E R I N   F I N L E Y ,  V i s u a l   A r t i s t 

S O L O   A N D   C O L L A B O R A T I V E   E X H I B I T I O N S 

2013  (Upcoming) Cologne, Germany, Karat Artspace, Childhood Hero
2013  (Upcoming) Whitby, Ontario, Station Gallery, Wiki Show
2013  Toronto, ON, OCAD University, Disrupting/Undoing
2013  Toronto, ON, OCAD University, The Big Draw (Auction)
2012  Toronto, ON, The Drake, Dream Chasers, Curated by Mia Nielsen 
2012  Kingston, ON, Queen's University, Cezanne's Closet (Auction)
2012  Amsterdam, Holland, Pop-Up Gallery, Binding Image
2012  Burgundy, France, La Pour Peinte Centre, Bee
2012  Kingston, ON, Union Gallery, Daisy Chain (Solo)
2012  Brooklyn, NY, A.I.R. Gallery, Wish You Were Here
2012  Paris, France, Ecole Polytechnique, Artist as a Suicide Bomber (Cat.)
2012  New York, NY, Sarah Lawrence, Opera Yoko (w/ Heather Saunders)
2012  Oxford, Miami University, Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide Bomber
2012  Idaho, USA, Idaho State University, Mama Said
2012  Pennsylvania, Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Gallery (Catalogue)
2012  Toronto, ON, John B. Aird Gallery, Drawing 2012 (Juror's First Prize)
2012  Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Emerging Artists Exhibition
2011  Siena, Italy, Siena Art Institute, Drawing Connections (Catalogue)
2011  Toronto, ON, The White House, Bees 
2011  Ottawa, ON, Galerie La Petite Mort (with Daryl Vocat) 
2011  Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Courvoisier Collective 
2011  Buffalo, NY, Hallwalls, New Drawings (Solo)
2011  Toronto, ON, The White House, Your Next Life (Curated by Adam Cowan)

2011  Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University, Matrilineage
2011  Toronto, ON, John B. Aird Gallery, Drawing 2011 
(Curated by Sadko Hadzihasanovic and Dale Barrett)
2010  Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Centre for Feminist Art

Making Ourselves Visible ("Duplicates" Event)
2010  Burlington, ON, Honey, Curated by Jacquie Cobb
2010  Buffalo, NY, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Faster, Pussycat!   

2009  Toronto, ON, Paul Petro Special Projects, Jayne Mansfield’s Dog (Solo)

2009  Toronto, ON, Peak Gallery, Walls Project (Solo)

2009  Toronto, ON, Ontario College of Art and Design, Whodunit Mystery Art
2009  Toronto, ON, Gladstone, Nuit Blanche, SketchPAD (with Andrew Kmiecik)

2008  Chicago, IL, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Art Against AIDS

2007  Toronto, ON, Loop Gallery, Dezzy and the Lusty Moor (Solo)

2007  San Francisco, CA, Femina Potens, Punktraits (with Heather Catalinich)

2007  Toronto, ON, Lennox Contemporary, Heroine (Solo)

2006  North Bay, ON, White Water Gallery, Legend of Nadia Nefariously (Solo)

2006  New York, NY, CBGB, Sex, Death, Rock ‘n’ Bones

2005  Brooklyn, NY, Project Spaceman, Square Foot (Organized by AWOL)

2005  Toronto, ON, MOCCA, Art Scum (Curated by Istvan Kantor)

2005  Toronto, ON, S.P.I.N. Gallery, Les Femmes du Siècle

2005  Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Main Space, Legend of Nadia Nefariously (Solo)

2004  Toronto, ON, York Quay Gallery, Same Time / Same Place (Brochure)

2004  Calgary, AB, Nickel Arts Museum, 8 Conversations, MFA Thesis Exhibition

2003  Toronto, ON, Zypr Gallery, Down With Beauty (Solo)
2001  Toronto, ON, Area Gallery, Perverse Sentiment (w/ Julie Voyce, Patrick DeCoste)

*Selection

G R A N T S   A N D   A W A R D S

2012  Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Art: Project Grant 
2012  Toronto Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2012  Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: YYZ)
2012  Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: BAC)
2011  Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: Power Plant)
2011  Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: Mercer Union)
2011  Ontario Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2010  Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Art: Project Grant
2010  Toronto Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2009  Ontario Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant

2006  Ontario Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2004  University of Calgary, Centre for Fine Arts Research, Graduate Scholarship
2004  Alberta Foundation for the Arts, University of Calgary, Travel Grant

2003  Alberta Foundation for the Arts, University of Calgary, Research Scholarship
2003  McCord Museum /L'Université du Québec à Montréal, Conference Travel
2001  University of Toronto, William Huffman Student Award

B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2012  Miller, Darren. Exhibition Catalogue. Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Gallery. 
2012  Ting, Tiffanie. "Negotiating the Collective: Conceptions of Identity." Harvard University.

2011  Siena Art Institute. (Catalogue). "Drawing Connections: Contemporary Drawing."
2011  J. Tim Raymond. "Cinderella Liberties: Erin Finley at Hallwalls." ArtVoice.
2011  Saunders, Heather. "As Warhol told the Velvet Underground..." Artist in Transit.
2011  ArtVoice. "Art Views: New Drawings at Hallwalls." Image reproduction. 
2011  Massier, John. Exhibition Catalogue. Curatorial essay for solo show at Hallwalls. 
2011  Xtra! Ottawa's Gay and Lesbian News. "Pride Highlights: Erin Finley and Daryl Vocat".
2009  NOW Magazine. Visual Art: “Must-See Shows.” Vol. 28, No. 26.

2009  Bravo. Shag television programme. Interview by Nicolas Kazamia.

2009  Eye Weekly. "Toronto Notes: The T.O. Do List". 
2007  Davidson, Duncan. “Arts and Culture.” San Francisco Guardian.

2007  Balzer, David. “Eye Candy: Erin Finley at Loop Gallery.” Eye Weekly.

2007  Goddard, Peter. “At the Galleries.” The Toronto Star.

2007  Dick, Terence. “Review of Dezzy and the Lusty Moor”. Akimblog.

2006  “Window on the Arts.” CBC Radio One.

2006  The Toronto Star. “At the Galleries.” Image reproduction.

2005  Goddard, Peter. “Glam punk rocker Nadia Nefariously, a legend in one

artist’s mind, bares all for art.” The Toronto Star.

2005  Vaughan, R.M., The Big Picture 44: R. M. Vaughan Ink (Blog).

2005  Lathwell, Catherine. “Nadia Nefariously at Gallery 1313.” Flack.

2005  The Toronto Sun. “Arts and Entertainment.” Image reproduction.

2004  Clintberg, Mark. “Hot art to talk about.” FFWD Magazine.

2000  McKay, Sally. “Alice in Totally Fucked-Up Land.” Lola. Issue No. 6.

2000  Eye Weekly. “Galleries.” Image reproduction. Issue No. 52.

C O L L O Q U I A
2012 London, ON, University of Western Ontario Aftermaths: Revolution + Recovery

Paper Presentation "Kamikaze Code: McQueen Couture for a Massacre" 

2009 Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Feeling Photography Conference

Paper Presentation - "Miley Cyrus, Polaroid Lolita: Public emotionality,

coming of age, and the convenience of the camera-phone"

2008 New York, NY, US, Nola Studios / York University 
Performing Feminist Motherhood: Feminist Outlaws

Paper Presentation - "Bikini Monster & the '79 Chevy: Cacophonic chronicles of

one nefarious punk mutha" (Or, "All About My Mother")

2008 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University 
Image & Imagery IV

Paper Presentation - "Scandal and Gossip! The lascivious tale of

John Singer Sargent’s overwrought brush, a sexy painting of

Madam X, and Rita Hayworth’s striptease in Gilda"

2008 Toronto, ON, York University 
Frontiers in History Symposium

Paper Presentation - "Oops! She Did It Again: Nexus points between

ancient female archetypes and MTV"

2007 Ottawa, ON, University of Ottawa 
Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority 

Paper Presentation - "Alice in Chains: A brief history of intersections 
between feminist art, iconoclasm, and censorship"

2006 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University 
Image & Imagery III

Paper Presentation - "Anti-trompe-l'œil violence in 
Tarantino's Kill Bill series"

2006 Buffalo, NY, US, University at Buffalo / State University of New York
Gender Across Borders II

Paper Presentation - "Vaseline Venus: The odalisque as locus for

the beautiful and the abject"

2005 San Diego, CA, US, 35th Annual Popular Cultural Association Conference

Paper Presentation - "The Name’s ‘Buffy’, Baby! How television’s ‘girl-power’

action heroes influence the identity of the suburban female teen"

2004 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University 
Image & Imagery II

Paper Presentation - "Sirens of Gotham: Making meaning of crosscurrents

between feminism and the femmes fatales of film and television in the Sixties

2004 Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia 
Mediations: Negotiating Cultural Landscapes

Paper Presentation - "With love, from Lilith to Lolita: Contextualizing the

metamorphoses of the femme fatale in film and art"

2003 Montréal, PQ, McCord Museum / Université du Québec a Montréal 
1960s: Style & Substance

Paper Presentation - "Femmes fatales of 1960s cinema"

*Some presentation titles have been shortened


S E L E C T E D   P R O F E S S I O N A L   A C T I V I T Y

2012  Drawing Sessional, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2012  Drawing / Painting Instructor, CAMH, Toronto, ON
2012  Artist Lecturer, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011  MoMA Coursework in Modern Art, Dept. of Museum Education, New York, NY
2010  Drawing Assistant, Allyson Mitchell's exhibition, "One Girl's Journey to the Well of 
Forbidden Knowledge", Young Gallery @ Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2009  Studio Assistant, Hylozoic Soil Project, Philip Beesley Architect Inc., Toronto, ON
2009  Essayist, Heather Saunders’ Que Sera Sera at Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

2008  Editor, Gallery 1313 Quarterly Newsletter, Toronto, ON

2008  Member, Board of Directors, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

2007  Artist Resident, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

2006  Artist Resident, Cre8ery Artist-Run Centre, Winnipeg, MB

2005-7 Member, TRUCK Artist-Run Centre, Calgary, AB

2004  Artist Lecturer, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, AB

2004  Artist Lecturer, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

2004  Administrative Assistant, Canadian Conference of the Arts, ACAD, Calgary, AB


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