Dawna Rose lives and works in Saskatoon. She uses a wide variety of media and materials in her artwork and is currently concentrating on painting in oils and gouache. Dawna has published two graphic books and a Super 8 animation film. One of the books, Smoking with My Mother won an Alcuin Society national book award. Her sculpture The Perfect Deck was featured in the Little Worlds exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina) and the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon). The catalogue for this show included essays by Anthony Kiendl and Jeanne Randolph. A solo painting exhibition at Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary was curated by Wayne Baerwaldt. Dawna completed an MFA at the University of Saskatchewan. She has received grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Creative Economy Entrepreneurial Fund. She has worked in residence at Emma Lake Artists’ Retreat, Artscape Toronto Island, KIAC (Dawson City, YT), The Vermont Studio Centre, Gullkistan (Iceland), and most recently at Pouch Cove Foundation (NL) and AKA Artist-Run (SK). Dawna’s work is currently represented by The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, and Grasslands Gallery Online. Follow her on Instagram @dawnarosestudio.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2021 Journal of the Plague Year, with Betsy Rosenwald. 300G Projects, Saskatoon, SK
2019 Painting Wallace Stegner. Wallace Stegner residency, Eastend, SK
2018 Our Enduring Drama, with Betsy Rosenwald. The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
2015 Mattering. The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
2015 Open studio. Gullkistan Residency, Laugarvatn, Iceland
2015 Open studio. Banff Centre for Creativity
2014 The Chance Files. Boulderpavement: Art and Ideas, The Banff Centre
2012 I’ve Tried to Be Happy, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2003 Open Studio, Klondike Institute of the Arts, Dawson City, YT
2002 Big Boys, The Art Gallery of Regina, SK
2000 Shopping Plaza Removed To Make Way For Swamp, AKA Artist Run Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
1997 Models of Progress, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Deck the Walls: Small Works/Big Stories, Grasslands Gallery Online
2021 You Are Here: A Place on a Map of the Heart, Grasslands Gallery Online
2021 Art Now 2021, Grasslands Gallery Online
2019 Pop Luck. The Pump House, Saskatoon
2014 Retro Slide Show, Loop Gallery, Toronto
2005 Royal Red Group Show, Phonographic, Saskatoon
2003 Regard a gauche/Looking Left, Articule, Montreal
1998 Little Worlds, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Films
2007 Smoking With My Mother. Super 8 colour animation, 2 minutes, 15th Annual $100 Film Festival CSIF, Calgary, AB
2006 Smoking With My Mother. Super 8 colour animation, 2 minutes, Hotel Saskatchewan, Regina, SK
2006 Smoking With My Mother. Super 8 colour animation, 2 minutes, Lydia’s on Broadway, Saskatoon, SK
2006 Some Business With Rabbit. Super 8 black and white animation. 4 minutes. 13th Annual $100 Film Festival, CSIF, Calgary, AB
Publications
2009 Wally’s Spectacular SPIN farms. Book
2006 Smoking With My Mother. Book and animated film. Jack Pine Press, Saskatoon, SK. Alcuin Society National Book Award.
Education
1991 Master of Fine Arts, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON
Residencies
2021 AKA Artist-Run, Saskatoon, SK
2021 Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, NF
2019 Wallace Stegner Residency, Eastend, Saskatchewan
2015 Gullkistan Residency, Laugarvatn, Iceland
2015 Banff Independent Art Residency
2015 Artscape, Independent Art Residency,Toronto Island
2003 Klondike Institute of the Arts Residency, Dawson City
2002 Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Johnson, VT. U.S.A.
2000 Emma Lake Drawing Workshop, University of Saskatchewan
1998 Banff School of Fine Arts Residency, Banff, Alberta
1991 Master of Fine Arts, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto
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