ARTIST STATEMENT
Ginger Sedlarova is a Canadian collage artist and storyteller whose work bridges history, ideas and surrealism. Her collages mix images with colours and textures, maps, newsprint and found items, creating multi-layered landscapes of both fable and the past. These collages observe and celebrate people and the marks they leave on our world. She appreciates images and ideas that are eccentric, historical, colourful, that have rhythm. 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.
Her art grew from a love of making photo collages in a former career as a graphic artist on magazines and daily newspapers. Now she does this by hand, without an editor looking over her shoulder while she works. She has two practices, one based on fact and one based on fiction. Her fact-based practice revolves around the historical and genealogical, chronicling true stories. The fiction practice involves play, colour and contrast, composing visual tales that come from pictures in her mind. Favourite elements include flowers, fruit, dots and Magritte pipe-smoking fish in bowler hats. When working, she keeps the words of an artist who inspires her, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the back of her mind: “You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.”
BIOGRAPHY
Ginger Sedlarova is a collage artist, painter and photographer who worked as a graphic artist for decades in both daily media in Vancouver and on newspapers and magazines in Central Europe. Prague, Czech Republic is her second home. Her former career inspired her love of working with photos and composition, but now that she doesn’t have an editor looking over her shoulder while she works, she loves to play and indulge in the unexpected. A Beatlemaniac, Sedlarova lives in Burnaby, B.C. with her husband and two rescue cats. Her work has appeared in galleries and shows in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
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EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2022 Artists in the Archives residency Kolaj Magazine in conjunction with the
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT, May 7 – 22, 2022
2016-20 Advanced painting certificate Emily Carr University of Art & Design
2015 Self-directed residency Berlin, Germany
SELECTED SOLO, TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT, May 7 – 22, 2022
2016-20 Advanced painting certificate Emily Carr University of Art & Design
2015 Self-directed residency Berlin, Germany
SELECTED SOLO, TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Collage Works The Gallery at The Cultch, Vancouver, BC
2021 Vancity window installation Robson and Denman, Vancouver, BC
2021 1+2+3 The Gallery at The Cultch, Vancouver, BC
2021 Pandemic postcards Diafano exhibition, Barcelona, ES
SELECTED INVITATIONAL & JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Vancity window installation Robson and Denman, Vancouver, BC
2021 1+2+3 The Gallery at The Cultch, Vancouver, BC
2021 Pandemic postcards Diafano exhibition, Barcelona, ES
SELECTED INVITATIONAL & JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 True Colours The Gallery George, Vancouver, BC, October 4 – 29
2023 Tanec v Kolážích (Dance in Collages) House of Music, Pardubice, CZ
2022-23 Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT (residency, book, exhibition),
2022 Koláž v zahradě (Collage in the Garden) Rothmayerova vila,
Muzeum města Prahy, Prague, CZ
2021 IMMIX 2021: Fine Arts Meets Movies, Books, Music
International online group show
2021 Salon 15 Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 Parallel Dimensions Collage Artists of America, Studio City, CA
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Luminescence IV Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2018 Local Abstractions South Surrey Arts Centre, White Rock, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans Series (finalist) Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, BC
2017 Fall for Arts Maury Young Arts Centre, Whistler, BC
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Tanec v Kolážích (Dance in Collages) House of Music, Pardubice, CZ
2022-23 Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT (residency, book, exhibition),
2022 Koláž v zahradě (Collage in the Garden) Rothmayerova vila,
Muzeum města Prahy, Prague, CZ
2021 IMMIX 2021: Fine Arts Meets Movies, Books, Music
International online group show
2021 Salon 15 Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 Parallel Dimensions Collage Artists of America, Studio City, CA
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Luminescence IV Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2018 Local Abstractions South Surrey Arts Centre, White Rock, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans Series (finalist) Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, BC
2017 Fall for Arts Maury Young Arts Centre, Whistler, BC
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Artists in the Archives Maison Kasini (book), featured artist
2022 Collage Your Life Storey Publishing (book), featured artist
2022 Creators Vancouver “The Pretty Things,”
creatorsvancouver.com/the-pretty-things
2021 La Source “Les collages pop art de Ginger Sedlarova,”
thelasource.com/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova
2021 Creators Vancouver “The Viola Player,” creatorsvancouver.com/the-viola-player/
2021 Creators Vancouver “Ginger Sedlarova@The Cultch,”
creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2022 Collage Your Life Storey Publishing (book), featured artist
2022 Creators Vancouver “The Pretty Things,”
creatorsvancouver.com/the-pretty-things
2021 La Source “Les collages pop art de Ginger Sedlarova,”
thelasource.com/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova
2021 Creators Vancouver “The Viola Player,” creatorsvancouver.com/the-viola-player/
2021 Creators Vancouver “Ginger Sedlarova@The Cultch,”
creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2021-22 arTHANKS A project in the Lower Mainland to give artwork to front-line workers
as a thank you for their work during the pandemic, founder
WRITING/SPEAKING
as a thank you for their work during the pandemic, founder
WRITING/SPEAKING
2022 Artists in the Archives: Absence in the Archive online artist talk,
Middlebury, VT youtu.be/absenceinthearchives
2021 Politics in Collage residency seminars, Kolaj Magazine
two presentations on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis' agit-prop posters, speaker
2021 Collage Works online artist talk, The Gallery at The Cultch,
youtu.be/collageworks
2021 Kolaj Magazine "Collage In A Dangerous Time – The Astonishing Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis," Issue #33
2021 1+2+3 online artist talk, The Gallery at The Cultch, youtu.be/1+2+3
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Middlebury, VT youtu.be/absenceinthearchives
2021 Politics in Collage residency seminars, Kolaj Magazine
two presentations on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis' agit-prop posters, speaker
2021 Collage Works online artist talk, The Gallery at The Cultch,
youtu.be/collageworks
2021 Kolaj Magazine "Collage In A Dangerous Time – The Astonishing Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis," Issue #33
2021 1+2+3 online artist talk, The Gallery at The Cultch, youtu.be/1+2+3
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2022 Artists in the Archives work acquired as part of a limited edition portfolio
of prints collected by and housed at the Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
2022 Artists in the Archives. work acquired as part of a limited edition portfolio
of prints collected by and housed at the Kolaj Institute, Burlington, VT
Canada Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto
England London
AWARDS
of prints collected by and housed at the Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
2022 Artists in the Archives. work acquired as part of a limited edition portfolio
of prints collected by and housed at the Kolaj Institute, Burlington, VT
Canada Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto
England London
AWARDS
2021 Award of Merit Luxembourg Art Prize