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Oliver Ashton
b. 1984
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), OCAD University, Toronto. 2023
Major: Drawing & Painting
Minor: Sculpture & Installation
My practice is about presenting materials as a means of contemplation. I work to create objects that interrupt the minutia of the everyday by creating a pause, in the moment. It is at that moment, viewers are fully present in the here and now of it all.
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SOLO SHOWS
2021 – Untitled Works, Bone & Co., Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - GradEx 108, OCAD University, Toronto
2023 - To Use or not to Reuse, OCAD University, Toronto
2022 - ED.22, OCAD University, Toronto
2022 - Works of Abstraction, OCAD University, Toronto
2022 - Being Scene, Workman Arts, Toronto
ONLINE GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Portraits of Resilience, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2020 – The Thoughts Are Alive, OCAD University, Toronto
AWARDS, BURSARIES & GRANTS
2022 - A Melted Snowman workshop with British artist Ryan Gander
2022 - Roy McMurtry Second Chance Bursary