BIOGRAPHY

Born Winnipeg, Manitoba 1949
Studied University of Manitoba, B.F.A. Honours, 1973

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003-04     Blind Stairs, MSV University Art Gallery, Halifax, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge., Nickle Art Museum, Calgary, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston.  (catalogue)
2002 Portraits from Memory, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1999 Dark, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
1998/9 Not, A.L.L.M., 19 Charlotte Street, Toronto, ON.
1998 Cancelled, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Not in Exhibition, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995 States of Mind, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1992-94 Sum over Histories - 10 Year Survey, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask.; Museum London,
London, Ont.; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
1992 Artists with Their Work Programme, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario.
1992 Plots and Themes, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Plots and Themes, Laurentian Art Gallery, Sudbury, Ontario
1990 The Last Tasmanians, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1989 Name, 49th Parallel, New York, NY
1989 Interview, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario.
1988 The Surface of Behaviour, Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
1988 Janice Gurney, Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
1988 Ashes and Diamonds, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Open Studio Prints, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
1986 For the Audience, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1986 The Damage is Done, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
1986 The Damage is Done, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1984 The Damage is Done, Simon Fraser University Downtown Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1984 Reparations, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1981 The Battle of the Somme, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NASCAD, Halifax, N.S.
1981 The Battle of the Somme, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 Artist Against the Occupation, Forest City Gallery, London, ON.
2002 My Rolodex, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON.
2002 Letters for Literacy, Dixon Hall literacy fundraiser, Hart House, University of Toronto, ON.
2001 The Way Up and the Way Down Are One and the Same, 5 Grafton Avenue, Toronto
2000 Odd Bodies, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta, Oakville Galleries; Oakville, ON.
2000 Time, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2000 Typecast, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1999 TSA30, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON.
1999 Still Life, York Quay Centre; Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON.
1998 Texte/Counter-Text, Thielsen Gallery, London, ON.
1998 The Word in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of North York, Ontario
1998 Informal Ideas 98.3, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Art Chicago 98 Art Fair, Navy Pier, Chicago
1998 Informal Ideas 98.2 (Degrees of Abstraction), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Informal Ideas, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1997 The Exquisite Corspe in Lotusland, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
1997 Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1997 ARCO, Wynick/Tuck Gallery at ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
1996 The Middle Show, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Limousine, Free Parking, Toronto, Ontario
1996-7 Bereft, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
1996 Reviews - Mass Media and Imagery: Art & Culture, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Face, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario; Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, PQ; Whitby Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
1996 List, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995 Rates of Exchange: The Changing Value(s) of Art, Innis College, University of Toronto
1995 Milieu: of the Order of Presentation, S.L. Simpson Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1994 Rob-O-Rama: Radiating Circles of Everlasting Love Magic, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1994 The Cabinet Project, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
1993-94 Bookends and Odd Books, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1993 Visual Evidence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1992 Unlocked Grids, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1992 CIAE, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Chicago International Art Exposition
1992 Brief Window, Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1992 Travelling Theory, Jordan National Art Gallery; Amman, Jordan, McIntosh Gallery; London,
Ontario
1991 Union Language, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 Limited Edition Handmade Books, Zoller Gallery, Penn. State University Park, PA.
1991 Working Drawings, Extension Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1990-91 Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art, Museum London, London, Ont.;
Mississauga Civic Centre, Mississauga, Ontario & Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1990 Trans-positions, Transit System, Vancouver, B.C. (catalogue)
1990 Telling Things, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Connected Voices, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ont.
1990 Re-enactment: Between Self and Other, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Fault Line, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ont.
1989 The Mothers of Invention, McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1989 The Mothers of Invention, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY
1989 The Anti-graceful, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1988 Identity/Identities, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1988 Art, Sight and Language: Some Contemporary Canadian Art a Reading/Writing of Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1987 Toronto Exchange Show, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1987 Cut, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1987 An Active Process: Artists' Books, Presentation House, North Vancouver, B.C
Photographic and Contemporary
1987 At the Threshold, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Homage to Marcel Duchamp, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
1987 Acknowledgements, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Two Person Show, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1986 Art Cologne `86 , 20th Annual International Art Fair,Cologne, West Germany
1986 Je, Tu, Elle, Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
1986 YYZ World Tour 86, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario
1986 In a Different Voice, YYZ/The Funnel, Toronto, Ontario
1985 Photographic Memory, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1985 Urban Circuit, (N)On-Commercial Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1985 Production/Reproduction, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask.
1985 She writes in white ink, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1985 Gallery Artists, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1984 Subjects in Pictures, 49th Parallel, New York, NY
1984 Subjects in Pictures, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1983 International Women's Coalition, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario
1983 Photographic Sources, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1983 Grain, A.K.A., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1983 Production/Reproduction, Space, Toronto, Ontario
1983 Parisian Laundry, Women in Focus, Vancouver, B.C.
1983 Department for the West, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1982 Representation as a Kind of Absence, Open Space, Victoria, B.C.
1982 YYZ Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario

ARTISTS BOOK

1984 Moveable Wounds (An Essay in Composition), Art Metropole, Toronto

PUBLICATIONS

2002 Leaves, artist postcard, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON.
2002 Panya Clark Espinal and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Lola #12, summer issue
2000 Speculation (Blue Chip, Red Dot), Capital Culture”, ed. By Berland, J & Hornstein, S.,
McGill University and Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston
1997 Hopeless Misrepresentation: An Interview with FASTWURMS, Lola, Dec., Toronto
The Tremor of Forgery, The Windsor Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring, University of Windsor, Ontario
1992 A Flow of Information, Harbour, Vol.2, No.1, Fall, Montreal, Quebec.
1990 The Salvage Paradigm, pamphlet, YYZ & Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto.
1989 Morality, the Body, and Death, Artviews, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, March/April/May.
1988 The Taking of Photographs is Strictly Prohibited, Parachute #50, Montreal, Quebec.
1988 The Surface of Behaviour, Photo Communique, Spring, Toronto.
1987 Cover, Artviews, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Fall Issue.
1986 The Interpretation of Architecture, catalogue, Foreword, YYZ, Toronto.
1985 Emphasis Mine, C Magazine, No.5, Toronto.
1984 Moveable Wounds (An Essay in Composition), Art Metropole, Toronto.
1984 Jamelie Hassan: London Regional Art Gallery, Parachute, Fall.
1983 Fig.1, Grain, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, November

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2003    Falvey, Emily and Isajiw, Sophia,.catalogue essays for Blind Stairs
2003    Lebredt, Gordon. Janice Gurney: a presentation to come, Parachute 109, Mtl.
2000 Kerkham, Ruth. Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
2000 Whyte, Ryan. Janice Gurney, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON.
1999 Dault, Gary Michael and MacKay, Gillian. Still Life. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON.
1997 Lebredt, Gordon. Affirmations All the Same, LOLA, Dec., Toronto
1997 Martin, Elizabeth & Myer, Vivan. Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists, Second Story Press, Ohio
1996 Podedworny, Carol. Bereft-Hallwalls, Buffalo, C Magazine #51, fall, Toronto
1994 Hanna, Deirdre. Beloved Robert Flack lives in three-part tribute, NOW magazine, Dec. 15-21.19
1994 Bradley, Jessica and Johnstone, Lesley. (ed.). Sight-Lines - Reading Contemporary Canadian Art,
Artextes editions, Montreal, Quebec. (photograph).
1994 Tousley, Nancy. Gurney Work Shines in its Own Company, Calgary Herald, April 8, 1994.
1994 Taylor, Kate. A Cabinet Full of Concepts, The Globe and Mail, February 2, 1994.
1994 Beattie, Greg. Sum Over Histories, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Extension, Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter, Toronto.
1993 Beattie, Greg. Appropriation with Collaboration, Regina Leader Post.
1993 Grenville, Bruce. Janice Gurney: Sum over Histories, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Canadian Art, Winter,
Vol. 10, No.4, Toronto.
1993 Matyas Joe. Gurney pulls powerful images from the mundane, The London Free Press, London, Dec. 11.
1993 Mays, John Bentley. Time steals talent's punch, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 13.
McGrath, Jerry. Janice Gurney-The Power Plant, Toronto, January 15-February 21, Parachute #71,
Montreal, July, August, September.
1993 Jenkner, Ingrid. Visual Evidence, catalogue, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
1993 Sum over Histories, catalogue, Winnipeg Art Gallery Press.
1993 Lebredt, Gordon. Of the Two Faces of Medusa, Texts 9, Winter 1993
1992 Taylor, Kate. About Art, The Globe and Mail, January 17.
1992 Taylor, Kate. Shaping a Translation of Language, The Globe & Mail, Feb. 28.
1992 Hutcheon, Linda ed. Double-Talking, ECW Press, Toronto
1992 McIlroy, Randal. WAG explores 10 Years of Gurney Art Creations, Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 24.
1992 Gilmor, Alison. Other Artists' work shows Raw Material, Winnipeg Free Press, Oct.3.
1991 Rhodes, Richard. Fast Forward Section, Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Winter.
1991 Cheetham, Mark. Remembering Post-Modernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art, Oxford
University Press, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Hanna, Deirdre. Innovative Collaborations Create New Language, NOW magazine, Sept. 12-18.
1990 Gagnon, Monika. Re-enactment: Between Self and Other, C Magazine, #26, summer, Toronto.
1990 Genereux, Linda. Changing Perspectives in Art-Making, Canadian House & Home, pp. 52, 55.
1990 Fisher, Barbara. Catalogue essay, Re-enactment: Between Self and Other, Power Plant Gallery,
Toronto.
1990 Lebredt, Gordon. Catalogue essay, Dire Traits, A.Y.E.A.R.S.T.P.A.T.T.O.N.G.U.R.N.E.Y.,
1990 Connected Voices, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, pp. 12-18.
1990 Mays, John Bentley. A glimmer of hope amid society's ruins, The Globe and Mail, April 13.
1990 Mays, John Bentley. Paying homage to some tuckered out doctrines, The Globe and Mail, April 6.
1989 Isaak, Jo-anna. Catalogue essay, The Mothers of Invention, Geneva, NY.
1989 Rhodes, Richard. Pamphlet introduction, 49th Parallel, New York, NY.
1989 Lypchuk, Donna. Focus on Janice Gurney, Canadian Art, Fall, p. 118.
1989 Donohoe, Victoria. 42 paintings in a Moorestown show, Philadelphia Inquirer.
1989 Grenville, Bruce. Exhibition essay, The Anti-graceful, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.
1989 Mays, John Bentley. Feeble works no `threat' to modernism, The Globe and Mail, May 27, p. C16.
1989 Lypchuk, Donna. Slow falling from grace, Metropolis, Toronto, May 25.
1989 Moorehouse, Asheleigh. Art, Sight, and Language, Penumbra Press, Kapushasing, Ontario.
1988/9 Bedard, Catherine. Janice Gurney et Colette Whiten, Parachute #53.
1988 Madill, Shirley. Catalogue essay, Identity/Identities, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba.
1988 Monk, Philip. Struggles with the Image, YYZ Books, Toronto.
1988 Caron, Nathalie. Points de Repere, Voir, Montreal, Quebec, du 6 au 12 octobre.
1988 Gavel, Claire. Le Devoir, Montreal, Quebec, 15 octobre.
1988 Gagnon, Monika. MC, C Magazine, no. 18, Toronto.
1988 Rhodes, Richard. Janice Gurney, ARTFORUM, New York, NY, May.
1988 Carr-Harris, Ian. Canadian Art, Toronto.
1988 Randolph, Jeanne. At the Threshold, Parachute #50, Montreal, Mar/Apr/May.
1987 Gagnon, Monika. Work in Progress, Women's Press, Toronto, Ont. (photograph).
1987 Rans, Goldie. Homage to Duchamp, review, Vanguard, November, pp.36-37.
1987 Ranfft, Erich. Active Process: Artists' Books, Photographic and Contemporary, catalogue,
Presentation House, North Vancouver, B.C.
1987 Grenville, Bruce. At the Threshold: Representation and Identity, catalogue, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.
1987 McGill Balfour, Barbara & Hemminghaus, Randy. Je, Tu, Elle, C Magazine, No. 13, Toronto
1987 Mays, John Bentley. Acknowledgements, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, February 26.
1987 Grenville, Bruce. For the Audience, catalogue, Mount St. Vincent Gallery, Halifax, N.S., September.
1986 Tuer, Dot. To Speak of Difference, Parachute #43, Montreal, June/July/August.
1986 Gagnon, Monika. Janice Gurney, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Parachute #43, June/July/August.
1986 Miles, Geoff. Janice Gurney, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Vanguard, Summer, Vancouver, B.C.
1986 Lebredt, Gordon. Me and My Maculations, C Magazine, No. 11, Toronto.
1986 Guest, Tim. Janice Gurney: The Damage is Done, Previews, Canadian Art, Toronto, Spring.
1986 Corbeil, Carole. Gurney confronts the masculine gaze, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 13.
1986 Doyle, Judith. In a different Voice, catalogue, YYZ, Toronto.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY con’t.
1985 Tousley, Nancy. Show based on female experience, Calgary Herald, May 17.
1985 Linker, Kate. Subjects in Pictures, ARTFORUM, New York, February.
1984/5 Dault, Gary Michael. Reading Philip Monk, Canadian Art, Toronto, Winter.
1984/5 Monk, Philip. Subjects in Pictures, (reprint of catalogue essay), Parachute #37, Montreal, Dec-Feb.
1984 Monk, Philip. Subjects in Pictures, catalogue, YYZ, Toronto.
1984 Monk, Philip. Axes of Difference, Vanguard, Vancouver, May.
1984 Monk, Philip. Production/Reproduction, Vanguard, Vancouver, February.
1983 Catalogue, Production/Reproduction, A Space, Toronto.
1983 Mays, John Bentley. A Space chooses evolution over revolution, The Globe and Mail, November 26.
1983 Patton, Andy. Civil Space, Parachute #31, Montreal, June-August.
1983 Knight, Katherine. Representation as a Kind of Absence, Vanguard, Vancouver, February.
1982/3 Guest, Tim. Monumenta, Parachute #29, Montreal, December-February.
1981 Monk, Philip. Janice Gurney: YYZ, Art Express, New York, NY., May.
1981 Carroll, Nancy. Janice Gurney: YYZ, Vanguard, Vancouver, March.

TEACHING POSITIONS

1997-present Toronto School of Art, Toronto
1992-93 Sheridan College, Oakville Ontario, Painting Instructor
1989 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario, Visiting Instructor, Photography
1987/92 Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario, Visiting Instructor
1984 Simon Fraser University, Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C., Seasonal Instructor
1980-81 Artists Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Three Schools, New School classes, "Narrative Painting"
1974-75 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Adult Drawing classes

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2005 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Visiting Artist
2005 Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Visiting Artist
2005 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, photography, Visiting Artist
2003 Greg Curnoe Adjusted, Symposium, Museum London, London, Ont.
2001 We are not Greg Curnoe, Symposium, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1998 University of Toronto, Ontario, Visiting Artist, Visiting Artist
1997 Make Art, Get Wired, Get Paid, Winnipeg, Manitoba, conference panellist
1997 York University, Toronto, Ontario., Visiting Artist
1995 Innis College, University of Toronto, panel, "Making Art Worth It"
1993 Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, panel, "Visual Evidence"
1990 Wynick/Tuck Gallery & YYZ, Toronto, Ont., curator, "The Salvage Paradigm"
1988 Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Ont., Visiting Artist
1988 University of Toronto, Ont., Fine Arts Society, Visiting Artist
1988/94/99 University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Visiting Artist
1987/90/91/93/97 York University, Toronto, Ont., Visiting Artist
1987 Photo Communiqué, Toronto, Ont., panellist, "Talking Pictures"
1987 Open Studio, Toronto, Ont., Guest Artist Programme
1986/89/90/92 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ont., Visiting Artist
1986 YYZ, Toronto, Ont., co-curator, "The Interpretation of Architecture"
1984 Simon Fraser University, Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C., Visiting Artist
Photography divisions
1984 Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, B.C., Visiting Artist, Painting &
Photography divisions
1984 Rivoli, Toronto, Ont., Panellist, "The Practice of Pictures: Representation in Toronto Art"
1982-89 YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, Ont., Board of Directors
1980/90 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S., Visiting Artist

AWARDS

2000 Visual Arts, Toronto Arts Council
2000 Visual Arts Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1996 Photography, Toronto Arts Council
1995 Photography Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1988/90 Work in Progress Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1986/87/89/91/92/94/99 Arts Grant 'B', Canada Council
1982 Short Term Grant, Canada Council
1981/83/85 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1981/84/86/
89/91/92 Materials Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council

COLLECTIONS

Private and Public collections including:

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
The Mcintosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario
Musee d'Art Contemporan, Montreal, Quebec
The Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario

Janice Gurney is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.