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Robert McNealy (American, 1942 – )

Born in Twin Falls, Idaho, USA, 1942.

Studied at Cornish School of Applied Arts, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1961/62.

Studied at Idaho State University, Idaho, USA, 1963/68.

Studied at York University, M.F.A., 1985.

Founding member of Mercer Union Gallery, 1979.

President, Board of Directors, Mercer Union Gallery, 1982/84.

Member of Board of Directors, I. C. Projects, 1997- 2009.

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2010    Becker Galleries, “The Whole Story”, Vancouver, B.C.

2009    “Skullduggery” The Dawn Gallery, Pocatello Idaho

2009    “Skullduggery” The Herrett Museum, Collage of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls

2008    Search For a Better Way,  Karsh Gallery, Simon Fraser University

2007    "30"  Gales Gallery, York University,  Toronto

2007    "Mapping It"  Karsh Gallery, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver

2002  Container show "Far Horizon", "The Flood Has Been Taken Away" Vancouver.

2001    "Long Time".   Vancouver Art Gallery

1999    "Case Studies"  Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.

1998    Working Drawings and Finished Works, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1997    "Ghost in the Machine," Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC.

1996    “The Grass Menagerie”, The Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC.

1992    "Robert Fones, Robert McNealy, and Michael Snow", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1992    "Traveling Theory", Jordanian National Gallery, Amman, Jordan; McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London.

1992    "Travel Theory", Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC.

1991    "Okanata", A Space, Toronto, Ontario.

1991    “Okanada”,  Woodlands Centre, Brantford, Ontario.

1991    "Material Remains", MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.

1990    "Salvage Paradigm", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1990    "Material Remains", Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and  Design, Vancouver, BC.

1990    "Mappings", Office of the Premier, Legislative Building, Toronto, Ontario.

1990    "S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1980-1990", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

 1989    "A Meeting: An exhibition by Canadian and Dutch artists", Stichting Artichoc (Foundation Artichoc), Oss, The Netherlands. 

1988    "Architettura: Astrazione", "Robert McNealy, Bernie Miller, Elspeth Pratt", Sala Uno, Rome, Italy.

1987-88   "Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object", The Power Plant, Toronto, 49th Parallel, New York.

1987    "Passages", Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario.

1986    "Patio, Lawn, Slope", The Gallery, U. of T. Scarborough College, Scarborough, Ontario.

1985    "Fire and Ice", BINZ 39, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland.

1985    "Re: Union", York University, Toronto, Ontario.

1985    "Private Image/Public Myth", Public Image Gallery, New York City, New York.

1984    "Vestiges of Empire", Camden Arts Centre, London, England.

1984    "Drawing Installation", Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec.

1984    "New City of Sculpture", Toronto, Ontario.

1993    "Photographic Sources", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1983    "Unaffiliated Artists", 515 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.

1980    "Toronto", Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta.

1980    "Sitelines", Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.

1980    Four from Toronto at Arts Space, Los Angeles, California

1979    "Evans, Poldaas, McNealy at Kunstlerhaus", Hamburg, Germany.

1979    "Four Painters", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

1978    "Common Factors", The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.

1978    "A.C.T. at Optica", Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.

1978    "A.C.T. at Nexus", Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1977    "The Toronto Show", University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.

1977    "Nancy Davidson, Robert McNealy, Joy Walker at A.C.T. Gallery", Toronto, Ontario.

1976    "New York Toronto Attitude", A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1976    "Kunsthandel K276", Amsterdam, Holland.

1976    "Ric Evans, Robert McNealy, Jaan Poldaas at A.C.T. Gallery", Toronto, Ontario.

1972    "Canadian Painting and Sculpture", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

 

2011    “Skullduggery” the grunt, Vancouver, B.C.

2009    “Skullduggery” The Dawn Gallery, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

            “Skullduggery” Herrett Center / Jean B. King Gallery, C.S.I. Twin Falls, Idaho.

2000    "QUICK CHANGE (the flood notes)" The Antichamber, Regina, Saskatchewan.

1998    "Solo Dancing", Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1998    "Solo Dancing", East End Books, Vancouver, BC.

1994    "Rapids", Gallery Sansair, Vancouver, BC.

1994    S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1992    "MicMac/Avonlea", Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI.

1991    "Four Rooms (A Home)", Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario.

1990    S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1988    "The Garden of the Unsuccessful Politician", Southern Alberta Art Gallery,            Lethbridge, Alberta.

1988    "Robert McNealy", 55 Mercer, New York, N. Y..

1988    S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1987    Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario.

1986    "Also the Wheel Appeared", Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.

1986    "I Cannot Tell, I Will Not Say", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.

1986    "La carte n'est pas le territoire", Obscure, Quebec City, Quebec.

1986    "The Map is Not the Territory", Western Front, Vancouver, BC.

1985    "Peripheral Drift", S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1984    "La Deuxieme Traversee", Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.

1983    "Bengashia Crossing", YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Ontario.

1982    "Mercer Mnemonic (Size, Shape and Relativity)", Mercer Union, Toronto,  Ontario.

1981    "Shift (For Leonard Peltier)", Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1980    "Second/Other", with Marina Keesen, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The    Netherlands, Loa Gallery, Gallery A, Amsterdam.

1979    "Second/Other", with Marina Keesen, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Ontario,        Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany.

1978    "Hearing", a performance with Christopher Butterfield, A Space Gallery, Toronto,             Ontario.

1978    "Disparate", Cinema Lumiere, Toronto, Ontario.

1977    "Equal", A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1976    "Precinct", C.E.A.C., Toronto, Ontario.

1976    Centre For Contemprary Art, Toronto, Ontario.

 

 

 Collections

 

Art Gallery of Ontario

Canada Council Art Bank

Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Lantic Sugar

Municipal Van Reekumgallery of Modern Art, Apeldoorn, Holland

Prudential Life Insurance Company of America

York University

Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI.

Princeton University, Museum of Fine Art, Princeton, New Jersey

Vancouver Art Gallery,  Vancouver, British Columbia

Private Canadian, American and European collections

  

Commissions in Public Places

 

St. Johns Catholic Church, facde and Stations of the Cross.  Idaho State University,

Pocatello, Idaho

Memorial for Ann Weatherill, Walla Walla College, Walla Walla, Washington

Churchill House,  North Vancouver.

 

Publications

 

2007    "CosmoSonnets"   Collaboration with Mari-Lou Rowley,  JackPine Press, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

2005  "Refrains Shibboleths Madrigals & Passages" book 1 & 2,  Bookjack, Vancouver, B. C.

2005    "Kiot",  Charles Potts: Cover art and division pages,   Blue Begonia Press,Yakama, Washington.

2001    "Slash and Burn",  Collaboration with poet Charles Potts,  Blue Begonia Press,Yakama, Washington.

2001    On Drawing,  The Temple,  volume 5, # 2, Walla Walla, Washington

2001    A letter to Mullah Omar,  The Temple, volume 5, # 3, Walla Walla, Washington.

2000    "Nature Lovers"  Charles Potts, Cover art and division pages. Pleasure Boat Studios,  Ann Arbour, Michigan

1999    "Lost River Mountain"  Charles Potts,  -  Cover art and division page photographs.  Blue Begonia Press, Yakama, Washington.

1998    "Boreal Surreal",  with poet Mari-Lou Rowley, LyricalMyrical, Toronto.

1998    "Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry",  Charles Potts, editor  -  cover art. Tsunami Inc. Walla Walla, Washington.

1982    Ron Sandor   Glendon Collage Art Gallery, Catalogue essay

1979    "=3", Bookworks, Toronto, Ontario, 1979.

            "Complaint", Artists Review, Vol.2, No. 8, 1979.

1978    "Works by Offset", Artists in Books, 1978.

1977    Memorial Monograph for Heather MacDonald with Jaan Poldaas and Michael Balfe, 1977.

1977    "Gheerbrant at Isaacs", Artists Review, October 17, 1977.

1977    "The Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama", (Illustrations), Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Olga Linares, 1977

1976    "What Happened at Niagara Street", Art Communications Issue, C.E.A.C.,

1986    "The Opium Must Go Through", Litmus, Charles Potts, Robert McNealy, 1976.

 

 

Bibliography

  

            Who's Who In Art In America

2009    Times News, Twin Falls Idaho

2003    Catalogue, “Far Horizon”,  I.C.A. Vancouver,  Petra Watson

1992    "Traveling Theory" Harbour Magazine of Art and Everyday Life, Fall, 1992.

1992    Ted Fraser. Robert McNealy: MicMac/Avonlea (exhibition catalog), Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1992.

            Linda Genereux, "Robert McNealy", Artforum, January, 1992.

1991    Greg Bellerby, Ingrid Jenkner. Material Remains (exhibition catalogue), Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC; MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, 1991.

1990    Marten Dowding, "Focus:  On Robert McNealy", Canadian Art Magazine, Fall,

            John Bentley Mays, "Garden documents the disarray of the male dominated world", The Globe and Mail, January 12, 1990.

1990    Lypchuk, Donna, "Inventory of the Spirit", Metropolis, January 11, 1990.

1989    Marten Beks, "Canada in Oss", Kunstbeeld, September, 1989.

            Gary Michael Dault, "Robert McNealy and Judith Schwarz", Stichting Artichoc (Foundation Artichoc), A Meeting: An Exhibition by Canadian and Dutch Artists, Oss, The Netherlands, 1989 (exhibition catalogue),

1988    Robert Linsley, "Architettura: Astrazione, Robert McNealy, Bernie Miller, Elspeth Pratt", Sala 1, Rome, Italy, 1988-89, (exhibition catalogue).

            “Opening”, Winter, 1988. Rome, Italy

            William Wood, "Continuum”, “The Garden of the Unsuccessful Politician", Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1988, (exhibition catalogue).

1987    Bruce Grenville, Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object, (exhibition catalogue),.Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, 1987

1986    Richard Rhodes, "Robert McNealy", Artforum, l986.

            William Wood, "Robert McNealy", Vanguard, l986.

            Trevor Gould, "Robert McNealy", C Magazine, Winter, l986/l987.

            John Bentley Mays, "Art Galleries", Toronto, September, l986.

            Robert Everett-Green, "Sculpture That Knows Its Place", Globe and Mail, August 30, 1986.

            Deirdre Hanna, "Sculpting Random Signifiers of Life", NOW, August 21

            27, 1986.

1985    Donald B. Kuspit, "Free at Last”

            Toronto Painting and Sculpture, C Magazine, Winter, 1985.

            William Wood, "No Place in Particular", C Magazine, Summer 1985.

            John Bentley Mays, "Installation Reaffirms McNealy's Strength", The Globe and   Mail, March 20, 1985.

1984    Dobson, Zuleika., Vestiges of Empire, Camden Arts Centre, London, England, (exhibition catalogue).

            Nemiroff, Diana., Drawing Installation, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec, 1984, (exhibition catalogue).

            Sabbath, Lawrence., "Multi-Media Exhibition Offering Avant garde Works From Six Canadian Artists", The Gazette, London, November 17, 1984.

            Rans, Goldie., "The New City of Sculpture", Vanguard, November, 1984.

1993    Sheehan, Nick., "New City of Sculpture", NOW, August 23, 1984. 1983 Dowding, Martin., "Robert McNealy at YYZ", Vanguard, September, 1983.

            Mays, John Bentley., "Robert McNealy at YYZ", The Globe and Mail, December  8, 1983.

        Mays, John Bentley., "Unaffiliated Artists", Vanguard, September, 1983.

            "Rhodes, Richard., "Mercer Mnemonic", Vanguard, February, 1983.

1981    McGarth, Patrick., "Shift (For Leonard Peltier)", Vanguard, May 1981.

1980    Toronto, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, 1980, (exhibition catalogue).

1979    Bidner, M.. "Conscriptive Poetry at the A.G.O.", Article Review, Volume 2, No.   9, 1979.

            Wiens, Robert., "Syntax, Installation by Robert McNealy", Artists Review, Volume 2, No. 9, 1979.

            Purdy, James., The Globe and Mail, January 24, 1979.

1976    Skoggard, Ross., "Evans, McNealy, Poldaas at A.C.T.", Art in America, Nov./Dec., 1976.

 

 

Awards

 

Samuel Serik Award for Professional Achievement, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

The Canada Council Award to Artists:  1974, 1976, 1977, 1986.

The Canada Council "B" Award:  1979, 1983, 1984, 1985.

The Canada Council "A" Award;  1987.   Production: 2008

Ontario Arts Council Award;  1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.

Toronto Arts Council:  1991, 1992.

Arts Council of British Columbia Award. 1995, 1996, 1999.

2004    Distinguished Professional Achievement Award  from the College of Arts and Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho

 

 

Guest Lecture

 

Alberta Institute of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.

York University, Toronto, Ontario.

The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta.

De Gymnasiumn Middelburg, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Emily Carr Collage of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.

Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.

University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

The Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.  U.S.A.

College of Spothern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho. U.S.A.

   

 

  

Teaching Position

 

York University, Toronto, Ontario:  second year Sculpture, 1984 

The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta. 

Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC: 

Drawing 200 and 300    Mixed media installation,    Introduction to 3D : Woodshop practice for sculptors   

Senior studio, painting. Painting Studio, "Mapping the Terrain".  Introduction to Drawing, Drawing Studio. Drawing For Ideas  

Capilano University, Vancouver, Introduction to Drawing.  Painting with acrylics.

 

Other Professional Experiences

 

1976-80   Board member ACT (Artist Co-operative Toronto)

1980-87   Founding member and first board president of Mercer Union Artist Centre, Toronto.

1980    Consultant to discuss design changes to exhibition spaces at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

1983    Committee to discuss design for the future art gallery at Harbourfront; The           

            Power Plant.

1984    Consultant to discuss funding changes to individual grants and grants to   

            artist run spaces. Ontario Arts Council.

1985-87   Jury member Ontario Arts Council

1986-88   Jury member The Canada Council for the Arts.

1986-88-90  Jury member for Canada Council Art Bank.

1997-04   Member of the board of directors, I. C. Projects

2006-9    Jury member for public commissions,  Vancouver