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Born in 1984, Calgary / Mohkinstsis / Otos-kwunee
Select Solo Exhibitions
2023
— Ancestors, downtown studio, Calgary
2022
— Central Park, Annabelle’s Kitchen, Calgary
2019
— Wilderness, Lightbox Studio, Art Commons, Calgary
2018
— Canadian Winter, Calgary Allied Arts Foundation Residency, Cspace, Calgary
2017
— Land and Water, Therma Advanced Aesthetics, Calgary
2014
— We're so thirsty, Avalanche! Institute of Contemporary Art, Calgary
2011
— Sunshine Property, The Gallery, Calgary
Select Group Exhibitions
2026
— IAM Project (working title), Whyte Museum of the Rockies, Banff, Canada (forthcoming)
2023
— Apocalalyptica, Hispanic Arts Society, Calgary
2021
— From the Land: Indigenous Ecological Art for a New Era, ATB and Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society, Calgary
2016
— Look 2016 & Factory Party, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary
2015
— Cinco De Mayo, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary
2014
— Voted Most Likely, curated by Kim Dorland, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary
— CAR – Calgary Artist Review”, Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
— This for That, Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver
2013
— BMO Financial Group's 1stArt! Student Invitational Competition Winners, representing Alberta at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
— ACAD Grad Show, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
— Shredder, Moving Images and Sound Festival, Connocco Philips Theatre, Glenbow Museum
2012
— Five, The Gallery, Calgary
2010
— Factory Party #8, Uptown Cinema, Calgary
— Untitled abstract oil painting featured in the Solabode sustainable home designed and built by students at SAIT, displayed at Winter Olympics, Vancouver
2009
— Estella, Fashion Designer at Alberta Fashion Week, The Bank, Calgary
— Factory Party #4, #5, #6, & #7, Uptown Cinema, Calgary
2008
— Flower girls, Fashion Designer for Calgary Cares, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary
— Factory Party” #1, #2, & #3, Art Life Gallery, Calgary
Collections
— Petroleum Club, Calgary, Canada
— Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
— Private Collections is Canada, United States, United Emirates, and Australia
Education
2013
— Alberta University of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Distinction
2005
— Lethbridge College, Fashion Design and Marketing, Honours
Select Awards & Grants
2025
— Original Peoples Investment Program Grant, Calgary Arts Development
2023
— Original Peoples Investment Program Grant, Calgary Arts Development
2017
— Underwater, Small Experiments Program Grant, Calgary Arts Development
2013
— BMO Financial Group's 1stArt! Invitational Student Art Competition representing Alberta
2008
— AUArts Entrance Scholarship, AUArts, Calgary Alberta
Residencies & Artist Workshops
2025
— Invitational Indigenous Artists Workshop, led by Joseph Sanchez & AJ Louden, Whyte Museum, Banff
2019
— Arts Commons RBC Lightbox Studio Residency, Calgary
2018
— Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, studio residency at Cspace, Calgary
Select Public Art
2023
— Dinner & Birds, Land & Sky, mural box, Whyte Museum, Banff
2022
— Circle of Dancers, Glow Festival, Calgary
— Fox and Fish, augmented reality animated window painting with Northern Reflections and Maud Collective, East Village and Inglewood, Calgary
2021
— Plants & Flowers for the Blackfoot, mural at Nose Hill Park, Calgary
2020
— Plastic in the Wind, public art at Nooks and Crannies Festival, Okotoks
2016
— Circle of Dancers, New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Olympic Plaza, City of Calgary
2013
— Upside Down Room, Writing Wall, and Timeout Corners, Wreck City, Calgary
Select Reviews + News Articles + Media
2024
— Living a Creative Life on YouTube, “Whimsy on Wheels/Art Buses of Calgary Transit”. Time: 8:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ4TFh2PlqA
— Piche, Olivia. “Building Community Pride Through Public Art”, Calgary Creates Magazine Issue 3, page 22 -23. https://issuu.com/redpointmedia/docs/cad_2024_digital
2023
— Riordon, Kate. “Stories of This Place: Indigenous Public Art Connects Culture and Place”, July 27, 2023. https://www.whyte.org/post/indigenous-storytelling-artwork-nature-banff
2022
— City of Calgary on YouTube, “Community-run public art in Nose Hill”. Time: 0:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRiNaAtOBdA
2021
— CKUA radio, “On Art: Tiffany Wollman Brightens Nose Hill Park”, October 28, 2021. https://ckua.com/listen/on-art-tiffany-wollman-brightens-nose-hill-park/
2014
— Canadian Art, “Must-Sees This Week: January 16 to 22, 2014”, http://www.canadianart.ca/openings/2014/01/16/non-painting/
— Mandybura, Cadence. " Pipelines and Paint: We're So Thirsty comments on oil industry and our waterways". Fast Forward Weekly 6 February 2014.
2013
— Sandals, Leah. “Updated: Emerging Artist Prizes Illuminate Rising Talents”, August 5, 2013. https://canadianart.ca/news/emerging-artist-story/
— Papke, Sarah. “Artist finds way to share her concerns for Alberta's environment”. The Anchor Weekly 16 October 2013.
2006
— Philip, Lincoln. "Young designer has future sewn up." Calgary Herald February 2006.
2005
— Malwina Gudowska. "Leading Ladies." Avenue Magazine Calgary September 2005.
Artistic Practice Statement
Tiffany Wollman is a contemporary Cree-Métis (and early European settler) artist living in Calgary. She grew up on an acreage between wheat fields southeast of the city limits. First, she studied Fashion Design before accepting an invitation to study fine art at the Alberta University of the Arts, she graduated with honours in Painting.
Her maternal and paternal ancestors have always lived off the land. On her mother’s side of the family tree, her great grandparents lived near Birch Hills Saskatchewan, and before that her ancestors lived at the Métis Red River Settlement. Her great great great grandma Jane Mary Thomas was Cree and married a Scottish man. Family names are Lyons, Folster, Thomas, Harper, Pruden, and Kippling.
Motivated by a sensitivity to the passing of time and a sense of responsibility to protect the land and water, Tiffany’s oil painting practice is paced between periods of productive energy and quiet reflection. Her art is animated by layers, colour, and staccato-like brushstrokes. Her mellifluous palette is suspended somewhere between the synthetic hues of coloured pencils and subdued pastel tones of the earth, simultaneously referencing the natural and artificial ingredients of representation.
Figures floating in water, dreamy landscapes, and family portraits are handled in a way to evoke the possibility of anywhere and anyone with specificity telling stories of the present and past. Her painting style has elements of impressionism mixed with a reductive, minimalist, and graphic sensibility. Her drawings utilize the ease of control of coloured pencils to develop speed and translucency in her portrayals of innocence, surrender, and desire. These drawings influence paintings and are artworks on their own.
Tiffany’s largest mural Plants and Flowers for the Blackfoot spans over 135 feet including both east and west entrances to the 64th avenue pedestrian underpass at Nose Hill Park. Consultation with the local community associations, The City of Calgary, and blessings and learnings from Blackfoot elders was key to the success of the public art mural. She desired to share the harmonious relationship between the land and people, that all things are connected.
Over the last decade she has also trained and worked on various projects as a scenic painter in both film and theatre. Employing many different painting methods and mediums to achieve various affects and illusions at grand scales. Most recently painting backdrops sent to the Metropolitan Opera for El Nino, Cinderella in Chicago, and the Wicked UK tour. In the film industry she was scenic painter on The Order (Prime Video) and The Last of Us (Netflix).