OLIVER PAUK
EDUCATION
2005 Honours B.A., Specialist in Environmental Economics, University of Toronto
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Chronos/Synthesis, Sky Fine Foods / The J Spot, Toronto, ON
2017 Object Selection, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Aberration, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Change Agent, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 Endless Back-Up, Futurdome, Milan, Italy
2016 VOLTA 12, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Papier 16 Art Fair, Montreal, QC
2016 Mercer Multiplier, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2016 10 Years, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2015 Triumph of the Therapeutic, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, QC
2015 Metropolitan, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Gilding the Collapse, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2015 Billboard Art Project, Billboard on Highway M-59, Detroit, MI
2015 Everything and Nothing, N/A, Toronto, ON
2015 Post, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2015 Young Photographer's Alliance Exhibition, Calumet Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gen Art Detour presented by Smart, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2011 Wall to Wall 2011, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2011 deerBLNproject, KAB Europe Gallery, Bordeaux, France
2011 Young Photographer's Alliance Exposé, Neo Studios, New York, NY
2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2011 Billboard Art Project, Interstate 90, Chicago, IL
AWARDS / GRANTS
2016 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant
2016 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts: Emerging Grant
2014 Award of Excellence in Exhibitions: Ontario Museum Association
2014 Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance Grant
2012 Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance Grant
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS WITH MICHAEL VICKERS
2016 Midnight Massive, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2015 Sunday Drive, Warkworth, ON
2015 Tensions, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, with Stephanie Flowers
2015 Come Up To My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Long Winter, Hot Docs Cinema, Toronto, ON
2014 Nuit Blanche, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Grolsch Open House, Toronto, ON
2014 Sunday Drive, Warkworth, ON
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS WITH ZACH SLOOTSKY
2014 [No] Vacancy, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catherines, ON
2014 [No] Vacancy, Niagara Falls History Museum, Niagara Falls, ON
2012 Contact Festival: Motels of Niagara Falls, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
AUCTIONS
2017 Arts Effect, The Spoke Club, Toronto, ON
2017 Mercer Union Stellar Living, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 The Art of Healing, Ronald McDonald House Charity, Toronto, ON
2015 12th Annual Art Auction, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
2013 York University Fundraiser, PM Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 Snap Silent Auction, The Snap Factory, Toronto, ON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-P Founder and Director, Akin, Toronto, ON
2020-P Advisory Council, Inspirations Studio, Toronto, ON
2015-16 Program Manager, Sunday Drive Art Projects, Warkworth, ON
2013-15 Curatorial Advisory Board, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2013-15 Jury Member, The Dark Room 2.0, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON
2012-15 Host, Talking Photography, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2011-12 Young Photographers Alliance Mentorship Program, Toronto, ON
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Holo, Stream, December 2
2020 Art Focus, Creating in Crisis, June 15
2017 The Pull Magazine, Art Crawl, August 2
2017 Globe & Mail, Why Painters and Photographers are Jumping on 3-D Printing, July 26
2017 Globe & Mail, Why installation is the art world's leading trend, July 24
2017 Scandale Project, Art Is, Vol. 1
2016 Visit Magazine, Issue #3, Comments on Art Institutions and Practices
2015 Art F City, Pastoral Romanticism for the Hashtag FOMO Generation, August 21
2015 TOM* Magazine, Summer Issue
2014 Canadian Art, Ruralism: Sunday Drive Takes Art Out of the City, August 29
2014 The Toronto Star, Toronto Art Makes the Trek to Warkworth, August 28
2014 TVO, The Agenda, Sunday Drive Projects Put Art in Unexpected Places, August 25
2014 The Globe & Mail, Museum Exhibit Extols Niagara Falls’ Motel Modernism, July 31
2012 Ion Magazine, Motels of Niagara Falls, June 1
2012 CBC Radio, live interview on Fresh Air, May 13
2012 The Grid TO, Heartbreak Motel, May 23