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Maya Foltyn
MAYA FOLTYN - f. 1953, Polen
TORONTO
Maya Foltyn holds a Bachelor in interior design and industrial product design and a second Bachelor in painting and drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. She later entered the drawing programme at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. In the early 1980s, she moved to New Zealand. She now lives and works in Toronto.
For more than twenty-five years, Maya Foltyn has explored the intuitive relationship between site, memory, and mark-making. Through processes of sensorial translation, Foltyn’s paintings, drawings, and photography delve into the imprints of lived experience. Her practice connects, translates, and re-examines affective connections between memory and aesthetics, communicating a language of impressions of being-in-the-world.
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Working predominantly in large-scale painting and drawing, the focus of Maya’s practice is colour and light. The dominant visual features of her work are plains of colour and strong, gestural line. The rich visual landscapes reflect her sources of inspiration: the cultural richness of Europe, the exotic beauty of New Zealand, her second homeland, and the majestic scale of Canada.
Maya Foltyn’s practice blurs the line of traditional categorization in her creative and innovative use of classical methods and new technologies. Her large-scale works delve into her research on the human condition, finding new avenues of interpretation throughout a wide variety of expression. She explores the use of space, both as subject and as surrounding, in the works themselves and the conditions of their arrangement.
EDUCATION
1984-82 Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna AUT
1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts, painting and drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk PL
1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts, interior design and industrial product design, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk PL
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2020 TEMPE #5 – The Bonds Between Us, Tempe Atelier, Trondheim NO 2020 Circular Dimensions, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas CA
2019 Photography/Contact, Take Note, Toronto CA
2019 MomentuM, Take Note, Toronto CA
2017 MARCH 15, Toronto CA
2016 Ode to the Naked Structure, Take Note, Toronto CA
2015 Nests & Moons, The Pilot, Toronto CA
2014 Galaxies, ULA SHE, Toronto CA
2012 1 & 1, Artscape Triangle Gallery, Toronto CA
2009 All RED, PI Gallery, Toronto CA
2009 Red on Red, Nuit Blanche, Dance/Distillery District, Toronto CA
2008 Heat and Fire, Dance/Distillery District, Toronto CA
2008 Universal Imagination: Six Exhibitions Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Stong College and the 50th Anniversary of York University, Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, Stong College, York University. Toronto CA
2007 Warm Embrace, Dance/Distillery District, Toronto CA 2003 Gaba Art Gallery, Port Credit CA
1984 Waikato Art Gallery, Hamilton NZ
1984 Künstkörper Club, Vienna AUT
1983 Phoenix Gallery, Ternitz AUT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020 Ontario Society of Artists Members’ Exhibition of Selected Works, OSA virtual gallery CA 2020 Juried Art Exhibition, Ontario Society of Artists, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Ontario CA 2019 Withrow Common Gallery, Exhibition Place, Toronto CA
2019 Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
2018 Festival of Smalls, Art Interiors, Toronto CA
2018 Annual Exhibition, Strand Fine Art Gallery, London CA
2018 Ontario Society of Artists Members’ Exhibition of Selected Works, Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills Museum, Toronto CA
2018 Fourth International Biennale of Fine Art Nudes, Petrovac ME (Montenegro)
2018 Out of This World, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts Juried Exhibition, Toronto CA 2017 Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
2017 Mosaic, Ontario Society of Artists Members Exhibition, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora CA 2017 Open Studio, Bradshaw Studios, Toronto CA
2017 Arta Gallery, Toronto CA
2017 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto CA 2016 Walnut Contemporary, CA
2016 Japanese Paper Place, Toronto CA
2016 Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 133, Toronto CA 2016 Figure 8, Toronto CA
2016 Figure 8, Bradshaw Studios, Toronto CA
2016 Annual Exhibition, Strand Fine Art Gallery, London CA
2016 Festival of Smalls, Art Interiors, Toronto CA
2016 Mistletoe Magic, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
2016 Contact Photography Festival, Take Note, Toronto CA
2016 Imprinted [3 artists – 1 act], Walnut Contemporary, Toronto CA 2016 Wild About Washi, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Interview with Agnieszka Foltyn, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas CA
2011 Cover image of the Ontario Society of Artists membership brochure
2011 Catalogue for Pergament Concertina, 46th Golden Pen of Belgrade, 11th Annual International Biennale of Illustration, The Fenix Gallery and the Belgrade International Book Fair, Belgrade SRB
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2012 Government of Ontario Art Collection for the Ontario Archives CA Works can be found in private collections in Armenia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and USA.
ORGANIZATIONAL AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 Chair, Members Exhibition of Selected Works, Ontario Society of Artists, Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills Museum, Toronto CA
2013 Juror at the Annual Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Present-09 Member of the Ontario Society of Artists
2013-09 Officer on the Executive Council, Ontario Society of Artists 2012-11 Vice-President of the Ontario Society of Artists
2016-10 Photographer of exhibitions for the Ontario Society of Artists
RESIDENCIES
2019 International Festival of Art, Tegher AN
2010 Parchment Project, International Fine Arts Colony, Rtanj SRB
AWARDS
2015 Aboveground Art Supplies Award, OSA Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
2014 Best in Show, OSA Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto CA
2011 Best in Show, OSA Members Exhibition of Selected Works, Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills Museum, Toronto CA