Born in Poland, Dagmara Genda immigrated to Canada as a child, where she lived in numerous cities punctuated by extended sojourns in the U.S. And U.K. A corresponding restlessness feeds her art practice, which focuses on the changeability and instability of perception. With drawing as a material and conceptual basis, Genda produces images between the trace and the outline as a means of questioning how we make sense of the world.
Genda exhibits in Canada and Europe, has produced public art projects in Toronto and Berlin, and writes regularly for various publications in Germany and Canada. She is the recipient of Canada Council Grants, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in the U.S., Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Germany, and a resident artist at Fonderie Darling in Montreal. She has exhibited at the Arp Museum (Remagen, Germany), Kai 10 | Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), the Esker Foundation (Calgary), and at Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (Kitchener-Waterloo), among others.
Realised public art projects include a work for Kennedy Station in the Toronto Subway System, a two-part project for the district court in Königs Wusterhausen, Germany, as well as a sculptural project for the new school in the Allee der Kosmonauten in Berlin.
You can download a vita with select projects here.