EDUCATION
2009-2012 Master of Fine Arts, Painting: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2002-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Elegy, Broome County Arts Council, Binghamton, NY,
2022 Trespassing on the domain of ghosts, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2021 Trespassing on the domain of ghosts, Hope Horn Gallery, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
2019 The Edges of Things, Scott Gallery, Edmonton AB
2018 Shadow Cities, Galerie McClure, Montreal, QC
2017 Shadow Cities, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2016 Rupture, Expositions Ymuno, Montreal, QC
2014 The Waste Land, ODD Gallery, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, YT
2014 The Waste Land, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
2014 Conspicuous Collapse, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2014 L’Inventaire des rêves / The Inventory of Dreams, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC
2014 The Waste Land, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops, BC
2013 Small Disasters, Harcourt House, Edmonton AB
2012 Amass, MFA Thesis Exhibition, FAB Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2010 Urban Diary, Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montreal, QC
2010 Urban Diary, Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, QC
2009 Façade Arrière, Galerie Port-Maurice, Montreal, QC
2009 Ruelles, Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, QC
2006 Jolies Poubelles, START Gallery, Sackville, NB
DUO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Tracing Echoes, Obsidian, Binghamton, NY
2023 2023 Southern Tier Biennial, Bothner Gallery, Olean, NY
2023 Binghamton University Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, NY
2022 At Rest and In Motion, Portal: Governors Island, New York, NY (with Frank Chang)
2022 Reading the Land: Ten years of collecting, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2021 In my secret life, Neighbors Gallery, Ithaca, NY (with Thea Reid)
2020 Fragments, Spool Contemporary Art Space, Binghamton, NY
2019 Portal, Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, NY
2019 Binghamton University Art and Design Faculty Exhibition 2019, Binghamton, NY
2018 Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2018 Give and Take, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
2018 Women in Art, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2017 Downtown/s: Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow, The 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art, Windsor, ON
2016 Saga of a city, Hamilton at 200, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2015 Brainstorms: UAlberta Creates, University of Alberta Museums Galleries, Edmonton, AB
2015 Hamilton Biennial, Hundreddollar Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2015 Vestiges, Galerie BAC, Montreal, QC
2014 Art Toronto, Galerie BAC booth, Toronto, ON
2014 Public School, A/P Gallery, Calgary, AB
2013 The Lure of the Local: Women Artists in the Canadian Landscape, Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece
2013 Windsor Issues V.4, Civic Space, Windsor, ON
2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition 2012, Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2012 Art Toronto, Toronto, ON, RBC Painting Competition booth
2012 The New Alberta Contemporaries, Esker Foundation Gallery, Calgary, AB
2011 Innovation, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2011 Revisiting Ephemera, ArtLAB Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
2010 Archive and Everyday Life, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2008 Architectures for Nostalgia, Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catherine’s, ON
2006 stART: Emerging Artist Show, Studio 21, Halifax, NS
2006 BFA Graduate Exhibition, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Portal: Governors Island, 4Heads NYC, New York, NY
2019 Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
2018 Reclaim Residency, Haliburton School of Art & Design, Haliburton, ON
2016 Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, Vermont
2013 Another World in the Studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
2013 Emerging Artist Research Residency Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2010 Urban Diary, Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, QC
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2016 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2014 Project Assistance for Visual Artists, British Columbia Arts Council
2013 Professional Development Project Assistance, British Columbia Arts Council
2013 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Finalist: 14th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition
2012 Edmonton Arts Council: Individual Project Grant
2012 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2011 Graduate Students Association Professional Development Grant, University of Alberta
2011 Faculty of Arts International Travel Award, University of Alberta
2011 Alberta Advanced Education Achievement Program: Graduate Student Scholarship
2010 Don McColl Graduate Scholarship, University of Alberta
2010 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship in Art and Design
2010 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta: Profiling Alberta’s Graduate Students Award
2009 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019- Lecturer, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY
2017-2019 Adjunct Lecturer, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY
2015-16 Programming Committee, Hamilton Artist’s Inc., Hamilton, ON
2014 President, Board of Directors, Arnica Artist-Run Centre, Kamloops, BC
2013-14 Art Instructor: Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2012 Research Assistant: Allen Ball, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2012 Graduate Student Representative, Chair Selection Committee: University of Alberta
2012 Co-curator: Unstable Natures, Latitude 53. Edmonton AB
2011 Instructor: Art Fundamentals, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2011 Co-curator: Innovation, Alberta Graduate Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2010-2012 Teaching Assistant: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2006-2009 Art Instructor, Youth Department: Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, QC
2007 Assistant Registrar: Galerie McClure, Montreal, QC
2004-2005 Gallery Coordinator: START Gallery, Sackville, NB
2003-2004 Education Program Assistant: Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
LECTURES/ PRESENTATIONS
2022 Artist Talk, Trespassing on the domain of ghosts, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2021 Artist Talk, Trespassing on the domain of ghosts, Hope Horn Gallery, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
2020 Panelist, Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2018 Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
2018 Artist Talk, Reclaim Residency, Haliburton School of Art & Design, Haliburton, ON
2016 Panelist, In Contemporary Terms: Responding to the Beaver Hall Group. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2014 Guest Presenter, Sunday Scene, Mike Nelson: Amnesiac Hide. The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2014 Artist Talk, The Waste Land, ODD Gallery, KIAC, Dawson City, YT
2014 Artist Talk, The Waste Land, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
2013 Artist Talk, Small Disasters, Harcourt House, Edmonton AB
2013 Artist Talk, The Lure of the Local, Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece
2013 Artist Talk, “Small Disasters,” Another World in the Studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
2013 Artist Talk, Emerging Artist Research Residency Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2013 Artist Talk, Thomson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2010 Panelist, “The Urban Diary: Decoding the City”. The Archive and Everyday Life Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
COLLECTIONS
Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC), Colart Collection (Montreal, QC), University of Alberta Museums and Archive (Edmonton, AB), Davis & Company LLP (Toronto, ON), private collections in Canada, Europe and Australia.
SELECTED PRESS, CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS
Josh Reno, Ghost Vision, Hope Horn Gallery, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, 2021
Olivia Robinson, "Artist explores the beauty in the detritus of our everyday lives", Haliburton Echo, May 22, 2018.
Jessica Cappuccitti, "The Art of Urban Renewal in Windsor - Detroit", Canadian Art, November 28, 2017
Melissa Bennett, “In the Studio: Andrea Kastner,” Critical Superbeast, June 20, 2016
Alison Shields, Connecting the Dots, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK, 2014
Angela Somerset, Want. Don’t Want., Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, 2014
Marissa Neave, New Landscape: On Andrea Kastner’s The Wasteland, Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton, ON, 2014
Meg Walker, “Painting Wasted Dreams,” Yukon News, November 28, 2014
Andrea Klassen, “Entering the Waste Land,” Kamloops This Week, January 21, 2014
Caterina Pizanias, The Lure of the Local: Women Artists in the Canadian Land(scape), Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece, 2013.
Stephen Hunt, “Alberta Artists Celebrated in Athens”, Calgary Herald, November 1, 2013
Agnieszka Matejko, “Small Disasters”, Vue Weekly issue #930, Edmonton, AB, August 14, 2013
Alannah O’Neill, “Wasteland: Andrea Kastner explores what lies beneath”, Elle Canada, May 2013, p.74
Leah Shaw, "Andrea Kastner: The RBC Canadian Painting Competition Interview series", The Walrus, Toronto, ON, Vol. 9, No. 10, p. 21.
Andrew Gunn, “Inside Out: Interview with Andrea Kastner,” Canadian Interviews (online), July 9, 2012.
“RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Start Your Engines”, Canadian Art (online), June 28, 2012.
James Adams, “The brush-off: RBC Canadian Painting Competition”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, June 27, 2012, p. R3.
2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON, 2012, p. 30-31.
Caterina Pizanias, The New Alberta Contemporaries, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB, 2012, p. 20-21.
Ahlia Moussa, Simon Bentley ed. Revisiting Ephemera, McIntosh Gallery Curatorial Study Centre, 2011.
Mary O'Connor, "The Archive and Everyday Life", Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton, ON, 2010.
Ariane Lafrenière. "Ruelles: Une Autre Facette du Quotidien", Actualités, Montreal, QC, Feb 5, 2009.
Natasha Pedros, "Architectures for Nostalgia", Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON. 2008.
Kristen De Palma. "Letting it All Hang Out", PULSE Niagara, St. Catharines, ON, Vol. 22, No. 42., 2008.