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Will Gorlitz

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Professor

Zavitz Hall Room 414

wgorlitz@uoguelph.ca

519-824-4120 x53224

Education

  • 1977 B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2005 Birch Libralato, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2004 Galerie Ren Blouin, Montral, Quebec (1999, 1996, 1991)
  • 2002 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (1998, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1991,1990, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1983)
  • 1994 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1991 Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France
  • 1990 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
  • 1989 Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 1988 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • 1987 49th Parallel, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • 1986 The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1984 YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Ontario

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2005 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia - From New Image to New
    Wave: Legacy of NSCAD in the Seventies
  • 2004 Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario - Bloom (Gorlitz, Richter,
    Latour)
  • 2003 Galerie de l'UQAM, Universit du Qubec Montral, Montral, Qubec -
    preuve de Distance
  • 2003 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario - Painters 15
  • 2002 Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China - Painters 15
  • 2002 Art Gallery of North York, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the
    Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario - Regarding Landscape
  • 1989 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario - Canadian Biennial of
    Contemporary Art
  • 1987 Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York - Toronto Exchange
  • 1985 So Paulo, Brazil - So Paulo Bienal
  • 1985 Galerie Walcheturm, Binz 39, Zurich, Switzerland - Fire and Ice
  • 1985 Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario - Late Capitalism
  • 1985 Aorta, Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Doppelgnger
  • 1984 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario (circulating ) - Open Space, Victoria, B.C.
    Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia - 80/1/2/3/4. Toronto: Content/Context

Publications

  • Gorlitz, Will. "Alienation, Painting and Polemics". Doug Kirton: Times of Uncertainty - Painting 1983-1999, London Regional Art & Historical Museum, 2001.

Exhibition Curation

  • 1999 Times of Uncertainty, Doug Kirton: Paintings 1983 - 1999, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, London Regional Art & Historical Museums

Selected Bibliography

  • Bell Farrell, Carolyn. The Three Essays Trilogy, Oakville Galleries, Oakville,
    1990.
  • Enright, Robert. "The Miss of Sisyphus", Border Crossings, Fall 2002, vol.21,
    no.4.
  • Fischer, Barbara. Perspective 86, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1986.
  • Guest, Tim. Late Capitalism, Toronto: the Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto,
    Jan.11-Feb.17, 1985.
  • Keziere, Russel. "The Troubled Mirror: Will Gorlitz's Real Time", Will Gorlitz: Real
    Time, The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, 1994.
  • Klucinakas, Jean. "Will Gorlitz, Galerie Ren Blouin", Parachute, no.63, juillet-
    aout-septembre 1991, pp.33-34.
  • Loughery, John. "Will Gorlitz, 49th Parallel", Arts Magazine, Dec. 1987, vol.62,
    no.4, p.10.
  • McGrath, Jerry. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - at Home with Freud, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, 1989.
  • Murray, Joan. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Toronto/Oxford, Dundurn
    Press, 1999.
  • O'Brien, Peter. "Consumed with that which it was nourished by: Will Gorlitz's Literary Landscapes", University of Toronto Quarterly, Spring 1997, vol.66, no.2, pp.403-410
  • Rhodes, Richard. Will Gorlitz, Canadian Art , Fall 1998, pp 18-19.
  • Wood, William. Will Gorlitz, 49th Parallel, New York, 1987.