Contact:
For studio visits or other inquiries please email me at: sylviamatas[at]hotmail[dot]com
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Solo + Two Person* Exhibitions
2026- Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
2023- Memories of the Sun*, Art Gallery of Regina, Canada
2021-22- There Was a City, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2020- Stop the Clock and Open Every Window, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
2019- Behind the Sun, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
2018- A Huge Space, Largely Empty, Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, Canada
2018- Twin Poems*, Lantern Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2017- In Every Direction*, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2016- Fall, Out of Nowhere, and That Day, This Time at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2015- A Certain Distance, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg Canada
2014- vast, constant, irreversible, MKG127, Toronto, Canada
2009- Very Small Array, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
2009- Red Shift, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibitions, Screenings, and Fairs
2025- Kissing Cousins: New Acquisitions in Conversation, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Canada
2024- Suspicion or Hope?, Gimme Some Truth Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2024- Wastelands, Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg, Canada
2024- Prairie Art Book Fair, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2024- Armour for Living: A Celebration of Women's Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2024- Lights on the Exchange, Winnipeg, Canada
2023- Wndx Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2023- Oneirophyte, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada
2023- In/On/Out Interarts Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2023- All Flourishing is Mutual, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022- Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2022- Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2022- Video Pool Screening for Culture Days, Winnipeg, Canada
2022- Wndx Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2022- Control Mode, Sensor Festival, Armenia
2021- Back and Forth, Hayart Cultural Centre, Yerevan, Armenia
2021- Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver, Canada
2021- Sujets à Risques/ Risky subjects, La Bande Vidéo, Québec, Canada
2020- Prairie Art Book Fair, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2020- Photophobia Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton & Hamilton Art Inc, Canada
2020- Suddenly, no, at long last, Platform Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
2018- Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2018- A Kind of Library: Artist Portfolios and Bookworks, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
2017- Night, Streets, the Lantern, Lantern Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2017- This Must be the Place, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg, Canada
2016- Papier 16 with Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Montreal, Canada
2015- They picked it, they made it, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg, Canada
2015- Papier15, video screening with Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Montreal, Canada
2014- Actual Artists, Actual, Winnipeg, Canada
2014- Resonant Field, Resonant Field, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada
2014- Looking Up: Contemporary Connections with Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2013- Volume: Hear Here, The Art Museum, at the University of Toronto, Canada
2012- bookwork launch at Útúrdúr, Reykjavik, Iceland
2012- bookwork launch at Ace Art as part of Nuna (now), Winnipeg, Canada
2012- bookwork launch at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2012- bookwork launch at AKA, Saskatoon, Canada
2012- Like-Minded, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2009- Escape, Videopool Touring Exhibition, across Canada, New York and Amsterdam
2008- Paper, Stone, Scissors, RKB Gallery, London, England
2008- Condensation, Decima Gallery, London, England
2008- Centered Screening, Charlottown, PEI, Canada
2007- Drawing Attention, Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2007- East Meets West, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, Canada
2007- Scratching The Surface: The Post-Prairie Landscape, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Education
MFA Chelsea College of Arts, London, England
BFA Honours University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Publications
2020- catalogue- "Exhibition Notes: Days of Reading: Beyond this state of affairs", ed. Jenifer Papararo, Sarah Nesbitt, and Nasrin Himada, with the assistance of Luther Konadu
2020- exhibition essay- "Sylvia, From Here" by Tyler Bright Hilton
2015- catalogue- "Volumes" Released by Blackwood Gallery, ed. Martin Arnold and Christof Migone
2014- exhibition essay- "Resonant Field", by Jason de Haan
2014- catalogue- "Looking Up: Contemporary Connections with Inuit Art", ed. Paul Butler, Winnipeg Art Gallery
2009- exhibition essay- "Red Shift" by Jen Hutton
2007- catalogue- "Scratching the Surface; The Post Prairie Landscape" ed. Steven Matijio
2007- catalogue- "East Meets West" essay by Ray Cronin
Bibliography
Inglis, Lindsay, "Memories of the Sun", Galleries West, Mar. 31/23
Doucet, Emily. "Sylvia Matas", Border Crossings Magazine, Issue #153
Karlinsky, Amy. "Days of Reading", Border Crossings Magazine, Issue #149
Western, Jenny. "This Must Be the Place at Lisa Kehler Art + Projects", akimbo.ca, Feb. 22/17
Beaudette, Teghan. "Gritty Winnipeg-inspired art show opens in East Exchange District Gallery", CBC News, Feb.18/17
van der Avoird, Renée, "In Every Direction: An Expanded Geography", Dec.8/16
Priegert, Portia. "A Shifting Line: the Art of Text", Galleries West, April 29/16
Gallizioli, Cristina, "Paesaggi Orientati- In Every Direction di Sylvia Matas", Artwort, Jan. 20/16
Lucarelli, Fosco, "Overlapping of Mental and Physical Environments: Sylvia Matas' In Every Direction", Dec. 2/15
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. "Goodnight, Moon", Winnipeg Free Press, Aug. 6/15
"Must-Sees This Week: July 23-30th", Canadian Art Magazine, July 23/15
Gillmor, Allison. "Looking Up: Contemporary Connections with Inuit Art", Border Crossings Magazine, 03/14
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. "Arctic Exploration", Winnipeg Free Press, Jan. 2/14
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. "Beyond the Marquee", Winnipeg Free Press, Dec. 26/13
Wang, Leanne. "Volume: Hear Here", arttoronto.ca
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. "Lost in the Forest: Quiet, Obscure Sylvia Matas Art Gets One Night Stand Exhibition", Winnipeg Free Press, Jan. 31/13
Nesbitt, Anne. "Artist Incorporates Maps into her Work", South Mountain Press, Sept. 28/12
Enright, Robert. "The Holding Centre", Border Crossings Magazine, Issue #123
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. "Of More Than One Mind", Uptown Magazine, Feb. 9/12
Sayej , Nadja. "Sylvla Matas", Border Crossings Magazine, Issue # 110
Collections
The Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Windsor-Essex
The Maclaren Art Centre
The Art Gallery of York University
National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Banff Centre Library
Bank of Montreal
TD Bank
Lerners LLP
Femmarte
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