Portfolio

Writing

The Future is in the Fish! OCAD Art and Science Review, 2021-2022

Thought Bricolage: Accessing the Posthuman through Figuration, OCAD Art and Science Review, 2023-2024

An Impossible Perspective - Sanaz Maziniani Revew, C Magazine Online, January 2024

Cover image from The Future is in the Fish!, 2022

Curation

Transformative Access: Activating Disability Desires

Harmeet Rehal, Sunshine Tormé Johnson, and Hollis McConkey

Curated by Mason Smart with Jack Hawk

Gallery 1313

September 2024-May 2025

This project was generously funded by the Toronto Arts Council and produced with the support of Gallery 1313 and Dr. Pam Patterson.

"Rehal, McConkey, and Johnson meet the question, “what can disability do to…?”, as asked by Day Heisinger-Nixon, filling in that final blank with propositions for labour, sustainability, relationships and decolonial action."

Transformative Access Project

From top to bottom:

Home to Heal, 2023. Sunshine Tormé Johnson. Inkjet print on paper

Water Being, 2023. Sunshine Tormé Johnson. Laser print on paper

Whack-a-Queer, 2023. Sunshine Tormé Johnson. Laser print on paper

"Using Toronto’s concrete body and its particularities as symbols, culture can enhance its potency by following nature’s interventionary lead and by speaking truth to the symbolism expressed by certain manners of infrastructure."

Dimensions of Toronto: Looking Otherwise with Nature

The Art of The Carrier Bag Collective

Curated and programmed by Mason Smart

Gallery 1313

March-April 2023

https://www.windowboxgallery.org/dimensions-of-toronto

From top to bottom:

Untitled, City Skins (2023-ongoing). Abby Kettner. Latex cast.

Shrine to Salacin, 2022. Iris Langlois-Smith. Mixed media.

Transfiguration II (flagging), 2023. Levi DeCoste. Cyanotype on cotton.

Dimensions of Toronto Programming

Community members came together to complete a scavenger hunt with questions that would lead them to reflect and collect elements found in public space, from debris to imprints from infrastructure. These elements were assembled into 3D collages with the guidance of the Carrier Bag Collective, which in turn were printed into posters and wheatpasted throughout the neighbourhood.

Arts

It's a Public Health Emergency, 2022. Spray paint on canvas, 21’x4’ total

This banner contains 166 silhouettes, representing the homelessness related deaths in 2021. This was held at an action in February led by Shelter and Housing Justice Toronto, demanding the city of Toronto increase access to warming centres, among other improvements to housing policy.