Renée Van Halm

Renée Van Halm was born in the Netherlands and came to Canada as a young child. She has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal and is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her undergraduate work was completed in printmaking at the then Vancouver School of Art, and she received an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. In addition to over thirty solo exhibitions, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as Architypes in Sydney (2004) and Tokyo (2005); weak thought (1997–1998) at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Songs of Experience (1983) at the National Gallery of Canada. Her solo exhibition Dream Home originated at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and toured Western Canada in 2002–2003.

Her work has been collected publicly and privately in Canada and elsewhere. In addition, Van Halm has been involved with many related projects, including the founding in 1979 of Mercer Union, an artist-run centre in Toronto. She taught for over a decade at York University before joining the faculty of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1992. Her work is represented by Birch Libralato in Toronto and the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver.