BIO
B Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.
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EDUCATION
2018-20 Master of Fine Art, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
2018-19 Fundamentals of University Teaching Certificate, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
2013-17 Bachelor of Fine Art, Major Printmaking, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 shrimpychip YouTube, UWAG. Waterloo, ON (forthcoming)
2019 Fruit Platter Mukbang, Student Art Innovation Lab. Waterloo, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Memima, Ed Video at Platforms Project NET 2021. Athens, Greece (forthcoming May)
Temporary Collection, Ed Video. Guelph, ON
2020 now that the artifice is dissolved, Hearth. Toronto, ON
The Body as a Fever Dream, Xpace Cultural Centre. Toronto, ON
SYSTEM FAILURE, Spectacle Theatre. Twitch.tv
Invisible Footprints: Life to Art, Toronto Media Arts Centre. Toronto, ON
2019 CONNECTION_FOUND., Feelspace. URL: feelspace.cargo.site
Hot Girl Summer, The Artery. Waterloo, ON
Supermarket 2019, Ed Video Booth, Slakthusområdet. Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Selfies, Bump Television. URL:
Le Petit Déjeuner, The Artery. Waterloo, ON
Entanglement, Roundtable Residency. Toronto, ON
RECAP, Vuco Artscpace. Toronto, ON
2017 Halo-Halo, 187. 187 Augusta Ave., Toronto, ON
The Women’s Kit Regeneration. Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, ON
That Would Be Fine Too. Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone, Toronto, ON
VUCO No. 1. Vuco Artspace. Toronto, ON
GradEx 102. OCAD University, ON
No-Sto. Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, ON
PERFORMANCES
2020 ASMR | DATE WITH SHRIMPY | I’ll Be Knocking on Heaven’s Zoom Door Asking You To Pls Pick Up...Don’t Ghost Me :(:(:(. Artcite Windsor. Zoom.us
2019 Soirée de Performances, La Centrale galerie Powerhouse. Montreal, QC
AWARDS/ GRANTS
2020 Ed Video Special Production Grant for BIPOC Artists
Walter Metzger Memorial Award, University of Waterloo
2019 Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship Scholarship, University of Waterloo
2017 Open Studio Prize, OCAD University
2015 OCADU Printmaking Scholarship, OCAD University
RESIDENCIES/ WORKSHOPS
2020 Little Musings: We Solicit the Darkness, MICE Magazine. Montreal, QC
Invisible Footprints 0.3, ACAS. Toronto, ON
2019 /Working Through the Body/With the Body/, Residency with Bojana Videkanic and Claudia Bernal, La Centrale galerie Powerhouse. Montreal, QC
2018 Roundtable Residency, The Dragon Academy. Toronto, ON
2017 OCADU X RYERSON Art Camp 2017. Toronto, ON
EMPLOYMENT/ VOLUNTEERING
2018-20 Studio Arts Undergrad Thesis Mentor. University of Waterloo
2020 Video Director, CrySP. Waterloo, Ontario
2019 Gallery Assistant/Install Team, UWAG. Waterloo, ON
Artist Assistant for !Mediengruppe Bitnik. Berlin, Germany
Teaching Instructor, First Year Fine Art. University of Waterloo
2018 Teaching Assistant, First Year Fine Art. University of Waterloo
2017 Jr. Graphic Designer, Spoof. Toronto, ON
2015-16 Gallery Attendant/ Gallery Assistant, Younger than Beyoncé Gallery.
Toronto, ON
PRESS
2018 ‘Roundtable Residency 2013–2018.’ Roundtable Residency publication
2018 ‘Becca Wijshijer, I Know You; I See You, I Hear You, You Post All the Time.’ Laura Demers
2017 ‘The Women’s Kit Regeneration – Review.’ James Knott
2017 ‘The Women’s Kit is Brought Back to Life Through Digitization Project & Exhibit.’ She Does the City
2017 ‘On Intentional Disruption in Viewing.’ James Knott