| 2002 Graduate Ontario College of Art and Design |
| 2008 Postcards From the Void, Tatar Gallery, Toronto 2007 New Work: Pouch Cove, James Baird Gallery Flower Studio, St. John's 2003 Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto |
| Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Holt Renfrew, Toronto Canaccord Capital Corporation, Houston Burnac Corporation, Toronto GMP, Montreal Private Collections |
| 2007 Short listed for the RBC Painting Competition |
| "BlogTO" Profiles of emerging artists "Na Luzie" OMNI Television's Polish-language culture program; feature segment, December 2008 “Glowing Reviews for Aleks Rdest” Current Magazine, August 2007 Angela Antle, Interview, CBC Radio July 22, 2007 "Aleks Rdest's Paintings" Current Magazine, March 2007 "Living in NL" CBC Television St. John's, March 5, 2007 Hohmann, Skye. “Interview with Aleksandra Rdest” Rind Magazine , rindmag.com |
| 2008 Present: Associate, Tatar Gallery 2003 – 2006 Director, Tatar Gallery 2002 Assistant Director, Tatar Gallery 2002 Gallery Assistant, Angell Gallery |
| 2009 Impulse Equation, Switch Contemporary, Toronto 2009 By Degrees, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna 2009 Pool NY Art Fair, New York 2009 Works on Paper, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna 2008 SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna 2007 ? Group Exhibit, Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery, Vancouver 2007 Fuzz, Newzones, Calgary 2007 Le Soleil Noir, Tatar Gallery, Toronto 2006 My Secret City, part of Nuit Blanche Toronto 2006 Spell, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON 2006 Galerie D'Este, Montreal 2006 In Transit, Gosia Koscielak Studio and Gallery, Chicago 2006 NOVA Art Fair Chicago with Gosia Koscielak Studio and Gallery 2006 Young Toronto Painters, James Baird Gallery>Pouch Cove, NFLD 2006 Generated Habitats, 2-1022 Queen Street West, Toronto 2005 Spell, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon 2005 Spell, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 2005 Big Show, 1139 College Street, Toronto 2004 Trans Tokyo, Propeller Centre for the Arts, Toronto 2004 Trans, Big Studio Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2007 Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant 2002 David L. Stevenson Scholarship 2001 A.V. Issacs Tuition Scholarship |
| 2008 Magenta Foundation's Publication Carte Blanche: Painting 2007 RBC Painting Competition, Semi Finalist Exhibition Catalogue 2007 Pouch Cove Foundation Fundraiser 2007, Art Auction Catalogue, Toronto 2006 Skye Hohmann, Generated Habitats, 2-1022 Queen Street West, Toronto ON 2005 Jordan Broadworth, Jonathan Forrest, Spell, Mendell Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2005 Ann Ireland, Michelle Jaques, Big Show, 1139 College Street, Toronto 2003 – 2005 Art With Heart, Casey House Art Auction Catalogue, Toronto |
| 2009 Co-Curator, Upcycling: Recuperating Past Lives, A Pop up Exhibit in the Future Home of A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles 2007 Artist Talk: OCAD painting thesis students, 2006 Pouch Cove Artist Residency, Oct/Nov 2006 Co-Curator, Generated Habitats, Toronto 2006 Visiting Artist, Fanshaw College, London, ON 2004 Co-Curator, Trans Tokyo Propeller Centre for the Arts, Toronto |