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
2019 Art Collector Starter Kit, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, California
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
2015 Heads, Onlok Gallery, 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 People's Choice Award, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle
2022 AiR Sandnes, six-week 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