About

Snaige Sileika was born in Toronto, Canada in 1955 and studied Visual Arts at the University of Toronto where she received a BA. She then moved to Paris, France to study printmaking at the École des Beaux Arts and William Hayter’s Atelier 17.

Upon her return to Toronto, she worked as a graphic designer for Original Serigraphs Inc. and taught printmaking at Three Schools of Art, Open Studio, The Neilson Park Centre, and Etobicoke School of the Arts.

Sileika has had solo exhibitions in Canada, France and Lithuania. In 2003, Michael Glassbourg chose Sileika to be the subject of his documentary “An Artists’s Life” aired on Bravo! TV.

Sileika served on the Board of Directors at Open Studio in Toronto and continues to be very involved with this printmaking community.

Portfolio

Wayside – A Retrospective

Postcards from Thornbury

Sight Lines

North Shore

Brush Close

Bloom

Relics

Wilderness

Wayside

curriculum vitae

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

    • 2024 – “Outside/IN” Propeller Gallery, Toronto
    • 2023 – “Relics” Permanent installation at TMU (formerly Ryerson University)
    • 2022 – “Wayside: A Retropective” Rotuse Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • 2019  – “Wilderness” Holy Trinity Catholic School, Toronto
    • 2018 – “Relics” Slapeliu Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • 2016 – “Wayside” Moncy Gallery, Palanga, Lithuania
    • 2015 – “Postcards from Thornbury” Peter Mackendrick Gallery, Toronto
    • 2012 – “Sight Lines” Wychwood Barns Gallery, Toronto
    • 2010 – “North Shore” Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener
    • 2009 – “North Shore” Lennox Contemporary, Toronto
    • 2006 – “Brush Close” Lennox Contemporary, Toronto
    • 2005 – “Flora” Lietuvos Aido Galerija, Vilnius Lithuania
    • 2004 – “Bloom” Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
    • 2002 – “In Place” Fifth Street Gallery, Toronto
    • 1997 – “Painted Sumacs” Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
    • 1990 – Hamilton Central Library
    • 1988 – University of Vilnius, Lithuania
    • 1987 – BIMC Galerie, Paris, France
    • 1987 – Architects’ Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • 1986 – Del Bello Gallery, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions:

    • 2022 – “Together and Apart” Gibson Girls at Slapelis Art Gallery, Vilnius Lithuania
    • 2019 – “Where I’m at Now” Gibson Girls at George Gilmour Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto
    • 2015 – “Winter in Canada” Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, Ontario
    • 2014 – “Boundless and Borderless” University of Taiwan, Taiwan
    • 2013 – “Boundless and Borderless” Sydney Printmakers Gallery, Australia
    • 2004 – “Canada’s Open Studio in Peru”
    • 2004 – Galeria Juan Pardo Heeren, Lima, Peru
    • 2003 – “Field Trip”, Open Studio Sales Gallery, Toronto
    • 2001 – “Waterline” Open Studio, Toronto
    • 1998 – “Plein Air”, The Station Gallery , Whitby
    • 1997 – “Spirit of the Place”, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
    • 1996 – Lydia Terre Gallery, Caledon East
    • 1995 – International Institute, Buffalo, U.S.A.
    • 1985 – “Interiors, Exteriors”, Market Gallery, City of Toronto Archives
    • 1984 – “Copy Art”, Taller Fort Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
    • 1984 – Eighth International Print Biennale, Bradford, England
    • 1983 – Exposition Copie Art Textile, Galerie Motivation V, Montreal

Selected Collections:

    • Bank of Montreal
    • City of Toronto
    • Commercial Financial Corp.
    • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Falconbridge Canada
    • I.B.M.
    • General Mills Canada
    • Guardian Trust
    • Laurentian Bank of Canada
    • Museo Internacianal de Electrografia, Cuenca, Spain
    • Ontario Ministry of Health
    • Price-Waterhouse
    • Royal Bank of Canada
    • University of Vilnius
    • Westin Hotel

Contact

For pricing or other information please email:

snaige.sileika [at] gmail [dot] com