CURRICULUM VITAE
b. Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada
Lives and works in Victoria, BC.
EDUCATION
2009 Diploma of Digital Design, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver BC
2008 Certificate of Visual Art & Design, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver BC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Banquet, Stasjon-K, Sandnes, Norway
2019 Prologue, Fortune Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 Epilogue, Fortune Gallery, Victoria, BC
2016 Last Rites, The Waterfall Building, Vancouver, BC
2012 Mitchell Villa, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2022 Sook Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC (juried)
2019 Art Collector Starter Kit, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC (juried)
2018 Summer Small Works Show, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2018 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (juried)
2018 Art Now Exhibition, Victoria, BC (juried)
2017 Friday the 13th: Part II, East Vancouver Arts & Culture Society, Vancouver, BC
2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC (juried)
2017 Locals, Fortune Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (juried)
2017 Unseen Spaces III, Victoria, BC
2016 Schultz/Villa, Polychrome Fine Art, Victoria, BC
2016 Smith-Lampman-Villa, Trounce Alley Gallery, Victoria, BC
2016 Something Completely Different, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2016 Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC (juried)
2016 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (juried)
2016 Friday The 13th, Untitled Art Space, Vancouver, BC
2014 TD Art Gallery Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (juried)
2013 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Heather Jones, Interview: Mitchell Villa, Contemporary Art Stavanger, May 25, 2022
Booooooom, Tomorrow's Talent Book Vol. II, Booooooom, 2021
Ramierz, Diego, Mitchell Villa, un exorcismo visual, JOIA Magazine, January 5, 2020
Staff, Artist Spotlight: Mitchell Villa, booooooom.com, December 11, 2019
Smith, Andy, The Motion-Filled Paintings of Mitchell Villa, High Fructose Magazine, October 19, 2019
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 - Present, Instructor, Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, Victoria, BC
2017 - 2019, Instructor, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2019 Artist Demo, Opus Art Supplies, Victoria, BC
2017 Guest Instructor, Central Middle School, Victoria, BC
2017 Artist in Residence, Central Middle School, Victoria, BC
2016 Speaker, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Monson Arts, Residency, Monson, MA
2023 People's Choice Award, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2022 AiR Sandnes, Residency, Sandnes, Norway
2022 Award of Excellence, Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC
2017 Semi-finalist of Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Vancouver, BC
2015 Winner of Creative Differences, Vancouver, BC