NICOLE CROZIER crozier.nicole@gmail.com nicolebcrozier.com | @nicolebcrozier EDUCATION 2025 (Anticipated Graduation Date) Masters of Fine Arts, Studio Arts – Painting & Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal-QC 2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, University of Ottawa, Ottawa-ON 2016 Arts Management Graduate Certificate, with Honours, Centennial College, Toronto-ON 2009-10 Undergraduate Courses in Studio Arts, Queen’s University, Kingston-ON SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2023 Nicole Crozier and Alexia McKindsey , Z Art Space, Montreal-QC 2022 Tie it Tighter, It’s About to Slip , Queen Elizabeth Park Community Centre, Oakville-ON (Solo) 2014 Paper Doll Games , Z Art Space, Montreal-QC – Curated by Tianmo Zhang (Solo) 2012 Second Impressions , The Fritzi Gallery (GCTC), Ottawa-ON (Solo) 2011 Thresholds , Gallery 115, Ottawa-ON (Two-person show with Sarah Tue-Fee) GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Love letters to Blönduós , Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós-Iceland Only Starters , in collaboration with The Table Collective, Kaktus Art Centre, Akureyri-Iceland Fresh Paint and New Construction , Art Mûr, Montreal-QC Maureen 9 , Ateliers Belleville, Montreal-QC In Minima Forma , Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal-QC 2023 Maureen VIII , Ateliers Belleville, Montreal-QC Painting 2022/23 , John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto-ON – Juried by Virginia Eichhorn 2022 Field Notes , Alchemy Artist Residency, Various Locations, Prince Edward County-ON Upon Reflection: Portraits of Personal History , Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora-ON – Curated by Stephanie Nicolò 2021 Florals 2021 , John B. Aird Gallery, Curated by Taiga Bently, Toronto-ON Plantae , Good Sport Gallery, London-ON 2020 Vital Signs , Leslie Grove Gallery (The Artist Network), Toronto-ON 2019 Beckon , Akin Vitrines – St. Clair and Dupont Locations, Toronto-ON Eulogy for the Coffin Factory , Lake Effect Projects, Nuit Blanche, Toronto-ON SHOW.19 , Cambridge Art Galleries/Idea Exchange, Cambridge-ON 2018 Salon of Inclusivity , Black Cat Showroom, Toronto-ON Entangled Beings and Bodies , Queen’s University, Kingston-ON Fashion Art Toronto – Photography Exhibition, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto-ON 2017 Painting 2017 , John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto-ON Layers , Partial Gallery, Toronto-ON 2016 Leading Role , as part of “Shakespeare 400”, University of Ottawa, Ottawa-ON 2015 Feminist Art Conference – Art Exhibition, OCAD, Toronto-ON Delta: The Difference , Project Gallery, Toronto-ON 2013 Passages: Life and Death in Shakespeare , Gallery 115, Ottawa-ON Nuit Blanche Ottawa/ Gatineau – with Strange Loops Collective, Ottawa-ON Surfacing, Studio Sixty Six, Curated by Michael Orsini, Ottawa-ON MOMENTUM , BFA Graduating Exhibition, University of Ottawa, Ottawa-ON 2012 Figureworks , St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa-ON Open Book: An Exploration of Books as Art , Whitestone Gallery, Guelph-ON 2011 Re: Collection , Epilogue Gallery, Ottawa-ON Inaugural Art Exhibition, Paradigm Gallery, Ottawa-ON 2010 Young Guns , The Fritzi Gallery, Ottawa-ON ART FAIRS 2023 SPRING/BREAK, NYC-NY 2019, 22 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto-ON 2020, 21 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (Online), Toronto-ON BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PRESS 2019 Featured Artwork, “Entangled Bodies in a Stubbornly Material-Textual World” by Sanita Fejzi ć , Canthius Magazine, Online: https://bit.ly/2VagqXZ 2018 Featured Artwork, Dis(s)ent , In/Words Magazine and Press Featured Cover Art, Issue 17.2–Food, In/Words Magazine and Press Fejzi ć , Sanita, “Nicole Crozier’s Strip Fit Collages: Cutting into a New Vision of Female Beauty and Power”, Dis(s)ent: Speaking Truth Back to Power in our Post-Truth, Fake News Era, Ottawa-ON, In/Words Magazine and Press, 2018, Pg. 179-184 2015 Fejzi ć , Sanita, “Framing and Troubling Identity: Celebrating Ottawa Artist Nicole Crozier”, Apartment 613, 2015, Online: https://bit.ly/32QzCCH 2014 Parent, Nathalie, “Nicole Crozier: Les Modèles du Peintre”, Vie Des Arts Magazine, 2014, Online: https://bit.ly/3HEJcrN 2013 Simpson, Peter, “Some U of O Arts Grads Shine in Exhibition”, Ottawa Citizen, August, 22, 2013 (review), Print and Online: https://bit.ly/3Ht60dT 2012 “Figureworks Celebrates the Foundations of Visual Art”, Guerilla Magazine Online. PUBLICATIONS 2014 “Shine a Light: A Trip Through the Height of Canadian Contemporary Art”, Herd Magazine, Online: https://bit.ly/3qCwN0r AWARDS + SCHOLARSHIPS 2024 Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Award Elspeth McConnell Internship Award 2023 Tom Hopkins Memorial Graduate Award 2022 Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship Concordia University Merit Scholarship 2020 Juror’s Choice Award, Vital Signs Exhibition – Awarded by Anda Kubis 2013 Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Scholarship (in Painting): 2 nd Prize 2012 Gunter Nolte Scholarship for Excellence in Drawing 2011 Visual Arts Alumni Fund Award Dean’s Honor List Scholarship- Arts, University of Ottawa GRANTS 2022 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council, recommended by Gallery 44 LECTURES 2022-23 Various Artist Talks, Concordia University 2018 Panelist, Discussion on Truth-Telling, Social Justice and Gender Identities, 2018, A Different Booklist Cultural Centre, Toronto-ON 2015 Panelist, Bodies: Rage and Celebration, Feminist Art Conference, OCAD, Toronto-ON TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2024 Intro to Drawing, Instructor, Concordia University Teaching Assistant, Artist as Multi-Hyphenate, Eduardo Della Foresta, Concordia University Teaching Assistant, Painting I, James Gardner, Concordia University 2023 Teaching Assistant, Critical Issues for Painters, Laurie Milner, Concordia University Teaching Assistant, Painting II, Caroline Hart, Concordia University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2024 Project Coordinator, Communications (Internship), Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) 2016-22 Fall for Dance North Festival, Toronto-ON Marketing Director, 2022 Marketing Manager, 2018-21 Marketing Coordinator, 2016-17 2016-20 Project Manager, Sunny Artist Management, Toronto-ON 2008-18 Life Drawing Model, Toronto-ON, Ottawa-ON, Gatineau-QC Various Universities, Colleges, Community Centres and Groups 2014-15 Founder, Muscle Maid (Residential Cleaning Service), Ottawa-ON SELECT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2022-23 Vice-President, Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Arts Student Association (MFASASA), Concordia University, Montreal-QC 2017-22 Board Chair (2021-22)/ Alumni Representative (2017-21), Arts Management Program Advisory Committee, Centennial College, Toronto-ON 2018-19 Seasonal Volunteer, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto-ON