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Instagram: @ella.so_moves

EXHIBITIONS  

2024

-SOLO EXHIBITION: A Mood Serenade, the Cultch Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 

-GROUP EXHIBITION: Spatial Matter, Fortune Gallery, Victoria, B.C. 

2023

-GROUP EXHIBITION: Push: An Exhibition of Fine Craft by Southern Gulf Islands Artisans, Mahon Hall (Salt Spring National Art Prize). Salt Spring Island, B.C. 

-SOLO EXHIBITION: The Green Room, Xchanges Gallery. Victoria, B.C.

-GROUP EXHIBITION: Little Pockets of Defiant Beauty, Artspring (Curated by Seth Berkowitz and Anette Schrager). Salt Spring Island, B.C. 

2022

-TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION: The Rabbit in my Belly and the Ghosts that Surround Me, The Point Gallery Artist Residency. Salt Spring Island, B.C. 

-GROUP SHOW: Visage, Rockslide Gallery. Victoria, B.C. 

-GROUP SHOW: Mahon Memorial Hall: The Nature of Memory, Mahon Hall (Salt Spring Arts Council). Salt Spring Island, B.C. 

2021

-GROUP SHOW: Summer Camp, The Blockhouse (curated by Sweetpea Gallery). Victoria, B.C. 

-GROUP SHOW: Emerge. Esquimalt Community Art Hub (curated by Sweetpea Gallery). Esquimalt, B.C. 

-GROUP SHOW: Sweetpea Loves You, Four Corners Community Collective (curated by Sweetpea Gallery). Victoria, B.C. 


RESIDENCIES

-Tools for Change group residency. March-April 2024. Makerlabs, Vancouver, B.C. 

-The Point Gallery two-person residency. November-December 2022. Salt Spring Island, B.C. 


EDUCATION 

-University of Victoria undergraduate, 2022.

  • Bachelor of Arts, English Major and Germanic Studies Minor.  

-Selkirk College, Kootenay School of the Arts Textiles Studio Program, 2018.


AWARDS

-German Book Award, German Consulate of the Federation of Germany. University of Victoria, 2019.

-Board of Governor’s Secondary Graduates Award, Selkirk College, 2017


BIBLIOGRAPHY

-“Bringing Art to Life: A Conversation with Ella MacQueen-Denz on Her Recent Art Projects”, Miray Eroglu, Sweetpea Gallery Editorial, 2020. https://sweetpeagallery.ca/blogs/editorial/bringing-art-to-life-a-conversation-with-ella-macqueen-denz-on-her-recent-projects