Tanya Louise Workman

DIFFERENCE/The Difference Project (2013-) DIFFERENCE/John DIFFERENCE/Charlene DIFFERENCE/Kathy DIFFERENCE/Becky DIFFERENCE/Pauline DIFFERENCE/Kate DIFFERENCE/Face Value (2004-09) DIFFERENCE/Randy DIFFERENCE/Elisabeth/Betty DIFFERENCE/David DIFFERENCE/Louise DIFFERENCE/Michael ABOUT / CONTACT/Bio and statement ABOUT / CONTACT/CV ABOUT / CONTACT/Contact ABOUT / CONTACT/News & Events ALLERGIC TO LILACS/Installation audio (2017-18) VOICE, WORDS, IMAGE/Uncoil / Unfurl (2017) VOICE, WORDS, IMAGE/Jigojago (2016) VOICE, WORDS, IMAGE/Bird Inside My Body (2017) VOICE, WORDS, IMAGE/Allowed/Aloud (2017) VOICE, WORDS, IMAGE/Follow the Yellow Arrows (2014) ALLERGIC TO LILACS/Installation views (2018) 20 Hz./Installation audio (2019) ALLERGIC TO LILACS/Images (2016) DIFFERENCE/The Doc Project: What Happened to Your Face? (2015) 20 Hz./Installation views (2019)

CV

Tanya Louise Workman

b: 1972, Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Lives and works in Toronto, ON

EDUCATION

2022 Master of Fine Arts, Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME

2009 Photojournalism diploma, Loyalist College, Belleville, ON

2002 Post-graduate certificate in Creative Writing, Humber School for Writers, Toronto, ON

1995 Bachelor of Journalism, with Honours, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

SOLO INSTALLATIONS

2022 The Space In Between/Spiralling, MFA Thesis Show, Studio 162, Rockport, ME

2018 Allergic to Lilacs: An Installation of Images + Audio, Gallery 44 Members’ Gallery, Gallery 44,

CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, ON

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS

2019 An Index, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, Toronto, ON

2018 Skin Rubbed Smooth, fourth-annual Liminal Sounds online exhibition of sound works, Earlid

2017 Portrait: Within Time + Space, South X Southeast Online Gallery, Molena, GA (juried)

2017 Mindset, CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON (juried)

2017 Being Scene, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (juried)

2016 In/Impatient, Workman Arts’ Pop-Up Gallery, CAMH, Toronto, ON

2016 Mindset, CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON (juried)

2015 Being Scene, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (juried)

2015 The Darkroom 4.0, CONTACT Photography Festival, 918 Bathurst, Toronto, ON (juried)

2011 Oaxaca XV, Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico

2009 Cancer Connections, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON (audio interviews for online gallery)

2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Ben Navee Gallery, Toronto, ON

2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference, Hart House, Toronto, ON

2008 Magnum Toronto at CONTACT, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, ON

SCREENINGS, PROJECTIONS, PANELS + TALKS

2017 ‘Allergic to Lilacs,” Slideluck Naples II: Liquid Modernity, Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, Italy

2017 “Allergic to Lilacs,” Slideluck Toronto IV: (un)belong, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, ON

2016 “Allergic to Lilacs” (screening and talk), Open Show Toronto #17, Belljar Café, Toronto, ON

2016 Mindset artist talk, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON

2014 Re-Storying Disability with Project Re•Vision (screening, panellist), St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, ON

2012 Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies (screening, panellist), Guelph Festival of Moving Media, Ed

Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, ON

2009 Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference (screening, panellist), Centre for Social

Innovation, Toronto, ON

RESIDENCIES + INTENSIVES

2021-22 Akin Studio Program at Auto BLDG, Toronto, ON

2019 Gutenberg Sound Art Academy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

2018-19 Akin Studio Program at MOCA Toronto, Toronto, ON

2017 Winter Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive, AIR + Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY

2016-17 Workman Arts Incubator Studio Program, Toronto, ON

2002 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Independent Artist Residency, Toronto Islands, ON

CURATION + EXHIBITION TEXT

2012-13 Kids Who Can (travelling exhibition), PhotoSensitive in partnership with Easter Seals Canada (Vancouver, BC; Regina and Saskatoon, SK; Montreal, QC; St. John's, NL; Halifax, NS; Fredericton and Bathurst, NB) (exhibition text)

2012 Kids Who Can, PhotoSensitive in partnership with Easter Seals Canada, Allen Lambert

Galleria, Toronto, ON (exhibition text)

2011 The Fuel of Life: Through a Young Lens, PhotoSensitive in partnership with the Ontario

Sustainable Energy Association, Allen Lambert Galleria, Toronto, ON (curation, text)

JURIES

2017-19 Workman Arts representative, Technical Advisory Committee, Phase 1C Therapeutic Art Installations, CAMH, Toronto, ON

2017 Jury, Mindset, CONTACT Photography Festival, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015 Workman, Tanya, producer, "What Happened to Your Face? Living With a Facial Difference,” The

Doc Project, CBC Radio

2009 Workman, Tanya, “My face, my truth, my picture” (excerpt), NPAC.ca, website of the News

Photographers Association of Canada

2005 Workman, Tanya, “My face, my truth, my picture,” Toronto Star Ideas section

PUBLICATION

2017 Being Scene exhibition catalogue, Workman Arts

2015 Being Scene exhibition catalogue, Workman Arts

published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

2011 XV Years of Mary Ellen Mark’s Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Editorial Arte Oaxaca

WORKSHOP FACILITATION

2017 Teaching assistant, Intro to Podcasting, Workman Arts, Toronto, ON

2011-13 Co-facilitator/audio tech, Project Re•Vision digital storytelling workshops, Toronto, ON

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS

2018- 21 Member. AIR: Association of Independents in Radio, USA

2015 - Member, Workman Arts. Toronto, ON

2013 - Member, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON

2011-12 Writer, contributing photo editor, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON

2010-11 Project coordinator, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON

2010 Photo/subject researcher, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON

2009 Audio interviews producer (intern), PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON

2009 - Member, PhotoSensitive, Mississauga, ON

2009 Multimedia producer (intern), Magnum in Motion, Magnum Photos, New York, NY

2008 Intern, Falkland Road Inc./Mary Ellen Mark Photography, New York, NY