Cory Poling

Selected recognition

2023

Certificate of Artistic Achievement, La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg — awarded in conjunction with participation in the international selection of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2023.

2022

Certificate of Artistic Achievement, La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg — Luxembourg Art Prize 2022 international selection.

2020

Certificate of Artistic Achievement, La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg — Luxembourg Art Prize 2020 international selection.

Exhibitions

2019

Group exhibition, Raw Artists Canada at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario (March 2019).

Representation & availability

Self-represented. Original paintings available by studio inquiry. Instagram: @c_o_r_y_art.

Background

Born with Northern roots tied to Whitesand First Nation territory in Northwestern Ontario; lives and works in Ottawa. Self-taught painter whose studio practice runs alongside more than twenty-five years as a restoration craftsman — plaster, wood, stone, and historic buildings. The same attention to material, weather, and what a surface remembers informs both the trades work and the paintings. Father. Builder. Painter.

Practice

Primarily acrylic and mixed media on panel, canvas, and cement board with cedar backframes. Work is abstract and energy-driven, with occasional figurative or symbolic fragments.

Selected works (titles)

Aether; Sacred Fire; Water is Life; Creator, Please Have Mercy; Nokomis; Nana; Skoden; Collective Energy; Char Coal Rebirth; Phoenix; Coming into Focus; Finding Solace; Restore; Core Collapse; Spring Fever..Climate Change; Lovers in a Dangerous Time; Rivers; Morning Light; Golden Hour.