Shannon Garden-Smith

Shannon Garden-Smith (she/her) is an uninvited settler of Scottish, Irish, and British heritage and
an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto (Ontario), the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Garden-Smith is a PhD student in Visual Art at York University, and she previously earned an MFA at the University of Guelph (Ontario) in 2017 and Honours BA at the University of Toronto in 2012. Working in sculpture, installation and expanded photo practice, she has exhibited nationally and internationally with recent projects at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Patel Brown (Toronto), The Bows (Mohkínstsis/Calgary, Alberta), Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson, British Colombia), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Pumice Raft (Toronto), TIER: The Institute for Endotic Research (Berlin) and more. Her work is permanently installed at Unity Health Clinic (Toronto) and her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), and Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She is an artist collaborator with Patel Brown gallery.