Tosca Hidalgo y Terˆ°n
b. 1966, San Francisco, California.
Lived in Taos, NM + Santa Fe for approximately 13 years before making Toronto
her current home.
www.nanopod.tv/, nanopod hybrid studio: 322 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON
http://www.nanopod.etsy.com
"Where there is a work of art, there is no madness;
and yet madness is contemporary
with the work of art, since it inaugurates the time of its truth." - Michel Foucault
Tosca has been working with metal and computers for over
25 years.
Her work explores this synthesis in retelling stories from memory via her
own representational language.
Tosca pursues her art and metal work, glass-blowing, flame working, casting
and fusing at nanopod, her hybrid studio in Toronto, where she also teaches
jewelry-making workshops.
Education (goldsmithing/design/new media/glass):
2009: Sculpting and mixing pigments/colours for making glass rods, Corning Museum of Glass, Suellen Fowler..
2008: Component Casting with Glass and Metal, with Anna Boothe - Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2006-2007: Shell forming, anti-clastic raising
Continued studies in glass blowing, flameworking (various instructors US/CAD),
casting and fusing through workshops, and books
Flameworking study and guidance with past studio partners, Toronto, ON
Glass Blowing with Catherine Vamvakas-Lay, Toronto, ON
Santa Fe College, Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Metalsmithing School, Santa Fe, NM
Taos Art Institute, Taos, NM
Apprenticed with Olin West, Mona Van Riper for James Reid Ltd., Santa Fe,
NM
San Francisco Art University, San Francisco, CA
1984: Apprenticed with Tabra Tunoa (Tabra Jewelry) Forest Knolls, CA
1983-1984: HZH Designs in Sausalito, CA
Exhibitions/Installations (select list):
SOFA, NY 2009 Featured Artist
Urban Glass, Brooklyn- 2008
SNAG Conference 2007 - Transgenic Heart- Metal Arts Museum, Memphis, TN
May/July 2005 Recipient of the New Voices award for “The Entity” Digifest
05 The Design Exchange Toronto
March/May 2005
“The Object and the Image”, Harbourfront Centre’s Uncommon
Objects Toronto, ON September 2004
“Orbis Tertius” installation, new Gallery, Toronto, ON July 2004
‘Choose your Future”, video installation, Trans Vision04, U of
T, Toronto, ON April/May 2004
“Tehkne”
Harbourfront Centre’s Uncommon Objects Toronto, ON April 2003
‘Transgenic Morphosis’ installation , WEEWERK Toronto, ON March
2003
Digifest, ‘Transgenic Morphosis’ installation, (invitation)
“Electronic Cities” Toronto, ON April 2003
ACC, Chicago, IL, ACC Baltimore Juried exhibition of American Craft April
1999 - 2000
“presentation at the temple” installation Taos Talking Pictures
Art Contingency (invitation) Bataan Hall Taos, NM December 1998
Taos’ next generation of artists, curated by David Witt Director of
the Harwood Museum Taos, NM April 1998
Taos Invitational Taos, NM Invitational installation July 1997
Media (select list):
NY Magazine for SOFA, NY 2009
Glass Quarterly, for SOFA,NY 2009
SOFA, NY Catalog 2009
Spring Issue 2008, Metalsmith Magazine - Studio feature
March 2008: NOW magazine's "Sweet Deals" pronounces nanopod: Hybrid Studio as, 'Hands-down Toronto's friendliest studio' for taking workshops, classes, or renting benchtime.
February 2006: NOW magazine- HeartOn ring featured in Fashion Notes 'The
Goods'.
October 2005: NOW magazine Fashion Notes
May 2005: recipient of the New Voices Award showcased on Culture.ca, and
Digifest
Goes Wild @ the Design exchange Summer 2004: Featured in Ontario Craft, Toronto,
ON March 2003: The Toronto Star, Review of Digifest ‘Electronic Cities’,
Toronto,
ON April 2002: The Taos News, Review of the Taos Talking Pictures Festival’s ‘Art
Contingency’, Taos, NM
March 1998: The Taos News, Review of ‘Taos: The Next Generation of
Artists’,
curated by David Witt Director of the Harwood Museum, Taos, NM November 1997:
Featured in the Taos News, Interview for the Dixon Studio Tour Taos, NM June
1995: Featured in the Santa Fean, Interview for the Santa Fe Arts Council’s
first
online exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
Other Achievements (select list):
Shortlisted for the New Grounds Grant: Harbourfront Centre Installation 2005
Featured on the Poster for Toronto’s Home + Style tour 2004
One of the original founders of *new* gallery located in the Historic Distillery
District ‘02-2005 Opened TANK fire+metal> Named studio-tank, designed
logo, walls and original
display cases. TO. CGI & Soundtrack for the short film Embrace. Aso starred
as the "Tower Woman" see, http://www.storzart.com for more information.
Opened "metal" a contemporary jewelry/object gallery at the historic
Taos Inn-Taos
NM Designer/director of the Shaman of Star Meadow, a gallery showcasing indigenous
instruments, jewelry, and music. _Bent St., Taos, NM In 2001-03 I was Co-director
of the Metal Arts Guild Ontario’s programming committee.
I was also their graphic designer and web designer-these were all voluntary
positions.
2002 I was asked for my participation in the founding of new Gallery located
at 55 Mill street in Toronto’s Historic Distillery District.
There were seven founding members that included myself as well as:
Beth Alber, Department Head of Jewellery and Design at OCAD
Anne Barros, Art Historian, Mentor in OCAD’s jewellery mentorship programme
Lily Yung, Immunologist, artist
Wendy Walgate, Past president of OCC, Faculty at OCAD (ceramics)
Peggy Mersereau, Faculty at Sheridan (textiles)
Melinda Mayhall, Past president of OCC
In 2006 new Gallery relocated to Queen Street West and now has twelve members.