Renee Van Halm

Renée Van Halm was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada as a young child. She now lives and works in Vancouver after many years in Toronto, Montréal, and Berlin, Germany. Her undergraduate work was completed at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and she received an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. In addition to over 30 solo exhibitions her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as This is Paradise (2011) in Toronto; Architypes in Sydney (2004) and Tokyo (2005); Enacting Abstraction (2009) weak thought (1997-98 ) at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Songs of Experience (1983) at the National Gallery of Canada. Her solo exhibition Dream Home originated at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and toured Western Canada in 2002 – 2003.

Her work has been collected publicly and privately in Canada and elsewhere. In addition, Van Halm has been involved with many related projects including the founding of Mercer Union, an artist run centre in Toronto, in 1979. She taught for over a decade at York University before joining the faculty of Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1992. Since her retirement in 2010 she has held the position of Emeritus Professor. Her work is represented by Birch Libralato in Toronto and the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver.