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lives in Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, University of Guelph (CA)
1999 BFA, York University, Toronto (CA)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 ¶ * † ‡, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto (CA)
2017 Manuscripts, Manuals, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Several Things Happening at the Same Time, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal (CA)
The Booklover, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (CA)
2016 On Filling In , Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Choices, choices, choices, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
2015 Derek Sullivan : The Missing Novella, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville (CA)
Derek Sullivan : Four Notable Booksellers, Modern Fuel, Kingston (CA)
2014 Private Collection Selected by #2 / Derek Sullivan, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Derek Sullivan : Cover to Cover, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
2013 Four Notable Booksellers, Jessica Bradley Gallery Toronto (CA)
2012 Right, write, wright, rite, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
Right, write, wright, rite, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
2011 Young Americans, Kiosk, Ghent (BE)
Albatross Omnibus, The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
Walking and chewing the fat at the same time, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
2010 It is more difficult to hit a moving target, University of Waterloo Art Gallery (BE)
2009 Waiting Game, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
2008 Le poeme de l’angle droit, Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty Gallery, Ghent (BE)
Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York (USA)
Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris (FR)
We May Be Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
But Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (CA)
2007 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA)
Cold Open, Optica, Montréal (CA)
2005 Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto (CA)
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
Statements, Solo Exhibition, Toronto (CA)
2004 Satchel Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Gallery Xeno, Vancouver (CA)
2003 Mercer Union, Toronto (CA)
2002 MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (CA)
2001 Passenger & Tour Guides(with Kevin Rodgers), Artspeak, Vancouver (CA)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Drawings, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Paper works, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Accrochage, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
2017 A Present Abstract, curated by Alex Bowron, Cydonia Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas (US)
Since Then, curated by Kegan McFadden, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops (CA)
2016 Since Then, curated by Kegan McFadden, núna (now), Winnipeg (CA)
Festina lente, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal (CA)
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement - de leurs temps, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (FR)
Showroom, curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Art Museum University of Toronto, Toronto (CA)
De quelques publications d’artiste - Collection du CDLA, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
Ed Ruscha Books & Co, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles (US)
2015 What’s the meaning of a goldfish, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Out of Line, Oakville Galleries, Grainloch Gardens, Oakville (CA)
Still Life, Still Living, Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto (CA)
VILLA Toronto - How to communicate better, Union Station, Toronto (CA)
Signs & Symbols, Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Ideas and Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops (CA)
Accadrà Domani, Marino Marini Museum, Florence (IT)
Ed Rush Books & Co, Gallery Gagosian Paris, Paris (FR)
2014 Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
Paper works, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Where do I end and you begin, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (SCO)
Private Collection Selected by #2, Derek Sullivan, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE)
Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (CA)
2013 Ed Ruscha & Co., Gagosian Gallery, New York (USA)
Magiciens, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
More Young Americans, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, L’Enclos des Bernardins, Hôtel de Miramion, Paris (FR)
2012 Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery, Ottawa (CA)
Sobey Art Award 10th Anniversary, MOCCA, Toronto (CA)
Leiber & Sullivan, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
Derek Sullivan & Tom Ngo, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Frieze Art Fair London, Regent’s Park, London (UK)
2011 Change of Address, Opening of the New Space, Gallery Tatjana Pieters, Gent (BE)
During the night the exhibition continue: La servante, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (FR)
Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art, Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AUS)
La Biennale de Montréal, CIAC, Montréal (CA)
The object of Observation (Changes by Being Observed), Johnen Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Out of Print, Mercer Union, Toronto (CA)
Books on Books, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (USA)
Sobey Art Award 2011 Ontario Longlist, Oakville Galleries, Oakville (CA)
2010 Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa (CA)
2009 Art Read, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, New York (USA)
Sobey Art Award Ontario Shortlist, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario (CA)
la collection, enrichissements 2008 - 2009, CDLA, Saint-Yriex-la-Perche (FR)
Architecture of Survival, Komplot, Brussels (BE)
2008 Art Metropole: The Top 100, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (CA)
The Black Market Type & Print Shop, articule, Montréal (CA)
Citizen, Denizen, Resident, Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty Gallery, Ghent (BE)
P2P, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU)
Untitled (Work on Paper), Moti Hasson Gallery, New York (USA)
2007 Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
On Being an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York (USA)
Limited, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
2006 We Can Do This Now, The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
Habitat, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina (USA)
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal (CA)
Storefront, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
2005 The Gift: wrap/set/boutique, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York (USA)
Other Worlds, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (USA)
Dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening, The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
2004 Sculpture. curated by Rick Rhodes, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto (CA)
Downtown Art Space, Adelaide (AUS)
Come Up to My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (CA)
2003 Chamomile Testerosa, 1066 Project Space, Toronto (CA)
James Carl/Jennifer Murphy & Chris Rogers/Derek Sullivan, Mercer Union @ art forum Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Psychotopes, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto (CA)
Bauhauswerk, weewerk, Toronto (CA)
Lucid Clutter, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto (CA)
2002 Selling Out & Buying In, Biz Art, Shanghai, China (CN)
RISK, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver (CA)
Wreck Room, Art System, Toronto; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
2001 It’s Not What You’re Like, It’s What You Like, Art System, Toronto (CA)
Trophy, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto (CA)
2000 Inaugural Ball, West Wing Art Space, Toronto (CA)
20th Century Sideshow, Blueprint Gallery, Toronto (CA)
1999 Suburban Landscape, Red Head Gallery, Toronto (CA)
COMMISSIONS
2014 Problems that arise from continually confusing left and right, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University Kingston (CA)
AWARDS
2014 Canada Council Travel Grant to Professional Artists (CA)
2013 Canada Council Project Grant (CA)
Ontario Arts Council Senior Artist Grant (CA)
Toronto Arts Coulcil Level One (CA)
2011 Canada Council Travel Grant to Professional Artists (CA)
2010 Canada Council Project Grant (CA)
2009 Toronto Arts Council Level Two (CA)
2008 Canada Council Travel Grant to Professional Artists (CA)
2006 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (CA)
2005 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (CA)
2005 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant (CA)
2003 Toronto Arts Council Level One (CA)
2002 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance (CA)
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA)
MacDonald-Stewart Art Centre, Guelph (CA)
Library & Archives of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
McCarthy-Tétrault, Toronto (CA)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (CA)
RBC Collection, Toronto (CA)
Private collections in Belgium, France, Spain, USA and Canada.