Joyce Morris

Artist Bio 

ART EDUCATION

*St. Johns’s H.S. Wpg, MB

* McGill University major printmaking 1979

*Famous Writers Sc of Am.

*Toronto School of

Arts 1980

*Open studio, Toronto 1991.96.98

*Sheridan College 89.-91

*Fleming College 2008

 

 

ACTIVITIES

*Executive Print and Drawing Council of Canada

*Exec  Mississauga Arts  

*Co-founder Image Matrix print collective

*Instructor; Sheridan College, St. Lawrence College

*Resident artist Fernie, B.C. Arts Station.

*Marketing Open Studio Toronto

*Poetry Feminie Magazine

*Poetry; Evidence of Love:     Suggestions of Hate

 *Beaumont Mill Studio, Glen Williams, ON

*Joyce Morris Studio

   Gallery, Brockville

*Go Figure Life Drawing –      Burritt’s Rapids, ON 13years

 

AWARDS & GRANTS

*Region of Peel juried show-

Best print 1985

*Artist Abroad Grant to Holland 1987

*Carnegie Hall, Dundas,On. Honourable Mention

*Color and Form Society   Toronto, honourable mention 1992

*Contribution to Arts Award, City of Mississauga

*Contribution to Arts Award

Fernie, B.C.

 

 

COLLECTIONS

*University of Guelph Forestry Division

*Cornwall Reg. Art Gallery

*Art Gallery of Mississauga

 *Baker Salmona Architects,  

*Alan Stevens Corp West  Hazelton, USA

*C.D. Barcados, Toronto,  .

*Fisker Industries, Georgetown, On

*Baker and McKenzie

Lawyers, Dallas, USA

*Elkview Coal Corp,

Sparwood, B.C.

*Mountain Air Estates

Fernie, B.C.

*Fernie B.C, Library

*Women’s Resource

Center, Fernie, B.C.

*MDS. Laboratories,

Toronto, On.

*Phoenix Professional Group, Mississauga, On

*Toronto School of Business

*Winchester Hospital

*Brockville Gen Hosp

*Elmwood

*Neepawa Public Library

*Caledon Laboratories Georgetown, On

*LG Realty Brockville, On

*Erickson Library, MB.

*CPHC Prescott, On.

*Athens Med. Center, On

*Bookfinder, Kingston.

 

* 204 private collections

 

 

SHOWS

 

*1985.87.93

Region of Peel Gallery

1984-86

*Mississauga Library

1986

*Alma Gallery, Toronto

*1987 Ravenhof Art Center,     Putte, Holland

*1987  Carnegie Gallery, Dundas , On

*1990 Fairways Gallery,,

Mississauga, On

*1991 *Columbus Cultural Center Toronto, On

*1991 Fernie Arts Station

*1991 Rackus Studio, Miss.

1991-1995 Mansfield, On

*1993 Georgetown, On    

*1994 Erickson \library Mb

*1996  Sparwood, B.C.

*1995 Fernie Arts Station

*1995 Kariya Japan  

*1981-95 Skylight Gallery

Color and Form  Toronto  

* 1997 Art Beat Brampton,  

*1998 A Space, Toronto

*1999  Open Studio, Toronto

*1999 Art Gallery of Miss

*2003 Cornwall Reg.Gallery

*2004 Mill St. Almonte, ON

*2005-6 Spencerville Mill

*2006  Verb GalleryKingston

*2006  Brockville Arts Ctr.

*2006 Salon 06, Kingston

*2007 St. Lawrence College

*2008 Judith Moore Gallery

   Merrickville, On

*2009 Riverstones Gallery

   Burnstown, On

*2010  Rockwell Gallery,       Ottawa On

*2014  Galop Cardinal, On.

*2016 Artscene, Spencerville

*2017  Merrickville Tour

*2018  Merrickville Tour

*2019  St. Lawrence College

  *2020  Medium Effort Art

Artist Statement

We cannot look upon nude art without seeing a reflection of ourselves. Our varying degrees of self consciousness or human body experience determines how we might feel about what’s before us. My objective is to make a viewer pause with wonder.

From Crawford Park, MB near Riding Mountain National Park