Cecilia Berkovic Explained

Cecilia Berkovic is a Toronto-based mixed media artist, sculptor and graphic designer.

Berkovic received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in New York, and has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.^[1] She has been a member of the artist collective Instant Coffee since 2001 and a member of the board of directors at Gallery TPW since 2005.^[2] She has also taught at Ryerson University.^[3] As part of Mercer Union's international project Advertising By Artists,^[4] Berkovic's work was published in The Wire, They Shoot Homos Don't They?, Cabinet, and Border Crossings. Recent work includes poster projects for Nuit Blanche and AIDS Action Now! in Toronto.

Exhibitions

Post No Bills, July 8 to July 31, 1999, BUS Gallery, Toronto
First Comes Love, October 9 to November 10, 2002, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Mellow Drama, January 9 to February 1, 2004, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
National Geographer & Stoner Chicks, September 6 to 29, 2007, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Advertising by Artists, February 2007 to April 2008, Art Metropole, Toronto
That's So Gay: The New Queer, June, 2011, Toronto
No Tears, 2012, Toronto
We Can't Compete, January 23 to March 6, 2014, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Taking a Part,^[5] 20 June to 26 July 2014, Mercer Union, Toronto