Overview

Crude and meticulous, Slijboom’s paintings offer a lighthearted proposal of control over the cohabitating states of anxiety and humour alive in every symbol.

 

Dana Slijboom is a Toronto-based painter working in oil on canvas. Her practice engages both digital and traditional techniques to explore the contradictions of contemporary image making toward a renegotiation of how we process visual information. Through their playful oversimplification, archetypal figures and landscapes act as proxies for the excessiveness of image culture—as familiar lures that obscure a more hollow or cynical narrative. Slijboom applies a medley of motifs such as line and repetition, colour blocking, and relief to achieve a level of graphic spatial distortion that compels the viewer into engagement, inviting them to confront, excavate, and interrogate the overly palatable imagery. Crude and meticulous, Slijboom’s paintings offer a lighthearted proposal of control over the cohabitating states of anxiety and humour alive in every symbol.

 

Recent exhibitions include, Tattarattat at Hunt Gallery, Toronto (2022), Not Your Garden at Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (2022), BLOOM DOOM ROOM at The Plumb, Toronto (2021), Twenty-Four at Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen DK (2020). Her work is included in several catalogues including Caniche Vol. 4 published by Revista Caniche, Mexico City, Nut Volume 2, plublished by BookArt, Montreal and Confetti Generation published by Polly’s Picture Show, Amsterdam. She holds a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL (2009). Her work is included in the collections of TD Canada Trust, Scotiabank, the Royal Bank of Canada as well as several private collections.  

Biography

Born in 1984 in Canada.

Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

 

Education

 

2009

 BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2022

 Zalucky Contemporary, ‘Not Your Garden’, Toronto, ON

2019

 Erin Stump Projects, ‘Romance’, Toronto, ON

2018

 Towards, ‘Ranch Dressing’, Toronto. ON

 2017

 Little Sister Gallery, ‘Immoral Support’, Toronto, ON

2012  Berm Collectief. ‘Black and White and Read all over’, Amsterdam, NL

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2023

 Galerie Marguo, ‘Art Paris 2023’, Paris, France

2022

 Hunt Gallery, ‘Tattarrattat’, Toronto, ON

 2021

 Pumice Raft, ‘Fractal Exotica, Floral Erotica’, Toronto, ON

 

 The Plumb, ‘Bloom Doom Room’, Toronto, ON

2020

 Bricks Gallery, ‘Twenty- Four’, Copenhagen, DK

 2017

 Rural Island, ‘Puddling’, Toronto, ON

 2016

 Carrier Arts, ‘Flow Channel’, Hong Kong

 2015

 Wright Gallery, ‘Green’, Toronto, ON

 2014

 Jr. Projects, ‘Worksss’, Toronto, ON

 2013

 Outdoor exhibition at Leslie Spit, ‘Spit’, curated by Aleksander Hardashnakov, Toronto, ON

 

 Galerie Schans, ‘De Fotokopie’, Amsterdam, NL

   Beeldragers, ‘X10’, Amsterdam, NL
 2012

 Amstel 41, ‘This is a Sleeping Bag, but could also be a Tent’, Amsterdam, NL

 2011

 Polly’s Picture Show, ‘Rear View: Borders of Photography’, Amsterdam, NL

 2010

 Galerie Jaap Sleper, ‘Galerie 10’s got Talent’, Utrecht, NL

   Overtoom 31, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’, Amsterdam, NL
   Rariteiten Kabinet Boris, ‘It’s Showtime’, Amsterdam, NL
   Outpoost Slotervaart, ‘The Family Show’, Amsterdam NL
2009  Galerie Jaap Sleper, ‘Torn’, Utrecht, NL
 

 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, ‘Graduation Exhibition’, Amsterdam, NL

 

Publications

 

2021

 Soudan and Redpath, ‘All the Fallen Tulips, Hoarding Design’, Toronto, ON

2021

 Concord Park Place, ‘Selfie Susans, Block 11’, Toronto, ON

 

Collections

 

TD Bank, US

Scotiabank, ON
Royal Bank of Canada, ON