Tori Foster
b. 1982, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Education
2009 M.F.A., with Distinction (Documentary Media), Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)
2006 M.Arch. course work, University of Toronto
2005 B.F.A., with Honours (New Media), Ryerson University
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Entering the Novelty, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Traces of Being(s), The Moose Jaw Museum and Gallery (Saskatchewan, Canada)
2016 Traces of Being(s), Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, (Medicine Hat, Canada)
2014 Quotidian Trajectories, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2011 Concentrated Geographies, WARC Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2010 The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian, Convenience Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2022 Echoes, Women’s Art Association of Canada (Toronto, Canada)
2022 Art Auction, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
2021 DELETE TV, Season 7 Collection (London, UK)
2021 Ritual, Intersect Arts Center (St. Louis, USA)
2021 LIGHT, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo-si, Korea)
2021 Beyond Human Power, Independent & Image Art Space (Chongqing, China)
2021 WHEN, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, USA)
2021 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Experimental Film and Video Exhibition 2021 (Gimpo-si, Korea)
2020 Art Auction, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
2019 Off the Hook, MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie, Canada)
2019 Skip Stop, with Jesse Colin Jackson, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2018 Time Bomb, Watermill Centre, 25th Annual Summer Benefit (The Hamptons, New York, USA)
2018 Art + Agriculture, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
2017 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Concept 2017 (Gimpo-si, Korea)
2016 Cavo Fest, Santa Geffa Hypogeum,(Trani, Italy)
Dynamic, Studio Channel Islands,(Camarillo, USA)
The Consilience of Art and Science, Pence Gallery (Davis, USA)
Photography Takes Over, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson (NY, USA)
2014 Urban Factors (300 seconds), Toronto Design Offsite Festival, (Toronto, Canada)
Project 31, OCAD U, (Toronto, Canada)
2013 Arts Incubator, Ethnographic Terminalia (Chicago, USA)
Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art and History, (Orillia, Canada)
20th Annual Summer Benefit, Watermill Centre, (New York, USA)
Richmond-Adelaide Centre (Toronto, Canada)
Project 31, OCAD U (Toronto, Canada)
TEDx, Simplexity (Toronto, Canada)
2012 Richmond-Adelaide Centre (Toronto, Canada)
Photorama, Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada)
Train and Cinema, Seoul Station (Seoul, Korea)
Nuit Numériques, Antitube (Québec, Canada)
2011 Photorama, Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada)
Saving Face: Contemporary Portraiture, Living Arts Centre Gallery (Mississauga, Canada)
Rebel Grrrlz, Gallery TPW (Torun, Poland)
OUT tv, Documentary feature nationally broadcast (Canada)
2010 Photorama, Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada)
Photopia, Gallery 44 (Toronto, Canada)
Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (Milan Italy)
London Lesbian Film and Video Festival, (London, England)
Some Prefer Cake Film Festival, (Bologna, Italy)
CGLA Canadian Filmmakers, (Toronto, Canada)
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (Austin, USA)
Rostock Queer Film Festival (Rostock, Germany)
SASOD Film Festival (Georgetown, Guyana)
Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)
Queer Bodies, Queer Performances (Lublin, Poland)
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute (BFI), (London, England)
STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory (Edmonton, Canada)
OUT tv, Documentary feature nationally broadcast (Canada)
A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: (Poznań; Warsaw; Gdańsk; Lublin; Kraków; Zielona Góra; and Toruń, Poland)
2009 Photorama, Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada)
Documentary Now, Toronto Image Works (Toronto, Canada)
Iris International Festival of LGBT Animation (São Paulo, Brazil)
Festival Internacional de Animação Erótica, Toronto Image Works (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Toronto Inside Out Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: (Poznań; Warsaw; Gdańsk; Lublin; Kraków; Zielona Góra; and Toruń, Poland)
2008 First Friday, Contemporary Video Art Screening Series, Gallery Lambdon (Sarnia, Canada)
Video Art is Queer, The Drake (Toronto, Canada)
TTC, Pride Toronto on 40 public transit platforms (Toronto, Canada)
Contact, The Gladstone (Toronto, Canada)
Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival (Madurai, India)
A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: (Poznań; Warsaw; Gdańsk; Lublin; Kraków; Zielona Góra; and Toruń, Poland)
Toronto Pride (Toronto, Canada)
Bucharest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
Mauritius Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Mauritius)
2007 Edmonton Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Edmonton, Canada)
Atlanta Out On Film Film Festival (Atlanta, USA)
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Philadelphia, USA)
Tel Aviv International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Festival International du Film Gay et Lesbien de Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
Kingston Reel Pride Film Festival, Festival Opener (Kingston, Canada)
2006 Festival Gejevskega in Lezbičnega Filma (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Regina Queer City Cinema Film Festival (Regina, Canada)
Winnipeg Reel Pride Film Festival, Festival Opener (Winnipeg, Canada)
Dallas Outtakes (Dallas, USA)
Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival (Milwaukee, USA)
Michigan Women's Music Festival (Walhalla, USA)
Halifax Pride (Halifax, Canada)
LIX, SAW Gallery (Ottawa, Canada)
Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, SAW Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Awards & Grants
2021 Media Artists Creation Projects, Ontario Arts Council
2020 FCAD Scholarly Research and Creative Activities Seed Grant for Faculty, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2018 Excellence in the Arts Award (for an established professional artist), City of Barrie, Canada
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Art Gallery of Sudbury)
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Ed Video Media Arts Centre)
2018 Explore and Create: Research & Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Explore and Create: Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Working Artist Grant, Working Artist Org. (Washington, USA)
2016 New Media Research and Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1st Prize, Consilience of Art and Science, 2016, Pence Gallery, UC Davis (California, USA)
2015 Probationary Faculty Support Program Grant, California State University (Northridge, USA)_
2014 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2013 Travel Funding Grant, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design
Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Nominee, Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards, Boston University
Visual Artists Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Canada
Seed Funding, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design Grant (CIV-DDD), Government of Ontario, Canada
2012 New Media Research and Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Seed Funding, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design Grant ( CIV-DDD), Government of Ontario, Canada
2011 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2010 Media Arts Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2008-9 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario
2007-8 Ryerson Graduate Scholarship, Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)
2007 Media Arts Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Media Artists Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Media Artists Grant, Toronto Arts Council
Audience Award, Favourite Canadian Film, Reelout Film Festival (Kingston, Canada)
2006 Best Canadian Feature, Inside Out Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
2005 Admission Fellowship Award, University of Toronto Master of Architecture (Toronto, Canada)
Hattie Aileen Sommerville Award, University of Toronto Master of Architecture (Toronto, Canada)
2004 Trinity Square Video Award, Trinity Square Video (Toronto, Canada)
Speaking Engagements
2020 UNCG, School of Art. That Which Transpires Behind that Which Appears: Uncovering Paradigms through Mediation (Greensboro, NC, USA)
2019 Art 12A: Art, Design & Electronic Culture, University of California Irvine (Irvine, USA)
2019 Arts as a Catalyst for Change Forum, Simcoe County Board of Education (Springwater, Canada)
2018 Panel discussion - MUTEK_IMG, The Search for Digital Aesthetics’ Unknown Unknowns (Montreal, Canada)
2018 University of Lethbridge: Art NOW Lecture Series. Patterns Beneath the Surface (Lethbridge, Canada)
2018 Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Traces of Being(s) (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)
2017 University of Victoria: Department of Visual Arts. What Remains: Evidence of Paradigms After Mediation (Victoria, Canada)
2017 Ryerson University: School of Image Arts. What Remains: Evidence of Paradigms After Mediation, (Toronto, Canada)
2016 Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Traces of Being(s) (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)
2016 University of California, Irvine: School of the Arts. Pattern Finding: Quotidian Trajectories in Urban Environments (Irvine, USA)
2015 California State University, Northridge: Department of Art. Pattern Finding: Quotidian Trajectories in Urban Environments (Los Angeles, USA)
2014 Lines and Nodes: Media, Aesthetics and Infrastructure Symposium presentation: Infrastructures of a Visualized Arctic (New York, USA)
2013 Ethnographic Terminalia, Arts Incubator. Visualizing Canada’s Urban North (Chicago, USA)
Urban Ecologies Conference presentation: Pattern Finding: Quotidian Transitions from Order to Chaos (Toronto, Canada)
GRAND Digital Media Conference poster presentation: Visualizing Canada’s Urban North, (Toronto, Canada)
CIV-DDD Brown Bag Seminar: Visualizing Canada’s Urban North (Toronto, Canada)
2012 Doors Open, Cannon Design (Toronto, Canada)
2011 York University (Toronto, Canada)
University of Toronto at Mississauga & Sheridan Collage (Oakville, Canada)
2010 CGLA Canadian Filmmakers (Toronto, Canada)
2009 Panelist: Documentary Media, Contact (Toronto, Canada)
Trent University (Peterborough, Canada)
2007 University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Philadelphia, USA)
York University (Toronto, Canada)
Queer Youth Digital Video Project, Inside Out (Toronto, Canada)
Kingston Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Kingston, Canada)
2006 Panelist: Small Town Queers, Regina Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Regina, Canada)
Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival (Toronto, Canada)
SAW gallery (Ottawa, Canada)
Winnipeg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Winnipeg, Canada)
2005 Laurentian University (Barrie, Canada)
Selected Reviews, Catalogues & Essays
2022 Catalogue: Manifest Exhibition Annual MEAs17, Manifest Press (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
2021 Catalogue: Bernhardt, Sarah. Tori Foster: Pulse Crowds. Ritual, Intersect Arts Center (St. Louis, MO, USA)
2021 Interview: VAST Magazine, Issue no 2.
2019 Article: How artists interpret ag data. In The Western Producer. Nov 14, 2019
2019 Review: The Globe and Mail. June 1, 2019. Alex Bozikovic. Skip Stop: Rethinking the Legacy of Modern Architecture in Toronto’s Regent Park
2018 Marion, Joanne. Tori Foster Traces of Beings. City of Medicine Hat Arts & Heritage Centre and Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, ISBN: 978-1-98813-04-2.
2016 Foster, Tori. Pattern Finding. In Urban Ecologies 2013. Toronto: OCAD University, 2016. 96 – 99
2016 Review: CSUN Art Space, Faculty Spotlight: Tori Foster. Oct 10, 2016
2015 Video: CBC News: Northbeat The Changing Seasons in Hay River. Jan 12, 2015
2014 Visual Essay: Foster, Tori and Jesse C. Jackson. Iterations: Layers of the City. In Spacing 30 (Winter 2014). Toronto: Spacing Media, 2014. 38 – 41
Catalogue: Jackson, Jesse C. and Tori Foster. Ten Low-Rise Apartments, Regent Park in 2014 Toronto International Art Fair catalogue. Toronto: Informa, 2014. 181
2013 Bell, Lindsay A. and Jesse C. Jackson. Visualizing Canada’s Urban North. In Urban Ecologies 2013. Toronto: OCAD University, 2014. Expanded abstract. Forthcoming
Catalogue: Ethnographic Terminalia, Arts Incubator, Chicago, USA
Catalogue: 20th Annual Watermill Centre Summer Benefit, Watermill Centre, New York, USA
Catalogue: Project 31, OCAD University
2011 Essay: Smith, Greg J.. "Motion Capture: Tori Foster's Concentrated Geographies"
Review: t.o.night, May 24
Review: Creative Applications Network, May 19
Review: BlogTO, May 18
Review: The Globe and Mail, May 7
Review: NOW Magazine, Must See Show, May 5 to May 12
Review: Eye Weekly, April 7 to 13
2010 Essay: Cole, Janis. “A Finer Education.” POV Magazine, No. 77, Spring, 2010. Pg 25
Review: Rogers: Toronto Living, May 25
Review: Serial Consign, April 24
Review: Serial Consign, January 21
2009 Essay: Smith, Greg J.. "Continuous City: The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian"
Essay: Foster, Tori. “The Mother City.” Vague Terrain: citySCENE, Issue No. 13. March
Radio: CIUT Radio: Take 5, May 14
Review: NOW Magazine, Vol. 28 No. 27, May 13 to 20
2008 Review: NOW Online, June 26
Review: Educational Media Reviews Online, January 22
2007 Review: Simcoe Life Magazine, October 23
Review: Vue Weekly, Issue No. 631, November 21
Cover story: NOW Magazine, Vol. 25 No. 38 May 18 to 24
2006 Review: The National Post, Vol. 8 No. 175, May 18
Cover story: Xtra Magazine No. 562, May 11 to 24
Review: SceneandHeard.ca, May
Video: CTV: Movie Television, Episode No.18-029, May 5
Video: MTV Canada: MTV Live, July 23
Residencies
2016 University of Lethbridge's Data Physicalization Lab & the Lethbridge Agricultural Research Centre (Alberta, Canada)
2013 Arts Incubator, Ethnographic Terminalia (Chicago, USA)
Commissions
2008 Pride Toronto, Video Commission issued by Sharon Switzer, Toronto, Canada
Selected Public Collections
Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Working Artists Org., Washington, D.C., USA
Private collections
Corporate collections
Academic Appointments
2020-p Assistant Professor, School of Art, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
2018-19 Assistant Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
2015-present Assistant Professor, Department of Art, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, USA
2013-2016 Adjunct Professor, Research and Graduate Studies, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada