Collin Douma
Canadian/American
1974-
Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, Douma took a summer painting class when he was 12, but by high school, animation was consuming him. At 17, he got a camcorder and began making traditional animated shorts, winning two film festivals and earning him a place in the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection for one of his very first efforts.
Douma studied animation at Algonquin College in Ottawa before navigating Toronto's arts scene and a career in New York's advertising industry. Through life's coincidences, he now lives near Woodstock, New York.
After settling into a wooden house in the rapidly drying forests of the Catskill Mountains in 2017, he evolved United Fauna from watercolors into hand-built mixed-media sculptures of creatures appropriating discarded human technology as weapons of resistance.
His work has traveled from Amsterdam to Peekskill, earning him WAAM's 2025 Lisa Williams Social Justice Award for environmental activism through art.
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Collin Douma
Canadian/American
1974-
Collin Douma is a Canadian-American visual artist who, at age 17, made his debut animated short, Celebrating Us. It went on to win at two Canadian festivals, including best in show, and was added to the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection.
He studied animation at Algonquin College in Ottawa, exhibited in the Toronto art scene, and launched his advertising career there before moving to New York in 2011. In 2017, he settled with his family in the Catskill Mountains.
His United Fauna series has evolved from watercolors into hand-built mixed-media sculptures depicting animals resisting and defending themselves using discarded human technology, shown from Amsterdam to Woodstock. Collin frequently exhibits across the Hudson Valley, the US, and Canada.
In 2025 he received WAAM's Lisa Williams Social Justice Award for environmental advocacy and published his first book, Olive of Ashokan, in 2026 with the support of an Arts Mid-Hudson Regrant.
“His colorful drawings and mixed-media sculptures may appear whimsical at first glance, but they ultimately serve as apocalyptic warnings of the future that awaits if humanity fails to curb the accelerating dangers of climate change.”
Nicole Goldberg. Executive Director, WAAM
"Douma's practice asks fundamental questions about humanity's place in nature."
Peter Aaron, Arts Editor, Chronogram.
Collin Douma
Canadian/American
1974-
Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, Douma took a summer painting class when he was 12, but by high school, animation was consuming him. At 17, he got a camcorder and began making traditional animated shorts, winning two film festivals and earning him a place in the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection for one of his very first efforts.
Douma studied animation at Algonquin College in Ottawa before navigating Toronto's arts scene and a career in New York's advertising industry. Through life's coincidences, he now lives near Woodstock, New York.
After settling into a wooden house in the rapidly drying forests of the Catskill Mountains in 2017, he evolved United Fauna from watercolors into hand-built mixed-media sculptures of creatures appropriating discarded human technology as weapons of resistance.
His work has traveled from Amsterdam to Peekskill, earning him WAAM's 2025 Lisa Williams Social Justice Award for environmental activism through art.
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