Kassandra Klassen is a Victoria based visual artist. Her creative process blends drawing and painting, focusing on colour relationships and gestural mark-making. She use these elements as a way to translate cognitive presence into a visual form.
Kassandra studied fine arts first at Langara College and then at Emily Carr University, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2015.
Education
2015 BFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Shows
2020 TD Artist Guide, Victoria, BC, Virtual Guide produced by AGGV.
2020 Residency Open House, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC. Solo Show.
2019 Small Works, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC. Sabrina Blanshard. Group Show.
2018 Esquimalt Arts Festival, Victoria, BC. Sean Pol MacUisdin. Group Show.
2018 Gorge on Art, Victoria, BC. Group Show.
2017 Serious Coffee Broad Street, Victoria, BC. Solo Show.
2017 Delta Studio Stomp, Delta, BC. Group Show.
2016 Untitled, Doan’s Craft Brewing Company, Vancouver, BC. Eden Cooke. Solo Show.
2016 Student Show at Devise Design, Vancouver, BC. Group Show.
2015 Centerfold IV, Vancouver, BC. Group Show.
2015 Delta Studio Stomp, Delta, BC. Group Show.
2015 The Show at Emily Carr University, Graduate Exhibition, Vancouver, BC. Group Show.
2014 Delta Studio Stomp, Delta, BC. Group Show.
2012 “An Art Show” Gastown Tattoo Parlour, Vancouver, BC. Mitch Kirilo. Group Show.
2012 “Student Art Sale” Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Vancouver, BC. Group Show.
Community Involvement
2017- Board member of The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective. Victoria, BC.
2015-2017 - Member of the Delta Studio Stomp Event Comittee. Delta, BC
Awards
2013 BC Arts Council Scholarship, BC
2005 Delta Arts Council Award, Delta BC
Commissions
2011 The Castle We Called Home, Simone Brenneman.
Book, Dust Jacket Art. Delta BC
2009 Effervescence, Simone Brenneman.
Book, Dust Jacket Art. Delta, BC
