Allyson
Glenn

I graduated with a BFA from the University of Alberta in 1998 and an MFA from the University of Calgary in 2000.  I have received three Elizabeth Foundation Awards, several grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and a President’s SSHRC from the University of Saskatchewan. 

In the last ten years, I produced over thirty large scale paintings, mounted thirteen solo, three two-person, and several group exhibitions in Canada, United States, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, the Czech Republic, India, and China. I teach as an Associate Professor (Painting/Drawing), Department of Art and Art History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

 Between 2017 and 2019, I developed a painting series under the title of Passages, which consists of nine large-scale (ranging from 48 x 86”) and six small-scale paintings. Passages is about the complex intertwining between ancient myth, social integration, boundary and rite of passage.  Folk art busts of mythological gods juxtaposed with abstraction, contemporary architecture, gardens, and people, investigate other worldly presences and sustainability of ancient myth in current times. Passages exhibited in two curated solo exhibitions at the Tinos Cultural Foundation, June 13-July 7, 2019, and the Vorres Museum, June 24-July 14, 2019.