Corynn Kokolakis
Toronto, ON
Booth 617
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Corynn Kokolakis is a Toronto-based painter working at the intersection of painting and caregiving. Her paintings document the mostly invisible parts of care labour — the accumulated attention, the physical proximity, the labour of being alongside another person as they grow. Rooted in her dual position as mother and painter, her research repositions the gaze from rational and possessive to attentive and reflexive, making visible what can be seen from within a practice of care. Kokolakis completed an MFA in Visual Arts at York University in 2023, supported by a SSHRC CGS Master's Scholarship. She earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCADU, where she was awarded the Akin and JumpStart Career Launchers. Notable exhibitions include Rails End Gallery (2024), Art Mûr (2022), Cedar Ridge Creative Centre (2022) and Baycrest Health (2020). In 2024 she participated in a residency at Vermont Studio Center and received a Project Grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Her work is held in the Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre at Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto, and in private collections in Canada, the UK, the US, Australia, and France.
