Birth Place
New Plymouth, New Zealand
1948

Residence
Calgary, Alberta

Education
1987, M.F.A., University of Calgary, Alberta
1985, Honours Diploma, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
1968, B.A. (Psychology/Fine Art), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Selected Awards

• Endowment Award Celebration of Women in the Arts, 1988
• Granduate Scholarship Province of Alberta, 1987
• Alberta College of Art Travel Scholarship Alberta College of Art, 1984
• Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship for Academic Excellence Alberta Heritage Fund, 1983
• Woodward's Art Scholarship Alberta College of Art, 1983
• Merit Scholarship Minister of Advanced Education, Edmonton, 1982

Public Collections

• PetroCanada
• Olga Havel Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
• Rapport, Toronto, Ontario
• Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta
• Sun Oil Limited, Calgary, Alberta
• Alberta Energy, Calgary, Alberta
• University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta
• Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
• Esso Resources Canada Ltd., Calgary, Alberta
• Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta
• Calgary Board of Education, Alberta
• British Petroleum Corporation, Calgary, Albeta
• Lethbridge Regional Hospital, Alberta
• Cold Lake Regional Hospital, Alberta
• Gulf Canada Resources, Calgary, Alberta
• Hunting Hills High School, Red Deer, Alberta
• Husky Oil, Calgary, Alberta
• Norcen Energy Resources, Calgary, Alberta
• O'Neil Dunn, Barristers & Solicitors, Calgary, Alberta
• Talisman Energy, Calgary, Alberta
• PanCanadian Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta

Bibliography

• Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000
• Fleshy Fascinations: The Body Stirs the Soul Xtra! West Magazine, Vancouver, B.C., 1996
• The Expression of Tosh Canvases Ob Regional News, Russia, 1993
• Questions of Value Review Artichoke Magazine, 1992
• Art in the Institution VOX, Calgary, Alberta, 1991
• Drawings the Defy Definition Edmonton Journal, 1990
• Bev Tosh Hits the Water... Muttart Newsletter, Calgary, Alberta, 1989
• Taking It To The Street  Alberta Report Magazine, 1989
• In Search of Alberta Art Visual Arts Newsletter, Edmonton, 1988

Solo Exhibitions

• Celebrating Cinnebar
  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1997
• thaipusam
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1996
• Heavy Water
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1996
• Tosh Canvases
  Museum of Modern Art, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
  1993
• Glass Cocoon
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• Carousel
  The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
  1990
• Muse
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1990
• Carousel
  Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• Surface Tension
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• Oil on Water, Thesis Exhibition
  Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
  1987

Group Exhibitions

• Friends and Mentors Revisited
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1999
• Saints and Sinners - Presented by the Alberta Society of Artists
  The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
  1998
• ImageNations (International Exhibition of Visual Poetry)
  F.A.B. Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1997
• Reading Rilke
  Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
  1997
• The Body
  Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
  1996
• Apocrypha: Images Outside Orthodoxy
  Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
  1996
• Mysteries of the Flesh
  ArtWeek, Dome Tower, Calgary, Alberta
  1995
• Lookout Project
  Partisan Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  1995
• Diversity in Action: Alberta Foundation for the Arts Acquisitions
  Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  1994
• What's in a Name?
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1994
• Survey of Western Canadian Art
  Galerie Pallas, Prague, Czech Republic
  1993
• Imprint
  Manitoba Printmaker's Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  1993
• Fusion International
  Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Japan
  1992
• Vessels of Vision
  the Works, Manulife Place, Edmonton, Alberta
  1992
• Art Around Here: Avenues of Acquaintance
  Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• Questions of Value
  PetroCan Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1991
• The Figure Drawn
  The Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
  1991
• Women at "the Works"
  Manulife Place, Edmonton, Alberta
  1990
• Alberta Drawings:  A Selection of Recent Work
  Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta
  1989
• A Primary Focus
  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
  1989
• Towards a New Canadian Mythology
  The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
  1989
• Visions of Alberta
  Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1988
• Athletics and the Artist
  Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
  1988

Traveling Exhibitions

• Bridging A New Century
  Red Deer, Stony Plain, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Blairmore, Grande Prairie, and Calgary, Alberta
  2000-02
• Hands That Shape
  Triangle Gallery, Calgary & The Works International Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
  1999
• Contemporary Ten: 10th Anniversary Alberta Foundation for the Arts
  Alberta
  1996-98
• Alberta Vision
  Japan
  1991
• Views from Alberta
  Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta
  1990
• Art is Our Game
  Alberta
  1988

Public Exhibition

• Private Stock
  Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  1989