DAVID
CONSTANTINO
SALAZAR
Exhibition (Solo)
2021 Forever (Bird-Botanicals) Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
2020 The Persistent Evidence, Collective: Café con Leche, Samara Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2018 FESTIM (FEAST) Old City Hall, Tiradentes, Brazil
2017 Performing Human through Animal, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
2012 Passa-Rindo, Johrei Center Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 PLAYFUL, Tiradentes, Brazil
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Exhibition (Group)
2021 Being Scene, Workman Arts, Toronto, Canada
2020 Forever (Bird Botanical Installation), 3rd International Biennial of Asuncion, Paraguay
2020 Dying Series Exhibition, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada
2019 An Index, Akin Studio Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Toronto, Canada
2019 Ornithologies: Where Humans and Birds Collide, Quest Art, Midland Cultural Centre, Canada
2019 Movement, Remote Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019 Workman Arts: Being Scene18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Toronto’s Media Centre, Canada
2019 Centrepiece, Samara Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019 I Blink my Eyes to Keep the Time, The Six Hundred, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2018 Plus Art Fair - Masters of Fine Art Annual Art Fair, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2018 Under the Sun, First Canadian Place, Toronto, Canada
2018 Workman Arts: Being Scene, 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2017 Yorkville Village Arts Festival, presented by OCAD U & First Capital Realty, Toronto, Canada
2017 Plus Art Fair - Masters of Fine Art Annual Art Fair, Hamilton, Canada
2017 Strike a Chord, Sur Gallery, Co-Presented by Mayworks, Toronto, Canada
2017 Gowlings + OCAD U, Toronto, Canada
2016 Drawing & Sculpture Exhibition, Charlotte Hale & Associates, Toronto, Canada
2015 Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Toronto, Genesis: Memory Lane, Spadina Museum, Toronto, Canada
2014 End of Year Show, Charlotte Hale & Associates, Toronto, Canada
2010 Neo-Priest, Headbones Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2010 Neo-Beast, Headbones Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 New Members, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Canada
2009 Toronto International Art Fair, Prime Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 10th Annual, Juried Emerging Sculptors Exhibition Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto
2009 41st Open Juried National Exhibition. Society of Canadian Artist, Toronto, Canada
2009 Bridge Art Fair. Represented by Headbones Gallery, NYC, U.S.A
2008 Art Miami. Represented by Headbones Gallery, Miami, U.S.A
2008 Sculpt Art, Mediterranean Garden, Royal Botanical Gardens, Prime Gallery, Burlington Canada
2008 Cash is King but Your Love Rules. Edward Day Gallery. Presented by Art Metropole, Toronto
Studio Residencies
2021 Gardiner Museum, Toronto
19-20 Public Art Studio Residency MST Bronze Art Foundry – Sculpture Supply Canada
18-19 AKIN Studio Residency Program at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto
2018 Creative Professional -in- Residence Artist/Mentor OCAD University, Toronto
2018 Flora & Fauna Studio Research & Exhibition, Tiradentes, Brazil
2017 Studio Residency, Workman Arts, Toronto, Canada
2016 OCAD University Studio Research & Residency, Florence, Italy
Grants and Awards
2021 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Travel Abroad, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2018 Flora & Fauna Creation Grant, City of Tiradentes, Brazil
2016 Florence, Italy, Travel Grant, OCAD University
15-16 Deans Scholarship, OCAD University
2011 Gula, Tiradentes 14th Festival of Culture and Gastronomy of Brazil
2009 Visual Artist Creation Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2009 Visual Artist-Emerging Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2009 First Prize-Sculpture, Society of Canadian Artist
2008 First Place Award Winner, Living Arts Centre Juried Show
2007 Emanuel Hahn Award, Awarded by Ontario College of Art & Design
2007 MST Bronze Sculpture Award presented by Sculptors Society of Canada
2007 First Place Award Winner, Desmond Juried Art Exhibition
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Education
2015-2017 Graduate Degree
OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design Master’s Degree (IAMD) Program
Advisors: Professor Fatimah Tuggar, Professor Bonnie Devine
2003-2007 Undergraduate Degree
OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sculpture / Installation Program
Teaching : Sculpting Instructor
2021 Sculpting Course, Workman Arts
18/19 Sculpting Course. Gifts of Light’s Art Cart Program : CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
17/18 Sculpting Course. Workman Arts, Toronto, Canada.
Commissions
2021 Being Scene, Workman Arts, Chihuahuas and Wigs
2020 Public Art Commission, Hogtown, MST Bronze – Sculpture Supply Canada
2020 Poutine Productions, Netflix series, Giant Head Sculpture Faux finish as stone.
2020 Family Crest, Rod of Asclepius, cast in bronze, Private Commission
2019 Private Commission Porsche Canada
17/18 MST Bronze Ltd. Sculpting Projects, Ken Lum, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Driscoll
Family Crest (Mount Pleasant Cemetery)
2018 Butter Sculpture Installation (Animals of the Six), Canadian National Exhibition,
Toronto, Canada.
2015 Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Toronto, AVANI Presents, Genesis: Memory Lane,
Spadina Museum, Toronto, Canada
2015 Public Art Commission, One & All, First Capital Realty, Georgetown, Canada
11-12 Carnival - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mocidade de Padre Miguel Carnival Samba School
Fabrication Technician/Sculptor
13-15 MST Bronze Ltd. Bronze Art Foundry, Toronto, Canada.
Public Art Maintenance : Position: Sculptor/Fabricator
2012 Mocidade Carnival Samba School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010 Anne Lazar Mirvish, Toronto, Canada.
06-09 Tom Dean (Public Art Projects) Toronto, Canada.