Austin Clay Willis

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EDUCATION

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2025   School of Visual Arts — MFA in Fine Arts

2020  University of Victoria — BFA with Majors in Visual Arts (Honours) and English

 

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SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

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2025 Lake Erie Listening Project — with Jessica Reisch at FEED Media Art Center, Eria, PA

2025 Wild at Heart — with Lily Hyon at John St Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Moving Through Debris — The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada.

2022 Image stills/Image Moves — 4 by 4 on 5th, Vancouver, Canada.

2020 NightLife — The Ou Gallery, Online Exhibition, Duncan, Canada. 

2020 Material Affair — Slice of Life Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.

2020 The thing is, this thing is all it is — Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, Canada.

2019 Curious Constructions — Xchanges, Victoria, Canada.

2019 Predilections of Painting — Arc.hive, Victoria, Canada.

2019 Abstract Windows — The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, Victoria, Canada.

2019 Frame with 3D shapes — Ministry of Casual Living Window, Victoria, Canada

2018 Big Colour — Fairfield Community Association, Victoria, Canada.

2017 Words, with Pictures — Artavi Collective, Victoria, Canada.

 

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2025 Light Lies Sleeping — Colbo, New York, NY
2025 Wondering Paths, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Tenderly Kept — SVA Curatorial Practice Project Space, New York, NY
2024 GODZILLAS — LatchKey Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Cherry — John St Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Gesture Towards — SVA Curatorial Program Project Space, New York City, New York.

2019 Tenacity — International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Exhibition. Portland, Oregon.

2019 Scatter— UVic BFA Graduating Exhibition, Victoria, Canada.

2018 Number 9 — Audain Gallery, Victoria, Canada.

2018 Question, Layer, Paint — Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, Canada.

2018 Pineapples, and Other Fruits — 4283 Baylis Pl, Victoria, Canada.

 

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COMMISSIONED PROJECTS

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2020 Education — Box Beautification project, San Bruno, California.

2018-2019 Commercial Alley — Selected artist for 2018-2019 Commercial Alley project

public art installation, Victoria, Canada.

2019 Commute — Selected for Bus Shelter Exhibition Project. Victoria, Canada.

2017 Dreamscape — Box Beautification project, Pleasanton, California

2016 Happy Faces — Box Beautification project, Pleasanton, California

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ARTIST RESIDENCIES

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2025 OPEN FEED Digital Artist Residency, FEED Media Center, Erie, PA

2021 Popps Packing Residency, Hamtramck, USA.

2021 Summer Residency, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, Canada.

2020 The OU-telier Residency, The OU Gallery, Duncan, Canada.

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AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS

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2025 Impulse Magazine

2025 Hyperallergic (SVA Thesis Show)

2025 BC Arts Council Scholarship

2025 SVA Alumni Scholarship Grant
2023/24 SVA MFA Fine Arts Departmental Scholarship

2021 Interim Publication: As Yet Untitled Issue 02

2020 Canada Council for the Arts—Research and Creation Grant.

2019 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.

2019 University of Victoria—President's Scholarship Award.

2019 Warren Undergraduate Review—10th anniversary issue.

2018 Warren Undergraduate Review—Red Issue, Zine publication.

2018 decideArt— Online forum, Web publication.

2015 East Bay Monthly —Awarded 3rd place in East Bay Monthly Student Art Contest.

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