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Talia Shipman

b. in Vancouver, BC. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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Talia Shipman is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her practice often explores the combination of aesthetics that examine the pursuit of lifestyle and design. Often highlighting the layering of references, citing issues of cultural identity, social conventions and traditions, Shipman creates works that lend themselves to the texture of photo-based collage and installation. Her permanent public projects Blue Space (Water Wall) (2015) and Water is Taught by Thirst (Submerge) (2015) are both  prominently on display in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District. In addition, she has exhibited both in Canada and US as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival  (2015) at the Drake Hotel, Photorama (2008, 2013-15) at Gallery TPW in Toronto and Greenhouse (2015) at One Mile Gallery in Kingston, NY.

Shipman holds a BFA in Photography from Ryerson University, School of Image Arts (2007) and was awarded Best in Show (2007) in her graduate exhibition. She has been selected numerous times for the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Grant given to Emerging Photographers from Canada, US, UK in 2006, 2008 and 2014. 

TALIA SHIPMAN

shares her view of the artist's role in unsettling times and how it constitutes a new challenge.

March 20, 2020

Past exhibitions at Mónica Reyes Gallery
Talia Shipman | Meet Me in the Middle (2017)

Talia Shipman’s photographic series Meet Me In The Middle explores an imagined post-apocalyptic world where water and other basic needs are replaced by consumer objects, examining the human and natural world’s propensity to change and transform. Meet Me In The Middle was created in a fervent process of navigating and confronting the unforgiving conditions of the static desert landscape. Fascinated by the colour turquoise as a metaphor for water, fluidity, and change, Shipman struggles to find balance between the two uniquely fragile extreme ecosystems – the increasingly dehydrated earth and equally delicate capitalist world order. The series and the subject matter addressed is relevant concerning the ongoing global water crisis, current contentions raised at the Dakota pipeline protests, and the commodification of this precious resource. Underscoring the layering of references, she alludes to environmental concerns, social conventions, and her own personal quest for identity.
Talia Shipman | You Were right (Hot tub) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Sink Low (dome) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Told You So (cups) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Security (sculpture man) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Paris, New York, Barcelona, Milan (Blanket) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Not the Holiday Inn (Cacti Sculptures) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Meet Me In The Middle (Wigs) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 48x32 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Needs + Wants (Paper Bag) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | In The Beginning (Ball) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Thirsty, Still (Reflection) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Still Here (Tinsel) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Live a little (blue cellophane) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | Detox (pink cellophane) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 27x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016
Talia Shipman | End Game (Torso Sculpture) | Meet Me in the Middle Series | 24x18 in. | Archival photograph, UV glass, custom frame | 2016

Installation view | Meet Me in the Middle

Installation view Public Art Collection

Talia Shipman | It’s Too Hot to Hold You, It’s Too Cold to Not (Swayed) | 2014

Talia Shipman | Swayed (bullet shells) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (crushed velvet) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (relax inn) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (skull) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (rainbow sign) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (rainbow water) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (pink silk) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
Talia Shipman | Swayed (money tree) | 2014 | 11x14 in. | Ed. of 4 | Photograph on wood board with resin coating
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News

Gallery TPW Photorama board picks by Michele Pearson Clark 
Art Toronto review: Who Sold What at the Fair     
Canadian Art Magazine, Art Toronto Sales Report: Variations on a Theme by Leah 
Sandals 
Gallery TPW Photorama board picks by AGO curator, Jon Davies 
CBC Arts: The world of Talia Shipman is an underwater haven for weary commuters 
Feature Article re: Blue Space (Water Wall) Installation, Toronto, ON by Sarah 
Keenlyside 
Conde Nast Travel: Article re: Installation at Drake Hotel (Don’t Save Me, Baby) 
Now Magazine, Featured exhibition to see for CONTACT Photo Festival re: Drake 
Hotel Lobby Installation (Don’t Save Me, Baby) 
Blouin Artinfo, Canadians Take New York: A Conversation With the Woman 
Corralling Them on Canal Street by Sky Goodden 
Canadian Art Magazine, Review of Exodus: The 10 Plagues exhibition at Angell 
Gallery, Toronto, ON, by Bill Clarke 
Nashville Scene, Feature on Exodus Exhibition, Nashville, TN      Where Magazine, re: Exhibition at Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON 
Frieze Magazine re: Exhibition at Angell Gallery, London, UK 
Applied Arts Magazine, Young Blood Profile 
Soho Journal, Canadian Artists Opening At Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, NY 
Magenta Foundation: Flash Forward, filmed Interview 
Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto Now: To Watch 
ROM Magazine, c4 spread, winter edition, Toronto, ON 
NOW Magazine, Feature Photo/exhibition for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON 
Fashion Television, coverage of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) c4 event, Toronto, ON 
NOW Magazine, Feature Photograph for CONTACT Photo Festival ​
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