Nina Slykhuis-Landry

b.1989, Montreal, Canada

RESUME

Nina Slykhuis-Landry is a queer, non-binary artistliving and working in Montreal, who specializes in comics, illustration andmural painting. Their body of work is built around themes of queer identity,working class history and alternate states of consciousness.

EDUCATION / RELEVANT TRAINING

2020Jeunes Volontaires and Studio SYN, Montreal, QC, Canada

2019 BFA,Studio Art and Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

2016Comic Book Workshop, Sequential Artists Collective, Gainesville, FL, USa

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / FAIRS

2018 SoloMural Project: Portals, Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada

2019Queer Between The Covers, Montreal, QC, Canada

2019Expozine, Montreal, QC, Canada

2017Expozine, Montreal, QC, Canada

2017 NewOrleans Comics and Zine Festival (NOCAZ), New Orleans, LA, USA

2014Expozine, Montreal, QC, Canada

Worksheld in private collections in Canada

SELECTED PERSONAL WORK

2020Daily diary comic about life as a non – binary artist in a queer domesticpartnership

2019 WinterCamouflage, ink and paper illustration

2019 Outthe Window, pencil and gouache illustration

2018 Howto Engage in Courting Rituals 1950’s Butch Lesbian Style , independent colourzine

2017 Am IGay Enough? A Tragically Common Query Treated Comedically with Quirky Poodles,independent black and white zine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013-2020Independent Illustrator and Mural Artist

2019-2020Photographer’s Assistant to Laurence Philomène

2013– 2016 Assistant mural painter and educator for MU,Montreal, Qc, Canada

2015-2016Actor creative collaborator to League of Lady Wrestler’s Montreal, Qc, Canada