Cornelia Peckart graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1987.
She returned to Hamilton, Ontario in 2008 after stops in Toronto, Berlin, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam.
During her journey, Cornelia has had the opportunity to work as an artist and educator at a number of internationally recognized art institutions, which include the Andy Warhol Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and Villa Zebra in Rotterdam.
Her arts practice has earned her a fellowship in photography, as well as exhibitions in Canada, U.S.A., Germany and the Netherlands.
In 2009 she exhibited a series of gouache paintings titled 1 in 10 as part of the Good Medicine Show at The Hotshot Gallery in Toronto. The same year she created a two public art performances titled ‘Treat System I and II ‘ for Toronoto’s Nuit Blanche and the James Street North Art Crawl in Hamilton.
Her most recent work involves manipulating the block printing technique to create countless narratives out of a handful of illustrations. Images of an ‘audience at an event’ were printed on glass, steel and wood for the bar, This Ain’t Hollywood, in Hamilton. A print on Galvalum Steel hangs at the Hamilton head office of ArcelorMittal Dofasco.
Cornelia continues to create and manipulate narratives and works to engage the viewer using slight shifts, some repetition and a variety of perspectives.
