EMILIE FANTUZ


EDUCATION

2026 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC (expected)


SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2027 Solo Exhibition (forthcoming), Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL

2026 Two-Person Exhibition (forthcoming), Pendulum Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 

2024 Further Views, Revelstoke Public Art Gallery, Revelstoke, BC 

2023 Places We Are Found, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's NL

2021 Where Lights Meet, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC


ART FAIRS

2025 Art Toronto, Christina Parker Gallery, Toronto, ON

2024 Art Toronto, Christina Parker Gallery, Toronto, ON

2023 Art Toronto, Christina Parker Gallery, Toronto, ON


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 2025: A Year-End Celebration, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL

2025 State of Practice, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC

2025 Shifting Ground, Dundarave Print Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada 

2024 Celebrating 40 Years, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL

2024 Portrait of a City, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL 

2024 International Women's Day Exhibition, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL

2023 The Last Show of the Year, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John's, NL

2018 Stylized Realism, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017 In a New Light, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI

2017 Haute Domain: Detroit Art & Design, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI

2017 Annual Juried Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2017 Future Interrupted, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017 Hatchback 11, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI

2017 HOME, Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead, MOCAD, Detroit, MI 

2017 Essence of Life, Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI 

2016 Detroit Biennale, Museum of New Art, Armada, MI 

2016 Greetings From Detroit: Wish You Were Here, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

2016 Statewide Fine Art Competition, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI 

2016 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI 

2016 Pop Up Art: Special Edition, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI

2015 The Next Big Thing, Museum of New Art, Troy, MI 



GRANTS AND AWARDS

2024 Entrance Scholarship, Emily Carr University of Art & Design

2023 Explore and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

2023 Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts

2023 Creative Achievement Award, International Guild of Realism

2017 First Place Award, A l'Heure de Paris Art Exhibition Detroit, MI

2016 First Place Award, City of Howell Public Art Project


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024 Riddle Fence: A Journal of Arts & Culture, Issue 52

2024 Emilie Fantuz, The Creative Process Interview, Radio Free Roanoke

2024 Where Life Happens, International Artist Magazine (Feature)

2023 Collaborating on a Sense of Place with Emilie and Mike Fantuz, West Coast Curated

2023 Places We Are Found, Island Arts Magazine

2023 Mike and Emilie Fantuz: Places We Are Found, Newfoundland Quarterly

2023 Vivid and Engaging Exhibition, The Telegram

2023 Emilie and Mike Fantuz evoke a sense of place, Creative Boom

2023 A View from the Easel, Hyperallergic

2022 Artists In Focus 2022 (coffee table book), Magzoid International Art Magazine

2022 Le Magasin, (cover) Arabella Magazine - Canadian Art, Architecture & Design

2021 Massive Murals Dazzle in West Vancouver, North Shore News

2021 American Realism by Emilie Fantuz, Magzoid International Art Magazine

2021 Emilie Fantuz, Artist Showcase, Arabella Magazine - Canadian Art, Architecture & Design

2020 Where are they now? Detroit Performs, Detroit Public Television

2018 Featured Artist, Border Crossing Magazine

2016 Detroit Performs, Detroit Public Television

2016 Two Midtown Shows put Detroit in Perspective, The Detroit News

2016 Two 60 wrd/min Art Critic comes to Hamtramck: Emilie Fantuz, Detroit Metro Times



COLLECTIONS

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA

Bank of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, USA

Novi Public Library, Novi, USA

City Hall, Michigan City, Indiana, USA 

Romulus Public Library, Romulus, USA

Stewart McKelvey, St. John's, Canada

One Churchill Park, St. John’s, Canada

Bucci Developments, Vancouver, Canada

Bear Creek Law, BC, Canada

Burris Law, Detroit, USA

Todd Interests, Dallas, USA

The National Hotel, Dallas, USA

Works held in private Collections in Canada, United States, France, China, Caymen Islands, Switzerland and the Netherlands


PUBLIC ART & PRESENTATIONS

2025 A Slower Way of Seeing (Artist Talk), The Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver, BC

2024 Featured Artist Presentation, Surrey Muse Arts Society, Surrey, BC

2021 Odeon Theatre Mural, Commissioned by the Ambleside Dundarave BIA, West Vancouver, BC

2017 Open Studio, Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead, MOCAD, Detroit, MI

2015-2017: Multiple public art commissions for the cities of Howell, Royal Oak, and Lansing, MI.