1. Monica Tap in Lawrence Weschler’s Wondercabinet

Monica Tap’s works from Everything is going to have to be put back are featured in Issue 71 of Wondercabinet written by Lawrence Weschler.

  1. Micah Lexier Solo Exhibition & Berlin Publication Launch

Micah Lexier will present a new solo exhibition, The wall is a piece of paper, at einBuch.haus, Berlin, October 17 – November 16, 2024.

Coinciding with the run of the exhibition, the book launch: 1-100, published by Backbonebooks, will take place in association with the Miss Read Art Book Fair, Berlin, October 11 – 13, 2024.

  1. Sara Graham Solo Exhibition

Sara Graham’s The Spaces That Were Missed Have Been Rearranged is on view at Pendulum Gallery, October 7 – November 1, 2024. This body of work brings together 10 years of Graham’s studio practice and observations of the city of Vancouver.

  1. Adam David Brown in Group Exhibition

Adam David Brown is featured in the group exhibition Destination Moon at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, alongside artists Steve Driscoll, Jason McLean, Shelley Niro, Winnie Truong, and Jim Verburg. The exhibition is on view September 28 — November 17, 2024.

  1. The Sacred Nothing by Jason Lujan on view at G44

Jason Lujan‘s The Sacred Nothing is on view at G44, September 12 – November 9th, 2024. The series is composed of a body of images taken while Lujan was an artist-in-residence with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in 2005, depicting cultural objects “behind the scenes,” undergoing conservation and documentation.

  1. Re-make/Re-model Reviewed by Akimbo

Re-make/Re-model has been reviewed by Terence Dick at Akimbo. You can read the review here.

“The highlight is Kai Chan’s formless, wall-hung sculptures of carefully cut plastic containers that seem to have been double recycled – from food holders to paint receptacles to art objects. Their delicacy stopped me cold.”

  1. Jason Lujan Solo Exhibition

Jason Lujan‘s Expanded Dreaming is on view August 2 – September 14, 2024, at Urban Shaman in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Opening reception: Friday, August 2, 2024 from 5-9PM
Artist Talk and Livestream: Saturday, August 3, 1-2PM, watch livestream here

Artwork pictured: Jason Lujan, Powerflash Thunderbird Pachinko, Restored 1975 vintage pachinko machine with custom parts, 32 x 24 x 8″, 2021

  1. Michael Dumontier Delta Airlines Commission

A custom artwork by Michael Dumontier has been acquired by Delta Airlines. You can view this leaf wall in person at the Delta One Lounge at JFK Airport, New York, NY.

  1. Deanna Bowen’s Black Drones in the Hive on view at Esker Foundation

Deanna Bowen‘s Black Drones in the Hive is on view at Esker Foundation, May 25 – August 25, 2024. Curated by Crystal Mowry, this exhibition was organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

  1. Micah Adams on view at Harbourfront Centre

Reworking by Micah Adams is on view in the South Vitrines at Harbourfront Centre, May 11 – September 2, 2024.

  1. Luke Parnell featured in BACA (Montreal)

Luke Parnell is exhibiting new work in the exhibition Creation Stories: Roots and Revelations, as part of The Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), Montreal, May 4 – June 23, 2024.

Image: Luke Parnell, They squawk like an eagle, 2023.

  1. Roula Partheniou Solo Exhibition

Roula Partheniou‘s Party Room is on view June 1 – July 31, 2024 at Gallery Closed, Pittsburgh.

  1. Deanna Bowen Acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery

Deanna Bowen‘s work, Rupert Lanes, has been acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery.

  1. Geoffrey Pugen in Group Exhibition

Geoffrey Pugen is featured in Symbiotic, an exhibition presented at the SPAO Centre Gallery and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. The exhibition explores the potential for art and science to come together to showcase the interdependency of all living things.

  1. Jason Lujan Solo Exhibition Travels to Maclaren Art Centre

Jason Lujan‘s Utopian Aesthetic will be on view February 16-May 19, 2024 at the Maclaren Art Centre. The exhibition addresses the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings and values, while questioning concepts of authenticity and authorship.

  1. Deanna Bowen Solo Exhibition at Leonard & Bina Ellen

Deanna Bowen‘s latest solo project, The Golden Square Mile, is on view February 21-April 13, 2023 at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

Developed specifically for the gallery, The Golden Square Mile follows the socio-economic connections within the Anglo-Montrealer community further revealed in The Black Canadians (after Cooke), the monumental work on the facade of the National Gallery of Canada until August 2024.

  1. Kristiina Lahde for Exposure 2024 International Open Call Exhibition

Kristiina Lahde has been selected for the Exposure 2024 International Open Call exhibition, which features the work of photographers and visual artists based around the world who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practices. More about the Open Call Exhibition can be found here.

  1. Deanna Bowen Reviewed in Artforum

Deanna Bowen’s larger than life facade, The Black Canadians (after Cooke), on view on the exterior of the National Gallery of Canada has been reviewed by Gabrielle Moser in Artforum. The article can be viewed in full here.

  1. Micah Adams Reviewed by The Peripheral Review

Erika Verhagen has reviewed Micah Adam’s recent exhibition, A Tangent Line Gently Touching Coins. You can read this review on The Peripheral Review’s website.

  1. Kristiina Lahde and Adam David Brown at Namara Projects

Kristiina Lahde and Adam David Brown’s exhibition Double Vision at Namara Projects is on view October 21 through to November 18, 2023. Curated by Dana Heitner, this exhibition is the first intentional collaboration and joint exhibition with Lahde and Brown.

  1. Jason Lujan Solo Exhibition at KWAG

Utopian Aesthetic by Jason Lujan opens at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery October 14, 2023. On view through to January 28, 2024, the exhibition addresses the process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication. Sidestepping identity to focus on transnational experiences and aesthetics, the work relates the ways in which culture is exported and diffused into nations.

  1. Bill Burns Performance at the McMichael Collection

Bill Burns will be performing The Salt, the Milk, the Goats, the Honey, the Donkeys, the Brass Band, Sunday October 15, 2023. The performance will take place 1-3PM, at the McMichael Collection, 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ON, starting beside the Tom Thomson Shack.

  1. Michèle Pearson Clarke named Finalist for 2023 Sobey Art Award

Michèle Pearson Clarke is a finalist for the 2023 Sobey Art Award. See here to learn more about her life and work.

  1. Luke Parnell Solo Exhibition at La Guilde

Luke Parnell is featured in a solo exhibition at La Guilde (Montreal). Starlight will be on view July 20-September 10, 2023.

This exhibition is also highlighted as part of First People’s Festival Montreal, held August 8-17, 2023.

 

  1. Deanna Bowen at the National Gallery of Canada

Deanna Bowen’s latest installation will soon be on view on the National Gallery of Canada’s south façade. In this monumental work, Bowen expands her family history into a broader examination of discrimination in North America over centuries.

We invite you to celebrate the opening of The Black Canadians (after Cooke), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at the National Gallery of Canada Auditorium, 5:00–8:30pm.

  1. Jason Lujan featured in Group Exhibition

Jason Lujan‘s work is included in Nigig Diving the Depths: 10 years of Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD U’s Ignite Gallery, on view June 21- August 13, 2023.

Image: Butterfly and Eagle by Sadie Red Wing

  1. Deanna Bowen featured in Art Bank Group Exhibition

Deanna Bowen‘s work Donna, has been included in Coming into Sight: 50th Anniversary Art Bank Acquistions. The exhibition featuring 24 recent acquisitions, displayed together for the first time, will be on view June 20, 2023 to May 20, 2024.

  1. Bill Burns featured in Group Exhibition

Bill Burns is featured in The Uses of Enchantment: Art and Environmentalism, a group exhibition at the McMichael Gallery open May 6-October 29, 2023.

In a time when our human relationship to the natural world is rapidly changing, this exhibition pulls together artists who are registering their experience in ways that intrigue, caution and entrance.

Image: Bill Burns, Hardhat from Safety Gear for Small Animals

 

  1. Sara Graham Solo Exhibition

Sara Graham‘s exhibition Cut-Outs, Offcuts, and Cast-offs is featured at Art Windsor Essex in Windsor, Ontario, from March 14 – May 28, 2023.

Image: Sara Graham, In&Out&InBetween [Yellow Layers], 2022-23, photographed by Byron Dauncey

  1. Kristiina Lahde and Adam David Brown at Smokestack Studio

The exhibition Under the Influence runs from April 21 – May 26, 2023 at Smokestack Studio in Hamilton, Ontario. The works featured in this exhibition center around the notion of touch and are aligned by the principle of, ‘less is more’.

  1. Deanna Bowen Solo Exhibition

Deanna Bowen‘s Black Drones in the Hive is on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, March 22 – August 6, 2023.

Image: Installation View of Black Drones in the Hive by Carey Shaw.

  1. Joy Walker in the New York Review of Books

The print edition of the February 23 issue of the New York Review of Books includes a series of illustrations by gallery artist Joy Walker.

  1. Sara Graham Gordie Howe Bridge Commission

Congratulations to Sara Graham on the completion of her facade, titled “On the Other Side of Tomorrow” for the Gordie Howe International Bridge. See more information in the Ottawa Citizen.

  1. Kristiina Lahde and Adam David Brown at The Raft

Kristiina Lahde and Adam David Brown are featured in a duo show at The Raft (Buffalo, NY), February 3-March 17, 2023.

  1. C Magazine Reviews Black Drones in the Hive

Daysha Loppie has reviewed Deanna Bowen‘s Solo Exhibition, Black Drones in the Hive.

The article can be accessed here.

  1. Jason Lujan Solo Exhibition

Jason Lujan‘s solo exhibition, Under a Star-Filled Sky opens January 19th, from 6:30 – 8:30pm at the Art Gallery of Guelph.
It continues until April 30. The exhibition is comprised of sculpture and images that connect aspects of Indigenous cosmology in North America to wider cultural, political, and social understandings.

Image: Jason Lujan, detail of Pachinko Machine (Ya’ai’ version), 2020.

  1. Fugue at McMaster Museum of Art

Fugue by Shake-n-Make (Claudia B. Manley and Liss Platt) in collaboration with Adriana Kuiper is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art, January 10 – March 24, 2023.

Fugue is a sculptural installation that materializes the artists’ shared and individual experiences of living through the COVID-19 global pandemic.

  1. Artforum Reviews Conceptions of White

Charlene K. Lau has reviewed Conceptions of White at the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK) for Artforum. This exhibition features Deanna Bowen‘s, White Man’s Burden, 2022, as part of a group exhibition analyzing the concept and history of whiteness.

The article can be accessed here.

  1. Deanna Bowen in Conversation at CBC Arts

CBC arts has published a conversation with artist Deanna Bowen and curator Crystal Mowry about their expansive Scotiabank Award winning exhibition Black Drones in the Hive, by Sarah Tai-Black. “What’s become clear in this experience,” says Bowen, “is that my work has been willfully buried.”

The article can be found here.

  1. Tour Deanna Bowen’s Black Drones in the Hive

Join art historian Gabrielle Moser for a tour of Black Drones in the Hive, Deanna Bowen‘s Scotiabank Award Winning Exhibition hosted by The Image Centre. This event takes place Wednesday, November 16th, at 6:30pm in the IMC (Main Gallery). Register for this free event through Eventbrite.

  1. Bill Burns featured in Conversations on Art with Meg Linton

Join Meg Linton live from Los Angeles for a studio visit with Toronto based artist Bill Burns, Friday November 4 at 12:00 Noon PST (3:00 PM EST) as part of Brentwood Art Center’s Conversations on Art series. You can register for this free online event here.

  1. Sara Graham in group exhibition at KWAG

Sara Graham is featured in Wait for the Wheel, an exhibition including the permanent collection of the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, open October 28, 2022 – February 5, 2023.

  1. Roula Partheniou in group exhibition at Owens Art Gallery

Roula Partheniou is featured as part of Undone at the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, NB.

  1. Liza Eurich’s “pockets, postscripts, peonies,” Review by Kim Neudorf

“In pockets, postscripts, peonies, Eurich attempts to thwart perceived expectations of what it means for materials, for symbols and for herself as an artist and mother to self-disclose without abandoning the modes and temporalities of working and living (“the messiness of the experiential”) which led her to the resulting artworks.”

Kim Neudorf’s review of Liza Eurich‘s exhibition pockets, postscripts, peonies, can be read in full at The Peripheral Review.

 

 

  1. Dead Ringer, a feature film by Dave Dyment debuts at Casa Loma

Dead Ringer, a new feature length film by Dave Dyment, will premier at Casa Loma during Ontario Culture Days 2022, on Tuesday September 27th. The film focuses on Casa Loma, investigating the way the building functions as a microcosm for the larger city, in terms of Toronto’s history as a stand-in for American cities in cinema. See BlogTo for more information.

  1. Monica Tap Solo Exhibition

Monica Tap is featured in Community Gardens at Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette (Montréal).

  1. Deanna Bowen at University of Toronto Art Museum and The Image Centre

Hosted by the University of Toronto Art Museum, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, includes works by Bowen and will be open September 7–November 19, 2022.

Co-currently, The Image Centre, is hosting Bowen’s solo exhibition: Black Drones in the Hive, winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award. The exhibition will be open September 14–December 3, 2022.

Image: Deanna Bowen, installation view of Abolition in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020. Inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

  1. Luke Parnell in group exhibition at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Work by Luke Parnell is included in Powerful Glow a group exhibition at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery from June 11, 2022 until September 18, 2022.

  1. Luke Parnell in group exhibition at Bill Reid Gallery

Work by Luke Parnell is included in True to Place: stímetstexw tel xéltel, a group exhibition at Bill Reid Gallery from June 15, 2022 until March 19, 2023.

  1. Deanna Bowen in group exhibition at Remai Modern

Recently acquired by Remai Modern, Deanna Bowen’s 1911 Anti Creek-Negro Petition is included in the group exhibition, In the Middle of Everywhere, which runs from June 4, 2022 until February 26, 2023 at Remai Modern.

  1. Bill Burns Exhibition at Dunlop Sherwood Gallery

The Salt, the Milk, the Donkey, the Honey, the Folk Singers is on view at Dunlop Sherwood Gallery from April 9 to June 26, 2022. A performance entitled The Salt, the Donkey, the Goats, the Milk, the Honey will take place on July 2, 2022, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM with the support of the Regina Farmers Market.

  1. Deanna Bowen in group exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery

This summer Bowen’s work is featured in several group exhibitions including the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Conceptions of White, open 6 August–13 November, 2022.

Image: Deanna Bowen, White Man’s Burden, 2022, Installation of giclée prints on paper and oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by: Carey Shaw, courtesy of the MacKenzie Art Gallery.

  1. Deanna Bowen featured in Opacity Spirals (NY)

Works by Deanna Bowen including sum of the parts: what can be named (2010) and The Paul Good Papers at Notasulga (2012), are being screened as part of Opacity Spirals, a film and discussion series at the Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, running April 14-28th, 2022.

  1. Roula Partheniou featured in Manif D’art 10

Roula Partheniou has been featured as part of the public art section of Manif D’art, the Quebec City Biennale, which runs from the 19th of February to the 24th of April, 2022.

  1. Luke Parnell featured in Artist Talk and Group Exhibition

Luke Parnell‘s work has been featured as part of the exhibition Reconciling at Gallery 7 (Anvil Centre) February 16 – June 26, 2022. An associated artist talk featuring Parnell discussing his work Neon Reconciliation Explosion, can be viewed here.

 

  1. Jayce Salloum featured in Tique: publication on contemporary art

Jayce Salloum has been featured in Tique: publication on contemporary art. You can read this feature online here.

  1. Ontario Galleries Exhibition Awards 2021

We’d like to extend our congratulations to Deanna Bowen and Luke Parnell for winning Ontario Galleries Exhibition Awards for 2021!

Deanna Bowen’s exhibition, Black Drones in the Hive, curated by Crystal Mowry at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, won in the Exhibition of the Year Budget over $20,000 category, while Luke Parnell’s exhibition, Repeat the Chorus Three Times curated by Anik Glaude at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, won in the category of Exhibition of the Year Budget under $10,000.

  1. An Interview with Kristiina Lahde

Kristiina Lahde‘s interview with Instruments of Memory: Conversations with Women in the Arts, can be read in full here.

  1. Michael Dumontier featured in Cornish Library Renovations

The century old Cornish Library has reopened following extensive renovations.

The new library features Four Flowers, a large kinetic sculpture by Michael Dumontier courtesy of the Winnipeg Arts Council, as well as a painting by artist Naomi Gerrard, commissioned by the Friends of Cornish Library for the renovations.

  1. Adam David Brown Solo Exhibition at Art Gallery of Peterborough

For The Time Being, a solo exhibition of works by Adam David Brown, is on view at the Art Gallery of Peterborough from June 25 through to January 2, 2022.

  1. Deanna Bowen Wins 2021 Scotiabank Photography Prize

Congratulations to 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award winner Deanna Bowen! The winner of the annual Scotiabank Photography Award receives a solo Primary Exhibition during the annual Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, a $50,000 cash prize and a published book of their work distributed worldwide by renowned art book publisher, Steidl.

  1. Deanna Bowen Shortlisted for 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award

Deanna Bowen has been short listed for the 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award. The Award, celebrating its 11th anniversary this year, is Canada’s largest and most prestigious annual peer-nominated and reviewed prize for lens-based art.

Image: exhibition view, Deanna Bowen, Black Drones in the Hive, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, 2021.

  1. Sara Graham Receives Public Art Commission

Sara Graham will create the artistic facade for the Energy Complex building at the Canadian Port of Entry. This Public Art Commission will be part of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge project in Ontario.

Now under construction, it is expected to open in 2024.

  1. Deanna Bowen Solo Show Extended

Deanna Bowen’s solo exhibition Black Drones in the Hive at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG) has been extended. It will remain open from September 18, 2020 through to May 23, 2021.

Curated by Crystal Mowry, the exhibition reveals the strategic erasures which enable canons to exist without question or complication. 

  1. Geoffrey Pugen in Group Show

Geoffrey Pugen has work in States of Collapse, a group show at The Dunlop Sherwood Central Gallery, and Sherwood Village Branch, open January 30 – April 9, and January 22 – March 26, 2021, respectively.

States of Collapse features artists who explore the unimaginable complexity of a cataclysmic crisis.

  1. Michael Dumontier in Group Show

Michael Dumontier has work in Equilibrium, the inaugural exhibition of The Ekru Project, open January 22 until February 26, 2021.

The show brings together a group of artists that exhibit a great fondness towards the materials they work with while allowing the materials to behave as the expressive quality of the work. Equilibrium features works by Francesca Capone, Michael Dumontier, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Dana Hemenway, Sacha Ingber, Garry Noland, Laura Nugent, rrres (Javier Reyes), Sean Sullivan, Jack Arthur Wood.

  1. Luke Parnell solo exhibition in Vancouver

Luke Parnell‘s exhibition, Indigenous History in Colour, which debuted at MKG127 during the summer of 2020, will be on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art from February 3 until May 9, 2021.

  1. Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto

Curated by Luis Jacobs, and published by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in partnership with Black Dog Press, this publication features work by Deanna Bowen, Roula Partheniou, and many others.

It can be purchased through Art Metropole.

  1. Bill Burns shows in Saskatoon

Bill Burns has work in the exhibition Borderline: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Remai Modern from September 26, 2020 until February 15, 2021.

  1. Deanna Bowen has local and international solo shows

Deanna Bowen currently has solos show at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, OBORO, and is featured in the Berlin Biennial, recently covered by Frieze.

  1. Geoffrey Pugen has work in online GIF exhibition

His work can be seen at Well Now WTF.

  1. McMaster Museum of Art acquires work by Deanna Bowen

MKG127 is pleased to announce that the McMaster Museum of Art has acquired Deanna Bowen’s work “Donna (Afterimage), 2020, black plexiglass in painted frame, 29 x 71”, edition of 3, which was recently exhibited there in her exhibition, Harlem Nocturne.

  1. Jayce Salloum in “The Pandemic is Portal” exhibition at SFU Galleries
  3. June 2020

“The Pandemic is Portal” is a group exhibition at the SFU Galleries curated by Karina Irvine, Christopher Lacroix and cheyanne turions. The curators asked artists and writers to respond to the context of the pandemic, and their responses will be shared on the SFU Galleries Instagram account and on the SFU Galleries website.

View Jayce Salloum’s work here.

Following the exhibition, the works will be shared in a zine, distributed by post. If you would like to receive a copy, please send a message with your mailing address to sfugallery@sfu.ca by July 6, 2020.

  1. AGO Acquisition of Work by Jayce Salloum
  3. May, 2020

MKG127 is excited to announce that early in 2020 the Art Gallery of Ontario acquired over 85 individual pieces by Jayce Salloum. The acquisition included works from as far back in Salloum’s oeuvre as 1978 and as recent as 2019. The selected works were components of two recent exhibitions at MKG127, A History of Photography from 2016 and verisimilitude(s) and permutations from 2019.

  1. Whitehot Magazine features Roula Partheniou
  3. May, 2020

Roula Partheniou’s Icee Cup is among 18 Fabulous Figurative Sculptures from Frieze New York Online, written by Paul Laster in the May 2020 issue of Whitehot Magazine.

  1. Sara Graham on the cover of TILTING(1)
  3. April 2020

The special digital issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 07: TILTING (1) features drawings by Sara Graham, including Conjecture Diagram no. 05 on the cover.

See the work and the publication online.

  1. Adam David Brown in Group Show
  3. February 26th - March 31st, 2020

A Romantic Comedy
Curated by Sophia Sobers and Steven Pestana
25 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Opening: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020, 6-9pm
On View: February 26th – March 31st, 2020
Wednesday – Sunday: 11am – 7pm

  1. Deanna Bowen receives Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts

Deanna Bowen is among eight winners to receive the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.   All honourees will receive a $25,000 prize for their contributions to Canadian creativity at a ceremony in Edmonton on July 3.

“With an uncanny ability to discover in an archive the heartbeat of the lives it recounts, its masked agendas, and the implications of decisions taken along the way, Deanna Bowen creates videos, installations and performance works that allow us to experience these grave and startling meanings as if for the first time.” 
Vera Frenkel, FRSC, multidisciplinary artist, GGArts winner, 2006 and nominator

The exhibition will be hosted by The Art Gallery of Alberta this coming summer.
Vernissage: Friday, July 3rd, 2020
Exhibition dates: July 1st to September 27th, 2020

  1. Monica Tap at Canadian Embassy in Washington
  3. February 7 to April 30, 2020

The Embassy of Canada in partnership with Canada Council for the Arts and Scotiabank present the exhibition, A New Light: Canadian Women Artists.

Amongst the works featured is Monica Tap‘s painting Amnesia Garden (in another life). The exhibition includes works on loan from the Global Affairs Canada Collection and Canada Council for the Arts.

Embassy of Canada
501 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC. 20001

  1. Deanna Bowen’s Art Museum Exhibition Reviewed
  3. January, 2020

Esse arts + opinions’ issue 98 features essays that problematize the connection between art and knowledge using contemporary artistic and curatorial practices. Art Historian and Writer Adam Lauder reviews of God of Gods: A Canadian Play, which was exhibited at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto from September 4 — November 30, 2019. You can read the review here.

  1. Deanna Bowen’s A Harlem Nocturne at mma
  3. January 16 – May 9, 2020

Hosted by mcmaster museum of art (mma), organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) and curated by Kimberly Phillips, Bowen’s solo exhibition presents still and moving images following ongoing research into the artist’s family lineage in Canada. The exhibition is accompanied by a curator’s talk, artist talk and film screening. For more information on visiting mma or attending special events please visit:  https://museum.mcmaster.ca

  1. Monica Tap in group exhibition in Germany
  3. December 7, 2019- January 11, 2020

eigenlicht bin ich ganz anders
Galerie Roy, Zülpich

Monica Tap has a new painting and some collages in the exhibition eigenlicht bin ich ganz anders, curated by Kati Barath. The show’s title translates to actually, i’m completely otherwise and includes a limited edition artists’ publication, “Stubenhocker Magazine No 8”.

  1. Adam David Brown & Kristiina Lahde in Medina, NY
  3. September 27 - 29, 2019

PLAY/GROUND, a weekend-long series of events featuring curated, site-specific installations by contemporary artists with a focus on the experiential, immersive, and ambitious; including the work of MKG127 artists Adam David Brown & Kristiina Lahde.

 

 

  1. Deanna Bowen in Canadian Art Magazine
  3. 2019-2020

Vancouver’s Black History Highlighted in Deanna Bowen’s New Public Artwork

Canadian Art Magazine’s Leah Sandals has written about Deanna Bowen’s year-long installation located on the side of the CBC Plaza in Vancouver. Facilitated by Contemporary Art Gallery curator Kimberly Phillips the work was supported by The Vancouver Heritage Foundation public art program.

 

  1. Jayce Salloum in group show, Montreal
  3. August 29 - September 28, 2019

Territoires II
Pierre Blache
Gagnon-Forest
Hua Jin
Alain Lefort
Andreas Rutkauskas
Jayce Salloum
​
exposition
du/from 28-08 au/till 28-09
​
vernissage
le jeudi 5 septembre : de 17 à 20 h
Thursday, September 5, from 5 to 8 pm

  1. Deanna Bowen, Sunday Scene at The Power Plant
  3. December 1, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Deanna Bowen will discuss Vincent Meessen’s exhibition Blues Klair during The Power Plants regular series Sunday Scene on December 1st, 2019 starting at 2pm.

  1. Deanna Bowen for THE WALL, Vancouver
  3. 2019-2020

Celebrate the launch of the 2019 WALL, a new commission by artist Deanna Bowen on THE WALL of the CBC Plaza in Downtown Vancouver. Continuing Bowen’s work in tracing Vancouver’s Black entertainment community from the 1940s through the 1970s, as seen in her recent exhibition at CAG, Night Prowl captures part of a film frame from a CBC news story that aired in October 1959, reporting on the dramatic purging and forced closures of many nightclubs in Vancouver’s ethnically diverse east end.

  1. Deanna Bowen at The Art Museum
  3. September 4th - November 30, 2019

The opening reception for Deanna Bowen‘s solo exhibition God of Gods: A Canadian Play at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House is September 4th, 6-8pm.

Bowen revisits The God of Gods (1919), a play written and directed by former director of Hart House Carroll Aikins (1888-1967). Aikins’ play, staged at Hart House in 1922, projected the horrors of war into a loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet — using ‘native’ motifs. Deanna Bowen’s film is a conversation by Indigenous artists and writers John G. Hampton, Peter Morin, Lisa Myers, Archer Pechawis, and cheyanne turions.

God of Gods: A Canadian Play will be open from September 4th to November 30th, 2019 at , 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON

  1. Micah Adams in Colossal
  3. August 2019

Colossal’s feature on Micah Adams forefronts new works in his coin-based practice. Read it here.

  1. Jayce Salloum featured in a National Gallery of Canada article

Michael Davidge has written about Jayce Salloum‘s remembering you (mute pictures) for an online article published by The National Gallery of Canada.

Jayce Salloum’s remembering you (mute pictures) from 1987-88 is included in the exhibition Photography in Canada 1960–2000, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. It is on view at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, ON, until September 8, 2019.

  1. Michael Dumontier in Tokyo
  3. July 13 - 28, 2019

Joe Lyward has curated work by Michael Dumontier into the group exhibition Kind Things at Curators Cube in Nishishimbashi, Tokyo.

  1. Roula Partheniou in Momus
  3. June 2019

Artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator Ulysses Castellanos has crafted a thoughtful review of Roula Partheniou‘s latest MKG127 exhibition Works on Paper.

The Totemic Quotidian in Roula Partheniou 

  1. Instant Coffee in Mousse Magazine
  2. July - Sept, 2019

Instant Coffee has been featured in Mousse Magazine 68 (Summer 2019). Pick up a copy wherever fine magazines are sold or subscribe online.

  1. Liza Eurich in Group Show “Object, Objetc, Objecc”
  2. Spazju Kreattiv, Malta
  3. May 3rd through June 16th, 2019

Work by Liza Eurich, along with peers from a 2017 residency at SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland, Katri Kempas (FIN) and Letta Shtohryn (UKR/MT) can be seen at Spazju Kreattiv’s Space A.

Object, Objetc, Objecc will be on display from  May 3rd through June 16th, 2019.

  1. Roula Partheniou Publication Launch
  3. Join us on Saturday April 17th from 1 - 4PM

MKG127 is pleased to invite you to the launch of

Roula Partheniou: Index

Published by the Dunlop Art Gallery in collaboration with Oakville Galleries, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, University of Waterloo Art Gallery and Contemporary Calgary.
Design by Emma Wright.

Part monograph, part beautifully produced artist book, Roula Partheniou: Index brings together significant bodies of work including House & Home & Garden, 2015; Odd One Out, 2015; Chalk to Cheese, 2016; Parts and Wholes, 2013, Cup and Ball, 2018, among others. The hardback, 260 page richly illustrated publication includes critical texts by Jennifer Matotek, Jon Davies, Ivan Jurakic, Fynn Leitch, Peggy Gale, and an interview with Nate McLeod.

Also available, a Special Edition comprised of a four-piece handmade sculpture mirroring the purpose-made work reproduced in bird’s eye view on the publication’s cover. Made in Partheniou’s signature materials and style, produced as a signed edition of 40, the sculpture is designed to sit atop the book obscuring its own image and integrating the monograph itself to complete the sculpture.

Desk Set with Book
acrylic on MDF and wood
8 x 6 x 1.75 in.
(8.25 x 10.5 x 2.5 in. with included monograph)
Signed, edition of 40
$375

The Special Edition is now SOLD OUT.

If you were unable to attend the launch, copies of the publication are available online and at MKG127. More information on Roula Partheniou can be found here and here.

  1. Roula Partheniou in group show, “Preguntas Abiertas (Open Questions)”
  2. Fundacion Calosa, Guanajuato, Mexico 
  3. March 30 to August 2019

Roula Partheniou contributed work to the group exhibition Preguntas Abiertas (Open Questions), at the Fundacion Calosa in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Curated by Carlos E. Palacios.

  1. Jayce Salloum in group show, “Displacement”
  2. Vancouver Art Gallery
  3. March 9 - June 9, 2019

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator.

More info on the exhibition is here.
More info on Jayce is here.

  1. Micah Adams at Lehman College Art Gallery
  2. Mediums of Exchange
  3. February 9 - May 4, 2019

Work by Micah Adams can be seen at Lehman College Art Gallery‘s Mediums of Exchange from February 9 – May 4, 2019 in the Bronx, New York.

  1. Roula Partheniou at Souterrain Contemporary Art Festival
  2. Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal
  3. February 16 - March 24, 2019

Roula Partheniou‘s project Twofold will be shown at Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles in Montreal as part of Souterrain Contemporary Art Festival from February 16 to March 24, 2019.

  1. Dave Dyment at Owens Art Gallery
  2. Pop Quiz
  3. Jan 11 - Feb 20, 2019

Dave Dyment‘s Pop Quiz is on view at Owens Art Gallery from January 11 – February, 2019. Curated by Lucy MacDonald.

  1. Adam David Brown at Two Rivers Gallery
  2. Unbound
  3. Jan 17 - Mar 31, 2019

Adam David Brown‘s work is on view in Unbound, a group show, at Two Rivers Gallery.

  1. Kristiina Lahde at AGH
  2. The Living Room: unfolding...
  3. Nov 17 - May 12, 2019

Kristiina Lahde‘s The Living Room: unfolding… is on view at the AGH from November 17 – May 12, 2019. Curated by Tor Lukasik-Foss.

  1. Kristiina Lahde and Shake-n-Make at UWAG
  3. Jan 10 - Mar 2, 2019

Kristiina Lahde‘s Extraordinary Measures is on view at UWAG, Gallery Two, from January 10 – March 2, 2019. This show runs concurrently with Shake-n-Make‘s Once More, With Feeling at Gallery One.

  1. Dave Dyment at Southern Alberta Art Gallery

Dave Dyment‘s Watching Night of the Living Dead on view at Southern Alberta Art Gallery from June 29 – September 9, 2018. The exhibition is on in conjunction with The Closer Together Things Are, a group exhibition at SAAG also featuring work by Dave Dyment and Roula Partheniou.