Nicole Collins

Nicole Collins is a contemporary Canadian artist whose work, which takes the form of painting, performance, video, and sound, explores the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on visceral materials. She currently teaches at OCAD University.

Education
She received her Master of Visual Studies from University of Toronto in 2009 and her Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts Major, with Honours, from University of Guelph in 1988.

Artistic career
Nicole Collins has shown her interdisciplinary work internationally, in galleries in Canada, America, Tokyo, Switzerland, and England, since the beginning of her artistic career in the early 1990s. She is currently represented by General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto, Ontario. In 2013, her and her husband Michael Davidson began an art gallery in their home living room at 26 McKenzie Crescent, Toronto.

==Solo exhibitions ==

2018       Furthest Boundless, Koffler Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

2006       stroke for stroke. Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2004       Dimension. Zurich, Switzerland

2003       branch, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario.

2002       sample, Canadian Embassy Gallery. Tokyo, Japan.

2001       one mark, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario.

2000       Path, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario.

1998       Given, Wynick/Tuck Gallery. Toronto, Ontario.

1994       Blessure, Gallery 788. Toronto, Ontario.

1994       Marked, Women’s Art Resource Centre. Toronto, Ontario.

Group exhibitions
2009       MVS Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto catalogue essay by Ian Carr-Harris

2009       start Profs, work by professors from art institutions across Canada, Studio 21, Halifax

2008       Pulse 2: Film and Painting After the Image, curated by Barbara Sternberg, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

2008       MVS Open Studio, University of Toronto

2008       Lightening Strikes Twice, Xpace Gallery, Toronto

2008       Monkey's Paw Shelf Label Project, curated by Keri Reid and Stephen Fowler, Monkey's Paw Bookstore Toronto

2008       House Lights Left Bright, curated by Stacey Sproule, 1478 Dundas W Toronto

2007       Hot Wax, The Rooms, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada

2007       Ann Thinghuus und?Nicole Collins, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland

2006       Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St Vincent University Gallery, curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg

2006       Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto

2006       OCAD Drawing and Painting Endowment Collection 2006, Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto.

2006       Collins Waldburger White: Wax, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts.

2006       you don't wanna miss that shit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, curated by Katherine Mulherin

2005       Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, New York

2005       informal ideas 04:05, (please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

2005       Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto

2005       Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland

2004       Death in the Studio: Studio Death Snapshots, Book Project by Hannes Priesch + Niki Lederer, book launches in Vienna, NYC and Toronto

2004       informal ideas 04-02: landscape, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

2004       informal ideas 04-01: (warm), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

2004       Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland

2003       Motherlode, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto, curated by Gretchen Sankey

2003       Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto

2003       Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)

2003       Advent, Halde Galerie, Widen, Zurich Switzerland

2002       Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design fundraising auction, Toronto

2001       Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia.

2001       Paintings Painted, Platform Gallery, London UK. (www.platform.dircon.co.uk)

2000       Translinear, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON. Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue).

2000       Translinear, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Touring Group Exhibition. (catalogue).

1999       Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON. Touring Group Exhibition (catalogue).

1999       Art with Heart, House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto,ON. (catalogue).

1999       TSA 30th Anniversary Faculty Show, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto,ON.

1999       Toronto: Under 40, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.

1999       Art 1999  Chicago, Seventh Annual Exposition of International Galleries of Contemporary Art, May 7–11, Chicago, Illinois,USA.

1999       Informal Ideas 99.1:(Preview ’99), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON.

1998       Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto, ON.

1998       Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON. (Summer).

1998       Informal Ideas 98.2, 14 Degrees of Abstraction, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, April.

1998       Nicole Collins, Michael Davidson, Sheila Gregory, Milly Ristvedt: Painting, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s NF. May.

1997       Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Leo Kamen & Wynick/Tuck Galleries, Toronto, ON.(catalogue).

1997       International Juried Exhibition of Encaustic Works, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York, USA.

1997       Colour in the Square, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON.

1997       R&D (Research & Development), York Quay Gallery, Toronto,ON.

1997       Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto,ON.

1996       GLO, Archive Inc., Toronto,ON.

1996       Juicy Fruit, Art Gallery of Durham, Durham,ON.

1995       Juicy Fruit, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Toronto,ON. (catalogue).

1995       Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Curator’s Choice, Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto, ON.

1994       Mud, 59 Adelaide East, Toronto (catalogue).

1994       Merging XVI, Gallery 788, Toronto, ON.

1993       Cover Me Site Specific Store-front, Installation, 488 Queen Street W., Toronto,ON.

1993       Cabinet des Curiosites, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC.

1993       Look ’93 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON.

1992       Fleshcase Installation, Embassy Hotel, London, ON.

1992       Roundup 92, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON.

1992       Contemporary Canadian Painting, L’Etude Ader Tajan, Paris, France.

1991       Chambermade, Embassy Hotel, London, ON.

1991       CKOC Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON. Juror’s Award.

1991       Roundup 91, Toronto, ON.

1990       Housing; a Right, Powerplant, Toronto, ON.

1989       University of Guelph Fine Arts Graduate 25th., Anniversary Alumni Show, MacDonald Centre, Guelph, ON.