V. Jane
Gordon was born in 1947, Wiltshire, England. She holds
a B. A. in Art History from Queen’s University and
a B. Ed. From McArthur College. She studied at the three
schools in Toronto and then obtained her MA from Concordia
University, (Studio Major in painting and drawing, Specialty
in Art Education).
She is a faculty member at Dundas Valley School of Art,
Dundas Sir Sanford Fleming College, Haliburton School
of the Arts, Haliburton. Active in the art community in
the Hamilton area, she has worked as a freelance curator
creating numerous exhibition projects in her region and
beyond.
Gordon is an Honorary Lifetime Member of Hamilton Artists
Inc. and a Founding Member of the Bay Area Artists For
Women’s Art. She won the Women of the Year in the
Arts Award in 1992 and was the recipient of the Artist
of the Year Award for 1998/99. She has received an Ontario
Arts Council Artist’s Grant, a grant for Artist’s
Collectives and numerous Ontario Arts Council Exhibition
Assistance awards. She has exhibited nationally and internationally
since 1979, and is currently creating gallery based installations
using painting and drawing and outdoor installations using
landscape elements.
Gordon’s work is in the public collections of Glenhyrst
Art Gallery of Brant and The Ontario Workers Arts and
Heritage Centre. An activist and intellectual, she continues
to write, create, develop projects and make art that theoretically
and practically connects to both the cultural and embodied
experience of the lived life.
