Curriculum Vitae
SOLO AND TWO PERSON (*) EXHIBITIONS
2024 Vignettes - Art City, Chicago, IL
2022 Space and Matter - SomoS, Berlin, DE.
2020 Rationing Time, Data and Paint - Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON.*
2019 Referencing the Digital - Archive Contemporary, Montreal, QC.*
2018 As Collage - Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2017 Painting Now! - Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON..
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Helping Hand - Bonian Projects - Beijing, CN (forthcoming)
2024 Social Tapestry - Chili Art Projects - London, UK (forthcoming).
2024 Farewell From Hometown - Ivory Gate Gallery, curated by Stasia Lev, Shanghai, CN
2024 Graduate Exhibition One - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, Chicago, IL.
2024 A Glimmering Feel Towards The Now - City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2023 Rising Tide 2023 Additions to the City of Ottawa Public Art Program - Karsh-Mason and City Hall Art Galleries, Ottawa, ON.
2023 The Body is Work - Stasia’s Gallery, curated By Stasia Lev. Chicago, IL.
2023 Bonfire of the Vanities - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, curated by Francesca Beygan. Chicago, IL.
2023 Paintings Will Never Hurt You - The Plan, Chicago, IL.
2023 Beta - Art Club, curated by Dorota Coy. Detroit, MI.
2023 Nocturne no. 4 - Colour Club, curated by Noel Nissen, Chicago, IL.
2023 One bottle cap, six can tabs, nine pieces of tin foil, and 14 pebbles - The Poor Farm, WI.
2023 New Work 2023 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries. Curated by Gemma Kim and Maya Ortiz Saucedo, Chicago, IL
2023 Constructed Truths - Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON.
2022 Get Noticed - The Redhead Gallery, curated by James Hewitt and Kyle Matuzewiski. Toronto, ON.
2022 The Minds Eye - The Ottawa Art Gallery Annex, curated by Stephanie Germano, Ottawa, ON.
2022 Turf Wars - The Inc., curated by Abedar Kamgari, and Kristina Durka. Hamilton, ON.
2022 Figure Figure - Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON.
2022 SAW Prize For New Works - SAW Gallery, curated by Jason St-Laurent, Ottawa, ON.
2022 The Winter Show - Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa. ON.
2021 Holding Pattern, Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection - Karsh-Masson/
City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2021 Re:NewAll- Studio21 Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
2021 Marble Strikes Moon; A New Show of Paintings - Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, ON.
2021 Not Two Meters Apart: A Salon Show - Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON.
2020 Hindsight: 2020 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection - Karsh-Masson/City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2020 ONE AT A TIME - SomoS, Berlin, DE
2020 People + Place - Ottawa Art Galerie Annex, Ottawa, ON.
2019 Mindmatter - Artengine, Ottawa, ON.
2019 BAI Fellows - Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, DE.
2019 Meridian/Méridien 2019 - Graduating Exhibition, Uottawa Visual Arts Building, Ottawa ON.
2019 Inter-Nous - Gallery 115, Ottawa, ON.
2018 Sélections - Trinity Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2018 The New Art Festival - Central Park, Ottawa, ON.
2018 Anatomy of the Image - Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
2017 Revive - Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL GALLERY
2021 Salon - Club SAW, Ottawa, CA
2021 For Pivots Sake - Beyond the Pale, Ottawa, CA
2020 #takeoutart - prints of my work accompanied orders for Town
Restaurant in Ottawa for a two week period during the COVID 19
Lockdown. Curated by the Young Arts Leaders Collective Ottawa, CA.
2019 OPAL Magazine Launch - House of Common Studio, Ottawa, CA.
EDUCATION
2024 MFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019 BFA - Summa Cum Laude, University of Ottawa
2014 Visual Arts Diploma - Honours, Canterbury Arts High School, Ottawa
CURATION
2023 Curator - Paintings Will Never Hurt You, The Plan, Chicago, IL
2022 Curator - Halfway Between the Imaginary and the Real, Wallack Galleries
2022 Curator - Double Dutch, Wallack Galleries
2021 Curator - Marble Strikes Moon; A New Show of Paintings. Wallack Galleries, Ottawa.
2019 Co-Director - Meridian/Méridien 2019, BFA Gradshow, Ottawa.
2017 Curator - Transient: Art in the Anthropocene - University of Ottawa Chemical Engineering Lab
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2022 Visual Arts Creation Projects, Ontario Arts Council
2021 Professional Artist Grant, City of Ottawa
2021 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2021 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2020 SAW Prize for New Work
2019 Ottawa Art Gallery Award of Excellence
2019 Gaston Héon Memorial Fund Arts Merit Scholarship
2019 Nominated for the BMO 1st Art Prize
2016 Deans Honour List Scholarship with renewals (2016-19)
2015 University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship with renewals (2015 - 19)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Colart Collection, Montreal
City of Ottawa Art Collection
MURALS
2013 Stella Luna Gelato Cafe, Ottawa.
RESIDENCIES
2023 Living in the play - Poor Farm, Wisconsin.
2020 Artist in Residence - SomoS - Berlin
2019 Referencing the Digital Sarah Hodgson and Atticus Gordon. Archive Contemporary, Montreal.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (EXHIBITION REVIEWS/CATALOGUES)
2024 “Creating Space: A Conversation with Nosy co-founder Atticus Gordon.” Rey Zinck. Nosy Mag.
2024 “A Glimmering Feel Towards the Now.” Exhibition catalogue, Tatum Dooley, published by City Hall Art Gallery.
2023 “New Studio Sixty Six art exhibition longs for the truth post-pandemic” - Zenith Wolfe, Apartment613.
2023 “Spotlight: In an Ottawa Exhibition, Three Emerging Canadian Artists Rethink What Painting Means in a Digital Age” - Artnet Gallery Network, Artnet News.
2023 “Creative Spotlight: Atticus Gordon” - Sarah Hodgson Nosy Mag. vol. 2, issue 1.
2023 Constructed Truths Catalogue - Exhibition catalogue essay published by Studio66, essay by Victoria Solan.
2022 “Figure Figure on display at Studio Sixty Six” - Sonya Gankina. Apartment613.
2022 “Turf Wars: Painting the Complexities of Place” - Ella Taylor, exhibition essay published by The Inc. Hamilton
2021 “Three Bright Young Artists Shine at Studio 21” - Catherine MacLean, AllNovaScotia Newspaper.
2020 “Rationing Time, Data and Paint” - exhibition catalogue, published by Studio66 Carrie Colton and Sam Loewn.
2019 “Atticus Gordon” - Alexandra Sofia and Jocelyn Keays. OPAL magazine, vol. 3, issue 1
2020 “Meridian/Méridien” - BFA graduate exhibition catalogue
2018 Atticus Gordon - Alexandra Sofia and Jocelyn Keays. OPAL magazine, vol. 1, issue 1.
2017 “Transient exhibition examines art in the modern epoch” - Eric Davidson. Fulcrum, vol. 78, issue 14.
2017 “Painting Now! explores the relationship between tech and art” - Marina Ghebrail. Fulcrum vol. 78, issue 12.
PUBLISHED WRITING (JOURNALS, ARTICLES, BLOGS)
2022 “A Monumental Task; The Shoah, Arching and Memory in Horst Hoheisel.” Millefeuilles Journal of Art History at the University of Ottawa. vol. 6, issue 1. Edited by Zeina Hamod.
2021 “On BEING and Community” NOSY MAG, vol. 2 issue 1.
2021 “Instagram as Gallery” NOSY MAG, online.
2021 “Rachel Gray: Honesty, Empathy, and visual Storytelling” NOSY MAG, online.
2019 “Exhibition Review: In Proximity at Gallery 115.” Apt613, blog article.
2019 “Emma Carney, A Painter Painting.” Ottawa Art Review, blog article.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Artist Talks
2023 Artist Graduate Lecture - School of the art Institute of Chicago
2023 Artist Talk - Invitation by Nipissing University
2021 Virtual Exhibition Curator Interview Series, hosted by Wallack Galleries, Ottawa.
2020 Virtual Exhibition Talk, hosted by Studio Sixty Six
Workshops
2021 “Painting and Storytelling in 3D” - Hosted by the Ottawa Art Gallery
2019 “Pointe-Saint Charles En Plein Air” - Outdoor collage painting workshop in
collaboration with Archive Contemporary, Montreal.
2019 “Hang Up Hang Out” - Documentation workshop in collaboration with Archive
Contemporary.
Employment
2023 Teaching Assistant - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2022 Teaching Assistant - School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2021 Storekeeper - Sherry Weldon Art Store, Uottawa.
2021 Studio Assistant - Andrew Morrow
2020 Studio Assistant - Andrew Wright
2020 Studio Assistant - Gillian King, Ottawa
2020 Framer - Patrick Gordon Framing, Ottawa
2020 Window Display Artist - Anthropologie, Rideau Center, Ottawa
2019 Studio Assistant Manager - Professor Catherine Richards, IMG studio, Ottawa 2016 - 19.
2018 Research Assistant - Dr. Celina Jeffry, SSHRC research and application, Ottawa.
2018 Technical Assistant - Dr. Celina Jeffry, exhibition: These Waters Have Stories to Tell, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales.
Projects / Volunteer work
2021 Co-Founder - NOSY MAG.
2020 Board Member - Studio Space Ottawa
2019 Art Review writer - apt613.
2019 Blogger/public outreach - Ottawa Art Review.
2018 Consultant - Surface Tension, public installation for the STEM building (UOttawa).