Abrams, John

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(1959-

Techniques

Dessin

Installation

Murale

Peinture

Sculpture

Apprentissage et enseignement

Formation académique

2010 - Film Making Certificate, George Brown College, Toronto, ON
2007 - MFA, York University, Toronto, ON
1982 - AOCAD, Ontario Collage of Art and Design, Toronto, ON

Expositions

Groupe

2021 - THE NATURE OF IT..., curated by David Huff, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2021 - DRAWING, curated by Neda Omidvar and Steve Khan, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 - GAY GARDENS, curated by Patrick DeCoste, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 - DOG SHOW, curated by David Liss and Dr. Matthew Brower, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 - PAINTING 2020, curated by Niki Dracos, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 - LA Art Show, with Sunny Gallery at the Los Angeles Convention Center
2019 - CAT SHOW, curated by RM Vaughan, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 - COLLECTION SHOW, Tom Tomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2018 - Identity/Identify, curated by Linda Jansma, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
2018 - BAMA Busan Art Fair, Busan, South Korea
2018 - Art Palm Springs, Sloan fine Art, curated by Karen Boltax, Santa Monica, California https://www.artsy.net/show/sloan-fine-art-sloan-fine-art-at-art-palm-springs-2018

2017 - The hold: studies in the contemporary collection, curated by Sonny Kerr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
2017 - Fathers of Confederation (John Abrams/Kent Monkman), Alyssa Trudeau, Campbell House, Toronto, ON
2016 - Tuck Shop, curated by Keith Cole, Buddies and Bad Times, Toronto
2016 - DADDY, Curated by Patrick DeCoste, E.L. Rudy, Toronto
2016 - Sweet Summer Sixteen, members group show, Loop Gallery
2014 - Tuck Shop, curated by Keith Cole, Buddies and Bad Times, Toronto
2014 - John Abrams, Seeing Seberg, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2014 - Look What We Have, (John Abrams, Aganetha Dyck, Diana Thorney croft, Tim Whiten and Arthur Heming), Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound
2013 - Wiki, Station Gallery, Wiki, curated by Olexander Wlavsenko, Whitby, ON
2013 - By the Seat of Our Pants, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2012 - Oh, Canada, curator Dawn Owen, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
2012 - RE: Arrange, curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2012 - Entertaining Modernism, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012 - Narrative Disorders, Memorial University Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Gallery, Corner Brook, NL
2012 - artMRKT HAMPTONS, artMRKT SanFranisco, Texas Contemporary and Miami Project, with Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2011 - Entertaining Modernism, The Canary Gallery, Peterborough, ON
2011 - Painting Hitchcock, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York
2011 - This is Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
2011 - artMRKT HAMPTONS, artMRKT San Francisco, Texas Contemporary and aqua 11, with Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2010 - Christmas Spice, Paul Petro C contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2010 - Art With Heart, Cassey House Art Auction, Toronto, ON
2010 - Further than Confederation, curated by Ihor Holubizky, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
2010 - Archive and the Everyday, Levy Gallery, curated by Ihor Holubizky McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
2010 - Work on Paper, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 - Art Show and Auction for Haiti, Boltax Gallery, Norwood Club, 241 West 14th St., New York, NY
2010 - 6th Annual C Magazine Benefit Auction, Red Bull Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 - Painting and Photography, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 - Paix Au Vietnam, A Space Windows, Toronto, ON
2009 - Dracula, The Window Project, curated by Ho Tam, Victoria BC
2009 - Appetite for Construction, curated by Mia Nielsen, Drake Hotel, Toronto,
2009 - Medium Close Up, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2009 - Contempt, Spoke Club, Toronto, ON
2009 - Summer, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2009 - Christmas Spice, Paul Petro Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, ON
2009 - Casey House Art Auction, at the Carlu, Toronto, ON
2009 - Toronto International Art Fair, with Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2008 - Swept Away, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2008 - Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Canadian Art, Mc Master Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
2008 - Wild Things, Paul Petro Project Space, Toronto, ON
2008 - Appropos, curated by Kelly McCray, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 - C Magazine Show & Auction, Birch Libralato, Toronto, ON
2008 - On Representation, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2008 - TIAF with Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2008 - Casey House Art Auction, at the Carlu, Toronto, ON
2008 - CASH RULES BUT YOUR LOVE IS KING, Art Metropole Auction Toronto
2007 - Little Soldier, with JJ Lee, Loop, Toronto, ON Two Figures on a Beach, Accolade West Gallery at York University, Toronto, ON
2007 - Milk Milk Lemonade, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2007 - Crowd Conscious, curated by Jan Allan at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, ON
2007 - Would I: Interrogative or Proposition, curated by Gilles Hebert, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2007 - Summer Show, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2007 - C Magazine Show & Auction, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON CCCA Art Auction, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2007 - Here Is Where We Meet, curated by Ben Portis in the Gales Gallery at York University, Toronto, ON
2007 - Tangents, Accolade West Gallery at York University, Toronto, ON
2007 - Little Dude, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2007 - Valentines, Paul Petro Multiples, Toronto, ON
2007 - Random Thought Generator, Accolade Gallery West, at York University
2007 - Art @ Suite 500, Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, Toronto, ON
2007 - Fundraiser for Critical Art Ensemble founder Steven Kurtz, organized by A Space, at SPIN, Toronto, ON
2006 - Greatest Hits, curated by James Patton, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor,
2006 - Remote Splendor, 64 Steps, Toronto, ON Skin of the City, Accolade West Gallery at York University, Toronto, ON
2006 - C Magazine Show & Auction, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 - Campestral, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, ON Art at Suite 500, Miles Nadal Management Centre, Toronto, ON
2006 - Sweet Tooth, curated by Kelly McCray, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 - True Spectrum T-Dot, curated by Oliver Girling, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 - Hello Dolly, Spin Gallery, Toronto, ON Queen Street West Nuit Blanche, curated by Clara Hagarittay, Spin Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 - Book, Spin Gallery, curated by Juno Yuon, Toronto, ON
2006 - Suit Case, York Quay Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2005 - Betty Blue, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, ON Breathless, Loop, Toronto, ON
2005 -Go Figure, Latchman Gallery, Souville, ON 5th Anniversary Show, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 -QUEEN WEST ART-SCUM curated by Ishvan Kantor at MOCCA, Toronto

Solo

2019 - John Abrams, Soul Art Space, Busan, South Korea
2019 - PAINTING. 2019, curated by Christopher Cutts, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 - DRAWING 2019, curated by Paul Petro, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 - John Abrams : Painting Movies, The Terrance Theatre, Charleston, SC
2016 - John Abrams, The Misfits in Progress, Fine and Dandy Gallery, Toronto
2015 - John Abrams: Painting Movies, curator: Kelly McCray, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto
2015 - John Abrams, curated by Dyan Marie The Orchard, Toronto
2014 - John Abrams: Land Mark Combine, RiverBrink Art Museum, Queenston,
2014 - John Abrams, “Sex and a Shower . . .”, FINE & Dandy Art Gallery, Toronto
2013 - John Abrams: Remix Moderne, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, ON
2010 - Here in my Car, curated by James Patten, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor,
2008 - Cinema vernis, solo show curated by RM Vaughan at the McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON

Musées et collections

O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
The Memorial University Art Gallery, Corner Brook NFL
Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queens University, Kingston, ON
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
Doris McCarthy Art Gallery
University of Toronto Scarborough Campus
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Schulich School of Business
York University, Toronto, ON
University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Sseveral private and corporate collections across North America.

Bibliographie

Revues et articles de journaux

2014 - John Abrams & Candia Girling at Loop, feature review by Simon Termine, ARTORONTO.CA
2013 - John Abrams: Remix Moderne, essay by Carmen Victor, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, ON
2012 - 2011/2012 Season Conversations, interview by Mike Hansen, ArtSync, pages 138-139
2010 - Further Than Confederation, McMaster Museum of Art Newsletter - Winter Spring, essay by Ihor Holubizky
2010 - The Archive and Everyday Life, McMaster Museum of Art Newsletter – Summer, essay by Ihor Holubizky
2010 - Eldon Garnet & John Abrams Art Pages, BORDERCROSSINGS, Issue No. 114 May
2010 - John Abrams: Parks Combine, BLOOR NO.1 (paintings & text by John Abrams) p 22-29
2009 - Torontoniensis, catalogue, essay by: Gordon Hatt
2009 - Toronto International Art Fair catalogue
2009 - Casey House art auction catalogue , Toronto

2008 - cinema vernis. McMaster Museum of Art catalogue, essays by: RM Vaughan, Sky Gilbert, John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa, RM Vaughan, and Christina Ziedler
2008 - John Abrams- Artist Project, The Gender Issue, Kiss Machine, pages 10-11
2008 - Catalogue Toronto International Art Fair
2008 - Cassey House Art Auction Catalogue, Toronto
2006 - i book, A book of Self-Portraits by Artists, Published by OCAD, Toronto
2005 - John Abrams: Breathless, artist project - front cover, Kiss Machine, No.11 The Shame Issue, fall
2005 - John Abrams: Betty Blue, artist project Kiss Machine. No.10, The Disposable Issue, spring pages 36-38
2004 - John Abrams: Doctor Strangelove, artist project The Bear Deluxe Magazine, #21, winter, page 3
2004 - John Abrams: Les Amoureux, artist project KISS MACHINE 9 Love and Stars
2004 - John Abrams: Just A Kiss Away, medi<ation> online catalogue

Autres références

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