I am an illustrator, artist, and architectural designer located in Toronto, ON, Canada. I have been illustrating for a variety of clients throughout North America since 2006. After completeing a Master's Degree in Architecture at the University of Toronto in 2018, I spent a couple of years working as an architectural intern at Lateral Office, here in Toronto. More recently I have been focused on book illustration as well as teaching undergraduate courses in both illustration and architecture at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, and OCAD U. At the left you can see some examples of past illustration commissions.
Slowpoke: The Bell Island Mine Horse
written by Heather Smith, Nimbus Publishing, (forthcoming, fall 2021)
Screech!: Ghost Stories from Old Newfoundland
written by Charis Cotter, Nimbus Publishing, 2020
Ojiichan's Gift
written by Chieri Uegaki, Kids Can Press, 2019
The Man Who Kept Meeting Himself
written by Ryan Boudinot, McSweeney's Issue 28, 2008
Past Illustration Clients:
The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Canada Goose, Canada Post, Canadian Business, Edmonton Arts Council, The Globe and Mail, House of Anansi Press, Kids Can Press, The Los Angeles Times, Maclean’s, Maisonneuve, Mcsweeny’s Quarterly, Polaris Music Prize Inc., Quill & Quire, Reader’s Digest Canada, The Stranger, The Walrus
2020-2021
Sessional Instructor, Undergraduate Architecture Program, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sessional Instructor, Illustration Program, OCAD U, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2018-2019
Sessional Instructor, Undergraduate Architecture Program, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
2017-2019
Architectural Intern, Lateral Office, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2014-2018
MArch, Architecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2012-2014
Architectural Technologist, DIALOG, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2012
Artist Residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium.
2010-2012,
Diploma, Architectural Technology, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2006-2007
Guest Study, Illustration and Cartooning, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA.
2002-2006
BDes, Visual Communication Design, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1983
Born, Genevieve Daria Fofonoff Simms, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.