MUHAMMAD IRFAN AZIZ

Education:

2009 – 2012       Fine Arts Diploma, Toronto School of Art

2008 – 2009      Fine Arts Certificate, Art Works Art School, Toronto, ON

Exhibitions:

2018 Paws & Reflect, salon show, Winged Canvas Gallery, Markham

2017 Drawing 2017, juried exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto

2016           Complex Identities in a Shifting World, group show, Regis College, Toronto

2016           Homelessness, Migrants and Refuge, group show, Regis College, Toronto     

2015           Site-specific Installation, Monsters Amongst Us, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto

2014           Site-specific Installation, Polar Bear, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto

2013           The Canadian Dream, Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond, Toronto

2013           Creative Meditations, group show, Regis College, Toronto

2013           Decades of Decay, group show, Creative Blueprint Gallery, Toronto

2012           nextus, group show, Gallery 1313, Toronto

2012           Site-specific Installation, Taj Mahal, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto

2011            Time. Space. Culture., group show, Studio 561, Toronto

2011            The Gift, group show, Ambience Chocolat, Toronto

2011            Sculpted Perceptions, solo show, Launch Projects Gallery, Toronto

2010           The Collective, group show, Triangle Gallery, Toronto

2010           Portraits and Portrayal, two person show, Art Works Art Gallery, Toronto

Awards:

2012           Aboveground Art Award, Toronto School of Art

2011            Barbara Barrett Scholarship, Toronto School of Art

2010           Barbara Barrett Scholarship, Toronto School of Art

2009          Fully sponsored art exhibition, Art Works Art School, Toronto

Recent projects:

2016           Co-Curator, Complex identities in a Shifting World, Regis College, Toronto

2016           Co-Curator, Homelessness, Migrants and Refuge, Regis College, Toronto

2013           Facilitator for Harvest Festival, Neighbours' Night Out and Thorncliffe Public School Fun Fair, Toronto

2013           Co-Curator, Creative Meditation, Regis College, Toronto

2012           Facilitator, Portrait Drawing in TSA @ Nuit Blanche, Toronto

2011            Contributor, Life Long Burning Question @ Nuit Blanche, Toronto

2011            Group Installation @ Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto, Ontario

2011            Visual Artist, OXFAM's GROW campaign sculpture, Toronto, Ontario

Teaching:

2011 – present    Artist, After-School Program, Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/CARE, Toronto

2011 – present    Artist, Art in the Park summer camp, Toronto

2015                   Instructor, Art Works Art School summer camp, Toronto

2014 – 2015       Instructor, Family Sundays Sculpture Workshops, Art Works Art School, Toronto

2014                   Guest Instructor, Sculpture Workshop, February 20th, Toronto School of Art, Toronto

2013                   Invited Panel presentation, Religions and Social Innovations: 2013 Conference of the International                                     Academy of Practical Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto

2012                  Teacher's Assistant, Florian Jacot, Figure Sculpture, Toronto School of Art, Toronto

Commissioned Work:

2015                  Private Collection, Toronto, Drawing, White Squirrel

2015                  Private Collection, Toronto, Sculpture, Bust of Ezra Pound

2014                  Private Collection, Toronto, Sculpture, Two Camels

Bibliography & Media:

Jean Ko Din, "Migrant Crisis Inspires Regis College Art Exhibition." The Catholic Register.
March 31, 2016.  http://www.catholicregister.org/home/arts/item/22030-migrant-crisis-inspires-regis-college-art-exhibition

Labriola, Christina and Michael Stoeber. “Art as a Medium of Theological Imagining and Spiritual Transformation.” Complex Identities in a Shifting World: Practical Theological Perspectives. Ed. Pamela Couture et al. Zurich: Lit Verlag, 2015, Cover and p. 255 - 267

 Artwork featured in the paintings of Miklos Legrady, Toronto, 2014 - 2015