Vickie Vainionpää was born in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario. She earned her BA from the University of Waterloo in 2015. Starting with a generative computer script and ending as oil on canvas, her work considers the impact of technology on the process of painting.
Vickie has had recent solo exhibitions at The Hole NYC and Galleria Nicola Pedana in Italy.
She has won many creative awards such as the Liz Edwards Memorial Award and the Louis Muhlstock Endowment (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity). She was recently a resident at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy) and Vermont Studio Center. Recent group exhibitions include projects at Future Gallery (Berlin), The Hole (NYC), La Fondation du MAC Montréal (Montréal), Olga Korper Gallery (Toronto).
Vickie will be presenting new works coming up this November at NADA Miami in a solo presentation with The Hole NYC.