Catherine is the perfect performance artist - intense, intelligent, funny, with a poetic imagination and a keen visual and musical sensitivity. It remarkable that one person can do all this and still be so nice. I will be doing three videos of Catherine and putting them on You Tube and before too long they will be in the gallery in a higher resolution .
The videos are a pale imitation of the complexity of Catherine's work when experienced in person. I only wish you could have been there. I felt privleged.
Catherine Carmichael
Selected Exhibitions SOLO
2011 Transit Gallery, Hamilton ON work on
paper 2010 Gallery
on 4 , Hamilton Public Library; Open Book, work on paper; Flesherton Art
Gallery, Flesherton ON; Susan's Arm, sculpture and work on paper
2006 Parisian Laundry,
Montreal, QC. installation 2004 Durham
Art Gallery, Durham ON, installation; Pteros Gallery,Toronto ON, drawing
and writing; Flesherton Art Gallery, Flesherton ON, drawing and collage
2000 James Baird Gallery,
St. John's NF,constructions 1993 Garnet
Press Gallery, Toronto ON, outdoor sculpture; Durham Art Gallery, Durham
ON, constructions, video 1991 Garnet
Press Gallery, Toronto ON,outdoor sculpture 1988/89
Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto ON,outdoor sculpture
1988 Mercer Union,
Toronto ON,sculpture 1987/88 Garnet
Press Gallery, Toronto ON, outdoor sculpture
GROUP 2012 TorontoBerlin
1982-2012, Drawing, ,Zweigstelle, Berlin
2010 Transit Gallery,Hamilton ON, work on
paper 2008 Flesherton
Art Gallery , Carmichael,Glicksman,Klunder and Wood 2006
Alley Jaunt, Toronto ON,installation
2003 Pteros
Gallery, Toronto ON,drawing 2001 VAV
Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal ,QC,sculpture; V.MacDonnell Fine
Art, Toronto ON,construction; V.MacDonnell Fine Art, Toronto ON,construction
1996 Art Gallery
of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's NF For the Joy of It Curated
by Reinhard Reitzenstein & Gayle Young, John Boyle, Catherine Carmichael,
Murray Favro, Harold Klunder, Michael Snow 1993
Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound ON, sculpture
1991 Gallery Moos,
Toronto ON,construction; Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie ON, sound
sculpture 1984 A
Space, Toronto ON, sculpture 1983
Unaffiliated, 515 Queen St. West, Toronto ON, sculpture;
Chromazone, Toronto ON,sculpture
PERFORMANCE 2012 "I
found it in the street" a movement based soundscape inspired by Libby
Haguečs Installation "Be Brave! We are in this together, YYZ Toronto
2010 "
In the sky", CC HK Flesherton Art Gallery
2009 Electric Eclectics,
Town Without Pity, New Soundworks Festival, Meaford Ontario; Carmchael,Glicksman,Klunder
2001 MacLaren Art Centre, Southshore Centre,
Barrie ON; Catherine Carmichael/Harold Klunder collaboration 2000
L.S.P.U. Hall, St. John's, NF Sound Symposium
2000 CC, HK collaboration 1999 MacLaren
Parallel Project:,CC, HK collaboration; Eastern Edge, St. John's, NF ,CC,HK
collaboration 1998 University
of Lethbridge, Lethbridge AB,CC,HK collaboration 1996
Arts and Culture Centre, St. John's, NF,Sound Symposium
8: Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NF;
Order and Chaos: interdisciplinary conference,CC,HK collaboration
1995 Sir Wilfred Grenfell
College, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NF; Suspended between Action
and Rest, CC,HK collaboration 1994
Rencontre international d'art performance de Québec
QC; Tree Gone Missing CC and Shane West
BIBLIOGRAPHY
selected Haggo,Regina. "Exploring the mystery
of everyday life", The Hamilton Spectator, June 16, 2011
Haggo Review: http://www.thespec.com/print/article/548124
Campbell, James D., "Magpiečs Nest and the Leftovers From the Day,"
ETC Revue De LčArt Actuelle,76.December 2006,Jan Feb 2007
Dault,Gary Michael. "Carmichaelčs skin of flexing thought, "
The Globe and Mail
Reitzenstein, Reinhard, Young, Gayle. "For the Joy of It," (John
Boyle, Catherine Carmichael, Murray Favro, Harold Klunder, Michael Snow),
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NF, 1996.
Le Lieu, Centre en art actuel, Rencontre internationale dčart Performance
de Quebec, Québec, QC, 1994.
Cork, Campbell. "Dance, Sculpture on display," The Sun Times,
Owen Sound ON, Feb. 4, 1993
Hume, Christopher."The News from Moos" The Toronto Star,Toronto,
ON April 2,1992
Taylor, Kate. "Invited to curate" The Globe and Mail, Toronto,
ON, Mar. 27, 1992.
Boyle, John B. "Aspects of Performance," CCAOS, Owen Sound,
On, June, 1991.
Richard, Alain-Martin, Robertson, Clive. "Performance au.in Canada,"
Coach House Press, Toronto, ON, 1990.
ONLINE
Ecstatic
Shift , poetry published in Hamilton Arts and Letters
Dutch Boy solo
performance c.1980
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2003
2006 Concordia University, Sculpture Studio, MFA
2000 Artist's Residency , Pouch Cove Foundation
1994/1995 Video Production, Memorial University, Corner Brook NF; Trinity
Square Video, Toronto ON
1980 Graduate Diploma in Experimental Art, Ontario College of Art and
Design, Toronto ON
1978 Interdisciplinary Studies Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
BC
1974 Early Chlidhood Ed. Diploma, Algonquin College, Ottawa; Improvisation,
Modern Dance, Ottawa (1968 1975)
GRANTS AND AWARDS 1993
Canada Council: Arts Grant "B" 1990/86/84
Project Grants 1993 Ontario Arts Council:
First Projects: Film & Video 1992/86/84 Individual
Artist Grant 1985-2004 Exhibition Assistance
1980 Ontario College of Art Forsythe Scholarship
for Sculpture & Design Performance 1978 Royal
Bank of Canada Experimental Student Work
COLLECTIONS Canada Council Art Bank University
of Toronto, St. Michael's College, Donovan Collection Osler Hoskin and
Harcourt Art Collection Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
