i’m an illustrator and zine-maker based in Toronto, ON.

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chelswatt@gmail.com

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education

Bachelors of Applied Arts (Illustration), Sheridan College, 2010-2014
Winner of the Grad Council Award of Merit

publications and collaborations

alluring shell, 2024
mood ring, 2024
Undressed (collab zine with Rachel Zavarella), 2024
in various states, 2023
Folk (collab zine with Rachel Zavarella), 2022
Kin (collab zine with Rachel Zavarella), 2020
mood tracking app v2, 2019
the flowers are real, 2018
small windows, 2018
mood tracking app, 2018
the wolves, 2017
untitled (dream parade), 2015
Joe Rogan’s Sensory Deprivation Chamber, 2015
collective delusion // mass hysteria, 2015
home life, 2014
Exchanging Pleasantries (collab with youth & rust), 2014
weight and waiting, 2014
heavy, 2014
dealing with it (or not dealing with it), 2014
youth & rust standard, 2014
head trauma, 2013
Welcome to 2013, 2013
F.U.C.K. I.T. volume one, 2013
ha! ha! issue one, 2013
what was done, 2012
BOTY #100, 2012
disposable, 2012
siesta nouveaux, 2012
oh! Hamilton issue one, 2011
lomozine issue two, 2011
lomozine issue one, 2011

solo and group exhibitions

2025 – DYAD (with Rachel Zavarella), Bambino’s, Hamilton ON
2020 – How to make a zine workshop, Collective Arts, Hamilton ON
2018 – Locals Only (group), Faith/Void, Toronto ON
2017 – This is two personal (group), Working Title, Toronto ON
2016 – Collective delusion mass hysteria (group), Faith/Void, Toronto ON
2016 – Collective delusion mass hysteria (group), The Nursery, Oklahoma City
2016 – Palimpsest (group), Faith/Void, Toronto ON
2015 – #werkaday (group), 156 Augusta, Toronto ON
2015 – Collective delusion mass hysteria (group), The Austin School of Film, Austin TX
2015 – Collective delusion mass hysteria (group), The Living Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 – Exchanging pleasantries (with youth & rust), Hammer City Records, Hamilton ON
2014 – Exchanging pleasantries (with youth & rust), The Black Cat, Toronto ON
2014 – New Faces (Sheridan illustration grad show), 99 Sudbury, Toronto ON
2014 – Schiz label art vault (group), Hammer City Records, Hamilton ON
2014 – Enlargement show (group), Headquarters, Northampton MA
2013 – Steel town sketches (group), Hammer City Records, Hamilton ON
2012 – The amazing skateboard art show (group), Homegrown, Hamilton ON
2012 – hundred watt (solo), Hammer City Records, Hamilton ON
2011 – The amazing skateboard art show (group), Mulberry Street Coffeehouse, Hamilton ON