Connie van Rijn

Artist Bio

Connie van Rijn is a Toronto based artist who received her MFA in painting and B.Ed in Integrated Arts at York University.  She studied Experimental Arts at OCA (now OCADU), ceramics at Sheridan College School of Design and psychiatric nursing at Endegeest Psychiatric Hospital in Oestgeest, Netherlands.  Her work is in private collections in Paris, Amsterdam, New York City, Vancouver and Toronto.

Artist Statement

Painting is a form of dialogue between painter and paint, between material and intent, the cerebral and somatic, the ineffable and the concrete, perception and notation.  In short, situations that seem to stand in opposition to each other.   We structure these oppositions so that we might be revealed to ourselves as beings in the world. I paint to make notation of my being in the world.  Notation is a neutral act. Painting is a neutral act. Being is rarely neutral.  I seek the space between the known and the unknown to find the place where I can paint without intent. A neutral space where recognition of states of being are recognized and noted. 

Artist CV

Education 

York University,  B. Ed         Major:  Integrated Arts

York University, M.F.A         Major:  Painting

Ontario College of Art          Major:  Experimental Arts 

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

Art Gallery of Peterborough                             Peterborough        2018/2019

StarX Gallery                                                    Peterborough        2017

Lakeshore Village Artist Co-op                         Toronto                  1995

I.D.A Gallery,                                                    Toronto

I.D.A Gallery,                                                    Toronto                  1994

Samuel J Zacks Gallery                                   Toronto                  1993

Red Head Gallery Showcase                           Toronto

Alma Gallery                                                     Toronto                 1991

Group

Coeur Nouveau                                                Peterborough        2018

John B. Aird Gallery                                         Toronto                  2018

Coburg Art Gallery                                            Coburg                  2017

Kawartha Studio Tour                                       Peterborough        2017

Coeur Nouveau                                                Peterborough        2017

Art Space                                                         Peterborough        2017

Loop                                                                 Toronto                  2017

Ottawa School of Art                                        Ottawa                  2016                

Kawartha Studio Tour                                       Peterborough       2016

John B. Aird Gallery                                          Toronto                2016     

Scratch Gallery                                                 Toronto                 2013

Design Exchange                                              Toronto                1998

I.D.A Gallery                                                      Toronto                1993

Art Gallery of Peel                                              Brampton

Latcham Gallery                                                 Stouffville                     Juror’s Award

Gallery Lambton                                                 Sarnia

Glenhyrst Gallery                                               Brantford             1992   Juror’s Award

John B. Aird Gallery                                            Toronto 

L’Etude Ader-Tajan                                              Paris, France

Roundup ’92                                                        Toronto

512 Lansdowne Group Show                              Toronto               1991

Temporary Contemporary Sculpture Show        Toronto                

Parkdale Artists Show                                          Toronto              1990