AZZA EL SIDDIQUE
EDUCATION
2019 MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
2014 BFA Material Art and Design, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Echoes to Omega, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg PA
2023 Final Fantasy, Art Basel Miami, Miami FL
that which trembles wavers, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal QC
2022 Dampen the flame; Extinguish the fire, Helena Anrather, New York NY
In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA
solar evocation, Centre CLARK, Montreal QC
2021 fire is love, water is sorrow - a distant fire, with Teto Elsiddique, Towards Gallery, Toronto ON
2019 Begin in smoke, end in ashes, Helena Anrather, New York NY
2018 let me hear you sweat, Cooper Cole, Toronto ON
2017 Concave Conflux Convex, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON
Lattice be Transparent, 8eleven, Toronto ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Aporia (Notes to a Medium), The Belkin Gallery, Vancouver BC
2023 Crusading The Specter, Yossi Milo, New York NY
Genius Loci, Charles Moffet, New York NY2022
2022 Last Call, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal QC
2021 Greater Toronto Art 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto ON
Praying on the name, King Fish Gallery, Buffalo NY
2020 RAW, Gardiner Museum, Toronto ON
2019 Material Tells, Oakville Galleries, Toronto ON
Too full to cry, Shin Gallery, New York NY
Ripe at Dawn, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven CT
NADA Miami, Towards, Miami FL
NADA Miami, Parisian Laundry, Miami FL
2018 Art Toronto, Projet Pangée, Toronto ON
2017 An Orbit, The Drake, Toronto ON
2016 Non-Objective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON
2015 Every So Often, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON
2014 Surface/Surfacing, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto ON
19th Annual Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto ON
Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler – Kellog Art Center, Chautauqua NY
Carrier: Out of Pocket, 1 Gerrard West, Toronto ON
99th OCADU Graduate Exhibition, Ontario College of Art and Design University,Toronto ON
Process and Product, Make Works, Toronto ON
2012 Graft, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto ON
2011 50th Anniversary Stem Cell Collaboration, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto ON
GRANTS/AWARDS
2025 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York NY
2024 Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital, New York NY
2022 Creation to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa ON
2021 Creation to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa ON
2020 Visual Arts Project Grant - Emerging, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto ON
Visual Arts Grant – Emerging, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto ON
MSA Vision Grant - Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, Chattanooga TN
2019 Susan H. Whedon Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
Rapid Prototyping Grant, Yale Digital Humanities Lab, New Haven CT
Skowhegan Fellowship/Residency Award, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
Blair Dickinson Scholarship, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
2018 Schickle – Collingwood Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
2016 Visual Arts Grant - Emerging, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto ON
2014 Ellen Adams Award, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto ON
2014 Chautauqua School of Arts Residency Scholarship, Chautauqua NY
RESIDENCIES
2022 John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry residency, Sheboygan WI
2021 Amant Residency, New York City NY
2020 Silver Art Project, New York NY
2019 The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island NY
2014 – 2017 Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON
2014 Chautauqua School of Arts, Chautauqua NY
TALKS
2023 Africa and Byzantium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
2022 Making Grief, Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington ON
2021 MOCA Toronto, Toronto ON
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston MA
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto ON
Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference, Cincinnati OH
2020 Gardiner Museum, Toronto ON
Brooklyn Rail - New Social Environments #47, Online
2019 Lighthouse Works Artist Talk, Fishers Island NY
2018 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk CT
2017 Lattice Begin Our Discussion, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto ON
2016 Ontario College of Art and Design University,Toronto ON
2015 Ontario College of Art and Design University,Toronto ON
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