Bio
Stacie Ant is a Russian/Canadian new media artist and curator. Currently based in Berlin, she draws on her experiences as an immigrant while developing the critical views of our technologically-saturated contemporary society that inform her work. Using video, installation, and performance, Ant reinvents elements of contemporary culture through fictional, maximalist narratives. She often incorporates costumes, exaggerated makeup, composited scenery and 3D animation to ridicule the effects that mass reliance on technology has on popular culture. Ant’s work integrates washed-up celebrities, glamorized mid-century inspired environments, and gender fluid characters. Often humorous, Ant’s work offers a way of looking at a fast-paced digital realm through a lens of irony and satire.
Stacie Ant’s character-driven work operates as a critique and rejection of the male gaze, particularly in terms of the objectification of women in a digital society. She harnesses the very digital tools offered in a technologically-dependent society as a means of empowering female identity and sexuality.
My Work
Selected Exhibitions/ Projects
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Stacie Ant CV
Education
2016 – BFA in Integrated Media, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Exhibitions
- September 2018 – Plastic, Millepiani, Rome
- July 2018 – Raw Projections, Squarespace, Brooklyn
- June 2018 – Personae, SomoS Art House, Berlin
- April 2018 – It’s My Pleasure, Organ Kritischer Kunst, Berlin
- June 2017 – Diamonds + Thunderbolts, Trinity Square Video in collaboration with Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto
- May 2017 – Intra Action, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
- May 2017 – Augmented Cinema Film Festival, The Royal Cinema, Toronto
- October 2016 – AV Club Vol.1, Drake Hotel, Toronto
- September 2016 – Xpace Programming Launch, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
- April 2016 – Next Exit Film Festival, Cinecycle, Toronto
- December 2015 – First Thursday, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- October 2015 – Halloween Show, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto
- September 2015 – Artcrawl, Luminal Spaces, Hamilton
- December 2014 – End of Year Show, Black Cat Gallery, Toronto
- April 2014 – Internet Show, UFO Gallery, Berkeley (CA)
- January 2014 – By The Pound, Northern Contemporary, Toronto
- January 2014 – The Big Top, 99 Sudbury, Toronto
- January 2014 – Toronto Design Offset Festival, Narwhal Gallery, Toronto
Curatorial Projects
October 2017 – Transcendence, Inter/Access, Toronto
March 2017 – Celebrity Worship, White House Studio Projects, Toronto
September 2016 – Knightcore; a Mime’s Tale, Hamilton
May 2015 – Post Human Rights Tribunal, White House Studio Projects, Toronto
October 2014 – Tumblr. Hell, White House Studio Projects, Toronto
Residencies
March 2017 – April 2017 Toronto Animated Image Society
June 2016 – October 2016 Drake Hotel
August 2016 – October 2016 Xpace Cultural Centre
Grants
March 2017 – Ontario Arts Council – Exhibition Assistance Grant
Nominations
May 2017- Prism Prize Award, Toronto
Selected Publications & Press
May 2018 – Vice, Women in Net Art
April 2018 – Azucar Magazine
March 2018 – Milkweed; Issue IV
November 2017- Akimbo; Transcendence at Inter/Access
June 2017 – ArtConnect Berlin
May 2017 – Xpace; Fundraiser Catalogue
September 2016 – The Drake Art Blog; Interview with Stacie Ant
April 2016 – Broke Mag; Issue #2
Artist & Curatorial Talks
November 2017 – Inter/Access, Toronto
March 2017 – Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto