Diana Pakkala Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006  Salon Show.  Arts & Letters Club.  Toronto ON
2004-2005 Finlandia Hall. Sudbury, Ontario
2004 Caisa International Art Centre.  Helsinki, Finland
2002 Member’s Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto Canada
2001 Victoria College, Northrop Frye Hall University of Toronto
2000 Gallery 1313, Toronto Canada

1988 Ciao Café, Toronto Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Bayview Art Walk.  Toronto.  ON
2006 Small Works Exhibition.  Arts & Letters Club Toronto. ON
2006 “Trappings”.  Double Standard Collaborative Exhibition .  Gallery X.  Toronto ON
2005 Group Exhibition.  The Gallery at World of Picture Frames.  Toronto ON
2005 Group Exhibition.  Suomi Koti.  Toronto ON
2005  “Origins”.  Montgomery’s Inn.  Toronto. ON
2005 “Origins”.  Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, ON
2005 “Out of Con Text”  Steamwhistle Brewery - Two Man Show with Rob Croxford.  Toronto ON
2005 “Fragments”  Todmorden Mills Art Museum. Toronto 
2004“Affordable Art”  Praxis Gallery, Toronto ON
2004 - 2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Upper Gallery, Toronto ON
2004“Small Works” Arts & Letters Club, Toronto ON
2004“Summer Heat”.  Praxis Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 “Summer Camp”.  Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2004 “Grimsby Biannual Juried Exhibition”, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Ontario
2004 “Springtown Art Works” Burnstown, Ontario
2003 “Urbane, Urbana”  Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario
2003 “Square Foot”  AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2003 “Prospect”  Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada

2002 10 Collectively.  Gallery 1313.   Toronto, Ontario
2002 The Omens Project - Audio piece, Gallery 1313 -Mail Art, Toronto
2001 3 Point Perspective.  Gallery 1313.  Toronto Canada

1999 – 2000 Central Studios.  Toronto Canada
1999 13 X 13.  Gallery 1313.  Toronto Canada                                                        

1999 Hummingbird Centre. Arts & Letters group show. Toronto Canada
1996 – 1997Third Rail Studio Tour and Exhibition.  Toronto

1994 – 1996 Visual Arts Ontario.  Toronto Canada
1984  Grands et Jeunes D’Aujourd’hui. Paris, France
1984  Norart.  Laurentian University Art GallerySudbury, Ontario Canada
1984 Rodman Hall.  St. Catharines Ontario
1984 Papermaking Exhibition.  Gallery 76.  Toronto Can Belleville Art Gallery, Grimsby Art Gallery

Awards

1981 Ontario College of Art Printmaking Scholarship
1982 University of Guelph, Printmaking Scholarship
1983 Banff Centre Scholarship for Printmaking
1984 Sauza of Tequila Award for Printmaking at Instituto Allende in Mexico
2004 Exhibition Assistance, Finnish Canadian Credit Union
2005 Honourable Mention, Scarborough Arts Council

Selected Collections

Colio Estate Wines, Canada
Steamwhistle Brewery, Toronto Canada
Finlandia House, Sudbury Canada
Barbra Schlifer Clinic, Toronto Canada
Finnish Canadian Credit Union, Toronto Canada
Canadian Embassy in Finland
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Toronto Canada
McLean Hunter Corporation, Canada
Sauza Tequila Corporation, Mexico
Instituto Allende, Mexico
Banff Centre for the Fine Arts
University of Guelph Print Collection
National Library of Canada, Ottawa
Casey House Foundation, Toronto
Canadian Women’s Foundation, Toronto
Rape Crisis Centre of Toronto
Commissart Inc.
Private Collections in Canada & Europe

 

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