Bio
Liz DeCoste is a queer Toronto-based artist with a BFA in cross-disciplinary arts from Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Their work revolves around the collection of natural materials and the methodologies of its display based in research on museology, scientific illustration, queer ecologies, and folk taxonomy. Working primarily in sculpture, printmaking, and collage, their work explores ways of knowing that surround human-nature relationships.
After graduating from OCADU in 2022, DeCoste started the Toronto-based Carrier Bag Collective, a group of other recent alumni that engages with collection practices as a material approach to art-making. Emphasizing community engaged practice and accessibility to art knowledge, Carrier Bag Collective has held free workshops in the GTA in techniques such as cyanotypes and natural dyeing.
DeCoste grew up in Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, Saskatchewan, the traditional territory of the Nêhiyawak, the Anihsinapek, the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota nations, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. They are currently living and working in Toronto, the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Huron-Wendat, and the Missassaugas of the Credit.
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EDUCATION
BFA in Cross-Disciplinary: Life Studies, minor in Printmaking & Publications. Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) 2022.
EXHIBITIONS
35mm Indisposable, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, Toronto ON. December 2018- January 2019. Solo exhibition.
Every Nook and Cranny, The Woods Art Space, Regina SK. December 2020. Group exhibition.
Altered Images At Hand, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto ON. April-July 2021. Group online exhibition.
Urban Canvas, Regina Downtown Business Improvement District, selected design artist. Regina, SK. June 2021, permanent installation.
Nuit Blanche Regina, selected installation artist. Regina, SK. August 2021.
Proximities: OCADU Life Studies Thesis Show, Gallery 1313. March 2022. Group exhibition.
GradEx 107 at OCADU. May 2022.
Wunderkammer, Ignite Gallery at OCADU. Group Exhibition. September-October 2022.
AWARDS
Won Lee Fine Arts Award, granted by OCADU, 2022.
Career Launcher Fund Micro-Grant, granted by the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers at OCADU, 2022.
