April Hickox
Invasive Species: Robin by April Hickox
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2014
Chromogenic print
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April Hickox is a lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who lives on the Toronto Islands. Over the course of over 35 years, April has mined the distinctions between personal and public sites through film, video, photography and installation. Her work with objects and still lives are rooted in narrative histories that individuals accumulate throughout their lives and the ability of inanimate objects to shape memory. Currently this direction in her work continues in both photographic and video works with Provenance Unknown, and Variations a series of video works exploring the studio still life.
April is also known as a landscape photographer explores notions of the wild and what we know wilderness to be. Over the years she continues to documented the overlapping layers of human and natural histories, as nature with our help reinvents itself. Here work can be found in numerous public and privet Canadian Collections has been supported by all levels of funding throughout her career and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Hickox is currently associate professor of photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. An active community leader, the founding director of Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography, and a founding member of Tenth Muse Studio, and Artscape Toronto. For the past five years she has been a member of the curatorial board of Art with Heart Casey House.
Notable exhibitions include the, Harbourfrount Centre, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Maclaren Art Centre, The Oakville Galleries, Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Most recently her video work was shown at the Surrey Gallery in B.C.
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April Hickox: Closer to Home - Maclaren Art Centre, 2014
April Hickox - Travelling Light, Views of Ontario