Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Stan Denniston

Born 1953, Victoria, BC

EDUCATION:

1971-73      University of Victoria, Department of Visual Arts
1973-76      Ontario College of Art, Graduated, Department of Photo-Electric Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:         

2002      5 minutes of geological time, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002      Instant Horizon, Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris, France.
2001      stills, Norwich, United Kingdom
1998      fictions, VU, Quebec
1998      billboards, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997      Stan Denniston — Fictions, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1996      fictions, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville
             Saint-Clair, France
1996      fictions, Galerie Fotomania, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1995      personal fictions, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995      fictions, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994      fictions, McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London
1992      critical fictions, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1992      critical fictions, 49th Parallel, New York, N.Y.
1989-91    How to Read, travelling exhibition organized by Presentation House, North
              Vancouver, B.C.: Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Memorial University          
              Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; Open Space, Victoria, B.C. Kamloops Art
              Gallery, Kamloops, B.C.; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Nickle
              Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; Mackenzie Art               Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; Concordia University Art Gallery,  Montreal, Quebec.
1988      How to Read, Presentation House, North Vancouver, B.C.
1988      How to Read, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1987      Reminders, Art Gallery of Ontario Contact Exhibition, Toronto, (touring)
1986      Reminders, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography , Ottawa, touring
1984      Dealey Plaza/Recognition & Mnemonic, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1983      Dealey Plaza/Recognition & Mnemonic, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1982      Kent State U./Pilgrimage & Mnemonic, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1980      Reminders, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Reminders, YYZ, Toronto, ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002      New Photography, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2002      Stan Denniston/Thibaud Cuisset, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
2001      Paysages: precis de decomposition, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland; 2001
             Paysages: precis de decomposition, Chapelle du Rham et Centre culturel français,
             Luxembourg,
2001      Dust on the Road: Canadian Artists in Dialogue with Sahmat, MAI, Montréal
             Le paysage comme babel, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Brussels
2000      Not indifferent, TENT, Foto Bieniale, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2000      Une Oeuvre, un critique, un artiste, Musée de Louviers, Louviers, France. Montreal
             Biennale, Montreal, Quebec
2000      To be Continued..., Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999      L'autre en soi, Musée regional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec
1998      The Word in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of North York, North York, Ontario
1997      ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
1997      Sur l'espace, la mémoire et la métaphore, Maison de la culture Frontenac,
             Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Québec
1996      11 + 1, Galerie Fotomania, Rotterdam
1996      Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
1996      Foto Szenen/Sho(R)t Stories, Altes Rathaus, Göttingen, Germany
1996      The Monumental New City, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1996      Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995      Displaced Histories, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,
             Ottawa, Ontario.        
1993      Visual Evidence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1992      Travelling Theory, Jordon National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
1992      Travelling Theory, McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario,
             London, Ontario.
1991      Modus Operandi, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991      Site Memory, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1991      Site Memory, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
1990      Memory Works/Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art,
1990      London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario (touring)
1989      Industrial Impact: Various Points of View, Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
1988      Industrial Impact: Various Points of View, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario
1988      Structures of Desire, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario
1986      Songs of Experience, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1986      The Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ and collaborating galleries, Toronto, Ontario
1985      Issues of Censorship, A Space, Toronto, Ontario (touring)
1983      Alternate Photography, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
1983      Alternate Photography, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1982      Monumenta, YYZ and collaborating galleries, Toronto, Ontario
1981      The Mask of Objectivity/ Subjectivity, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
1980      Locations, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1979      Possibilities (more), YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1978      Four Photographers, A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1977      Chan, Denniston, von Gerwin, A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

REVIEWS:


Bédard, Catherine, Ou suis-je?: L'étrange commerce de Stan Denniston et d'Andrew Lee, Visuel(s), #9, mars 2000.
Buj, Lorenzo, Invasion of the Human, Vanguard, February/March 1989, p.40, ill.
Derkson, Jeff , Stan Denniston, Presentation House Gallery, C Magazine, #21, Spring 1989, pp. 72-74
Fones, Robert, No Flies on Meno, Vanguard, Summer 1988, p. 28, ill.
Forrest, Elizabeth, In Review: Looking Back, The New Art in Toronto, The Art Post, vol. 1,
no. 7, Dec. 1983, p. 3
Hirsh, Faye, Stan Denniston at 49th Parallel, Art in America, July 1992, p. 107, ill.
Laing, Carol, Songs of Experience, Parachute, no. 44, Fall 1986, p. 67
Mays, John Bentley, Nature's power and flaws loom large in exhibit, The Globe & Mail, Thursday, March 26, 1998, page C5
Mays, John B., Denniston's double-takes illustrate visual memory, The Globe and Mail, April 22, 1980, p. 12, ill.
Nagel, Alexander, Stan Denniston, ARTnews, June 1998, p. 136
Randolph, Jeanne, Stan Denniston, Mercer Union Gallery, Art Forum, April 1983, p. 82
Rhodes, Richard, Stan Denniston, YYZ, Vanguard, Summer 1980, p. 48, ill.
Sherrin, Robert, The Resistance of Remembrance -- Stan Denniston, Vanguard, March 1984, p. 17, ill.
Taylor, Kate, Playing with our Paranoias and Distrust of Authority, The Globe and Mail, July 3, 1992, p. C9, ill.
Van der Spek, Corneil, Stan Denniston, Olga Korper Gallery, C Magazine, Fall 1992, p. 58-59,ill.
Wood, William, Skinjobs, C Magazine, #11, p. 78

CATALOGUES AND BOOKS:

Sur l'espace, la mémoire et la métaphore, essay by Martha Langford, Le mois de la Photo, Montréal, 1997.
Lost in the Instant, text by Bernie Miller and Jeanne Randolph, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, 1998.
Prospect 96, Exhibition catalogue, text by curator Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein and
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1996.
Foto Szenen/Sho(R)t Stories, Manfred Schmalriede et al, Altes Rathaus, Göttingen, 1996.
Stan Denniston — fictions, Essays by Russell Keziere and Annette Hurtig, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 1997.
Displaced Histories, Essay by Carol Payne, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Ottawa, 1995.
Visual Evidence, Essay by Ingrid Jenkner, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, 1993.
Frame of Mind: Viewpoints on Photography in Contemporary Canadian Art, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 1993. Edited by Daina Augaitis.
Decalog, Essay by Barbara Fischer, YYZ Books, Toronto, 1993.
Double Talking; Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian Art and Literature, ECW Press, Toronto, 1992. Edited by Linda Hutcheon.
La Mémoire Postmoderne, Mark A. Cheetham, Linda Hutcheon, Editions Liber, Montréal 1992
Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming, Jeanne Randolph, YYZ Books, Toronto, 1991.
Site Memory, Essay by Ingrid Jenkner, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, 1991.
Remembering Postmodernism: Recent trends in Canadian Art, Mark A. Cheetham, Linda Hutcheon, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1991.
Industrial Impact: Various Points of View, Artcite, Windsor, 1988. Essays by various writers.
Hard to Read, Text by Nancy Shaw, Presentation House, Vancouver, 1988.
Stan Denniston/Reminders, Essay by Barbara Fischer, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,1987.
The Interpretation of Architecture, Essays by Janice Gurney, Andy Patton, George Baird, YYZ, Toronto, 1986.
Songs of Experience, Essays by Jessica Bradley; Diana Nemiroff Interview, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1986.
Displaced Histories, Essay by Carol Payne, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1995
fictions, Essay by Russell Keziere, Olga Korper Gallery/OR Gallery, Toronto, 1995
Artists/Critics, YYZ, Toronto, 1985. Edited by Andre Jodoin.
Issues of Censorship, A Space, Toronto, 1985. Edited by Jude Johnson, Joyce Mason.
Reminders, Text by Jeanne Randolph, Art Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, 1983.
Alternate Photography, Essay by Rick Rhodes, YYZ, Toronto, 1983

PROJECTS:

The Rhetorical Park, border/lines, #12, Summer 1988. pp. 115-18, ill.
Text details from How to Read, Artviews, Winter 1988, p. 20, ill.
The Natural World, C Magazine, #24, December 1989, pp. 56-57, ill.

COLLECTIONS:

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Auto Workers Union, Port Elgin, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-St-Clair, France
CIBC Mellon Trust, Toronto, Ontario
Claridge Collection, Montréal, Québec
Department of External Affairs & International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario
Fidelity Investments Canada, Toronto, Ontario
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario
mbanx, Toronto, Ontario
McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto, Ontario
McMillan Binch, Toronto, Ontario
Museum London, London, Ontario
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Ottawa, Ontario
Shearman & Sterling, Toronto, Ontario
Standard Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Ontario
SunLife, Toronto, Ontario
TIBCO, Toronto, Ontario
Tom Thompson Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Torys, Toronto, Ontario