About

Nancy Peng is a visual artist from Waterloo Ontario Canada.  She is a watercolour and mixed media instructor at Button Factory Arts and is exploring various printmaking methods.  She also studies Shodo Japanese calligraphy with Sensei Maeda in Waterloo and enjoys photographing birds and nature.

“I am an artist but forever a student.  As a teacher, I strive to encourage and share my joy of art.  As a volunteer I support the local community to bring a sense of belonging to others.  I search for the beauty beyond the flaws and imperfections and find inspiration in nature as well as the people around me.”

Awards and Accomplishments:

• 2023 Jan-Apr Artsu Matsuri exhibit 60th Anniversary JCCC, Toronto
• 2022 Dec Art District Gallery pop up exhibit, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacobs, Ont.
• 2022 15th Japanese Calligraphy Competition Canada, Bronze award, juried in Japan
• 2022 Viewfindings Juried photo show, The Link, Waterloo
• 2021 Press juried show award winner, Button Factory Arts Waterloo
• 2020 Waterloo Park Promenade Art Walk banner, City of Waterloo
• 2020 Westmount Golf & Country Club, Waterloo (juried)
• 2020 Artsu Matsuri biennial, JCCC gallery, Toronto
• 2019 Juror’s Award, Button Factory Arts 25th Anniversary Exhibit
• CTV news, teaching monotype to Stu Gooden
• Interview CTV news re: REDress artwork
• 2019 Honourable Mention Award, National Shodo Canada Competition, juried in Japan
• 2019 ArtsPay Juried show, Press Juried Show and KWSA Juried Photo Exhibit, Waterloo
• 2018 Press Juried printmaking show award winner
• 2018 ADG at HWHG show “Elemental”
• 2018 Illuminative Forest of Story Telling Trees, exhibitor at The Registry Theatre
• 2018 Central Ontario Artists Association (COAA) “Visions” Exhibit,  award winner
• 2018 Centre In The Square, Kitchener (CITS) Art Rental program
• 2018 Our Nature, Ourselves, juried show Berlin Tower Artspace
• 2017 Hidden Valley Revealed, juried show Homer Watson House & Gallery
• 2017 Juried show Button Factory Arts
• 2017 Press Juried  printmaking show
• 2017 Views 150 window exhibit at Button Factory Arts
• 2017  Featured artist in Grand Magazine June issue  
• 2016 1st Place Homer Watson Gallery Curator’s Choice, KWSA juried show
• Featured artist May 2016 Art That Moves You on the Grand River Transit
• 2015 1st Place Button Factory juried show
• 2015 2nd place Press printmaking juried show, Waterloo
• 2015 2nd place Brush Off live painting competition at Button Factory Arts,
• 2015 Curator’s Choice honorable mention, Homer Watston House and Gallery

 Solo shows:

• 2017 March – Apr. “Confluence”,  Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener.
• 2014 Nov 4-19  -“Beyond the Surface” a collection of watercolour paintings and printmaking at Button Factory Arts.

Co-op member. Marketing Chair of the Art District Gallery in downtown Kitchener, moved to 185 King St. E. Feb 2018. Now online since 2020. Opening show was May 8, 2015  www.artdistrictgallery.org. New shows every 2 monrhs. Pop-up group shows throughout Waterloo Region Nancy’s page

Coordinator of the KW Society of artists members annual show in June 2016-2018  Nancy’s page.  

Listed in the Japanese Canadian Artists Directory 

Founding member of the Laurelwood Neighbourhood Association (since 1999) http://www.laurelwood.ca and organizer of Community + Art show 2012, 2016, instructor for the LWNA workshop 2016 in collaboration with the City of Waterloo Portrait Project.  Organizer of Culture Days 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 events  in Waterloo, Kitchener and St. Jacobs.

Contact Nancy Peng -nancyhpeng (at) gmail (dot) com.