Artist Cv -
Brianna Tosswill

Selected Exhibitions

2025-2027 (upcoming) TREX Travelling Exhibitions Alberta
2026 (upcoming) Untitled 2-Person Show at dhARTworld Alberta
2025 Superfine Art Fair in San Francisco
2024 “pARTy” at dhARTworld
2024 “TOMPE@10” at Print London
2023-2025 The Artist Project Toronto
2022 Edmonton Public Library Londonderry Branch Art Showcase
2022 The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition @ Print London
2021 SNAP Gallery Group Exhibition “At a Time: Tender and Tense”
2020 SNAP Gallery Window Installation “Literary Leavings”
2019 Open Studio Window Installation “The Pink of the Seams”

Selected Awards

2023 DeSerres Artist Prize Winner for Mixed Media (The Artist Project)
2022 First Place Prize at TOMPE Print London
2017 Shortlisted for the BMO 1st Art! Invitational Competition
2017 Ada Slaight Committee Grant for Proposed Collaborative Book Project: Caterpillar Portraits.
2016 3rd Year Print Award, OCADU
2015 Award of Excellence at Freaks and the Human Ideal, a juried Art show in Hilo, Hawaii
2012-2015 Scholarship from the Hazel Cryderman-Wees Foundation 

Artist Talks

2024 Visiting Artist Talk @ HB Beal SS 
2022 Hello Print Friend Podcast Interview with Miranda Metcalf
2022 Flat Files Video Interview with Spark Box Studio 
2021 Good Talks with Good Sport Gallery in London ON

Selected Bookworks

Published (illustrated, printed, bound, and distributed) by Brianna Tosswill as Penrose Press.

2021 Alice and Antius by Cory Ingram
2021 Avebury by Wendy McGrath
2021 The Solitudes by Ola Bjelica
2020 Conversations with the Ocean by Evelyn Elgie
2019 If a Carp Dreams of the Milky Way by Jasmine Gui
2018 The Size of Texas by Kate Finegan (Illustrated by Sydney Morrison)
2018 Letters to Frida by Rebecca Davison Mora
2017 Caterpillar Portraits by Joyce Jodie Kim

Markets

2024 Odd Bird Art & Craft Fair 
2024Harvest Book Fair Edmonton
2023AGA Comic and Zine Fair (Edmonton)
2023 Strathearn Art Walk (Edmonton)
2020-2023 The Royal Bison (Edmonton)
2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 

Public Collections

(housing at least 3 Penrose Press bookworks each)

Bruce Peel Special Collections Library University of Alberta
MacEwan University Special Collections Archive
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto
Dorothy H. Hoover Artists’ Book Collection OCAD University

Teaching

2022-2025 Linocut and Letterpress Individual Mentor @ SNAP Printshop
2021-2025 Linocut Reduction workshop instructor @ SNAP Printshop
2023 Linocut Reduction workshop instructor @ Open Studio Toronto
2018, 2019, 2023 Art and Science Contract Educator @ Norval Outdoor School
2020 Advanced Linocut Techniques instructor @ SNAP Printshop
2017-2019 Letterpress workshop instructor @ Open Studio Toronto

Selected Education

OCADU
Toronto, ON.
Printmaking BFA
2013 - 2017

HB Beal SS
London, ON.
Foundations of Fine Art 
2011 - 2012

Selected Employment

Independent Artist
2017 - Present (full time since Feb 2021)

Tote Bag Designer for The Royal Bison - Edmonton
2023

Zine Designer for Open Studio Toronto
2022

Custom Framer @ Picture This - Sherwood Park
2019-2021

Screenprinter @ Kiriki Press - Toronto
2019

Artist Assistant for Jennie Suddick - Toronto
2017 - 2019

Custom Printer for Open Studio - Toronto
2018 - 2019