Mina Totino (born 1949) is a Canadian painter currently based in

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. Totino's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Berlin. She first came to prominence in the 1985 ''Young Romantic''s exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Totino's work is informed by contemporary criticism, especially literary and film criticism that have analyzed the position of the imaginary spectator.

Life and education

Mina Totino was born in

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. She obtained her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1982.

Solo exhibitions

*Charles H. Scott Gallery, 2010 *''Mina Totino'', Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1997Gagnon, Monika Kin. "Mina Totino." Review of Mina Totino by Mina Totino. ''Parachute 88'', 1997, pp. 68. *''Mina Totino – PAINTINGS'', Contemporary Art Gallery, 1994Watson, Scott. "Mina Totino." Review. ''Canadian Art'', Summer 1994. Accessed March 15, 2017. http://canadianart.ca/issues/summer-1994/

Group exhibitions

*''Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures'', Vancouver Art Gallery, 2017 *''Readymades'', Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, 2016 *''Young Romantics'', Vancouver Art Gallery, 1995

Curatorial work

In 2014, Mina Totino curated ''Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey'' at Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC. The exhibition proved significant in marking shifting attitudes and discussions around painting and abstraction.

Writings

Mina Totino has an artist book, ''I Look Up, Volume One'', ''1997 – 2000,'' co-published by Charles H. Scott Gallery and Publication Studio Vancouver.

Awards

Mina Totino alongside Skeena Reece received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA awards on April 11, 2014.

Collections

Mina Totino's work is found in the collections of the

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, Banff, AB; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The gallery is housed in an award-winning building designed by architect Peter Cardew and o ...

, Vancouver, BC.

References

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