Biography

Southern Methodist University - Fine Arts

Artist / Sculptor and Co-Owner / Project Manager at Intercontinental Sculpture Inc.
Fine Art
Vanessa
Paschakarnis
Canada
Vanessa Paschakarnis works internationally as a German Canadian artist and exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions, in Europe, the USA and Canada. She is based in Nova Scotia, Canada and Pietrasanta, Italy.
Paschakarnis holds a Masters degree from Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Germany and a second MFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, NS Canada. As part of her studies and professional work, Vanessa has been engaged in critical writing. Paschakarnis has taught sculpture at NSCAD University from 2000-2002, as Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX from 2004 - 2007 and a summer term in Italy for the University of Georgia, Athens, in 2002.
Vanessa was twice semi-finalist for the prestigious Canadian Sobeys Art Award.
She received the “Best Young Artist Award” in 2009 as a participant of Blickachsen 7, a sculpture Biennale in Bad Homburg, Germany. In 2011 she received the Progress Woman of excellence Award from the Canadian Progress Club.

Since 2011 Vanessa is actively involved in project management for larger private and public art projects. In 2014 she co-founded Intercontinental Sculpture Inc. in order to be able to realize large commissions with a team of people. She has done extensive Project Management on an international level on several large scale commissions realizing public art projects with large budgets.
Her work is represented in public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, NS; the Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton, NB; the Art Collection of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada, the sculpture park La Serpara in Civitella D’Agliano, VT, Italy and the Thiel collection in Switzerland.
Her artworks provoke reaction through material and scale, involving the viewer in a conversation with articulated objects as “the other”, altering and expanding body consciousness to include the outside world in the present moment.