page_title: Carol Wainio
section_title: Painting career
hierarchical_section_title: Carol Wainio / Painting career
caption_attribution_description: English: Carol Wainio's Season's End (2012) on display at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery as part of the 2016 exhibition Stilled Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection.
context_page_description: Carol Wainio is a Canadian painter. Her work, known for its visual complexity and monochrome color palette, has been exhibited in major art galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and China. She has won multiple awards, including the Governor General's Award in Visual & Media Arts.
context_section_description: Her paintings often reference a variety of sources from fairy tales, medieval manuscripts to the 2008 financial collapse. Wainio's canvases have been described by art critic Emily Falvey as "fairy-tale landscapes littered with the detritus of contemporary consumerism." Her body of work has been compared to such works by American painter Jules Olitski. "The appeal her paintings had came from the same activity of looking that generated their strangeness."
  Wainio's first solo exhibition took place at the Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, in Toronto, Ontario in 1982. In 1990, her paintings were displayed in the "Aperto" exhibit at the Venice Biennale, in Venice, Italy. In 2010, Wainio's work was featured in a travelling exhibition, Carol Wainio: The Book, curated by Diana Nemiroff and organized and circulated by Carleton University Art Gallery. This exhibition displays Wainio's interest in the evolution of fairy-tales, the art of the copyist, industrialization, and the narrative power of images. It was on display at Carleton University Art Gallery (2010), the Varley Art Gallery (2011), the Kelowna Art Gallery (2013), the Dunlop Art Gallery (2013), the McIntosh Gallery (2013), and the Galerie de l'UQAM (2014).
  Wainio's large-scale canvases have also been exhibited in more than 40 museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Shanghai Art Museum in China and the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands. Her work can also be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among other institutions.
caption: Wainio's Season's End (2012) on display at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery as part of the 2016 exhibition Stilled Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection.
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