Artist Biography:
Ashley Guenette is a Franco Ontarian artist from rural Northern Ontario. Her recent work draws from algorithmically-generated social media content in order to reveal their hidden forms of oppression and reframe them in critical, feminist contexts. Using analogue methods to interpret digital content, her drawings, paintings and multiples challenge aesthetic conventions of painting while engaging in an ongoing dialogue with its histories. Guenette holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo.
Ashley Guenette
Born: Sudbury, 1997
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Ashley Guenette lives and works on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples, ON, Canada
Education:
2022 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Waterloo
2019 Baccalauréat en arts visuels (BFA), University of Ottawa
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Teaching Experience:
Current Sessional, instructor FINE225 Observational Drawing, Waterloo University, Waterloo, Ontario
Current Art Instructor, ArtShine, Kitchener, Ontario
Current Artist Educator, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2022 Paint Night Event Instructor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2021 Sessional, instructor FINE150 intro studio arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2021 Paint Night Instructor for Faculty of Phys. Ed., Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
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Related Work Experience:
Current Practicing Artist
Current Installation and Collections, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
2019-2020 Art Gallery of Sudbury, Special Project Communications and Support Intern, Sudbury, Ontario
2019 Planning Assistant, Northern Lights Festival Boréal, Sudbury, Ontario
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Select Solo Exhibition Record:
November 2022-January 2023 Put a finger down if you have ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms, Franco-Nord solo exhibition funded by BRAVO arts, WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
April 2022 Put a finger down if you have ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms
MFA Thesis Exhibition - University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG), Waterloo, Ontario
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Select Group Exhibition Record:
2023 Jinx, Wallack Galleries, Presented by Nosy Mag, Ottawa, Ontario
2023 In the Rhubarb, Between Pheasants Contemporary Temporary Art Gallery, Kerns, Ontario
2023 Disembody, Group exhibition curated by abisola oni & Sarah Martin,
Homer Watson House & Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2022 The Chain Links, Presented by curated. and City of Waterloo, City of Waterloo information centre, Waterloo, Ontario
2022 Is this real life / Est-ce la vraie vie
Juried Group Exhibition - Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario
2021 If You Can’t Find Branches Make Your Own
Between Pheasants Contemporary Temporary Art Gallery, Kerns, Ontario
2019 Nouveau Louvre
GNO (Galerie du Nouvel Ontario), fundraiser, Sudbury, Ontario
2019 Meridian
University of Ottawa Bachelor of Visual Art graduate group exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 Tipping Pedestals
Gallery 115, group exhibition, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 An Upstream Flow in a Downstream Current
Ephemeral outdoor group exhibition, New Liskeard, Ontario
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Site Specific Art Projects:
2022 The Chains Link, Lumen Festival, Waterloo, Ontario
2022 Create Waterloo Public Art Picnic Table Project, Waterloo, Ontatio
2022 PlaySmelter - Pat The Dog Theatre Creation 10th Anniversary edition, Sudbury, Ontario
2022 Rupture - Magdolene Dykstra
Studio assistant for temporal installation, Canadian Clay & Glass Museum, Waterloo, Ontario
2022 Create Waterloo Outdoors Exhibition
City of Waterloo juried exhibition, Waterloo, Ontario
2020 Create Waterloo Outdoors Exhibition
City of Waterloo juried exhibition, Waterloo, Ontario
2020 Standing Tall / Debout
Commissioned Mural - Up Here Festival, Sudbury, Ontario
2017 Commissioned Mural - Town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario
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Residencies:
2021 Gibraltar Point Artscape, Toronto, Canada
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Publications/Review/Catalogues:
2022 Cover Art for Soufrelangue by Rebecca Salazar, Éditions prise de parole
2019 Meridian – University of Ottawa Bachelor of Visual Art graduate group exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario
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Awards:
2021 Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship, Completed with artist Colleen Heslin
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Volunteer:
Current Board of Directors Button Factory Arts
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