Hamilton Artists Inc.
April 4 - May 17, 2025
installation view
2025
Engaging with the tensions of how a bruise can be the outcome of both pain and pleasure in relation to queerness, the exhibition seeks to explore the nuanced politics of the queer body and visibility through a lens of relationality and T4T* care.
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Xpace Cultural Centre
January 18 - March 15, 2025
looping digitally rendered animation on monitor
Collaborative installation view
Photo: Alison Postma
Engaging with the queer cultural touchstone of “backrooms” – spaces of queer sexuality and liberation, playgrounds that allow for a possibility to transgress, the installation recontextualizes the gallery space as a site for queer potentiality and dreaming.
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Large scale mural
Hamilton Artists Inc.
November 2024 - June 2025
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Factory Media Centre
August 2024
Augmented Reality (AR) activation
2024
During their residency at Factory Media Centre Ardyn explored what it means to exist as a visibly queer person in spaces through the use of various digital new media technologies including Projection Mapping, 3D rendered animations and AR (Augmented Reality) activations
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Ed Video
July 2 - August 5, 2024
Queer desire, safety, memory, joy, and visibility exist as throughlines in these works that reach for physical spaces of queer belonging/gathering that have for some only existed as a fantasy or imagining.
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Factory Media Centre
2023
Digitally animated render on CRT monitor, 2023
it shapes bodies is a group exhibition curated by Eli Nolet featuring the work of emerging artists Hannah Essex, Ardyn Gibbs, and Pippa MacDonald. Each artist’s practice pulls from personal narrative, and explores the embodied experiences of queer vulnerabilities and realizations of desire.
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existing at the intersections of desire, softness, and joy.
They are a recent graduate of McMaster University’s Studio Arts Program (B.F.A.) with a Minor in Community Engagement. Ardyn is passionate about collective dreaming, placekeeping and fostering meaningful connections. Their work is constantly shifting, adapting and growing with the world around them.
Minor in Community Engagement
McMaster University
2019 - 2024
Certificate in Graphic Design and Visual Communication
OCADU
2022 - Present
Art Gallery of Hamilton
2024 - Present
Research Assistant
Orchid Contemporary
McMaster University
2024
Program Assistant
STEPS Public Art
2022 - 2024
Research Assistant
SOTA: Zine Library
McMaster University
2022 - 2024
Public Art Hamilton
2024 - Present
Board Member
Factory Media Centre
2024 - Present
2024
Honourable Mention Faculty Award
McMaster Museum of Art
2024
Indspire Skylark Award for the Arts
2022
Two- person exhibiton with Eli Nolet
Hamilton Artists Inc.
Hamilton, ON
2025
PERSISTENT DESIRES
Two- person exhibiton with Eli Nolet
Xpace Cultural Centre
Toronto, ON
2025
Warm/wet
FISTFULS
Group Exhibition
Orchid Contemporary
Hamilton, ON
2025
Echoes From This Land
Group Exhibition
No Borders Art Festival.
Ottawa, ON.
2025
Praise Series/ Dance for Me
REVEL
Art Gallery of Burlington
Burlington, ON
2024
Passing
Solo exhibition
Factory Media Centre
Hamilton, ON
2024
hot dreams
Two- person exhibiton with Eli Nolet
curated by Adrien Crossman
Ed Video
Guelph, ON
2024
Echoes From This Land
Group Exhibition
Regina Public Library.
Regina, SK
2024
Backrooms
Yearbook
Two- person installation with Eli Nolet
McMaster Museum of Art
Hamilton, ON
2024
Echoes From This Land
Group Exhibition
Grimsby Public Art Gallery
Grimsby, ON
2024
Between Here and There
Solo Exhibition
Farside B-Side
Hamilton, ON
2024
it shapes bodies
Group Exhibition
curated by Eli Nolet
Factory Media Centre
Hamilton, ON
2023
Hi Libido Sex Show
Group Exhibition (online)
Safe Space (video)
Gallery 1313
Toronto, ON
2022
Trans Ecologies with Jay Phare
Creston, BC
2025
SOTA Zine Artist in Residence
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
2024
& Now Residency
Factory Media Centre
Hamilton, ON
2024
CreateSpace Public Art Forum
Workshop Facilitator
STEPS Public Art
2024
Guest Lecturer
English 3GF3
McMaster University
2024
Panel Discussion
The Check-In Podcast: For Us By Us
Factory Media Centre
2024
Zine making workshop
Envisioning Transness
MSU Pride
2023
written by Stephanie Vegh
Early Summer issue no. 14
Hamilton City Magazine
2025
Persistent Desires Essay
written by Casper Sutton-Fossman
Xpace Cultural Centre
2025
Feel
Necktie Magazine
issue 001
CBC Arts Video
Toronto, ON
2024
CBC Arts Feature Interview
Toronto, ON
2024
The Squeaky Wheel: Praise Series
timestamp
2023
McMaster University PULSE Lab: The Check-in Podcast
Hamilton, ON
2022
The Haldimand Press: Young Artists Showcase True Selves
Haldimand, ON
2022
Incite Magazine: Flicker
Vol. 24 issue 3.
Hamilton, ON
2022
Incite Magazine: Here
Vol. 23 issue 2.
Hamilton, ON
2021
Trans Library Toronto
2025
Tour assets
T. Thomason UK tour
2025
Logo design
CBC Arts
2024
Orchid Contemporary
Web design
2025
Logo design
Kasra Jalilipour
2024
Logo design
Jacob Marion
2024
Animated digital poster
Comma Workshop
2024
Web design
Eliot Duncan
2024
Digital poster
HEAVEN
Queer Dance Party
2024
Digital poster
PONYBOY
Book launch party
2024
Co-designed with Eli Nolet
SUMMA 2024: Yearbook
McMaster Museum of Art
2024
Focus Group Member
Public Art Hamilton
2024
Installation Assistance
La Bulle
2023
Mentor
STEPS Public Art
2024/2025
Last Updated 24.10.31
CBC Arts
2024
[Watch the video here]
This month's take on the CBC Arts logo was created by Ardyn Gibbs. And talk about a glow up! The CBC gem rarely sparkles with this kind of fire and brilliance.
There's more to Gibbs's design than pure razzle-dazzle, however. "I often am inspired by shared queer and trans experiences," says the multidisciplinary artist — "longings, joy and desires for a softer future."
[...Read the full interview here]