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Monica Tap

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Associate Professor

Zavitz 405

X56275

mtap@uoguelph.ca

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2005 Travelling Show. Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Over here/ over there. Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 2004 Paintings. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.
  • New Work. Studio 21 Art Gallery. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • 2003 Echo, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 2002 Further, Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery. Owen Sound, Ontario.
  • Groundwork, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
  • 2000 Field work, The Painting Center, New York, New York.
  • New Paintings, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • New Work, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta.
  • 1999 Fields, Gallery 1.1.1, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Landscapes, St. Norbert's Arts and Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • 1998 Landscapes, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 1997 Arrangements, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  • New Works, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
  • 1996 Reprise, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2006 Pulse: Abstract Painting and Film, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
  • Invitational benefit auction. Dieudonne, New York, NY
  • ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) Open Weekend. NY, NY
  • Under Five; EFA Gallery (curated video screening)
  • Armoury Afterhours. SuperTrader Gallery. Brooklyn, NY (curated video screening)
  • Fabulous, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 2005 Abstraction Attraction. Studio 21 Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 2003 The Big Abstract Show, The Painting Center, NY
  • Painting!, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
  • The Boat Show, Wynick Tuck, Toronto, ON
  • 2002 The Free Biennial, New York, NY
  • 2001 The Brittle Landscape, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
  • 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
  • Wet Paint Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • Wallpapers. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S. and Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1999 Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction. MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
  • Copy Cat, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Style Council, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery , Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Landscape, Process and Perception. Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  • The Hallowed Land: Canadian Landscape Painting from the Hart House Permanent Collection. Hart House, Toronto, On.
  • 1998 Questions of Landscape, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Theatrum Mundi: Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
  • Summer group, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, New York
  • Six Degrees of Separation, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
  • Foundlings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 1997 Theatrum Mundi: Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
  • Royal Over-Seas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition, London, U.K. and Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Disrepresentations: New Abstract Painting. Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 1995 The Food Show, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Ports of Entry, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Montana

Published Writing

  • "The princess and the paintbox" in Jane Fine. (exhibition catalogue). Peirogi, Brooklyn, New York. p.24. 2003
  • "hungry eyes" in Gibson-Garvey, Susan and Monica Tap. hungry eyes. Halifax: Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 2002.
  • "Inspirations: Lifetime brush marked by child's eye view" The National Post, January 30, 1999

Curatorial Projects

  • hungry eyes: new abstract painting in New York and Toronto
  • Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. October 18- December 1, 2002

Selected Catalogues

  • 2003 Reid, Stuart and Nancy Tousely. Monica Tap: Paintings. Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
  • 2003 Spector, Buzz and Julia Morrisroe. Painting! Central Michigan University Art Gallery. Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
  • 2000 Millard, Laura. The Single Tree. London Regional Art and Historical Museums. London, Ontario
  • 1999 Shuebrook, Ron. "Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction" MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
  • 1999 Burns, Katherine. "Landscape: Process and Perception" Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
  • 1999 Jenkner, Ingrid. Style Council. Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
  • 1998 Gibson-Garvey, Susan. Questions of Landscape, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

Selected Bibliography

  • 2005 Bethune-Leaman. "Mash-Ups: A Paradigm of Intertextuality, Monica Tap's Reiterations of Van Gogh's Drawings, and some Sol LeWitt for good measure." Open Studio (exhibition brochure).
  • 2005 Canadian Art, .Fall, 2005, Webb, Marshall. p. 141 (review)
  • 2005 The Globe and Mail, Dault, Gary Michael. "Motion Pictures. Section 7, p. R29, June 20 (article/ review)
  • 2004 The Daily News, Smulders, Marilyn. "Lovely on their own, but look closer", Halifax, N.S. p.25 (review)
  • 2003 BorderCrossings Issue No.88, Enright, Robert. "Hover Crafting: the art of Monica Tap." p. 64-71 (interview)
  • 2003 Canadian Art, Fall 2003, Fullerton, Kim. Monica Tap, p. 148 (review).
  • 2003 The Globe and Mail, Dault, Gary Michael. Monica Tap at Wynick Tuck March 1, p. R11 (review)
  • 2001 Arts Atlantic, Summer 2001, Eyland, Cliff. "Monica Tap", No.68. Pp 16-20 (feature).
  • 2000 Canadian Art, Spring, 2000, Dault, Gary Micheal. "Don't Look at Me Like That and other Imperatives of Recent Abstract Painting" (feature)
  • 2000 The National Post. Hart, Matthew. "There's something about Monica", January 22 (article)
  • 2000 Abstract Art on Line. Walentini, Joseph. Review of exhibition at the Painting Center. January 18. (review)
  • 1998 The Globe and Mail, Dault, Gary Micheal. "Unembarrassed beauty", October 10, 1998. (review)
  • 1998 Canadian Art, Spring, 1998. Laurence, Robin. "Code Work", p.96 (review)
  • 1997 The Globe and Mai. l Jordan, Betty Ann. "Artists worth a look", Saturday, February 8. (article)
  • 1997 Maclean', July 1, 1997. "100 Canadians to Watch", (article)
  • 1997 ARTSAtlantic, Sprin, 1997. Metcalfe, Robin. "Monica Tap: The Pleasure of Paint".
  • 1996 Gibson-Garvey, Sue. Reprise exhibition folio, Dalhousie Art Gallery. Selected
  • 1996 The Edmonton Journal. Mandel, Charles. "Tap reinvents floral still life: High praise from National Gallery"

Collections

  • Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (1998, 1994)
  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Alberta Foundation for the Arts (2004, 1994, 1993, 1988)
  • Edmonton Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery
  • The University of Toronto, Athabasca University
  • MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, City of St. Albert
  • Corporate collections including: Morrison Petroleums, Pan-Canadian Corporation, Four Seasons Hotel, Esso Imperial Oil Canada

Selected Grants and Awards

  • 2005Research-Creation Grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council "Translation as a Strategy of Renewal in Painting"
  • 2005, 2003, 1998 Banff Centre for the Arts, Residency Grant
  • 2003, 1998 Canada Council Creation/Production Grant (mid-career)
  • 1999, 1997, 1996 Nova Scotia Arts Council
  • 1994 Visual Arts Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Residency Awards

  • 2005-06 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY
  • 2005 The Optic Nerve, Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
  • 2005 Open Studio Visiting Artist Residency. Open Studio Printmakers workshop, Toronto
  • 2004 Kunst & Complex Residency. Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • 2002 New Works Residency, Juried. The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
  • 1999 St. Norbert's Arts and Cultural Centre, invitational residency, St. Norbert's, Manitoba
  • 1997 Women and Paint Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta

Professional Training

  • 1996 Master of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD)
  • 1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, NSCAD
  • 1986 Alberta College of Art, University of Alberta

Other activities: Invited lectures, panels, conferences

  • 2005 University of Guelph Print Portfolio (production of editioned print for first annual print portfolio, together with David Urban and Tony Scherman.)
  • "Walk Here". Public art installation, Wallace Emerson Park, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 2004 "Open Season: Abstraction." Painting Symposium, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
  • 2002 Hungry Eyes, Guest curator of exhibition of contemporary abstract painting in New York and Toronto. (catalogue, symposium) Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • 2001 "Painting, Pedagogy and the Present Tense." Chair. University Art Association of Canada, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 1999 "Minus forty: Abstraction by Canadian artists under forty." University Art Associations of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
  • 1998 "Women and Paint." Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • 1997 "Curators and Artists in Conversation", University Art Association of Canada, Vancouver, B.C.
  • 1997 "Quotation, Reference, and Replication." panel, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

Visiting Artist

  • Pennsylvania State University at Clarion, PA (2005)
  • Georgian College, Barrie, ON (2005)
  • University of Lethbridge (2004, 2001)
  • Central Michigan University (2003)
  • University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (2003)
  • York University (2003, 1998)
  • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS (2004, 2002, 1998)
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (2001)
  • Memorial University, Cornerbrook, NF (2001)
  • Sheridan College, Toronto (2001)
  • Mina Forsythe Lecturer. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2000)
  • Ontario College of Art and Design (1998)
  • Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A (1997)
  • Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C. (1997)

Upcoming

  • January, 2007 "Sance". Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery. Solo.
  • Fall, 2007 Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto. Solo.
  • January, 2008 Art Gallery of Windsor
  • McMichael Art Gallery