STEPH CLOUTIER
Lives and works in Toronto, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024 Solo exhibition of new work, The Gladstone House, Toronto, CA
2022 Mapping Out Calm, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Design Collection @ STACKT, Design TO, STACKT Market, Toronto, CA
2024 Everyday Lighting II, DesignTO Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
2023 Craft Award Recipient Exhibition, Craft Ontario, Toronto, CA
2022 How They Run Deep, window installation, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA
2020 Paper2020, Lee Contemporary Art, Orillia, CA
2019 The Promise of Sekishu Washi, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, CA
UNMADE, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, CA
Paper III, Lee Contemporary Art, Orillia, CA
gestures: a life in the shadow of a volcano, the Ada Slaight Galleries, Toronto, CA
2018 HardTwist13: Threads, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CA
Resilient Attitudes, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, CA
ART FAIRS
2024 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CA
The Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, CA
2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CA
The Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, CA
2022 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Online, Toronto, CA
SELECTED AWARDS/GRANTS
2023 Ontario Arts Council, Research and Creation Grant
Craft Ontario, The Gladstone House Award
RESIDENCIES
2020-24 Craft & Design (Textiles), Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
2018 The Global Experience Project, December 10 to 21, Naples, IT
Once Upon Water, Artscape Gibraltar Point, September 17 to October 1, Toronto, CA
2015 Contemporary Textiles Studio Co-op, Summer 2015, Toronto, CA
ART TALKS/PANELS
2023 Craft Talks, Craft Ontario, Online
Artist Presentation, Arts Unfold: Once Upon Water Artist Residency, Online
2022 Artist Chats, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Instagram Live
MEDIA
2024 “Hundreds of artists take over Nathan Phillips Square for art fair”, CBC News, July 12, 2024
« Culture : La Toronto Outdoor Art Fair cette fin de semaine (Partie 1) », Y a pas deux matins pareils, Radio Canada, July 11, 2024
2023 Holiday Collection, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Online
2022 Egan, Melanie, “Materiality, Movement, Minimalism”, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Curated Collections
McCavour, Amanda, “Hard and Soft Materials”, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Curated Collections
2019 Price, Jill, “UNMADE Exhibition Catalogue”, Propeller Art Gallery, July 7
EDUCATION
2019 OCAD University, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Toronto, CA
MEMBERSHIPS
2023-Present International Associations of Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA)
2021-Present Craft Ontario
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Canada and the United States
Steph Cloutier is a francophone, multidisciplinary artist from Toronto working in textiles, paper, video, and installation. Her practice explores themes of memory, liminal spaces, repair, absurdity, and history.
She is currently exploring her fascination with liminal and imagery space in urbanity, nature and our existence within those spaces. In her current body of work, she creates drawings as ethereal yet familiar landscapes. As a former professional photographer, she experiments with various photographic techniques to push perspective and repetition, and the resulting images are reworked as thread drawings. A lover of process, she combines her dedication of hand-stitching, natural dyes and papermaking to better understand her materials.
She received her BFA with Distinction in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University and has exhibited at Harbourfront Centre, the Gladstone House, and Craft Ontario. She has been awarded residencies in Toronto, Canada and in Naples, Italy. Some of her works are held in private collections in Canada and in the United States, and currently has an artwork featured at The Gladstone House, in Toronto.
The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
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