Recent Exhibitions:
“a Room, for a While”
Ada Denil, Artist in Residence at the Lunenburg School of the Arts
EXHIBITION: May 29th to June 23rd, 2025 at the Luneburg School of the Arts: 151 Montague Street, Lunenburg, NS.
ARTIST TALK & OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, May 29th, 2025 at 7:00pm.
“Ada’s work created during this residency involves material explorations of copper alongside ongoing investigations and reflections on the importance of personal space. During this exhibition she will present viewers with a mixture of completed artworks, works-in-progress, inspirations and documentation of her artistic process. Through this exhibition she aims to demonstrate how access to space, to a room of one’s own (even for a while), can facilitate the transformation of nascent creative ideas into concrete artworks and new artistic directions.”
Read/Download the companion booklet created for the exhibition
As far as, and… (part of Antigonight)
September 14th 2024, Antigonish, NS
By, or as if by (Saskatoon) (part of Nuit Blanche Saskatoon)
September 21st – 24th, 2023 installed along Spadina in Saskatoon, SK
A Room of One’s Own // Rent Free (solo exhibition)
June 13th – 17th, 2023 at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville St, Halifax, NS
As far as, and… (part of Resonant Grounds: Site Responsive Art in Point Pleasant Park)
April 20th – May 25th, 2023 in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, NS
Work:
Bio:
Ada Denil is a visual artist. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she also engages with drawing, printmaking, painting, mixed-media, animation, or whatever she has at hand. Ada grew up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and currently lives, makes art, and works in the same community.
Ada has exhibited artwork across Canada, with shows spanning from her home province to as far west as Saskatchewan. She has shown work locally at the Lunenburg School of the Arts, the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Corridor Gallery, Argyle Fine Art, the Company House, the Chester Arts Center and in Point Pleasant Park. In 2021 she received the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award (NSTT), and was shortlisted for the NSCAD Student Art Awards in 2020, 2022, and 2023. She has received extensive support for her work in sculpture, printmaking and drawing from the Luneburg School of the Arts (LSA), the Nova Scotia Talent Trust (NSTT), the Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC), and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University.
Ada’s work aims to call attention to how active presence, awareness, and action can alter our perception of the environments in which we find ourselves, as well as our place in them.
Ada received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2023 with a major in Fine Arts (Sculpture), and a minor in Art History.
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