| Theresa Sapergia’s painterly drawings and drawerly paintings are based in a material exploration of figuration and a questioning of the historical tropes of representation. Her work uses sentimentality, sincerity and humour to call into question contemporary art’s current relationship with irony and distancing. Sapergia has exhibited across North America. She lives in British Columbia where she is currently an instructor at Emily Carr Institute and a Tattoo Artist/Proprietor at Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo. |
| 2005 MFA Concordia University 2001 BFA Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC |
| 2009 Pending, Cerasoli Gallery. Culver City, California. 2009 I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me, Two Rivers Gallery Prince George, B.C. 2009 Songs to Sing to Yourself, Valemount, B.C. Mackenzie, B.C. McBride, B.C. 2009 Canada Day, The Parisian Laundry. Montreal, QC 2008 A Thousand Natural Shocks, Cerasoli Gallery. Culver City, California. 2008 In the Place I am Thinking Of, A.I.R. Gallery. New York, NY 2007 Your Weakness Appeals to My Weakness, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. Toronto 2007 In the Place I am Thinking Of, The Parisian Laundry. Montreal, QC 2007 Message to Pretty, The Jason Downie Gallery. Montreal, QC 2006 Marksmanship (artist’s project in conjunction with “Pictures of Girls” group exhibition), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. Toronto 2006 Feminist Stuntdouble (artist’s project in conjunction with “Decalage” group exhibition), The Parisian Laundry. Montreal, QC 2005 A Minus, Bourget Gallery. Montreal, QC 2004 Sentimental Immensity, Bourget Gallery. Montreal, QC 2003 Reasons to Say No to History (In Order of Importance), Studio Blue. Vancouver, B.C. |
| 2009 Drawn Festival, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver 2008 Splash, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, California. 2008 Launch, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, California. 2008 Pulse, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, B.C. 2008 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery, New York 2008 Captive Visions: Canadian Contemporary Art, Eli Klein, New York 2007 7th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York 2007 Other Moments: New Sculpture, Photography and Art on Paper, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 2007 Best of 2006: Award Winners from the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto 2006 Beyond Feminism: Women Artists Working in Female Iconography, Parisian Laundry, Montreal 2006 Body Notes, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal 2006 Summertime in Paris, Parisian Laundry, Montreal 2006 Making it Big, The Jason Downie Gallery 2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto 2005 Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York 2004 Dare Dare Depot, Dare Dare, Montreal 2004 Paint! Bourget Gallery, Montreal 2003 by a measure of magnitude, (Two Person Show) VAV Gallery, Montreal 2003 Salon Dollop, rad’a Gallery, Montreal 2002 Jewish Community Centre of Great Vancouver Annual Gala Auction, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver 2001 SHE7 (She to the Seventh Power), Concourse Gallery, Vancouver 2001 11 Painters, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. |
| When and if You Go, Eagles in the City, Prince George, B.C. In the Place I am Thinking of (Untitled Wolf Pack), The Aldo Group Montreal Marksmanship (Untitled Wolf Pack), Philip Andrew Hazen Architects and Designers, Montreal Three works from the exhibition: sentimental immensity, Concordia University, Montreal The Softness of the Weave and the Wetness of the Paint, Lidstone, Young, Anderson, Barristers and Solicitors, Vancouver. |
| Theresa Sapergia, by James D. Campbell, Border Crossings Issue #110 Montreal Mirror cover and article by Sacha Jackson, January 2009 Theresa Sapergia,DailyServing.com, July 2008 Shapes and She-Wolves, Montreal Mirror, Mar 29-Apr 4, 2007 Au-dela du feminisime, Le Devoir, November 11, 2006 Women do Laundry, Montreal Mirror, August 4, 2006 Tous pour la Peiture, La Presse Montreal, August 4, 2006 Toro Magazine, November 2005 effloressence,Surfacing Magazine, Vol.26 Summer 2005 Adbusters Magazine, Vol.9,No.1, Jan/Feb 2001 Adbusters Magazine, No.34, March/April 2001 |
| 2006 Drawing Award (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition) 2004 Mills Purchase Prize |
| Sept 2008- present Instructor, Emily Carr Institute May 2007- present Tattoo Artist/Proprietor, Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo, Prince George, BC Sept 2004- May 2007 Instructor,Concordia University, Montreal Sept 2002- April 2005 Tutorial Instructor and/or Teacher’s Assistant, Concordia University. Montreal July 2004 Painting Re-creation, “A Separate Reality: Norval Morriseau” CBC/ Perceptions Films April 2003 Installation Assistant (“Linda M. Montano: 14 Years of Living Art”) Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. Montreal April 2001 Curator “SHE7 (She to the Seventh Power)” Concourse Gallery, Vancouver Feb-June 2001 Guest Artist (“Komar and Melamid: Canada’s Most Wanted and Unwanted Paintings”) Vancouver Art Gallery. June-Sept 1999 Artist in Residence (“Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraiture”) Vancouver Art Gallery |