Quinn Buckler is a Toronto based artist interested in the ways that the environment manifests inside the body and vice versa. Their work focuses on care, place, contamination, and internalization; straddling and corrupting the barrier between bodily interior/environmental exterior. They are interested in the radical and queer potential of contamination under a social system in which impurity is a basis for persecution. Their practice includes sculpture, installation, ceramics, writing, collecting, thinking, reading.
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Solo Exhibitions
2019 For the Liver, Skin, Kidneys, Counter-Tops, Glass, Metal, Blood, and Hardwood Floors, Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2021 MoveObjects On: The Plumb, Toronto. Curated by Alison Postma & Emma Green.
2021 Feats of Clay: Then and Now, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
2019 104th Annual Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto
2019 Fresh Paint, New Construction- 15th edition, Art Mûr, Montreal
2019 RESISTANCE, Roundtable Residency, The Dragon Academy, Toronto
Group Events
2018/2019 GradEx Material Art and Design Sale, OCAD University, Toronto 2018 Artist Alley, OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Good Pals Zine Fair, Ignite Gallery, Toronto
2017 Artist’s Multiples Garage Sale Pop-Up, Toronto
Residencies
2021 Plastic Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Online
2019 Resident at Roundtable Residency, The Dragon Academy, Toronto, Online
2016 Ontario College of Art and Design Living Laboratory Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point,
Toronto Island
Awards
2019 Haydn Davies Memorial Award, OCAD University
Education
2014-2019 Ontario College of Art and Design: BFA in Sculpture/Installation
Relevant Work Experience
2021 The Bentway, Artist’s Assistant, Pulse Topology Project by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
2019 Ontario College of Art and Design: Exhibition Assistant, Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibition Series: For External Use Only
2018-2019 Ontario College of Art and Design: Mouldmaking Studio Monitor
2017-2018 Catherine Heard: Mould Maker and Studio Assistant
2017 Ontario College of Art and Design: Research Assistant for Artist’s Multiples Class with
Catherine Heard
Related Experience
2019-2020, 2022 Mississauga Potters Guild: Studio Member and Communal Firing Assistant
2020-2021 North Bay Potters Guild: Studio Member and Kiln Committee Member
2019 Small Arms Building: Mouldmaking Workshop Facilitator for visiting students from Yukon,
Cancelled due to COVID-19
2019 Mississauga Potters Guild: Handbuilding Station, Mississauga Waterfront Festival, Port Credit
2018-2019 Ontario College of Art and Design: Publication Committee Member, Sculpture/Installation
Thesis Exhibition Series: For External Use Only
Body Burdens IGA + Sylvia Bougie at The Plumb during MoveObjects On, 2021