BIOGRAPHY
Born Edmonton, Alberta 1962
Studied Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, MFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Travelling Show, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Further: The Paintings of Monica Tap, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2003 ECHO, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Further: The Paintings of Monica Tap, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2000 Recent Work, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Recent Work, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1999 Gallery 111, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1999 Different times, Different Views, Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
1998 Landscapes, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Reprise, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta
1997 Arrangements, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1997 New Works, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 Reprise, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 Florilegium, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1995 Inside Out, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1995 Inside Out, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
1995 New Paintings, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1994 Recent Work, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1992 Paintings, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1991 Here and Away, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1990 Freeze Frame, BFA exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 The Big Abstract Show, Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 The Free Biennial, New York, NY
2002 New Acquisitions, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
2001 The Brittle Landscape, Buckham, Flint, MI
2001 New Work, Monica Tap and Alex Livingston, Studio 21 Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2000 The Single Tree, London Regional Art and Historical Museum. London, Ontario
2000 Field Work, The Painting Center, New York, New York (2 person, with Don Lewallen)
2000 Wet Paint, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Wallpapers, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Art Metropole. Toronto
2000 The Painting Centre, New York, New York
1999 Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction, MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph 1999 Copy Cat, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1999 Style Council, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax
1999 Landscape, Process, and Perception. Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1999 Three Lawyers, a Priest and a Curator, The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
1999 The Hallowed Land: Canadian Landscape Paintings - from the Hart House Permanent Collection
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
1999 Landscape:Process and Perception, Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary
1998 Questions of Landscape, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1998 Theatrum Mundi:Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C
1998 Summer group, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, New York
1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Wynick Tuck Gallery at Art 1998 Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago
1998 Six Degrees of Separation, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1998 Foundlings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1998 Informal Ideas 98.2 (degrees of abstraction), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Theatrum Mundi: Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brun.
1997 Royal Over-Seas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition, U.K. & Edinburgh, Scotland
1997 Disrepresentations. New abstract painting: Jeff Spalding, Dick Der, Isla Burns, Monica Tap,
Angela Ingels, Martin Bennet, Damien Moppett, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1997 Colour and the Square, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Still Life: Twelve Artists from Edmonton, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 MFA Fondu, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 The Art of Acquisition, Edmonton Art Gallery Travelling Exhibitions Program
1995 The Food Show, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1995 Ports of Entry, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Paris Gibson Sq. Museum of Art, Montana
1995 Still Life, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta
1995 Emerging Artists, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia
1995 Frontier, Fraser/Fort George Regional Museum, Prince George, British Colombia
1995 Paintings: Monica Tap and Jane Mothersell, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1994 Interiors, Horizon Art Galleries, Vancouver, British Colombia
1994 New Artists/New Works '94, Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1994 Series Instructors Group Show, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
1994 Prairie North, Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1994 St. Albert Winter Games, Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
1993 The Grill is Closed, Guerilla Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta
1993 Coyotes Howl Again: Frontier, The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
1993 Series Instructors' Show, Red Deer College, Alberta
1993 Prairie North, Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande Prairies, Alberta
1992 two Small, Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
1992 What's New Alberta, Margaret Brine Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta
1991 Figures in the Hall, Art Evo, Edmonton, Alberta
1991 Print Five, Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
1989 Family Ties and The Windsor Knot, installation, The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
1989 Art For All, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1989 Beyond Borealis, Travelling Exhibitions, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1988 Nuclear Poodle Anyone?, installation, The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
1988 Times Two, Concrete, Edmonton, Alberta
1987 Unsettled, installation, The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
GRANTS & AWARDS
2002 Banff Centre for the Arts, Residency grant
2001 Research Grant, College of the Arts, University of Guelph
2000. Research Grant, College of the Arts, University of Guelph
1999 Presentation Grant, Nova Scotia Arts Council (NSAC)
1998 Canada Council mid-career (“B”) Grant
1997 Creation Grant, Nova Scotia Arts Council (NSAC)
1997 Research Grant, NSAC
1996 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture
1994-6 Graduate Fellowship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1994 Visual Arts Project Grants, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
1993 St. Albert Winter Games Postcard Competition
1989 Visual Arts Study Grant, Alberta Culture
INVITED LECTURES AND PANELS, OTHER
1989 Visual Arts Travel Grant, Alberta Culture
2002 Hungry Eyes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 Artist’s lecture, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 Visiting Artist, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2001 Visiting Artist, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
2001 Visiting Artist, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta
2001 “Painting, Pedagogy, and the Present Tense.” Chair. University Art Association of Canada, Montreal, Quebec
2001 Visiting Artist, Memorial University, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
2001 Visiting Artist, College of the North Atlantic, Stephenville, Newfoundland
2001 Artist’s lecture, Sheridan College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Mina Forsythe Lecturer. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1999 Minus forty: Abstraction by Canadian artists under forty” University Art Associations of Canada
Toronto, Ontario.
1999 Artist’s talk, Gallery 111, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1999 “Drawing on History,” Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1998 Visiting Artist, Painting Department, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Visiting Artist, York University, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Women and Paint. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997 Visiting Artist, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
1997 Curators and Artists in Conversation, University Art Association of Canada, Vancouver, British Colombia
1997 Visiting Artist, Painting Department, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Colombia
1996 Reprise, artist lecture, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 Quotations, Reference and Replication panel discussion, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 Florilegium, exhibition lecture, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
EDUCATION
1996 Master of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1986 Alberta College of Art
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES AND ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
New Works Residency, Juried. The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2002
St. Norbert’s Arts and Cultural Centre, invitational residency, St. Norbert’s, Manitoba 1999
Women and Paint Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 1998
Prairie North Artists Workshop, Grande Prairie, Alberta 1995, 1994, 1993
Board Development Instructor Training, Alberta Culture, Performing Arts Branch 1989
Independent Study: Burkina Faso, West Africa. Apprentice to traditional potter, 1984-85
Banff School of Fine Arts, Painting, Banff, Alberta, 1979
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1997-1998 University Art Association of Canada, member
1997-1998 College Art Association, member
1996-1997 Vice-Chair, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996-present CARFAC, member
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introductory Painting, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), winter 1998
Advanced Painting Workshop: Landscape. NSCAD, summer 1997
Intermediate Painting Workshop: Still Life. NSCAD, spring 1997
Intermediate Painting Workshop: Landscape. NSCAD, summer 1997
Landscape Drawing. NSCAD, summer 1996
Substitute Instructor: Foundation Drawing, Figure Drawing, Intermediate Painting, NSCAD, 1995-96
Teaching Assistant: Foundation Workshop, Landscape Painting, Intro Painting, NSCAD, 1994-96
Instructor, Painting workshops: Calgary, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie, 1995
Instructor, Series and Summerscapes programs, Red Deer College, Red Deer Alberta, 1992, 1993, 1998
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1995 Painting Workshops, Calgary Painters Guild, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie, Alberta
1994-1996 Foundation Workshop, Landscape Painting, Intro Painting, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1992-3 Series and Summerscapes, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
1996-7 Gallery Assistant, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1992-4 Co-ordinator, Visual Arts Programs, Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
1990-2 Art Program Officer, Alberta Foundations for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1986-1989 Visual Arts Co-ordinator/Curator, Profile Gallery, City of St. Albert, Alberta
CATALOGUES
Arden, Storme, The Food Show, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995
Burns, Katherine. “Landscape: Process and Perception” Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, 1999
Bradley, Ross. New Artists/New Works '94, Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, 1994
Eyland, Cliff. Monica Tap. Gallery 111, Winnipeg, Manitoba (pending), 2000
Eyland, Cliff. Six Painters. CD-ROM published by University of Manitoba (pending), 2001
Gauthier-Villon, Denis. Disrepresentations, Edmonton Art Gallery (multimedia disk), 1997
Gibson-Garvey, Susan. Reprise, Dalhousie Art Gallery, (exhibition folio) 1996
Gibson-Garvey, Susan. Theatrum Mundi: Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, 1998
Gibson-Garvey, Susan. Questions of Landscape, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998
Jenkner, Ingrid. Style Council
Millard, Laura. The Single Tree, London Regional Art an Historical Museums. London, Ontario, 2000
Mueller, Richard. Wallpapers. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2000
Royal Over-Seas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition, London, U.K. and Edinburgh, 1997
Reid, Stuart and Nancy Tousley. Further. Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON, 2003
Shuebrook, Ron. “Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstractions” Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON. 1999
Wagner, David. Ports of Entry, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1995
COLLECTIONS
Alberta Foundation for the Arts (1988, 1993, 1994), Alberta
Athabaska University, Edmonton, Alberta
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
City of St. Alberta, Alberta
Capital Care Group, Edmonton, Alberta
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Esso Imperial Oil Canada, Calgary, Alberta
Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Glenrose Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta
The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Morrison Petroleums, Calgary, Alberta
Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
Pan-Canadian, Calgary, Alberta
Public and private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beauchamp, Elizabeth. Visual Arts The Edmonton Journal, May 31 1991.
Berger, Carol. Tapping into the Masters: Modelling on Dutch Florals, Tap finds her own style. See Magazine
February 20-26, 1997 p7.
Boulding, Wendy. Monika (sic) Tap Moves from Truck Stops to Still Lifes: Vue, Arts and Entertainment Weekly, February 20-26, 1997, p28.
Boulet, Roger, Browsing the Galleries. Edmonton Journal, March 26, 1993.
Cairney, Richard. Postcards are picture perfect. St. Albert Gazette, January 15 1995.
Dault, Gary Michael. Don’t Look at Me Like That and other Imperatives of Recent Abstract Painting,” Canadian Art, Spring 2000.
Dault, Gary Michael. Monica Tap and Gary Neill Kennedy, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 18th, 2000
Dault, Gary Michael. Unembarrassed beauty, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 10th, 1998
Dowsett Johnson, Ann. 100 Canadians to Watch Maclean's, July 1, 1997.
Eyland, Cliff. Monica Tap. Arts Atlantic, Summer 2001, #68. Pp. 16-20
Glabush, Sky. Through a Glass Repetitively. Border Crossings, vol. 19, no. 1, p.81
Gopnik, Blake. Critic’s Choice, The Globe and Mail, November 25th
Hart, Matthew. There's Something About Monica, The National Post, January 2000.
Jordan, Betty Ann. Artists Work a Look in A Tyro's Guide to Art Collecting. The Globe and Mail, Sat. Feb. 8, 1997.
Laurence, Robin. Code Work, Canadian Art, spring 1998, p.96
Miller, Earl. Monica Tap: Landscapes, Arts Atlantic, Spring 1999, p.12-13
Metcalfe, Robin, Abstraction Returns to put on a Good Show at EAG, Edmonton Journal, May 16, 1997.
Metcalfe, Robin. Monica Tap: The Pleasure of Paint, in ARTSAtlantic, Spring 1997.
Metcalfe, Robin. Monica Tap and Jane Mothersell, C Magazine, Winter 1996.
Mandel, Charles, Still Lifes, The Edmonton Journal, January 20, 1996, pC5.
Mandel, Charles. Tap revives floral still life: High Praise from National Gallery, Edmonton Journal, Feb. 16, 1997.
Muelenbachs, Lelde. On the Walls, The Edmonton Bullet, June 19, 1991.
Rudophson, Bev. Painter returns to local roots, St. Albert Gazette, April 17th, 1999
Sabat, Christine. Analysis: group shows vs. solo shows, The Daily Gleaner, (N.B.) Nov. 22
Segal, Karne, Artist Taps into Small Town Locales, The Medicine Hat News, June 16 1995, p5.
Smulders, Marilyn. Finding a Modern Meaning in Flowers, The Daily News Halifax, October 19, 1996.
Tap, Monica. Lifetime brush-marked by child’s-eye view, The National Post, Sat. Jan 30th, 1999
Walentini, Joseph. Review of exhibition at the Painting Center. Abstract Art on Line. Jan 18th
White Ryan, Tap, Tap, Tapping on Painting's Door, Border Crossings Spring, 1997, p50.
Yoshinari, Mary. Monica Tap: reprise, Visual Art News, winter 1996, p14-15.
Monica Tap is represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
