Biography
Lori Victor, a full-time visual artist in Ottawa, Canada, has exhibited since 2006. Her practice includes and often integrates installation, painting, photography and video. Lori's work questions and reflects subjects such as cultural history, identity, and the environment/climate change. She creates hand-constructed representational or abstracted shapes and forms, and uses accessible materials like found and manipulated objects. Her abstract paintings include both organically and mechanically painted imagery. Often her canvas is used as a material to manipulate through cutting and folding rather than just as a support. Much of her work evolves from systems theory – the knowledge that we are all a part of a larger whole – both physically and metaphorically.
Lori completed an MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2017, and earned a BFA from the University of Ottawa in 2011.
ARTIST RESUMÉ
Visual Art Education
Masters of Fine Art, Vermont College of Fine Art, 2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Ottawa, 2011
Solo Shows
2021 Roots – Corridor 45/75, Ottawa, ON
2014 How Would Mary Feel?, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB
2013 How Would Mary Feel?, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
IM2 - Idealism, Mindscapes and Mythology, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2010 Reflection and Transformation, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
2008 Botany Beach, Centrepointe Theatre Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2007 Various Works at The Urban Pear, Ottawa ON
Impressions of Yoho, Cumberland Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2006 Traversing the Tarn, IPO Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Group Shows
2022 Climate Change - Passion to Action, Ottawa, ON
Industrial Geometry – Annex Gallery, OAG, Ottawa ON
Home, Gallery 55, Ottawa, ON
Climate Change Passion to Action, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
Gallery representation – L.A. Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Artwalk, Ottawa, ON
OGA Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
2020 OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2019 The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2018 The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
2017 Mélange, Ottawa, ON
The Artist Within – Branching Out, Venice, Italy
VCFA Grad Show, Montpelier, VT
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
2016 The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2015 Paper, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, ON
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
#MakeItHappen #MakeArtHappen, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
The Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) Annual Art Auction, Le pARTy, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2014 Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, ON
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
The Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) Annual Art Auction, Le pARTy, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2013 Create This Revolution, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
BIG F, little f, What Begins with F?, Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, ON
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2012 Great Big Smalls VIII, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, ON
The Rectory Art House Open House, Ottawa, ON
Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, ON
Backstories, Ottawa, ON
OAG Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa, ON
2011 The Rectory Art House, Ottawa, ON
Flux, University of Ottawa Graduate Visual Art Exhibition, Ottawa, ON
2010 Troubled Water, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, Manotick ON
Jacqueline Fry Memorial Scholarship Exhibition, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
2009 Quatrepattes c'est bien, deuxpattes c'est mieux, Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON
2007 Mayor's Art Show, Ottawa, ON
2006 The Initial Public Opening, IPO Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Other
Artist Talk – Roots, City Hall, Ottawa – 2021
City of Ottawa Professional Artist Grant – 2020
Artist Talk “Hello Japan” – RIA, 2019
Artist Talk – Mélange, April, 2018
The NBOG - Tontine Award – August, 2015
Vermont College of Fine Art Merit Scholarship, 2015, 2016
University of Ottawa Merit Scholarship, 2009, 2010, 2011
Finalist, Jacqueline Fry Memorial Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 2010
Shortlisted for the OC Transpo Administration Building public art commission, 2015