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SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 Facade 1 and 2, Tiny Gallery, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Window 40: Susan Aydan Abbott, Rebirth R.O.T, Window Gallery, Artspace Building, Winnipeg, MB
2016 FemFest 2016, Transformation, Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg, MB
2012 Q, Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 March -May gifts of madness Penticton Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
2022-February 2023 Avere cura, Tangled Arts and Disability , Toronto, Ontario
2022, Crip strength, Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2022 Embodied, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, Mb
2021 Looney, collaboration with Yvette Cenerini, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, and GALLEA, Winnipeg, MB
2021Criptych, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Mb
2020 Criptych, (DATA mentorship Show),Video pool gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2020 FEMFEST, R.O.T. Sculpture, OCAD, Toronto, ON
2019 5 drawings, library gallery, Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Shift, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art Foundation
2017-2018 Mentorship Program Group Exhibition, aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB
2018 Not The Camera, but the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art, curated by Noor Bhangu, R(APE) O(VER) T(IME) series, Gallery 1C03, University Of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB
2017 Can You See Us Port Moody, Stains, Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody, BC
2017 Au-delà/Furthermore, Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Canary in the Coal Mine curated by Sigrid Dhale, 4 Part Print Installation: Bare Witness (Stains, Septic Wound, Battle Scar and Rock On), Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB
2013 Art + Body, Arts and Disability Network Manitoba, Saint-Boniface Public Library, Winnipeg, MB
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
2014 BUBBLE, Cspace, Winnipeg, MB
COMMUNITY GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Study: Untitled Study, initiated by Connie Chappel, features Collin Zipp's Untitled Study, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB
2021 Postpartum, MAWA Mothers Show, , Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2021 Rhyan/ Aydan, Portrait Show, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Roots and Tendrils Members Show, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Study: Untitled Study, initiated by Connie Chappel, features Collin Zipp's Untitled Study
2018 5 Drawings, Defiant (Mood Portraits), L’briary Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Anything Whatever IV, Asile Fantôme, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Sanctuaire / Sanctuary, Asile fantôme, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB
2017 Feminist Futures : Members Show, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2017 Like Mother, Like Child: Artist Mothers Group Exhibition, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB 2016 Works on Paper: Members Show, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Order/Disorder: Artist Mothers Group Exhibition, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg, MB RESIDENCIES
2018 Feminist Arts Conference, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Center[3] print studio, Hamilton, ON (upcoming)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2024 EVERYTHING ANALOG with Heidi Phillips, Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba
2021 Salon Mentorship with Debbie Patterson, Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba
2018-19 Year-long Diversity through Access to Technology + Art (DATA) - Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoban and Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB
2017-18 Year-long Foundation Mentorship Program with Jennie O’Keefe, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Photoshop Techniques with artist Chloé Beaulac, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB 2018 Portrait Painting Workshop with Xavier Mutshipayi, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB 2018 Experimental Darkroom Workshop, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
2017 3-month Focussed Mentorship in Developing a Body of Work with Diana Thorneycroft, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB
2015-16 Making Our Mark II, Printmaking Mentorship, Arts and Disability Network Manitoba and Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB
2009-12 Fine Arts Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2007 Floral Design, Top Hat Florists, Winnipeg, MB
GRANTS
2017 Canada Council for the Arts : Access Support
2017 Canada Council for the Arts : Research and Creation
2017 Manitoba Arts Council : Creation/Production Grant in the Visual Arts B
2017 Winnipeg Arts Council : Individual Artist Grant B
2017 Winnipeg Arts Council : Professional Development
2017 Manitoba Arts Council : Travel/Professional Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Board Member, Citizens Advisory Council for Mental Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, since September
2016
Committee Member, Indigenous Roots of Expressive Arts Therapy 2017
International Conference Gallery Technician, Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg Manitoba, 2016
Bookmark Exchange Group participant, 2016-present
Art Instructor, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park Shopping Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Fall 2015
Board Member, Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba, 2016-2018
Presenter, Power of Voices, Candace House, Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg MB, June 2016
Art Instructor, Community Living Winnipeg, Winnipeg MB, 2015-2016
Speaker, United Way Speakers Bureau, Winnipeg MB, since 2013
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
gallerieswest, September 28, 2018 Opening the Archives: A Winnipeg show that elevates work by female and non-binary artists considers the body as a site of personal and collective histories, by Stacey Abramson Winnipeg Free https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/opening-the-archives/
Canstar Community News, September 10, 2018, Art and memories, by Eva Wasney Winnipeg Free Press, January 12,
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/metro/Art-and-memories-492866481.html
Drawn together: Five local artists display studio work in intimate exhibition, review by Steven Leyden Cochrane
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/drawn-together-410439425.html
Wilma Derksen Blog, June 4, 2016, White on White, blog post by Wilma Derksen Winnipeg Free Press, March 17, 2016
Songs of Warning, review by Steven Leyden Cochrane Community News Commons, March 2, 2016
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/songs-of-warning-372309401.html
An opening in a world filled with barriers, article by Marie LeBlanc CBCnews Manitoba, December 28, 2015
paperwait Contemporary Art Writing 2017-18. “Artist Pages”, image Sand, Vol. 20, p.71.
Stats and Stories 2017-18 Canada Council Funding Overview, “Grant allowed Winnipeg visual artist to explore the history of mental health”.
Suburban Winnipeg mom places red ribbons on bridges for MMIW Canstar Community News, October 15, 2015
Lighting the darkness: United Way speaker finds strength in being vulnerable, article by United Way, October 15, 2015