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Leah Benetti (b.1994 CAN)

Tkaronto/Toronto, ON

benetti grew up in Nova Scotia, to artists and musicians. When she was nine, her mother began Thrown Together Pottery in Truro which exposed her to creative entrepreneurship. She has attended York and OCAD Universities for visual art, where she has focused on printmaking, installation, artist books, photography and text-based works in her practice. She has worked in horticulture, libraries, sculpture and printmaking studios as well as being a poet-for-hire in New Orleans, Montreal, Halifax, Tkaronto/Toronto and countless street-corners in-between. Her writing has mostly been published under the pseudonym: pseudonym (signed p.s.), and has been featured on CBC News as well as in The Link Newspaper. She is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON, in the Cross-Disciplinary: Publications Program at OCADU, gardening daily and visiting the waters of Lake Ontario as much as possible.

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Artist C/V

Education:

2017-2020 BFA Cross-DisciplinaryArts: Publications, OCAD University, Toronto ON
2012-2015 BFA Studio Art: York University, Toronto, ON

Events:

2019 Globe and Mail 175thAnniversary, The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto ON

2019 Schwarzkopftbh haircare event, 519 Loft, Toronto ON

2019 Bibliobash,Toronto Reference Library, Toronto ON

2019 WalshWhiskey at Somerhill LCBO, Toronto ON

2019 Writers’Tears Tasting, Famous Last Words, Toronto ON

2019 NightMarket at AGO First Thursday, Toronto ON

2019 DundasWest Fest, Toronto ON

2018 COUNTERWITH CARE at Corita Kent’s 100th Birthday and Love Parade, LosAngeles, CA

2018 First Annual Bi Arts Fair, St Andrews United Church, Toronto ON

2018 UrbanOutfitters Pride Market, flagship store, Toronto ON

2017 Indigo Books Head of Store Social, TheCitizen, Toronto ON

2017 Halifax Buskers Fest, Halifax NS

2017 CANZINE Toronto, AGO, Toronto, ON

2017 LongWinter, Tranzac Club, Toronto, ON

2017 ArtBattle 351, The Great Hall, Toronto, ON

2016 Nocturne Art Festival, Halifax Ns

2016 OCADU’s 31st Annual Book Fair,Toronto, ON

2016 TUMULT Art Festival, Ryerson’s Week ofWelcome, Toronto, ON

2014 'Lights' by Beam, 559 Lodge, Toronto, ON

Exhibitions:

2018 “Summer Group Show”, the secrethandshake, Toronto ON

2017 "Night of Poetry in aPottery House", Thrown Together Pottery, Truro, NS
2016 Language is Clumsier in my Hands than Art, ChezBoris, Montreal, QC
2015 Inside & Out, Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON
Abandonment (group show), EleanorWinters Art Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON
Luculence (group show), GoldfarbCenter for Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON
2014 Salon of Inclusiveness (group show), Black Cat Gallery,Toronto, ON
2012 Degarthe Art Awards Exhibition (group), Ministry ofEducation, Halifax, NS
C.E.C. Senior Art Exhibition (group),Marigold Cultural Centre, Truro, NS

Bibliography:

Benetti, Leah: Illustrations,Excalibur Newspaper (various issues) York University, 2014

Benetti, Leah: “Lessonsare Places We Remember” COUNTERWITH CARE: An OCADU Pressing Issues COLLABO with The Pedagogical Impulse(counterwithcare.home.blog)with Shannon Gerard, web, December 07, 2018
Benetti, Leah: "POEM: Consent", The LINK Newspaper (ConcordiaUniveristy), Vol 37, Issue 1. Page 8, August 30, 2016
Curwin, Lynn: "Poetry Busker is Pounding out a Unique Form of Art in Truro",Truro Daily News, December 14, 2016

Hlady, Dustan: “One PlusOne Equals Window”, Broken Pencil Reviews, April 03, 2018
Mascia, Tessa: "Montreal, In Verse", The LINK (Concordia University),Fringe Arts, Vol 37, Issue 1. Page 9, August 30, 2016
Plante, Geneviève: "Poètes à louer – L’art de la poésie mêlé à l’amusementpublic", Yulorama.com, 20 aout, 2016
pseudonym: "Only in Secret", Rip/Torn Magazine, Issue 5, 2015

Ricci, Talia: “Return toAnalog: Can the good old typewriter find new love in the digital age?” CBC News,August 08 2018, print

Ricci, Talia “ AreVintage Typewriters back in Style?” CBC News, Toronto, August 08 2018, Video,2:11

Awards/ Grants:

2015: York U renewable entrance scholarship
2012: Theresa Marshall Art Award
Degarthe Art Scholarship Award
Kathy Fox Bursary

Small Publications

2015 - Ode to the pair of panties abandoned(Sentimental Smut), by: KHG & pseudonym

(bookbinding,illustrations, design, printing)

2016 - Sentimental Disparagement, by: pseudonym (writer,bookbinding, illustrations, design, printing)

2016 - Butt Stuff, by: KHG & pseudonym (writer, bookbinding,illustrations, design, printing)

2016 - madd.egg & pseudonymsays, by: madd.egg& pseudonym ( contributed poems, performed)

2017 - Sketches, by: pseudonym (writer, bookbinding,illustrations, design, printing)

2017 - One plus one equals window, by: pseudonym (writer,bookbinding, illustrations, design, printing)

2017- “Rochdale College: visual essay by Leah Benetti in RENDER, group publication with ShannonGerard (content contributor, bookbinding, printing)

2018 – I QUIT POETRY, by Leah Benetti (writer, bookbinding,illustrations, design, printing)

2018 – StuckZine by OCADU Nanopublishing (printing,bookbinding, editorial note)

2018 – “Phone Call with Glick”( p. 4) and “Mindmap” (p. 50) by Leah Benetti in Point Five Issue # 6 “Dreamsand Bad Ideas” (content contributor, editorial committee)

2018 – Counter With Care Poster Series, with Shannon Gerardand Pressing Issues Students in “The Pedagogical Impulse: Instant Class Kits”by Vesna Kirtsch (content contributor, researcher, printing)

2019 – “Lakeshore Experiements” by Leah Benetti in Waterways (experimental grouppublication) with Amish Morrell (content contributor, bookbinding, design,printing, editorial committee)

Related Work andTeaching Experience:

2019 Technical Services Monitor, Dorothy H Hoover Library, Toronto ON

2018- 2019 Circulation Monitor, Dorothy H Hoover Library, Toronto ON

2017 Innovative Technology Facilitator, Colchester-East Hantz Public Library, Truro NS

(colortheory, 3d Drawing, AutoCAD, coloring for adults, 3d printing: March Break Camp)

2016 Apres-l’EcolePottery Classes, Ecole-Acadienne de Truro, NS

2014-2015 Print Studio General Assistant, York University, Toronto ON

2013 Sculpture Studio General Assistant, York Univeristy, Toronto ON

2012 Tatamagouche Centre Pottery Classes for Youth, Tatamagouche NS

Residencies:

2018- 2019 OCADU’sLiving Lab, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, ON