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.
EDUCATION
2022 Artists in the Archives
Kolaj Magazine in conjunction with the Henry Sheldon Museum,
Middlebury, VT (online)
May 7 – 22, 2022
2016-20 Advanced study in painting certificate
Emily Carr University of Art & Design,
Vancouver, BC
2015 Self-directed residency
Berlin, Germany
2022 Artists in the Archives
Kolaj Magazine in conjunction with the Henry Sheldon Museum,
Middlebury, VT (online)
May 7 – 22, 2022
2016-20 Advanced study in painting certificate
Emily Carr University of Art & Design,
Vancouver, BC
2015 Self-directed residency
Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage,
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT (residency, book, exhibition),
'May Their Memory Be For A Blessing,' (September 2, 2022 – Spring 2023)
2022 Koláž v zahradě (Collage in the Garden), Rothmayerova vila,
Muzeum města Prahy, 'Elevation/Nadmořská výška'
(August – September 2022)
2021 IMMIX 2021: Fine Arts Meets Movies, Books, Music
'They Sentenced Me To 20 Years Of Boredom' on display
International online show (September 4 – October 4, 2021)
2021 Salon 15
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (March 10 – April 3; online only)
2021 Parallel Dimensions
Collage Artists of America
Studio City, CA (February 2021; online only)
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (January 20 – April 20; online only)
2019 Luminescence IV
Deer Lake Gallery
Burnaby, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans
Series (finalist)
Gallery Jones
Vancouver, BC
2018 Local Abstractions
South Surrey Arts Centre
White Rock, BC
2017 Fall for Arts
Maury Young Arts Centre
Whistler, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show
CityScape Community Art Space
North Vancouver, BC
2022 Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage,
Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT (residency, book, exhibition),
'May Their Memory Be For A Blessing,' (September 2, 2022 – Spring 2023)
2022 Koláž v zahradě (Collage in the Garden), Rothmayerova vila,
Muzeum města Prahy, 'Elevation/Nadmořská výška'
(August – September 2022)
2021 IMMIX 2021: Fine Arts Meets Movies, Books, Music
'They Sentenced Me To 20 Years Of Boredom' on display
International online show (September 4 – October 4, 2021)
2021 Salon 15
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (March 10 – April 3; online only)
2021 Parallel Dimensions
Collage Artists of America
Studio City, CA (February 2021; online only)
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (January 20 – April 20; online only)
2019 Luminescence IV
Deer Lake Gallery
Burnaby, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans
Series (finalist)
Gallery Jones
Vancouver, BC
2018 Local Abstractions
South Surrey Arts Centre
White Rock, BC
2017 Fall for Arts
Maury Young Arts Centre
Whistler, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show
CityScape Community Art Space
North Vancouver, BC
SOLO, TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (September 2021; online only)
(with Seema Shah)
2021 Vancity window installation
Robson and Denman
Vancouver, BC (February – April 2021)
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (February 2021; online only)
(with Marliese Eilers and Valerie Arntzen)
2021 Pandemic postcards series
Diafano exhibition (Summer 2021; online only)
Barcelona, Spain
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (September 2021; online only)
(with Seema Shah)
2021 Vancity window installation
Robson and Denman
Vancouver, BC (February – April 2021)
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (February 2021; online only)
(with Marliese Eilers and Valerie Arntzen)
2021 Pandemic postcards series
Diafano exhibition (Summer 2021; online only)
Barcelona, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Artists in the Archives, Kolaj Institute & Maison Kasini Canada
2021 La Source, "Ginger Sedlarova's Pop Art Collages," February 23, 2021
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/
(Original in French)
2022 Artists in the Archives, Kolaj Institute & Maison Kasini Canada
2021 La Source, "Ginger Sedlarova's Pop Art Collages," February 23, 2021
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/
(Original in French)
2021 Creators Vancouver, “Ginger Sedlarova @ The Cultch,” September 7, 2021
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch/
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-cultch/
2021 Creators Vancouver, “The Viola Player,” November, 2021
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-viola-player/
https://creatorsvancouver.com/ginger-sedlarova-the-viola-player/
2022 Collage Your Life, Storey Publishing (coming summer 2022)
2021-2022
arTHANKS team member, a project in the Lower Mainland to give artwork
to front-line workers as a thank you for their work during the pandemic
(https://arthanks.ca/)
arTHANKS team member, a project in the Lower Mainland to give artwork
to front-line workers as a thank you for their work during the pandemic
(https://arthanks.ca/)
WRITING/SPEAKING
2022 'Artists in the Archives: Absence in the Archive,' Henry Sheldon Museum,
Middlebury, VT (online), November 9, 2022
https://youtu.be/Qp9N0eUqoOo
2021 Kolaj Magazine, "Collage In A Dangerous Time – The Astonishing Friedl Dicker-
Brandeis," Issue #33, pages 34-39
2021 Kolaj Magazine's Politics in Collage residency seminars, two presentations on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis' agit-prop posters, September & November
2022 'Artists in the Archives: Absence in the Archive,' Henry Sheldon Museum,
Middlebury, VT (online), November 9, 2022
https://youtu.be/Qp9N0eUqoOo
2021 Kolaj Magazine, "Collage In A Dangerous Time – The Astonishing Friedl Dicker-
Brandeis," Issue #33, pages 34-39
2021 Kolaj Magazine's Politics in Collage residency seminars, two presentations on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis' agit-prop posters, September & November
PRIZES
2021 Award of Merit, Luxembourg Art Prize, 2021
2021 Award of Merit, Luxembourg Art Prize, 2021