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Her paintings often reference a variety of sources from fairy tales, medieval manuscripts to the 2008 financial collapse. Wainio's canvases have been described by art critic Emily Falvey as "fairy-tale landscapes littered with the detritus of contemporary consumerism." Her body of work has been
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Wainio's large-scale canvases have also been exhibited in more than 40 museums and galleries, including the
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251:"Imagining the past/Remembering the Future", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, 1985
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365:"Carol Wainio Receives 2014 Governor General's Award for Media and Visual Arts"
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Carol Wainio, 2014 Canada
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Enright, Robert (2003). "The Very Rich Hours of Carol Wainio".
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