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Jay Dart is a Canadian drawist, author and designer. Dart expands his drawing-based practice to include bookworks, installations, and animations in order to achieve a more immersive experience with his whimsical narratives. Dart’s work has been shown in galleries and art fairs across North America and Europe. He has had recent solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Regina, Montreal as well as a public gallery exhibition at the Art Gallery of Northumberland. He is the recipient of multiple grants and honours including from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and a National Magazine Award for editorial illustration. Dart’s work has been featured on CBC Radio and TV including a profile on The Exhibitionists. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Fine Art programme. Dart also teaches courses on children’s book illustration and graphic design at Seneca Polytechnic and he teaches drawing at Durham College.

Dart is represented by Gallery Jones in Vancouver. Check out available works from them at artsy.net. He is also represented by Slate Gallery in Regina.

In 2019, Dart self-published an artist edition of Where Yawns Go: Volume 1 – a picture book that brings together the narrative that has been evolving in his exhibitions over the past decade. The Field Guide to Yawnder, featuring an illustrated overview of the people and places in his whimsical mindscape of Yawnder, was published in 2016 by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in conjunction with his solo exhibition and can be found, among other places, at the Art Gallery of Ontario bookstore.

As a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, Jay Dart has worked with the Globe & Mail, Yen magazine (Australia), Max Joseph magazine (Germany), Land of Nod, Maisoneuve, NOW Magazine, Leo Burnett, Rogers Media, RESFEST International Film Festival, Sons & Daughters Film Production Co, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, Toronto Cyclists Union, and Juno Award winning singer/songwriter, Donovan Woods. He received a National Magazine Award for his editorial illustration for the Globe & Mail.

Jay Dart would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

An overview of Dart’s works heretofore produced in the lead up to his artist residency in
Port Hope, Ontario with Critical Mass in August 2020.

Jay Dart – Ten Hundred Years of Yawns & Dust from recent exhibition.

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