Gestures of Care – Weight of the World Opening Reception
Tia Halliday explores metaphors of care and resilience through an investigation of line, abstraction and figuration.
Artist in attendance.
Called “choreographed abstractions,” Tia Halliday (BFA ’06, Painting) uses her background in performance and dance as a touchstone for paintings that depict physical gestures of care between humans. Figures captured through lyrical line, bearing the weight of one another through daring acts of physical support, suggesting themes of connectivity, responsibility and radical care.
Tia Halliday was born in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Painting with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Halliday attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Halliday obtained a Master’s of Drawing and Painting from Concordia University. Halliday has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions and engaged in various projects across Canada and Europe. Her work has been noted in such publications as the Washington Post and Canadian Art Online. Tia Halliday was recently selected as an Artist in Residence at Contemporary Calgary as part of their NEXT2015 Program, and she performed her subsequent “living sculpture” performances during the LOOK2015 fundraiser for Contemporary Calgary. Tia is the daughter of the late Canadian abstract painter Richard Halliday, RCA. She is a tenure-track visual art and theory instructor within the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. In 2017, Tia Halliday was awarded the ACAD Alumni Honour Award, the Enbridge Professional Development Award and a Project Grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She was elected to represent Alberta in the 2017 Alberta Biennial at the Art Gallery of Alberta. In 2019, Tia was selected by curator Sarah Todd for the “Second Skin” exhibition at the Glenbow Museum alongside Nick Cave.
Tia Halliday, "Gestures of Care – Weight of the World"
