Curriculum Vitae

Laura Shintani

Selected Works and Exhibitions 

Inverse Journey
2026
Four-minute film, collaboration with Japanese Canadian filmmaker Max Attwood. Selected presentation for the 50th Anniversary Powell Street Festival, Vancouver.

An Artist’s Journey: Legacy of Japanese Canadian Internment
2025
44 min. Documentary film. Travelling across Canada by train, retracing routes of forced relocation and gathering materials connected to Japanese Canadian histories. Broadcast nationally on CBC / Absolutely Canadian and streaming on CBC Gem, Toronto.

Brave Against the Current
2025
Solo exhibition, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Gallery, Toronto.

Selected Curated Past Work

Self-portrait
2024
Mottainai, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto.

Our Friend Seymour @ S.N.U.G. (Small New Universes Gallery)
2023
Video and sculpture installation, Tangled Arts + Disabilities Gallery, Toronto.

Iceolation
2021
Commissioned work,
Being Scene 20th Anniversary,
To Speak Without Speaking, Toronto.

Neuroelastic
2020
Interactive photographic installation, Rendezvous With Madness Festival,
28th annual international group exhibition, Toronto.

Emissaries of Mission ’42
2019
Participatory installation, Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Bodywashi!
2019
Two-person exhibition, Fault Lines, Tangled Art + Disability,
Featured presentation, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto.

Memories of an Ido
2019
Two-person exhibition, Redefining Home: A Story of Japanese Canadian Resettlement in Toronto, Campbell House Museum, Toronto.

Noh Town
2019
Juried photography group show, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto.

Google Jelly
2019
Curated wearable technology, The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto.

Artsu Matsuri
2018
Group show, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto.

Where the Sea Once Stood
2015
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.

Nikkei Artists, group show
2015
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto.

Google Volterra
2014
Volterra, Italy.

Compression/Decompression
2011
Windsor Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor.

You and Me
2013
Public bronze sculpture, Windsor.

Dreaming Canada
2008
Public bronze sculpture, 9th Changchun Sculpture Symposium, Changchun, China.

Selected Curatorial Projects

Our Nobby: An Homage to Nobuo Kubota
2024
Curator, Shintani Gallery, Toronto

Staging Change
2021–2022
Artist consultant, Metcalf Foundation gallery revisioning, Tangled Arts + Disability, Toronto.

Art Facilitator

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
2018-present

Art Cart is an arts program at CAMH, (an institution whose history extends back to the Provincial Lunatic Asylum founded in 1850.)
This ongoing work has become foundational to Shintani’s artistic inquiry into institutions that hold histories of both care and confinement.

Recognition

Deaf and Disabilities Arts Project Grant
Ontario Arts Council, 2025.

Jury Member
Ontario Arts Council, Deaf and Disabilities Arts Projects Grant, 2019, 2020.

Access and Career Development Program
Ontario Arts Council, 2013.

Norman and Marsha Paul Family Trust
2018, 2019, 2020.

Education

Master of Fine Arts
University of Windsor
2012
Advanced Studio Mentorship
Iain Baxter& O.C.

Advanced Studio Mentorship
2012
Noel Harding, Green Corridor Project
Honours Bachelor of Arts

University of Toronto
2000
Specialist: Semiotics and Communication Theory
Major: Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology, 2000