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Yael Brotman’s work explores our urge to build and to mimic our environment. She is a proponent of creative play as a way of engaging with and learning about the world through curiosity, failure and problem solving. Brotman’s exhibition history includes international exhibitions at the International Print Centre New York; Central Booking Gallery, NYC; Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY; Art League Houston, TX; Zweigstelle Berlin, Germany; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China. Canadian exhibitions include the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec; Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta; Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Quebec. Upcoming exhibitions include Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia; Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
She has been awarded grants from all three levels of arts councils and residencies including Hospitalfield Arts, Scotland; Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Sanbao International Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China; and Artists in Gwaii Haanas Residency Program, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Brotman’s work is represented in public and corporate collections including the Canada Council Art Bank; Foreign Affairs, Canada; Skirball Museum, Los Angeles; Sanbao Museum, China; University of Alberta; Bank of Montreal; Toronto Stock Exchange. She is on faculty at the University of Toronto and is President of CARFAC Ontario.
Yael Brotman was interviewed by Kristen Fahrig for this edition.
I’m so happy that a close friends told me Yael Brotman’s work is in a show this week and I’ll go, to enjoy her new ideas nd be infected!