PAUL ROORDA
Paul Roorda is a Waterloo, ON artist working in a wide range of media to explore the human response to climate change. He has exhibited extensively with solo shows in Canada, the U.S. and Germany. He was awarded grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Paul was a finalist for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award (2016 Ontario) and the Blake Prize for Religious Art (2011 Australia). He was featured in an episode of The Artist’s Life (Bravo TV).
Paul was Artist-in-Residence for the City of Kitchener ON (2007) and at GlogauAIR in Berlin (2012 & 2015). His public interventions have been displayed in neighbourhoods in Kitchener/Waterloo, Toronto, and Ottawa. Paul Roorda’s recent art examines climate change and the passage of time in slow moving kinetic sculptures and publicly installed interactive musical microgalleries, as well as cyanotype photography and abstract landscape paintings.
