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Elizabeth D'Agostino

BiographyToronto-based printmaker, sculptor, installation artist, and art teacher Elizabeth D’Agostino earned her B.F.A. with Honours (1995) at the University of Windsor, and then her M.F.A. in Studio Art from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her installations combine sculpture with prints to explore how humans interact with dynamic settings, and are populated with hybridised figures of insects, vertebrates, vegetable forms, and human artifacts. She says of herself, “The daughter of Italian parents who immigrated to Canada, I am concerned with the notion of acclimation…. As a child, I watched those around me form an ancestral and collective wholeness by grounding themselves with familiar and foreign ideas, which shaped their locale…[and] the extended sense of home… revealed in both animate and inanimate objects.”

D’Agostino’s many solo exhibitions include A Scarlet Description at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, Memory Folios at Toronto’s George Gilmour Members Gallery, and Escape from the Land of the Wandering at Sault Ste. Marie’s Art Gallery of Algoma. Numerous public and private collections house her work, including those of the Department of Global Affairs Canada, Pearson International Airport, Berkeley’s Kala Art Institute, Saint Cuthbertsmill in Somerset, England, the Frans Masareel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, and the University of Changchun in Jilin, China.

D’Agostino has served artist residencies in Noepoli, Italy, at the Frans Masareel Centrum, and at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and with Parks Canada in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She’s won grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.