EDUCATION
2020 BFA in Photography, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2016 BA in Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, QC
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 [upcoming] Ornamental Cookery, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
2022 Looking for Representation, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
2022 Garnished Sundries, Telephone Gallery, Vancouver, BC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Photorama 36, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2022 VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Art Collection, Trapp Projects, Vancouver, BC2022 The Big Camera Show, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 Open Studios Group Show, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2021 To Stay Related, Nextdoor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 Discovery, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2020 I Spy..., UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, BC
2020 Reading and Being Read, Michael O’Brien Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, BC
2020 The Lind Prize, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2020 We Are a Lighthouse, Michael O’Brien Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, BC
2018 Living Image, The Halide Project, Philidelphia, PA
2017 Camille Lamy & Svava Tergesen, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, QC
ART FAIRS
2022 NADA Miami, with Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Miami, USA
PUBLIC ART
2022 Works from the Crudités series, Marine Drive Canada Line Station, Burrard Arts Foundation x Capture
2022 Platforms, We Are Here, Live, City of Vancouver, Public art commission
2020 TV Dinner, Main Street Prime Time, Vancouver, BC
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2022 Aural Fixation. Void of the Voice: XINEMA Program 2, VIFF Centre - Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2021 Aural Fixation. Left With Dreams, Cineworks, Vancouver, BC
2020 Rider. Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC
2020 Aural Fixation. Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2020 Aural Fixation. Artifact Small Format Film Festival, Calgary, AB
2019 Aural Fixation. Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC
2019 Aural Fixation. WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Rider. When Colour Bursts Through, Cineworks, Vancouver, BC
2015 Second Sight. One Take Super 8 Event, La Sala Rossa, Montréal, QC
RESIDENCIES
2021 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Visual Art Residency, Banff, AB
2019 Duplex Artist Society, Local Residency, Vancouver, BC
2019 posAbilities Film Pair Commission, Vancouver, BC
AWARDS
2022 PENN Idea Art Award, Shortlist
2021 Critical Mass Finalist, Longlist
2021 New Generation Photography Award, Longlist
2020 Lenscratch Top 25 to Watch
2020 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, Shortlist
2020 BMO 1st Art Award, nomination
2019 Alvin Balkind Memorial Award
2019 Angie Apostolides Award
GRANTS
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation Grant
2020 BC Arts Council, Early Career Development Grant
2020 BC Arts Council, Scholarship
2020 Tricera Printing Grant
2018 BC Arts Council, Scholarship
2015 McGill Fine Arts Council, Grant
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Studio Saudari, Fruta
2020 The Analog Cookbook, Issue 2
2019 WOO Publication, “Leak”
2019 Latent Image, Issue 15
2018 Analogue Forever Magazine, “Historic Processes in the Modern World”
2016 Scrivener Creative Review, Number 41
2016 Folio Magazine, Number 16
PRESS
2021 Metal Magazine "Shifting the Perception of Food Photography"
2021 Musée Magazine "Weekend Portfolio: Svava Tergesen"
2020 Booooooom! “Crudités by photographer Svava Tergesen”
2020 L’emergere del Possibile “Aural Fixation”