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Education
2023-Present MFA in Sound at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, U.S.A
2017-2022 BFA, Drawing and Painting at OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario,
2013-2017 Earl Haig Secondary School, Toronto, Canada
Claude Watson Arts Program, Major in Drawing and Painting, Minor in Cello
Professional Experience
2022 - Present — Commissioned Sculptor for the Baycrest home for Geriatric Care
2021 - 2022 Baycrest Geriatric Hospital, Artist, Project Manager and Producer of Sha’ar Exhibition, Baycrest
2020 - 2022 Spadinababy Inc, Produced Second Album
2019 - Present. Founder and Director, Spadinababy Inc. Record Label and Art Production company
2018-2020 Independent artist, Ether Studios, 7 Fraser Ave. Toronto, Canada
2019 Urban Nation Museum, Mural Assistant, Berlin, Germany
2018 Project Manager and Artist, Canopy Growth Corp., independently contracted to paint 13,000 square foot mural with 3 assistants and 2 co-artists
2016-2018 Curator, Sexual assault the road show, A travelling art gallery in a shipping container funded by the Ontario Arts Council
2017 Recorded first 10 song album— composed, arranged, co-produced and performed
2016 Visual Arts Instructor, Avenue Road Arts School
2011-2016 Teacher, cello— Suzuki School of Downtown Toronto
Special skills
Sound Recording, arrangement and production using Logic Pro X and Ableton Max for Live
Arduino, soldering, circuitry and machine building
Classical cellist 2002-present
Academic Painting
Publications
2022 BrainMatters Magazine, Page 18 “Sha’ar Exhibit”
Group Exhibition (*indicates performance)
2022 Baycrest: Sha’ar Exhibit*
2017 Super Wonder Gallery Group Exhibition
2016-2018 Work Displayed in traveling Ontario Arts Council
funded Gallery, Sexual Assault the Roadshow
2016 Live painting executed and displayed at PI Fine Art Gallery*
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Interaccess Gateways Solo Show
2019 OCADU Drawing and Painting Gallery Exhibition “Self Love”
2018 Lonsdale Gallery Solo Show, painting, installation and sound performance*
2017 Nuit Blanche Solo Show, Downtown Toronto, storefront*
2017 Annex Art Center, Solo Show
Performances
2022 Baycrest Performance, Opening of the Sha’ar Exhibition*
2022 Performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto opening for experimental electronic group Smerz
2020 Performed at the X Avant music festival in Toronto supporting Indigenous group a Tribe Called Red, playing a piano I made out of blood oranges (tech)
2019 Performed Experimental Spoken Poetry opening for Yoko Ono at the Gardiner Museum for her exhibition The Riverbed
2019 Recorded a four song EP with Yibin Li and her quartet at the Power Station at Berklee NYC
2018 The Music Gallery, Performed my first album, LP Release* under Alias Ariel Gold
2018 Art Gallery of Ontario performances, AGO First Thursdays
Bibliography
http://baycrest.uberflip.com/baycrest/brainmatters-spring-2022
https://nowtoronto.com/sexual-assault-the-road-show-is-about-resistance-and-empowerment
https://www.aftrprtynyc.com/post/artist-spotlight-ariel-gold
https://teenplicity.com/ariel-gold-talks-hypersensitivity/
https://pbase.com/merriwolf/image/169960560
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