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EDUCATION
2019   Honours Bachelor of Arts with Distinction. University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga ON
2019   Advanced Diploma in Art and Art History, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
            Major fields of study: Sound, Sound Installation, Performance and Print
2013   Diploma in Visual and Creative Arts, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019   You Look the Other Way, Now Look Me in the Eyes, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga ON
2019   A Shot in the Dark, Campbell House Museum, Toronto ON
2017   Split Ends, Lansdowne Brewery, Toronto ON
2017   It’s Just Paper, Visual Arts Mississauga at Riverwood, Mississauga ON
2017   Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto ON
2016   The Middle Child, Woman’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto ON
2015   Project Project, Sheridan Gallery, Oakville ON
2013   VCA Graduate Exhibition, The Marquee, Oakville ON

PERFORMANCES
2019   You Look the Other Way, Now Look Me in the Eyes, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga ON

RESIDENCIES
2019   Akin Studio Program, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto ON

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2020   Marketing Coordinator, Scugog Arts, Scugog ON
2018 - 2019   Videographer, Canadian Men's Chorus, Toronto ON
2018   Videographer, Art Address, Oakville ON
2017 - 2019   Video and Sound Technician, Sheridan College, Oakville ON 
2016 ~ Present   Graphic Designer and Social Media Outreach, Dynamic Restaurant Services, Oakville ON
2016   Annie Smith Centre Facility Assistant, Sheridan College, Oakville ON 
2014   Advertising Designer & Composition, Terrace Standard, Terrace BC
2014   Gallery Assistant, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace BC 

AWARDS and GRANTS
2019   Dr. Annie Smith Travel Grant, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
2018   Akimbo “Lets Talk About Me for a Minute”, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
2016   Dr. Annie Smith Award, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
​2016   Video, Sound and Performance Faculty Award, Sheridan College, Oakville ON
​2014   Art History has its’ Eyes on You, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga ON
2014   Paper Place Award, Sheridan College, Oakville ON

ARTIST TALKS
2019   You Look the Other Way, Now Look Me in the Eyes, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga ON

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016   Co-curator, The Middle Child, Woman’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto ON

SCREENINGS 
2016   A Fine Balance, Celebration Square, Mississauga ON

PUBLICATIONS
2016 - 2019  BUFF, Art and Art History Publication, Sheridan College, Oakville ON 
2014   Northwest Connection, Publication Distributed in Northern British Columbia, Terrace BC 
2014   Terrace Standard, Local Newspaper Design and Composition, Terrace BC

VOLUNTEERING
2019   Graphic Design for A Shot in the Dark, Campbell House Museum, Toronto ON
2016   Department of Visual Studies Representative, Ontario Universities’ Fair, Toronto ON
2016   Senior Student Mentor, Art and Art History Orientation, Oakville ON 
2014   Judge, SkeenaWild Film Festival, Terrace BC
2013   Gallery Assistant, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace BC
2013   British Columbia Museum Association Annual Conference, Terrace Art Gallery, Terrace BC
2012   Gallery Sitter, Art on Kent, Lindsay ON
​BIO

Kamryn McFarlane (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in Oakville, Ontario. Her sonic and sculptural practices often explore the tension between technology and nature. Specializing in performance, she manipulates field-recorded sound to compose undulating sonic landscapes in an attempt to produce moments of spatiality and earthiness.

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ARTIST STATEMENT
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One hardly thinks of the minuscule particles of sediment when watching water twist through rock, the journey from mountaintop, to estuary, to where rivers meet the sea. It is this subtle geological process, the erosion and transportation of sediment, which is of particular interest in my sonic practice. I record my surroundings and I dissect sound to create slowly undulating sonic landscapes through the methodical manipulation of field-recordings. 

I have used recordings of rushing water, tumbling rocks and the scraping of fish scales to investigate the physicality of sound. My sonic explorations intend to submerge, envelop and invoke moments of spatiality and earthiness. I compose works that attempt to wade through the natural cyclical processes of sedimentation.
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Alluvium is a process in which fine particles of sediment have been eroded and reshaped by water in some form and redeposited in a non-marine setting. It is this deposition, the loss of kinetic energy, which influences how I compose and create in both my sonic and sculptural practices. Displacement, invasive species and technology shape my sculptural practice. I attempt to understand the constant tension between technology and nature, and our interactions as they begin to merge together.
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