SUMMA 2024: Yearbook on display at McMaster Museum of Art this April
April 1, 2024
McMaster Museum of Art is pleased to present SUMMA 2024: Yearbook, the graduating exhibition for the McMaster University BFA class of 2024. Please join us in celebrating the achievements of these student artists at the Opening Reception on Thursday, April 11, 4-7PM. This event is free and open to all.
Stay tuned- we will be announcing this year’s award winners at the Opening and on our website!
SUMMA 2024: Yearbook
On view April 9 – 26, 2022
Curated by Christina Leslie
Artists: Matthew Bailey, Brooke Bielak, Melissa C. Iza, Geneva Cooper, Leah Corrigan, Stefanie Croning, Emma Eichenberg, Hannah Essex, Oliver Fu, Anna George, Ardyn Gibbs, Shay Guan, Jessica Hadall, Zeina Hamada, Rebecca Han, Camryn Hardaker-Schabauer, Jenny Kim, Pippa Macdonald, Jacob Micallef, Eli Nolet, Olivia Outlaw, Paryse Reed, Anthony Rizkalla, Cameron Russell Roberts, Ren Tolbert, Sara Notdorft
SUMMA 2024: Yearbook is an exhibition celebrating the remarkable talents of the 2024 McMaster School of the Arts visual art graduates. This showcase illuminates the profound evolution of each student throughout their senior year, marked by spirited classroom discussions and a fearless commitment to challenging established and colonial creative norms.
Yearbook features a diverse array of artistic mediums, from cutting-edge VR/AR and 3-D printing technologies to traditional forms such as sculpture, painting, and drawing. Addressing contemporary issues such as social consciousness, cultural identity, memory, sexuality, and sustainability, each artwork serves as a narrative thread inviting viewers to delve deeper into these themes. Through exploration and experimentation, the collective body of work transcends artistic boundaries, fostering inclusivity within the art community.
Image: SUMMA 2024 logo, Produced by Eli Nolet and Ardyn Gibbs in consultation with the full cohort.
About the Curator
Christina Leslie is a lens-based artist from Toronto, who earned a B.F.A. from OCADU in 2006 and an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2022. Notable speaking engagements include SPE conference in Philadelphia (2010), Royal Ontario Museum’s Position as Desired symposium (2011), and the McMaster Museum of Art (2022 and 2023).
Her work has appeared in prominent art journals such as MURZE art magazine, Divide Art Magazine, Art Seen Magazine, CAP Art Magazine, and Pitch Magazine.
Her most recent photographic series “Sugar Coat” received praise from Ain’t Bad Magazine, Featureshoot.com, and PetaPixel.com, and was exhibited at BAND Gallery with support from the Honda Canada Foundation (2023), at RIT City Art Space in Rochester, NY as part of the Homecoming Photo Biennial (2023), at the Exposure Festival in Calgary (2024), in “ERODED TERRITORY” at Patel Brown Gallery (2024), and in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in November 2024.
Leslie’s photographs have been exhibited at various institutions across the globe, including The GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada’s Pier 21, The Art Gallery of Windsor, The Caribbean Art Fair in Jamaica, The McMaster Museum of Art, Paris Photo art fair and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Toronto.
Her “EveryTING Irie” series is part of Dr. Kenneth Montague’s “The Wedge Collection” and is in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Her art practice focuses on themes that delve into decolonization, identity, history, memory, race, and her West Indian background, which she explores via various experimental photography methods and text.
Leslie is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.
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