SASHA OPEIKO
(London, ON; b. 1986, Belarus)
EDUCATION
2020 – Currently enrolled in Phd in Art and Visual Culture, Western University
2012 MFA, University of Victoria, Visual Arts
2009 BFA (Honours), University of Windsor, Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 217, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
2018 when people came out of the forest there was nothing, SB Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
2017 Remembrance, window installation with Martin Stevens, one ten park: a working space, Windsor, ON
2016 Selected Interior, in collaboration with Martin Stevens, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
2016 Elephant’s Foot, A.I.R. Studio Paducah, Paducah, KY
2014 Favoured Objects, in collaboration with Martin Stevens, ArtSpeak Gallery (ACWR), Windsor, ON
2014 Caput Mortuum, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2013 Some Things Like Bee Box Devices, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
2013 A Practical Lesson in Uselessness and Despair, part of ARTIST FOR HIRE: ALL SKILLS REQUIRED performance series, curated by Artist for Hire, ACWR, Windsor, ON
2012 Vice Versa, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
2012 Caput Mortuum, (MFA Thesis Exhibition), School of Visual Arts, Victoria, BC
2012 Caput Mortuum, Michael Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2011 Solve et Coagula, School of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2009 As I Lay Dying…, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Futile Knocking of My Heart, in collaboration with Martin Stevens, podcast project, Virtual NeMLA Convention, Buffalo, NY
2021 VAM43 Juried Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2019 Dwelling, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2019 Videostore: Season 2, Left Contemporary, Windsor, ON
2018 FOLD, two-person exhibition with Martin Stevens, Good Sport, London , ON
2018 SHOWHOUSE, SB Contemporary Art / Border City Living, Windsor, ON
2018 FOLD, two-person exhibition with Martin Stevens, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, ON
2018 DRAWN (5th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing), Manifest, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Who’s Romeo, SB Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
2018 Zip Code, Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, ON
2017 Juried Exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
2017 Salon 17, SB Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
2016 Collect (Part 1), SB Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
2016 SAF, (“Beaten by Stars” in collaboration with Dennis Hunkler), Artcite Inc. (Off-site), Windsor, ON
2015 Juried Exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
2015 Duplicate, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2014 SAF, (“Third Line,” in collaboration with Martin Stevens), Artcite Inc. (Off-site), Windsor, ON
2014 International Zizek Studies Conference: Parallax Future(s) in Art and Design, Ideology and Philosophy, (“Third Line” in collaboration with Martin Stevens), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Juried Exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
2013 Juried Art Show, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
2013 Precariat, (“Meta-Etcetera Hovercraft 1.0”, in collaboration with Megan Press), Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2012 Psycho-Pomp III, A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA
2012 Music for Natural History, a Paul Walde/Tina Pearson project, part of Site and Sound, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC
2011 Juried Exhibition 2011, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON
2011 Surface to Air, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2011 Shelf Life, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2011 Opposites Attract, Open Space, Victoria, BC
2010 Snapshot, Michael Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2010 Building Bridges, Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
2009 Insomnia, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009 Mesmerized, Mackenzie Hall, Windsor, ON
2009 Windsor Visual Fringe Festival, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2009 Horizon, Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2009 BFA Graduation Exhibition, LeBel Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
RESIDENCIES
2020 BAiR Late Winter, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2018 Working on It (as part of collective group), Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2016 Free Space, Artspeak Gallery (ACWR), Windsor, ON
2016 BAiR Late Winter Intensive, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2016 A.I.R. Studio Paducah, Paducah, KY
2012 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 – 2021 Teaching Assistant, Studio Fundamentals, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
2016 – 2019 Part-Time Gallery Assistant, SB Contemporary, Windsor, ON
2016 Program Coordinator, Momentum Film & Video Collective, Windsor, ON
2015 Art Director, Artwindsor / BARBED Magazine, Windsor, ON
2014 Windsor-Essex Triennial Coordinator, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
2012 Board of Directors, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2012 Volunteer, Research Collections (Mammalogy), Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2015 Digital Creation 3D Print Intensive (with Steve Laurie), University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2014 Film Production Workshop (with Kevin Everson), Mobile Frames, Windsor, ON
2014 Intro to 16mm Filmmaking (with Daichi Saito), Mobile Frames, Windsor, ON
2014 Artist-Educator Foundations Course (Certificate), The Royal Conservatory,
Windsor, ON
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2015 – 2019 SB Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / TEACHING
2021 “Melancholy as Affective Force and Maxim Donyuk’s Untitled Project from Chernobyl”, Contemporary Anachronisms Graduate Student Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
2021 “The Futile Knocking of My Heart”, Speculative Figures and Futures: Our Uncanny Postapocalypse, Virtual NeMLA Convention, Buffalo, NY
2019 “Melancholic Studies of the Soviet Afterimage“, UAAC Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, Quebec, QC
2016 “Together and Apart: Art and Image-Making in the Information Age”, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2016 “Artist Talk: Matthew Hawtin, Sasha Opeiko and Victor Romao”, SB Contemporary, Windsor, ON
2015 “A Melancholic Approach to Dark Abstract Space”, Collapsing Constellations: Remapping Art, Science and the Planetary, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, York University, Toronto, ON
2012 “Caput Mortuum”, Michael Audain Gallery, part of Conversations with Emerging Visual Artists lecture series, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2012 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Contemporary Visual Culture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2011 Sessional Instructor, Drawing, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
BIBLIOGRAPHY / MEDIA
Arturo Herrera, Interview, Barbed Magazine, 2018. Issue 6: “Suburbia is Calling”. 27 – 33.
Artwindsor Magazine, featured artwork, Winter 2015. Issue 1: “Vacancy”. 12 – 15.
Exhibition Catalogue, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, “Juried Art Show”, 2013.
WRITING
2017 “Speculations on Dong-Kyoon Nam’s Recycled Sensations”, critical essay, Modern Fuel (Kingston, ON)
2013 “Border Cultures”, review, FUSE magazine (Toronto, ON).
2013 “Quietly at the Window”, accompanying text for the Laura Dutton exhibition Quietly at the Window, PAVED ARTS (Saskatoon, SK) http://www.pavedarts.ca/2012/untitled-window-series-january-18-february-23-2013/
2012 “Bracket(ed)”, accompanying text for the Dickson Bou/Thomas Chisholm exhibition Bracket(ed), Forest City Gallery (London, ON). http://www.forestcitygallery.com/node/134
2012 “Artcite Inc. 2011-2007: A Prospective Retrospective.” 30th Year Anniversary Catalogue, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON
2012 (November, 2012) “one ten park”, The Scoop, 117: 3.
AWARDS/GRANTS
2019 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant
2018 Runner-up for Brucebo Fine Art Residency Scholarship
2017 City of Windsor, Arts Culture & Heritage Fund
2016 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists: Emerging Grant
2015 Juror’s Prize, Thames Art Gallery, 2015 Juried Exhibition (Juror: Sky Glabush)
2015 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grants to Visual Artists
2014 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Media Arts)
2013 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Visual Art)
2012 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Media Arts)
2010 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC)
2009 Hellen Veldora Bowlby Scholarship in Fine Arts
2008 Hazel Cryderman-Wees Scholarship for the Arts
2008 Jill Dynan-Perry Memorial Bursary
2008 John Kenneth Pufahl Memorial Scholarship in Printmaking
2007 Mary DeMarco Scholarship in Visual Arts
2005 Renewable Entrance Scholarship
2005 Visual Arts Entrance Award in Studio Art and Art History
