Artists Anne-Marie Kornachuk 1 page

Anne-Marie Kornachuk completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in 1993. Since graduation she has participated in numerous solo and group shows in Canada and the US, and for several years she has been presented at the annual Toronto International Art Fair . Her work is found in many corporate and private collections around the world.

Anne-Marie enjoys a busy full-time career as a painter. She is also the Director of the Art School of Peterborough (ASOP), Ontario, and a part-time teacher at ASOP, Lakefield College School and privately. Anne-Marie is a former president of the Ontario Society of Artists.

“I am interested in looking at states of being; spaces and events that create many questions and answers, and can be looked at in positive and negative ways. My figures are seen caught in the split between air and ground. Is it fantasy or reality, clumsiness or grace, contentment or anxiety, playfulness or anger, need or independence?

I use gesture, colour, and composition to suggest these states. The formal dress struggles with rigidity and confinement, perhaps societal expectations, internal pressures, as well as beauty, seduction, luxury and sophistication.

It is my intention to create a narrative, allowing the viewer to explore in which state of being the figure falls.”

EDUCATION
1993 BFA, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Galerie St.Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Trias Gallery, Toronto Ontario, Canada
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009
Trias Gallery, Considering Eve, Toronto, Ontario, solo exhibition.

2008
Peterborough County Court House, Artists of The Art School of Peterborough: Selected Teachers and Students, Peterborough, Ontario, curated.
Trias Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, group exhibition.
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, duo exhibition.

2007
Miller Gallery, Objects of Desire, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, group.
Miller Gallery, It’s Show Time, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, group.
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2006
Woodstock Art Gallery, Voices, Woodstock, Ontario, group, juried.
Trias Gallery, Airs Above The Ground, Toronto, Ontario, solo exhibition.
Toronto International Art Fair,Toronto, Ontario, Canada, catalogue.

2005
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sailor’s Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, group exhibition.
Trias Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, group exhibition.

2004
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sailor’s Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, group exhibition.
Lieutenant Governor’s Suites, Current: Members of the Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, juried, catalogue.
Trias Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition.

2003
Russell Gallery of Fine Art, White Lies, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, solo exhibition.
Pearl Conrad Gallery: Ohio State University, Exhausted Goddess, Mansfield, Ohio, U.S.A. duo exhibition.
Sailor’s Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA group exhibition.
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abbozzo Gallery, Go Figure, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, curated.
Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Figures, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition.
Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Coast to Coast, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition.

2002
Brad Cooper Gallery, Nude in The Post-Modern, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. group exhibition, juried.
St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Posers: The Work of Greg Denton, Eliza Griffiths, Anne-Marie Kornachuk, Tony Scherman, Marion Wagshal and Janet Werner, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, group exhibition, curated, catalogue.
Sailor’s Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, group exhibition.

2000
Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Performance Anxiety, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, solo exhibition.
Varley Art Gallery, Into Body, Unionville, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, juried.
Higashi-Futami, Florart 2000, International Art Exhibition, Hyogo-ken, Japan, group exhibition, juried.
Pratt and Whitney Canada (Living Arts Centre in Mississauga), Perspectives 2000, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, juried, catalogue.
John B. Aird Gallery, Art & Healing: 126th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, juried.
San Jacinto College South, 12 x 12 x 12 x 2000: National Small Painting and Sculpture Competition, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. group exhibition, juried, catalogue.

1999
Pratt and Whitney Canada (Living Arts Centre in Mississauga), Perspectives 1999, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, group exhibition, juried, catalogue.

1998
Galerie McClure Visual Arts Centre, Entertaining Thoughts of Disaster, Westmount, Quebec, Canada, solo exhibition.
Observatoire 4, Rationnelles/Irrationnelles- Pertinentes/Impertinents, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, group exhibition.

1996
Galerie Action Art Contemporain, Careful, Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, duo exhibition.

1995
Observatoire 4, Grand Illusions, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, duo exhibition.

Related Experience
2008 Teaching, Lakefield College School, Peterborough, Ontario.
2008-present Executive Director, Art School of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Curator, Artists of The Art School of Peterborough: Selected Teachers and Students, Peterborough County Court House, Peterborough, Ontario.
2007-present Artistic Director, Art School of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Curator, About Face: Students of the Art School of Peterborough, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
2006 Teaching, Lakefield College School, Peterborough, Ontario.
2006-07 Teaching, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
2006-present Teaching, Art School of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
2005 Jury, Voices, Woodstock, Ontario.
2003 Exhibition Chair, About Water, Toronto, Ontario.
2003- 2004 President Ontario Society of Artists.
2002 Exhibition Chair, Fragile, Toronto, Ontario.
2001- 2003 Vice-President Ontario Society of Artists.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Dickison, “Stunning”, Surface and Symbol Magazine, October 2006
Joelle Kovach, “Learning to draw changed artist’s life”, The Peterborough Examiner, 28 September 2006
Alice Burdick, “Poser’s”, Arts Atlantic, vol.20, no. 1, Spring 2003, p.55.
Mathew Reichertz, “Poser’s: The work of Greg Denton, Eliza Griffiths, Anne-Marie Kornachuk, Tony Scherman, Marion Wagshal and Janet Werner”,exhibition catalogue, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, 2002 .
Elisa Barnard, “Poser’s Intriguing”, The Halifax Herald Ltd., 22 November 2002
Kathryn Hayward, “Down the Street: Sightings”, Elm Street Magazine, Summer 2000, p.14.
Calendrier Cultural: Accident, le travaille d’Anne-Marie Kornachuk. SRC Vancouver (c.b): Ce Soir, 13 March 1997.
Gilles Lévesque, “La Galerie Action art actuel présente *Careful (prudence)”, La Canada Français Week-End, 26 June 1996, B-7.
Henry Lehmann, “Two shows about preservation: one in jars, another in our memories” Mirror, vol.11, no. 10, 10 August 1995, p.17.
2008 Mid-Career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2001 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2000 Best of Show: Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Autumn Artsfest: Juried Art Show, Etobicoke, Ontario