selected CV
Education
2015-2018
MFA, Art and Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Area of Specialization: Drawing and Intermedia
2008-2013
BFA, Visual Art with Distinction, University of Regina, Regina, SK
Area of Specialization: Drawing
Awards
2021
Edmonton Arts Council Grant for Individuals and Collectives
2016
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship in Art and Design, University of Alberta
Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship- Master’s (CGS M), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2015
MFA Scholarship, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Alberta
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Embrace, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK
2021
Embrace, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB
2018
The Antidote, Commemoration Vigil in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, NorQuest College, Edmonton, AB
lacuna, MFA Graduating Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2017
Within Our Bodies Floating, FemLab: Women’s and Gender Studies Exhibition Space, Edmonton, AB
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
We, AGA Sidewalk Cinema, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Art-O-Rama, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB
Engaging Creativities: Art in a Pandemic, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) website initiative, Online Exhibition: https://www.covidcreative.ca/en/contributors/becky-thera
2020
Swimming Pools, Gotta Minute Film Festival (hosted by FAVA), Edmonton, AB
Video Art: Modern Artmaking in Moving Images, Multicultural Heritage Centre Public Art Gallery, Stony Plain, AB
There but not here, whereabouts, Online Exhibition (via Facebook event)
Earth/Mother, SGCI Themed Portfolio, San Juan, Puerto Rico (postponed)
Feminist Art Festival and Conference, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Real Men Feel No Pain, Performance/Sound Night, Parallel Space, Edmonton, AB
2019
Schmoozy, Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB
Ephemeral, Gotta Minute Film Festival (hosted by FAVA), Edmonton, AB
Tiny Pricks Project, Speedwell Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
At Dawn, I Will Win, Saskatchewan Fashion Week, Regina, SK
Sustenance, collaboration with Heather Leier, Printmaking in Partnership, SGCI Themed Portfolio, Dallas, TX
2018
Breaking the Silence, FemLab: Women’s and Gender Studies Exhibition Space, University of Alberta
At Dawn, I Will Win, Nuit Blanche Regina, Regina, SK
Reeling: Dance on Screen, Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton, AB
Celebrating Women in the Arts, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2017
HerWORK, Multi-Cultural Heritage Centre Public Art Gallery, Stony Plain, AB
Mind, Body, Context, Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2015
(Fall/Winter Runway Collection), Saskatchewan Fashion Week, Regina, Two-Person Collaboration
2013
Relationshit, Hague Gallery, Regina, SK
Fruition: University of Regina Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Group Exhibition
2011
56, Fifth Parallel Gallery, Regina, Two-Person Exhibition
Residencies
2020-2021
Artist in Residence, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB
2015
Summer Artist Residency, University of Regina
Conferences, Visiting Artist Lectures, Panels
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture, Red Deer Polytechnic, online, September 29
2020
The Antidote: Solidarity, Empathy, and Art about Rape, Panel Presentation, “Hidden Within Moments and Places, Memories as Trauma, Silence, and Trust: #MeToo”, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, online, October 15-17
2019
Changing the Dance, Panel Presentation, Intersections of Gender Fall Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, October 3-4
2018
lacuna, Panel Presentation, “Seeking Social Justice: Resistance Then/Now/Tomorrow”, Gender and Social Justice Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, April 27
2017
lacuna, Panel Presentation, “A Muscle the Size of My Fist: Negative Affect and Social Justice in Contemporary Art”, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB, October 12-15
Within Our Bodies Floating, Creative Presentation, “Indeterminacy: Un\knowing a Body in Space”, CSPT Graduate Student Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, May 5-7
Bibliography and Media
“Harcourt’s Becky Thera leaves residency with a hopeful Embrace” Fish Griwkowsky, Edmonton Journal, Oct. 14, 2021. Online: https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/local-arts/harcourts-becky-thera-leaves-her-residency-with-a-hopeful-embrace
“Gather” Becky Thera, I Don’t Do Comics, Gather, Issue #4, 2021. Online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IUgyAGr5FP1q3BODRg2NUNTbh4f2rpZ6/view
“Never Alone” Becky Thera, Feminist Space Camp Magazine, Touch, Issue XI, Summer 2020. Online: https://femspacecampmag.ca/
“After-dark art festivals popped up all over Canada this weekend, and here's what you missed.” Hanan Hazime, CBC Arts, Oct. 1, 2018. Online: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/after-dark-art-festivals-popped-up-all-over-canada-this-weekend-and-here-s-what-you-missed-1.4846202
“‘Trauma is wordless’: Fine Arts graduate reflects traumatic experience in her art.” Kashmala Fida, Metro News Edmonton, March 6, 2018.
“A graduate student’s final presentation shows the struggle to recovery for survivors of sexual violence.” Haweya Fadal, CityNews Edmonton, March 6, 2018. Television.
“Fine arts student lends powerful artistic perspective to #MeToo.” Geoff McMaster, folio, March 2, 2018. Online: https://www.folio.ca/fine-arts-student-lends-powerful-artistic-perspective-to-metoo/
“Another Drop.” Jazmin Tremblay, Vue Weekly, Feb. 28, 2018. Print: pg. 7. Online: http://www.vueweekly.com/another-drop/
“The University Art Association of Canada Conference.” Becky Thera, Myken McDowell, Phoebe Todd-Parrish, Curious Arts, Dec. 7, 2017. Online: http://www.curiousarts.ca/uaac
Collections
The Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Private collections