Robert Marchessault - Bio


Nationality:

  • Born 1953, Montreal
  • Maintains Canadian & Irish citizenships

Represented By:

  • Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto & Vancouver
  • Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • Foster White Galleries, Seattle
  • McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton

Solo Exhibitions:

50+ solo exhibitions from 1979 - 2008 !
  • 2009, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 2009, Foster White Galleries, Seattle
  • 2009, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2008, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2008, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton
  • 2008, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2007,Gallery 225, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2007,Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2006, Foster White Galleries, Seattle, WA
  • 2006, Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 2006, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2005, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
  • 2005, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2005, Gail harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2004, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2004, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 2003, Michael Gibson Gallery, London
  • 2003, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
  • 2003, Bau Xi, Vancouver
  • 2003, Gail Harvey, Los Angeles
  • 2002, Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 2002, Gail Harvey, Los Angeles
  • 2001, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2001, Gail Harvey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2000, Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 1999, Gail Harvey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1999, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON
  • 1998,97,95,94,93,92,91,90,89,88, Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 1996, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • 1996, Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's, NFLD
  • 1996, Gotlands Konstmuseum, Sweden
  • 1995, University of Toronto, Justina Barnicke Gallery
  • 1994, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 1991, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
  • 1981, Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal
  • 1981, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, ON
  • 1981, Gallery Brant, Oakville, ON
  • 1979,80,81,82,83,84,85,86, Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2008, Big Canvas, Wallace Galleries, Calgary Alberta
  • 2008, Art with Heart, Casey House, Toronto
  • 2007, Art 2007, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2007, Art With Heart, Casey House, Toronto
  • 2007, The Art of Nature, (in conjunction with the Green Living Show) Ap. 27-29, Exhibition Place, Toronto
  • 2007, Josef Bernhard & Robert Marchessault, 2 Person Show, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2006,, Art 2006, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2006, Toronto International Art Fair
  • 2005, Re-presenting Representation VII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
  • 2005, Art Chicago 2005, Chicago, IL
  • 2005, Art 2005, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2004, Art 2004, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2004, Toronto International Art Fair
  • 2003, Toronto International Art Fair
  • 2003, PASTA Group Exhibition, Palm Springs CA, Merrill Lynch Buiulding.
  • 2003, The Artist Voice in Landscape - Group Show at McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM,
    Else Chapman, Donna Clair, Joyce Dant, Linda Glover Gooch, Peter Hagen, Robert Marchessault
  • 2002, Toronto International Art Fair
  • 2001, Social Consciousness in Canadian Art, J.M. Barnicke Art Gallery , U of Toronto
  • 2001, Inspiration From A Desert: Three Painters In The Mojave, Jane Culp * Robert Marchessault * Terry Millikan
    Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Sept 1 - Nov 11
  • 2001, A Room With A View, Michael Gibson, London, ON
  • 2001, Toronto International Art Fair
  • 2000, Faculty Exhibition - Georgian College, Helen and Arch Brown Centre for the Arts,
  • 2000, 2000 Bugs, Bau Xi allery, Toronto
  • 1998, Faculty Exhibition - Georgian College, Helen and Arch Brown Centre for the Arts,
  • 1998, Working Drawings, Finished Works, Bau Xi Gallery Toronto
  • 1997, Georgian College Design & Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit, McLaren Art Centre
  • 1997, Lumieres de Paris, Toronto
  • 1996, Destinations, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1996, Oh! Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
  • 1995, Contemporary Landscapes, Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery
  • 1995, Hawksbridge & Marchessault, Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery
  • 1993, Kanada - Gotland '93, Gotland's Konstmuseum, Sweden
  • 1993, Landscape Painters, Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto
  • 1992, Facutly Exhibition, Georgian College School of Design & Visual Arts, Owen Sound & Barrie, ON
  • 1992, Two Escarpments, Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, ON & FGK Gallery & Gotland's Konstmuseum Sweden
  • 1992, Canadian Artists At Brucebo, Gotland's Konstmuseum
  • 1991, Political Landscapes No. 2, Sacred & Secular Sites, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery & The Ojibway Cultural Centre at Manitoulin Island
  • 1991, Red, White and Black, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
  • 1991, Urban Refugees, The John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto & The Durham Art Gallery, Durham ON.
  • 1990, Artists And The Environment, A.G.O. Rental Gallery
  • 1990, ViewPoints, MacDonald Stewart Gallery, Guelph, ON
  • 1990, Notes From Eden, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
  • 1989, Political Landscapes, No. 1, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery & The Royal Canadian Academy, Toronto
  • 1988, Landscapes On Paper, Gadasty Gallery, Toronto
  • 1987, Flowers, Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto
  • 1986, Hagan, Hartman, Cullen & Marchessault, Gadasty Gallery
  • 1984, 83, Faculty Exhibitions, Georgian College, Barrie
  • 1982, Faculty Exhibition, Sherdian College, Oakville, ON
  • 1982, Group Of Painters, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON
  • 1982, Group Painting Show, Robert McLauglin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON
  • 1979, Cullen & Marchessault, Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, ON
  • 1978, 79, Juried Group Exhibition, Burlington Cultural Centre
  • 1978, CONSTAT, Musè du Quèbec, Ville de Quèbec
  • 1978, Four Person Exhibition, Concordia University Art Gallery

Selected Collections:

  • Canada Council, Art Bank
  • Hart House, University of Toronto
  • University of Montreal
  • CBC Toronto
  • Mclaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
  • The Irving Collection, Halifax
  • Bank of Montreal
  • RBC Dominion Securities
  • Urbancon
  • Child Development Institute
  • Xerox Canada
  • Gluckstein Design Planning (Toronto)
  • McLean Budden Ltd.
  • Olympic Design
  • Frazer Miller Casgrai
  • Lannick Associates
  • Logix Solutions
  • Royal Bank
  • The Financial Post
  • Princess Margaret Hospital
  • McLean Hunter
  • Imperial Oil
  • London Drugs
  • Nissan Canada
  • Deloite Haskins & Sels
  • Fraser, Milner, Casgrain - Ottawa
  • Big Street Films - Los Angeles
  • Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
  • Ernst & Young
  • Superior Propane
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Brucebo Foundation, Sweden
  • Dept. of Foreign Affairs
  • Bell Canada
  • Whistler Resorts
  • Barometer Capital Management
  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
  • Random Access Multimedia
  • Trimark Funds Inc.
  • Random Access Multimedia - Toronto
  • Ascona Management Inc.
  • Esso Resources
  • Hudson's Bay Co.
  • Atari
  • Sun Life
  • Lee Co.
  • Canada Packers
  • Granit Club, Toronto
  • Ontario Medical Association
  • General Electric, Canada
  • MDS Laboratories
  • Dean Witter, New York
  • Ward Beck
  • Hotel Inter-Continental
  • Marathon Realty Co. Ltd.
  • OMERS
  • Attoney General, WA State
  • Descon
  • Rothchilds
  • 20th Century Fox
  • Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
  • Templeton Management
  • Gerling Global Life Ins. Co.
  • Windrush Corp.
  • LYV Steel, Cleveland
  • Canada Life Assurance Co.
  • Toyota Canada
  • MacLean Forstrom & Jackson
  • Polygon
  • TransAlta
  • Catalysis Group
  • Adalstein Brown
  • TRCF Productions
  • Lee, Bukrhart & Liu Architects, Santa Monica, CA
  • Big Firm II Productions Ltd
  • The Summit Maritime Corporation of Montreal
  • RBC Financial Group

Grants & Scholarships:

  • 2000, Canada Council, Travel Grant
  • 1999, Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Individual $5K Grant
  • 1999, Artist in residence - Joshua Tree Ntl. Park, CA
  • 1997, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
  • 1995. Ontario Arts Council $5000 Visual Arts Grant
  • 1995, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
  • 1994, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
  • 1993, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
  • 1993, Swedish Institute, Exhibition Assistance Grant with Åsa Kedja Ardin
  • 1992, Brucebo Foundation, Sweden, Exhibition Funding
  • 1990, Canadian Scandinavian Foundation, Brucebo Scholarship
  • 1981, 87, 90, Ontario Arts Council, Materials Assistance Grants
  • 1978, Elizabeth T. Greenshields, Painting Grant

Education:

  • M.A. 1997, OISE, University of Toronto
  • B.F.A. 1978, Concordia University, Montreal
  • Visual Arts Diploma, 1975, Dawson College, Montreal

Catalogues:

  • 2008, Harvest of Light, Robert Marchessault: Paintings 2007-2008, Bau-Xi Galleries, Foster/White Galleries, 80 pages, Ontario, ISBN 978-0-9811517-0-0
  • 2008, Unite With Art, Catalogue for www.uiniteforchildren.ca, Robert Marchessault, page 55.
  • 2008, Hozho, Marchessault Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 978-2-922173-84-0
  • 2006, Luminoso, Marchessault Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 2-922173-49-6
  • 2005, Art With Heart, Auction Catalogue, pg. 75. Casey House Foundation, Toronto.
  • 2004, Robert Marchessault - New Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 2-922173-26-7
  • 2003, Ephemeros, Paintings by Robert Marchessault, 16 pages, colour.
  • 1997, The Illusion of Silence, by Brian Meeham, for a solo exhibition at Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto.
  • 1995, Configurations, by Rhona Wenger, exhibitions currator, published by Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.
  • 1992, Kanadensiskt, Brucebo Stipendiater från Kanada 1972-92 by Hanne Ödin, published by Gotland's Konstmuseum, Sweden
  • 1992, Two Escarpments, by R. Marchessault, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
  • 1991, Political Landscapes No. 2, Sacred And Secular Sites by Stephen Hogbin & Blake Debassige, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-9290021-10-X
  • 1991, Red White & Black, by R. Marchessault, published by the Tom Tomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-92902-09-6
  • 1990, Notes From Eden, by Janice Andreae, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-929021-06-1
  • 1990, Art Gallery Exhibitions Catalogue, University of Waterloo
  • 1989, Political Landscapes No. 1, by Stephen Hogbin, published by The Saugeen Press ISBN 0-929021-45-5
  • 1981, Robert Marchessault, Landscapes 1978 - 1981, by Allen Elder, published by the Burlington Cultural Centre

Juries

  • 2000, Annual Juried Open Competion - Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Ontario
  • 1999, Fine Arts Scholarship Exhibition, Georgian College & McLaren Art Centre
  • 1995, Fine Arts Scholarship Show, Georgian College
  • 1989, Chi Cheemaun Exhibition, Owen Sound
Press:
  • Canadian House & Home Magazine, May 2006, pgs. 92-94, Artist File: Ontario Painter Robert Marchessault's Stark, Seductive Landscapes, by Betty Anne Jordan.
  • Edmonton Journal, May 27, 2005, What's On section, Old Trees may be steeped in symbolism, but they exist only in artist's imagination, by Gilbert A. Bouchard.
  • Canadian House & Home Magazine, November 2006, pg. 206, credited reproduction of: Tulsa, 2005, oil on mahogany, 26 x 32 inches.
  • Elizabeth Greenshields Grantees News, Volume 8, Issue 2, Oct. 9, 2003, pg.4 & 8.
  • Scene Magazine, April 17, 2003, pg. 24, Stillness prevails at Michael Gibson Gallery, by Tess Parkinson
  • Edmonton Journal, July 18, 2003, page E6, The Visual Arts, Marchessault lets viewer fill in details, by Gilbert A. Bouchard
  • Catalogue 2003, text by Saara Liniimaa, 16 pages
  • Social Consciousness in Canadian Art, 2002, Milena Placentile, Assistant Curator Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, available online Dec. 14, 2006 www.shintai-z.com/statements/scCS.pdf
  • Focus Santa Fe (magazine), Aug/Sept 2002, The Arts: A Skyward Gaze, pgs. 44-47, by Gusie Fontleroy (illustrated article about the work of Robert Marchessault)
  • Desert Sun (Palm Springs), August 29, 2001 - Section: Desert Today, Painting With PASTA, Adam Graham
  • International Artist, Dec/Jan 2001, issue 16, pg.120, Master Painters of the World, Canada Showcase, Jeane Duffy.
  • Brentwood (Magazine) (California), Feb., 2001, What's Hanging - pg 87. "Robert Marchessault - Visions From The Fast Lane"
  • Toronto Star, Jan. 6'00, p. G5, "Gallery exposes 2000 bugs".
  • Globe & Mail, Jan. 8'00, p. R10, "Gallery Going - 2000 Bugs at the Bau-Xi", Gary Michael Dault
  • Public, No. 18, ISSN 0845-4450 published by Public Access, University of Toronto
  • London Free Press, April 18, 1999, Sec. D, pg. 1, Lost in Landscapes, by Sandra Coulson.
  • Now Magazine, August 7, 1998, Working drawings produce finished works, by Deirdre Hanna.
  • Now Magazine, Sept. 4, 1997, vol 17 no.1, p 87, Nuclear terror drives timely landscapes, by Deirdre Hanna.
  • Art Bulletin, Feb/Mar '95, No. 61 Vol.12, ISSN 0790-5858, pg.26
  • Gotlands Allenda, Sept. 18, '93, Kultur, pg. 10, "Dandka keramiker, kanadensiska målare och ryska fotografer" by Helene Körner.
  • Toronto Star, May 13, 1993, "What's On", pg. W08, reproduction of painting "Duckweed & Beaverpond".
  • Gotlands Tidningar, Sept. 23, '92, Kultur, pg. 12, "Klintar - i Kanada och på Gotland" by Stina L. Nilsson.
  • Sun Times, (Owen Sound) Sept. 12, '92, "Exhibition Combines Two Worlds" by Mary Baxter.
  • Gotlands Tidningar, Aug. 1, '92, "Ett nöte som fortsätter att bära frukt".
  • Gotlands Allehanda, Aug. 1, '92, Kultur, pg. 11, "Brucebo stipendiat 20 - årsjubilerar".
  • A History Of Interventions, monograph by Stephen Hogbin,
  • pg. 17, 1991, The Ginger Press ISBN 0-921773-14-5
  • The Globe & Mail, April 12, '91, Arts Section, "Art About"
  • by Kate Taylor.
  • Sun Times, (Owen Sound), Feb. 2, '91, "Video Art Offers Link"
  • by Jim Algie.
  • London Magazine, Oct. '91, pg. 86, Gallery Section, "Robert Marchessault ... Back Road ..."
  • Imprint Magazine, Jan. 11, '91, "Visions and Inventions" by Shanon
  • Reynolds.
  • The Durham Chronicle, (Durham), May 8, '91, pg. A3, "Works Represent Diverse Origins Of Artists" by James Gillespie.
  • Sun Times, (Owen Sound), Feb. 2, '91, "Artist Expresses Language Of The Land" by Jim Algie.
  • Now Magazine,(Toronto), June 7, '90, pg. 142, Arts Section,"Winds Of Change" by Deirdre Hanna
  • Sun Times, June 7, '90, "Chatsworth Artist..." by Jim Algie.
  • Sun Times, April 20, '90, "Exhibition Touches On Contemporary Life" by Jim Algie.
  • Concordia University Magazine, Sept. '79, "Toronto's Easle Belt"
    by Eric Johnson

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