Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 [en]shroud, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON
2018 Look Out/Look In, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville,ON
2012 Be Prepared, KWT Contemporary, Toronto
2009 (re)dressed, AK Collings Gallery, Port Hope, ON
2006 Playing with Childhood, Colborne Art Gallery, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023-24 seams and strata, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario
2020-21 Presently, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario
2011 Giftworthy, KWT Contemporary, Toronto
2010 Toronto International Art Fair, represented by KWT Contemporary
2007 Juried Fine Arts Show, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Award of Excellence
2007 From Roots to Royalty, Art Gallery of Northumberland
Residencies
November 2024 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland (forthcoming)
March 2024 luck dragon Artist-in-Residence, Delhi, NY (forthcoming)
September 2023 Horned Dorset Colony Residency, Catskills, NY
June 2023 Tend Residency, North Adams, Massachusetts
February 2023 Monson Arts Interdisciplinary Residency, Monson, Maine
October 2022 Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, Scotland.
April 2022 ChaNorth International Artist-in-Residence, Hudson Valley, NY
August 2020. Artist Lab at Kasini House with Tulane University Special Collections
Awards/Grants:
January 2022 Canada Council for the Arts Grant/Arts Abroad
January 2022 Ontario Arts Council Grant | Exhibition Grant
February 2018 Ontario Arts Council Grant | Exhibition Grant
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Specialized Honours, York University
Bachelor of Education, Concurrent Degree, York University
Bio
Through figurative paintings and drawings, Fiona Crangle investigates experiences that compel us to adjust our worldview, a shifting that she sees as a coming of age. Her figures inhabit the “in-between space” of changing one’s mind.
Crangle and her subjects connect through curiosity fuelled, exploratory exchanges that allow for collaborative decision-making around the image, reducing the passivity implied by the word “sitter”. Her work appropriates gestures and narratives from art history, building upon their extant stories and reframing them within a contemporary context.
Fiona Crangle holds a B.F.A. and a B.Ed. She makes art and runs a mentoring style studio space on the traditional lands of the Annishawabewaki, Wendake-Nionwentsio, Haudeonosaunee and Mississauga peoples in Port Hope, Ontario .Crangle cofounded and is currently on the curatorial committee of a grass roots art centre, Critical Mass, which engages her town in contemporary art experiences through residencies, installations and community projects.