About

Twyla Exner is a Canadian artist inspired by the wonders of nature and the idea of electronic technologies gone awry.  She uses the materials and imagery of discarded electronic technologies as a departure toward wondrous and worrisome installations, sculptures, and drawings that propose hybrids of technological structures and living organisms. Twyla currently resides as a visitor on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc territory, situated within the unceded ancestral lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

Twyla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Visual Art at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC). She holds a BFA from the University of Regina (Regina, SK) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal, QC). She has held artist residencies with Herschel Supply Co., Gastown (Vancouver, BC), and Omineca Arts Center (Prince George, BC).  She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Saskatchewan Arts.  Her works have been exhibited in Canada and the USA, including at the Appalachian Center for Craft (Tennessee, USA), Opalka Gallery (Albany, NY), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, SK), Art Mûr (Montreal, QC), and VIVO (Vancouver, BC).  Twyla’s artworks are in numerous public collections, including the Royal BC Museum (Victoria, BC), Saskatchewan Arts (Regina, SK), and the Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC).