Mina Totino (born 1949) is a Canadian painter currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Totino's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Berlin. She first came to prominence in the 1985 Young Romantics exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Totino's work is informed by contemporary criticism, especially literary and film criticism that have analyzed the position of the imaginary spectator.
Life and education Mina Totino was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. She obtained her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1982.
Solo exhibitions Mina Totino: Flirt, Monica Reyes Gallery, 2023 Twisting, Mónica Reyes Gallery, 2020 Charles H. Scott Gallery, 2010 Mina Totino, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1997Gagnon, Monika Kin. "Mina Totino." Review of Mina Totino by Mina Totino. Parachute 88, 1997, pp. 68. Mina Totino – PAINTINGS, Contemporary Art Gallery, 1994Watson, Scott. "Mina Totino." Review. Canadian Art, Summer 1994. Accessed March 15, 2017. http://canadianart.ca/issues/summer-1994/
Group exhibitions
The Eyes Have Walls: Nicole Ondre and Mina Totino, West Vancouver Art Museum, 2020 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2017 Readymades, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, 2016 Young Romantics, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1995
Curatorial work In 2014, Mina Totino curated Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey at Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC. The exhibition proved significant in marking shifting attitudes and discussions around painting and abstraction.
Writings Mina Totino has an artist book, I Look Up, Volume One, 1997 – 2000, co-published by Charles H. Scott Gallery and Publication Studio Vancouver.
Awards Mina Totino alongside Skeena Reece received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA awards on April 11, 2014.
Collections Mina Totino's work is found in the collections of the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Publications
Catherine M. Soussloff. Mina Totino: Colour Figurations in Mina Totino's Monochromes. Vancouver: Monica Reyes Gallery, 2023 Scott Watson, et al. Mina Totino. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1997
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