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EDUCATION

Masters of Social Work with Honors, McGill University - Montreal, Quebec

BFA with Distinction, Painting and Drawing,  California College of Arts - San Francisco, California

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EXHIBITIONS

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:

2020 - We Are Wary, We Are Weary - La Centrale Gallerie Powerhouse, Montreal Quebec

2019 - Shanna Strauss: Selected Works - TOHU - Montreal, Quebec 

2017 - Jiggen Yuy Soppi: Changemakers - Galerie Ethiopiques - Saint Louis, Senegal

2016 - Howl Arts Festival - Cajibi -Montreal, Quebec 

2015 - Remembering: A sister Project - Destiny Arts Center - Oakland, California

2015 - The Floating Homeland - Maison Parent-Roback - Montreal, Quebec 

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Group Exhibitions:

2023 - Print Austin: The Contemporary Print -  Austin, Texas

2022 - Art Toronto - Toronto, Ontario

2022 - 35 by 35 - Arts Benicia Gallery - Benicia, California

2022 - Papier Contemporary Art Fair - Montreal, Quebec 

2022 - Sculptures and Small Objects - TONE Gallery - Memphis, Tennessee

2022 - Who am I/ Who I am - Elephant Gallery - Montreal, Quebec

2022 - West Coast Print Fair - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, California

2021 - Sea of Fertility - Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, California

2021 - AFlux Biennale: Monde Bossale - Art Mûr - Montreal, Quebec

2021 - Relations: Diaspora and Painting - Esker Foundation - Calgary, Alberta

2021 - Résurgences: Reclaiming my space - Centre D’Exposition LethBridge - Saint-Laurent, Quebec

2021 - Communal Attachments: Creating in the Absence of Each Other - Place des Arts - Montreal, Quebec 

2020 - Relations: Diaspora and Painting - Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art - Montreal, Quebec

2020 - Women Pathmakers - Euphrat Museum of Art - Cupertino, California 

2019 - Emboldened, Embodied - Thacher Gallery - San Francisco, California 

2019 - Reclaiming My Space - Warren G. Flowers Gallery - Montreal, Quebec 

2019 - Multiples - Atelier Circulaire - Montreal, Quebec 

2019 - Subalternes - CDEx Gallery - Montreal, Quebec 

2018 - Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal

2018 - When She Rises - SPARC Gallery - Los Angeles, California 

2018 - Obvious Magic: This Womanist Imaginary, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery - Oakland, California

2017 - Policing Black Lives - Grande Bibiliothéque - Montreal, Quebec 

2017 - The Black Woman is God: Divine Revolution, SOMArts Gallery - San Francisco, California

2017 - Take Care of Your Self - 3845 St. Laurent Blvd - Montreal, Quebec 

2017- While No One Was Looking - Mainline Gallery - Montreal, Quebec 

2017- Cabaret Anti-racine, Maison D’Haiti - Montreal, Quebec 

 

PUBLIC ART

2022- Our Legacy - Utility Box Art Project - El Cerrito, California 

2021 - Où en sont les femmes - Outdoor installation - St Roch Recreation Center, 

Quebec City, Quebec 

2019 - Difference is Power Mural - Collaboration with Jessica Sabogal - University of California, San Francisco, California

2018 - Public art piano - Montreal, Quebec 

2018 - Mural honoring Chyna Gibson - Collaboration with Jessica Sabogal - Sacramento, California 

2017 - Mural Honoring Ellen Gabriel and Mary Two Axe Earley for Unceded Voices: Anti-Colonial Street 

Artists Convergence - Montreal, Quebec 

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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 

Uplift her Sacredness - Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino California - Acquired 2019

Memory Keepers - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec - Acquired 2018

Heart Melodies - Black History Round Table, Montreal - Acquired 2015

 

COMMISSIONS

2022 - Free Our Mothers Poster design - People’s Paper Co-Op - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2022-  Utility Box Art Project -  El Cerrito Arts Commission - El Cerrito, California

2019 - Uplift her Sacredness - De Anza College - Cupertino, California 

2019 - Difference is Power Mural- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco 2018 - Public art piano - City of Montreal - Montreal, Quebec 

2018 - Indoor mural for The Women's Resource Center - The University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona

2018 - Mural honoring Chyna Gibson - The California Endowment - Sacramento, California 

2017 - Artwork for 'Frames for Life, Liberation and Belonging' Booklet - Haas Institute for a Fair and 

Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley - Berkeley, California 

2016 - Heart Melodies - La Table ronde du Mois de l’histoire des Noirs - Montreal, Quebec

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2021 - Arts Abroad Grant - Canada Arts Council 

2021 - Printmaking Fellowship Award - Kala Art Institute - Oakland, California 

2020 - Prix Powerhouse - La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse - Montreal, Quebec

2019 - Forward Together Grant (awarded with Jessica Sabogal) - Oakland, CA

2015 - The Beloved Community Grant - Akonadi Foundation - Oakland, California 

2015 - Then & Now Grant - Toronto Dominion Bank - Montreal, Quebec 

 

RESIDENCIES 

2023 (September) - In Cahoots - Studio residency - Petaluma, California

2021 (September - December) - Studio residency - Crosstown Arts - Memphis, Tennessee 

2021 (February) - Studio residency - Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec

2020 (November) - Studio residency - La Centrale - Montreal, Quebec 

2020 (January - February) - Teaching artist residency with InPath - Mistissini, Cree Nation/Quebec 2019 (March - April) - Teaching artist residency with Nwe Jinan - Waswanipi, Cree Nation/Quebec 

2018 (September - October) - Teaching Artist Residency with Mikw Chiyâm - Waskaganish, Cree Nation/Quebec 

2017 (November) - Waaw - Studio residency - Saint Louis, Senegal 

 

ARTIST TALKS

2022 - Artist talk - California College of Art - San Francisco, Califonia

2021 - Artist talk - Crosstown Arts -Memphis, Tennessee

2020 - Artist talk - Relations: Diaspora and Painting - Phi Foundation - Montreal, Quebec 

2020 - Panelist - Neither here nor there, or how to rethink the notion of home - Montreal Museum of 

Fine Arts - Montreal, Quebec 

2019 - Panelist - Emboldened, Embodied - University of San Francisco - San Francisco, California 

2019 - Guest Speaker - MA in Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum class - University of San Francisco, 

San Francisco, California 

2018 - Panelist - Unceded Voices - University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona 

2017 - Panelist - While No One Was Looking - Mainline Gallery, Montreal, Quebec 

2017 - Panelist - Change Agents of East Africa - Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec 

2016 - Panelist - 21st Century Learning: Critical Thinking, Collaboration and Creativity. Art and Social 

Justice - Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec 

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