Fiona Kinsella • Visual Artist
Hamilton, Canada
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Art Gallery of Hamilton, YOU’RE INVITED: Fiona Kinsella and Aganetha Dyck (Women’s History Month) / Pigment to Pixel: Digitizing the Permanent Collection, Hamilton, ON
2022 Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Bigger Picture: Art in Hamilton 1950-2000. Guest curated by Alexis Moline in consultation with Bryce Kanbara
2022 Hamilton Artists Inc., Members’ Exhibition, SWARM, Hamilton, ON
2021 Art Gallery of Hamilton: Virtual education program featuring living artists represented in the Permanent Collection
2021 Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON, Annual Auction
2019-21 The Seedworks, Hamilton, ON., Salon
2019 RUMI Galleries, Oakville, ON. The Contemporaries.
2019 Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON Canada. Auction.
2019 The Spice Factory, Hamilton, ON. Artists for Climate Action.
2019 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Member’s exhibition
2019 AbleHamilton (DisAblity) Poetry Festival: Featured Visual Artist, McMaster University, Hamilton
2019 Art Gallery of Hamilton: Group Performance based on The Perfect Archive poetry by Paul Lisson
2019 Artword Artbar, Hamilton, ON. Group Performance based on The Perfect Archive poetry by Paul Lisson
2018 Galerie McClure, Montreal Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, QC. – Intervention: 31 Women Painters curated by Harold Klunder. Catalogue.
2018 Two-person – b contemporary, Hamilton, ON Canada. With Paul Lisson.
2018 Art Toronto, with the Art Dealers Association of Canada, Toronto, ON
2018 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s exhibition
2017 Solo – b contemporary, Hamilton, ON Canada
2017 Solo – The Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada
2017 Solo – Gallery 4, Central Public Library, Hamilton, ON Canada
2016-17 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Collection Classics, curated by Tobi Bruce. Hamilton, ON Canada
2016 Solo – Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON Canada – curated by Kendra Ainsworth
2016 Solo – Rumi Galleries, Mississauga
2016 Solo – Supercrawl: Hamilton Public Library Atrium
2016 Art Toronto, with Rumi Galleries, Toronto, ON
2016 The Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2016 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Member’s exhibition
2016 DVSA Auction: Little Black Frame. Dundas, ON
2015 The Sixth Biennale Internationale du lin de Portneuf. Quebec City – curated by Lalie Douglas and Barbara Wisnoski. (Artist in residence.)
2015 Centre3 for Print & Media Arts – Hamilton, ON Canada. Off-site Installation, Barton St. East: Pop-up Shop (coinciding with the Pan Am Games) – curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer. Artists: a collaboration between Fiona Kinsella, Vesna Trkulja Stevens, and Denise Lisson.
2015 Love Art Fair, Heritage Court, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto. April 17-19, 2015
2015 First Canadian Place, Toronto. Mar 9 to 27
2015 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Member’s exhibition
2014-16 Art Gallery of Hamilton – Hamilton, ON Canada. Art for a Century: 100 for the 100th. AGH Centennial exhibition curated by Dr. Benedict Leca, Tobi Bruce and Melissa Bennett
2014 Hamilton Supercrawl, NHG, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2014 The Nathaniel Hughson Art Gallery – Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2014 Rumi Galleries – Mississauga, ON Canada – Gallery Artists
2013 Solo – The Nathaniel Hughson Art Gallery – Hamilton, ON Canada
2013 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON – Artefact Artefiction – curated by Dawn Owen. Artists: Susan Detwiler, Dana Holst, Fiona Kinsella, Jay Kronenwald, Tammy Ratcliff and WhiteFeather.
2013 b contemporary – Hamilton, ON Canada – Michael Allgoewer, Fiona Kinsella, Svava Thordis-Juliusson, Rick Pottruff, and Paul Ropel-Morski.
2013 Centre3 for Print and Media Arts / Supercrawl – The Road Sign Project curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer. Artists: Will Kwan, Shelly Bahl, Tor Lukasik-Foss, Hitoko Okada, Micah Lexier, Brendan Fernandes, Fiona Kinsella, Matt McInnes, Angèle Cormier, Carole Deveau, Blake Morin, Mark Young, Jean-Denis Boudreau, Jennifer Bélanger, Jonah Haché, Mathieu Léger
2013 Hamilton Artists Inc. – Hamilton, ON – Members’ Exhibition
2013 Rumi Galleries – Mississauga, ON Canada – Gallery Artists
2012 Solo – Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Adoration (shroud)
2012 Art Gallery of Hamilton – Hamilton, ON Canada – Fresh Meet, curated by Melissa Bennett & Tobi Bruce
2012 Art Toronto, Rumi Galleries, Booth 534 – Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON Canada
2012 Art Gallery of Hamilton – Hamilton, ON Canada – AGH Live Super Auction with Sotheby’s Canada
2012 Art Gallery of Mississauga – Mississauga, ON Canada. Silver – 25th Anniversary Auction
2012 Rumi Galleries – Mississauga, ON Canada – summer group exhibition
2012 The Nathaniel Hughson Art Gallery – Hamilton,ON Canada – Supercrawl
2012 The Nathaniel Hughson Art Gallery – Hamilton,ON Canada – group – Gallery & Invitational Artists
2012 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s exhibition
2011 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Wonderment curated by Sandra Fraser – invitational: Joseph Anderson, Fiona Kinsella, and Joanne Lyons
2011 Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON Canada – curated by Tara Marshall. Artists: Shelley Adler, Dean Baldwin, Suzanne Caines, Larry Glawson, Melanie Gordon, Colwyn Griffith, Fiona Kinsella, Laura Letinsky, Kelly Mark, Chris Shepherd, Cole Swanson
2011 Le Carmen, Paris, France – HRM Magazine Launch – Issue 11 – Group: Matthew Rose, Mia Funk, Rosy Lamb, Cara Tobe and Fiona Kinsella
2011 Triangle Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada – SERIAL PRAXIS curated by Stephanie Fielding. Artists: Kerri Reid, Nadia Belerique, Liam Crockard, Bruno Billio & Fiona Kinsella.
2011 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Group – Gallery Artists
2011 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Group – Gallery Artists
2011 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s exhibition
2010 Solo – Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Canada. Invitational – Fiona Kinsella: Cake – curated by Melissa Bennett
2010 Solo – McIntosh Gallery, University of Western, London, ON Canada. Invitational – curated by Catherine Elliot Shaw
2010 Solo – Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, ON Canada. Invitational – curated by Kathryn Hogg
2010 Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, ON Canada –Fundraiser for the Hamilton AIDS Network – Facilitated by Kerry Cranston
2010 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2010 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s exhibition
2010 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Group – Gallery Artists
2009 Solo – Durham Public Art Gallery, Durham, ON Canada – Interlace – Invitational – curated by Ilse Gassinger
2009 The Artist Project, Liberty Grand, Toronto, ON Canada – Art Fair
2009 Sugarcraft, Columbus, Ohio USA – Group – curated by Wynter Whiteside
2009 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – 4 Painters – Michael Allgoewer, Fiona Kinsella, Martin Pearce, Matthew Varey
2009 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – Auction fundraiser
2009 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – group – gallery artists
2009 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s Exhibition
2009 The Print Studio Hamilton, ON Canada – Auction Fundraiser
2009 Carnegie Gallery & DVSA, Dundas, ON Canada – Design Hope – fundraiser to benefit Hamilton Out of the Cold
2009 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – group – gallery artists
2009 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s Exhibition
2008 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Chapel (rose)
2008 Two-person: Kisgaléria, Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár / Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Budapest, Hungary – with Paul Lisson
2008 ATHICA – Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia USA. Ingest – Curated by Beth Sale Jacquet & Jacob Cawthon
2008 Imperial Cotton Centre, Hamilton, ON Canada – TH&B – Sara Angelucci, Tom Bendtsen, Suzanne Carte Blanchenot, Susan Detwiler, Insoon Ha, Dave Hind, Andrew Hunter, Lisa Hunter, Fiona Kinsella, Lesley Loksi Chan, Steve Mazza, Aaron Murphy, Liss Platt, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and C. Wells – Coordinated by Tor Foss, Simon Frank, & Ivan Jurakic
2008 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2008 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Member’s exhibition
2008 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2007 Solo: The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Canada – the Wilderness
2007 Solo: Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, ON Canada – curated by Phil Irish. the Wilderness
2007 Solo: White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON Canada – sweet fresh, the Wilderness
2007 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – the Wilderness
2007 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON Canada – Shakespeare – Made In Canada: Finding The Bard in Contemporary Portraiture – curated by Judith Nasby. Invitational. Artists: Mary Aski-Pryesiwiskwew Longman, Susan Bozic, Jaclyn Conley, FASTWURMS, Verne Harrison, Andrew Harwood, Oswaldo DeLeon, Kantule, Fiona Kinsella, Lyne Lapointe, Stephan Livick, Shelley Niro, Evan Penny, Ryan Price, Shannon Reynolds, Cheryl Ruddock, Jean-Paul Tousignant
2007 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2007 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Member’s exhibition
2007 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2007 Carnegie Gallery & DVSA, Dundas, ON Canada – Design Hope – group invitational – a fundraiser to benefit Hamilton Out of the Cold
2007 PepperJack Cafe, Hamilton, ON Canada – Absorb: An evening of Art Etc.
2007 Artcite, Inc., Windsor, ON Canada – 25th Anniversary Exhibition – show us your love
2006 Solo: Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON Canada – sweet fresh (swoon) – curated by Ivan Jurakic
2006 Two-person: Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center, Nashville TN, USA – Good Housekeeping – with Mariah Johnson – curated by Chris Campbell
2006 TAAFI – The Gladstone Hotel – Toronto Alternative Art Fair International – Toronto, ON Canada – represented by Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2006 Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON Canada – seven deadly sins – curated by Maura Broadhurst – group invitational: John Deal, David Hannan, Fiona Kinsella, Lynne McIlvride Evans, Tina Newlove, Frederica Tomas, and WeSee Inc. (Roy Kohn & Kate Vasyliw)
2006 Carnegie Gallery & DVSA, Dundas, ON, Canada – Design Hope – group invitational – a fundraiser initiated by Vermeulen/Hind Architects to benefit Hamilton Out of the Cold
2006 Huff ‘n Puff Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada
2006 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery & invitational artists – Start ’06
2006 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – gallery artists
2006 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – members’ exhibition
2006 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2005 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON, Canada – sweet fresh
2005 Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN, USA – Eponymous – group invitational – curated by Lain York & Janice Zeitlin
2005 Wagner-Rosenbaum Gallery, Toronto, ON – invitational – a selection of work from Prescribing Behaviour (balance). Curator, Paula Rossley.
2005 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON, Canada – Holiday Group Show – gallery & invitational artists – with a percentage of sales donated to Design Hope.
2005 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON, Canada – In the Garden – gallery artists
2005 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON, Canada – 30th Anniversary Exhibition
2005 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2005 Staircase Theatre, Hamilton, ON, Canada – Hunger – with Colina Maxwell & Jennifer Hicks
2005 The Print Studio, Hamilton, ON Canada – fundraiser
2005 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Critical Mass – gallery & invitational Artists
2004 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – fine line (swoon)
2004 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – look . think . collect – with a percentage of sales donated to the Hamilton AIDS Network – gallery & invitational artists
2004 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – members exhibition
2004 Huff ‘n Puff Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada – Curated by Susie FitzPatrick
2004 Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre of Hamilton – transit gallery at ‘Sushi, Sake and the Arts’ – Art Fair Facilitated by Bryce Kanbara
2004 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2004 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Mass Transit – Gallery Artists
2003 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada
2003 Huff ‘n Puff Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada – The Huff ‘n Puff Gallery is a bricked in window Curated by Susie FitzPatrick
2003 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Members Exhibition
2003 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON Canada – Silent Auction, Fundraiser for the Hamilton AIDS Network
2003 Bob Art, RoadBLOCK, Hamilton, ON Canada – a fundraiser for the Red Hill Valley – facilitated by Ted Basciano
2003 You Me Gallery, Hamilton, ON – One Hundred Strong
2003 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON Canada – Artopia – gallery fundraiser
2002 Solo: Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
2002 Solo: Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick
2002 Two-person: RCA Visual, St. John’s, Newfoundland – with Paul Lisson
2002 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Members Exhibition
2002 Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba – X3 – Gallery Fundraiser
2002 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON – Silent Auction – fundraiser for the Hamilton AIDS Network
2001 Two-person: Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON – two-person with Paul Lisson. Curated by Maura Broadhurst
2000 Solo: Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
2000 Solo: Wordsmith Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2000 Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba – X3 – fundraiser
2000 Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba – Mail Art Exhibition – invitation cover
2000 Hamilton Artists Inc. – collaboration with Paul Lisson, Jason Avery & Simon Richards – fundraiser
2000 Art & Design Studio, Hamilton, ON – with Pearl Hunter
1999 Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON – group – collaboration with Jason Avery & Paul Lisson
1999 Petteplace Gallery, Hamilton, ON – with Pearl Hunter
1999 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Y2K
1999 Cootes Paradise, Hamilton / Montreal – Breathing – with Paul Lisson & Jason Avery
1998 Solo: Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1998 Solo: Artcite Gallery, Windsor, ON
1998 Three-person: Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON – Sister, Family, Home – with Paul Lisson & Jason Avery. Curator, Dawn White-Beatty.
1997 Solo: Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
1997 Three-person: White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON – New Generation – with Jennifer Morris & Sook He Park – curated by White Water Gallery
1997 Eaton Centre, Hamilton, ON – Public Hanging
1997 Forest City Gallery, London, ON – Gauge – Curated by Phillip Grant & Ivan Jurakic
1997 Touring: Taller Galeria Fort – Cadaques, Girona, Spain. Toured: Ateneo – Canet de Mar, Barcelona, Spain Pau Casals Music Festival – Prades, France, L’Etang d’ Art – Bages, France, Wingfield Arts & Music Festival – Wingfield, England – Juried
1997 Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON – group
1997 White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON – fundraiser
1997 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Member’s Show
1997 The Observatory, Hamilton, ON – Gauge
1997 Bauhaus Cafe, Hamilton, ON – group
1997 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – The Box Show
1996 Solo: Upper Canada Brewing Co., Toronto, ON – Noisy Breathing
1996 Gallery 435, Hamilton, ON – Interference with Bill McRae & Jim Mullin
1996 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Members’ Show
1996 Grant Gallery, Hamilton, ON – group
1996 Hamilton & Region Arts Council Gallery, Hamilton, ON – Image into Word
1996 Broadway Gallery, Hamilton, ON – Red October ‘96: Benefit for the Hamilton AIDS Network
1996 Hamilton Central Public Library, Hamilton, ON – Bountiful Woman
1996 Jackson Square, Hamilton, ON – Juried
1995 Solo: Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – “Open…Wider”
1995 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON – Red October ‘95: – Silent Art Auction & Annual benefit for the Hamilton AIDS Network
1995 Gallery 435, Hamilton, ON – Lust & Etiquette
1995 Service Hardware Gallery, Guelph, ON – In Essence – with Osmosis
1995 Broadway Gallery, Hamilton, ON – group
1994 Three-person: Earl’s Court Gallery, Hamilton, ON – Through the Cracks – with Cynthia Hammond & Paul Lisson
1994 Creative Arts Warehouse, Hamilton, ON – Red October benefit for the AIDS Network
1994 Espresso Cafe, Hamilton, ON – Binding Word & Image – with Cynthia Hammond, and Tor Foss
1993 Two-person: Beacon’s Cafe, Toronto, ON – with John Kinsella
1993 Meat Market, Toronto, ON. – invitational – facilitated by Cleone Grasham, Greg Rennick, and Charles George – CTV
1993 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Members’ Exhibition
1992 Solo: Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON – invitational – Generalizations
1992 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Print Show
1992 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Members’ Exhibition
1991 Solo: Central Library Gallery, Hamilton, ON – invitational – Tired Thoughts
1991 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – invitational – New/Renew Show – co-curated by Pat Kozowyk & Kathy Bresnahan
1991 CN/VIA Rail Station, Hamilton, ON – The GO Show
1991 Hamilton Press Club, Hamilton, ON – group invitational
1991 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON – Juried
1991 Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON – Juried
1991 Skylight Gallery, Toronto, ON – Juried (facilitated by P. Mansaram)
1991 London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON – Juried
1990 Two-person: Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Recent Paintings with Lisa Wohrle
1990 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON – Juried
1990 Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON – Juried
1990 Skylight Gallery, Toronto, ON – Juried (facilitated by P. Mansaram)
1990 McLaughlin Library Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON – Juried
1990 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON – Members’ Exhibition
Representation:
Rumi Galleries (2012 to present) 120 Kerr St, Oakville, ON
b contemporary gallery (2015 to gallery closure in 2021), Hamilton, ON
Nathaniel Hughson Art Gallery (2012 to gallery closure in 2015), Hamilton, ON
transit gallery (2003 to gallery closure in 2012), Hamilton, ON
Additional:
• Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine: co-founded and co-edited by Fiona Kinsella and Paul Lisson (since 2008).
• VOKS Collective (since 1993), Hamilton, ON
• The Assembly Gallery Collective (2016 to 2018), Hamilton, ON
• Juror: University of Guelph Student Juried Show, 2016.
• Served on the Art Fundamentals Arts Advisory panel, Sheridan College, 2011-2016.
• Member of the Hamilton Artists Inc. since 1980. Past employee, and past board member.
• Past contract positions at the Hamilton Artists Inc., Carnegie Gallery, and the McMaster Museum of Art.
Fiona Kinsella • visual artist 