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Ella Gonzales is a Filipina Canadian artist working between painting and Computer-Aided Design programs, as led by her interest in space making. She investigates the materiality of painting, soft architecture, and narratives of migration as related to the Filipino diaspora. She has recently shown work at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto; The Power Plant, Toronto; Unit 17, Vancouver; Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, Pointe-Claire; Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; AXENÉO7, Gatineau; and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston. Gonzales holds a BFA from Western University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph. She currently resides in Toronto.

David Merritt’s multimedia practice explores the relationships between human and non-human systems. His process-driven, conceptually oriented work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Power Plant, Art Gallery of Ontario, the Textile Museum of Canada, Art Gallery of Hamilton, the National Gallery of Canada, and TENT CBK, Rotterdam, among others. More recently his work was included the 2021 Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf Qc. Merritt earned his BFA at University of Western Ontario and an MFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He lives in London, Ontario, where he is Professor Emeritus at Western University. His work is represented by Christie Contemporary, Toronto.

Émilie Régnier is a Canadian-Haitian artist whose work focuses on textile and multimedia projects that explore her relationship with identity and family through sewing, screen printing, sound, and photography. Born in Montreal, where she currently resides, Régnier spent most of her childhood in Gabon, Africa, and lived for many years in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. Her work has been exhibited nationally in Montreal and Toronto as well as internationally in New York, Senegal, South Africa, France, Italy, and Amsterdam. In 2020, she received a National Geographic Explorer grant for her research on DNA. She earned her MFA in photography at Concordia University, and is represented by Blouin Division in Montreal.

Shanie Tomassini is a sculptor whose work explores the renewable and cyclical experience of objects, places, and ideas. She has had several solo exhibitions, including at Centre Clark and and CIRCA art actuel in Montreal, and at UMLAUF Museum in Austin. Her work has also been exhibited at the PHI Foundation in Montreal, Arsenal Contemporary in New York, the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in Spain, and Artpace in San Antonio. Tomassini has participated in several artist residencies, notably at the Centre Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, and at Rad’Art Project in San Romano, Italy. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from UQÀM and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently based in Montreal.

Shannon Anderson and Jay Wilson develop projects together as Anderson Wilson Projects. Their curatorial process evolves through and is shaped by sharing artists of interest, studio visits, road trips and reading. Their previous group exhibitions include The Closer Together Things Are (Kathleen Hearn, Ève K. Tremblay,Laura Letinsky, Micah Lexier, Dave Dyment, Roula Partheniou, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Luke Painter, Chris Kline) and The Further Apart Things Seem (Atanas Bozdarov, Anna Binta Diallo, Barbara Hobot, Adriana Kuiper and Ryan Suter, Brendan Lee Satish Tang, Couzyn van Heuvelen). Hosting venues have included the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (Waterloo, ON), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary, AG), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB), the Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, NB), Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS) and the Art Gallery of Mississauga (Mississauga, ON). www.andersonwilsonprojects.org