2021 Master of Fine Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CAN
2019 Certificate, Fundamentals of University Teaching Certificate, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CAN
2012 Bachelor of Arts, Honours, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University, St.Catharines, CAN
2010 Student exchange at Jai Hind College (University of Mumbai), Mumbai, IND (6 months)
Solo Exhibitions and Public Projects
2027 Between Fields
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, CAN
2027 We Must Love and Support One Another
Raymore Park, Toronto, CAN
2027 Between Fields
Niagara Artists Centre, St.Catharines, CAN
2026 We Must Love and Support One Another
Raymore Park, Toronto, CAN
2025 We Must Love and Support One Another
Raymore Park, Toronto, CAN
2022 It’s a Thin Line
Gallery Stratford, Curated by Evelyn Sorochan-Ruland, Stratford, CAN
2021 Pacing the House
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, CAN
2019 period of adjustment
Niagara Artists Centre, Show Room Gallery, St.Catharines, CAN
2015 We've Forgotten Where are Hearts Have Been
Niagara Artists Centre, Member's Gallery, St.Catharines, CAN
2014 Project Space
+15 Window, The New Gallery, Calgary, CAN
2014 Little Tremors
Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, TWN
2013 The Promise That Tomorrow Made Yesterday
Stantec Window Gallery, Toronto, CAN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Tangled’s Tenth
Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto, CAN
2025 Ear to the Wall
Hinge Arts Space, Rajasthan, IND
2024 The Artist Project - invited Installation Artist
Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto, CAN
2024 The Early Bird Gets the Worm
Aurora Cultural Centre, Curated by Samantha Jones, Aurora, CAN
2023 On a Table, Over Time
the plumb, Organized by Callum Schuster, Toronto, CAN
2022 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CAN
2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Best of Art Fair Award
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CAN
2019 SHOW.19
Idea Exchange, Curated by Iga Janik, Cambridge, CAN
2018 Grimsby Public Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, CAN
2018 Glenhyrst Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford, CAN
2016 The Last Things
NAC Flea Market Gallery, Curated by Maggie Groat, St.Catharines, CAN
2016 Grimsby Public Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, CAN
2016 Glenhyrst Art Gallery Juried Exhibition ** 2nd place
Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford, CAN
2015 Shifting Practices
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, St.Catharines, CAN
2015 Community Voices
Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, USA
2015 Strange Beauty
Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto, CAN
2015 You're Not Here
Feminist Art Conference (OCADU), Daniel Spectrum, Artscape, Toronto, CAN
2015 Default Programming
North York Arts, Toronto, CAN
2014 You Should Not Be Here
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA
2014 With my < >, Trade your < >
Taipei Artist Village – Barry Gallery, TWN
Performances
2027 (coming soon)
LILT Festival, Toronto, CAN
2019 Cultivating and Practising Caring Futures: A Death Care Café
Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University, Toronto, CAN
2019 Performance. Concept & Creative Process, Multidisciplinary Creative Conference
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, CAN
2018 Deathnastics
as part of Gymsick, curated by Hazel Meyer & Lucy Pawlak, Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, Toronto, CAN
2017 There Are Other Things We Can Talk About
Festival of Performance Art, Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton, CAN
2017 I Can't Do This On My Own
Presented by Casino Artspace and Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton, CAN
2015 I'm Ambitious When Giving Up
Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton, CAN
2014 Because Everyone Needs Their Hand Held Sometimes
Window Gallery, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, CAN
2014 Shifting Currents
Gueishan Taoyuan, TWN
2013 Thinking the Unspeakable
Sihanouk Boulevard, Phnom Penh, KHM
2013 I’m Ambitious When Giving Up
Various locations around Phnom Penh, KHM
Community
2021-2022. Artist Shared Plates Fundrasier (held in conjunction with the release of The Artist Cookbook Vol. 2), FoodShare, Toronto, CAN
2021-2022 Community Living Ontario, Student Links Mentor, Toronto, CAN
2020-2022 York South-Weston Tenant Union, Executive Committee, Toronto, CAN
2020-2022 AWC Tenant Association, Co-Chair, Toronto, CAN
2020-2021 Graduate Student Association (GSA), University of Waterloo, Executive Graduate Student Relations Committee, Waterloo, CAN
2020-2021 Graduate Student Association (GSA), University of Waterloo, Councillor, Fine Arts, Waterloo, CAN
Artist Talks
2021 Pacing the House, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, CAN
2019 period of adjustment, in conversation with Eliza Chandler, Niagara Artists Centre, St.Catharines, CAN
2017 Residency Artist, Open Studio, Toronto, CAN
2015 Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, St.Catharines, CAN
2015 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, USA
2015 Strange Beauty, Tangled Art + Disability Festival, Toronto, CAN
2014 Visiting Artist, Taipei Artist Village, TWN
Residences
2027 Farm Studio, Rajasthan, IND
2025 Farm Studio, Rajasthan, IND
2025 Ceramique Alexandra, Summer Residency, Montreal, CAN
2022 Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Woolverton Residency, Grimsby, CAN
2017 Open Studio, Jeannie Thib Mentorship Residency, Toronto, CAN
2015 The Banff Centre, BAiR Late Winter Intensive, Banff, CAN
2014 YYZ Artists' Outlet Lab, Summer Mentoring & Educational Residency, Toronto, CAN
2014 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, TWN
Commissions
2015 Impossible Conversations, Strange Beauty, Tangled Art + Disability Festival, Toronto, CAN
2012 From Here to There and Back Again, NiagaraHERE, Department of Canadian Heritage—Cultural Capitals Program, St.Catharines, CAN
Teaching/ Workshops
2026 Camera-less Image Making along the Humber River, with Urban Arts and Workman Arts, Toronto, CAN
2025 Phyotograms along the Humber River, Instructor, Toronto, CAN
2020 Appreciation & Expression Studio FINE 150, Instructor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CAN
2020 Fine Arts, Studio Foundations, FINE 100, TA (Eva McCauley), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CAN
2019 Art History and Visual Culture VCULT/ FINE 101, TA (Bojana Videkanic), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CAN
Publications
2027 Perreault, Carrie, editor. The Artist Cookbook - Special Edition. Perreault.
2027 Perreault, Carrie, editor. The Artist Cookbook Vol. 3. Perreault.
2021 Perreault, Carrie, editor. The Artist Cookbook Vol. 2. Perreault.
2019 Lippard, Lucy R., and Sky Goodden. period of adjustment, Perreault.
2019 Perreault, Carrie, editor. The Artist Cookbook Vol. 1. Perreault.
2014 Tanase, O. (2014, November 22). YYZLAB Touring Exhibition: Default Programming.
2013 Parayre, C., & Boldt, L. Figuring It Out: Disfigurement in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Art and Literature.
St.Catharines, Ontario: Niagara Arts Centre.
2012 Loughlin, I. (2012). Perceptionists: Three Responses to the Contemporary Challenges of Representation. Exhibition Catalogue.
Grant$ | Award$
2027 Canada Council for the Arts, Micro-grant
2027 Toronto Arts Council, Animating Toronto Parks
2026 Canada Council for the Arts, Micro-grant
2026 Canada Council for the Arts, Artistic Creation
2026 Ontario Arts Council, Multi and Inter-Arts Projects
2026 Toronto Arts Council, Animating Toronto Parks
2025 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation Project
2025 Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Professional Development
2025 Ontario Arts Council, Material Supplies Grant
2025 Weston Village Residents’ Association, Better Together Grant
2021 Catherine Bratty Award for Best of Art Fair, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2020 SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
2020 University of Waterloo, President’s Graduate Scholarship
2020 University of Waterloo, Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship
2020 University of Waterloo, Graduate Scholarship, Department of Fine Arts
2018 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant
2017 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist
2016 Ontario Arts Council, Material Supplies Grant
2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant
2015 Ontario Arts Council, Theatre Creator's Reserve
2015 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2014 Ontario Arts Council, National & International Residency Grant
2014 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2014 Ontario Arts Council, Action Research Grant
2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
Juries
2026 St.Catharines Cultural Investment Program (SCCIP) Review Committee, City of St.Catharines
2022 Project Anywhere, Peer-Reviewer, Centre for Visual Art, University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design, The New School
2021 Project Anywhere, Peer-Reviewer, Centre for Visual Art, University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design, The New School
2019 Ontario Arts Council, Deaf and Disability Arts Projects: Materials for Visual Artists
2018 City of Hamilton, Tourism and Culture, City Enrichment Fund
2018 Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Professional Development Projects
2016 Toronto Arts Council, Open Doors Project Grants
2015 Ontario Arts Council, Inaugural Deaf and Disability Arts Projects Grant
Project Production
2021 Zoom Project Producer for Bill Burns with Co-Collaborators in Argentina. In late March 2020, Bill Burns returned from Argentina, where he was working on a project alongside artist and poet contributors in Buenos Aires and Charjari. This project has now pivoted, and the collaborative work is currently taking place over Zoom, Instagram and WhatsApp. The project will be presented as an online Zoom performance in Fall 2021, which will include an unboxing video, poems about donkeys being read, a discussion between the contributing artists, video compilations of Charjari, as seen on a bicycle ride during the early morning, along with photo documentation of large-scale posters Bill printed before he left Buenos Aires that have now been installed around the city. The performance will be hosted by the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan.
2021 Exhibition Host + Community Facilitator for Jill Downen, Truth Speak, as part of Terrain Biennial. Terrain Exhibitions is a Biennial that decentralizes art, moving it away from galleries and conventional exhibition spaces and into everyday residential neighbourhoods. For the 2021 edition, I am working with the Kansas City artist Jill Downen to install her work in my neighbourhood—a vulnerable, under-served, high-density community. Her ink drawings based on soundwaves from people telling their Truth will be printed on vinyl and wrapped around the nine-foot light posts in the exterior courtyards of three apartment buildings.
2021 Project Producer for Bill Burns, The Salt, the Milk, the Goats, the Honey, the Donkey. This project is a happening that took place in October 2021 at the Oculus Pavilion along the South Humber River in Toronto. This multi-faceted event included a parade of brass band players who performed songs about milk and honey as they walked along a path through the forest until they reach the site. Surrounding the modernist pavilion, four goats were present along with their keeper and one of them was milked. There was a honey rendering demonstration and two donkeys were also part of the festivities with their minder and an MC who will enthusiastically engaged the public. Under the architectural gem, Bill Burns mixed the milk and honey on a small bunsen burner. This event is part of a series of educational and artistic works about trade economies and food production that Bill Burns has been developing for several years. You can read more about the project on ART-AGENDA.
2021 Ceramics and Pit Firing Workshop, Facilitator, O:se Kenhionhata:tie Land Back Camp. O:se Kenhionhata:tie is a Land Back Camp—they are a group of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer individuals (primarily young people) reclaiming culture, space and land with settler allies, standing strong together. I was brought onto this project by Logan Macdonald, an Indigenous professor at the University of Waterloo, who had wanted to provide a creative series of workshops for the campers. As a co-facilitator, I reached out to Shawna Redskye, a ceramicist and Kelsey Dawson, a clay researcher. Her practice includes harvesting wild clay and exploring our environmental relationship with the soil in various regions. Together we hosted a ceramic making workshop with commercial and wild clays from across the territory and another workshop a few weeks later where we dug out a pit and fired the ceramics pieces in the ground.
2021-2023 Student Links. Visual Arts Mentorship through Community Living Ontario. Student Links is a provincial initiative of Community Living Ontario, a non-profit provincial association that advocates for people who have an intellectual disability to be fully included in all aspects of community life. This program assists high school students with an intellectual disability to consider various possibilities for their future by exploring their identified area of interest. I work as a volunteer with Jenay (over Zoom) once a week for a year-long commitment. We discuss and research contemporary artists, do weekly live drawing together, and I help to connect her to programs and introduce her to artists in my community. We are working towards a two-person painting exhibition in June 2022 at Artscape Weston Common Hub in Toronto.
2018 Visiting artist and Coordinator for Kids Fest, which took place at Giant Steps School for Tangled Art + Disability. Giant Steps is a school & therapy centre that builds the skills and abilities of children with autism through academics, specialized therapies, life skills and inclusion. This role included coordinating and reporting to funders, project budgeting, program development and providing a series of workshops over a 3-month period. The festival concluded with a fully accessible exhibition at Tangled Art + Disability Gallery, 401 Richmond St. W, Toronto.
2017 Associate Producer for Abedar Kamgari’s durational performance-for-video The Journey West. The performance retells her experience as a refugee and immigrant. The 87km walk between Toronto and Hamilton covers the land between her two adoptive hometowns.
2017 Coordinator for Tangled Art + Disability’s Kids Fest. The program led by Luca ‘Lazylegz’ Patuelli worked with students at Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic High School and James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School. Students workshopped weekly with hip hop dancers to collaborate in creating a choreographed performance. The routine was presented at an interactive school assembly with a cohort of special guests.
2016 Producer for Big Pond Small Fish, The Great Chorus at the Royal Ontario Museum. Big Pond Small Fish is a not-for-profit organization that promotes and disseminates conceptually rigorous works of art, publications and performances by children and youth through the Dogs & Boats & Airplanes Choir. I acted as the project’s producer between the Royal Ontario Museum team and Lord Lansdowne and da Vinci Alternative Public Schools in Toronto. Under the leadership of Bill Burns, choral director Alan Gasser, librettist Krys Verrall, the children met weekly to create a choral repertoire that consists of sounds inspired by their research from visits to the backroom collections where they worked alongside the scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum. The final event saw the student perform music they wrote that responded to four galleries within the museum, along with outdoor components.
Press
2024 Collins, Leah (2024, August 23). Destination - Straight Flush. CBC Arts
2024 Collins, Leah (2024, April 10). Going to Artist Project this weekend? Add these 5 things to your agenda. CBC Arts.
2023 O’Kane, Josh (2023, August 29). Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities. The Globe and Mail.
2021 Collins, Leah (2021, November 5). Learn to cook like an artist. CBC Arts.
2021 Montanini, Chris (2021, October 15). New exhibits at Gallery Stratford highlight work by four Canadian women. The Beacon Herald.
2019 Gazzola, B. (2019, June 3). Open Secret: Carrie Perreault’s period of adjustment. The Sound
2017 Hampton, C. (2017, April 22). Ferment and fear at the Hamilton Biennale. The Toronto Star.
2015 Gazzola, B. (2015, October 8). Marilyn I. Walker School of Performing Arts Opens with Shifting Practices. The Sound.
2015 Fisher, L. (2015, April 7). Conversations with Strange Beauty: Carrie Perreault.
2015 Ukairo, C. (2015, March 28). Feminism Through Art.
2015 Von Lukawiecki, M. (2015, March 3). Brock photographers brought into focus. The Brock Press.
2012 Scappatura, A. (2012, April 18). Giving depression a voice. Niagara Falls Review.