RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
'WAR: Light Within/After the Darkness'
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
2012
'From the Beginning'
De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, Toronto
April 2011
Sculpture and Monoprints
Galeria Ethra, Mexico City
2008
Monoprints: ‘Out of the Cave III’
Querini Stampalia, Venice
2004
Monoprints: ‘Solitude’
Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2002
Monoprints: ‘Ghosts’
Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2002
Monoprints: ‘Out of the Cave II’
House of Congress, Mexico City
2001
Monoprints: ‘Out of the Cave II’ and Brush Drawing
Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Monoprints: ‘Out of the Cave I’
Prince Arthur Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario
Monoprints: ‘Out of the Cave I’ and Brush Drawing
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo - MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
1999
Sculpture
Gallery Schieder on Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario
1998
Drawings and Sculpture
Academy of Spherical Arts, Toronto, Ontario
1997
Sculpture and Drawings
Liu Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995
Drawings and Sculpture
Madison Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1993
Sculpture and Painting
Gallery Schieder and Associates, Toronto, Ontario
1992
Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture
Sunnen Gallery, Soho, New York
Drawings: In the White Hotel
Luba Bystriansky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture
Luba Bystriansky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991-89
Quan Schieder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1989
Drawings
Centro Internationale de Graphica, San Marco, Venice, Italy
Sculpture and Works on Paper
Centro Culturale Canadese, Rome, Italy
Lithographs and Sculpture
Muzejsko Galeruski Centar, Zagreb, Croatia
Sculpture
Charles Allis Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sculpture and Brush Drawings
Quan Schieder Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1987
Erotic Drawings and Sculpture
Galleri Hander, Stockholm, Sweden
Sculpture and Drawings
Debel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Drawings and Lithographs
Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, Ontario
Retrospective, 1975-1987, Drawings
McGibbon Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1986
Sculpture and Drawings
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1985
Lithographs
Papoli, Italy
Drawings and Lithographs
WR Mitchell Gallery & Associates, Calgary, Alberta
The Thinking Heart: Series of Drawings
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Medallions, Lithographs
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1984
Drawings
Hett Gallery Collection Exhibit, Edmonton, Alberta
1983
Hillmother: Series of Drawings
WR Mitchell Gallery & Associates, Calgary, Alberta
1982
Erotic Drawings
IGA Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1995
Gallery Artists Exhibition
Madison Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1994
Sculpture
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1993
Sculpture
Gallery Schieder & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
1992
Group Show
Luba Bystriansky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991
Spirited
Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
1987
First International Miniature Show
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1981
The Nude
ATC Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1980
Women Artists: A View of Men
McGibbon Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1976
Portraits
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1975
The Nude
Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1968
Works on Paper
Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1967
Society of Graphic Artists
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Miniatures
Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
David Cronenberg, George Yemec, Christopher Ondaatje (London), Margaret Atwood & Graeme Gibson, Zachery Solov (New York), Timothy Findley, Michael Moriarty (Vancouver & New York), Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton), Gale Zoe Garnett, James Coutts, Moses Znaimer, Greg Gatenby, Marie-Claire Blais (Montreal & Key West), the Estate of William Ronald, William Kennedy (Albany), Deborah Samuel, John Reeves, the Estate of Yehuda Amichai (Jerusalem), Louise Dennys, Kim McArthur, Francesca Valente & Branko Gorjup (Venice), Irene Szylinger and Peter Kellner, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Andrei Voznesenski (Moscow), Ken Freed (Omaha & Beirut), Nigel Dickson, Susan Musgrave (Vancouver), Austin Clarke, M.T. Kelly, Gilles & Julie Ouellette, F.M. Morrisson & Norman Snider, Michael Ondaatje, the Estate of S.E. Hayter (Paris), John Montague (Dublin & Nice), Robert Marteau (Paris), Kate Somerville (Kerry, Ireland), Martin Stiglio & Elena Lamberti (Bologna), Claudia Solis (Mexico City) . . .
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