Gerri Ann Siwek is a visual artist currently living and creating in Regina Saskatchewan. As an Arts Educator, she teaches classes and workshops for adults and children locally and throughout Saskatchewan, Canada and abroad.
For current workshop information or to book a workshop contact Gerri Ann @: gasiwek@hotmail.com

Gerri Ann Siwek was born in 1951 in Hamilton Ontario. She studied drawing, painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and at the Art Students League of New York.

In 1980 she moved to Regina, Saskatchewan and began creating and exhibiting art while also working as a graphic artist and as an arts educator. She studied Adult Education at the University of Regina. As a visual artist, she creates in various media: drawing, painting, collage, assemblage and installation. She works in series exploring themes of the supernatural and the pseudo sciences. She has created room and window installations of her multi-media artworks. Gerri Ann has received numerous grants and awards and her imaginative and often humorous works of art are included in private, civic and provincial collections.

In 1998 Gerri Ann Siwek created the Funomena Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange, a traveling museum on wheels featuring 13 exhibits, a souvenir shop and a tour guide. She traveled with her museum to festivals and exhibitions throughout North America and her museum has been featured in television documentaries and print publications.

In April and May of 2007, as a visiting artist and arts educator in Verona, Italy Gerri Ann Siwek exhibited her current works titled 'Sentimental/Ornamental' at the Libreria Gheduzzi, organized through the Verona Associazione Culturale Arte e Territorio. She presented workshops at the Palazzo Forti Gallery of Modern Art in Verona, as part of the programming for their exhibition 'Melancholy:the Seventh Splendour'.

In April 2008 and in September 2010, Gerri Ann attended encaustic workshops in Santa Fe New Mexico, presented by Paula Roland. Gerri Ann has now introduced “Wax Works”: encaustic printmaking and collage in her studio practice.

She has been awarded three major Saskatchewan Arts Board grants and has been their artist-in-residence at Agribition in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and at Ecole Connaught Community School in 2011 and at Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre in 2013.

In 2015 Siwek was an artist-in-residence in the Grasslands National Park.

Installations
May 2013 "The Birds and Creatures of Last Mountain Lake" Diorama,
Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, Regina Beach, Saskatchewan
May 2011 "Time Traveller" Ecole Connaught Community School Centennial Project
Regina, Saskatchewan
November 2009 "Let There Be Flight"
Installation, Agribition, Regina Saskatchewan
November 2008 “EnviroArt” Grasslands Diorama, Agribition, Regina Saskatchewan
November 2007 “EnviroArt” Urban/Rural mural, Agribition, Regina Saskatchewan
May 2005 "Deaccessioning a Collection" and "Altered Shoes"
Display Case Installations, Regina Plains Museum
Regina, Saskatchewan
February 2005 "Chocolate Disappointment"
Frost Free Gallery Installation, AKA Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
August 2004 "The Conjuror's Box"
Room Installation "We - The City" Bishops Court
Regina, Saskatchewan
August 2002 "Thoughts Wishes Prayers"
Room Installation " The Weyburn Project"
Weyburn Mental Hospital, Weyburn, Saskatchewan
June 1997 "Collecting Jesus"
Window Installation, Neutral Ground
Regina, Saskatchewan
February 1995 "Miracle in the Shuffle Board Room"
Room Installation, Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society Regina, Saskatchewan
June 1994 "Mrs. Fowler's Vision" and "Interior Motifs"
Window Installations "The Works" Visual Arts Celebration
Edmonton, Alberta
November 1988 "My Astral Travels"
Window Installations, Dunlop Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
June 1988 "Shiny Baby Shrine Beside the Copper Kettle"
Window Installation, "Windoworks"
Regina, Saskatchewan
October 1986 "Mary's Room"
Room Installation, Neutral Ground,
Regina, Saskatchewan

Group Exhibitions
May, 2016, “Bird is the word”, Mata Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
Sept. 2011, "CROW", Mysteria Gallery
Regina Saskatchewan
May 2009, "Queen City Comics"
5th Parallel Gallery, University of Regina
Regina Saskatchewan
February 2009, "Speak, Memory" Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK
July 2008 “Garden Folk” Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan
August 2008 “The Lives of Flowers” Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, Regina Beach, Saskatchewan
November 2006 "The Horse Show"
Mysteria Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan
September 2003 "That's My Wonderful Town"
MacKenzie Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
September 2002 "9/11- one year later"
Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
Regina, Saskatchewan
December 2001 "Relationships"
Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils/
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatchewan touring exhibition
August 1995 "Call and Response"
Neutral Ground
Regina, Saskatchewan
August 1992 "Access/Control"
Dunlop Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
April 1992 "Laughing Matters"
Mendel Art Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
February 1992 "Sex Appealed"
Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
Regina, Saskatchewan
June 1990 "Sask. Open"
Mendel Art Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
October 1989 "Groundworks '89"
Neutral Ground
Regina, Saskatchewan
July 1989 "Artists' Kites"
Rosemont Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
October 1988 "Groundworks '88"
Neutral Ground
Regina, Saskatchewan
September 1988 "Intersecting Ideas"
Collaborative Group Show
Rosemont Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
June 1988 "Quiet Protest"
AKA Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
August 1986 "Out of Saskatchewan" (Sask. Expo)
Robson Square Media Centre
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, B.C.
Rosemont Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
July 1986 "Summer Show"
Rosemont Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
February 1986 "Erotica '86"
Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
Regina, Saskatchewan
June 1985 "Small Matters"
Neutral Ground
Regina, Saskatchewan
February 1985 "Erotica '85"
Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
Regina, Saskatchewan
February 1984 "Erotica '84"
Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
Regina, Saskatchewan