Anna Torma
ANNA TORMA, RCA
403 Rte 970
Baie Verte NB E4M 1N6 Canada
506 232 1949
STUDIES:
1974-79 MOME Budapest, Hungary, Degree in Textile Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, Art Gallery of Guelph and Owens Art Gallery,
Sackville, NB
2020 Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, Curator: Sarah Quinton, Textile Museum of Canada,
Toronto, ON
2019 Gardens and Beasts, with David Zsako, UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, NB
Anna Torma: Recorded Cargo, Gallery Laroche/Joncas, Montreal, QE
2018 Book of Abandoned Details, Curator: Shauna Thompson, Esker Foundation, Calgary,AB
2015 Anna Torma: Tangled, L.A.Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Liens de Sang, with Balint Zsako, Galerie Robert Poulin, Montreal, QE
Anna Torma: Habitat, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax, NS
2014 [becoming] The Logic of Memory, installation, Hamilton Artist's Inc, Hamilton, ON
Anna Torma: Bagatelles, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Bagatelles and Other Layers, StFX University Art Gallery, Antigonish, NS
2013 Anna Torma: Multiple Narratives, Curator: Stefano Catalani, BAM, Seattle,WA
New embroideries, L.A.Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2012 Anna Torma: Bagatelles, installation, Curator: Peter Larocque, New Brunswick
Museum, St John, NB and Galerie Montcalm, Quebec City, QE
2011 Encyclopaedia Domestica, Curator: Iga Janik, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
2010 Transverbal, Galerie d'art d'Outremont, Montreal, QE
2007 Entering the Garden, Curator: Ingrid Jenkner, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Studio Installation, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2006 Entering the Garden, Curator: Sarah Knelman, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, ON
2005 Draw Me a Garden, SPIN Gallery, Toronto, ON
Life Samplers, Curator: Glenn Alison, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON
2004 Thorough the Eye of the Needle, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2003 Recent Works, Deak Collection, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
2002 Embroideries, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Solo Show, Prime Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 ReDoRePair-ReConstruct, Curator: Rhona Wenger, Grimsby Public AG, Grimsby, ON
1998 White Water Gallery Show, North Bay, ON
Homer Watson Gallery Show, Kitchener, ON
1997 Solo Show, Prime Gallery, Toronto, ON
1996 Anna Torma:Notes and Visions, Curator: Allison Ferris, JMKAC, Sheboygan, WI
Solo Show, Szombathelyi Keptar, Szombathely, Hungary
1995 The Craft Gallery Show, OCC Gallery, Toronto, ON
The Burlington Art Centre Show, Burlington, ON
1994 Hammer Gallery Show with I. Zsako, Hamilton, ON
1990 The Spectator Gallery Show, Hamilton, ON
1985 Ferencvarosi Pincetarlat, Budapest, Hungary
1984 Pesterzsebeti Muzeum Exhibit with I. Zsako, Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 A Temple Most August, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
Abstrus, Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montreal, QE
ONLINE: Maison ModeleIII: House of Heartbreak, Centre Clark, Montreal, QE
2020 Fairytails, curated by Anne Koval, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
Governor’s General Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2019 Gardens, Beasts and Warriors 3 person, The Andrew&Laura McCain Art Gallery,
Florenceville, NB
Les histoires necessaries/Instrumental Stories, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen
Moncton, NB
How far do you travel? Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Papier with Gallery Laroche/Joncas Montreal, QE
Imagined Realities, 4 person, Galerie Marie Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Belgium
Breaching Borders, 16th Tapestry Triennial, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
2018 Lost Threads, Touchstone Nelson Museum of Art, Nelson, BC
Fait main/Hand Made, Musee National des Beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec City, QE
Art Toronto with Gallery Laroche/Joncas
2017 I. Canadaian Craft Biennial, AGB, Burlington, ON
II. Textile Biennial, Kunststitching Perspectief, Haacht, Belgium
Assembled, 3 person, Dieppe Cultural Centre, Moncton, NB
2016 Singular Mythologies, 3 person, Galerie 1700 La Poste, Montreal, QE
Contemporary Textile Collection II. Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON
10th Textile Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Attachment, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
NB Art Bank Exhibition, UMMA, Bangor, ME
2015 Writing Topography, Marion McCain Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Art
Curator: Corinna Ghaznavi, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2014 Domesticity, Curator: Stephanie Buchmann, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Hibernus: RCA Members Show, John B.Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
CHAC Show, Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, ON
Writing and Object, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2013 Paper, Gallery Page & Strange, Halifax, NS
Stitch, Carmelclooster Drachten, TheNetherlands
Modern Masters: International Trade Fair with Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2012 PaperDoll, Curator: Anne Koval, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB and Mendel Art
Gallery, Saskatoon,SK
Soft, Curator: Ingrid Jenkner, MSVU Art Gallery,Halifax, NS
Secrets and Stories, Curator: Andrea Bacal, Visions ArtMuseum, San Diego, CA
CHAC Exhibit, Curator: Judith Klugerman, Gallery Montcalm, Ottawa, ON
Inaugural exhibition for new RCA members, Christina Parker Gallery, St John's, NF
Nadelwerke, Curator: Elisabeth Bosch, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
From Lausanne to Beijing, 7th International Fiberart Biennale, Nantong, China
Material Connections, Curator: Stanzie Toth, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2011, Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Five Continents: Tournai Triennial, Tournai, Belgium
2010 13th Triennial of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
Regard…Strathbutler 20th Anniversary Exhibition,St John’s Museum, St.John, NB
La Peau de l'Ours Anniversary Exhibition,Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal,QE
Sur le Fil, Musee de l' Objects, Blois, France
Sky and Earth with I. Zsako, Pecs, Hungary
2009 Sur le Fil, Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille and Musee International des Arts Modestes
Sete, France
Cut 25years International Textile Art in Graz, Invitational Anniversary Exhibition,
Raiffeisenhof, Graz, Austria
Re:InSitu, Canadian Hungarian Artist Collective Invitational Exhibition,
MuveszetMalom, Szentendre and Keszthely, Hungary
The 3rd Triennial of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
Torma-Zsako Show, 3 person, Wilde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008 The Needle, The Paintbrush and The Knife, The Proposition, NYC, 3 person
The New Art of Sewing, Curator: Ann Keister, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
The Fine Art of Drawing, Curator: Stephanie Tessin, MFA Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL
Fables, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, UK with Balint and Istvan Zsako
Dia-Logue 6th International Textile Art Triennial, Tournai, Belgium
2007 Blues, Curator: Roxane Shaughnessy, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Stitches: An Invitational Exhibit of Fiber Art, Curator: Anne Gouchenour,
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Group Show, Curator: Ce Scott, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Just My Imagination, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Group Show, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Materialize Curator: Beth M. Biggs, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2006 Reflections: Canada-Hungary, Curator: Joyce Millar, Stuart Hall Art Gallery,
Montreal, QE and Pier 21 Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Just My Imagination, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Art Gallery of Algoma,
Sault Ste Marie, ON and Illingworth- Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
2005 Just My Imagination, Art Gallery of Windsor, MOCCA Toronto and Dalhousie Art
Gallery, Halifax, NS
Accent, Curator: Nora Levai, Ujlipotvarosi Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
NB Art Bank Acquisitions, GAUM Centre, Moncton, NB
2004 Metaphase: family installation with Balint, David and Istvan Zsako, Struts Gallery,
Sackville, NB and You Me Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Just My Imagination, Curators: Kim Moodie, David Meritt, Museum London, ON
NB Art Bank Acquisitions, UNB Art Centre, Fredericton
2003 Torma-Zsako Exhibit with I. Zsako, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON
Memory Show, Fiberscene.com, curator: Susan Taber-Avila, San Francisco, CA
Art of the Stitch Biennial, London and Birkenhead, UK
2002 Textiles for 2002, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2001 Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, PA
Art of The Stitch, Mall Galleries, London and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK
Duologue with I. Zsako, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2000 Enchanted Threads, 3 person, Curator: Dawn White Beatty, BAC, Burlington, ON
Pelican Gallery Show, 2 person, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Material Memory, Curator: Carol Podedworny, NAC Gallery, St. Catharines, ON
Blue Show, Slusser Gallery, U of MI, Ann Arbor, MI
Women’s Art in Hungary 1960-2000, Curator: Dr Katalin Keseru, Museum Ernst,
Budapest, Hungary
1999 The 6th International Textile Competition, Kyoto, Japan
1997 Gallery Duna Show, with I. Zsako, Budapest, Hungary
Public Hanging, Jackson Square Mall, Hamilton, ON
1996 “1996” Curator: Ihor Holubitzky, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
Fancy, Curators: Sarah Quinton and John Armstrong, Museum for Textiles, Toronto, ON
1995 Quilt National, American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
1989 Skin and Bones, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2nd International Triennial for Textiles, Tournai, Belgium
1987 Group Show, Palazzo Falconeri, Rom, Italy
1986 Laufer, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
Textures, Exhibition of Minitextiles, Bibliotheque Nationale, Luxembourgh
CURATORIAL WORKS
2019 Beasts and Gardens, 2 person exhibit, UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, NB
2017 Assembled, 3 person exhibit at Dieppe Cultural Centre, Moncton, NB
2010 Re:In Situ, CHAC exhibition at StJohn Arts Centre, St John, NB
2009 Re:In Situ, CHAC exhibition at MuveszetMalom, Szentendre, Hungary
Torma-Zsako Show, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB, Wilde Gallery, Berlin,
Germany and Trinity Gallery, St john, NB
2008 Fables, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, England
2004 Metaphase, YouMe Gallery, Hamilton, ON
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Saidye- Bronfman Prize
2018 Explore and Create Canada Council for the Arts
International Residencies, Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation
2016 Travel Grant, NB Arts Board
2015 Creation Grant, NB Arts Board
2014 Lieutenant-General’s Award for High Achievement in Visual Arts
2013 Fine Craft: Long-Term Grants to Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Creation Grant, NB Arts Board
Award of Excellence, from Lausanne to Beijing,7th Fibre Art Biennale, Nantong, China
2010 Creation Grant, NB ArtsBoard
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Creation Grant, NB Arts Board
Travel Grant to Graz and Budapest, NB Arts Board
2008 Strathbutler Award
City of Tournai Prize, Dia-Logue, Tournai, Belgium
2006 Untitled Art Award, Toronto, Finalist
A grant, NB Arts board
Honorary Member, Canadian-Hungarian Artist Collective
International Residency Program, Paris Studios Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2005 Saidye-Bronfman Award, Shortlist
2004 Travel Grant to London, UK, Canada Council for the Arts
Creation-Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Creation Grant, NB Arts Board
2002 Creation-Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Chalmers Art Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council
2001 Travel Grant to Textile Workshop Kecskemet, HU, Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Craft Grant, Ontario Art Council
B Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1997 Travel Grant to Budapest, HU, Canada Council for the Arts
1996 B Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1995 Craft Grant, Ontario Art Council
Mary Diamond Butts Embroidery Award
1994 Most Creative Work Award, Patchwork International, Ch.de Chassy en Morvan, France
Grand Prize, 13th Textile Biennial, Szombathely, HU
Travel Grant to Belgium, Canada Council for the Arts
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Grant
1992 First Prize, Insights, Wellington County Museum, Fergus, ON
1991 Best of Show, Fibre Fireworks, Ontario Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, ON
1989 Guild Award, Designer Craft, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
LECTURES:
2018 Artist Talk and Workshop, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB
2015 Artist Talk, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2014 About Bagatelles, Artist talk, Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2013 Prints incorporated, lecture on recent works at ACAD, Calgary, AB
2012 Visiting Artist, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
Lecture on Bagatelles, New Brunswick College of Art and Design, Fredericton, NB
2009 Visiting Artist, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NF
Workshop and artist talk, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
2007 Workshop and artist talk, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2006 Workshop and artist talk, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
Artists talk, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON
2005 The Embroidery Project in Luxembourg, artist talk, Concordia University, Montreal, QE
2004 Workshop and artist talk, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
2002 Artist talk and critiques, NSCAD, Halifax, NS
2001 Workshop and artist talk, Ontario College of Art &Design, Toronto, ON
1999 Instructor, Burlington Arts Centre, Burlington, ON
1997 Artist talk, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Notes and Visions, artist talk, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
1995 Tradition and change in embroidery, artist’s talk, Burlington Arts Centre, Burlington, ON
Textile Drawings, artist talk, The Craft Gallery and Museum for Textiles, Toronto, ON
Canadian Textile Art, artist talk, 11th International Textile Symposium, Graz, Austria
PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL EVENTS:
2018 Self Directed A.I.R in France and Italy, Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Grant
2015 Quilt en Sud, invited artist, Biarritz, France
2014 Can Serrat Artist in Residence, El Bruc, Spain
2013 Contextural, self-directed artist in residence at ACAD, Calgary, AB
Artist in Residence, Workshop and Mentoring Program, organized by the Newfoundland
and Labrador Craft Council, Woody Point, NF
Handmade Assembly, Artist talk and workshop, organized by Struts and Owens Art
Gallery, Sackville, NB
2010 Strathbutler Symposium, NB Museum, St John, NB
2008 Leighton Studios Self-Directed Creative Residency in Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Materiality+ Meaning, International Fiber Symposium, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Workshop and Exhibition, Open Sky Creative Society, Fort Simpson, NT
2007 Artist in Residence, 3 months, Mc Coll Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
Artist in Residence, 4 months, International Residency Program in Visual Arts,
Canada Council, Paris, France
Juror, New Brunswick Arts Board
2005 UNESCO Aschberg Bursary; 2 months residency in Wiltz, Luxembourg
CHAC- Tantramar Visual Art Symposium, organizer, Baie Verte, NB
2004 Leighton Studios Self Directed Creative Residency, Banff, AB
Juror, NB Arts Board
2002 Canadian-Hungarian Artist Collective, founding member and co-president
New Work Residency, Banff, Alberta
1997 Northern Fibre 2 Invited artist, Boros, Sweden
1995 Juror, Ontario Arts Council, Craft Grant
Sismographes, Symposium fibres et textiles, Montreal, QE
11th International Textile Workshop and Exhibition, invited artist, Graz, Austria
1994 European Textile Network Conference, Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2021 Permanent Danger, exhibit catalog
Anna Torma, review by Earl Miller, Border Crossings Magazine
2020 Anna Torma’s Hand-Sewn Dreams by Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic
Running with Wolves: Anna Torma’s Rhizomatic Wanderlust by James D. Campbell,
White Hot Magazine
A Garden Diary, an essay by Anna Torma, Canadian Art Magazine
2019 Anna Torma at Esker Foundation, exhibit review by Erin Silver, Canadian Art
Recorded Cargo:les broderies insoumises d’ Anna Torma, Marie-Eve Charron
Le devoir
2018 Critics’ pics, Lucas Matheson, Artforum Magazine
Conversations with Anna Torma, mini documentary film by the Esker Foundation
Fait Main/Hand Made, catalog, Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec
Top 29 Museum Shows, Artnet news, 2018 summer
2017 Anna Torma: Fairytails, Hey Magazine, Paris, France
2016 Affiliations: Anna Torma’s artistic and mythological sites, catalog essay to Les
Mythologies Singulieres exhibition by Kirsty Bell
Anguille sous roche by Brunehilde Larquet, Vie des Arts#244
Anna Torma: Les Mythologies Singulieres, capsule video by Galerie 1700 La Poste
2015 Writing Topography, catalog, curatorial essay by Corinna Ghaznavi
Anna Torma: Tangled with Past Tales, catalog, essay by Petra Halkes
Mixed Grill, exhibit review, Kolaj Magazine #13
2014 Anna Torma: From Narrative Into Uncertainty, catalog essay by Tila Kellman
Anna Torma’s Bagatelles is a triumph in silk/exhibit review by Peter Simpson, Ottawa
Citizen, July 23
Making Art Feel at Home, exhibit review by Alix Taylor, Hyperallergic, July 23
2011 Bagatelles, catalog, essay by Peter Larocque, Museum New Brunswick, St John, NB
PaperDoll, catalog, essay by Anne Koval, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
Anna Torma's secret garden, exhibit review by Mike Landry, Telegraph Journal, 12/3
2010 Regard, catalog, Museum New Brunswick, St John, NB
2009 Re:InSitu, catalog, CHAC, Montreal, QE
Anna Torma, portrait,Telegraph Journal, 03/28
Anna Torma, Istvan Zsako, Balint Zsako, exhibit review, Border Crossings, #112
Sur le fil, exhibition catalog, Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France
2008 Keeping it in the Family by Balint Zsako, NY Arts Magazine July-Aug
2007 Dialogues in Diversity, book by John K. Grande, Pari publishing
Materialize: Contemporary Craft in New Brunswick, essay by Beth M. Biggs
2006 Entering the Garden, catalog essay by Anne Koval, AGH, Hamilton, ON
Reflexions-Canada-Hungary, essay by J. Millar, Stuart Hall Gallery, Montreal, QE
2005 Just My Imagination, essays by David Liss, Kim Pruesse, Robin Metcalfe, Louise Dery,
Museum London, London, ON
Her patchwork life, exhibit review by Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, Sept. 3
2004 A high fibre riot, exhibit review by Julia Dault, National Post, vol.6 #133
Beauty in the Beast, by Natalie Matutshovsky Walrus Magazine, June
2002 Anna Torma: Embroideries, catalog, essay by Katalin Keseru, G. Vigado, Budapest, HU
2000 Enchanted Threads, catalog, essay by Gabor Feuer, BAC, Burlington ON
1999 Fiberarts Design Book Six, Lark Books, USA
1998 Anna Torma’s embroidery, Fiberarts, vol.25. #2
1996 Anna Torma: Intimate textile drawings, Fiberarts, vol.22
1995 Contemplative scenes of a textile artist by Elizabeth Kimball, Globe and Mail, April 6.
1994 The Art of Embroidery, book, Cassell, England by Anne Morrell
1991 Fiberart Design Book Four, Lark Books, USA by Nancy Orban
COMMISSIONS:
2019 How Far Do You Travel? 6 artists wrapping buses, TransLink and CAG Vancouver
Different Beasts, book cover for J.R.McConvey stories, Goose Line Edition
2010 UNB Learning Centre, Fredericton, NB, shortlist
2005 Embroidered Wallhanging, community project with mentally handicapped artists in
Cooperations, Wiltz, Luxembourgh
1995 Recreation Centre Public Art Project, Hamilton, ON shortlist
1990 Wildflowers of Canada, quilt, commissioned by Sharon Enkin, Toronto, ON
WORKS IN PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
2021 RBC Art Collection, Toronto, ON
2020 Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2019 Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, ON
2018 Fidelity Investments, London, England
2017 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
AGNS, Halifax, NS
2016 Isabelle de Mevius Private Collection, Montreal, QE
2015 New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB
2014 Canada House, London, England
2013 Richard Harris Private Collection, Chicago, IL
2012 New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB
2010 Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
La Peau de l' Ours Collection, Montreal, QE
2009 Strathbutler Art Collection, St John, NB
2008 New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB
2007 Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
2006 MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
2005 Department of Foreign Affairs Fine Art Collection, Ottawa, ON
2004 New Brunswick Art Bank Art Collection, Fredericton, NB
1997 Library and Gallery Textile Art Collection, Cambridge, ON
1992 Ministry of Heritage and Culture Art Collection, Budapest, Hungary
1980 Contemporary Textile Collection, Szombathely, Hungary