Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Peter Bowyer

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008         Albatross, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2007         Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2006         The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2003         Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
2000         Flower, Toronto Sculpture Garden
1999         Square Mile, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1997         Weather Girl, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1996         Glimpse, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1995         Further Arrangement, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
1992         Circulation, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1991         The Neighbour's Food, Cold City Gallery,Toronto
1989         Don't Encourage Delay, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1988         First Lunar Dump, Galerie Optica, Montreal
1987         Part of the Inheritance, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1986         Sculpture, Queen's Park, Toronto
1982         Mercer Union, Toronto
1981         YYZ, Toronto

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007         Stephen Andrews, Peter Bowyer, Gary Evans, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
2006         The Cold City Years, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto.
2005         Post Modern, Gallery Zsa Zsa, Toronto.
2004         The Future, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
2001         Spectacle, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
                Cambrige Galleries, Cambridge , Ontario
2000         Logo City, Blackwood Gallery ,University of Toronto
1999         Re:Location, Motor Oil, Woodbridge, Ontario.
                Gallery Zsa Zsa, Toronto.
1998         Works for the Ideal Home, Art Metropole, Toronto
                Artifice, The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1997         Ontological Humours, Galerie Emilio Navarro, Miami
                The Gramercy International, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles
                Cutting Edge, ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
1996         AKA Canada, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto.
                Ten, Cold City/Mercer Union, Toronto
1995         Peter Bowyer,Tom Dean, Mark Gomes, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1993         Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1991         Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989         The Vancouver Exchange, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
                Gallery Artists , Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1988         Walls on Fire, YYZ, Toronto
1987         Gallery Artists, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1986         Current Events, A Space, Toronto
                Quick Draw, Gallery 76, Toronto
                Inaugural Exhibition, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1985         The Constant Vertical, Republic/Mercer Union, Toronto
1984         The New City of Sculpture, Mercer Union/YYZ, Toronto
                Recent Trends, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
1978         The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London,England.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, Feb.6, 1982        
Sarah Clark-Lanager, catalogue for Recent Trends, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1984        
Marshall Webb, Canadian Art, Winter, 1984        
Donald Kuspit, C Magazine, No.4, Winter, 1985        
John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, July 18, 1988        
Claire Gravel, Le Devoir, Oct. 8, 1988        
Linda Genereux, Metropolis, Sept.2, 1989
Carl Skelton, Print and Drawing Council, Nov./Dec. Vol.2,No.5,1989
Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail, Sept.4,1992        
Gregory Salzman, catalogue essay for Further Arrangement, The Power Plant,1995        
Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail, Feb.27,1995        
John Armstrong, C Magazine, No.47, Fall 1996        
John Massier, catalogue essay for AKA Canada, 1996        
Betty Ann Jordan, The Globe and Mail, Jan.4,1997        
Sally McKay, Flash Art, Jan/Feb. 1997 Blake Gopnik, The Globe and Mail, July 16, 1999        
John Massier, Canadian Art, Vol.16, No.3, Fall 1999        
Reid Diamond, Lola, No.5, Winter, 1999        
Ingrid Chu, catalogue essay for Re:Location, 1999        
Blake Gopnik, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, May 20, 2000        
Adrian Blackwell, essay for Toronto Sculpture Garden, 2000        
Anitra Hamilton, Lola #7, Fall 2000 Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, Dec. 7, 2001        
Kristine Harrington, Canadian Art, Vol.20, No.3, Fall 2003
Kenneth Hayes, catalogue essay for Art Gallery of York University, 2003
Terence Dick, akimblog, Dec. 21, 2006
Wren Jackson, Canadian Art, Vol. 26 #1. Spring, 2009

COLLECTIONS

Plazacorp Investments Limited
The Toronto Transit Corporation
The Art Gallery of Lethbridge, Alberta
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario
McCarthy, Tetrault, Toronto
The Cambridge Sculpture Garden

EDUCATION

1976-1979        Studied Sculpture at St. Martins School of Art, London, England.
                         B.A. with first class honors
1974-1976        Studied Fine Art at John Abbott College, Montreal, Quebec.