Tanya Read

Tanya Read graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995 and since then has been active in the Toronto art community. She was an organizer and founder of the Impure artists collective and currently co-directs Fly Gallery in her Queen Street West neighbourhood. Read created a character called Mr. Nobody in 1998 and since then her art practice has focused on projects featuring him. Read has made super 8 animations, drawings, sculpture, silk-screened t-shirts and video all featuring Mr. Nobody. Her work has received extensive acclaim in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Canadian Art Magazine, the Calgary Herald and the Korea Times. She has exhibited work in Toronto, Calgary, Hamilton, Seoul, Korea and Japan. When not spending time with Mr. Nobody, Read enjoys the rock and roll life playing bass and singing in the band Ethel and the Mermen.

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