Andrew Cheddie Sookrah is an
elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Ontario
Society of Artists and the Registered Graphic Designers of
Ontario.
He was born in 1956 in Guyana, South America
and attended Queen’s College where he won the school
Art Prize in 1971. At age 16 he took employment as a designer/illustrator/art
director at Ace Advertisers in Georgetown. On immigrating
to Canada in 1974, he attended The Ontario College of Art,
George Brown College and Ryerson University in their part-time
continuing education programs.
An active member of the Arts and Letters
Club of Toronto, Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has served several
terms on their Art Committee. He is currently the convenor
of the Sunday Figurative Painting Sessions at the Club.
Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has displayed his
work at the Outdoor Art Show at City Hall, Distillery District
Art Shows, and group shows with Arts Scarborough. He has been
included in many juried group shows at the Arts And Letters
Club of Toronto. In 2004 he staged his first solo show of
figurative work at the Club – Interviews From The Third
Floor – Various Positions. His work has been included
in two juried shows put on by the SCA, the 38th Annual in
Montreal and the Spring Show at the Art Gallery of Northumberland
in Coburg. In 2005, his second solo show, Parallel States
Of Being, was staged at The Lodge on Amherst Island. In 2006
Andrew participated in the Annual Queen West Art Crawl at
the Gladstone Hotel as well as Arctic Quest 06 group shows
at the Win Henstock Gallery, the Georgina Art Gallery, the
Gallery on the Grand in Waterloo Ontario, and the Linkway
Gallery at the TD Centre in Toronto. 2006 also included two
solo exhibitions, the Lawless Gallery in Grafton and the Engine
Room Creative Gallery.
He is currently the owner and creative director
of Engine Room Creative, a creative and design development
studio in Toronto.
His work is currently in Corporate and Private Collections
in Canada and the US. |
