BIOGRAPHY

Born Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, 1960

Education

1988 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1990 Artist Participant, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff
1996 MFA, University of Guelph, Guelph

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Always As If, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto , Ontario
2003 Scavenger’s Daughter, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto , Ontario
2003 Scavenger’s Daughter, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax , Nova Scotia
2000 Pucker, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 A Wet Moon, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Now We Are Alone Together, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
1993 Things of Beauty, Common Ground Gallery, Windsor
1990 In/Secure - 18 Portraits on Glass, Glyde Hall, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff
1989 Fragile, Handle With Care, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
1988 Balfour Avenue, University of Ulster, Belfast
1987 Studio to Street, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Beyond/In Western New York , Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo , New York , New York
2003 Big Abstract Show, Painting Center , New York , New York
2001 Triangle , Ontario College of Art , Toronto , Ontario
2000 Fresh Paint, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Time, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Gen Art Video Festival, Site-specific video project - Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 After a Few Drinks, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Informal Ideas 99.2, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Toronto Under 40 , Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto , Ontario
1999 Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction , Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph , Ontario
1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Wynick/Tuck Gallery at Art 1998 Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago
1998 Informal Ideas 98.3, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Informal Ideas 98.2 (Degrees of Abstraction), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1997 Informal Ideas 97.5, (Colour and the Square), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Informal Ideas 97.3, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Informal Ideas 97.1, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1996 Crossing Borders, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York
"1996", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
1995 The Home Show, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Niche (Install-Art Collective exhibition), installations in Guelph
1994 9, Gallery Moos, Toronto
The Barn's Exhibit, Zavitz Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph
1993 1993 Southwest Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
1992 Prison and Palace Reverberation, The Lebel Gallery, University of Windsor, Windsor (Past)
I ndustrial, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan
1990 La Bouche Dans Le Mur (a series of one-day solo exhibitions by Banff Centre Residents), The
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff
1987 Ecphore, Atlantic Artists' exhibition, Halifax

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bradley, Jessica. Perspective 96: Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario , 1996-97.
Campell, Nancy. Now We Are Alone Together. Guelph : Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1996.
Cronin, Ray. “ Cora Cluett,” C Magazine, Toronto : no. 39 (Fall 1993): 69-70.
Cronin, Ray. Cora Cluett Scavenger’s Daughter. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia , 2003.
Cronin, Ray. "Window Thing,” Canadian Art. Toronto : no. 4, vol.16 (winter 1999), 88.
Fischer, Nathalie-Roze. “ Painters give off mixed signals,” Now Magazine, Toronto : 5-11 December, 1996,85.
Gopnik, Blake. “ The Insider,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto : 25 Oct.,1997 , 26 (C)
Gopnik, Blake. “ Young Painters look backward to find tomorrow's art,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto : 23 Nov.,1996 , 12 (C)
Henderson, Kevin. Distilled: Halifax : The Khyber Arts Centre, 1999.
Jordan, Betty Ann. “Cora Cluett's delectable messes,” The Globe and Mail, 2 May, 1998 , 14(C).
Klages, Gregory. “ Intimacy in the Time of Plague,” Id Magazine, New York : September-October, 1996, 29.
Mahon, Patrick. "Painting's Hurts," Parachute, Montreal : no. 91 (July, August, September 1998): 29-33.
Moos, David. Queen Street Quarterly, Toronto : vol. 3, no. 3 (fall 1999): cover and p.43.
Moyes, Lianne. "Contemporary Feminist Baroque," Tesera, no 24 (summer 1998): 8-23 & 65.
Podedworney, Carol. 1996. Hamilton : Art Gallery of Hamilton , 1996.
Shuerbrook, Ron. Contigency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction. Guelph : Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1999
Vernon , Terri Robin, “ Ecphore 87,” ArtsAtlantic. Halifax : 8, no.2 (Winter 1988): 14-15.

ARTISTS' RESIDENCY PROGRAMS AND AWARDS

2005 Canada Council for the Arts Mid-Career Grant (Painting)
2004 UW/SSHRC Seed Grant, University of Waterloo
Learning Initiatives Fund, University of Waterloo
2003 Artist in Residence, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia , Halifax , Nova Scotia .
Canada Council for the Arts Mid–Career Grant (Painting)
1999 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
1998 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1997 Governor's General's Academic Gold Medal-University of Guelph
Triangle Artists' Workshop-Monroe, New York, U.S.A
Ontario Arts Photography B Grant
1996 Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts B Grant
1994 University of Guelph Graduate Scholarship
1992 Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
Canada Council Short Term Grant in Photography
1990 Banff Centre for the Arts Winter Residency Scholarship, Banff, Alberta
1989 Canada Council Short Term Grant in Photography
1988 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Off-Campus Scholarship

COLLECTIONS

Blake, Cassels, Graydon
Business Development Bank of Canada
Canada Council Art Bank
London Life Insurance Company
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre
McCarthy Tetrault
Nova Scotia Provincial Art Bank
Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt
Private Collections
University of Guelph

PANELS & COMMITTEES

2000-2003 Member of Post-Graduate Diploma in Electronic Imaging Assessment Panel
Member of MSc Assessment Panel
Member of Honours Degree Assessment Panel
Member of 4th year Time Based Art Mid-Year Review Assessment Panel
Member of 2nd year Time Based Art Assessment Panel
School of Television - School Committee Member
Member of Cultural, Theoretical and Historical Studies Structuring Committee
MSc Applications Panel
2004- MFA Applications and Grading Panel
SOFA Faculty Liason
Student and Faculty Gallery Co-ordinator
Ontario Graduate Scholarship Awards Panel

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2004- Assistant Professor – Department of Fine Arts, University of Waterloo .
2001-2003 Fractional Full-time Lecturer – Time Based Art & MSc Programme, School of Fine Art, School of Televison and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
1999-2000 Associate Lecturer – Time Based Art and Art History Programme, School of Fine Art , School of Televison and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee , United Kingdom
1998 Associate Lecturer – 3rd Year Drawing and Painting (winter semester), Department of Fine Art and Music, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee , United Kingdom
Sessional Instructor-Painting IV (winter semester), Department of Fine Art and Music,
University of Guelph, Ontario
1997 Visiting Artist-Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
1997 Painting Seminar-"Abstraction- Then and Now". Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997 Visiting Artist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1997 Sessional Instructor-Intermediate Studio (summer semester), Department of Fine Art, University of Guelph
1997 Sessional Instructor-Intermedia (winter semester), Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
1993-95 Sessional Instructor-Photography I (fall semester), Teaching Assistant- Visual Studies II
(winter semester), Teaching Assistant- Extended Media (winter semester), Teaching Assistant- Advanced Photography (fall semester); Department of Fine Art, The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
1991-92 Administrative Assistant, Artcite Inc., Windsor, Ontario
1991-93 Active Member-Programming/Selection/Special Events Committees, Artcite Inc., Windsor Inc., Windsor, Ontario
1990 Recorded Material Co-Codinator- Radia-Post-Radio Free Banff, The Banff Centre for the Arts,
Banff, Alberta
1989 Visual Arts Officer, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Halifax, NS


Cora Cluett is represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada