DORI VANDERHEYDEN

Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist Dori Vanderheyden creates work based on her interest in understanding truth as related to memory and perception of the material world.  Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Vanderheyden focuses on light, form, and colour to examine philosophical ideas about embodiment, beauty and consciousness. 

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Her recent work looks at ideas of phenomenology—the study of experience—and uses materials like plexiglass and acrylic to create deceptively simple sculptural paintings that bend and distort light, impacting colours and reflections and expanding the potential of the how the works can be seen.​​

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Vanderheyden holds an MFA from OCAD University and a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto. A finalist for the 2017 Kingston Art Prize, she has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally, with shows at the Living Arts Centre, Propeller Gallery, The Artist Project, and Harbourfront Gallery. Her work has been featured in film, on book covers, and in private and corporate collections, including those of the University of Toronto’s Dean of Art and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.