Pearl Van Geest has exhibited her work extensively since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996.  Recent solo exhibitions include Other World at Transit Gallery, Hamilton; Incident Horizon at Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo; Of Possession at the Cambridge Galleries (2008); Love on the Rocks at James Baird Gallery>Pouch Cove, Newfoundland (2007), and Eat Me and Sugar Bush at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto (2006).  Although born and raised in Canada she spent the better part of the 80’s working and traveling in Africa (Nigeria and Zimbabwe) and India. Her work is informed by these experiences as well as her studies in Biology and Science (BSc. 1980), a deep love of nature and the natural world and a passion for art, contemporary and historical.

Pearl’s work is part of the Canada Council’s Art Bank Collection. She was shortlisted for the RBC Painting prize in 2003 and most recently was included in the Magenta Foundation’s recent publication on Canadian painters, Carte Blanche: Vol. 2.

She would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Coucil and the Canada Council for the Arts.