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Michael Brown
Michael Brown (b. 1965, Montreal, Canada) is a Toronto-based visual artist working primarily in Painting, Installation and Performance. Brown embraces a low carbon footprint approach to art making and in so doing plays with contemporary ideas about excessive consumption in North America. By opting for abandoned materials indigenous to the area he is working, Brown comments on the culture, use and make up of public space.
Since 2005 Michael’s environmental installations/projects have raised questions about the value we place on our architecture and history. Through his environmental projects and their use of natural materials and processes Brown seeks to challenge the traditional definitions of urban and rural areas.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and in public spaces across Canada, South America and Mexico.
Michael Brown’s work has been generously supported by the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.
Artist CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 City of Toronto Archives 2000 Bricks: Remnants of Toronto’s Lost
Architecture, Installation in conjunction with Doors Open Toronto 2007
2005 Shift Gallery, North: 43° 38’ 45”, West: 79° 24’ 25”, Toronto
2003 Vesuvios, Casas, Junction Arts Festival, Toronto
Selected Two person Exhibitions
2008 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, June 11 – 22
2002 Lorimer Gallery, with photographer Vince Pietropaolo, Junction Arts Festival, September 2002
Juried Exhibitions
2008 Framework Foundation, Toronto Timeraiser, Distillery District
2007 Gallery 1313, Alter Toronto: Latino Canadian Cultural Association, collaboration with Adeyemi Adegbesan
2006 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, Nathan Phillips Square
2006 Toronto Free Gallery, Vacant Lots
2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, Nathan Phillips Square
2004 J.B. Aird Gallery, Ontario Society of Artists’ 130th Juried Exhibition,
Worship
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Red Head Gallery, Insomnia, Nuit Blanche Event
2007 Off the Map Gallery, Identity: performance with Ana Silva as part of Latino
Canadian Cultural Association’s Latin-Afro Fest
2007 Hart House, University of Toronto, the City: TLR Club
2007 Harbourfront Centre, LOVE exhibit, curated by Lonsdale Gallery
2007 Galerie St. Ambroise, Montreal
2006 Toronto International Art Fair, Martin Kletzel Gallery, Buenos Aires
2006 AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
2006 CONTACT photography exhibit at the Supermarket, Toronto
2006 Gallerie St. Ambroise, Montreal
2005 Shift Gallery, Conversation Generator, Toronto
2005 Project Spaceman, Square Foot IV, Brooklyn
2005 Blvd Interiors, Toronto Artsweek
2005 Alley Jaunt, Nightshift Collective, Trinity Bellwoods Park
2005 AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
2005 Eastern Front Gallery, Massive Response, Toronto
2004 Lonsdale Gallery, Love, Toronto
2004 Brampton Indie Arts Festival, Heritage Theatre, Brampton
2003 Shift Gallery, Winter Shift, Toronto
2003 Lonsdale Gallery, Love, Toronto
2003 Here and Now Gallery, Holiday Silent Auction, Toronto
2003 AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
2003 Strutts Gallery, Mail Art, Sackville New Brunswick
2003 Lula Lounge, Exhibición Hispana-Canadiense, Toronto
2003 Gallery 1313, Twenty-nine days to the curb, Toronto
2003 Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, Millennium Art Auction, Toronto
2002 Art System, White Out 4, Toronto
2002 Trinity College Art Show, University of Toronto
2002 Lorimer Gallery, Two-person show with Photographer Vince Pietropaolo
2002 Collage presents Alphabetronics, the Mockingbird, Toronto
2002 Access Artist Run Centre, Con/Quest, Vancouver
2002 Acadia Gallery, Broken Fence Society, Toronto
2001 Casa de Cultura La Recoleta, Arte y Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Art System, Magnum Specataculum Monstruosum, Toronto
1999 Lattitude 53 Gallery, “Spontaneous Compulsion”, Edmonton, Alberta. Collaboration
with Australian Photographer Kate Hudson
1998 Digame, Cuba Documentary Film. Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival Library, 1999
Award
2007 Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant recipient
2005 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant recipient
2003 Second Prize Painting, Millenium Art Auction, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery
2002 Toronto Arts Council Arts in the Community Grant with Harbourfront Community Centre
Public Art/Commissions
2006 BENCHmark artist, “Wired up” bench installed on Mowatt avenue in Liberty Village
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2005 Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto, Donor recognition design
2003 PEN Canada Sculpture collaboration with Brian Gahan and Susana Molinolo
Selected Reviews
2008 The Art of Deconstruction, Orion Magazine, January | February 2008 page 9
2008 Order in the Chaos, Surface and Symbol, January | February 2008, page 4 & 5
2007 Performance underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Diversity Section,
Toronto Sun, May 24, 2007, page 78
2007 Beyond the Classroom, Thursday February 22, 2007, CIUT 89.5 FM. Interview with Todd Parsons, David Woodward, Jeff Richardson and Dray Perenic on TLR Club’s exhibition at Hart House
2006 Every picture has a story. Wooster Collective. Dec. 28, 2006 www.woostercollective.com/2006/12/every_picture_tells_a_story...
2006 It's Art, but it’s fun, see? Terrence Dick, Globe and mail, July 8, 2006, M2
2005 Do you ever get a sense that someone is watching you? Peter Goddard, slideshow, week of Dec. 17, 2005, Toronto Star
www.thestar.com/static/Flash/goddard/051215.html
2006 “Doing double duty with Nightshift”, Surface and Symbol, Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006, page 3
2005 Word of Mouth, Tuesday November 15, 2005, CKLN 88.1 FM, interview with Ana Silva and Murphy Brown
2005 From Kipling, Queen, Warden, Finch, a moment in the life of 69 subway riders, Toronto Star, July 19, 2005, B1
2005 House and Home, May 2005, page 20 (supplement)
2005 Kiss Machine, the Disposable issue, 2005
2004 Taide pehmentaa urheilupaikkojen raakalautaa ja betonia Raumalla, Satakunnan Kansa, Sept 21, 2004
2003 The painting’s on the wall, Toronto Star, Sunday March 16,2003 B3
2003 Catalyst, Forum focusing on new media art and curatorial practice in Canada;
February 2003
2002 Un sonador que pinta paredes, La Hora, Quito, June 14, 2002, Page A4
2001 Graffiti Artists Brush Up City’s Image, Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 3, 2001 Page A14
Donated Works
2007 Canadian Mental Health Association
2006 Canadian Mental Health Association
2004 Art and Soul, Fundraiser for Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto
Selected Collections
Olivia Chow, Member of Parliament; Toronto District School Board; Turku Art Museum, Finland; Private collections in Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand, USA and Australia.
Education
1997–2001 Ontario College of Art and Design/Toronto School of Art. Courses in
drawing,painting, sculpture and installation
1995 Universite d’Ottawa. Ottawa, Ontario. Bachelor of Education
1991 Universite de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Diplome de deuxieme cycle,
History
1988 University of Toronto. Honours Bachelor of Arts History and Economics
Residencies
2004 Raumars Arts Residency, Rauma, Finland. www.raumars.org
Artist Talks
2007 Hart House, Public Forum on TLR Club photography exhibit, The City
www.tlrclub.blogspot.com
2005 Shift Gallery, Talk: 6 Toronto Collectives Speak, Dec. 19, 2005
2004 Presentation to Fine Art students at Satakunta Polytechnic University, Kankaanpää
Finland
2003 Catalyst, Forum focusing on new media art and curatorial practice in Canada;
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