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About Peter

Peter Osicka, OptiCom Marketing Group Ltd. co-founder and current President & Creative Director, has been guiding the company since 1991. Peter’s unique understanding of both the creative and strategic issues of brand marketing, advertising and promotions, combined with his creative & innovative executional approach, has helped OptiCom solidify one of the leading positions in the promotional marketing industry in Canada. Over the past 20 years, Peter has personally developed many unique, fully integrated promotional marketing campaigns for blue-chip companies such as Nestle Canada, Cadbury Beverages, Ferrero Canada, BIC Inc. and many others.

Peter Osicka attended the School of Business Administration at University of Western Ontario, The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation in Pittsburgh, holds Fine Arts diploma from Fanshawe College and RGD designation from The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Canada and ICOGRADA. Peter is also an accomplished artist in his own right, specializing in fine-art printmaking. He has shown his work extensively across Canada having numerous one-man shows and participating in many group exhibitions. His work is a part of corporate collections at TD Canada Trust, J.A. Whaley & Assoc., The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Vidal Sassoon/P&G, House-Sol Art Gallery and Fanshawe College among others. His work has been published in “Canadian Artist in Exhibition” Roundstone 1974, and many other regional and national publications. Peter is a big supporter of up and coming artists, establishing Art in Heart commissions for OCAD art students in Toronto during the late 1980’s. In his spare time Peter enjoys the pursuit of his creative work and arts in general, as well as getting back to playing his cornet.

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PRINCIPAL ART EXHIBITIONS

1960 – 1965	Various Youth Art Exhibitions, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1968	Moved to Canada
1971	Rothmans Art Gallery Group Exhibition, Stratford, Ont.
1972	One-Man Show, Chimo House Gallery, London, Ont.
1973	Graphex I, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ont. Progress 7, Five-Man Show, Trajectory Gallery, London, Ont. 33rd Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery One-Man Show, Polyglot Art Gallery, London, Ont.
1974	Two-Man Show, House-Sol Art Gallery, Georgetown, Ont. Graphex II, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ont.
1975	One-Man Show, Fred Landon Library, London, Ont. International Print Show, London Regional Art Gallery
1976	Graphics and Photo-Graphics, London Regional Art Gallery 36th Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery
1977	Graphex V, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ont.
1978	38th Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery
1978 – 1980	Participated in various traveling Art Exhibitions in Ontario
1982	Established a graphic design & marketing services agency
1986 – 1990	Art in Heart, student commissions, OCAD, Toronto

COLLECTIONS

	Fanshawe College, London, Ont.
	TD Canada Trust Corporate Collection, Toronto, Ont.
	House-Sol Art Gallery, Georgetown, Ont.
	The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Collection, Guelph, Ont.
	Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
	Vidal Sassoon commission, P&G, Toronto
	Lawson & Jones Limited, London, Ont.
	The Bachinsky-Chu Print Study Collection, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph,
	John Whaley & Assoc., London, Ont.
	Private collections in Canada, USA and Europe

PUBLICATIONS

1962 - 1965	Numerous youth art awards, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1973	“Critic likes Osicka work…” London Free Press
1974	Canadian Artist in Exhibition # 1/1972-1973 Rotunda Publication
1974	“Noted artist…” London Free Press