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Bronson Smillie

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Born 1992, Calgary, Canada

Lives and works in Montréal, Canada

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Pangée, Montréal, Canada (forthcoming)

2023

Almost Begin, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, Canada

A Place for Everything, april april, Brooklyn, NY

2022

Tempo 85, Espace Maurice, Montréal, Canada

2019

Forever is Closing In, MoMAPS311, Ottawa, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2025

Eurhythmia, Silke Lindner, New York, NY (forthcoming)

Tumbled Rhyme, LVL3, Chicago, IL

2024

Broad Picnic, Europa, New York, NY

Art Toronto with april april, Toronto, Canada

Pluck, Pangée, Montréal, Canada

The weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric, Joys, Toronto, Canada

The weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN

Soul Jubilee, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada

ahr-kahyv, curated by Pieter-Jan De Paepe, DEPA Archive, Ghent, Belgium

Also a good place to sulk, curated by Anaïs Castro, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Maison Modèle VI, Centre Clark, Montréal, Canada

2023

Cruel to be Kind, as part of Pictura Biennial, Stewart Hall Gallery, Montréal, Canada

a broad private wink, curated by april april, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

Modular Storage, LVL3, Chicago, IL

2022

appairage, peering, pairing, AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada

2021

Where the Sun Sets and Where it Rises: Chapter 12, Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, Czechia

Where the Sun Sets and Where it Rises: Chapter 11, Petrohradská Kolektiv, Prague, Czechia

2019

Nothing Happens, Five AM, Calgary, Canada

2018

Quartier Générale ArtPop, Studio Rialto, Montréal, Canada

A Fine Tool, Untitled Arts Society, Calgary, Canada

2017

Things Repeated, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada

Fairs

2025

Material Art Fair with Pangée, Mexico City, Mexico

2024

NADA New York with april april, New York, NY

2023

Plural with Espace Maurice, Montréal, Canada

2022

NADA New York with april april, New York, NY

Residencies

2021

Petrohradská Kolektiv AiR, Prague, Czechia

2018

Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency, Pittsburgh, PA

Curatorial Projects

2021

Cover Story, Art POP, Studio Rialto, Montréal, Canada

2020

Opening Night, Art POP, Studio Rialto, Montréal, Canada

Awards/Grants

2024

CALQ Circulation of Works Grant

Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant

2023

CALQ Travel Grant

2022

ARTCH Emerging Artists Grant

2021

CALQ Travel Grant

2019

Concordia University Travel Grant

Fine Arts Reading Room Publication Grant

2018

Concordia University Travel Grant

2015

FFAR Print Media Paper Grant

Press/Reviews

2024

Artoronto, “Also a Good Place to Sulk at Zalucky Contemporary”, review by Rashana Youtzy

2023

Tzvetnik, “Almost Begin” at Afternoon Projects

Art Viewer, “Almost Begin” at Afternoon Projects

C Magazine, "Tempo 85" Review by Rosemary Flutur

2022

LVL 3 Chicago, "Artist of the Week Interview"

2018

Calgary Journal, “Flip into zine culture: Mini magazines are making a comeback”

Broken Pencil, “When the Party’s Over brings out the whimsical… and the dark”

2017

CBC Arts, “Calgary’s Zine scene gives a home to those ‘fed up with the city’s corporate ethics’”

Education

2020

BFA, Studio Arts and Art History, Concordia University

Public Collections

Scotiabank

Stanford University