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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.



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