Derek Mainella

An artist and independent curator, Derek Mainella is most known for his oil on canvas paintings, which maintain a constantly evolving relationship to format while remaining for the most part, tenuously connected to the human visage. He has had several solo exhibitions, and has been included in numerous group shows in Toronto, as well as art fairs and group exhibitions internationally. He is now based in London UK, where Mainella has been included in a growing number of exhibitions in recent years.

Mainella was a central figure in the pioneer days of the Queen West scene in Toronto, where he has assembled numerous independent curatorial projects since 2002 and was the founder and director of Mind Control Gallery from 2003-2006. In his most recent curatorial project, Mainella was the co-curator of Are You Alright? New Art from Britain, at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto in 2013.

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