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Sabina Rak

Artist member since 2019
Montreal, Québec

Sabina Rak is currently a students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Concordia University (Montreal), Print Media department. She also has a B.A. and an M.A. in art history as well as an undergraduate degree in fine arts. She’s been exhibiting her work since 2011 and she is interested in the intersection between science and art.

Winner of the 2020 Dave McGary Memorial Award in Fine Arts from Concordia University (Montreal), she also received the 2012 Albert-Dumouchel award for emerging artists in print media, she is also one of the finalists of the Untapped Emerging Artists of the Artist Project 2017 (Toronto), as well as the winner of the Curator’s award at the 2017 Anjou Visual Arts Symposium (Montreal).

She has been received as an artist in residence at Atelier Engramme in Québec City, at the Centre 3 for Print and Media Art in Hamilton, at Centre Sagamie in Alma, QC, Atelier de l'Île in Val-David, QC, and most recently at APRIM in Montreal. She has presented two solo exhibitions in 2018, in Montréal and Trois-Rivières, QC, as well as a number of group exhibitions throughout her most recent studies.

Working with drawing, digital print and linocuts, her fields of interests are the systems of life and creation, the limits of human perception, the physics of time, as well as the definition of what is life. She is interested in the way everything is physically composed and mentally interconnected.

Profile photo: Teresa Ste-Marie


Inside the Studio

Select Past Exhibitions
2022

FOFA Gallery, Concordia University
All Conceivable Sources (group exhibition)

2022

Atelier Galerie A. Piroir, Montreal
List(e)s (group exhibition)

2021

Zocalo centre d'artistes, Longueil
Perspectives Excentrées, curator Marie-Pier Bocquet

2021

Various locations (Master of Fine Arts Studio Arts Student Association, Concordia University, Montreal)
Maureen VI (group exhibition)

2020

Centre SAGAMIE, Alma, QC
Fichiers temporaires (Temporary files) exhibition opening the Digital Symposium 02

2018

Centre de diffusion Presse-Papier, Trois-Rivières, QC
Peaux (Skins) - solo exhibition

2018

Centre d'exposition Goncourt, Montréal, QC
Visual Essays in Astronomy - solo exhibition

2014

Centre3 for Print and Media Art, Hamilton, ON
Connector - solo exhibition

2016

Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, ON
Systems and Sequence

2017

Ville d'Anjou, Montréal, QC
Visual arts symposium and exhibition

2014

Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal, QC
Substances

2012

ARPRIM, Montréal, QC
Exhibition of the Albert-Dumouchel Award finalists

Accolades
2020

Concordia University, Montreal
Dave McGary Memorial Award in Fine Arts

2017

Visual arts symposium and exhibition, Ville d'Anjou, Montréal, QC
Curator's Award

2017

Artist Project, Toronto, ON
UNTAPPED Emerging Artist

2012

ARPRIM, Montréal, QC
Albert-Dumouchel Award for emerging artists in print media

Residencies
2021

ARPRIM, Montreal, QC
1 month production residency

2021

Atelier de l'ĂŽle, Val-David, QC
Print media production residency

2017

Centre SAGAMIE, Alma, QC
Digital print residency

2014

Centre SAGAMIE, Alma, QC
Digital print residency

2014

Centre 3 for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON
Residency for emerging artists

2013

Atelier Engramme, Québec City, QC
Residency as part of the Albert-Dumouchel Award 2012 for emerging artist in print media

Education

Concordia University, Montreal, QC
MFA Print Media

2014

Concordia University, Montréal, QC
B.F.A., with Great Distinction

2002

Concordia University, Montréal, QC
M.A. Art History

1999

McGill University, Montreal, QC
B.A. Art History, Honours

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