Tanya
Read is a multi disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She
graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995
and since then has been active in the Toronto art community. She was a co-founder
and exhibiting artist in the Impure collective, a group of artists who organized
exhibitions in Toronto between 1994 and 1998. In 1999, she and Scott Carruthers opened
'Fly Gallery', a storefront window used as an alternative exhibition space
for artists, which continues as an ongoing project. In 1998 Tanya created
Mr. Nobody, a Chaplinesque cartoon figure featured in films, sculpture, drawing
and video. She looks forward to working with Mr. Nobody for many years.