CV — Twyla Exner

Education

SELECT Solo & TWO PERSON Exhibitions

SELECT GROUP Exhibitions

POST-SECONDARY TEACHING

SELECT TEACHING, CURRICULUM, & WORKSHOPS

Collaborations

2020 Float School & Designing for Public Space | research and engagement through Living Labs | Emily Carr University of Art and Design | Prince George, BC
2018   Send & Receive | community engagement at The Works Art and Design Festival | Edmonton, AB
2017   Techno-Invasion | community engagement at the International Children’s Festival | St Albert, AB
2015     Dino-Lab | program development for Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum | Grande Prairie, AB
Structure of a Substance | installation at Sweetwater 905 music festival | Dawson Creek, BC
2014   Thingvasion! | community engagement at the Saskatchewan Winter Gamers | Prince Albert, SK
2013   Thingvasion! | community engagement at the Queen City Exhibition & Saskatoon Exhibition | SK
Electrical Field | community engagement at Art Gallery of Algoma | Sault-Saint Marie, ON
2012   Electrical Field | community engagement at the Queen City Exhibition | Regina, SK

SELECT Collections & Commissions

SELECT RESIDENCIES

2021    Things Unleashed | artist in residence at Herschel Supply Co. in Gastown | Vancouver, BC
            Cling | artist in residence at Omineca Arts Centre | Prince George, BC
2016 Fish Story | artist in residence at Harry Balfour School | Grande Prairie, AB
2013 A Sense of Wonder | artist in residence at Prince Albert Collegiate Institute | Prince Albert, SK
            Small | artist in residence with multiple schools | Prince Albert, LaRonge, Air Ronge, Meadow Lake, Cole Bay, SK
2012 The Island of Misfit Toys | Guest artist at Art City | Winnipeg, MB

SELECT Artist Talks

2025 Thompson Rivers University | Faculty of Arts Lecture Series | Kamloops, BC
2023 Gallery @501 | Strathcona, AB
2022 Weaving Sustainability | Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art | Kelowna, BC
2020 Innovation Exploded | Craft at the Edge | Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador | Bonavista, NL
Thompson Rivers University | Kamloops, BC
2017      Art Gallery of St Albert | St Albert, AB
2016       Thompson Rivers University | Kamloops, BC
               Art of the Peace | Arts Fest Symposium | Grande Prairie, AB
2014       Grande Prairie Regional College | Grande Prairie, AB
               Vernon Public Art Gallery | Vernon, BC
               John V. Hicks Art Gallery | Prince Albert, SK
2013 Art Gallery of Algoma | Sault-Saint Marie, ON
2012       Odd Gallery | Dawson City, YT
               Two Rivers Gallery | Prince George, BC
               Station Arts Center | Rosthern, SK
2011       Art Gallery of Swift Current | Swift Current, SK
               Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery | Moose Jaw, SK
               Allie Griffin Art Gallery | Weyburn, SK
2010      Concordia University | Visual Arts Department, Sculpture 210 | Montreal, QC
2009     Concordia University | Visual Arts Department, FFAR 398 | Montreal, QC
              Concordia University | Visual Arts Department, Ceramics 330 | Montreal, QC
2008     University of Regina | Visual Arts Department, Art 400 | Regina, SK
              University of Regina | Visual Arts Department, Sculpture 250 | Regina, SK
2007     Dunlop Art Gallery | Regina, SK
2006     Swift Current Art Gallery | Swift Current, SK
              Art Gallery of Prince Albert | Prince Albert, SK

SELECT EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS, PODCAST INTERVIEWS, & MAGAZINE FEATURES

2026 Forthcoming: Alie Dijk. “Activism in Textile Art”, Handwerken Zonder Grenzen Magazine, 2026.
              https://www.handwerkenzondergrenzen.nl/
2025     Lerner, Loren and Anderson, Janice and Stride, Shannon and Antaki, Karine, eds. (2025) Craft & Craftivism:
              A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Ceramic, Fibre and Class Artists in Canada: Volume 2: Fibres. Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art,
Montreal. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/995653/
2022 Jill Price, “Twyla Exner – UN/making as Salvaging”, The UN/making Network, 30 October, 2022. (Blog)
             https://www.jillpricestudios.ca/single-post/twyla-exner-un-making-as-salvaging
2021    George Harris, “Art Feature: Twyla Exner”, Thimbleberry Magazine, Volume 5, Spring 2021.
           Dorothé Swinkels, “Twyla Exner verheft e-waste tot indringende sculpturen”, TXP: Textile Plus Magazine, 2021. https://www.textielplus.nl/artikelen/twyla-exner/
            Carrie Ross, “Twyla Exner & Sustainability in Craft”, oh! For craft’s sake (Podcast), 17 May, 2021.
            https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/oh-for-crafts-sake/1x3-twyla-exner-ae4EKXGN678/
2020    Kast, Michael, “Episode 19: Twyla Exner”, Arts North (Podcast), February 03, 2020.
            https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/arts-north/arts-north-ep-19-twyla-exner-3TM-p0X6qB1/
2019     Smith, Jamie, “Staying the course and the importance of stretching with Twyla Exner”, Thrive Talks Podcast, September 04, 2019. https://podimo.com/shows/thrive-talks-podcast 2014     Lubos Cullen, Twyla Exner: Systems and Things. Vernon, BC: Vernon Public Art Gallery, 2014. (Exhibition Catalogue).
2013     Jennifer McRorie, “The Sensuous in Technology”, Ontario Crafts Council: Studio Magazine, Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2013.
2012     Elaine Cordon, “Technology Comes Alive at the ODD Gallery”, What’s Up Yukon: Magazine, Fall 2012.
2012    Katheryn Hepburn, The Technological Biology of Entangled. Dawson City, YT: KIAC & ODD Gallery, 2012.  (Exhibition Catalogue)
2010     Amy Gogarty, Hybrid Entanglements & Cyborg Traces: The Sculptural Art of Twyla Exner. Regina, SK: Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils, 2010. (Exhibition
Catalogue)
2010     Leanne L’Hirondelle, Detritus Ecologies. Ottawa, ON: Gallery101. (Exhibition Catalogue)
2009    Sandra Alfoldy, Raw, Medium Rare, Well Done. Montreal, QC: FOFA Gallery. (Exhibition Catalogue)
2008     Isa Tousignant, STRATA: World Wise: Exploring Environmental & Post-Consumer Critique. Montreal, QC: Art Mur. (Exhibition Catalogue)
2008     Wendy Peart, Pale Blue Dot. Regina, SK: Art Gallery of Regina. (Exhibition Catalogue)

SELECTED GRAnts & SCHOLARSHIPS

2021 Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant | Canada Council for the Arts
Travel Grant | Canada Council for the Arts
2018      Individual Artist Grant | Category 1 | British Columbia Arts Council
2015      Artists & Education Grant | Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2015      Grande Prairie Arts & Culture Development Fund Grant | Grande Prairie, AB
2012      Travel Grant | Saskatchewan Arts Board
2011       Creative Individual Assistance Grant| Professional Artist | Saskatchewan Arts Board
2009     Creative Individual Assistance Grant| Emerging Artist | Saskatchewan Arts Board
2007      Tuition Remission Award | School of Graduate Studies | Concordia University | Montreal, QC
2006      Creative Individual Assistance Grant| Emerging Artist | Saskatchewan Arts Board
2004      University Prize in Fine Arts | University of Regina | Regina, SK
2003      The Revered E. Peter W. Nash S.J. Scholarship | Fine Arts | University of Regina | Regina, SK
               Kioymi Annette Shoyama Bursary in Visual Arts | University of Regina | Regina, SK
2002      Kioymi Annette Shoyama Bursary in Visual Arts | University of Regina | Regina, SK

PUBLISHED WRITING

2026 Forthcoming: Exner, Twyla D. (2026, Spring). Contradictions and Curiosities: Navigating Critical-Creative Engagement with Gen AI in the Studio Classroom. In E. Campbell and C.
Harding, Neither Artificial nor Intelligent: Critical Approaches to Gen Ain in the Art History, Art, Design, and Museum Education Classroom. RACAR: Journal of the Universities Art
Association of Canada.
2025 Exner, Twyla. (2025, September 10). Foreword: Guest editor. In P. Tsigaris (Ed.), Explorations in Art and AI: Reimagining sustainability through student vision [Special issue]. Future
Earth: A Student Journal on Sustainability and Environment. https://publishing.bceln.ca/index.php/future-earth/article/view/28/32
2022 Exner, Twyla D. “Reflections on Weaving Sustainability.” Alternator Centre for the Arts, 2022.
2021 Samonte Cruz, Twyla Exner, Bill Horne, Melany Nugent-Nobel, Sheldon Pierre Louis, and Regan Shrumm. Working Through the Arts: A Toolkit for Emerging Artists and New Post-
Secondary Graduates in British Columbia (CARFAC, BC), 2021.
https://carfacbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Working-Through-the-Arts-Emerging-Artists-and-New-Graduates-Nov2021.pdf
2020 Exner, Twyla, “Making Friends with Moss”, in Float School: Pedagogical Experiments and Social Actions, edited by Justin Langois and Holly Schmidt (Vancouver, BC: Emily Carr
University, 2020).
2018 Exner, Twyla D. “Ephemeral Garden.” Thimbleberry, Issue 3, Fall 2018.
2016 Exner, Twyla D. “Artist’s Statement.” Art of the Peace, Issue 27, Fall 2016.

SELECTED CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

2025      “Explorations in Art and Gen AI” as a part of GenAI in the Art History, Art, Design, and Museum Classroom, University Art Association Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.
“Explorations in Art and Gen AI” as a part of Challenges of Teaching: What, Why, How, and Solutions for Right Now, College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, USA.
2024      Pedagogies of Community Engagement and Empowerment with Dr. Robin Westland, Teaching Practices Colloquium, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC.
Embracing Surrealism to Build Stranger Collaborations: The Academic Exquisite Corpse Game with Dr. Cheryl Gladu and Franklin Sayre, Teaching Practices Colloquium,
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC.
2020      Innovation Exploded, Craft at the Edge Conference, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Bonavista, NL.
2019 The Role of Informal Education in STEAM & Maker Education: Community Examples, Lower Mainland Museum Educators Conference, Vancouver, BC.
2017   Expression in History, Northern History Conference, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC
2017 Accessibility in Art Education, Canadian Art Gallery Educators Conference, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS.