2020 Collaborations In A Time of Covid: Writers and Artists of Salt Spring : ArtSpring, Oct. 15 – Nov.
2020 OCTOGONY, Mahon Hall, SSI, Sept 25th – Oct 4th
2019 Homage Salt Spring Arts Council Easter Show, Salt Spring Island, BC
2019 SUSAN BENSON NEW WORK, Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
2018 PORTRAIT OF AN ISLAND March 30-April 8, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island, BC
2016 SALT SPRING ISLAND (pastel), AGE (oil), (Honourable Mention) Juried Sooke Fine Arts Show, BC
2016 JOAN (oil) Easter Art Tour Group Show, Mahon Hall Salt Spring Island BC
2015 THREE SALT SPRING WOMEN ARTISTS Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island
2014 BARRICADE ‘Hibernus’Juried Show Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Toronto
2014 THEATRE PROP MAKER and BARN Juried, Sooke Fine Arts Show, Vancouver Island. BC
2021 THE PARALLEL ART SHOW, Salt Spring Island, September 25 – October
2014 The Even Cheaper Show Juried Show, Salt Spring Island. BC
2014 PEOPLE One Woman Exhibition, Art Spring Lobby, Salt Spring Island. BC
2014 MY BROTHER JONATHAN and WORDS & IMAGES FOR A SMALL CHILD AT THE END OF A WAR Juried Show, Empty Places, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island. BC
2014 Semi Finalist BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London. UK
2014 CONNECT/DISCONNECT 20/20, Juried Show, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island. BC
2014 PORTRAITS OF OLDER WOMEN Salt Spring Library, Salt Spring Island. BC
2013 JOURNEYS Harbour House Hotel, Salt Spring Island. BC
2014 20/20, Juried Show, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island
2014 FOCUS ON WOMEN, Salt Spring Island Public Library (Portraits of Older Women)
2013 JOURNEYS, One woman exhibition Harbour House Hotel, Salt Spring Island
2013 THE EVEN CHEAPER SHOW, Salt Spring Island. Juried Show
2011 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Regional Showcase, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
2009 PATRICIA Gallery Stratford Juried Show
2009 BARRY MACGREGOR Art Gallery of Peel Juried Show
2008 JOHN Art Gallery of Peel Juried Show
2008 CURTAIN CALL: A Century of Women Designing for Live Performance. The League of Professional Theatre Women; the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
2007 VALHALLA Gallery Stratford, Juried Show
2006 LIVES LIVED One Woman Show, Gallery Stratford
2006 GLACIER and DRIFTWOODS Gallery Stratford Juried Show
2005 TREE STUDIES and SKULLS Gallery Stratford, Juried Show
2004 DIVAS OF DESIGN Theatre Museum, Elgin Theatre. Toronto
2004 Gallery 96, Members Show
2003 ERIC DONKIN as Koko The Portrait Gallery of Canada
2003 Gallery 96 Members Show
2003 DESSIN Exhibition of theatre designs and drawings Gallery 96
2003 DRIFTWOOD Arts Etobicoke Juried Show
2002 THE DESIGNERS’ ART Gallery 96
2000 ANNE Arts Etobicoke Juried Show
AWARDS
2019 Member of the Order of Canada
2005 Ontario Arts Council Grant
2000 The Banff Centre Award for contributions to the Arts in Canada
1993 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1970 Canada Council Award
OTHER
Designer of sets and costumes for companies such as San Francisco Opera, National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Opera Company.
2010 HOMAGE Curator – an exhibition of necklaces created by Donald Stuart RCA to acknowledge women who have made a difference to Canadian Society
2000, 2007, 2011 Leighton Colony, the Banff Centre
2007 PUN GLORIA AD INFINITUM and SEVERAL KNIGHTS LATER Illustrations
MEMBERSHIPS
CARFAC Ontario
CARFAC BC
TRAINING
Royal Canadian Academy of Art (1983) Theatre Design
EXHIBITIONS
Posters and brochure illustrations for the Toronto Symphony and the Stratford Festival. Paintings, drawings and designs are in a number of collections including the National Portrait Gallery Ottawa, the Bronfman Collection, Gallery Stratford, the Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
NDD (painting) Wolverhampton College of Art. UK
ATD West of England College of Art, Bristol. UK