Power Hour: Writing Artist Statements, Bios and CV’s

Date and Time
Thu, Jul 31, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Location
Brampton Entrepreneur Centre
41 George St S, Brampton, ON L6Y 2E1
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Writing about your own work can be hard.

Artists are constantly asked to describe themselves and their creative practice in different kinds of written documents, including 50-word bios, artist statements, and CV’s, to name just a few.

But what is the difference between a bio and an artist statement? What do you include and what do you leave out of a professional CV?

This workshop will give you tips and strategies to help you express your experience and creative intent in writing. You will learn best practices for writing artist statements, bios, project proposals, and artist CV’s in order to help you apply to exhibition and funding opportunities.

Register now and make sure you are ready to present yourself and your work for the next exhibition proposal call or grant application.

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Accessibility: If you are a Brampton resident who needs assistance or support to participate, such as an ASL interpreter, please get in touch with us at info@bramptonartsorg.ca as soon as possible (minimum of five days in advance) so that we can make the necessary accommodations.

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, for our Power Hour workshop series.

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Workshop Presenter

Zinnia Naqvi (she/her) is a lens-based artist working in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Her work examines issues of colonialism, cultural translation, social class and citizenship through the use of photography, video, the written word, and archival material. Recent projects have included archival and re-staged images, experimental documentary films, video installations, graphic design, and elaborate still-lives. Her artworks often invite the viewer to consider the position of the artist and the spectator, as well as analyze the complex social dynamics that unfold in front of the camera.

Naqvi’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally, with exhibitions in New York, Iceland, Pakistan, and United Arab Emirates. She is a 2022 Fall Flaherty/Colgate Filmmaker in Residence and recipient of the 2019 New Generation Photography Award organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Naqvi is a member of EMILIA-AMALIA Working Group, an intergenerational feminist collective. She received a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Currently she is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University.