education

2020 | Postmodernism and Art course, Visual Arts Department, University of Ottawa

2019 | Relational Sculpture course, Visual Arts Department, University of Ottawa

2016 | Photographic Arts & Production diploma, School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa

1993 | LL.B., Faculty of Law degree, University of Toronto

1977 | Technique of Photography course, Ryerson

1965 | B.H.Sc. degree (Honours), Textiles, Clothing and Design, University of Guelph

exhibition history

2023

  • Interconnected (group exhibit), Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe

2022

  • Metamorphosis (group exhibit), Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection

  • Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition (group exhibit), Barcelona

  • Playing Dead (solo exhibit), City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa

  • Industrial Geometry (group exhibit), Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe

2021

  • Holding Pattern (group exhibit), Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection

  • Playing Dead (solo exhibit), Ottawa Art Gallery

  • Papier (group exhibit), Esperanto Gallery, Markham

2020

  • Playing Dead (solo exhibit), Featured Exhibition, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto

  • RMG Fridays: Focused (group exhibit), Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

  • Hindsight (group exhibit), 2020 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection

2019

  • Juried Exhibition 2019 (group exhibit), Ontario Society of Artists, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto

  • Stillness (group exhibit), Gallery 200, Ottawa

2018

  • Performing Action: Portraits of Protest (group exhibit), Latcham Gallery, Whitchurch-Stouffville

  • Modern Hyenas (group exhibit), The Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa

2017

  • ARTiculations (group exhibit), Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa

  • Figureworks 2017 (group exhibit), Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa

  • Flotsam (solo exhibit), Exposure Gallery, Ottawa

  • IN•HABIT (group exhibit), Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa

2016

  • Because it’s 2016 (group exhibit), Creative Futures Expo, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto

  • Erupt (group exhibit), Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa

  • Because it’s 2016 (solo exhibit), Queen's Park Main Legislative Building, Toronto

  • Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (group exhibit), Arta Gallery, Toronto

2015

  • Unplugged: A Different Beauty (group exhibit), Creative Futures Expo, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto

awards/GRANTS

  • Honourable Mention, 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award

  • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2022

  • Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2021

  • Winner, Project X Photography Award, 2021

  • Grand Prize, RMG Fridays: Focused, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2020

  • Third Prize, Figureworks 2017

  • University of Toronto Magazine, Instagram Award, 2016

  • Canadian Applied Arts Award, 2016

  • Canadian Applied Arts Award, 2015

SELECTED press

publications

2019

  • McKenna, OPAL, Volume 3, Ottawa

  • Ecdysis, OPAL, Volume 3, Ottawa, (collaboration with Neeko Paluzzi)

  • Female Politicians, Analogue Photography, Kalamari Klub, Heidelberg, Germany

  • Illness & Death, OPAL, Volume 2, Ottawa

2017

  • Trash to Treasure: The Art of Found Materials, The Missouri Review, Vol. 40, No. 3