Toronto & New Jersey

About

This is real, this is me. I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be now.

photo by Taylor Renee Whyte

CURRICULUM VITAE

Alison Kruse (b. 1994)
Toronto, Ontario

Group Exhibitions

2026 Landscape Natural and Urban, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2026 First Impressions Vol. 3, Cry Baby Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 

2025 Open Call, Paintings Since 2000, Online 

2025 Plein Air, Public Library, Toronto, Ontario

2025 Residency 03 Exhibition, Turps Magazine, London, United Kingdom

2025 A Room of Her Own, Tacit Collective, Toronto, Ontario 

2024 Beyond Boundaries, Artsin Square, Online

2024 2024 Love Show, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

2023 Emma White & Friends, Smoke the Moon at Art Toronto, Toronto, Ontario 

2023 500 & Below, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

2022 Flower Shop, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

2021 In Between, Artwrk, Online 

2021 Planes! Trains! & Automobiles!, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2021 The Changing Landscape, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2020 Akin Virtual Holiday Market, Akin Collective,  Toronto, Ontario

2020 Art Parkdale Fair International, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2020 BLM Charity Art Sale, Eraser Gallery, Toronto  

2020 Pop Up Exhibition, 473 Amsterdam Gallery, New York City, New York

2019 Winter/Spring 2019 Group Exhibition, NRG Energy, Princeton, New Jersey

2018 May Residency Exhibition, Atelier Fourwinds, Auriell,e France

2017 "Who Are You?",  Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 

Residencies

Turps Residency 03, London, UK 2025

Artist Residency at Gladstone House, Toronto, ON 2024 

Akin Studio Program at AUTO BLDG, Toronto, ON 2021/2023

Ateliers Fourwinds, Aurielle France May 2018

Obras Foundation, Renkum, Netherlands, April 2018

Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland, October 2017

Publications/Press

Dundas, Deborah. “Seeing Meaning in the Everyday.” Toronto Star. November 2020.Collins, Leah. “In the Hunt for Human Connection, Is Art a Greater Bet than Tinder? CBC Arts. February 2020. 

Williams, Cam. “A Tete-a-Tete with New Jersey’s Best Undiscovered Artist.”Town Topics

March 2018.    

Grants 

2025, Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation 

2023, Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation 

2021, New Generation, Ontario Arts Council