# Nicole Collins

Nicole Collins is a contemporary Canadian artist whose work, which takes the form of painting, performance, video, and sound, explores the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on visceral materials. She currently teaches at OCAD University.

## Education

She received her Master of Visual Studies from University of Toronto in 2009 and her Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts Major, with Honours, from University of Guelph in 1988.

## Artistic career

Nicole Collins has shown her interdisciplinary work internationally, in galleries in Canada, America, Tokyo, Switzerland, and England, since the beginning of her artistic career in the early 1990s. She is currently represented by General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto, Ontario. In 2013, her and her husband Michael Davidson began an art gallery in their home living room at 26 McKenzie Crescent, Toronto.

## Solo exhibitions

Source:
1994 Marked, Women’s Art Resource Centre. Toronto, Ontario. 1994 Blessure, Gallery 788. Toronto, Ontario. 1998 Given, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario. 2000 Path, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario. 2001 one mark, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario. 2002 sample, Canadian Embassy Gallery. Tokyo, Japan. 2003 branch, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario. 2004 Dimension. Zurich, Switzerland 2006 stroke for stroke. Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2018 Furthest Boundless, Koffler Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

## Group exhibitions

Source:
1989 University of Guelph Fine Arts Graduate 25th., Anniversary Alumni Show, MacDonald Centre, Guelph, ON. 1990 Housing; a Right, Powerplant, Toronto, ON. 1991 Roundup 91, Toronto, ON. 1991 CKOC Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON. Juror’s Award. 1991 Chambermade, Embassy Hotel, London, ON. 1992 Contemporary Canadian Painting, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris, France. 1992 Roundup 92, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON. 1992 Fleshcase Installation, Embassy Hotel, London, ON. 1993 Look ’93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON. 1993 Cabinet des Curiosites, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC. 1993 Cover Me Site Specific Store-front, Installation, 488 Queen Street W., Toronto,ON. 1994 Merging XVI, Gallery 788, Toronto, ON. 1994 Mud, 59 Adelaide East, Toronto (catalogue). 1995 Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Curator’s Choice, Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto, ON. 1995 Juicy Fruit, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Toronto,ON. (catalogue). 1996 Juicy Fruit, Art Gallery of Durham, Durham,ON. 1996 GLO, Archive Inc., Toronto,ON. 1997 Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON. 1997 R&D (Research & Development), York Quay Gallery, Toronto,ON. 1997 Colour in the Square, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON. 1997 International Juried Exhibition of Encaustic Works, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York, USA. 1997 Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto, ON.(catalogue). 1998 Nicole Collins, Michael Davidson, Sheila Gregory, Milly Ristvedt: Painting, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s NF. May. 1998 Informal Ideas 98.2, 14 Degrees of Abstraction, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, April. 1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON. (Summer). 1998 Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto, ON. 1999 Informal Ideas 99.1:(Preview ’99), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON. 1999 Art 1999 Chicago, Seventh Annual Exposition of International Galleries of Contemporary Art, May 7–11, Chicago, Illinois,USA. 1999 Toronto: Under 40, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. 1999 TSA 30th Anniversary Faculty Show, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto,ON. 1999 Art with Heart, House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto,ON. (catalogue). 1999 Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON. Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue). 2000 Translinear, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Touring Group Exhibition. (catalogue). 2000 Translinear, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON. Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue). 2001 Paintings Painted, Platform Gallery, London UK. (www.platform.dircon.co.uk) 2001 Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia. 2002 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto 2003 Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland 2003 Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue) 2003 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto 2003 Motherlode, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto, curated by Gretchen Sankey 2004 Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland 2004 informal ideas 04-01: (warm), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 2004 informal ideas 04-02: landscape, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 2004 Death in the Studio: Studio Death Snapshots, Book Project by Hannes Priesch + Niki Lederer, book launches in Vienna, NYC and Toronto 2005 Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland 2005 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto 2005 informal ideas 04:05, (please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 2005 Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, New York 2006 you don't wanna miss that shit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, curated by Katherine Mulherin 2006 Collins Waldburger White: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts. 2006 OCAD Drawing and Painting Endowment Collection 2006, Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto. 2006 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto 2006 Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St Vincent University Gallery, curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg 2007 Ann Thinghuus und?Nicole Collins, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland 2007 Hot Wax, The Rooms, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada 2008 House Lights Left Bright, curated by Stacey Sproule, 1478 Dundas W Toronto 2008 Monkey's Paw Shelf Label Project, curated by Keri Reid and Stephen Fowler, Monkey's Paw Bookstore Toronto
2008 Lightening Strikes Twice, Xpace Gallery, Toronto 2008 MVS Open Studio, University of Toronto 2008 Pulse 2: Film and Painting After the Image, curated by Barbara Sternberg, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 2009 start Profs, work by professors from art institutions across Canada, Studio 21, Halifax 2009 MVS Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto catalogue essay by Ian Carr-Harris