Shelagh Howard is a photographer and visual artist whose focus is on the layers of experience and me
10/15/2025
ARTIST FEATURES
Please join me next weekend from October 23-26 for:
THRESHOLDS OF PERCEPTION
Where image, memory, and agency intersect
We invite you to experience Thresholds of Perception, a four-day exhibition bringing together the powerful works of Shelagh Howard, Sally Buck, and Horst Herget.
Daylight Studio, Toronto
October 23–26, 2025
Program Highlights:
Opening Night | October 23 | 6–9 pm — with live jazz by The Riverdalians
Gallery Viewing | October 24-26 | 12-5
Workshop: Looking to See with Sally Buck | October 25 | 1-2:30
Artists in Dialogue moderated by Sonja Scharf & Kelly Kyle | October 26 | 1-2:30
Join us in Toronto for this immersive exhibition.
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Daylight Studio
28 Industrial St. Unit 222
East York, Toronto
10/07/2025
Join an intimate and reflective session exploring the art of perception. Through a guided process of deep looking, participants will slow the gaze, engage the senses, and experience three featured artworks in new and transformative ways.
Discover how attention itself becomes an artistic practice — revealing the quiet intricacies of form, light, and emotion that shape the act of seeing.
October 25 | 1–2:30 pm
Daylight Studio, 28 Industrial St. Unit 222, East York, Toronto
thresholdsofperception.com
10/06/2025
Please join us on Sunday October 26th at 1PM for a panel discussion exploring Thresholds of Perception.
Artist Talk & Panel Discussion
Sunday, October 26th | 1–2:30 pm
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with the exhibiting artists, moderated by Sonja Scharf and Kelly Kyle, co-founders of Akasha Art Projects.
Renowned for their curatorial expertise and contributions to Toronto’s art and design community, Scharf and Kyle will guide a dialogue exploring the intersections of image, memory, and agency within the works of Thresholds of Perception.
📍 Daylight Studio
28 Industrial St. Unit 222, East York, Toronto
🗓 October 23–26, 2025
09/29/2025
Please join Shelagh Howard, Sally Buck and Horst Herget for an immersive weekend of photo based art, community and conversation.
THRESHOLDS OF PERCEPTION
Where image, memory, and agency intersect
We invite you to experience Thresholds of Perception, a four-day exhibition bringing together the powerful works of Shelagh Howard, Sally Buck, and Horst Herget.
Daylight Studio, Toronto
October 23–26, 2025
Program Highlights:
Opening Night | October 23 | 6–9 pm — with live jazz by The Riverdalians
Gallery Viewing | October 24
Workshop: Looking to See with Sally Buck | October 25
Artists in Dialogue moderated by Sonja Scharf & Kelly Kyle | October 26
Join us in Toronto for this immersive exhibition.
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Daylight Studio
28 Industrial St. Unit 222
East York, Toronto
08/17/2025
This project is making its way out into the world and I couldn’t be more grateful to those that are helping it along its way. Thank you to jurors and .j.tully.3 and International Photography Hall of Fame Director Rob Grimm for including my image ‘Truly Madly Deeply’ in the ‘Vision and Viewpoint’ exhibition. It’s an honour to be included in this beautiful show.
08/12/2025
I am deeply honoured to announce that my new project, ‘The Secret Keepers’, has been selected as a Top 200 finalist in this year’s Critical Mass. Thank you , and the pre-screen jurors for believing in this deeply personal and challenging project, and for helping me get this work and its message out into the world.
Combining digital long exposures, tintypes and sliver prints, the images in ‘The Secret Keepers’ were created through seven stages of editing, printing, reworking and reprinting: an intentionally arduous process that mirrors the average of seven attempts it takes to permanently leave an abusive partner.
The project nurtures discussion about intimate partner abuse, including psychological abuse and coercive control, moving this epidemic out of the shadows and into the light.
Special thanks to and our amazing masterclass group for their help getting this project to the finish line.
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Shelagh’s portraits explore our relationships with each other and document how we communicate and connect. She is known for her work with artists, musicians and others in creative fields. Her perceptive eye and passionate heart combine to produce photographs that are both dynamic portraits and intimate personal explorations.
A Toronto native, Shelagh studied Photography at Ryerson University and has since created and exhibited works in both Canada and the US. She has exhibited at The Artist’s Network Gallery (Toronto, ON) at part of the Contact Photography Festival 2019, The Connections Gallery (Toronto, ON), The Ecomusee du Fier Monde (Montreal, QB), Gallery 44 (Toronto, ON), The Lonsdale Gallery Red Light Show (Toronto, ON), Akasha Art Projects (Toronto, ON) The Cotuit Centre for the Arts/Juried by Amy Arbus (Cape Cod, MA), and at The Living Gallery as part of The Bare Men show (Brooklyn, NY). She has been published in Songlines UK, Opera Canada, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, Canadian House and Home, VICE magazine, and in press and digital media internationally. Shelagh’s work was selected for honourable mention in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2019, for the juried SNAP for ACT Silent Auction (March 22, 2019) and was nominated for the International Colour Awards.
EXHIBITIONS
2019. Reality Vanishing in Plain Sight, Propeller Art Gallery (Juried Group exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2019. Bare Men, The Group Show (Juried Group Exhibit), The Living Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
2019. Best in Show, The Connections Gallery (Group Exhibit), Toronto, ON.
2019 IN/CAMERA (2 person show). Artist’s Network Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2019 SNAP for ACT Gala and Auction, Toronto, ON.
2018 The 7 Deadly Sins (Group Exhibit Juried by Amy Arbus). Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit MA, USA.
2018 Show Your Pride, The Artist Network (Juried Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2018. Pigment Alternative Process Photography Show. Bushwick Darkroom. (Group Exhibit). Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2018 Red Light Feature Exhibition CONTACT Photography Festival. Lonsdale Gallery. (Juried Group Exhibition). Toronto, ON.
2018 The S*x Show Gallery 1313 (Juried Group Show). Toronto ON.
2018 Through A Lens – Our Female Gaze, The Connections Gallery. (Group Exhibit). Toronto ON.
2017 “Kindred” Portrait Photography Show. The Ecomusee du FierMonde. (Group Exhibit). Montreal, QB.
2017 “Kindred” Portrait Photography Show. The Connections Gallery. (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2017 “Double Vision” CAPIC (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2016 “Small Art Big Hearts” Waddingtons (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON
2016 “The Look of Love” Akasha Art Projects Inc (Curated Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2015 “Small Art Big Hearts” Waddingtons (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2014 “Tactuality.” CONTACT Photography Festival – MJG Gallery (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2012 “Acts of Exposure.” Gallery 1313 CONTACT Photography Festival (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2012 “Photopia.” Gallery 44, Fundraiser (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2011 “Wall to Wall.” Gallery 44 (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2011 “Photopia.” Gallery 44, Fundraiser (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2009 ”Small Wonder.” The Octopus Project (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
2003 “Destination Toronto.” PhotoSensitive (Group Exhibit). Toronto, ON.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
2002-2005 Photographic Assistant to Yuri Dojc. Toronto, ON
2001-2003 School of Image Studies, Ryerson University. Toronto, ON
1994-1995 Art and Art History, Universite Canadienne en France Nice, France
1993 Honours Bachelor of Science, University of Toronto, ON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-present Shelagh Howard Photography. Toronto, ON
