Artist Statement
Toronto based artist, Gina D’Aloisio utilizes interdisciplinary sculpture and installation, her primary material focuses are hyperreal mould making and found objects.
My work is a reflection of the times, it pokes fun at and seriously contemplates the world we live in. Replicating parts of the human body using silicone, hair and other materials creates a physical and abject relationship between my work and my viewers' bodies. The found objects I select are banal and mundane, looking to question our physical spaces. I also experiment with traditional media such as wax, bronze casting, metalwork, welding, and plaster. Combining new methods of fabrication and contemporary themes with traditional materials subverts any conventions and associations we might have with them.
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HAPPENINGS
2021, Featured on New York Times article, The Boom and Bust of TikTok Artists
2021, Featured on Art Insider, Artist Creates Hyperrealistic Face Masks
2021, Solo show, I'm Sick of talking weather, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2021, Solo Show, I'm Sick of talking weather, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
2021, Ignite Gallery SCIN Award Winner, Toronto
2021, Received Sculpture and Installation Faculty Award
2021, Gradex 106, online exhibition
2021, Featured article with Affection Magazine
2021, Co-member of the Publicity committee, for SCIN thesis exhibitions
2020, Group Show, Festival of the Body, OCADU, Toronto
2019, Group Show, Messmates, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto
2019, Group Show, “Delivery Notice,” Beaver Hall, Toronto
2019, Featured in Humans of OCAD series
2019, Group Show, Artist Multiples Pop-up, OCAD University, Toronto
2019, A coordinator for the 3rd year Sculpture and Instillation Group Exhibition, “Delivery Notice”, Beaver Hall, Toronto
2018, A Representative of the Sculpture and Instillation program for OCAD University’s “The Major Event”
RELEVANT WORK HISTORY
2021-Present, Studio Assistant, Fresh Never Frozen, Toronto
2017-Present, Gallery Assistant, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2019- 2020, Student Monitor, OCAD, Toronto
2017, Art Instructo, Proof of Fun, Toronto
EDUCATION
2021, Completed Bachelor degree in the Sculpture and Installation program at OCADU with an institution GPA of 83.
2021, Deans list
2018, Independent study with SCIN Faculty head Claire Brunette