarborough and Brampton, ON, Canada 2001 Thupelo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Close-Cropped, Community Arts Project, Cape Town, South Africa 1999 Countdown to the Millennium – Society of Canadian Artists’ 32nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Justice, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada SCA New Members Exhibition, Sherway Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada I Am, Simcoe Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 1998 Solidarity, Black Paint Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada Projects 2017 Sojourner's Stars, The Dinner Party, Drake Commissary, Toronto 2015 BASEMENT (curated by Carla Garnet), BIG on Bloor Festival, Toronto Tree of Life: The Baobab, Forever Interiors, Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Toronto 2013 Mohammeds, Alice Yard Residency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2007 Teeter Totter, Bookends Window Installation (Mayworks Festival), Another Story Bookshop, Toronto Residencies 2020 Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN, USA (remote GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS, INC. TORONTO ON CANADA 416 554 4112 GEORGIASCHERMAN.COM 2018/19 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada 2017-18 Instituto Sacatar Residency, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil 2016 Internship, Theaster Gates Studio, Chicago, IL, USA 2013 Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2002 The Last Stop, St. Norbert Art Centre, St. Norbert, MB, Canada 2000 Thupelo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Artist Talks/Panels 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus 2020 Visual Art Forum Speaker Series, School for Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Concordia University, Undergraduate Art History Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada 2019 Sandra Brewster and Canisia Lubrin in Conversation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada 2018 In conversation with Julie Crooks, Visibility Symposium,