Patricia is an accomplished international contemporary artist and award-winning author. She is represented by the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, 13th Street Gallery in St. Catharines, Ontario and FACEC In France. In the past, Patricia has exhibited with BB International Fine Arts in Switzerland. Her work was accepted in several Art Fairs including Geneva, Berlin, France, Austria, Zurich, London, United Kingdom and Seoul, Korea. Exhibitions across North America have included the Coda Gallery in New York, Meg Gallery and Peak Gallery in Toronto. Patricia has an impressive pedigree. In 1999, she began her solo mentorship with Master artist Dragan Dragic in Savoillan, France. It was her great honor to exhibit with Dragan Dragic in Sault, France in 2008 with curation by Jean Pierre Thelcide. In 2007, Patricia was appointed Honorary Commissioner at the 52nd Venice Biennale in support of Transcendental Realism - Art by Adi Da Samraj. She is recognized by the International Institute for Arts Accreditation as an International Certified Artist. She is also a member of Mondial Art Institute and in 2018, exhibited at Parallax Art Fairs in London, Chelsea and Kensington UK.
In December 2018, Patricia won the gold medal in photography at the Salon National des Beaux-arts (SNBA) at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. In 2019, her work was exhibited at the Salons des Indépendants Grand Palais in Paris, the Brussels 3F Art Fair and the World Art event in Cannes. In 2019, she accepted the silver medal at the Societe Academique Arts, Sciences and Lettres de France in Paris and the Pewter Medal for Painting in 2020. Patricia received the Apollo and Daphne award in 2020 from the Le Bernin – International Biennial of Baroque Art Salentin. Patricia is also invited to receive the International Prize New York City in October 2020 at the White Space Chelsea Gallery in NY. Her work has been published in the World of Art Contemporary Art Magazine and Contemporary Artists.
Her work was well received at the prestigious Whitney Commons Gallery in Toronto, Ontario in 2018. Art Tour International magazine named Patricia Gagic one of the Top 60 best artists in New York in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is named Artist of the Year 2020 by Art Tour International Magazine with her work on the cover of the Summer issue. Patricia hosted the Art in A Box project for the WXN (Women's Executive Network) Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada July 2020 and a CAN#150 event for Female Olympians.
In 2017, she received the Arts Excellence Award for Courage and Commitment to Human Rights, Dignity and Freedom from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Toronto. It is a very prestigious award given to Canadians who dedicate their lives to service and art. Patricia was co-founder and a participant in the Colors of Freedom Art portfolio which included works by 20 international artists. Funds were raised to support various organizations, including Round Square schools, Classroom Connections and children effected by 911.
Patricia has been a presenter on world stages to encourage and promote servitude and art. Her passion is to influence artists and collectors to gain expedient wisdom through her project the Karmic Art Experience. She has spoken at the Harvard Club of Boston, on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York and on the NASDAQ podium. Her painting was seen on the NASDAQ Jumbotron in Times Square in NY. She interviewed Walter O’Brian (Scorpion) on the stage of Carnegie Hall where she discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of art.
Karmic Alibi, her first book published by Bettie Youngs Books, was a finalist at the USA Best Book Awards 2014 and finalist at the International Book Awards 2015 in the Non-Fiction Narrative category. Karmic Alibi received the 2017 Book Excellence Award in Non-Fiction. She is co-author in the Amazon Best Seller Voices of Inspiration with Marlon Smith, RockStar Success stories with Craig Duswalt, Sexy without Boundaries with Hidi Lee, Rock Your Life with Craig Duswalt among others. She is currently doing a re-write of her book "Karma and Cash” originally released in 2015. Patricia is working on several book projects, including “How To Be Human” with Earl Ameen, "The Black Snowflake", "Thirsters and Quenchers", “Do Happy Things” and "Anger to Zen".
Patricia is a Certified Meditation Specialist / Facilitator who completed her certification in Applied Mindfulness and Transformative Mindfulness and Mindfulness Without Borders from the Faculty of Social Work Factor Inwentash at the University of Toronto. Her studies include Yale University and the University of Alberta. Patricia is a Certified Canfield Trainer in the Success Principles (Jack Canfield), a Level 3 Feng Shui consultant and Reiki Master. Her work as a humanitarian include membership in the Rotary Oakville Passport club. She was the founder of Kyralex Management Group and MLX Property Management with a successful career in banking and entrepreneurship while pursuing an artistic career. Patricia is the CFO of the Hamilton Vein Clinic.
In 2013, Patricia was Knighted as a Dame of the International Order of Saint George Grand Prior of Canada. She was a member of the Ontario Cabinet of Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sir Edmund Hilary Foundation. Patricia is a consultant at AiDA, Academy of Imagination and Dramatic Arts in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the Chief Visionary Officer of Help Heal Humanity a registered not for profit supporting education in Haiti and Cambodia. Patricia remains committed to a project she began in 2006 in Cambodia where she participated in building the first Buddhist library and school for poor children and monk, in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap.
Patricia has received numerous awards and nominations, including Status of Women - Woman of the Year, YMCA Peace Medal, YWCA Women of Distinction, and the Toronto Women’s Expo Award of Excellence. She is an invited member of the IWF (International Women’s Forum) Toronto Chapter and member of the Engagement Committee. Patricia received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement award as a Woman of Inspiration 2020 by the Universal Women’s Network.
Patricia was recognized by WXN (Women's Executive Network) as one of the TOP 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada and received the BMO Arts and Communication award in 2015. In 2016, Patricia was the recipient of the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful in Canada in the Royal Bank Category Champions. She received the WXN Top 100 award in the BMO Arts and Communications category in 2017. In 2018, Patricia was inducted into the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada Hall of Fame.
Artist and visionary Patricia has once again taken the reigns with a delicate twist in her world of art. A collaboration has been born in her studio. This year, she has reunited with her long-time friend, (known since age 12) to create NFT’s combining their love for music and art. Patricia has taken up drumming and proudly named her Gretsch Renown kit “Lotus”. Partnering with GTD who happens to be 97.7 Italian, they are known as ‘LOTUS97.7”.
As the world is shifting the energies with crypto-currency and the block chain, “Lotus97.7” have raged forward with paintings which are captivating and extravagantly unique.
First, a brief explanation of NFT’s. NFT is an acronym for Non-Fungible Token simply explained it is a digital collectible like a trading card.
It is like a cryptocurrency in the sense it trades on a blockchain and has a monetary value attached to it. However, it differs from cryptocurrency in that an NFT has certain characteristics which make it unique from other NFT’s, even if the two NFT’s seem like one another. For example, if you trade 1 bitcoin for another bitcoin, you are trading one identical thing for another. There is no loss of value on either side of the transaction. However, if you trade 1 NFT for another NFT, they can be extremely different even if they appear to be the same. This is because an NFT includes a deeper layer of characteristics which make it different from others. For example, this can include metadata, visuals, serial numbers, etc. and can all affect the value of the NFT based on what the characteristics are valued by the people who buy and sell them. NFT’s therefore create exciting monetisation opportunities for collectors, as they are provably authentic, safe to trade and can include different types of art including music.
Lotus97.7 is partnering with Authentify Art as their technical arm. The art is a true collaboration of their incredible talent! Each of them, contribute to the painting process. Their initial series is highly calculated with etheric abstract backgrounds tempered with unusual and exotic drum kits. More courageously exciting, is the sentiment which follows. Both artists use a variety of drum tools including brushes, drumsticks, mallets, and wire brushes, which they dip in the paint and begin their performance. After carefully choosing the music, they begin to perform on the canvas. Videoing the entire process which will accompany the authenticity of each piece. The music of preference is funk-jazz, however, their eclectic tastes range from rock to classical.
.Artist Statement
Patricia Karen Gagic
Motivated by the delicate balancing of elements of the past, choices made in the present and a powerful intention to change the future, each thought and intuition becomes master to the emergence of form and method in my art making. Complexity is a key frame. The infinity of possible iterations of a form is a fascination intellectually and in terms of my method. It drives how I engage with materials in the search for what is luminous to the eye and transcendent in meaning to the heart. My art is intended to point to what is greater than the conventional and logic-based point-of-view.
The under-painting is central to how this orientation shows up in the final works. In search for the luminous and transcendental, the under-painting is an investigative yet carefully orchestrated evolution of intentional layering in which I am immersed in a process of moving with a rich flow of contemplative and clairvoyant thought. In this movement, I press-in on the mark-making with brush and paint, then stand apart from it, then press-in again and so on until the idea which wants to be noticed shows itself in relationship with my intention for an image. This process is deeply personal. It is intended to bridge to others and invite them to participate in the images I make, such that well-being is magnified by an encounter with something opening them to intuition of a greater Whole.
One of the influences on my artistic life and practice is the Transcendental Realist artist, Adi Da Samraj. He speaks about the function of art in a way perfectly giving voice to my intention. He writes, “True Art heals, True Art restores equanimity. Art must regenerate the sense of well-being. That is its true purpose.” This regeneration of well-being is an overarching purpose in my method and is the context of an intellectual consideration around image-making. It is my experience well-being resides as an already-present condition in the domain of the esoteric rather than exoteric world of things and strategies designed to make us feel better, or safe, or at ease. I try to stand on the magical horizon where the rules of nature and the mystical unknown find their way together from mind to hand to canvas in order to create conditions for well-being to be re-animated in experience of the viewer. Additionally, the “Small Worlds” of Wassily Kandinsky (1922) further inspired my attraction to complexity/simplicity paradox as the mathematics in his work harmonized aspects of my feeling with understanding and brought a joyful knowing and sense of something beyond the images themselves.
My long-time mentor and dear friend, Master Artist, Dragan Dragic (who I was blessed to meet and study with in France since 1999) has deeply influenced me through his conception of the extraordinary depth he reveals in the palette of Matisse. Dragan surrendered himself to these secrets in a lifelong journey of revelation and dedication bringing me cause to examine and view his work with an appreciation of and engagement with the paradox of complexity coupled with simplicity. The outcome engendered confidence in portraying simplicity as the ultimate expression of complexity. Dragan encouraged me to see the beauty of abstraction lies in the various underlying hypostases combining or being in dynamic relationship in such a way as to become conscious to the viewer as a living process.
As a group, those by whom I am influenced are practitioners of what I call “Complex Simplicity”. The brilliant artist, Franz Kline, eventually became a dynamic interpreter of boldness with monochromatic staging where black was equally as powerful as white and required careful fluid strength. The work of Adi Da Samraj informs my understanding of the need to perpetually embody the aesthetic experience as Reality Itself.
There is a delicious struggle I engage in daily as I am drawn into what is “in-between” the phenomena, moments, ideas which arise and yet practicing in the actual doings of the world in order to make visible what is found in those spaces. It is my adventure to capture more truth as an artist and be less of an ego and I sense the Ultimate Reality might be touched in the in- between spaces as both Truth and Egoless. As an artist, I look to find clues on how to enter in to these spaces more and more consistently. In the work of Paul Emile Bourduas, I found rhythm and seduction at the root of his process and all the in-between spaces functioning as necessary places of risk to effervescently touch those rhythms, to animate the seductions. The moments of this realization create a rich ocean of plankton, food for the conceptual work to be done. The essence of my work is in dissecting and inhaling the genius of Zao Wou Ki.
What I continue to learn is how incredibly liberating it is to affirm and elevate emotion as the intent of a painting or photograph. Being fearless in approaching the image as a sovereign manifestation requiring my stand as one “getting to know” life, bringing forth clues for others, and trusting the process. This is the under-painting of the journey I have been so humbly given to fulfill.
2021 13th Street Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario “Hear us Roar”
2020 Gallery on the Bay, “Forgotten Dreams”
2019 Art Productions NYC
2018 Artworld Fine Art, Toronto- Complex Simplicity
2017 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton
2016 Artworld Fine Art, Toronto
2015 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton
2013 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2011 Peak Gallery, Toronto
2012 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2011 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2010 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2010 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Illumination Within”
2009 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario “Avatar Beyond and Within”
2008 Denison Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 CBYE: Nutcracker, Hamilton Place
2007 Corner Gas T.V. Show = Props/final
2006 Dragic et Gagic, Sault, France
2006 Sherrus Gallery, Northville, Michigan “Impending Lunionstiy”
2006 Colours of Freedom Art Portfolio
2006 Sweet Fine Art Gallery, Naples, Florida
2006 Wyland Gallery, Niagara Falls
2005 Coda Gallery, New York “Ignotum per Ignotius”
2005 Corner Gas TV Show/prop
2005 Schwabach Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2005 Wyland Gallery, Niagara Falls, Ontario
2004 Pacific Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan “Rouleau – A Gesture of Balance”
2004 Coda Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Studio 261, Montreal, Quebec
2004 Corner Gas – Prairie Pants Productions
2004 HECFI Hamilton, Ontario “An Evening in Paris”
2004 Cap Gemini Ernst Young, Berlin, Germany
2004 Wyland Gallery, Niagara Falls
2004 Skate Canada, World International, Hamilton, Ontario
2003 Cap Gemini Ernst Young, Berlin, Germany
2003 Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
2003 Schwabach Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 Galerie im Neuen Kranzler Eck, Berlin, Germany “East meets West”
2003 CBYE: Kiev Ballet Theatre Hamilton, Ontario
2002 Denison Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario “Atelier Series”
2002 CBYE: National Ballet of Kiev “The Nutcracker inspires Art”, Hamilton, Ontario
2000 Meg Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Chateauneuf de Mazenc, France
2000 BFAA Fireside Gallery, Burlington
1999 Fuze, Hamilton, Ontario
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
1996 The Gallery, Taber Art Group, Ancaster, Ontario
1996-2000 La Bocca restaurant
1992 Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
1992 BFFA, Fireside Gallery, Burlington, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Art Capital – Grand Palais Paris - February
2020 Art Fair – Lausanne (FACEC)
2020 Barcelona Spain – Artbox/Projects
2020 Ghent Art Fair (FACEC)
2019 Art Bruxelles 3F (FACEC)
2019 Paul Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2019 Gallery on the Bay, Gallery Artists
2019 Parallax Art Fair – London UK
2019 Parallax Art Fair – Kensington, UK
2019 Artworld Fine Art – Winter Gallery
2019 Les Salons Independents – + Grand Palais, Paris, France
2018 Art exhibition / Annual Hamilton Medical Staff artists
2018 Parallax Art Fair – Kensington, UK
2018 Parallax Art Fair – Chelsea, UK
2018 Artistes du Monde – Cannes, France
2018 Forbach Galerie, France
2018 Carrousel du Louvre – Paris, France SNBA
2017 Milli’s Hamilton
2017 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario – Winter Exhibition
2017 Gallery on the Bay, Gallery artists Summer Collective exhibition
2017 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario – Gallery Artists 150th Anniversary exhibition
2017 Artworld Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Artworld Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Gallery on the Bay – Gallery artists
2016 Gallery on the Bay – Gallery artists
2015 Gallery on the Bay – Gallery artists
2014 Denison Gallery
2014 Gallery on the Bay – Gallery artists
2013 Gallery on the Bay – Gallery artists
2013 Medical Staff Advisory: The Rennaisance Project, Hamilton, Ontario
2012 Bridging Heaven and Earth, International Healing Art Project, California
2011 Bridging Heaven and Earth, International Healing Art Project, California
2011 Spirit of the Earth: Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Denison Gallery
2010 Bridging Heaven and Earth, International Healing Art Project, California
2009 Bridging Heaven and Earth, International Healing Art Project, California
2009 Spirit of the Earth, Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2012 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2011 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2010 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2009 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2008 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2007 Bremner Fine Art, Markham, Ontario
2006 Wyland Gallery, Group Show Niagara Falls
2005 Coda Gallery, New York ‘Gallery Artists”
2005 Bridging Heaven and Earth “The Art Project” SB Cal
2005 Stage 6 Northern Trust Bank, Miami, Florida
2004 Five Women artists, Northern Trust Bank, Miami, Florida
2005 HECFI, “New York State of Mind” Hamilton, ON
2005 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Berlin, Germany
2005 The International Art Expo Dubai, Patronat des Emirate Fine Arts Society
2005 Art Zurich, BB International Fine Arts “Kongresshaus”
2005 GIAF Ghangwhamoon International Art Festival, Korea
2005 Wyland Gallery, Niagara Falls, Ontario
2005 Night of Dreams, Cadillac Fairview, Toronto, Ontario
2005 The Gallery, The Design House, Dunnville, Ontario
2005 Bridging Heaven and Earth “The Magical Bridging Art Project” Santa Monica, Cal.
2004 Coda Gallery, NY “Gallery Artists”
2004 Studio 261 Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
2004 Dragonfly’s Delights Cancer Support, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 WIP Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona “First World Triennial of Serbian Drawing”
2004 CICF, “Art and Music”
2004 ART EXPO New York with Denison Gallery
2004 RBC Toronto/Corporate Appreciation Exhibit
2004 Frankfurt Book Fair, Munich, Germany
2004 Kunstevent Cologne, Germany
2004 Galerie Alexandre Le Douze, Los Angeles, California
2004 Night of Dreams, Cadillac Fairview, Toronto
2004 Gallery on the Bay, Hamilton, Ontario
2004 6th Art Internat 2003 Stockholm International Art Fair, BB International Fine Arts
2003 MAC 21 Marbella, Spain BB International Fine Arts
2003 Europe Art Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland, BB International Fine Arts
2003 Kunstevent Antwerpen, Belgium BB International Fine Arts
2003 Circle of Friends Providence St. Joseph Hospital “Concerning Women”
2003 Group Exhibition Sweeney Center, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Symphony of Lie, Canadian Critical Care Foundation, Hamilton, ON
2003 Burton-Jung-Miro-Hrushkha-Dayan-Gagic Exhibition (Alpengluehen Ag) with Galerie im Neuen Kranzler Eck, Berlin
2003 Galerie Alexandre Leadouze, Los Angeles California
2004 Kongresshaus Zurich, Switzerland/Galerie im NKE
2003 IM Chaim Gallery/Auction Chouinard Foundation Event, Beverly Hills, California
2003 Art Innsbruck 2003 with Dansung Gallery (Seoul Korea), Innsbruck, Austria
2003 Art New York, Jacob Kravits Center with Denison Gallery
2002 Galerie Im Neuen Kranzler Eck Berlin “Abstract Women Artists”
2002 Piano Nobile, Hamilton Place, the Nutcracker Gallery “East Meets West” Anatoliy Valiev & Patricia Karen Gagic
2002 4. International Kunstmesse, Kongresshaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 IV Edition – Mac 21 International E-Mail Exhibition, Marbella, Spain
2002 Europe Art Geneve, Switzerland
2002 Symphony of Life, Canadian Critical Care Foundation, Hamilton Place
2002 Women’s Art Association, Guest Speaker
2002 Art Gallery Presentation to Women’s Art Association of Hamilton
2002 Participant – The Interior Design Show, Toronto, Ontario
2002 International Art Contest, Australia, Jurors Choice 3rd Place
2001 Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Art Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2001 Hamilton Artists Inc., Annual Members “SALON”
2001 “Foundation of Light” Toronto 4 Points
2001 9th International Photographic Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
2001 La Biennale di Venezia – Poetry Bunker
2001 Women in Photography International Archive – Yale University 2003
2001 Women’s Art Association, “Silken Garden”, Dofasco Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
2001 BFAA, Burlington Art Center, “Drawing” Burlington, Ontario
2001 Meg Gallery, “Illumine” Toronto, Ontario
2000 Hamilton Conservatory of Art, Hamilton, Ontario “Women Healing Men Healing”
2000 Meg Gallery, Toronto, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
2000 Hamilton Conservatory of Art, Hamilton, Ontario “The Healing Power of Art”
2000 “Foundation of Light”, Toronto 4 Points
2000 Foundation of Light, Sheraton, Hamilton, Ontario
2000 BFAA, Burlington Art Center, Burlington, Ontario “Salon 2000”
1999 Aardvark Studios and Garland, Dallas, Texas “Renaissance 2000”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “The Viewer”
1999 Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, “Gallery Artists”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton Ontario “Festival of Arts 1”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton Ontario “Mother’s Day Exhibition”
1999 Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario “The Erotic Show”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1999 The Loffts, Hamilton, Ontario ‘Festival of Art 2”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “The Valentine Show”
1999 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1998 Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “the Big Little Art Show”
1998 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario “Members Exhibition”
1998 Chelsea House Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1998 Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario, “Different Directions”
1998 Chelsea House Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1998 Chelsea House Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1998 Chelsea House Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario “Gallery Artists”
1996 The Gallery, Taber Art Group, Ancaster, Ontario “Gallery Artists 8”
1994 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario WAA “100th Ann.”
1993 Bay Area Artists, Hamilton, Ontario “Members Exhibition”
1993 Hamilton, Artists Inc., Hamilton Ontario “Members Show”
1992 Central Ontario Arts Association, Hamilton, Ontario “Members Show”
1992 Hamilton Regional Arts Council, “Art in the Square”
1992 Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario “Remember Inc.”
1992 Hamilton Regional Arts Council, Hamilton, Ontario “Art Awareness Week”
Juried Shows
2018 SNBA – Carrousel du Louvre, Paris France
2002 – 2001 International World Art Contest, Australia “Judges Favorite”
2002 Women’s Art Association Juried Exhibition Hamilton Library
Dec 2001 Hamilton Artists Inc. Annual Members Exhibition SALON
Nov 2001 Burlington Fine Arts Association, Annual Juried Exhibition
Sep 2001 Society of Canadian Artists, 34th Annual Juried Exhibition John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Jul 2001 Women’s Art Association of Hamilton 107th Annual Juried Exhibition “Looking Back,
Looking Ahead” – Art Gallery of Hamilton HONOURABLE MENTION
May 2001 Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario “28th Annual Juried Exhibition”
April 2001 SCA Annual Juried show, Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario “Spring 2001 Art Exhibition”
Sep 2000 Stage Gallery, New York, “Small Works-Top Priority”
Jun 2000 Visual Arts Brampton, Bramalea City Centre, Brampton, Ontario “1st Annual Great Canadian Mall Show” HONOURABLE MENTION
May 1999 Hamilton Woman’s Art Association, Hamilton Main Library, Hamilton, Ontario – 103rd Annual Juried Show
Mar 1999 Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
Nov 1998 BFAA Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario “31st Annual Juried Exhibition” HONOURABLE MENTION
Jun 1997 BFAA, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington Ontario “30th Anniversary Juried Exhibition”
Jul 1995 Woman’s Art Association, Hereon Point, Ancaster, Ontario
Jul 1992 Gallery 306, Toronto, Ontario “6th Annual Open Juried Show”
Jun 1992 BFAA Perry Gallery, Burlington, Ontario “Annual Juried Show”
May 1992 The Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario “19th Annual Juried”
Jun 1992 Rivercrest Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario “3rd Annual Juried Exhibition”
Apr 1992 The Society of Canadian Artists, John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario “31st Annual Juried Exhibition” HONOURABLE MENTION “25th Annual Juried Exhibition”
Apr 1992 Scarborough Arts Council, Consilium Art Show “7th Annual Juried Exhibition”
LA Frieze
LA NFT
AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS/NOMINATIONS
2021 Dante Alighieri International Prize -
2021 David Michelangelo International Prize – Florence, Italy
2021 The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists – curation Russo
2021 Art Olympic Prize – Art Now/Earta – Palermo, Italy
2021 Art Excellence Award – Lounge contest – winner -
2021 iWoman Global Awards – Winner – Arts Category
2021 Women of Inspiration – Women Driving Change
2021 ARTYA Emerald Award- Art Tour International
2021 International Art Contest 2021 Germany – AMBER AWARD WINNER
2021 Enter into Art – Excellence Jury prize
2021 Ambassador of Art – International Prize – Earte/ART Now
2021 Arts Sciences Lettres – Paris
2021 Kintsugi Cup – Ambassador
2020 International Institute for Artist Accreditation
2020 Painting of the Year – The Global Art Award – Shanghai Art Fair
2020 Certificate of Recogntion – Women of Wisdom Summit (Movement)
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award – Woman of Inspiration - Universal Women’s Network
2020 Pewter Medal in Painting – Societe Academique Arts, Sciences, Lettres, Paris
2020 New York International Contemporary Art Prize – The Stars of Contemporary Art
2020 Raffaello & Canova International Prize – Italy
2020 Top 60 Masters; Art as a Healing Force – ATIM
2020 International Art Award Prize – Apollo and Daphne Gian Lorenzo Bernini- Italy
2020 Universal Women’s Network – Women of Inspiration - nomination
2020 Paul Harris Award recipient: Rotary Club 7080
2020 Artist of the year ATIM 2020- Art Tour International Magazine
2020 Mondial Art Academy – Member/Chevalier Academicienne
2020 6th Enter into Art International Excellence award - Print
2019 Awarded Silver Medal by Societe Academique Arts, Sciences, Lettres, Paris
2019 Nominated to Societe Academique Arts, Sciences, Lettres, Paris
2019 Advisory Board, Divon Academy TOP 100 Students
2019 Passport Rotary Club of D7080 Oakville – Member/Service Committee
2018 Advisory to AiDA Hamilton – Academy of Imagination & Dramatic Arts
2018 Passport Rotary Club of D7080 Oakville – Member/Service Committee
2018 Salon Des Beaux Arts 2018 – Delegation du Canada – Gold Medal in Photography
2018 SNBA Book/Carrousel du Louvre
2018 Recipient WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women- Hall of Fame
2018 Nominated: WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women
2018 Recipient ATIM Masters – New York Top 10
2018 Appointed Deputy Commander Niagara Order St. George
2018 Advisory to AiDA Hamilton – Academy of Imagination & Dramatic Arts
2017 Nominated for Hamilton, Ontario “Distinguished Citizen of the Year”
2017 Recipient of WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada – BMO Arts/Communication
2017 Recipient of WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada – RBC Champions
2016 Recipient of Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) honoree 52nd Gala
2016 Recipient of 40 Over Forty Award, Hamilton, ON
2016 Recipient David Lane Youth Success Fund Award – John Howard Society
2015 Recipient of WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada – BMO Arts/Communication Award
2017/16 – Boards of Directors – Sir Edmund Hilary Foundation
2019/2006 – Project Cambodia – Orphanage and School/Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2017 Library in Boeng Meala, Cambodia
2015 Karmic Alibi – Finalist International Book News Awards – Non-Fiction / Narrative category
2015 Nominated by CMHR – WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada
2014 Karmic Alibi – Finalist USA Book News Awards – Non-Fiction / Narrative category
2014 Present – Member of Ontario Cabinet – Canadian Museum for Human Rights
2014 Nominated by Free the Children – Top 100 Canadian Women WXN
2013 Present – Dame of the Order of St. George/Grand Prior of Canada and The Americas of The Order of St. George – Niagara Command Commandery
2013 Postulant/Knighted as Dame of The Order of St. George – Toronto Investiture
2013 Nominated for Lifetime Achievement Award Women of Distinction Awards YWCA
2013 Recipient of The Certificate of Thankfulness – Kingdom of Cambodia
2012 Nominated for the Hamilton/Burlington YMCA Peace Medal
2012 Winner/Recipient of the Award of Excellence by the Toronto Women’s EXPO
2012 Appointed Ambassador to Friends to Mankind
2005 Contributor to Global Commons and Global Co-operative Forum Leo Burke –
Mendoza School of Business at Notre Dame University
2007 Honorary Commissioner of “Transcendental Realism” art of Adi da Samraj
52. International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2009 Nominated for the World Citizenship Award – the Hamilton Mundialization Committee
2004 2013 Canadian Advisory Board of Directors – Free the Children
2004 Founder Hamilton Print Making Studio/Board of Directors
2004 Exec. Director, World Portfolio Development – The Colours of Freedom
2005 Colors of Freedom Children’s Peace Initiative – Free the Children
2008 Present – Volunteer/supporter of Mad4Maddie campaign and Maddie’s Everlasting Wish
2004- 2010 Supporter of Adi Da Samraj – Global Co-operative Forum/Not-two-is-Peace
2004 Women’s Art Association – McMaster University Scholarship in name of Patricia Gagic
2020 Christopher Rausch – Podcast L.A.
2020 Contemporary Art Magazine – International
2020 Art International – The Stars of Contemporary Art
2020 Key note speaker: WXN “Letting Go of Covid Fear) April 15
2020 CAPG Women In Philanthropy -March 6 Keynote
2020 Tim Gillette Show: Podcast April
2020 ArtBox / Projects/ Barcelona Spain
2020 Collector Book/New Perspectives by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2020 MOmA World of Art Magazine
2020 Podcast Interview with Misha Koura - January
2020 WXN – artwork Staying Sane While Sharing Space
2020 Xanadu – Art Catalogue
2019 Expert Summit at Harvard Club of Boston
2020 See/Me Digital feature exhibition
2019 Mutual Art Magazine
2019 Art Tour International Magazine
2019 House and Garden Magazine
2019 Art Productions NYC
2019 FAB : Northern Trust, Miami
2019 Artistes du Monde Cannes
2019 Arts Sciences Ldttres article in FACEC magazine IM
2018 CHCH.com/Hamilton-artist-displayed-louvre/
2018 WXN Top 100 Summit. Panelist
2018 Hamilton Spectator, WXN Hall of Fame article
2018 Hamilton Spectator article on SNBA/Carrousel du Louvre
2018 Cable 14 TV interview from Paris
2018 National Post WXN
2018 Financial Post WXN
2018 WXN Summit Panel – Keynote “Stand in Her Shoes”
2018 The Spec – For the Record – Inducted into Hall of Fame WXN
2018 CHCH T.V. Interview/news
2018 Run It Like a Girl : Podcast series -June with Bonnie Mouck
2018 www.CHCH.com/hamilton-artist-work-displayed-louvre/
2018 www.mnn.org/live ARTTOUR International
2017 Hamilton Spectator/highlight
2017 Hamilton Spectator – YWCA International Womens Day Congratulations
2018 Parallax Art Fair – London UK
2018 Parallax Art Fair – Chelsea, UK
2018 Parallax Art Fair – Kensington Town Hall, UK
2017 National Post - WXN - Featured article
2017 Financial Post WXN
2017 Women of Distinction Awards – YWCA
2016 National Post: Women of Power
2016 Financial Post newspaper
2016 Financial Post magazine
2016 Hamilton Spectator
2016 Hamilton Spectator
2016 Bob Kemp Hospice
2016 Wine Women and Shoes/ Mara A Lago Club, Palm Beach
2016 Invitation to Canada’s Smartest Person Season 3 CBC
2015 Book Review – Karmic Alibi by FRAN LEWIS, New York
2015 National Post newspaper – Women of Power article/WXN
2015 Financial Post Magazine
2015 Toronto Star newspaper
2015 Women’s Prosperity Network – Webinar
2015 Financial Post magazine – December issue/WXN Top 100
2015 WXN Top 100 booklet
2015 Memoirabilia magazine article – Viga Boland
2015 The Globe and Mail/Contemplative moments at Angkor Wat/Carrie Cockburn
2015 – Canadian Health magazine ‘Rediscovering Joy” by Anne Bokma
2015 – Guest on Robert Sidell Radio Show – Las Vegas
2015 CMHR Monthly newsletter Ontario Cabinet Profile – Gagic
2015 – Guest on Chris George Radio Show ‘The Paranormal Lounge” NY
2015 – Guest on Randi Fine radio Show “Love Your Life” – Weston, Florida
2015 – Guest on Alli Russo Radio Show
2015 – Investor/Realtor Seminar: Presenter
2015 – Podcast Kevin Mitchell/ 3 episodes
2014 – Guest on Rob and Slim Radio Show
2014 – Randee Feldman/Get Noticed Mini
2014 – Rediscovering Joy article/BEST Health magazine
2013 Martha Sanchez KNOW Radio SHow
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