Andrew Wright (b. Cambridge, UK, 1971)
Andrew Wright is an artist who lives and works in Ottawa, Canada and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the University of Ottawa.
His work is described as multi-tiered inquiries into the nature of perception, photographic structures and technologies, and the ways we relate to an essentially mediated and primarily visual world. The this end, he has produced sculpture, film, installation, outdoor works and prints that probe phenomena, narrative, antique and contemporary technologies.
He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the University of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, Photo Miami, Roam Contemporary (New York), ARCO '05 (Madrid), Presentation House, Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Calgary, to name a few. He has also participated in residencies including the Banff Centre and Braziers Workshop (U.K.), and as a 'war artist' with the Canadian Forces Artist Program aboard Canadian warship H.M.C.S. Toronto. He is the founding Artistic Director for Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA).
Wright is the recipient of numerous awards. In 2010 he was awarded a sizeable grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for high resolution digital capture. In 2001 he was the winner of the Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition, and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Waterloo Regional Arts Fund, and the Ontario Arts Council. He has received critical acclaim for his work in publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and The Globe & Mail .
He has been nominated six times for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, Canada's highest honour for an artist under 40. In 2007, he was named a semi-finalist for the award. He was also nominated for the prestigous Karsh Award in Photography in 2010.
Andrew Wright is represented in Canada by Peak Gallery in Toronto and by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa
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