Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Eldon Garnet

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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1975        All Dulled Out in Tartarus, A Space, Toronto.
1977        Blurrs, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.
1977        La Mamelle, San Francisco.
1980        Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.
1981        Cultural Connections, Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto.
1982        Privacy, Cameron Public House, Toronto.
1983        Caves, Zona, Florence.
1983        Cultural Connections, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal.
1983        In Trouble + Caves, CEPA, Buffalo.
1984        Caves, PS1, New York.
1984        Caves, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto.
1985        Emblems of Circumstance, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto.
1987        Heavy Industry, Cold City, Toronto.
1989        The First Edition Bronze Sculptures, Cold City, Toronto.
1990        Emblems of Circumstance + The First Edition, Torch Gallery Amsterdam.
1990        Trembling + The First Edition, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt.
1990        Trembling, Cold City, Toronto.
1992        Vanitas, Cold City, Toronto.
1992        The Narrative Body, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam.
1993        When?, The Power Plant, Toronto.
1994        Promise, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto.
1995        Promise, Stichting de Bank, Enschede Holland.
1995        Four Sites, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam.
1996        Aliyah, Tableau Vivant, Toronto.
1997        Fissure, Wave, Toronto.
1997        The Narrative Body, Meg, Toronto.
1997        NO, Torch, Amsterdam.
1998        The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa.
1999        Ricco/Maresca, New York.
2000        Christopher Cutts, Toronto.
2000        The Fallen Body, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.
2001        Geographically Based, Fly Gallery, Toronto.
2002        ELDON GARNET, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie.
2002        Geographically Based and Other Small Sculptural Statements, Torch, Amsterdam.
2002        The Melodious Child, Christopher Cutts, Toronto.
2002        Dust, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1974        The Poet Machine, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.
1978        Studies in Time and Motion, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto.
1979        JFM 232, CEPA, Buffalo.
1979        Learning a Perceptual Motor Skill, A Space, Toronto.
1983        New Canadian Photography, In Trouble, The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto.
1983        New Holography, Advice, A Space, Toronto.
1983        Caves, Centre International D'Art Contemporain, Paris.
1983        Advice, Part of touring holography exhibition in 10 locations in Europe.
               Chromaliving, You Can Lead A Horse to Water But You Can't Make It Drink,
               Chromazone, Toronto.
1984        303 Park South, N.Y.
1984        Canadian Holography Now, Museum of Holography, Brussels.
1985        Canadian Holography Now, tour, England.
1985        Double/Doppleganger, Amsterdam.
1985        Interior Rites, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto.
1986        Art Technology Informatics, I Shot Mussolini, Venice Biennale.
1986        Lumieres: Perception - Projection, Light Industrial, Central.
1986        International D'Art Contemporain de Montreal.
1986        I Shot Mussolini Cold City Gallery, Toronto.
1988        Images in Time and Space, Ottawa + San Jose + Toronto.
1988        Luntic of One Idea, Imprison Polluters, Public Access, Toronto.
1988        Active Process, I Shot Mussolini, touring exhibition of bookwork. Cold City Gallery,
               Toronto.
1989        The Zone of Conventional Practice, Heavy Industry, Optica, Montreal.
               + Presentation House, Vancouver.
1989        American Fine Art, New York.
1989        A Space, Toronto.
1989        Prospect Photography, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
1989        150 Ans Apres La Photographie, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec.
1990        The Zone of Conventional Practice, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, TWP, Toronto.
1990        Today Tonight Tomorrow, National Library, Ottawa.
1992        Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa.
1994        The Body: Le Corps, Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
1994        The Body: Le Corps, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.
1995        Vanitas, Nature Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1996        Happy End, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf.
1996        10 Years, Cold City, Toronto.
1997        NO, Archive, Toronto.
1997        NO, Ricco/Maresca, New York.
1997        Figuratively Speaking, Wave, Toronto.
1997        NO, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
1998        Lewd, Archive Inc., Toronto.
1998        Picturing the Toronto Art Community: The Queen Street Years, The Power Plant,
               Toronto.
1998        Ashkenaz: A Festival of Yiddish Culture, Toronto.
1998        Truth, Lies and Photographs, Art Gallery of Peel.
2000        Glo, Archive Inc., Toronto.
2000        Words, Toronto Photographes Workshop, Toronto.
2000        Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal.
2001        The Admittance of Photography, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina.
2001        Bedroom Gallery 2.0, Milk Gallery, Toronto.
2001        Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2001        Pool, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto.
2001        Droomoord, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands.
2001        Exploring the Collection: Prevalent Concerns, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C..
2001        Bigshots, Art System, Toronto.
2001        La Vie, La Mort, Le Ceremonial, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montreal.
2002        Bio-Mech, Archive Inc., Toronto.
2002        The Claustrophobic Forest, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
2002        National Gallery of Canada, permanent collection, Ottawa.

PUBLICATIONS

books

1971        Angel, Press Porcepic, Toronto.
1973        Asparagus, Missinglink Press, Toronto.
1973        The Last Adventure Oberon, Ottawa.
1974        W)Here? Other Canadian Poetry (ed.), Press Porcepic, Toronto.
1977        Brebeuf, A Martydrom of Jean de, Press Porcepic, Toronto.
1978        Einstein's Joke, Impulse (microfiche), Toronto.
1979        Spiraling/JFM 232, 1W1 Communications, Toronto.
1982        Cultural Connections, Image Nation, Toronto.
1984        Caves, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto.
1987        I Shot Mussolini, Limited Edition, Toronto.
1989        Today Tonight Tomorrow, Limited Edition, Toronto.
1989        I Shot Mussolini, Summerhill Press, Toronto.
1975-90   Impulse magazine, Toronto.
1992        The Narrative Body, Autonomedia, New York.
1993        When?,The Power Plant, Toronto.
1995        The Garden of Failure: Reading Brooke Shields, Semiotexte, New York.
1998        The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa.
2002        ELDON GARNET, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, CD catalogue
2002        The Melodious Child/Dust, Museum of Contemporary Canadian.
2002        Art/Christopher Cutts Gallery, CD catalogue, Toronto.

FILM . AUDIO . VIDEO

1967        Pictures, 16mm, black and white, 17 minutes.
1974        L'Heure D'Oeuf, 16mm, black and white, 5 minutes.
1975        Enclosure, super-8, colour, 15 minute loop.
1976        Airswim, super-8, colour, 5 minutes.
1977        Einstein's Joke, super-8, colour, English sub-titles, 15 minutes.
1979        Eldon Garnet Live, audio casette, Art Contemporary Editions, San Francisco.
1979        Winning, super-8, colour, 55 minutes.
1980        VideoZine, video, black and white, 30 minutes, La Mamelle San Francisco.
1984        The Political Error, 16mm, black and white, 12 minutes.
1977-87   Portraits, super-8, colour, 60 minutes.
1986-89   $300, Maclean Hunter Cable Television, half hour monthly.
1989        Today Tonight Tomorrow, video, 180 minutes.

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

1987-89   THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS, Toronto.
1988-89   MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE THE CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS IN CANADA,
               Toronto.
1996        TIME: AND A CLOCK, Toronto.
2000        GIFT, Toronto.
2001-04   GENEROSITY, Oshawa Hospital.

COMMISSIONS

writing and visual

Acta, The Victoria College Union, 1968, poetry.
T.O. Now, 1968, House of Anansi, Toronto, poetry.
Thumbprints, 1969, Peter Martin & Associates, Toronto, poetry.
On The Bias, Innis College Student Society, 1969, poetry.
Notes for a Native Land, Oberon Press, Toronto, 1969, poetry.
Saturday Night, January 1970, book review.
The Earth and You, Sherwood, Toronto, 1971, poetry.
A Three Legged Tiger, York Literary Series, Toronto, 1971, poetry.
Open Letter, Toronto, 1971, review.
The Canadian Forum, „Fog‰, January/February, 1972, poetry.
        Editor, A Book of Process, Rumplestillpress/La Club Foot, Toronto, 1974 Image Bag, „Printed Matter‰, „Myth Structure‰, June 1974, No. 5, limited edition magazine.
Impulse, „El topo: A film by Alexandro Jodorowsky‰, Spring 1975, cover and film review.
Impulse, Avrom Isaacs and Carmen Lamanna, Spring 1975, Vol. 4, No. 2, interview.
Impulse, „Eldon Garnet‰, Vol. 4, No. 4, Vol. 5, No. 1, photograph.
Landscapes: Pacific Coast Photographs, Impressions, Toronto, 1976 (poetry) IS. Erotics, Fibre         Studios, Toronto, 1976, collage.
Impulse, „A Critical Investigation‰, Winter 1977, photograph and essay.
Aurora, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1978, poetry.
MATRIX, Champlain Regional College, Lennoxville Que, 1978, poetry.
Impulse, „Jonathan Richmond‰, Fall 1979, Vo. 8, No. 1, interview.
Deciphering America, Kontext Publications, Amsterdam, 1979, poetry.
C Magazine, „Pages from the journal‰, Fall 1979, prose and photographs.
Aurora, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1979, poetry.
Impluse, „Andy Warhol Interview‰, Summer 1979, interview and photograph.
Impulse, „Personal Hygiene: Dental floss vs. periodontal disease‰, Winter 1979, Vol. 7, No. 3,         literary piece.
Impulse, „Escapism‰, Fall/Winter 1980, literary piece and photographs.
Impulse, Cover, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2.
Impulse, „Interview: Bob Colacello‰, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2, interview.
Impulse, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2, cover photograph.
Catalogue (Experimental Faculty OCA), 1980, edited and produced.
Catalogue (Experimental Faculty OCA)„Gordon Pask‰, 1980, photographs and text.
Rampike, „Wood: „Bubblegum‰, Spring 1981, text and image.
Impluse, „Privacy‰, Summer 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1, art piece (text and photographs).
Impluse, Summer 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1, cover.
Rampike, „Erotika: Jealousy‰, Spring 1983, text and image.
Impulse, „Caves‰, Spring/Summer 1983, Vol. 10, No. 3, art piece (text and photographs), cover.
Impulse, Fall 1983, Vol. 10, No. 4, cover.
Project Studios One, „Special Projects‰, Winter 1984, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources
        Inc.,Toronto.
Impulse, „Not For Sale‰, Fall 1984, Vol. 11, No. 2, photograph.
Impulse, Fall 1984, Vol. 11, No. 2, cover photograph.
C Magazine, „Allegory: To speak other wise‰, Summer 1985, essay and photographs.
Impulse, „I Shot Mussolini‰, Winter 1985, vol. 11, No. 4, literary excerpt.
Impluse, Winter1985, Vol. 12, No. 2, cover.
Impulse, „Expo 1986‰, Summer 1986, Vol. 12, No. 1, SITE interview.
Impulse (Cold City Fiction), Spring 1986, author portraits with Carolyn White.
Impulse, „Bridges for future history‰, Spring 1988, full page artwork.
Impulse (New City Fiction), Summer 1988, author portraits.
Impulse, „William Burroughs‰, 1990, Vol. 15, No. 4, interview.
Our Threshold, „Fight Against the Dying of the Light‰, Workshop for Architecture and Urbanism,         Tokyo, 1991, text and installation project proposal.
The Jewish Advocate, „Boston‚s Holocaust Memorial Designs Miss the Point‰, June 7, 1991,
        article.
Parachute, „Debats/Issues: Public Signs‰, Issue 63, article and photograph.
C Magazine, Winter 1994, issue 40, cover photograph.
C Magazine, „Fear of Symbols‰, Summer 1995, article.
Toronto Life Magazine, Slings and Arrows, November 1996, Vol. 30, No. 16, article.
AK2 Plain Dealer, „The Garden of Failure Reading Brooke Sheilds‰, No. 1
        March, 1996, literary excerpt.
Toronto Life Magazine, Soul‚s Kitchen, November 1997, Vol. 31, No. 16, article photography.
C Magazine, Winter 1997, cover photograph.
Purgatory: The Gate, Yellowhat, Toronto, 1997, Fictocritical essay.
Flux, „Have I seen the future?‰, 1998, text.
Shift, „Eye Tech‰, October 2000, photography.
„What we don‚t know about children‰, Simona Vinci, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001,
        jacket cover photograph.
Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets, Vintage Contemporaries, New York, 2001, jacket cover
        photograph.
Over Magazine, Thailand, Lost, 2001, photographs.
The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, Sylvere Lotringer editor, Semiotext(e),
        New York, 2001, "Afterlife".