Riisa Gundesen (she/her)
riisa.gundesen@gmail.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 TBA, PrattMWP Gallery, Utica, NY (Upcoming January ‘24)
2023 Toilettes, Eastern Edge Gallery, St.John’s, NL
Toilette D’Artiste, Ottawa School of Art Byward Campus Gallery, Ottawa, ON (Upcoming August ‘23)
2019 Intrusive Thoughts, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC
Portrait of the Artist, Harcourt House Incubator Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Introvert, ArtsPLACE Gallery (ARCAC), Annapolis Royal, NS
2018 Interiors, One on One Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
2017 Chair/Chère, M.F.A Graduating Show, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2015 (Un)Desirables, Petit Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND POP-UPS
2025 TBA, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB (upcoming January ‘25)
2022 In My Skin, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, SK
Incarnation/Embodied, Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Winnipeg, MB
Silence of the Sweat, Lowlands Project Space, Edmonton, AB
2021 Perspectives from Within, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB
The Snelgrove Salon, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2020 Perspectives from Within, CARFAC Alberta Project Space, Edmonton, AB
How To Press Flowers, Parallel Space, Edmonton, AB
2019 Untitled Exhibition, Enbridge Centre, Edmonton, AB
2018 Figureground, The GALLERY / art placement, Saskatoon, SK
Change Climate, Rutherford Library Galleria, Edmonton, AB
2017 All Together Now, A.K.A. Artist Run Centre, Saskatoon, SK
New Work By M.F.A. Candidates, Void Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2016 Way In, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2015 Way Out, Penny Building Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2014 B.F.A. Graduate Show, Penny Building Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2013 The Dick Show, Potemkin Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
UNSEX’d Gallery Show, (in association with Theatre Outré), Bordello, Lethbridge, AB
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Studio Art (Painting), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK (2018)
B.F.A. Studio Art, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB (2013)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 - Assistant Lecturer, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus, Camrose, AB
2019 - Assistant Lecturer, University of Alberta, Faculty of Fine Arts, Edmonton, AB
2018 - Visual Arts Instructor, Edmonton City Arts Centre, Edmonton, AB
2015-2017 Sessional Drawing Instructor (Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
2014-2015 President of the Board, Trap\door Artist Run Centre (Volunteer Position), Lethbridge, AB
2013 Vice-President, Trap\door Artist Run Centre (Volunteer Position), Lethbridge, AB
MEDIA, GRANTS and RESIDENCIES
2022 Bridges Art Movement Residency, Saskatoon, SK
2022 Artist Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, SK)Online Artist Talk – Riisa Gundesen
2022 Galleries West, January 2022, Magazine Article, https://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/obad-perspectives-from-within/
2021 Acquisition by Application Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2020 Creator’s Reserve Grant, Edmonton Arts Council (Edmonton, AB)
2019 Galleries West, March 2019, Magazine Article, http://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/intrusive-thoughts/
The Capilano Review, Issue 3.37 (Winter 2019), Cover Feature and Essay, https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/winter-2019/
Artist Talk, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
2018 Artist Talk, Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, AB)
2017 The Monstrous I: Abjection as Disobedience in Contemporary Self-Portraiture (MFA Dissertation), https://primo-pmtna02.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=USaskIII.b43588578&context=L&vid=USASK&search_scope=UofS&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US
CFCR Unframed Radio Interview, https://www.mixcloud.com/un-framedradio/april-6th-2017-riisa-gundesen-and-lucas-morneau-u-of-s-masters-of-fine-art-candidates/
Artist Talk, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery (Saskatoon, SK), http://saskmuseums.org/events/detail/riisa-gundesen-artist
2016 Graduate Teaching Award, University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK)
2015 Graduate Teaching Award, University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK)