Judith Schwarz
Judith Schwarz
Judith Schwarz is a nationally recognized artist whose work is found in public and private collections across Canada. She has taught sculpture and drawing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and has also developed and taught courses in feminist studio.
Schwarz has created several large-scale public commissions in Toronto and Vancouver that stress integration between art and the environment. She has exhibited her work widely across Canada as well as internationally, such as solo shows at the Embassy Gallery in Tokyo and the Freedman Gallery in Reading, Pennsylvania. As a visiting artist, she has held residencies with Toronto’s Open Studio, the McIntyre Ranch in Southern Alberta, ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver. She has also served as president of C Magazine and the artist-run Mercer Union, Toronto; as a member of the board of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Sculpture Garden and the Koffler Centre for the Arts in Toronto; and as Vice-Chair of the board of Toronto’s Open Studio. In recognition of her outstanding creative work, she was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in Visual Arts by the Canada Council.
A seasoned academic administrator, Professor Schwarz has served as Chair of York University’s Department of Visual Art & Art History and as Graduate Program Director of the MFA Program in Visual Arts. She has been a co-leader for the AIF eLearning initiative “Looking to the Future: Building State-of-the-Art eLearning” in York’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. She has since left the University, moving to Kelowna in 2021.