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James Carl

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Bio / Education

  • 1960 Born, Montreal, Canada
  • 1993-1996 Rutgers University, New Jersey, MFA
  • 1994-1995 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Diploma
  • 1988-1992 McGill University, Montreal, BA Honors
  • 1989-1990 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Diploma
  • 1980-1983 University of Victoria, British Columbia, BFA Honors

Solo Exhibitions / Projects

  • 2006 negative spaces, Florence Loewy, Paris
  • 2004 final concession, the Balcony, Toronto
  • 2003 Plot, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, and Open Space, Victoria
  • 2002 bottom feeder, Mercer Union, Toronto
  • 1999 Work, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1998 Galerie Clark, Montral
  • Stock, Art Metropole, Toronto
  • 1997 Fountain, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
  • 1996 Still Life, Paul Petro, Toronto
  • Out of Service, Civic Square, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1994 Unentitled, YYZ, Toronto
  • 1993 public works, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1992 re-possession, Galerie Clark, Montreal
  • 1991 Spring Collection, a public sculpture, Montreal
  • 1990 Border Patterns, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2006 Habitat, Jessica Bradley Projects, Toronto
  • 2005 Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
  • 2004 Le Lieu en Practique, Artexte, Montreal
  • Constructa, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
  • Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
  • 2003 Re:cycle, McMaster University, Hamilton
  • 2002 New Modular, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto
  • Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • Don, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  • Pile, Barkenhoff Atelier,Worpswede, Germany
  • 2001 Pool, York Quay Centre, Toronto
  • Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • Forever, Embassy of Canada, Beijing
  • First Light, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
  • Objets de Convoitise, Galerie 101, Ottawa
  • 2000 Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  • Minutia, SECCA, North Carolina
  • Climbing the Walls, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto
  • 1999 New Urban Sculpture, New York Public Art Fund Commission
  • Spatial Interest, Workspace, New York
  • Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
  • 1999 Something, Kunstverein Hannover
  • I'm the Boss of Myself, Sara Meltzer, New York
  • 1997 Wrong Place, Right Time, Double Pleasure, New York
  • Mannequins, Villa Minimo, Hannover
  • Face Value, PS 122, New York
  • Work/Site, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • 1996 Limousine, Free Parking, Toronto
  • Sac de Hockey, Paul Petro @ 100 Yonge, Toronto
  • Vague Pop Part One, View Room, New York
  • 1995 Weihai Public Sculpture Symposium, Shandong, China
  • Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
  • DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto
  • 1993 Artropolis, Vancouver
  • Word Power, Foto Based Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1991 Les Jardins Imprevus, Montreal

Critical Reviews

  • Robin Peck, "Rock Paper Scissors," C Magazine, (Toronto), June, 2005.
  • Sara Milroy, "Conceptual Art with your Pradas?" Globe and Mail (Toronto), Feb 4 2004, p.A3.
  • Catherine Osborne, "Come Up to My Room," National Post, February 14, 2004
  • Tralee Pearce, "Talk of the Town", Globe and Mail, (Toronto) May 8 2004, p. M6
  • Paul Trepanier, "Art Speak", Vernissage, Magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, spring 2004, p.27
  • Sarah Milroy, "Out of the Ordinary," Globe and Mail, 0212.03, p.R5.
  • Peter Goddard, "An Art World Made Up" Toronto Star, 02.11.23, p.J8
  • Rosemary Heather, Private Public Art Venues" C Magazine, #75, 02 fall, p.28.
  • Sarah Milroy, "Thoroughly Modern Art," Globe and Mail, 02.09.25, p.R5.
  • Betty Ann Jordan, "Message in a Bottle," Toronto Life, 02.10, p.54.
  • Rosemary Heather, "Oona Stern," Tema Celeste, #92, p.94.
  • Ann Dean, "Politics and Romance," C Magazine, #73, 02 spring, p.23
  • Jessica Bradley, "On James Carl" Canadian Art, 01. Winter, p. 70.
  • Ruth Dusseault, "Winston-Salem," Art Papers, 01.05, p.40
  • Jill Conner, "Bellevue, Washington," Art Papers, 01.05, p. 54.
  • Gillian McKay, "the Best of Canadian Sculpture," Globe And Mail, 01.11.03, p. V5.
  • Craig Stewart, "Promises" Terminal City, (Vancouver), 01.10.12, p.17.
  • Michael Scott, "Gallery lives up to Promises," Vancouver Sun, 01.11.15, p.c4.
  • Brian McLaughlin, "Toronto Sculpture Garden," Canadian Art, Summer 2001.
  • Doug Kim, "Museum premiers with light, passion," Seattle Times/Post, 01.01.07, p.F1.
  • Ron Glowen, "Luminous at the Bellevue Art Museum," Artweek, 01.03.28
  • Aline Bgin, "Ou Convoitise et Commerce se Rencontrent," Le Droit (Ottawa-Hull) 01.04.21, p.A46
  • Deirdre Hanna, "Bronson's Idea," Now Magazine (Toronto), Jan 11-17, 2001, p.53.
  • Daphne Gordon, "Art by Numbers," Toronto Star, 01.02.10, p.M10.
  • Louis Jacob, "Art Market," Lola (Toronto), Winter 2001, p.22.
  • Glen Helfand, "Minimal Pop," San Francisco Bay Guardian, 00.05.03, p 103.
  • Robert Mahoney, "New Urban Sculpture," Time Out New York, 00.10.31, p.56
  • Roberta Smith, "Stretching Definitions of Outdoor Sculpture," New York Times, 00.7.28, p. B25.
  • Gary Michael Dault, "Gallery Going," Globe and Mail (Toronto), 00.7.22, p.R10
  • Carol Vogel, "Inside Art," New York Times, 99.10.15, p. B32.
  • New Yorker, "Goings on About Town," 99.9.13.
  • John Grande, "James Carl," Sculpture , (Chicago), Apr. 99, pp. 18-25.
  • Marcus Miller, "Essential Items," Mirror (Montreal) 98.10.8, p. 31.
  • Christopher Hume, "A Panoramic View...," The Toronto Star, 97.6.5, p.G12.
  • Gillian MacKay, "Sculptural Surrogates...," Globe and Mail (Toronto)97.5.31,p.C13.
  • Blake Gopnick, "James Carl's Corrugated Craft," The Globe (Toronto), 97.2.15, p. C4.
  • John Grande, "Exhibition Review," Atlanta Art Papers, 96.11.
  • Li Fei Dong (trans.) "James Carl de Gong Gong Zuo Pin," Shi Jie Meishu (World Art, Beijing), 94, #4, p. 45
  • Oliver Girling, "Uncanny Cardboard...," Eye (Toronto), 94.9.15, p. 60.
  • John Grande, "Which Public...," Espace Sculpture (Montreal), 94.9, p. 6.
  • Robin Peck, "Exhibition Review," Parachute (Montreal), 93.9, p. 62.
  • Ann Rosenberg, "Saturday Review," Vancouver Sun, 93.4.17, p. C9.
  • Liane Davison, James Carl, Public Works, Grunt Gallery Publication (Vancouver), 4.93.
  • Yvan Moreau, "Court Circuit, " Etc. Montreal, fevrier-mai 93, p. 63
  • John Grande, "James Carl's Euphemistic Reality," Espace (Montreal), Spring 1993, p.40
  • Wang Zhou Fan and Zhou Shu, "Chang Cheng Xia de Si Lu," Ming Pao Monthly (Hong Kong), 91.5, p.71

Awards, Honours, Grants

  • Paris Studio, Canada Council, 2006
  • Ontario Association of Art Galleries Design Award, 2003
  • Canada Council Production Grant, 2002
  • Canada Council Travel Grant , 2002
  • Ontario Arts Council Project Assistance, 2002
  • Canada Council Travel Grant, 2001
  • Canada Council "B" Grant, 1999
  • Tiffany Foundation, New York, 1999
  • Canada Council "B" Grant , 1997
  • Toronto Arts Awards, Protg Award (conferred by Tom Dean), 1996
  • Canada Council "B" Grant, 1995
  • Canada Council "B" Grant, 1994
  • Canada Council Short Term Grant, 1993
  • Conseils des Arts du Qubec Project Grant, 1993
  • Canada Council Travel Grant, 1992

Collections

  • Canada Council Art Bank
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  • Art Metropole Archive, National Gallery of Canada
  • McCarthy-Ttrault, Toronto Canada
  • Private Collections Canada, US, China, Germany

Publications

Catalogs

  • Re:cycle, Hamilton Artists Inc. 2003
  • Plot: James Carl, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003
  • Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2002
  • Luminous, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, 2001

Published Writing, Interviews

  • "Interview", with Christina Ritchie, Plot: James Carl, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003, pp. 21-27
  • "Local Time", Public 24, Being on Time, Toronto: Public Access Collective, 2002, pp 80-81.
  • "Preferences", Public 17, Talk, Toronto: Public Access Collective, 1998, pp. 81-90

Artist's Books

  • Content 1.0, published by Art Metropole and Mercer Union, 2002.
  • Legend, published by Art Metropole as part of the Little Cockroach Press Series, 1998.

Curatorial / Community Projects

  • 2000-2004 The Balcony. http://www.thebalcony.ca
  • 2000 Being on Time. Central Technical School, Toronto and Public Access Collective.
  • 1999 Summit, Gallery 5020 Salzburg, Austria.

Selected Lectures, Public Discussions

  • 2006 York University, Toronto
  • 2005 Ontario College of Art, Toronto
  • 2004 Ontario College of Art, Toronto
  • 2003 Canadian Art Foundation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • University of Regina , Saskatchewan
  • Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
  • Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
  • Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • 2002 Mercer Union, Toronto
  • University of Toronto
  • 2001 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
  • 2000 University of Lethbridge, Alberta
  • 1999 Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
  • 1997 Suffolk University, Boston
  • 1996 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland