Moira Clark
moira.clark @ sympatico.ca

Represented in Toronto by: XEXE Gallery

EDUCATION
York University, Toronto, Ontario; BFA Visual Art

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008         Look Across the City Broken, Howard Park Institute Window Gallery, Toronto
2008         Let the Eye Travel, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2006         Red Ochre and Blue Grey, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2005         A Decade of Painting: 1995 to 2005, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2003         Interior Life: Prints and Paintings by Moira Clark, Preston Gallery/Cambridge Galleries Cambridge, Ontario
2003         Sonnets Loop Gallery, Toronto
2002         Sea Change Loop Gallery, Toronto
2001         Through Loop Gallery, Toronto
2000         The Mantle Project, Chapters, 110 Bloor St. W., Toronto
1999         Place Setting Tableau, Vivant Gallery, Toronto
1998         Xenia Red Head Gallery, Showcase, Toronto
1993         Recent Paintings, The Rivoli, Toronto
1988         Recent Etchings, The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
1986         Bahamian Nights, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto
1986         Recent Works, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010         Art School (Dismissed), curated by Heather Nicol, Shaw School, Toronto
2009         Bank on Art, curated by Kelly McCray, Edward Day Gallery, ATM at 952 Queen St. W., Toronto
2009         sketchPAD, Gladstone Hotel, Nuit Blanche 2009, Toronto
2008         Something for Everyone V, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2007         Something for Everyone IV, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2006         Something for Everyone III, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2005         Something for Everyone II, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2005         Toronto International Art Fair, XEXE Gallery, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
2005         Shadow Box Show, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2005         WOOF, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2004         Something for Everyone, XEXE Gallery, Toronto
2004         Shadow Box Exhibition, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2003         Shadow Box Exhibition, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2003         Pulp: Works on Paper, Loop Gallery, Toronto
2002         Shadow Box Exhibition, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2001         Tea Party Three, Prime Gallery, Toronto
2001         8th Floor, Red Head Gallery, Toronto
2001         Shadow Box Exhibition, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
2000         Inaugural Exhibition, Loop Gallery, Toronto
1999         TSA 30: Faculty Exhibition, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
1997         Dancing with the Leviathan, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
1995         Encore: The Station Gallery Revisited, The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario Toronto
1993         Chronicles, University of Moncton Art Gallery, Moncton, New Brunswick
1991         A Public Room, Extension Gallery, Toronto
1989         Living Impressions, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
1988         Interaction, Tallinn, Estonia
1988         Printed Matter Beyond My Time Frame, Kingston Artists' Association, Kingston, Ontario;
                Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
1987         Henceforth/Forever After: Images in Print from Open Studio, Baden Baden and Lahr, Germany
1987         Action: Impression, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
1985         Interiors/Exteriors: Contemporary Art from the City's Collection, The Market Gallery, Toronto
1982         Moira Clark/Brian Kelley, Gallery 44, Toronto
1980         Five Printmakers, Aggregation Gallery, Toronto
1979         Open Studio Exhibition, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1979         Five Printmakers, Aggregation Gallery, Toronto

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

1995         One Work, Co-curator: John Armstrong, Mercer Union, Toronto
1994         What's Required: Natalie Olanick and Richard Storms, Mercer Union, Toronto
1989         The Scrap Plate Project, Co-curator: Julie Voyce Open Studio Gallery, Toronto

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1982-89      Member of Board of Directors at Open Studio, Toronto. Vice President 1984-89.
1991-97      Member of Board of Directors at Mercer Union, Toronto. President 1993-96.
2000-03      Founding Member of Loop Gallery, Toronto. Co-Chair 1993.

BIBILOGRAPHY
Reviews

Gary Michael Dault, "She likes her house", The Globe and Mail, page R14, May 31, 2008.
Gary Michael Dault, "Moira Clark at XEXE Gallery", The Globe and Mail, page R14, June 17, 2006.
Gary Michael Dault, "Artist lets backdrop gets best of her", The Globe and Mail, page R7, August 27, 2005.
Peter Goddard, "Feminine, abstract humanity", Toronto Star, page G10, August 25, 2005.
David Jager, "Clark's sensual geometry", NOW Magazine, page 124, September 8-14, 2005.
Betty Ann Jordan, "Khang Pham-New and Moira Clark", Toronto Life, page 124, August 2005.
Gary Michael Dault, "Moira Clark at Loop", The Globe and Mail, page R13, June 7, 2003.
Gary Michael Dault, "Moira Clark and Shelley Adler at Loop", The Globe and Mail, February 16, 2002.
Lesley McAllister, "Still Lifes Flow", NOW Magazine, page 73, March 15-21, 2001.
John Armstrong, "Tableau Vivant l995 - 2001", C Magazine, page 38, Spring 2001.
Gary Michael Dault, "Inaugural Exhibition at Loop", The Globe and Mail, page R13, March 18, 2000.
Gary Michael Dault, "Moira Clark at the Tableau Vivant Gallery", The Globe and Mail, page C15, September l8, l999.
Donna Lypchuk, "Soul's Kitchen", Toronto Life Magazine, pages 113-114, November l997.
Ian McGugan, "Hotel Art: CN becomes patron to Canadian Printmakers", pg. 79, Canadian Art, Fall 1985.
Kay Kritzwiser, "Ins and outs of Toronto on display", The Globe and Mail, August 10, 1985.
Judith A. Hoffberg "Workshops in Toronto...", Printnews Vol. 5 No. 6, page 12, November-December 1983.
Kay Kritzwiser, "Patients turn art critics...", The Globe and Mail, page 17, March 3, 1982.
Laura Stewart, "Canadian printmakers creations at Artworks", Sunday Democrat &n Chronicle, Roshester, NY, Nov. 22, 1981.
Lisa Balfour Bowen, "Canadian Prints - an investment in beauty", Toronto Star, pg. C7, December 27, 1980.

Publications

"Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting", Clint Roenisch/Jane Urquhart, Magenta Publications, 2008.
"Interior Life: Paintings and Prints by Moira Clarkv, Gordon Hatt, Preston Gallery/Cambridge Gallery, 2003.
"Place Setting", John Armstrong, brochure for Tableau Vivant exhibition, September 8 to October 8, l999.
"TSA 30: Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Retrospective", catalogue, John Massier/Thomas Hendry, p.14, 1999.
"Art for Enlightenment: A History of Art in Toronto Schools", Rebecca Sisler, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, pp. 208-209, 1995.
"Encore: The Station Gallery Revisited", Linda Paulocik, Whitby Arts Incorporated, pages 10-11, 1995.
"Chronicles", Linda Genereux, catalogue for University of Moncton exhibition, pages 1 and 4, 1993.
"A Public Room", Open Studio 20th Anniversary Catalogue, Liz Wylie, pages 3, 7, l7, 1991.
"Living Impressions, Contemporary Canadian Graphics", Glen Cummings, Art Gallery of Hamilton, pages 26-27, 1989.
"Time: Paradigm Shifts", J.C. Heywood, Suzanne Charo & Jan Winton, Compiled by Gerhard Harpe, Quarry Press,1988.
Newsprints, Vol. 2, No. 6-7, Burnaby Art Gallery, Page 32, Spring-Summer 1986.
Action/Impression Ontario Quebec, Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Printimaking, pages 11-12, 1985.
Interiors/Exteriors: Contemporary Art from the City's Collection, pages 7, 18-19, 1985.
The New Athens, Hugh Hood, New Canadian Press (book cover), 1985.
Open Studio: Ten Years, Theodore Allen Heinrich, 10th Anniversary Catalogue, Open Studio, pages 21, 34, 1980.
Women's Bookworks, Powerhouse Gallery, catalogue, pg. 6, 1979.
The Canadian Forum, page 7 & 8, 1976.

AWARDS

Residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John's, NF, August 2004
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, 2004
Ontario Arts Council, Materials Assistance Grant, l987, l988, l991, 2003.
"Printed Matter Beyond My Time Frame", Jurors' Award, l988.
Burnaby Print Show, Purchase Award, l986.
Aviva Art Show, Graphics Prize winner, l983.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Hamilton
Providence Centre, Toronto
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Bank of Montreal
Canada Council Art Bank
Ernst & Young
City of Toronto Archives
Royal Bank
Department of External Affairs
Sun Life of Canada
The Station Gallery, Whitby, ON.
Toronto Dominion Bank
University of Saskatchewan
Westfield State College Foundation
Atlantic Baptist University
Bow Valley College

TEACHING POSITIONS

Sheridan Institute of Technology and Applied Learning
2002 - on, Professor of Painting, Art & Art History Program (collabarative program with University of Toronto at Mississauga).
1995: Printmaking instructor, Art & Art History Program.
1995-96: Printmaking instructor, Illustration Program.
Toronto School of Art
1984 - on. Instructor in Printmaking and Painting.
Avenue Road Art School
1993 - on. Instructor in Watercolour and Drawing. Adult Arts Group.
Georgian Bay School of the Arts
2000-2002. Watercolour instructor.
Art Gallery of Ontario
1980 - 2003. Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School, Printmaking instructor.
Open Studio
1978-l990. Etching instructor.
Siena Art School, Siena, Italy
1988-90 (summer program). Etching instructor.
Three Schools of Art
1978 to l981. Etching instructor.