Sefi Amir

Artists in residence

March – June 2007: Sefi Amir (CAN/UK)

Sefi Amir lives and works in London and Montreal.

Amir will be working on her project “My Love Is Bigger Than Your Love”, a series of paintings. Through this series she will investigate further the relationship between her painting and cinema, the way she use a cinematic perspective when composing her images.

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Education
2005-2006 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London – MA Fine Art

1998-2003 Concordia University, Montreal – Bachelor of Fine Art

2000 Academic exchange with Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

1994-1996 Dawson College, Montreal – DEC in Fine Art

Exhibitions
Sept 2006 Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Degree Show, London, UK

Feb 2006 Quick and Dirty, Central Saint Martins MAFA Interim Exhibition, OXO Building, London, UK

Aug 2005 Never Needed Nobody, Cafe Esperanza, Montreal, Canada

July 2005 Two by Two, The New Gallery, two person exhibition, Calgary, Canada

Feb 2005 Faces and Transitions, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, group exhibition, Montréal, Canada

July 2004 A Night at the Skala, Bar Skala, solo exhibition, Montréal, Canada

Dec 2003 Deux par Deux, L’oeil de Poisson, solo exhibition, Québec, Canada

May 2003 Regard à Gauche, Galerie Articule, group exhibition, Montréal, Canada

May 2002 Trop grand pour rester petit, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, group exhibition, Montréal, Canada

Jan 2002 Happy Together, VAV Gallery, with Logan Macdonald, Montréal, Canada

April 2001 Out of Order, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, group exhibition, Montréal, Canada

June 2000 Is This Your Final Answer?, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, group exhibition, Montréal, Canada

April 2000 Quotidien(ne), Dawson College Alumni Exhibition Series, with Andrew Pink, Montréal, Canada

March 2000 Your Friends and Neighbours/ Selfish Portraits, VAV Gallery, with Rosemary Bockner, Montréal, Canada