Education
2023 MFA Masters of Fine Arts, Visual Arts York University
2014 BFA Studio Art University of Lethbridge
2011 BFA Art History and Museum Studies University of Lethbridge
Solo Exhibitions
2027 Hold for Applause (working title), Project Space, Medicine Hat, AB (upcoming)
2026 stump on stump on stump, Test Oven Gallery, Workshop Studios, Calgary, AB
2025 That’s all folks!, Project Space, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2024 all hell for a basement, and I keep digging, Yuill Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
2023 is that a promise or a threat? Gales Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 SNEEK’E’PEEP’N, Project Space, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB
2019 good grief, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
2018 good grief, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2016 Waste Land, +15 Project Window, TRUCK Gallery, Calgary, AB
2014 Balanced on the head of a pin, niche gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2013 Perceptionist Show, Potemkin Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2012 Among the Things You Took, Student Exhibition Space, University of Lethbridge, Leth, AB
A Return After Long Wanderings, Student Exhibition Space, University of Lethbridge, Leth, AB
Walking As Long As I Can With My Eyes Shut, Parlour Window, Lethbridge, AB
Group or Two Person Exhibitions
2026 Canadian Small Favours, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Detroit, MI
2025 Circus, dhARTworld, Edmonton, AB
Goblet Show, Entretemps//Meanwhile Gallery, Montreal, QC
Depanneur (corner store), Entretemps//Meanwhile Gallery, Montreal, QC
2024 YO DOGGY!, Entretemps//Meanwhile Gallery, Montreal, QC
2023 Between Things, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Waking Death, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
a juncture, a join, a strait, a pinch, Collision Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 The Faceless Familiar, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Gender and the Lens III, Gales Gallery, Toronto, ON
Fresh Paint / New Construction 2022, Art Mûr, Montréal, QC
Overlapping Parts, The Joan Goldfarb Visual Arts Study Centre, York University, Toronto, ON
MMXXII, Gales Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 OVER THE EDGE//TOE THE LINE, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina, SK
MMXXI, VAAH Artspaces, York University, Toronto, ON (virtual)
2020 Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2019 The Marketplace of Feelings, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson, Auckland, NZ
2018 The Topography of Bodily Sentiments, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
intimacy: a FLIP Fest Art Exhibition, U of L Penny Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2017 Cabinet of Queeriosities IV, CASA, Curator Leila Armstrong, Lethbridge, AB
Roloff Beny Retrospective Exhibition, U of L Penny Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2016 The Best of the Cabinet of Queeriosities, The Works Festival, Edmonton, AB
2015 Cabinet of Queeriosities III, CASA, Curator Leila Armstrong, Lethbridge, AB
2014 Conjugation, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Curator Ann MacDonald, Lethbridge, AB
Marginal Benefits, The Penny Building, Lethbridge, AB
2013 Formed & Formless: Annual Curated Student Exhibition, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Curator Richard William Hill, Lethbridge, AB
Professional Experience
2026 Gallery Assistant, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB
2023 - 2025 Residency Coordinator, Medalta International Artist in Residence, Medicine Hat, AB
2023 Instructor, Contemporary Drawing Practices, York University, Toronto, ON
2019 - 2021 AAC Works Manager + Public Art Administrator, Allied Arts Council, Lethbridge, AB
2017- 2018 Visitor Services Coordinator & Preparator, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2016 - 2017 Visitor Services Assistant & Preparator, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2015 Walter Philips Gallery Preparatorial Workstudy, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2014 Install/Preparatorial Intern, Missing Body exhibition curated by Cindy Baker, Lethbridge, AB
2013 Summer Educator, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2011-13 Weekend Gallery Attendant, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Grants, Fellowships, Awards
2026 Individual Project Grant Program, Calgary Arts Development
2025 Samuel Sarick Purchase Prize, York University
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Research Creation, Explore and Create Grant
Alberta Foundation for the Arts’, Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant
2023 Nomination for Exceptional Thesis and Dissertation Prize, York University
2022 The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (SSHRC), Federal Grant
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Provincial Grant
Academic Excellence Fund (AEF), York University
2021 York Graduate Scholarship, York University
Young Artist Award, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge
2014 First Place Writing Prize (Critical Text), Southern Alberta Art Gallery
2013 Roloff Beny Foundation Photographic Award, University of Lethbridge
2012 Excellence in Digital Art Award – Annual U of L Art Student Open House Awards
Southern Alberta Art Gallery Award – Annual U of L Art Student Open House Awards
Residencies
2027 Flex Residency, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB (upcoming)
2026 KOAC Artist in Residence, Calgary, AB (upcoming)
Casa Artist in Residence, Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2025 Invitational Artist in Residence, Workshop Studios, Calgary, AB
Glasgow Ceramic Studio International Artist in Residence, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2024 Watershed Invitational Residency, Summer Session VI: Queering Mud, Edgecomb, ME
2023-2025 Long-Term Artist in Residence, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB
2020 Flex Residency, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB
2015 Late Fall Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR), The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Writing Residency c/o Southern Alberta Art Gallery Writing Prize, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Artist Talks
2026 Send in the Clowns, Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), Calgary, AB
That’s all Folks, Art NOW series, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
That’s all Folks, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2025 Glasgow Ceramic Studio - Artist Talk, Glasgow, UK
2022 is that a promise or a threat? ...and other new work, Art NOW series, Lethbridge, AB
2021 OVER THE EDGE//TOE THE LINE: Artist Talk, Neutral Ground ARC, Regina, SSK, ZOOM
2020 SNEEK’E’PEEP’N: Artist Talk with Kasia Sosnowski, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB, ZOOM
2018 good grief - and other things, Art NOW series, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
good grief - artist talk, Trap/door Artist Run Centre & The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
Workshops + Panels
2026 “Thematic Research and Accumulative Installation” Guest Speaker, Medalta, Med Hat, AB (online)
“Exquisite Banana”, Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), Calgary, AB
“Handbuilding Novelty Incense Holders: Toilets, Monster Trucks + more!”, Casa, Lethbridge, AB
“ART/WORK: Inside Artist Residencies with Kasia Sosnowski”, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
2021 “Now What? How to Develop a Career as an Emerging Artist”, ART/WORK series, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, ZOOM
2021 “Working Hard or Hardly Working? How to Start and Sustain a Career in the Arts”, ASTeRIX, University of Lethbridge, ZOOM
2020 “Hand-building at Home | Window Show Workshop with Kasia Sosnowski”, Creative Online Programs, Esker Foundation, ZOOM
Acquisitions
2025 “cinch by the inch”, Public Collection, The Goldfarb Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON
Published Works
2026 “Interview with Kasia Sosnowski”, Glasgow Ceramic Studio, online publication
2023 “is that a promise or a threat?”, Masters of Fine Arts thesis, York University Library
2021 “Roots”, Folklore for Resistance, Issue No. 2, March 2021
2020 “Bodyhacking: Taking back the human in an inhumane world”, Broken Pencil, Issue 88
2014 “Keith Langergraber’s ‘Theatre of the Exploding Sun’,” Border Crossings vol. 33, no. 4
Exhibitions Curated
2025 the Watchers, work by Stefanie Smith; FANCY PRONK, work by Etty Anderson; frogsong, work by Melanie Barnett, Yuill Family Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
2024 STONE COLD DYKE, work by Tory MacKary; all hell for a basement, and I keep digging, work by Kasia Sosnowski, Yuill Family Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
James Marshall: A Lifetime of Creativity, work by James Marshall, Yuill Family Gallery, Med Hat, AB
2019 Disorientation, work by Harley Morman, Project Space, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
Hobby Shop, work by Arianna Richardson, Project Space, The Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB
2015 Trade and Exchange: Practicum Showcase, PK Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2014 Curio, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
2011 Student Art Show, Penny Building, Lethbridge, AB
2010 1940’s, Helen Christou Gallery, University of Lethbridge, AB
Contact Info:
sosnowski.kasia@gmail.com
@bad.bucket
@vimeo