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Heather Nicol

(Canada)

Heather Nicol is a Toronto based artist whose practice includes sculpture, installation andindependent curating. Cross-pollination of these threads is situated in her interest in the interfacebetween public and private experience. The relationship of site to the reception of works of art iscentral to many of her location-dependent interventions. These include large projects inunderutilized urban settings, such as the decommissioned Shaw Street School (Toronto), historicsites, such as Ontario Place (Toronto), or Chateau de Courances (Milly, France), as well publicatriums, such a Toronto’s rail terminus Union Station or New York City’s Winter Garden. She completed her honours BFA at The School of Visual Art, her MA in arts education at NYU,(both in New York), and her MFA from OCAD University (Toronto).