Dawn Dudek

Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, Dawn Dudek eventually moved to Toronto where she became a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. After a position as Jr. Art Director for MAC cosmetics, she steered her career into the area of Computer Graphics and joined the Toronto-based TOPIX Studio as Director of Broadcast Animation. During these years, Dawn partnered with award winning Directors and Animators to create leading edge broadcast design and animation work for clients including: Paramount Pictures, MTV and General Mills foods. Dawn transitioned into Online Media by joining MacLaren McCann Interactive (MMI) as an Art Director creating web content for clients such as: Nesquik and General Motors.

As an artist, Dawn continues to evolve, first by bringing a Fine Art background into Computer Graphics and then by using her past experience in Computer Animation to develop her ideas in the traditional medium of Painting. Her art is inspired by sameness, contradictions and a strong sense of narrative. Craft and technology, natural settings close to urban centres, familiarity and dissonance all are relevant to her work and have been recurring themes.

Dawn has exhibited her paintings throughout France, Spain, Monaco, Italy, UK and twice at the prestigious Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (solo in 2008 and in 2009 as part of the Canadian delegation). She held a solo exhibition of her Filmscapes paintings at the 63rd FESTIVAL DE CANNES. In 2020, Dawn spent 6 months in Western Australia as Artist In Residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre working on her current project “Distance & Displacement.”

Dawn Dudek is represented by Agency Arts for Painting & Illustration.