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Any origin starts with an act of creation - a sweeping of thread, a linking of name and body, an installation, a setting up of something. Origin is not perfect, nor is it static. We are all carriers of origin stories, even as we move - granular and fragmented. Sasha Shevchenko is a Ukrainian, Tkaronto/Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by her experience as a Ukrainian person of diaspora, her practice bridges interests in sculpture, textile, archaeology, and intimate ethnography. By combining contemporary and ancient story-telling methods, Shevchenko creates propositional spaces where tradition has the opportunity to whimsically extend into cultural futures. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Small Arms Gallery, VAM, Portland State University, along with international online exhibitions. Shevchenko holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University.
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EDUCATION
2022 BFA Sculpture and Installation - OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
EXHIBITED WORK
2024 The Counter/Self - Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
2024 On Any Given Day - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CAN
2023 Traces of Us, Stackt Market - IC Contemporary for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CAN
2023 What Has Hardened Will Never Win, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, CAN
2023 Make Pieces from Pieces , The Public Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2023 The Counter/Self, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, CAN
2022 Anthropogenic Anxiety, 113 Research, Toronto, CAN
2022 Changing Ground, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, CAN
2022 GRADEX 107, OCAD University, Toronto, CAN
2022 Corporeal Gestures, Portland State University, Oregon, USA
2022 Simple, Perfect, Continuous, and Perfect Continuous, Gallery 1313, Toronto CAN
2021 Gatherings, OCAD University + Joshibi University, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Huminality, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2021 Passion and Pretence, Be Contemporary Gallery, Innisfil, CAN
2020 The Essentialists: Material Proofs in Extraordinary Times, OCADU, Toronto, CAN
2020 Now Streaming Youth Show, VAM, Mississauga, CAN
2020 VAM’s 42nd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, AGM, Mississauga, CAN
2019 Now Streaming Youth Residency Show, VAM, Mississauga, CAN
2018 Springfest Art Show, Mississauga, CAN
2016 InSitu, Small Arms Gallery, Mississauga, CAN
2015 InterGen, CSC, Mississauga, CAN
RESIDENCIES
2023 Harbourfront Centre Textile Artist in Residence, Toronto CAN
2019 Creative Youth Residency, VAM, Mississauga, CAN
AWARDS
2022 Samuel Lazer Kagan Award
2022 13th Street Winery Expression Project Award
2021 Women’s Art Association of Canada Mary Ella Dignam Scholarship
2020 Andre Beaulieu Bursary for Young Visual Artists
2020 Mariano Elia Foundation Scholarship, OCADU
2020 VAM’s 42nd Annual Jury Show Third Prize Winner
2019 Sully Corth Memorial Fund Scholarship, OCADU
2018 Jason Verge Visual Arts Award
2018 The Governor General’s Academic Medal
2015/16/17/18 Cawthra Park Visual Arts Award