Shelley Wildeman

Shelley Wildeman is a Canadian photo-based artist. Her passion for photography parallels her journey as an art director. She has been a member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, a non-profit artist-run centre in Toronto, since 2003. Shelley has shown in a number of solo and group shows, including within the Contact Photography Festival. Her work was showcased in the online art magazine Omen in 2012. PhotoEd magazine ran two feature articles of her work in 2010 and 2018, and also included her work in their Winter 2022/23 digital edition. Scroll down for more information.

Solo and two-person Exhibitions

December 2022, Annex Art Centre — Christmas show
January 2015, Gallery 44 Members' Gallery — Flâneur
December 2014, Kitchener City Hall Rotunda Gallery — Station Time
February 2014, Rue Pigalle — Station Time
May 2012, Opticianado — Semi-natural State (as part of Contact Photography Festival)
September 2008, Gallery 44 Members' Gallery — Presence
May 2008, Urbanscapes Gallery — Presence (as part of Contact Photography Festival)
March 2005, Gallery 44 Members' Gallery — Organics (Night & Day)

Selected Group Exhibits

May 2023, Artscape Shaw Street — Spectra — Group show of paticipating Gallery 44 members (as part of Contact Photography Festival)
October 2 to 20, 2019, Propeller Art Gallery — Reality Vanishing In Plain Sight — A Curated Show of Altered Images, curated by Peter Friedrichsen, Tom Taylor, and Jack Wayne
January 10 to May 30, 2019, Gallery 44 Production Gallery — Multiples — Three person show in the lower hallways of 401 Richmnond Street West
March 2018, John B. Aird Gallery — Toronto: The Views are Different Here — (catalogue) curated by Amanda McNeil and Nikita Lorenzo
November 2017, 55 St. Clair West — You have to take the Stairs — (catalogue) curated by Zebra Public Art Mgmt
November 2017, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery — RMG Exposed — (auction)
November 2015, Gallery 1313 — City of Art — Group exhibit curated by Phil Anderson
April 2015, Propeller Gallery — Salon 9 — An exhibition of Propeller members and invited artists
May 2011, The Gladstone Hotel — Exposed — (as part of Contact Photography Festival) curated by Britt Welter-Nolan and David Brown
May 2010, The Gladstone Hotel — Exposed — (as part of Contact Photography Festival) curated by Christina Zeidler and David Brown
April 2010, Gallery 1313 — 5th Annual Revelry Art Auction
May 2008, Toronto Transit Commission — Contacting Toronto: Memories for the City (Slide show on subway platform monitors as part of Contact Photography Festival)
September 2005, Kenan Center House Gallery, Lockport, N.Y. — Crossing Borders

Publicity

Winter 2022/23, full page digital edition PhotoEd magazine, "Botanicals". View it here
Winter 2016, full article in PhotoEd magazine, "Flâneur", by Mehreen Shahid. View it here
Spring 2015, Omen Magazine, issue 13, full spread, "The Flâneur's Dream"
May 2012, blog on Gallery 44 website, "Learning to love Houston's FotoFest", by Shelley Wildeman
Winter 2010, full article in PhotoEd magazine, "Overlays", by Lara Wheeler. View it here

Related Experience

Fotofest 2012, Houston, Portfolio Review participant
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography member since 2003
Professional Graphic Designer and Art Director

Education

Toronto Metropolitan University Continuing Education – photographic studies, 2002 to 2007
George Brown College, Toronto – Graduate, Graphic Design Program