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SAMI TSANG
email: tsangsami@gmail.comb. 1997 . Works in Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION
2021 MFA, Ceramic Art, Alfred University, NY, USA
2019 Bachelor of Craft and Design: Ceramics, with Honours Sheridan College, Canada
ARTISTS RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
2024 7th International Artist Retreat and Residency, Anhui, China
2022-25 Artist-in-Residence: Ceramics, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
SOLO & Two-Person EXHIBITIONS
2025 Our Family Portrait, Claire Oliver Gallery, NY
2024 Bickers & Tsang, two-person exhibition, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
Personal Scripture, two-person exhibition, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2023 Good Hard Look, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Know Your Place, Art Gallery of Burlington, Toronto, ON
2021 Mooncake Party, Gardiner Museum Award Winner, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Excellence in Clay, The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
2024 Emergence, The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
Those Heavy Hours, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
Teetering On The Brink: Femininity, Inheritance and Disaster, Claire Oliver Gallery, NY
Significant Forms, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2023 In Parallel, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Other Tigers, The Lost & Found, Toronto, ON
2022 Every Answer is Correct, Ernst & Young, organized by the Powerplant, Toronto, ON
Award Exhibition, Craft Ontario, Toronto, ON
SMASH, Gardiner’s annual art party, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
Earth Oracles, Mayten’s Project, Toronto, ON
Separate/Together, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 Award Exhibition, Craft Ontario, Toronto, ON
Alfred MFA, Sculpture Space, Long Island City, NY
2020 Crafts in the Art, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Confluence, Robert C.Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY, USA
2019 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
ART FAIRS - SOLO BOOTH
2025 (Upcoming) - Scope Art Show, Miami
EXPO Chicago Art Fair, USA
2024 Bloodless Wounds From Poisonous Roots, Art Toronto Fair, Canada
2022 Disgraceful Me, Project Booth, Art Toronto Fair, Canada
ART FAIRS - GROUP PRESENTATION
2023 NADA Miami Art Fair, Miami
Art Toronto Fair, Canada
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY
Canadian Clay and Glass Collection, Waterloo, ON
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Collection Majudia
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025 Winner, the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, The Canadian Clay & Glass
2024 Finalist, the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, The Canadian Clay & Glass
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2022 Ontario Arts Council, Skills and Career Development Grant
Emerging Clay and Glass Artists, FUSION Clay & Glass Ontario, Toronto, ON
2019 Winner, Gardiner Museum Award, You Know What I Mean, Toronto, ON
Mudtools Merit Award, NCECA Juried Student Exhibition, Minneapolis
FUSION Scholarship Award, FUSION Clay & Glass, ON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Related Work, Presentations)
2025 Guest teacher, Gasworks NYC’s Zoom workshop series, “Women + GNC in Clay”
2023 Canadian Clay Symposium, Demonstrating Artist, Burnaby, BC
Visiting Artist, Demonstration and Artist Talk, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
2022 Guest Artist Presentation, Mississauga Potters' Guild, Canada
New Clay Conference, Demonstrating Artist, Ottawa, Canada
Earth Oracles, Panel Discussion, Mayten’s Project, hosted by Gardiner Museum
2021 Craft Ontario, Artist talk, Award Exhibition, Toronto
2020 Make and Do Ceramics, From the Personal to the Universal, Artist talk/Demo
2017-19Studio Assistant (summer) Timothy Smith, Gleason Brook Pottery, Wiarton, ON
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025 Made This to Be Heard: TOAF 2025 Curated Collection
TEACHING
2021 Teaching assistant, Introduction to Hand-building, Brooke Cashion, Alfred University, NY
2020 Teaching assistant, Sophomore Intro to Hand-building, Meghan Smythe, Alfred University, NY
2020 Teaching assistant, Ceramic Pottery II, John Gill, Alfred University, NY
2019 Teaching assistant, Observational Drawing, Alfred University, NY
ON-LINE MEDIA
Whitehot Magazine 2025
American Craft Council 2025
Sculpture Magazine 2025
Surface Magazine 2025
The New York Optimist 2025
Art Meer 2025
The Art Newspapers 2024
Metal Magazine April 1st 2024
NUVO Magazine Sept 1st 2023
CBC ARTS October 24th, 2022
NOW PLAYING TORONTO - Shaping Personal and Universal Narrative
Globe & Mail February 27, 2022
ARTE FUSE February 2022
GARDINER MUSEUM 2022
ART VIEWER February 16, 2022
GARDINER MUSEUM - 15 Canadian women ceramic artists to follow
ALFRED UNIVERSITY
CRAFT ONTARIO
Art Toronto 2021
Contemporary Art Daily
Demo and Conversation with Sami Tsang - From the Personal to the Universal (YouTube)
LIQUIDS, CREAMS & GELS | Curated by Mariko Paterson (Exhibition)