Renée Mathews is an interdisciplinary artist who prioritizes soft sculpture, collage, and performance. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, her work investigates concepts surrounding the body, spirituality, and the relationship between the inner and outer worlds. Using techniques and processes that tend toward the tedious, her practice centers environmental responsibility through material consideration. Born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Renée now lives in Montréal where she is completing a BFA in Studio Art at Concordia University.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2023 Inverted Topographies—The Drake Hotel, Toronto
Group
2024 Fibre Art Will Win: Concordia Fibres Student Association Exhibition—Galerie POPOP, Montréal
2023 Impressions: Concordia Print Media Annual Student Exhibition—Galerie Alain Piroir, Montréal
2022 Touch Screen—Art Matters Festival, Espace Pop, Montréal
2021 As We Are—VAV Gallery Online Exhibition
2019 The 8x6 Project—Penang, Malaysia
2018 Hacking Black Futures—Toronto Design Offsite Festival
2017 Long Winter Vol. 5.4—Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Exposure—Contact Photography Festival, OCAD U, Toronto
2016 Exposure—Contact Photography Festival, OCAD U, Toronto
Awards & Experience
2024-2025 Communications Coordinator—Art Matters Festival
Board Member—VAV Gallery
2024 Exhibition Facilitator—Art Matters Festival, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain
Curator—Find What Shames You, Solo Exhibition by Jega Delisca, Montréal
2023-2024 Board Member—Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University
2022-23 Technical Coordinator—VAV Gallery
2021-22 Board Member—VAV Gallery
2019 Jury Member—DesignTO
2018 Juror's Choice Award—Toronto Design Offsite Festival