LEENA RAUDVEE
SOLO PERFORMANCES:
| 2025 | Finding Balance, performance and video, Tangled Art + Disability Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2024 | Quiet Parade, curated by Ellyn Walker, Blackwood Gallery, UofT Mississauga. |
| 2023 | LEGS II, performance art relay, OCADU, Toronto. Precarious Lines, performance and video, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2022 | Wit(h)nessing, residency with Brian Smith and Coman Poon, Arcadia Gallery, Toronto. Walking with a Line, Process, Compass Research Residency, Arcadia, Toronto. |
| 2021 | Precarious Gestures, performance for video, videographer Alexandra Gelis, Arcadia Gallery, Toronto. Precarious Gestures: Transforming Space Residency, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto. Shuddering Sticks, Pi*llOry live performance art event, Barbara Hall Park, Toronto. |
| 2020 | Sweeping, Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox, Toronto. making space for the fumble, the fall: drawing a line, (video of performance), Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Hamilton Art Gallery & Hamilton Artists Inc. Drawing a Line, Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox, Toronto. |
| 2019 | Teetering on an Edge, Pi*llOry Performance Art Night, Toronto Media Arts Ctr, Toronto. Making Space, anti-conference, York University. Day of Public Action: for Freedom and Democracy, group action, Toronto. Brushoff, Artists Health Centre, Toronto. |
| 2018 | Verb Frau TV, season 7, curated by Margaret Dragu, 7a*11d, Toronto. precarity 1-4, Maison Aux Volets Jaunes, Ste. Agathe de Lothbiniere, Quebec. |
| 2016 | Verb Frau TV, curator: Margaret Dragu, performance, 7a*11d, Toronto. traverse, Maison Aux Volets Jaunes, Ste. Agathe de Lothbiniere, Quebec. shadow piece, Maison Aux Volets Jaunes, Ste. Agathe de Lothbiniere, Quebec. n oiqouvdcseality, drawing action with claude wittmann, Array Music Studio, Toronto. |
| 2015 | in-situ, open field, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto. In-situ, La Shed, Ste. Agathe de Lothbiniere, Quebec. Faster Xmas Show, drawing action with claude wittmann, Array Music Studio, Toronto. soft, performance instruction, Gallery 102, GWU, Washington DC, USA. |
| 2014 | Global Stillness, online performance with WIAprojects, Toronto. scar tissue, DCAC, Washington DC, USA. scar tissue, for Process, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto. small acts, C(L)CC, Peter MacKendrick Gallery, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto. |
| 2013 | Walking at the Edge, Global Performance Art Walk, Curated by Ignacio Péréz. |
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES BY ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee):
| 2022 | Alter(c)ations, ARTIFACTS, Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2020 | Terminalia: Walking Women in collaboration with Walking Women’s Network, (ARTIFACTS & WIAprojects), Grange Park, Toronto for Terminalia, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Walk softly on the Land with Christine Durant, Carbon Art & Design & Intersections, PEC. |
| 2019 | General(s) Labour, ARTIFACTS, Doors Open, 401 Richmond Street, Toronto. |
| 2018 | Dragging the Debate, ARTIFACTS, Maison Depoivre, PEC. |
| 2017 | Listening: On the Architecture of Aging, ARTIFACTS, Made of Walking, La Romieu, France. |
| 2015 | Feminist Architectures: A Performance, ARTIFACTS for PROCESS, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto. |
| 2014 | Stillness, ARTIFACTS, Toronto/Bloomfield, WIAprojects. Discourse at Sea, New Dark Times Cabaret, ARTIFACTS, with Sarah Sheard, Toronto Island. Provoking Collaboration, ARTIFACTS, Hart House, University of Toronto. |
| 2013 | Entertaining without a Maid, ARTIFACTS, Hart House, University of Toronto. A Time to Fall (WIAprojects). In collaboration with Amy Sharrocks (Sculpture Shock resident at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London UK), Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto. Distended Topographies ARTIFACTS, EdgeZones, Miami. International Performance Art Festival. Curator: Charo Oquette. Headaches II, ARTIFACTS, Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, ON. ROCK WALK, ARTIFACTS, Global Performance Walks 2013, curated by Ignacio Péréz. |
| 2012 | Pentimenti, ARTIFACTS, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Storm day, night jazz, ARTIFACTS, DPNCHC, WIAprojects, Toronto. Individual Points of Fiction, ARTIFACTS, A Space Gallery, Toronto. 60-60-60: A Performance Action, ARTIFACTS, CWSE Gallery. |
| 2011 | Palimpsest, ARTIFACTS, Toronto Free Gallery. |
| 2010 | Homage to Margaret: Cleaning and Loving It, ARTIFACTS, CWSE Gallery, OISE UT. International Women’s Day. |
| 2009 | At the Lighthouse: Death I’m So Over That, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts (with Pam Patterson and John Oughton). Headaches II, ARTIFACTS, CWSE Gallery, OISE/UT. |
| 2005 | In/Valid, ARTIFACTS, CWSE, OISE/UT, Toronto. |
| 2003 | The Voyage Out, ARTIFACTS, Hysteria: A Festival of Women, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto. Remnants and Recoveries: The Performance, ARTIFACTS, A Space Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2001 | Passing, ARTIFACTS, 7A 11D International Festival of Performance, Toronto. |
| 2000 | Fragments, ARTIFACTS, V. MacDonnell Gallery, Toronto. |
SOLO AND 2-PERSON COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS:
| 2026 | Lines and Inscriptions, drawing and writing residency with Coman Poon, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2025 | Finding Balance, residency and solo exhibit and installation, Tangled Art + Disability Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2024 | Interior Lines, CONTACT Photography Festival, solo exhibit, Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2023 | Precarious Lines, residency and solo drawing exhibit, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2022 | Internal Sightings, residency and solo exhibit, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto. Alter(c)ations, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Bodies of Labour, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Window Box Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2019 | Has the Artist Been Paid?, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Carbon Art & Design, Prince Edward County FACIO, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Process Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2018 | Tiny Homes: Everyone is Downsizing, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Window Box Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. The past whispers, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Fleishman Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2017 | ARTIFACTS’ ARTEFACTS: the generals, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Process Gallery, Gallery 1313. |
| 2016 | On the Brink, collaboration with Clement Kent, One Earth-One Chance, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2015 | Feminist Architectures with Dina Georgis, Adrienne Reynolds and collaborative work with Pam Patterson, as ARTIFACTS, Artscape Youngplace/WIAprojects/FAC. |
| 2013 | Headaches II, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Feminist Art Conference, Curator: Ilene Sova, Toronto. |
| 2012 | Individual Points of Fiction, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, A Space, Toronto. |
| 2011 | Performing Acts, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Toronto Free Gallery. |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2026 | Still-Life, online juried exhibition, curator Ciar O’Mohony, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Unlimited Scores, curator Jullie Lassonde, Tranzac Club, Toronto. |
| 2025 | Abstracts 2025, online juried exhibition, curator Lyla Rye, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Drawing 2025, online juried exhibition, curator Kathleen Vaughan, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2024 | Collage, online juried exhibition, juror Ilene Sova, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Ephemeral Library Society: Group Archival Exhibit, FADO, 401 Richmond, Toronto. |
| 2023 | Tiny Homes: Everyone is Downsizing, as ARTIFACTS with Pam Patterson, Urban Futurities, curator Ilene Sova, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Summer Exhibition, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Portrait Exhibit II, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2022 | Regeneration, video with Clement Kent, Old Growth, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Art Up II, curator Phil Anderson, Process Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Drawing 2022, online exhibition, juror Christian Siroyt, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. #CripRitual, group exhibit, curated by Critical Design Lab, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto. Anniversary Exhibition 25 years, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2021 | The End, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Rendezvous with Madness Festival, Workman Arts, October 2021, Toronto. Unpacking Pandemic Pondering: Strain, Stress, and Subversion, online exhibition, OCADU & Gallery 1313, Toronto. Collage 2021, online exhibition, curator Claire Christie, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. In the Picture: Portraits of These Times, online, juror Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Drawing 2021, online exhibition, jurors Steve Khan & Neda Omidvar, John B. Aird Gallery. City of Dreams, online exhibition, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Mail Art, online exhibition, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Cut.Paste.Resist.Redux, online group exhibition, R.M. Vaughan & Dr. Ken Moffatt, UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, NB. |
| 2020 | Painting 2020, exhibition juror Niki Dracos, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Eco Art, exhibition juror Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Dog Days, exhibition curator Matt Crower, juror David Liss, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Drawing Unlimited, jurors Joseph Muscat & Keijo Tapanainen, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Drawing 2020, juror Paul Petro, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Cut/Paste/Resist, group exhibit organized by RM Vaughan, UNB, Fredericton, NB. |
| 2019 | Drawing 2019, juried exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Parkdale Biennial III, curator Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto. |
| 2018 | Positive Masculinity, Maison Depoivre, Prince Edward County. Drawing 2018, jurors Annie Wong & Andrew Harwood, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Artist Projection Protest Project, Queen’s Park, Toronto. |
| 2017 | Drawing 2017, jurors Pamila Matharu & Rotem Yann, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. OSA Open Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Who Are You?, group exhibition, Red Head Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2016 | On the Brink, collaboration with Clement Kent, One Earth-One Chance, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2015 | Drawing 2015, juried exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. The War Report, Baxter Art Centre/Loch Sloy, Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, Ontario, (residency and 4 person exhibition). f generation, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia (group exhibition). Feminist FOMONOMO, OCAD University, Toronto. PHOTO-OP, jurors Sue Lloyd & Nicholas Pye, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2014 | Game, OSA juried exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
PRESENTATIONS:
| 2026 | ConverSalon 44, artist talk, curator Jorge Lozano, Toronto. 7a*mgr8, interview with Paul Couillard, k.g. Guttman and ARTIFACTS (Leena Raudvee & Pam Patterson). Walking Arts Across Changing Bodies, with Pam Patterson, Katerina Pistola, Leena Raudvee, Genevieve Rudd, Andrew Stuck. walk-listen-create, U.K. |
| 2020 | 20×20 Visions, audio recording for Talking Walking, Museum of Walking, UK. |
PUBLICATIONS/ONLINE CATALOGUES:
| 2026 | Still Life 2026, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2025 | Collage 2025, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Drawing 2025, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2024 | Shuddering Sticks, Emergency Index, vol. 10+, Ugly Duckling Presse, NY. |
| 2022 | Drawing 2022, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. #CripRitual, online exhibition, Doris McCarthy Gallery and Tangled Art and Disability. |
| 2021 | Canadian Art Teacher, vol. 17, No. 2, journal contributor. Hybrid Precarity, Rendezvous with Madness catalogue, Workman Arts, Toronto. Collage 2021, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Drawing 2021, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. In the Picture: Portraits of These Times, online catalogue, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Salon 15, online catalogue, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. Mail Art, online catalogue, Propeller Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2020 | Painting 2020, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Dog Days, online catalogue, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. |
| 2015 | Scar Tissue, Emergency Index, vol. 4, Ugly Duckling Presse, NY. |
| 2009 | the fear of pleasure, catalogue, published by Women in Action, Toronto. |
| 2008 | Cellu(h)er Resistance catalogue, writing for a writing-in-process-as-installation, published by Fado Performance Inc., Toronto. Storm (2) catalogue, Fleishman Gallery, published by Women in Action, Toronto. |
GRANTS:
| 2025 | Canada Council for the Arts, Accessibility Grant. |
| 2024 | Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant. |
| 2024 | OAC Deaf & Disability Arts Projects: Materials for Visual Artists. |
| 2022 | Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant. |
| 2022 | OAC Deaf & Disability Arts Projects: Materials for Visual Artists. OAC Accessibility Fund Project Support. |
| 2021 | TAC, Individual Visual Artist Grant. OAC Exhibition Assistance. OAC Accessibility Fund Project Support. |
| 2020 | OAC Deaf & Disability Arts Projects: Materials for Visual Artists. |
Leena Raudvee is Co-Artistic Director of ARTIFACTS.
She is a member of CARFAC. Her video work is distributed by www.vtape.org.
Website: https://leenaraudvee.ca/
Website: http://artifactsperformanceart.ca/