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Rochelle Rubinstein is a Toronto-based printmaker, painter, fabric and book artist.
Her work has been exhibited in diverse places such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland; Yeshiva University Museum, New York; Print Triennial, Estonia; and McMaster Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, and Chinese Cultural Centre, in Canada. For eighteen years, Rubinstein was a member of Loop Gallery, where she had regular solo exhibitions, and for seven years she curated monthly exhibitions at Mon Ton Window Gallery, in downtown Toronto.
Rubinstein’s work can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
She has completed several artist residencies, including Women’s Studio Workshop and Stern College for Women in New York; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Aras Eanna Art Centre in Ireland.
As a community arts facilitator, her workshops and projects involving health workers, abused women, people with eating disorders, seniors with depression, youth at risk, and Palestinian and Jewish artists, are based upon methods that are central to her own art practice: drawing, carving, printing, sewing, and bookmaking.
Rubinstein is also a steward of Bela Farm, in Hillsburgh, Ontario, where she is engaged in art, agriculture, and activism.
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| 2025 |
drawing a blank, with a soundscape by Jennifer Lindsay, Open Studio, Toronto, ON |
| 2023 |
Kensington Market/Jazz Festival, Mon Ton Window Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Gather #1, Mildred's Temple, Toronto, ON |
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Gather #2, South Shore Community Centre, Barrie, ON |
| 2022 |
TSVISHN, Fentster Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Hanging Books 5, Georgian Bay Centre for the Arts, Owen Sound, ON |
| 2020 |
Shelter in Place, Project Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, ON |
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Book Room, Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON |
| 2019 |
Unnatural Disasters Con’t, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2017 |
Radiant Vermin, Dirty Talk, Toronto, ON |
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My Only Drink, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Cyclic, George Gilmour Gallery/Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2016 |
Come, Open Field Collective, Corktown Common, Toronto, ON |
| 2015 |
Pochi Bukuro, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Huxule Catal, Open Field Collective, Toronto, ON |
| 2014 |
Marginalia 4. CJS Gallery, University of Toronto, ON |
| 2013 |
Scrap; Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2012 |
Silk Stones, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA |
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Culture of Memory, Miles Nadal Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2011 |
Repressed, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Homestead, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Marginalia, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2010 |
Shaft, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2009 |
The Mother Well, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Refugee, Nuit Blanche 2009, Mon Ton Window Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2008 |
Marginalia 2, The Museum @Hebrew Union College, New York City, USA |
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Overlap, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Holy Well, The Print Gallery, Hamilton, ON |
| 2007 |
Inkhorn, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Ealaiontoir, Aras Eanna Art Centre, Aran Islands, Ireland |
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Good Wall, Chinese Cultural Center, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 |
Marginalia, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2005 |
Disaster & Relief, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Dun, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2004 |
Insite, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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No Guru No Method, Open Studio, Toronto, ON |
| 2003 |
Look Out, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2002 |
Genesis: Wild & Waste, Lyndia Terre Gallery, Alton, ON |
| 2001 |
Birth Rite 2001, A Space Windows, Toronto, ON |
| 2000 |
Canadian Artist Series, Chapters Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Circadian, David Mirvish, Toronto, ON |
| 1997 |
Nurse Girl, Open Studio, Toronto, ON |
| 1996 |
Codex, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, ON |
| 1995 |
Making Marks; Remembering & Resisting, Toronto, ON |
| 1993 |
Queen Esther Model, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, ON |
| 1992 |
Scrap Book 5, Open Studio, Toronto, ON |
| 1991 |
Daddy Was King, Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, New York |
| 1990 |
Shelter, Museum for Textiles, Toronto, ON |
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| 2025 |
Tears, with Jane Lowbeer, Mon Ton Window Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2024 |
Banners and Shrouds, Arts by the Pond, Hillsburgh Library, Hillsburgh, ON |
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Water, with Jane Lowbeer, Mon Ton Window Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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In a Beginning, facilitator and artist, Centre for Jewish Studies Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2023 |
Good Mourning, Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto, ON |
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No Fixed Abode, Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf, Portneuf, QC |
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Women +, Baycrest Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2022 |
Friendship, The Chinese Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON |
| 2021 |
Collective Experience, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2021 |
The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2019 |
Common Waters, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON |
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Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2018 |
Members’ Ink, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Terra InFirma, Bernard Heller Museum, New York, USA |
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Water Advisory! Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2017 |
Anxious/Space, Loop Offsite, Toronto, O |
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Home(Less), HUC Museum, New York, USA |
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21C , Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON |
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Seasons & Directions, Massey College, Toronto, ON |
| 2016 |
Printmaker’s Festival , Charlotte Hale & Associates Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Catch the Weave, Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, ON |
| 2015 |
Travelling Book Exhibition, Erfrischungsraum, Lucerne, Switzerland |
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45th Anniversary Exhibition, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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I Was There, Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies, Waterloo, ON |
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7 Generations, MNJCC Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2014 |
The Content/Shifting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
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Boundless and Borderless, Cheng Shiu University Art Centre, Taiwan |
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Beyond Calligraphy, Multi-faith Centre, University of Toronto, ON |
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Dwell, St Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto, ON |
| 2013 |
Sexuality Syndrome, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, USA |
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Boundless and Borderless, Pine Street Art Centre, Sydney, Australia |
| 2012 |
The Sexuality Syndrom , the Museum @Hebrew Union College, New York, USA |
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Not Forgetting, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Collective Vision, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Memento Mori, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Toronto, ON |
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Quiet Zone, The Gallery Queen Elizabeth Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON |
| 2010 |
The Happy Medium, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON |
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Provocative Textile, the Museum @Hebrew Union College, New York, USA |
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Faithful and Faithless Messenger, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Artists For Haiti, Envoy, New York City, USA |
| 2009 |
Im/Age, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON |
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Summer, Burdette Gallery, Orton, ON
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2007-
2011 |
Whodunit, OCADU, Toronto, ON |
| 2007 |
Shoe Project, Travelling throughout Canada |
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Jerusalem Redefined, Jerusalem Theater Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2006 |
TrueSpectrumTDot, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2005 |
UnNatural Disaster, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON |
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By Association, Propeller Centre for Visual Art, Toronto, ON |
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Woof, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2004 |
Wind Through Paper, Japanese Paper Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Parrot Project, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Glad to Be Here, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON |
| 2003 |
Heart, Lyndia Terre Gallery, Alton, ON |
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Then & Now, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Art Vs. War, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON |
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Pulp, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Homescapes : Function/Dysfunctional, L. Terre Gallery, Alton, ON |
2002-
2011 |
Shadowbox, Museum for Textiles, Toronto, O |
| 2002 |
Waving Flags, Sussman Gallery, New York, USA |
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Papier a la Mode, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON |
| 2001 |
Genesis, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON |
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Mutating Image, 12th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia |
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Evidence of Things Unseen, Tyndale College & Seminary, Toronto, O |
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Works on Paper, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Splash, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON |
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Encountering the 2nd Commandment, Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, USA |
| 2000 |
Lamentable Expedients, Propeller Centre for Visual Arts, Toronto, ON |
| 1999 |
Media & Photography, Photographic Resource Centre, Boston, USA |
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Love, Lint & the Love of Laundry, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1998 |
Recent Prints, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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Women Beyond Borders, Dufferin Mall Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1997 |
Dancing With the Leviathan, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Once is Too Much, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
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Women of the Book, Finegood Gallery, California, USA |
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Perspectives 97, Living Arts Centre, Toronto, ON |
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Sacred & Profane, Charach Epstein Museum, Michigan, US |
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Miriam, Women’s Creativity & New Ritual, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York |
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Tales of Courage, Kanner Heritage Museum, Toronto, ON |
| 1996 |
International Print, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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Geometry & New Math, Centre for Book Arts, New York, USA |
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Face, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal & York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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From Memory to Transformation, John Street Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Textile & Tradition, Beth Tzedek Museum, Toronto, ON |
| 1995 |
Acquisitions 1995, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
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Dressing the Text, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, California, USA |
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Small Book Art, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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Women & Medicine, Niagara Artists Co., St. Catharines. ON |
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Echoes & Angels, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1994 |
Bunch O Printmakers, Visual Arts Exhibition Lab, London, ON |
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Fiberworks, The Library & Gallery, Cambridge, ON |
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Quilt Project, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Artists Books, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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The Anthropomorphic Book, Centre for Book Arts, New York City, USA |
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WSW XX: A Retrospective, State University of New Paltz Gallery, New York, USA |
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Printmaker, Workscene, Toronto, ON |
| 1993 |
I And I: Ish Isha, The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON |
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7 Deadly Sins, Centre for Book Arts, New York City, USA |
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And the Women Danced, Borofsky Gallery, Philadelphia, USA |
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Nine Small Books, Centre for Book Arts; New York City, USA |
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Artist Books, The Papertrail, Ottawa, O |
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Bookworks, AKA Artists Centre, Saskatoon, SK |
1992-
1995 |
Feminist Sukkah, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1992 |
Contemporary Canadian Art, Ader Tajan, Paris, France |
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Artefect III, Workscene, Toronto, ON |
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Birthtales, A Space, Toronto, ON |
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Prints & Artists Books from WSW, Colgate University Gallery, New York, US |
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First Contact, Partisan Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Love & Romance, Center for Book Arts, New York City, USA |
| 1991 |
Out of the Drawer, A Space, Toronto, ON |
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Last Show, Artefect, Toronto, ON |
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Members Exhibition, Extension Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1990 |
Things Fall Apart, Artefect, Toronto, ON |
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Housing - A Right, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Members Exhibition, Extension Gallery, Toronto, ON
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| 1989 |
I and I, Artefect, Toronto, ON |
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Continuing Witness, Klutznick Museum, Washington, DC, USA |
| 1987 |
Order Out of Chaos : Ritual Dwellings, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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Eros & Bill C-54, Gallery 306, Toronto, ON |
| 1986 |
4 Women 4 Cultures, Hunter College Gallery, New York City, USA |
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Springtide, Community Gallery, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1985 |
The Myth of Difference, Peacock Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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Blessed is the Eye, Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, ON |
| 1984 |
Guardians of the Tales, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| 2024 |
Artist-in-Residence, Gather 3: Milk Room, Hillsburgh, ON |
| 2014 |
Artist-in-Residence, WaterStone Clinic, Toronto, ON |
| 2014 |
Artist-in-Residence, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON |
| 2012 |
Artist-in-Residence, Stern College for Women, New York City, USA |
| 2011 |
Visiting Artist, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON |
| 2007 |
Artist-in-Residence; Aras Eanna Art Center, Inis Oirr, Ireland |
| 2001 |
Visiting Artist, School of Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON |
| 1997 |
Artist-in-Residence, Women’s Rights are Human Rights, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1996 |
Artist-in-Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1995 |
Artist-in-Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1992 |
Guest Artist, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 1991 |
Artist-in-Residence, Women’s Studio Workshop, created 100 artists books,
Rosedale, New York, USA |
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| Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK |
| US Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA |
| Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| Klutznik Museum, Washington, DC, USA |
| Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA |
| Smith College, Massachusetts, USA |
| Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA |
| University of Houston, Texas, USA |
| University of Utah, Utah, USA |
| Vassar College Library, New York, USA |
| Duke University, North Carolina, USA |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
| New York Public Library, New York City, USA |
| Ohel Moshe Museum, Shanghai, China |
| Toronto Science Centre, Toronto, ON |
| Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON |
| National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ON |
| Yale University, New Haven, USA |
| University of Santa Cruz, California, USA |
| Atlanta College of Art, Georgia, USA |
| Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA |
| Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA |
| Reconstructionist College, Philadelphia, USA |
| Brown University, Rhode Island, USA |
| Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA |
| Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Reconstructionist Synagogue, Toronto, ON |
| Beit Haminyan Synagogue, Toronto, ON |
| Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, ON |
| Seneca College, Toronto, ON |
| Donovan Collection, St. Michael's College, Toronto, ON |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
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| 2024 |
In a Beginning, Drawing and Book Workshop with University of Toronto Students, Rochelle's Studio, Toronto, ON |
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Grief Project, The Neighbourhood Group, Toronto, ON |
| 2023 |
In a Beginning, Printmaking Workshop with University of Toronto Graduate Students, Bela Farm, Hillsburgh, ON |
| 2022 |
Mourning Project, with clients and staff at St. Stephen's Community House/The Neighbourhood Group, Toronto, ON |
| 2019 |
Bayt-Bayit-Home, Large-scale project with Palestinian and Jewish artists of Ayna; Shefr’Amr, Israel |
| 2017 |
Blood, Milk and Tears, workshop and exhibition with Muslim & Jewish artists, Fentster Gallery, Toronto, ON |
| 2015 |
Focusing Therapists Workshop, Bela Farm, Hillsburgh, ON |
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Aftermath, workshop at Holocaust Education Week, Toronto, ON |
| 2014 |
Inspiration Book Project, Baycrest Centre for Culture, Art, and Innovation, Toronto, ON |
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Marginalia 4, workshop, University of Toronto, Centre for Jewish Studies, Toronto, ON |
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Workshop and lecture, Pomegranate Guild, Toronto, ON |
| 2013 |
Memoir Project, St. Stephen's Community House, Toronto |
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Accordion Book Project, Sheena's Place, Toronto ON |
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Senescence Book Project, workshop with medical, nursing, and social work students, Baycrest Centre for Culture, Art, and Innovation, Toronto, ON |
| 2011 |
Books, Printmaking Project, Baycrest Centre for Culture, Art, and Innovation, Toronto, ON |
| 2010 |
Workshop for Mon Ton Window Gallery exhibition with Venus Girls of St. Stephen's, Toronto, ON |
2009-
2010 |
Paradox of the Vocation, projects and exhibitions with health workers and patients at Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON |
| 2008 |
Threshold, printmaking workshops with at-risk youth at Notre Dame School, Hamilton, ON |
| 2007 |
Mural with 80 grade 5 students, Topcliffe Public School, Toronto, ON |
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Mural with 40 children, St Stephens Community Day Care, Toronto, ON |
| 2000 |
Self-Portrait Project with Sheena’s Place, C.A.B, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON |
1996-
2013 |
Sheena’s Place, for people with eating disorders, weekly Open Studio Gallery,
Toronto, ON |
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| These Truths We Hold |
| Women's Book of Grieving |
| Children of the Holocaust |
| And Rachel Stole the Idols |
| The Camp |
| Violence Against Women |
| Preparing for Sabbath |
| Biography of Hava Shapiro |
| An Italian Renaissance |
| Figli dell' Olocaust |
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| 2023-present |
Gather 1, 2, and 3, Interactive Art Installations, Multiple locations, ON |
| 2020 |
Grief, 280 ft. scroll for live performance, Toronto, ON |
| 2018 |
Water Advisory, Co-curator, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2017-
2022 |
Member of Research Team & Artist for website, The Persephone Project, Bela Farm, Hillsburgh, ON |
| 2017 |
Waterstock, Co-creative Director, Erin Fairgrounds, ON |
| 2015 |
Stop.Watch, Curator, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA |
| 2013 |
Memoir Book Project (with seniors), Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, ON |
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Privileged, work featured in film, Toronto, ON |
2008-
2015 |
Curator, Mon Ton Window Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2000-
2001 |
Art AgaiAnst War, Coordinator of international banner project, sponsored by
Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, ON |
| 2000 |
Woodblock printed & quilted silk work commissioned by Sick Children’s Hospital, Toronto, ON |
| 1997 |
Sistering Calendar Project for marginalized women, Toronto, ON |
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Ashkenaz, Stage design, Ford Centre for the Arts, Toronto, ON |
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Punch Me in the Stomach, work featured in film, Toronto, ON |
1996-
2012 |
Self-Portrait Project, Sheena’s Place, Toronto, ON |
| 1993 |
Theory of Relatives, Stage design, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, ON |
1992-
1995 |
Feminist Sukkah, Artist & Curator, Harbourfront, Toronto, ON |
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