Solo Exhibitions
2018 Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Traces of Being(s), Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
2018 Pari Nadimi Gallery, Entering The Novelty, Toronto, Canada
2016 Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Traces of Being(s), Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
2014 Pari Nadimi Gallery, Quotidian Trajectories, Toronto, Canada
2011 WARC Gallery Concentrated Geographies, Toronto, Canada
2010 Convenience Gallery The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023 IA 360°, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada
2022 Computational Poetics, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA, USA
2022 MAPP International Network, MAPP_MTL 2022 Festival, MINUTE_MAPP, Montreal, Canada
2022 ARC Gallery, ABSTRACTION II, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2022 The Ostranenie Theatre, Moving Image, Farnham, UK
2022 Scotia Bank Contact Festival, Forest Spaces, Toronto, Canada
2022 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Auction, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2022 Women’s Art Association of Canada, Echoes, Toronto, Canada
2021 DELETE TV, Season 7 Collection, London, UK
2021 Intersect Arts Center, Ritual, St. Louis, USA
2021 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, LIGHT, Gimpo-si, Korea
2021 Independent & Image Art Space, Beyond Human Power, Chongqing, China
2021 Manifest Gallery, WHEN, Cincinnati, USA
2021 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Experimental Film and Video Exhibition 2021, Gimpo-si, Korea
2020 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Auction, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2019 MacLaren Art Centre, Off the Hook, Barrie, Canada
2019 Pari Nadimi Gallery, Skip Stop, with Jesse Colin Jackson, Toronto, Canada
2018 Watermill Centre, 25th Annual Summer Benefit (Time Bomb), The Hamptons, New York, USA
2018 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art + Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2017 Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Concept 2017, Gimpo-si, Korea
2016 Studio Channel Islands, Dynamic, Camarillo, CA, USA
2016 Santa Geffa Hypogeum, Cavo Fest, Trani, Italy
2016 Pence Gallery, The Consilience of Art and Science, Davis, CA, USA
2016 Upstream Gallery, Photography Takes Over, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2014 OCAD U, Project 31, Toronto, Canada
2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Urban Factors (300 Seconds), Toronto, Canada
2013 Arts Incubator, Ethnographic Terminalia, Chicago, USA
2013 Orillia Museum of Art and History, Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia, Canada
2013 Watermill Centre 20th Annual Summer Benefit, The Hamptons, New York, USA
2013 OCAD U Project 31, Toronto, Canada
2013 Gallery 44 Photopia, Toronto, Canada
2013 TEDx Simplexity, Toronto, Canada
2013 Richmond-Adelaide Centre ARTablet, Toronto, Canada
2013 Gallery TPW Photorama, Toronto, Canada
2013 Richmond-Adelaide CentreARTablet, Toronto, Canada
2013 Seoul Station Trains and Cinema, Seoul, Korea
2013 Antitube Nuit Numériques, Québec, Canada
2013 OUT tv, Documentary feature nationally broadcast, Canada
2011 Gallery TPW Photorama, Toronto, Canada
2011 Living Arts Centre Gallery Saving Face: Contemporary Portraiture, Mississauga, Canada
2011 Rebel Grrrlz Torun, Poland
2011 OUT tv, Documentary feature nationally broadcast, Canada
2010 Gallery TPW Photorama, Toronto, Canada
2010 Gallery 44 Photopia, Toronto, Canada
2010 Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Milan, Italy
2010 London Lesbian Film and Video Festival, London, England
2010 Some Prefer Cake, Bologna, Italy
2010 CGLA Canadian Filmmakers, Toronto, Canada
2010 Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, USA
2010 Rostock Queer Film Festival, Rostock, Germany
2010 SASOD Film Festival, Georgetown, Guyana
2010 Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
2010 Queer Bodies, Queer Performances, Lublin, Poland
2010 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute (BFI), London, England
2010 STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory, Edmonton, Canada
2010 OUT tv, Documentary feature nationally broadcast, Canada
2010 A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: Poznan; Warsaw; Gdansk; Lublin; Kraków; Zielona Góra; and Torun, Poland
2009 Toronto Image Works Documentary Now, Toronto, Canada
2009 Gallery TPW Photorama, Toronto, Canada
2009 Iris International Festival of LGBT Animation, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Festival Internacional de Animação Erótica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: Katowice; Szczecin; Olsztyn; and Poznan, Poland
2009 Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2008 Gallery Lambdon, First Friday, Contemporary Video Art Screening Series, Sarnia, Canada
2008 The Drake Video Art is Queer, Toronto, Canada
2008 TTC Pride Toronto, on 40 public transit platforms, Toronto, Canada
2008 The Gladstone Exposed, Toronto, Canada
2008 A Million Different Loves, in the cities of: Krakow; Wroclaw; Lublin; Torun; Lódz; and Trójmiasto, Poland
2008 Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival, Madurai, India
2008 Toronto Pride, Toronto, Canada
2008 Bucharest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2008 Mauritius Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Mauritius
2007 Edmonton Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada
2007 Atlanta Out On Film Film Festival, Atlanta, U.S.A.
2007 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
2007 Tel Aviv International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Festival International du Film Gay et Lesbien de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
2007 Kingston Reel PrideFilm Festival, Festival Opener, Kingston, Canada
2006 Ljubljana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 Regina Queer City Cinema Film Festival, Regina, Canada
2006 Winnipeg Reel Pride Film Festival, Festival Opener, Winnipeg, Canada
2006 Dallas Outtakes, Dallas, U.S.A.
2006 Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival, Milwaukee, U.S.A.
2006 Michigan Women's Music Festival, Walhalla, U.S.A.
2006 Halifax Pride, Halifax, Canada
2006 SAW Gallery LIX, Ottawa, Canada
2006 Toronto Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
GRANTS & AWARDS
2022 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2022 Juror’s Choice Award, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Echos, Canada
2021 Media Artists Creation Projects, Ontario Arts Council
2020 FCAD Scholarly Research and Creative Activities Seed Grant for Faculty, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2018 Excellence in the Arts Award (for an established professional artist), City of Barrie, Canada
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Art Gallery of Sudbury)
2018 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Ed Video Media Arts Centre)
2018 Explore and Create: Research & Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Explore and Create: Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 Working Artist Grant, Working Artist Org, Tacoma, Washington, USA
2016 New Media Research & Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2016 1st Prize, Consilience of Art and Science, 2016, Pence Gallery, UC Davis, California, USA
2015 Probationary Faculty Support Program Grant, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
2014 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Gallery 44)
2013 Travel Funding Grant, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design (CIV-DDD)
2013 Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
2013 Nominee, Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards, held every 4 years, Boston University
2013 Seed Funding, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design (CIV-DDD)
2013 Visual Artists Grant, Ontario Arts Council (YYZ Artist’s Outlet)
2012 New Media Research & Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Seed Funding, Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design (CIV-DDD)
2011 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (WARC)
2010 Media Arts Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2010 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (WARC)
2008 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario
2007 Ryerson Graduate Scholarship, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2007 Media Arts Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2007 Media Artists Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Media Artists Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2007 Favourite Canadian Film, Audience Award, Reelout Film Festival, Kingston
2006 Best Canadian Feature, Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2005 Admission Fellowship Award, University of Toronto, Master of Architecture program
2005 Hattie Aileen Sommerville Award, University of Toronto, Master of Architecture program
2004 Trinity Square Video Award, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED REVIEWS, CATALOGUES & ESSAYS
2022 Catalogue: Manifest Exhibition Annual MEAs17, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2021 Catalogue: Bernhardt, Sarah. Tori Foster: Pulse Crowds. Ritual, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
2021 Interview: VAST Magazine, Issue no 2.
2019 Article: How artists interpret ag data. In The Western Producer. Nov 14, 2019
2019 Review: The Globe and Mail. June 1, 2019. Alex Bozikovic. Skip Stop: Rethinking the Legacy of Modern Architecture in Toronto’s Regent Park
2018 Marion, Joanne. Tori Foster Traces of Beings. City of Medicine Hat Arts & Heritage Centre and Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, ISBN: 978-1-98813-04-2.
2016 Foster, Tori. Pattern Finding. In Urban Ecologies 2013. Toronto: OCAD University, 2016. 96 – 99
2016 Review: CSUN Art Space, Faculty Spotlight: Tori Foster. Oct 10, 2016
2015 CBC News: Northbeat The Changing Seasons in Hay River. Jan 12, 2015
2014 Foster, Tori and Jesse C. Jackson. Iterations: Layers of the City. In Spacing 30 (Winter 2014). Toronto: Spacing Media, 2014. 38 – 41.
2014 Jackson, Jesse C. and Tori Foster. Ten Low-Rise Apartments, Regent Park in 2014 Toronto International Art Fair catalogue. Toronto: Informa, 2014. 181.
2014 Bell, Lindsay A., Jesse C. Jackson, and Tori Foster. Text and images from Visualizing Canada’s Urban North in Lines and Nodescatalog. New
2014 York: New York University, 2014. 30 – 31.
2013 Bell, Lindsay A. and Jesse C. Jackson. Visualizing Canada’s Urban North. In Urban Ecologies 2013. Toronto: OCAD University, 2014. Expanded abstract.
2013 Essay: Layers of the City: Iterations SpacingMagazine, 10th Anniversary Edition, Winter 2013/14
2013 Catalogue: Ethnographic Terminalia, Arts Incubator, Chicago, USA
2013 Catalogue: 20th Annual Watermill Centre Summer Benefit, Watermill Centre, New York, USA
2013 Catalogue: Project 31, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
2011 t.o.night, May 24, 2011
2011 Creative Applications Network, May 19, 2011
2011 BlogTO, May 18, 2011
2011 The Globe and Mail, May 8, 2011
2011 NOW Magazine, May 5 to May 11, 2011
2011 Eye Weekly, April 7 to 13, 2011
2011 Smith, Greg J.. "Motion Capture: Tori Foster's Concentrated Geographies" Exhibition Essay.
2010 Rogers: Toronto Living, May 25, 2010
2010 Serial Consign April 24, 2010
2010 Serial Consign January 21, 2010
2010 Cole, Janis. “A Finer Education.” POV Magazine, No. 77, Spring, 2010. Pg 25.
2010 Smith, Greg J.. "Continuous City: The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian" Exhibition Essay.
2009 CIUT Radio: Take 5 May 14, 2009
2009 Now Magazine May 13 to 20, 2009 Vol. 28 No. 37
2009 Foster, Tori. "The Mother City" Vague Terrain: citySCENE, Issue No. 13. March
2008 Now Online June 26, 2008
2008 Educational Media Reviews Online January 22, 2008
2007 Vue Weekly November 21, 2007, Issue No. 631
2007 Simcoe Life Magazine October 23, 2007
2006 SceneandHeard.ca May, 2006
2006 The National Post May 18, 2006 Vol. 8 No. 175
2006 Now Magazine cover story, May 18 to 24, 2006 Vol. 25 No. 38
2006 Xtra Magazine cover story, May 11 to 24, 2006 No. 562
2006 CTV: Movie Television May 5, 2006. Episode No.18-029
2006 MTV Canada: MTV Live July 23, 2006
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2020 UNCG, School of Art. That Which Transpires Behind that Which Appears: Uncovering Paradigms through Mediation, Greensboro, NC, USA
2019 Art 12A: Art, Design & Electronic Culture, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
2019 Arts as a Catalyst for Change Forum, Simcoe County Board of Education, Springwater, Canada
2018 Panel discussion - MUTEK_IMG, The Search for Digital Aesthetics’ Unknown Unknowns, Montreal, Canada
2018 University of Lethbridge: Art NOW Lecture Series. Patterns Beneath the Surface, Lethbridge, Canada
2018 Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Traces of Being(s), Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
2017 University of Victoria: Department of Visual Arts. What Remains: Evidence of Paradigms After Mediation, Victoria, Canada
2017 Ryerson University: School of Image Arts. What Remains: Evidence of Paradigms After Mediation, Toronto, Canada
2016 Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Traces of Being(s), Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
2016 University of California, Irvine: School of the Arts. Pattern Finding: Quotidian Trajectories in Urban Environments, Irvine, USA
2015 California State University, Northridge: Department of Art. Pattern Finding: Quotidian Trajectories in Urban Environments, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Lines and Nodes: Media, Aesthetics and Infrastructure Symposium presentation: Infrastructures of a Visualized Arctic, New York, USA
2013 Urban Ecologies conference presentation: Pattern Finding: Quotidian Transitions from Order to Chaos, Toronto, Canada
2013 Ethnographic Terminalia, Arts Incubator. Visualizing Canada’s Urban North, Chicago, USA
2013 GRAND Digital Media Conference poster presentation: Visualizing Canada’s Urban North, Toronto, Canada
2013 CIV-DDD Brown Bag Seminar: Visualizing Canada’s Urban North, Toronto, Canada
2012 Doors Open, Cannon Design Toronto, Canada
2011 York University Toronto, Canada
2011 University of Toronto at Mississauga & Sheridan Collage Oakville, Canada
2010 CGLA Canadian Filmmakers Toronto, Canada
2009 Panel discussion - Contact lecture: Documentary Media Discussion Toronto, Canada
2009 Trent University Peterborough, Canada
2007 University of Toronto Toronto, Canada
2007 Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Philadelphia, U.S.A.
2007 Queer Youth Digital Video Project, Inside Out Toronto, Canada
2007 York University Toronto, Canada
2007 Kingston Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Kingston, Canada
2006 Panel discussion - Small Town Queer Life, Regina Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Regina, Canada
2006 Winnipeg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada
2006 SAW gallery Ottawa, Canada
2006 Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival Toronto, Canada
2005 Laurentian University Barrie, Canada
RESIDENCIES & COMMISSIONS
2016 Data Physicalization Residency, at the University of Lethbridge Data Physicalization Lab and the Lethbridge Agricultural Research Centre, Alberta, Canada
2013 Arts Incubator, Ethnographic Terminalia, Chicago, USA
2008 Pride Toronto, video commission issued by Sharon Switzer, Toronto
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Working Artists Org., Washington, D.C., USA
Private collections
Corporate collections