Zillah Loney

Instagram: @zillahloney
Email: zillahloney@gmail.com                  
 
EDUCATION
 
Fine Arts part-time studies (1992-5) Bishop’s University Lennoxville QC            
B.Ed. (1972) Queens University Kingston ON
B.A. Art History (1971) Queens University Kingston ON
Workshops :   Monoprints (Tom Hopkins),  Oil Pastels (Ken Leslie)  Bishop's University QC
          Experimental Painting (Peter Kolisnyk) Sir Sanford Fleming College ON
          Watercolours, Pottery (Dean Mulleavy) Champlain College, Lennoxville QC
          Greg Curnoe London ON (1961) childhood art classes
 
MEMBERSHIPS
 
Member OKWA – Organization of Kingston Women Artists (2006 -)
Board Member OKWA (2006-2012)–Organization of Kingston Women Artists
Member Kingston Arts Council (2005-2018) Kingston ON
Member Modern Fuel Artist-Run Center (2005) Kingston ON
RAAV Member - Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Quebec (2000-2001)
Board Member Creatio  centre d’artistes (1998-2001) Magog QC
Member Artist Atelier Daumier (1995-1997) Sherbrooke QC a co-operative printmaking studio
 
ARTS RELATED EXPERIENCES
 
Speaker “OKWA Artists Talks” (2014) Kingston ON
Speaker “Opening the Doors of Creativity” (2013) Ban Righ Centre Queens University Kingston ON
Juror St. Lawrence College Alumni Show Marianne van Silfout Gallery (2009) Brockville ON
Independent studio work (1995 -)
Gallery Co-Ordinator and Board Member (1998-2000) Uplands Cultural & Historical Center
Lennoxville QC
Board Member Bishop's University Artists' Centre (1996-1998) Lennoxville QC
Chair Stoker Arts Festival (1995) Bishop's College School Lennoxville QC
Lecturer "Art Education" Graduate School of Education Bishop's University (1988-1991) Lennoxville QC
 
AWARDS
 
Grand Prize Winner ($2000) Kingston Juried Art Salon at Gallery Raymond Kingston ON (Dec 11-24, 2011)
Prizewinner OKWA: Organization of Kingston Women Artists juried Winter Show Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Feb. 6-24, 2010)
Finalist, Salon Prize Open Competition at Robert Macklin Gallery, Kingston ON (2010)
Prizewinner OKWA: Organization of Kingston Women Artists, juried Annual Winter Show Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Jan 4-30, 2007)
People's Choice Award Festival Village Culturel de l'Estrie Coaticook, QC (1986)
 
GALLERIES (selected)
 
Robert Macklin Gallery, 20 Market St. Kingston ON (2009)
Gallery on the Bay, 1010 Willet Lane, Arden ON (2008)
Chameleon Nation Gallery, 112 Princess St. Kingston ON (2007-2008)
Agnes Etherington Art Center: Sales and Rentals, Kingston ON (2005-2007)
Hollander York Gallery, 110 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto ON (2003)
Nancy Poole’s Studio, 16 Hazelton Ave, Toronto ON (2000-2003)
Galerie Jeannine Blais, 100 rue Main, North Hatley, Quebec (1996-2000)
Michael Gibson Gallery, 157 Carling St., London, Ontario (1996-2000)
Winchester Galleries, 1010 Broad St., Victoria, BC (1998-2000)
Frederick Amsden House, Contemporary Art Gallery, 31 Dufferin, Stanstead, QC (1998-2000)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sales and Rentals, Montreal, Quebec (1997)
The Mitchell Gallery, 112 Scollard St., Toronto, Ontario (1996)
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
Solo – Chameleon Nation Gallery Grand Opening Princess St. Kingston ON (August 16-Sept 30, 2007
Solo – Piggery Theater North Hatley QC
Solo - Uplands Cultural & Historical Center “Fishy Business”, Lennoxville QC (Feb 13–March 26, 2000)
Solo - Michael Gibson Gallery at Grand Theatre London ON (October 27 - November 14, 1998)
Solo - Uplands Cultural & Historical Center “Gardens of Iris and Other Traditions” Lennoxville, QC (1996)
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
 
Isabel Bader Centre Kingston ON “Art for All” juried (October 10-14, 2023)
OKWA – Organization of Kingston Women Artists Annual Shows Window Art Gallery/Tett Center/ Kingston Frontenac Public Library/John M. Parrot Art Gallery/Chameleon Nation Gallery (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023)
Pump House Museum 23 Ontario St. Kingston ON “A Sense of Place” juried (March 31-April 23, 2016)
The Old School House Arts Centre Qualicum Beach BC “National Juried Art Show” (Feb. 1-March 28, 2010)
Marianne van Silfout Gallery Brockville ON “Women in Art: A Showcase of Regional Women Artists”            (Feb. 19-March 19, 2009)
Hollander York Gallery 110 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto ON (September 2003)
Nancy Poole’s Studio, Hazleton Ave Toronto ON “Reigning Cats and Dogs and Other Animals” (2000)
Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC (1999)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sales and Rentals, Montreal Quebec
Kingston Arts Council Annual Juried Arts Salon   Kingston Frontenac Public Library (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Galerie Jeannine Blais, North Hatley QC “International Naif Juried Art Competition” (1996-1998)
Bishops University Artists Center Lennoxville QC "Art in the Present Tense" juried (1997, 1998)
 
OTHER SHOWS
 
Kingston School of Art, KSOA Juried Art Salon (2009, 2018, 2021)
ARTbomb Online Daily Art Auction Toronto ON (Nov 9 and Sept 27, 2014)
Modern Fuel Gallery Kingston ON Exhibition & Book Launch “Then and Now” Celebrating 25 Years Organization of Kingston Women Artists (June 2014)  
Canadian Blood Services Clinic Gardiners Road Kingston, duo exhibition (2010-October 2014)
Gallery Robert Macklin Market St. Kingston ON (2009)
MVS Gallery Brockville ON “Intrigue into the Thousand Islands” juried (June 29-August 9 2009)
Chameleon Nation Gallery “Nature or Nurture” (May 1- June 30, 2008)
Gallery on the Bay Arden ON (May – Sept 2008)
The Pinecone Church St. Westport ON (Sept. 26-Oct. 4, 2007)
Fall Colours Studio Tour Westprt Area (Oct. 6-8, 2007)           
Mallorytown Landing Mallorytown Landing ON “The Bones of the Mother” juried (June 20-27, 2004)
Agnes Etherington Arts Center Kingston ON “Art for Art’s Sake” Auction (2001)   
Centre Culturel de Valcourt QC (June 15-August 1, 2000)
Le Centre d’Arts Orford Orford QC Collectif de Creatio juried (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000)
Bishop’s University Art Gallery Lennoxville QC “Creatio” (March 3 – 28, 1999)
Gallery Farfan 31 Dufferin Stanstead QC “Eastern Townships Art Competition” juried (June 11 - Sept 5, 1999) and June 5-August 31, (1998) and October 2 - December 23 (1998)
Canal Complex 4710 St. Ambroise St. Montreal QC "Showing Our Colours” juried (1996)
Cultural Centre, Arts Visuel Megantic Lac Megantic QC (Sept. 20-22, 1996)
North Hatley Library North Hatley QC Trio Exhibition (Aug 25-Sep7, 1996)
Bishop's University Artists' Centre Lennoxville QC juried Student Exhibition (1995)
Caisse Populaire Sherbrooke Est juried Sherbrooke QC (1986)
 
COMMISSIONS
 
Logo: Grandmother Connection Kingston
Cover Illustration: Country Classic Auction London Health Sciences Center (Sept. 14, 2002)
Cover Illustration: Country Classic Auction London Health Sciences Centre (Sept.18, 1999)
Calendar: 1998 Naif Art Gallery Jeannine Blais North Hatley QC
Book Illustration: L'Estrie ses trésors Promotions Ad Librum (1996)
 
COLLECTIONS (selected)
 
Netflix “Lock & Key” Series, Season Two (2020)
Ville de Lennoxville
Loto-Quebec
Richard Dube Director of Collections, Musee de la Civilization, Quebec QC
Meighen Foundation Toronto
Norman and Pat Webster Collection Montreal QC
 
FUNDRAISERS
 
Auction “United Way Fare for Friends” at Vimy Officers’ Mess Kingston ON (Sept. 7, 2014)
Auction for Haiti Hamilton ON (May 27, 2004)
“Writers and Friends” for Horizons of Friendship, Kingston City Hall, Kingston ON (April 4, 2004)
Art Mart London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, ON (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)
Auctions "Soirée des Beaux- Arts" 10 February 1998 Musée des Beaux- Arts, Sherbrooke QC (1997, 1999, 2000)
"Collectors' Choice”, Gibson Gallery for Children's Hospital University Western Ontario London ON (Feb 14,1997)
 
PUBLICATIONS

The Sherbrooke Record "Fishy Business"(March 2000) 
TV Cable 11 Canal Vox Sherbrooke QC Bien Branchee (February 25-March 02, 2000)
TV Cable 11 Canal Vox Sherbrooke QC Plugged In ! (February 15-19, 2000)
Radio CFLX (95.5FM) Sherbrooke QC Arts-d’oeuvre (February 12, 2000)
Radio CJMQ (88.9FM) Lennoxville QC (May 16, 1997)
TV Channel 11 (June 1997) Art Attack Sherbrooke QC
The Sherbrooke Record "Gardens of Iris" (1996)
TV Channel 11 (November 1996) Townships Magazine at North Hatley, QC
TV Channel 11 (March 1996)

Updated 2024