Bio
Aislinn Thomas (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes video, performance, sculpture, installation, and text. She culls material from everyday experiences and relationships, creating work that ranges from poignant to absurd, and at times straddles both. Many of Aislinn’s recent projects respond to access and disability. She gratefully works alongside and in the legacy of so many who–often out of necessity–treat both as spaces for creative acts.
Aislinn is a white, disabled & chronically ill, cis-gender settler of Ashkenazic and British descent. She is grateful to live and work in Unama’ki, part of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq under the Peace and Friendship treaties.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include the WRO Media Arts Biennial (Wroclaw, Poland), San José Museum of Art (San José, California), 221A (Vancouver), University of Glasgow (Glasgow, UK), Tangled Art + Disability (Toronto, ON), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), The New Gallery (Calgary, AB), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, ON), Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS), articule (Montreal, QC), and C Magazine. Commissioned projects include A piece of cloth held taut curated by Crystal Mowry for the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; As I am and as I become curated by Lauren Schell Dickens for the San José Museum of Art; and A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention curated by Jacqueline Bell for the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Aislinn’s writing has been published in The Cripsters, ArtsEverywhere.ca, and BlackFlash Magazine.
Aislinn gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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A stack of pancakes to hold up the ceiling