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click to enlarge: James Carl, Big Lighters, 1998-99, coroplast, carton, each 68 x 24 x 11 cm

James Carl - Curriculum Vitae

1960 born in Montreal, Canada
1993-1996 MFA, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
1995+90 Diplomas, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China
1992 BA, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1983 BFA, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
   
  Grants and Awards (Selection)
   

2006

Paris Studio, Canada Council
2003 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Design Award
2002 Canada Council Production Grant
  Canada Council Travel Grant
  Ontario Arts Council Project Assistance
2001 Canada Council Travel Grant
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
  Canada Council "B" Grant
1997 Canada Council "B" Grant
1996 Toronto Arts Award, Protégé Award
1995 FCAR Research Grant
1995 Canada Council "B" Grant
1994-95 Chinese-Canadian Graduate Scholar Award
1994 Canada Council "B" Grant
1993 Conseils des Arts du Québec Project Grant
  Canada Council Short Term Grant
1992 Japanese-Canadian Culture Center Award
  Canada Council Travel Grant
1989-90 Chinese-Canadian Undergraduate Scholar Award
   
  Solo shows
   
2008 Survey, Barnecke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2007 Jalousie, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlruhe, Germany
2006 Negative Spaces, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
2004 Final Concession, The Balcony, Toronto, Canada
2003 Plot, Contamporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Bottom Feeder, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1999 Work, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe, Germany
1998 Clark Gallery, Montreal, Canada
  Stock, Art Metropole, Toronto, Cananda
1997 Fountain, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada
1996 Still Life, Paul Petro, Toronto, Canada
  Out of Service, Civic Square, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1994 Unentitled, YYZ, Toronto, Cananda
1993 public works, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Cananda
1992 re-possession, Clark Gallery, Montreal, Cananda
1991 Spring Collection, a public sculpture, Montreal, Cananda
1990 Border Patterns, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China
   
  Group shows (Selection)
   
2008 Pulp, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
2007 Fun House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Admontan, Canada
2006 Habitat, Jessica Bradley Projects, Toronto, Canada
2005 Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2004 Le Lieu en Practique, Artexte, Montreal
  Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough
2003
Re:cycle, McMaster University, Hamilton
2002 Don, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  New Modular, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga
  Pile, Barkenhoff Atelier,Worpswede,Germany
2001 Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
  Pool, York Quay Centre, Toronto, Canada
  Forever, Embassy of Cananda, Beijing
  First Light, Bellevue Art Museum, USA
  Objets de convoitise, Galerie 101, Ottawa
2000 Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, USA
  Minutia, SECCA, North Carolina, USA
  Climbing the walls, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, USA
1999 New Urban Sculpture, Metrotech, New York, USA
  Spatial Interest, Workspace, New York, USA
  Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
  Something, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
  I'm the Boss of Myself, Sara Meltzer, New York, USA
1997 Wrong Place, Right Time, Double Pleasure, New York, USA
  Mannequins, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
  Face Value, PS 122, New York, USA
  Work/Site, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cananda
  Vague Pop Part One, View Room, New York, USA
1996 Limousine, Free Parking, Toronto, Cananda
  MGSA Group Show, 420 West Broadway, New York, USA
  Sac de Hockey, Paul Petro @ 100 Yonge, Toronto, Cananda
1995 HOA, Library of Art History, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
  Weihai Public Sculpture Symposium, Shangdong, China
  DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Cananda
  Central Akademy of Fine Art, Bejing, China
   
  Projects (Selection)
   
2000-2004 The Balcony. http://www.thebalcony.ca
2000 Being on Time. Central Technical School, Toronto and Public Access Collective, Toronto, Canada
1999 Summit, Gallery 5020 Salzburg, Austria
   
  Bibliography (Selection)
   
1999 Carol Vogel "Inside Art", New York Times, 15.10.99, p. B32
  New Yorker, "Goings on About Town", 13.9.99
  John Grande, "James Carl", Sculpture Magazine, Chicago, April 1999, p. 18-25
1998 Marcus Miller, "Essential Items", Mirror, Montreal, 8.10.99, p. 31
1997 Christopher Hume, "A Panoramic View...", The Toronto Star, 5.6.97, p. G12
  Gillian McKay, "Sculptural Surrogates...", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 31.5.97, p. C13
  Barbara Fisher, "fountain", Toronto Sculpture Garden catalogue essay
  Blake Gopnick, "James Carl's Corrugated Craft", The Global and Mail, Toronto, 15.2.97, p. C4
1996 John Grande, "Exhibition Review", Atlanta Art Papers, 11/96
1994 Li Fei Dong (trans.), "James Carl the Gong Gong Zuo Pin", Shi Jie Meishu (World Art, Peking), 1994, Nr. 4, p. 45
  Oliver Girling, "Uncanny Cardboard...", Eye Magazine, Toronto, 15.9.94, p. 60
  John Grande, "Which Public...", Espace Sculpture, Montreal, 9/94, p. 6
1993 Robin Peck, "Exhibition Review", Parachute, Montreal, 9/93, p. 62
  Ann Rosenberg, "Saturday Review", Vancouver Sun, 17.4.93, p. C9
  Liane Davison, "James Carl, Public Works", Grunt Gallery Publication, Vancouver
  Yvan Moreau, "Court Circuit", Etc. Montreal, Feb/Mai 1993, p. 63
  John Grande, "James Carl's Euphemistic Reality", Espace, Montreal, Frühling 1993, p. 40
1991 Wang Zhou Fan, "Chang Cheng Xia de Si Lu", Ming Pao Monthly, Hong Kong, 5/91, p. 71
   
  work in collections
   
  Canada Council Art Bank
  National Gallery of Canada, Art Metropole Archive
  Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Cananda
  McCarthy-Tétrault, Toronto Cananda
  Morey and Jennifer Chaplick, Toronto, Cananda
  private collections in Toronto, Montreal, Bejing
 
  (K) = catalogue
 
 
 

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