Walter Segers
Artist member since 2019
Toronto, Ontario
Walter Segers emigrated from Belgium in 1993 and currently lives and works in Toronto. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2008 with honours and received OCADU’s prestigious M.C. McCain Post Graduate Photography Residency in 2009. Segers was an artist-in-resident at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) through Akin studio programming (2018-2019). He has exhibited his photo-based works at Spin, Gallery Thirteen Thirteen, Lonsdale, The John B. Aird Gallery, Propeller, The Window Gallery YYZ, P|M Gallery, MOCA and the Gladstone art hotel in Toronto. In Ontario he exhibited at Open Studio at Cambrian College in Sudbury, FHM in Cambridge, Markham Museum and Lilliput Gallery in London, ON. His work has been shown internationally at Leslie Lohman Annex Gallery in NYC, Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, Peter Deckers in Belgium, Galerie AMU in Prague and Galerie 12 in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Segers’ work is published in ArtWindsor, muse magazine (Canadian Museums Association) as well as the online magazines Wondereur, Frank by The Genteel, and Pixie & Rotter. His photo-based works explore issues surrounding gender, sexuality, immigration, belonging, isolation and identity.
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Favourite movie
Pedro Almodovar - High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)
When I'm not making art, I'm (a) ...
reading, cooking and gardening
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Moses Salihou, Abraham Oghobase, Luke Austin, Jeff Bierk, thePAsystem
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witty, charismatic, detail-oriented
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photography
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gallery, welcoming, food
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