Shira Gold is a Vancouver based fine art photographer creating emotive, intimate environmental portrait imagery on delicate but powerfully human subjects of grief, identity and life transitions. Photographic Art Photography Grief Landscape Healing Contemporary Canadian Photographer

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CV

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Vancouver Regional Semi-Final Show, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, Canada

2018 Address Assembly Design Show, Vancouver, Canada

2018 Memories, Loosen Art at the Millepiani, Rome, Italy

2018 Altered Spaces – Interventions in Landscape, Fort Langley, Canada

2018 Landscape, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017 Sasquatch Photographers Appreciation Show, Glazers, Seattle, USA

2017 Canada 150, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2015 Griffin Summer Passion, Griffin Museum, virtual show

Commissions

2018 “Sway,” Earls corporate collection, Earls Ambleside, West Vancouver, Canada

2018 Selected print works, Adam Zacks Productions, Sasquatch! Music Festival greenroom, Quincy USA

Publications

2018 “Black”, Artascent Magazine, International print and virtual publication, Toronto, Canada

2014-18 Sasquatch! Music Festival online publications and website

1998 “The Truth is Out There,” The Peak Magazine, Singapore

Awards

2018 Vancouver semi-finalist for “Exhale”, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, Canada

2018 Double Take Award for “Solitary Dream,” Artscapes, Squidlink Gallery, Virtual

2017 Distinguished Artist, ArtAscent Magazine, Toronto, Canada

2016 Honorable Mention for “Reflect,Transform,Become,” Family of Man, International Photography Awards; Los Angeles, USA

Art Donations

2018 Music - Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery Auction for Festival Harikud, Vancouver, BC

2014 Westside Family Place, Vancouver, Canada

2014 Artists for Education, Vancouver, Canada

Workshops

2017 “Navigating the Art Industry,” Pennylane Shen, North Vancouver Art Counsel, North Vancouver, Canada

2017 Thrive Business School, Pennylane, Thrive Art Studio, Vancouver, Canada

2012 Mixed Media, Ross Den Otter, Vancouver Photo Workshops, Vancouver, Canada

2011 Master Portraiture Workshop, Greg Gorman, Vancouver Photo Workshops, Vancouver, Canada

2014-18 Fine art coursework Creativelive.com – Brooke Shaden, Jennifer Thoreson, Chase Jarvis, Sue Bryce, Lara Jade, Ben Willmore, Lindsay Adler, Zack Arias, Online workshops

2006 The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine, Harvard Mind/Body Medical Institute, Boston, USA

2005 Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine, Harvard Mind/Body Medical Institute, Boston, USA

Affiliations & Memberships

CARFAC - Canadian Artists’ Representation, British Columbia Chapter

Thrive Art Studios – All female artist collective, Vancouver BC