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Grace Kalyta (b. 1991 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) makes oil paintings and sculptures finding the two strongly inter-related. Her paintings play with seduction in their close-crops of artifice and (faux-)opulence. In her paintings she unpacks the social coding and hierarchies bound in material and surface. Grace lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She received a BFA in 2018 with honours and is a current MFA candidate at Concordia University. Grace has attended residencies in Iceland (Nes Residency, 2021) and Greece (faveLAB, 2019). Select exhibitions include Foultitude for Pictura, Projet Casa, Montreal, 2023; Maskenfreiheit, Margot Samel, New York, 2023; Untitled, Galerie Cache, Montreal, 2023; Spaghetti Western, GHAM & DAFE, Montreal, 2022; Opið Hùs, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2021; Privé, Montreal, 2020; Textile Quintet, Pirgos Tsikaliotis, Leonidio, Greece, 2019; On the Pulse, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, 2018.

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2024 Pipeline, London, England

Select Exhibitions

2024 Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you., Margot Samel, New York, NY + Pangée, Montreal QC

2024 Hall of Mirrors, solo presentation, Pangée, Montreal

2024 Northern Exposure, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles - Presented by Creative Content Accelerator in collaboration with National Gallery of Canada and Pangée

2023 Foultitude, Projet Casa, as part of Pictura, Montreal - As part of Montreal's Pictura Triennale

2023 Maskenfreiheit, Margot Samel, NYC

2023 Maureen VIII, Ateliers Belleville, Montreal

2023 UNTITLED, Galerie Cache Studio, Montreal

2023 Une ligne de +, GHAM & DAFE, Montreal

2022 Spaghetti Western, GHAM & DAFE, Montreal

2021 Opið Hùs, NES Residencies, Skagaströnd, Iceland

2020 Privé, Montreal

2019 Textile Quintet, Pirgos Tsikaliotis, Leonidio, Greece

2018 Festival Chromatic, 9ème, Ancienne Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal

2018 On The Pulse, Eastern Bloc, Montreal

2017 Interim, Ancienne Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal