Eli Nolet
b. 2000 | elinolet[@]gmail.com
EDUCATION
2019 Honours B.F.A. in Studio Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 TENDER LIKE A BRUISE, Hamilton Artists’ Inc. Hamilton, ON
2025 persistent desires, Xpace Cultural Centre. Toronto, ON
2024 elided text, Orchid Contemporary Gallery. Hamilton, ON
2024 hot dreams, Curated by Adrien Crossman. Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Guelph, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Tactical Communications, Southern Graphics Council International. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2025 Echoes from This Land, No Borders Art Festival. Ottawa, ON
2024 The Dissimilar Twin, Assembly Gallery. Hamilton, ON
2024 FISTFULS, Orchid Contemporary Gallery. Hamilton, ON
2025 Echoes from This Land, Regina Public Library. Regina, SK
2024 You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death - Water (Deshkan Ziibi), In-person at the artLAB Gallery and live on Youtube. Presented by WalkingLab. Curated by Christof Migone, Sheri Osden Nault, and Ruth Skinner.
2025 Echoes from This Land, Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Grismby, ON
2024 SUMMA 2024: yearbook, McMaster Museum of Art. Hamilton, ON
2024 The Check-In: For Us By Us!, Factory Media Centre. Hamilton, ON
2021 the space in which we have dissolved, Curated by Alexis Moline, Hamilton Artist Inc. Hamilton, ON
2020 Building Cultural Legacies, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, ON
2019 My Back Pages: The Art of Zines and Indie Publishing, part of the Centre[3] Zine Club Residency, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, ON
2018 Offcuts, The Hamilton Printmaking Invitational, Smokestack Gallery. Hamilton, ON
2018 Arts Education and Community Arts Exhibition, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
2018 Art Lottery, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
CURATORIAL WORK
2025 (un)bounded, Dana Buzzee, Hazel Meyer, and Morgan Sears-Williams. Curated by Issy Cabral. Curatorial, installation, and catalogue design support. Factory Media Centre. Hamilton, ON
2024 Artist-in-Residence Program: Anthea Black and Hazel Meyer, McMaster University, School of the Arts. Co-curator. Hamilton, ON
2023 it shapes bodies, Factory Media Centre. Hamilton, ON
SCREENINGS
2022 grief poem, 17th Annual Members Screening, Factory Media Centre.
2021 I’M NOT DANCING, 16th Annual Members Screening, Factory Media Centre.
2017 On the Record, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice, Hamilton, ON
SELECTED WORKSHOPS / PANELS
2025 BLUEPRINT: Soft Launch + Panel Groupchat, panel discussion with Syrus Marcus Ware, Dallas Fellini, and Emma Eichenberg. Moderated by Adrien Crossman, Orchid Contemporary. Hamilton, ON
2023-24 groupchats, Series of discussion based workshops for queer and trans students, McMaster University School of the Arts. Hamilton, ON
2019 Screen Printing on Tote Bags, Sitelines Community Arts Project, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
2019 Childrens’ Studio Class: Printmaking Explorations, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, ON
2018 Sitelines Intro to Screen Printing, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
2017 Cleghorn Community Arts, Workshops + Project Lead, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 - Present Public Programming Coordinator, Factory Media Centre. Hamilton, ON
2024 - 2025 Research Assistant, Stephanie Springgay (SSHRC), McMaster University. Hamilton, ON
2024 - 2025 Studio Research Assistant, Adrien Crossman, McMaster University. Hamilton, ON
2023 Interim Programming Assistant, Hamilton Artists’ Inc. Hamilton, ON
2022 Programming Assistant, Factory Media Centre. Hamilton. ON
2020-21 Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, School of the Arts. Hamilton, ON
2021 Gallery Assistant, Factory Media Centre. Hamilton, ON
2021 Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, School of the Arts. Hamilton, ON
2018 - 2020 Artist Instructor, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, ON
2018 - 2020 Administrative Assistant, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
2018 Print Lead Coordinator, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
2017 - 2020 Community & Education Arts Project Lead & Assistant, Centre[3] for artistic + social practice. Hamilton, ON
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2024 Adjudicator, City Enrichment Fund: Creation & Presentation Emerging Artist Projects Stream, City of Hamilton. Hamilton, ON
2019 Juror, Electrical Box Wraps Public Art Project, City of Hamilton Tourism and Culture Division. Hamilton, ON
2018-19 Youth Council Member, Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
2017 - 2019 Member & Youth Strategy Coordinator, City of Hamilton: Youth Steering Committee. Hamilton, ON
AWARDS
2021 The Chin-Chin Award in Electroacoustic Studies/Sound Art, McMaster University
2019 Eileen Gray Farley Scholarship, McMaster University
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2025 BLUEPRINT. Writing, design, and production in collaboration with Emma Eichenberg. Hand printed and hand bound. Research supervised and commissioned by Stephanie Springgay SSHRC funding. Published by blueprint collective, ISBN 978-1-0694933-0-9
2025 persistent desires, Exhibition Essay by Casper Sutton-Fosman for Xpace Cultural Centre
2024 yearbook, feature in exhibition publication for SUMMA 2024: yearbook,
McMaster Museum of Art. Design by Eli Nolet and Ardyn Gibbs.
2023 cruise this space, essay & publication for Adrien Crossmans’ solo exhibition
[now]here. Commissioned by Factory Media Centre. Writing and design by Eli Nolet.
2023 McMaster Pulse Lab: The Check In Podcast. McMaster University
2023 the space in which we have dissolved: in conversation with Alexis Moline,
interview and essay for off centre
2022 Stephanie Vegh, Beauty from Pain, interview and feature in Hamilton City Magazine
2021 PUBLIC GESTURE, Incite Magazine Volume #24 'Flicker'
2021 Alexis Moline, the space in which we have dissolved, exhibition essay and publication, Hamilton Artist Inc.
2021 untitled/name shame, Incite Magazine Volume #23 'HERE'
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University. Kennesaw, Georgia
Escuela de Artes Plástiicas y Diseño. San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Indigenous Health and Learning Lodge, McMaster University. Hamilton, ON
Zine Library, McMaster University School of the Arts. Hamilton, ON