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Biography
Ginger Sedlarova is a Canadian artist working primarily in analog collage. Her collage work has been shown both in North America and Europe. Her style grew from a love of making photo collages in a former career as a graphic artist on daily newspapers and magazines — only now she does this by hand, without an editor looking over her shoulder while she works. Her objective is to connect with a viewer through imagery and movement, showing them a moment in time or inspiring their own tale through her compositions.
Ginger lives and work in Burnaby, B.C. with her husband and two rescue cats.
Education & residencies
2024
Berlinage, 10-day collage residency culminating in a gallery exhibition, Berlin, DE (May 2024)
2022
Artists in the Archives, residency by Kolaj Magazine in conjunction with the Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
2016 – 2019
Advanced study in painting certificate, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2015
Self-directed residency, Berlin, DE
Selected exhibitions
2024
The Gallery at The Cultch, Vancouver, BC (November 2024)
Unpaid Labour (collage on time cards), Vancouver, BC
2023
True Colours, The Gallery George, Vancouver, BC
Tanec v Kolážích (Dance in Collages), House of Music, Pardubice, CZ
2022
Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT (residency, book, exhibition), 'May Their Memory Be For A Blessing,' (September 2022 – September 2023)
Koláž v zahradě (Collage in the Garden), Rothmayerova vila, Muzeum města Prahy, Prague, CZ
2021
The Gallery at The Cultch, Vancouver, BC (with Seema Shah)
IMMIX 2021: Fine Arts Meets Movies, Books, Music, 'They Sentenced Me To 20 Years Of Boredom' International online show
Salon 15, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Ont.
Mail Art: unlimited Dada, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Ont.
2019
Luminescence IV, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2018
Bombay Sapphire Artisans Series (finalist), Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC
Publications
2022
Artists in the Archives, Kolaj Institute
& Maison Kasini Canada
& Maison Kasini Canada
2022
Collage Your Life, Storey Publishing
2021
La Source, "Ginger Sedlarova's Pop Art Collages"
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/ (In French)
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/ (In French)
2021
Creators Vancouver, “Ginger Sedlarova @ The Cultch”
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch/
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch/
2021
Creators Vancouver, “The Viola Player”
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-viola-player/
Speaking & writing
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-viola-player/
2022
'Artists in the Archives: Absence in the Archive,' Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT https://youtu.be/Qp9N0eUqoOo
2021
Kolaj Magazine, "Collage In A Dangerous Time
– The Astonishing Friedl Dicker-Brandeis," Issue #33
– The Astonishing Friedl Dicker-Brandeis," Issue #33
2021
Kolaj Magazine, Politics in Collage residency seminars, two presentations on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis' agit-prop posters
One of my favourite things in the world: a vintage Excel knife set, courtesy of my parent's garage
My first collage, The Gleaner front page, September 1987, surrounded by some of the publications I worked on in a previous life
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