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Murray, Robert Holland

(1939–2017)
Autre nom
Murray, R. Holland
Techniques

Dessin

Estampe

  • Lithographie

Installation

Peinture

Sculpture

  • Bois

Techniques mixtes

  • Assemblage
  • Collage
Apprentissage et enseignement
Formation académique
  • 1971–1974 - Cranbrook Academy of Art, BFA, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, majeur : Gravure
  • 1965–1967 - Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
Enseignement
Biographie et démarche
  • Il immigre au Canada (Montréal) en 1967 après sa visite d'Expo '67
Expositions
Groupe
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  • 1993 - Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University,
  • Montréal, Québec
  • 1992 - A Decade of Collecting, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal,
  • Québec
  • 1991 - Flash sur la Petite Bourgogne, Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay, Montréal, Québec
  • 1990 - Dépotèque: Exposition Collectives, Dépotèque, Montréal, Québec
  • 1990 - La banque d'oeuvres d'art sur le vif, Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal
  • 1990 - Expositions collectives, Art 45, Montréal, Québec
  • 1989 - Group Show, Art 45, Montréal, Québec
  • 1988 - Group Show, Art 45, Montréal, Québec
  • 1987 - Sculpture 1987, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec
  • 1986 - Oeuvres inédites, Studio Blanc, Montréal, Québec
  • 1986 - Acquisition Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1986 - Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1985 - Canada Council Art Bank Exhibition, National Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 1985 - Tout l’art du monde, Anima G (Complexe G), Québec, Québec
    Cette exposition fut également tenue à
    – 1985 - Centre Culturel de Trois-Riviéres, Trois-Riviéres, Québec
  • 1984 - La collection prêt d’oeures d’art 1983, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, Québec du 15 mars 1984 au 29 avril 1984
  • 1984 - Tout l’art du monde, Vieux-Port, Montréal, Québec; Le Galérie d’art and la Galérie Olaf Hanel
  • 1984 - Université de Sherbrooke Centre Culture, Sherbrooke, Québec
  • 1984 - Collection Musée du Québec, Palais des Congrés, Montréal, Québec
  • 1983 - Coups d'éclat, Michel Tétreault Art contemporain, Montréal, Québec
  • 1983 - E(X)changes, Grünwald Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1983 - Major Painting of Yesterday & Today, Michel Tetreault Art contemporain, Montréal, Québec
  • 1983 - 9 X 9, Galérie Studio J. Yahouda Meir, Montréal, Québec
  • 1981 - Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1980 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1979 - Invitational Exhibition, Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
  • 1979 - Invitational Exhibition, University of Alabama Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • 1979 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1978 - 20th Century Afro-American Art from the Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1978 - Print Exhibition, State University of New York, Albany, New York; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland, Portsmouth Community Art Center, Portsmouth, Virginia
  • 1978 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1977 - American Black Art: Black Belt to Hill Country, the Known and the New, Battle Creek Art
  • Center, Battle Creek, Michigan
  • 1977 - World Print Competition 77, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
    Cette exposition fut également présentée ne 1977 à
    – California; Centennial Art Centre
    – Surrey, British Columbia
    – University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
    – El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
    – Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan
  • 1977 - 12th Biennial of Graphic Art, Oderna Galeri Ja Ljubñ Jana, Ljubñ, Jana, Yugoslavia
  • 1977 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1976 - Art Dealers Association (ADA) Exhibition, Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, Michigan
  • 1976 - Black Input, Gibson Gallery, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • 1976 - Art and Letters, Michigan Academy of Science, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1976 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1975 - Graphex 3, Art Gallery of Brantford, Brantford, Ontario
  • 1975 - Source Detroit 2 ADA, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • 1975 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1975 - Invitational Exhibition, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • 1974 - Potsdam Print and Drawing Show, Potsdam University, Potsdam, New Jersey
  • 1974 - 22nd University of Michigan Invitational Exhibition, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 1974 - Invitational Exhibition, Delta College, University Center, Michigan
  • 1974 - Invitational Exhibition, Central Michigan University, Mt-Pleasant, Michigan
  • 1974 - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1974 - Summer Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • 1974 - Group Show, Alma College, Alma, Michigan
  • 1974 - Print Show, Graff Centre de conception graphique, Montréal, Québec
  • 1974 - Detroit Artists Invitational, Detroit Bank and Trust, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1974 - Group Exhibition, U.S. Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1973 - Soft Art Show, Bloomfield–Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
  • 1973 - 4th Annual Invitational, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1973 - Group Exhibition, Rubiner Gallery, New York and Cranbrook, Royal Oak, Michigan
  • 1972 - Afro-American Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
  • 1972 - 3rd Annual Invitational, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1972 - Source Detroit 2 ADA, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • 1971 - Works from the Robert Tannahill Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1971 - 2nd Annual Invitational Show, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1970 - 1st Annual Invitational Show, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1970 - Detroit Artist Market Invitational, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1969 - 7 Black Artists, (curator: Charles McGee) Lester Johnson, Henri Umbaji King, Charles McGee, Robert Murray, James Lee, James Strickland, Harold Neal, and Robert J. Stull, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan
Solo
  • 2007 - FUNK x 2: Robert Holland Murray/Oscar Varese (curator: David Elliott), FOFA Gallery,
  • Montréal, Québec
  • 2003 - New Works: Charles McGee/Robert Holland Murray, Detroit Artists Market, Flint, Michigan
  • 2001 - No Safety Zone (curator: Gaëtane Verna), Centre d'artistes Université Bishop, Lennoxville, Québec
  • 1999 - R. Holland Murray: Recent Work (curator: David Liss), Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Qué
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  • 1995 - Parallax(e), Oboro, Montréal, Qué
  • 1994 - R. Holland Murray: Works on Paper, Galerie Onze, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
  • 1987 - R. Holland Murray: Recent Work, Art 45, Montréal, Québec
  • 1987 - R. Holland Murray/Charles McGee, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, Michigan
  • 1985 - R. Holland Murray/Murray MacDonald (curator: Allen Pringle), Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1985 - Masks: R. Holland Murray/Russell T. Gordon, Maison de la Culture de Côte des Neiges, Montréal, Québec
  • 1983 - R. Holland Murray: Recent Work, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 1983 - Exto Endo, Optica, Montréal, Qué
  • 1978 - Recent Paintings: A Self-Portrait, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1974 - Robert Murray, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1972 - Recent Work, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1970 - Recent Paintings, Gallery 7, Detroit, Michigan
Distinctions et prix
  • 1984 - “Tout l’art du monde” purchase award, Québec, Québec
  • 1984 - Ministère de l'immigration et des communautés culturelles, purchase award, Montréal, Québec
  • 1975 - Art Gallery of Brant, Graphex 3, purchase award, Brantford, Ontario

 

Résidences, bourses et subventions
Bourses et subventions
  • 1998 - Professional Development Grant, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1996 - Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts; B-Grant, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 1995 - Ministére des Affaires Culturelles, Support for Professional Artists: A-Grant, Québec, Québec
  • 1993 - Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant, Ottawa, Ontario
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  • 1993 - Professional Development Grant, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1991 - Ministére des Affaires Culturelles, Support for Professional Artists: A-Grant, Québec, Québec
  • 1982 - Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant, Ottawa, Ontario
Bibliographie
Revues et articles de journaux
  • 2007 - David Elliott, “FUNK x 2” (curatorial essay), FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 2003 - Keri Guten Cohen, “Works Are Alive with Movement: Artists Use Multimedia in Eye-Catching Ways” (review), Detroit Free Press, 30 March.
  • 2001 - Rossitza Daskalova, “No Safety Zone: Suspended Space” (exhibition catalogue essay), Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec
  • 2001 - Steve Bergeron, “Une première exposition de Robert Holland Murray à Bishop’s” (review), La Tribune, 21 November.
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  • 2001 - Jaime Murdoch, “Robert Holland Murray, No Safety Zone” (interview), The Campus.
  • 2001 - Lise Ladouceu “Watch Your Back: Getting to the Point at No Safety Zone” (review). Sherbrooke Record, 8 November.
  • 2001 - Allyson Adley, “At the Gallery: R. Holland Murray’s No Safety Zone” (review). The Campus.
  • 1999 - Jan Hadlaw, “On Recent Work” (exhibition catalogue essay) in J. Hadlaw, T. Weva, and D.
  • Liss, R. Holland Murray: recent works | œuvres récentes, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre
  • des arts Saidye Bronfman, 1999, (7–20).
  • 1999 - John K. Grande, “R. Holland Murray recent work/oeuvres récentes at the Liane and Danny, Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts” (review). Art Forum, April.
  • 1999 - Jennifer Couëlle, “R. Holland Murray: Une fine forêt de sculptures ciselées” (review). La Presse, 20 Février.
  • 1999 - Henry Lehmann, “Edgy Works Meld Themes of War, Peace” (review). Montreal Gazette, 13 February.
  • 1999 - Marcus Miller, “Authority Figure, Threatening, Visceral Stick Men” (review). The Hour, February.
  • 1999 - Keith Marchand, “Sharpened Senses, R. Holland Murray’s Realm of Totems and Tools” (review), Montreal Mirror, 18 February.
  • 1999 - Skidmore, “Black History Month’s Visual Perspectives” (review), The Hour, February.
  • 1993 - Henry Lehmann, “Concordia Carnival” (review). Montreal Mirror, November.
  • 1989 - Joy Hakanson Colby, “Duet Reunites a Duo in Cross Current: Charles McGee and R. Holland Murray” (review). Detroit News.
  • 1989 - Sarah E. Neal, “Divine: Buckham’s Instant Collector’s Night to Help Continue its Mission of Art, Flint Area Newspapers,
  • 1987 - Lawrence Sabbath, “Exhibition a Welcome Insight into Today’s Sculpture (review). Montreal Gazette, 14 February.
  • 1985 - Jongue, Serge. "Regard, image, masque," Vie des arts 30, no.120 (Sep): 64-65
  • 1985 - Ninon Gauthier, “À Montréal, l’art primitif d’hier et d’aujourd’hui: R. Holland Murray et Russell T. Gordon: Mask” (review). Finance, Février.
  • 1985 - Allen Pringle, “Murray MacDonald/R. Holland Murray: Recent Work” (curatorial essay). Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
  • 1985 - Reesa Greenberg, “Critical Coupling” (review). Vanguard 14, no. 7, May.
  • 1985 - Gilles Daigneault, “Murray MacDonald et Robert Holland Murray” (review). Le Devoir, Mai.
  • 1985 - Lawrence Sabbath, “Murray MacDonald and Robert Holland Murray” (review). Montreal Gazette, May.
  • 1985 - Stuart Wilson, “Two Murrays from a Single Perspective (review). Montreal Downtowner, May.
  • 1985 - Christiane Theberge and Jacques Bissonnette, “R. Holland Murray” in Tout !'art du monde '85, Direction des Communications, Ministere des Communautes culturelles et de l'Immigration, Montreal, Quebec (1985): 25
  • 1984 - Sandra Paikowsky, “R. Holland Murray: Ecto–Endo, Optica” (review). Vanguard, March.
  • 1984 - Jacques Bissonnette, “R. Holland Murray” in Tout !'art du monde '84, Direction des Communications, Ministere des Communautes culturelles et de l'Immigration, Montreal, Quebec: 29
  • 1983 - Gilles Daigneault, “Quand les galeries jouent aux Musée.” Le Devoir.
  • 1983 - René Payant, “Stimulant coup d’envoi” (review). Spirale.
  • 1983 - Bill Tomlinson, “E(X)CHANGES” (review). Art Post.
  • 1983 - Martine Meilleur, “Coup d’eclat 1”(review). Parachute 33.
  • 1983 - John Bentley Mays, “Colorful Quebec Clutters Begs for Catalogue” (review). Globe and Mail.
  • 1978 - Joy Hakanson Colby, “Natkin and Murray: No Landmarks Here” (review). Detroit News.
  • 1977 - Trisha Garlock, “Robert Murray.” World Print Competition 77, San Francisco, California
  • 1974 - Carolyn Vosbury Hall, Stitched and Stuffed Art, New York: Doubleday.
  • 1973 - Patricia Beach Smith, “Don’t Squeeze it- Soft Sculpture Shown” (review). The Eccentric
  • 1970 - Joy Hakanson Colby, “Murray Wins His Stripes” (review). Detroit News.
  • 1969 - Joy Hakanson Colby, “Seven Black Artists—A Vital and Compelling Show” (review). Detroit News.
  • 1969 - Joy Hakanson Colby, “Detroit’s New School of Black Artists” (review). Detroit News.
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