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Geoffrey James Born 1942, St. Asaph, Clwyd/Wales Lives and works in Toronto EDUCATION 1955-60 Wellington College, UK 1960-64 Wadham College, Oxford 1965 Self taught in photography SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2001 Paris, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris Paris, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal Paris, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary Parks & Walkways of Oshawa,Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 2000 Photographies Europeennes, 1981-1999, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris Lethbridge, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal 1999 Geoffrey James, The Lethbridge Project, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta Geoffrey James, The Lethbridge Project: New Pictures, Trépanier Baer, Calgary 1998 Running Fence, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, travelling to Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alta; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ont; Centre Internationale de l'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Que; Norman McKenzie Gallery, Regina, Geoffrey James: Past Present Future, A Survey, Trépanier Baer, Calgary, 1997 Geoffrey James: De l'esprit des lieux, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Bruxelles, Galerie Charles & Martin Gauthier, Québec Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Quebec 1996 Thinking Through Time, Trépanier-Baer, Calgary Geoffrey James, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'art contemporain ,Bignan, France Galerie Charles & Martin Gauthier, Québec 1995 Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto 1994 Geoffrey James: Asbestos, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal 1993 Geoffrey James: Asbestos, The Power Plant, Toronto Verticale, Québec City 1992 Geoffrey James - Forgotten Zones, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York Olmsted: une archéologie 1990-1992, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec 1991 Twining Gallery, New York 1990 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Verticale, Québec City, Quebec 1989 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1988 Italian Journeys, Twining Gallery, New York Classical Concerns, Twining Gallery, New York, 1987 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec 1986 Landscape with Ruins, Royal Institute of British Architects, Heinz Gallery, London) Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Genius Loci, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta The Greater Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia University of Texas, Houston, Texas The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan 1985 I Giardini Italiani, Palazzo Braschi, Rome Centre International de Recherche de Création et d'Animation,Villeneuve-Lez- Avignon 1985 Italian Gardens, University of Kent, Canterbury, England Contemporary Canadian Photography, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 1984 Entrances and Exits, Queen's University, Kings, England 1983 Yarlow Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Panoramic Photographs, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia Panoramic Photographs, Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA 1982 Yajima/Galerie, Montréal, Québec 1981 Photograph Gallery, New York, New York 1980 Sander Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1978 Yajima/Galerie, Montréal, Québec 1975 Yajima/Galerie, Montréal, Québec 1971 Sir George Williams University, Montréal, Québec GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 Bringing to Order:Form and Expression in Canadian PhotographicPractice, CMCP, Ottawa Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York Les Siecles et L’Image, Musee d’Art de Joliette 2001 Substitute City, The Power Plant, Toronto Escales Transcanadiennes, Point de vue sur la ville, Alliance Francaise, Paris 2000 Identificazione di un Paesaggio, Commune di Venezia, Venice, Pictures, positions, places, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver En Chantier, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Natural Order, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton 1999 Paradise Revisited, Albright Centre for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania 1998 Land Marks, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Mysterious Voyages, Exploring the Subject of Photography, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore Univers Urbains, La Representation de la Ville dans l'art Quebecois du XXe Siecle, Musee du Quebec, Quebec 1997 Landscapes in Democracy, Frederick Law Olmsted, Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne Work, Workers, Works, Dalhousie University Art Gallery,Halifax 1996 Viewing Olmsted, by R. Burley, Geoffrey James, Lee Friedlander, Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal, Quebec; traveling to Equitable Gallery, New York, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, Mass;The Field Museum, Chicago The Edge of Town, , Joselit Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn. Crossing the Frontier: Photographing the American West 1840 to the Present, San Francisco MOMA; traveling to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. and the Museum of Photography, Tokyo Rodney Graham, Geoffrey James, Richard Long, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles Prospect 96, Photography in Contemporary Art, Triennial, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Instants Photographiques, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France Kerguehennec, le lieu du combat, Centre d'art contemporarain, Bignan, France 1995 Le Regard de l'autre, Italian Cultural Institute, Montreal,, touring various locations in Italy World Tea Party, Transculture, Palazzo Justinian, Biennale di Venezia L'Instant Photographique, Musee d'art contemporain, Montréal, Quebec Silent Witnesses, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, New York 1994 Neapolis Metropolis, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy Carnets de Voyage, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, travelling to the Musee de Quebec, Qc. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Moose Jaw Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Sask., Galerie Le Pont, Aleppo, Syria 1993 Observing Traditions: Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa 1992 Reinvented Sites, TrépanierBaer , Calgary, Alberta Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Il Secondo Paradiso, Mole Antonelliana, Turin ,Italy 1991 Une Seconde Pensee du Paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France Galerie René Blouin, Montréal Corriger Les Lieux,Dazibao, Montréal Un Archipel de Désirs, Musée du Québec, Quebec City Turner Krull Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Works For The Garden, Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 The Shaping of Nature, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 1989 Twining Gallery, New York, New York Contemporary Canadian Photography, Budapest, Hungary Anamnese, (with Annette Messager and the Starn twins), Dazibao, Montréal, Quebec 1988 Jan Turner Gallery, L.A., California 1987 Classical Concerns, Twining Gallery, New York, N.Y. Elementa Naturae, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec Divers Secrecies, Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia Toronto, Le Nouveau, Nouveau Monde, Maison de L'Architecture, Paris 1977 13 Canadian Photographers, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin COLLECTIONS (Selected) Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Cleveland Museum of Fine Art, Cleveland Concordia University, Montréal Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton FRAC Bretagne Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris Graphotek, Stuttgart, Germany La Collection Pret d'oeuvres d'art du Musée du Québec, Québec Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal Musée de L'Elysee, Lausanne Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Palazzo Braschi, Rome Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa San Siego Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Private Corporate Collections in Canada and the US GRANTS & AWARDS 2002 The Gershon Iskowitz Prize The Roloff Beny Prize 1996 Short-term A Grant, Canada Council 1992 Victor Lynch Staunton Prize, Canada Council 1991 A Grant, Quebec Ministry of Cultural Affairs 1989 John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation 1987 A Grant, Canada Council 1985 Fellowship, Graham Foundation, Chicago PUBLICATIONS 2002 James, Geoffrey and Rudy Wiebe, Place, Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver 2001 James, Geoffrey and Damisch, Hubert, Paris, Collection de l'Esplanade, Paris Jansma, Linda, Parks & Walkways of Oshawa,Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa James, Geoffrey, Portfolio of the Lethbridge Project, Prefix Magazine, winter 2001 2000 Lamarche, Lise and Mercier, Guy. Terrains Vagues, Unspecified, Editions J'ai Vu, Quebec Costantini, Paolo and Weski, Thomas. Identificazione di un Paesaggio,Silvana Editoriale, Venice, Italy, with Lewis Baltz, Axel Hutte, Stephen Shore et al 1999 New Eyes, Scenes from the Millenium, Reimagined by Living Artists, project for the New York Times magazine, special millennial issue, Sept 19, with Ed Ruscha, Komar & Melamid, Gregory Crewdson et al Armstrong, Elizabeth; Rotella, Sebastian; Tuer, Dot.Running Fence, Presentation House, North Vancouver Dot Tuer , Le Souci du Document, Mois de La Photo, Montreal Gale, Peggy, 1,000 words, Musings on the Medium, Gallery TPW, Toronto 1998 Running Fence, A project for C magazine, 4 plates and text, issue #57 Trepanier, Esther, Univers Urbains, La Representation de la Ville dans l'art Quebecois du XXe siecle, Musee du Quebec 1997 Fisher, Jennifer. The World Tea Party, Presentation House, Vancouver Work,Worker, Works: Rearranging the Land, Dalhousie University Art Gallery,Halifax.NS 1996 Weiemair, Peter. Prospect 96 - Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunst, 1996 Phillips, Sandra et al. Crossing the Frontier: Photographing the American West 1840 to the Present, San Francisco MOMA Bann, Stephen. The Edge of Town, Joselit Gallery, University of Hartford Lambert, Phyllis, Szarkowski, John et al. Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander & Geoffrey James, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, MIT Hinson, Tom E, Catalogue of Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1995 Lessard, Michel. Montréal au XXe siécle: regards des photographes, Les Éditions de l 'Homme 1994 Rhodes, Richard. Asbestos, (29 plates) The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario Dessureault, Pierre. Carnets de Voyage - Travel Journals, CMCP, Ottawa Swain, Robert & Fulford, Robert, Hidden Values, Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections. Douglas& McIntyre, Vancouver 1993 Van Keuren, Philip. Vista to View: The Panoramic Image in Landscape Photography, The Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1992 Marchand, Sandra Grant. La Collection: Tableau Inaugural, (ill. pp. 415-420) Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal Baraness, Marc, and Richards, Larry, Toronto Places,University of Toronto Press James, Geoffrey, Olmsted: some other space, Descant 79/80, artist's project, 8 plates 1991 Harbison, Robert. The Italian Garden,(93 plates), Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers,New York, N.Y. 1990 James, Geoffrey.La Campagna Romana, (20 plates), Editions Galerie René Blouin, 1989 Dubois, Philippe. Anamnése,(4 plates) Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec 1987 Baird, George & Ruth Cawker. Toronto, le Nouveau, Nouveau Monde (6 plates), Maison de l'architecture, Paris Diverse Secrecies, Presentation House, Vancouver Elementa Naturae, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, 1987 1986 Mosser, Monique. Morbid Symptoms, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, Harris, John and James, Geoffrey. Landscape with Ruins, HeinzGallery, Royal Institute of British Architects, London Parachute 44 Jardins/Gardens, artist's project James, Geoffrey and Langford, Martha, Genius Loci,CMCP, Ottawa 1985 Pizzetti,Ippolito. I Giardini Italiani: Un Pellegrinaggio Fotographico, Palazzo Braschi, Museo di Roma 1984 James, Geoffrey. Entrance & Exits: The Garden as Theatre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario BIBLIOGRAPHY 2002 Schwabsky, Barry, Artforum, Feb. issue, review of Paris Enright, Robert, Interview, Border Crossings, Winter issue Guzman, Antonio, Critique d’Art, Paris, review of Paris 2001 Milroy, Sarah, "Three to Watch," The Globe & Mail, December 27 Lehmann, Henry Lehman , "A Portrait of Paris without Monuments, The Gazette,(Mtl) Oct 27, Damisch, Hubert, Le Denivelee, Editions du Seuil (Paris text) Fabo, Andy, C Magazine, review of Substitute City Rochefort, Jean-Claude,"Inquietantes topiques de l'urbanite contemporation."(Substitute City), Le Devoir, May 19 & 20 MacKay, Gillian, "Images to wander through, if only in the mind." Globe & Mail, May 12 Rochon, Lisa, "The Good, the bad and the ugly," Globe & Mail, Toronto April 4 2000 Morill, Apollonia, "Borders and Others/The Politics of Documentary," SF Camerawork, Vol 27 Gusella, Enrico, La Nuova Venezia, "Porto Marghera, Storia di un Paesaggio," Oct 3 Couelle, Jennifer, "Paysages," La Presse, Montreal, April 1 Naylor, David, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 59 review of Viewing Olmsted James, Geoffrey, “ 1999 Lamarche, Bernard. "Le Mur de la Honte," Le Devoir, Monteal Sept. 11 Charron, Marie-Eve, "Un Monde Divise," La Presse, Montreal, Sept. 18 Gopnik, Blake. "Don't fence me in", The Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 4, 1999, R9 Lehmann, Henry "Border fence takes on psychic significance" The Gazette,MTL Sept 25 1998 Anderson, Jack, "Challenging Convictions," The Leader-Post, Regina, July 30 Scott, Michael, "Bordering on the Desperate."Vancouver Sun, May 9 Walton, Mark, "Subtly exposing the socio-economic landscape,":FFWD, Calgary, Dec. 10 Hilderbrand, Gary R. Review of Viewing Olmsted, Landforum, GSD, Harvard, Spring, Summer 1997 Muschamp, Herbert. "Sunday in the Park with Fred: Visualizing Olmsted's Legacy", The New York Times, Friday, February 28, 1997, p.C31 Pascucci, Ernest. "Viewing Olmsted", Artforum, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, February 1997, p. C31 Gopnik, Adam "Olmsted's Trip," The New Yorker, March 31 Power, Mark. Times Literary Supplement, London, July 11, 1997 Aquin, Stephane. "Geoffrey James", Voir, Montréal, du Jan 30,1997, p. 40 Kozinska, Dorota. "Exploring a Human's Place in the Context of Technology", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, January 19 Temin, Christine, "Revisiting Olmsted's grand vistas," Boston Globe, Friday Sept 12 Woodward, Richard B.."Carving Green Out of Urban Gray", The New York Times, Sunday, January 5, 1997 Morrone, Francis, "The way Olmsted saw," New Criterion, Vol 15 Robert Enright, “Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists,” Winnipeg 1996 Dault, Gary Michael. "Olmsted" (review), Canadian Architect, Winter 1996 Kozloff, Max, "Olmsted", Canadian Art, Winter 1996, Vol. 13, No.4, pp. 50 - 58 Couelle, Jennifer. "Bien Sages Voyages", Le Devoir, Montréal, May 25-26 1996, p. D8 Hiss, Tony, "Sense of Place," Double Take, Summer Issue Couelle, Jennifer, CvPhoto, Fall issue, review of Carnet de Voyage 1995 Mays, John Bentley. "Geoffrey James: Brillant Urban Images", Globe and Mail, Toronto, Monday, April 19, 1995 1994 Cron, Marie-Michéle. "Sur la Route". Le Devoir, Montréal, Aug. 13-141994, p. C-9 Baele, Nancy. "Voyages in Inner Space", The Gazette, Montréal, July, 1994, p. H5 Hakim, Mona. "Geoffrey James - Charles Gagnon", Le Devoir, Montréal, March 24, p. C-14 Aquin, Stephane. "Paysages Choisies", Voir, Montréal, du 17th Aug, 1994, p. 26 MacCallum, Peter. C Magazine, Issue 41, Spring 1994, p. 56-58 Duncan, Ann. "Montréaler Turns His Attention From Gardens to Slag Heaps", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, January 29, 1994, p. James, Geoffrey, "The Republic of Images," in "Responding to Photographs, Art Gallery of Ontario 1993 Mays, John Bentley. "Portrait of a Landscape as Ambiguous", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Saturday, December 18, 1993, p. C4 Watson, Petra Rigby. Border Crossings, review of Arcadia/Paradise/Utopia Dillon, David, "Fresh views of the familiar." Dallas Morning News ND Durand, Régis. " Uses of the Image, Uses of the World, "Artpress, Paris, May 1992 Kuspit, Donald. C Magazine, 1992 (review of Documenta IX) Mays, John Bently. "Nine Canadian Artists, Nine Remarkable Choices", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, June16, 1992 Suto, Wilma. "The Artists in Documenta IX", supplement to Archis, No. 6, 1992 Hagen, Charles. The New York Times, ( review of show at Stux Gallery), Faust, Gretchen. Artsmagazine, (review of exhibition at Twining Gallery), New York, 1992 1991 Mays, John Bently. Globe and Mail, July 11, 1991 James, Geoffrey, (intro) 13 Essays on Photography, CMCP Ottawa, Sischy, Ingrid. The New Yorker, (review of The Italian Garden), 15 July Rigby Watson, Petra. C Magazine, ( exhibition review at Equinox Gallery), Toronto, Winter 1991 Bellavance, Guy. Parachute. ( review of "Corriger les lieux"), Montréal, Fall 1991 1990 Border Crossings, Winter 1990 Olivier, Sylvie. "Les chemins panoramiques de Geoffrey James", Vie des Arts, Fall 1990 James, Geoffrey, introduction: 13 essays on Photography, CMCP, Ottawa 1989 Toronto, Le Nouveau, Nouveau Monde, Maison de L'Architecture, Paris, 1989 1988 Watson, Petra Rigby. Beaux Arts, May 1988 Mosser, Monique. "Geoffrey James: de l'esprit des lieux", Beaux-Arts, Paris, No. 57, May1988, (pp. 84-89 "Eight Photographs for Frederick Law Olmsted" (photographic portforlio), Rubicon, Vol. 10, Mosser, Monique. "Morbid Symptoms", Lotus International, Milan, 1988 Mosser, Monique. "Geoffrey James: de l'esprit des lieux", Beaux-Arts, Paris, May 1988 Thornton, Gene. "Critics' Choices", New York Times, Sunday, January 10, 1988 1987 Mosser, Monique. Canadian Art Magazine, Summer 1987 Mays, John Bentley. Globe and Mail, May 16, 1987 "Deux expositions à la galerie René Blouin", Le Devoir, Montréal, 28 April, 1987, p. 16 Mays, John Bentley. "Exposing the Twilight of the Liberal Dream: James Focuses on French Utopias", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May 16, 1987, p. C6 Gale, Peggy. "Morbid Symptoms & Genius Loci", Canadian Art, Summer issue, 1987 Fisher-Taylor, Gail. "Genius Loci", Photo Communique, Summer 1987, p. 38 Mitchell, Michael, Contemporary Canadian Photographers, St. James Press, London 1986 Mosser, Monique. "Stops on a fantastic itinerary", Lotus International, Vol 58 Eisler, Collin. "Arabia" (exhibition review), Financial Times, London, November 17, 1986 "Jardins/Gardens", Parachute, Montréal, sept.- nov. 1986 1985 Tazzi, Pier Luigi. Artforum, November 1985, pp. 114-115 Chambers, Douglas, Canadian Art, Summer, 1983 Wallace, Ian. Vanguard, September 1983, p. 50 1977 James, Geoffrey, Tranparent Things, The artist's use of the Photograph catalogue essay, Canada Council Art Bank 1975 James, Geoffrey, editor and introduction: An Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Photography, artscanada books, Toronto |