Richard E. Prince attended the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history. He began teaching sculpture and studio arts in 1973 and joined the faculty at the Department of Fine Arts (now Art History, Visual Art and Theory) at the University of British Columbia in 1975, where he is now a Professor. Prince’s artwork has ranged over a number of themes but pre-eminent is that of the landscape. It is not simply the landscape of direct observation but rather it is a poetic landscape that reveals the often hidden, underlying structure or examines the intangible systems and ephemeral phenomena permeating our experience of land and place. Aspects of the landscape which have been the subject of his work have ranged from wind and erosion to the aurora borealis and other cosmological events. Much of his work questions our assumptions about conventional images of the landscape and proposes unique, often mechanical or electronic solutions for its representation. Prince has been exhibiting his work in art galleries across Canada and internationally since his first solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1972. His works are in many collections, including the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Mendel Gallery in Saskatoon. His work has been acquired by many corporate and private collectors as well.

Creator Id: 489
Year of Birth: 1949
City: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: British Columbia
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, sculpture

Pudlo Pudlat was a Canadian Inuk artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums. At his death in 1992, Pudlat left a body of work that included more than 4000 drawings and 200 prints. Pudlat began drawing in the early 1960s after he abandoned the semi-nomadic way of life and settled in ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]. He experienced firsthand the radical transformation of life in the Arctic that occurred in the 20th Century and reached its peak in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, when he was already in his 40s, he moved to Kiaktuuq near ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait to recover from a bout of tuberculosis. It was there he met Inuit art pioneer James Archibald Houston and began his career as an artist. Pudlat spent 33 years creating art. He began by carving sculpture, but he found carving difficult because of an arm injury, so he switched to drawing around 1959 or 1960. Initially encouraged by James Houston and then by Terry Ryan of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now known as the Kinngait Co-operative), he embraced drawing and later printmaking and painting as these media were introduced in the north. Pudlat occasionally traveled south and to other parts of the Arctic for medical treatment. The objects he encountered his travels, especially airplanes, are prominent in his subject matter. In 1972 one of Pudlat's prints was selected for reproduction on a UNICEF greeting card. Pudlat travelled to Ottawa to attend the opening of an exhibition of the works. He remembered it as the first work for which he was invited south and accorded public recognition.

Creator Id: 491
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Community Detail: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl
Year of Birth: 1916
City: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]
Province: Nunavut
Country: Canada
Beginning Year: 1916
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Nunavut
Additional Statuses: Inuit
Community: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: drawing, printmaking

ᓇᐸᓯ ᐳᑐᒍ Napachie Pootoogook was a Inuk graphic artist. Pootoogook began drawing in her early twenties with her mother's encouragement. Like many Inuit artists, she brought her drawings to the ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]-based West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now known as the Kinngait Co-operative), an institution that would purchase artworks and offered art classes. Pootoogook sold her first drawings to James Archibald Houston for $20 when she was twenty-five years old. She continued to draw and make prints until her death, producing more than 5000 original works. Pootoogook's art was included in fourteen Cape Dorset print collections and has been featured in many anthologies of Inuit art since the 1960s. Much of Pootoogook's early work documented traditional Inuit spirituality, mythology and superstitions. In the 1970s, she began using her art to document traditional Inuit life and clothing as well as local histories. The drawings created toward the end of her career told stories from her personal life and those of her ancestors, going back two generations. Some of those later pieces illustrated darker aspects of Inuit life - covering themes like spousal abuse, starvation, forced marriage and infanticide.

Creator Id: 481
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Community Detail: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl
Year of Birth: 1938
City: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]
Province: Nunavut
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Northwest Territories
Additional Statuses: Inuit
Community: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: drawing, printmaking

Especially pertinent to John Abrams' overall program of work is the strategy of using existing cultural objects – film, art, and narratives – that already have systems of signs and signifiers, existing languages. These languages or codes can then be applied – like the artist’s palette of colours – to reconstruct, remake or alter the dynamic of the conversation. This approach allows the artist a chance to communicate to viewers in a common vocabulary and offers a point of entry into the ongoing dialogues that make up contemporary culture. Some of Abrams' wildlife paintings can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Agnes Etherington in Kingston or the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Creator Id: 3
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1959
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, painting, video

Born and raised in the southeast area of Vancouver, Ross Bollerup graduated with honours in painting From the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University) in 1960. There he was influenced and mentored by Jack Shadbolt, Don Jarvis and Reginald Holmes among others. Their interest and example stimulated him to continue in a career as an artist. While living in downtown Vancouver on West Hastings his work was exhibited with Bau-Xi and Mary Frazee Galleries as well as local public galleries. He moved to Popkum (near Chilliwack) more than forty years ago. There he established the ideal studio space needed for working on big, multiple and ongoing projects. He has been a part of the Lower Mainland artistic community for more than five decades, and continues to contribute to the field of printmaking and painting with his unique vision and innovative techniques. He has exhibited his work across Canada, in the U.S.A. and in most of the public galleries in the lower mainland. His most recent exhibitions include the Visual Space Gallery of Vancouver 2018, Reach Art Gallery of Abbotsford in 2016, the Chilliwack Cultural Centre in 2014, the McGill library in 2009 and Evergreen Cultural Centre in 2006. For a complete image timeline of Ross’ work from 1966 to the present go to the artists section of the Centre for Canadian Contemporary Art database at www.ccca.ca. and also visit his web site at: http://www.rossbollerup.com

Creator Id: 75
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1942
City: Rosedale
Province: British Columbia
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: British Columbia
Gender: Male
Mediums: collage, drawing, painting, printmaking

David Charles Bierk RCA was an American-Canadian realist painter. During the year that he lived in Toronto, Bierk immersed himself in the local cultural scene, which he described as exploratory. Then he moved to Peterborough, Ontario in 1972 to take up a teaching position at Kenner Collegiate Vocational Institute, and later at Fleming College. Along with poet Dennis Tourbin, Bierk founded and directed Artspace between 1974 and 1987, which was one of Canada's earliest artist operated art centers. Bierk's early painting drew on sources such as diverse as American West Coast Pop and Photo Realism. In Canada, he expanded his West Coast Pop into Canadian images as well as painting a Canadian Rock series, and a multiple fold painting series. In the early 1980s, he began his Repaintings, quoting from famous artists of the past. His solo shows included exhibitions at Artspace, Peterborough (1976), the Art Gallery of Peterborough (1981–1983), and Museum London (1983). The travelling exhibition After History: The Paintings of David Bierck organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama in 2002 toured in Canada. His group exhibitions were extensive.

Creator Id: 67
Year of Birth: 1944
City: Peterborough
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: Minnesota
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: painting

Originally a painter and mixed media artist, since 2001 Pamela Allen has focused her practice on fibre art. Throughout her career, Pamela has explored many aspects of the arts community. In international exhibitions, writing articles for magazines, proposing solo exhibitions to galleries and museums, and teaching, she has become an active member of the arts community. She has been a full time artist since 1981. Pamela has taught art at all levels of education, from grade school to university. She began conducting fibre art workshops in Canada, the United States, and South Africa. She loves teaching and traveling, and both have informed her practice throughout her career. Many experiences soothed the angst and assuaged the competitive spirit, thus today Pamela finds great pleasure in expressing her own personal voice with her own personal style. She is confident that scale, colour, and spatial logic can be arbitrary if she wishes it. Pamela’s interest in Folk and Outsider art has persuaded her that sincerity of intent carries more impact than sensational technique. Abandoning linear thinking has opened up infinite possibilities for visual expression. She allows the work itself to direct the progress of its own development: for her, this is the most creative aspect of art making.

Creator Id: 11
City: Kingston
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Female
Mediums: collage, fibre

Among the rapidly growing number of important First Nations artists in Canada, Carl Beam RCA was a strong, independent character and by that virtue he became a leader. His 1985 painting, The North American Iceberg (titled in ironic opposition to the Art Gallery of Ontario’s landmark exhibition of the same year, The European Iceberg) was the first work by an artist of native ancestry purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art. He mainly eschewed traditional style and imagery and helped himself to the world through its overflowing inventory of photo-documents, inserting the personal and the symbolic alongside the iconic in remarkably lucid and powerful combinations that partially disguised the artist’s own motives and intentions to force the viewer’s active involvement in their interpretation.

Creator Id: 53
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1943
City: West Bay
Province: Manitoulin Island, Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Ontario
Province of Birth: Manitoulin Island
Additional Statuses: First Nations
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: mixed media

Sandra Altwerger is a Canadian artist living and working in Toronto. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (as it was then known), graduating in 1963. Afterwards she studied at the Instituto Allende, in Mexico and received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1966. In 1975 she began teaching at OCA and continued there (now OCAD University) as an associate professor until retirement in 2013. Sandra began exhibiting her work, first at Gallery Moos in Toronto and then at Mira Goddard gallery since 1980. Her work is represented in over 60 public and corporate collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Toronto Dominion Bank, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Ernst and Young, the University of Lethbridge and the Agnes Etherington Art Center. Past exhibitions include solo and group exhibits in Canada in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Guelph, Kingston and Brantford Ontario as well as exhibits in the USA in Chicago, the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, The Bronx Museum, New York, She has also exhibited in Europe in England at Oxford University and Finland at the Alvar Alto museum. Awards have been from the Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council Grants and several Purchase Awards.

Creator Id: 15
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1942
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Female
Mediums: painting, printmaking

Ralph Allen was born and educated in England, graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1953). In 1957 he arrived at Queen’s University with a boisterous young family and excellent artistic credentials, to begin a long career in fine art education. This career included becoming the Director of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (1963-72),Professor of Art in the Fine Arts department(1972-87), and finally Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 1987. All the while Allen pursued his artistic career exhibiting widely in the early days, receiving several Canada Council grants, gaining critical attention through venues such as Canadian Art magazine, and entering important collections across North America ( National Gallery of Canada, Hirschorn Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, and many university, private and corporate collections). A large exhibition of new work in 1990 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and Rodman Hall Gallery in St. Catharines became the starting point for a renaissance in Allen’s work....he has essentially begun again. His early years represent a powerful reality for him and he works to remain in contact with them as a touchstone. Whilst landscape has always been an important feature of his work, in his later years, Allen was more interested in the human dimension.

Creator Id: 12
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1926
City: Kingston
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: England
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: painting

Sara Angelucci is a Toronto-based artist working in photography, video and audio. Her work explores vernacular photographs and films, analyzing the original context in which images are made. Drawing attention to conventions of image making, her work foregrounds the cultural role vernacular images play in framing particular stories, creating histories, and memorialization. Her interest lies in drawing our attention outside of the image frame, pointing to the social and historic conditions which are the unspoken basis of the image. Angelucci’s work has developed from an examination of the family archive and immigration, to a broader analysis and interpretation of anonymous/found photographs. In recent photography, video, and audio projects, Angelucci draws from the history of photography, as well as natural and social histories. Recent projects have brought particular attention to the historic conditions of women's labour. Sara Angelucci completed her BA at the University of Guelph and her MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her photography across Canada in solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of York University, Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Vu in Quebec City, the Toronto Photographers Workshop, the MacLaren Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Richmond Art Gallery, and the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery in Halifax. Internationally she has had solo exhibitions at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Lianzhou Photography Festival and the Halsey Institute of Art in Charleston. Her work has been featured in numerous group shows in the US, Europe, and in China at the Pingyao and Beijing Biennales. Her videos have been screened across Canada and abroad, at festivals in Europe, China, Australia and the U.S. She has participated in artist residencies at the Art Gallery of Ontario, NSCAD (Halifax), the Banff Centre, and at Biz-Art in Shanghai. Angelucci is an Adjunct Professor in Photography at the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University.

Creator Id: 20
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1962
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Female
Mediums: audio, photography, video

Patrick Bérubé obtained a Master's degree in visual and media arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2005. A finalist for the Pierre Ayot prize twice, his work has been noticed on the national and international scene through his participation in numerous exhibitions and major events, notably in New York, Berlin, London and Luxembourg. He also has several artist residency stays including the Hangar in Barcelona, Spain, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and at Buy-Sellf, in Bordeaux. Active member of the Clark gallery in Montreal, he has also created several works integrating architecture (1%).

Creator Id: 66
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1977
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, sculpture

Especially pertinent to John Abrams' overall program of work is the strategy of using existing cultural objects – film, art, and narratives – that already have systems of signs and signifiers, existing languages. These languages or codes can then be applied – like the artist’s palette of colours – to reconstruct, remake or alter the dynamic of the conversation. This approach allows the artist a chance to communicate to viewers in a common vocabulary and offers a point of entry into the ongoing dialogues that make up contemporary culture. Some of Abrams' wildlife paintings can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Agnes Etherington in Kingston or the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Creator Id: 3
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1959
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Male
Mediums: installation, painting, video

Joyce Wieland RCA was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and expanded her career as an artist by including new materials and mixed media work. During that time, she also rose to prominence as an experimental filmmaker and soon, institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York were showing her films. In 1971, Wieland's True Patriot Love exhibition was the first solo exhibition by a living Canadian female artist at the National Gallery of Canada. In 1982, Wieland received the honour of an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1987, she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation's Visual Arts Award. She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Joyce Wieland was a central figure in Canadian art during the 1960s and 1970s. Though, she began her career as a painter, her work came to explore a wide range of materials and media, including film. The 1960s were a productive time for Wieland, as she responded to the contemporary artistic trends of Pop art and Conceptual art. Her art was often infused with humour, even as it engaged with issues of war, gender, ecology, and nationalism. Internationally, Wieland is best known as an experimental feminist filmmaker. Her works introduced physical manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films while also playing with the facticity of photographed images. Wieland's output was small but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant-garde filmmakers of her time. In the 1980s, Wieland focused again on painting, though her representation of the natural environment became less identifiably Canadian and her themes simply ones of nature, love and life.

Creator Id: 647
Year of Birth: 1930
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Beginning Year: 1931
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Female
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: drawing, fibre, painting, printmaking

Originally a painter and mixed media artist, since 2001 Pamela Allen has focused her practice on fibre art. Throughout her career, Pamela has explored many aspects of the arts community. In international exhibitions, writing articles for magazines, proposing solo exhibitions to galleries and museums, and teaching, she has become an active member of the arts community. She has been a full time artist since 1981. Pamela has taught art at all levels of education, from grade school to university. She began conducting fibre art workshops in Canada, the United States, and South Africa. She loves teaching and traveling, and both have informed her practice throughout her career. Many experiences soothed the angst and assuaged the competitive spirit, thus today Pamela finds great pleasure in expressing her own personal voice with her own personal style. She is confident that scale, colour, and spatial logic can be arbitrary if she wishes it. Pamela’s interest in Folk and Outsider art has persuaded her that sincerity of intent carries more impact than sensational technique. Abandoning linear thinking has opened up infinite possibilities for visual expression. She allows the work itself to direct the progress of its own development: for her, this is the most creative aspect of art making.

Creator Id: 11
City: Kingston
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Gender: Female
Mediums: collage, fibre

Paul Butler is an artist with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. His practice includes hosting the collage parties, a touring experimental studio established 1997, and directing the operations of The Other Gallery, a nomadic commercial gallery focused on overlooked artists' practices established in 2001. In 2007, he founded the UpperTradingPost.com, a website that facilitates artist trading. He also initiated the experimental school Reverse Pedagogy that began at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2008, and has since travelled to Venice in 2009, among other locations. Butler has served as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the director of 2/edition in Toronto. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, White Columns, New York City, Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland and Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. Butler has contributed writing to the book Decentre: Concerning Artist-Run Culture (2008) and the magazines Canadian Art and Hunter and Cook. He was the Art Gallery of Ontario's first Artist-in-Residence, from October to November 2011.

Creator Id: 107
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1973
City: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Gender: Male
Mediums: collage

Pat Badani draws from the fields of art, science, and technology to explore the intersectionality of environmental and social justice issues. She experiments across media to create artistic arguments that blend aesthetics and criticism, charting connections between theories related to art as object, as medium, and art as critique of political and technological networks. Over the past 40 years she has exhibited broadly in museums and art centers, and in dedicated Art, Technology and Science platforms in North and South America, Europe, and Asia including ISEA, Transmediale, ELO, FILE, CURRENTS, and Balance-Unbalance, to name a few. Projects have been distinguished with awards from the Canada Council for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; DCASE; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship @ MacDowell, The Robert Heinecken Trust; and recognized with nominations by Creative Capital, Art Matters, and AWAW.

Creator Id: 38
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1951
City: Chicago
Province: Illinois
Country: United States
Country of Birth: Argentina
Gender: Female
Mediums: earthwork, installation, painting, web

Catherine Bolduc's work has been presented in many exhibitions, both locally and abroad (Japan, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and USA). In 2007-2008, she carried out a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and in 2010 at the Studio du Québec in Tokyo. The winner of the Powerhouse Prize in 2013, she has also received many grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Council for the Arts throughout her career. In addition to close to a dozen public art projects, the artist has also created works that have been acquired by major private and public collections (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Bank Collection, Desjardins Collection, among others).​

Creator Id: 73
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1970
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, sculpture

Françoise Sullivan initially studied at the city’s École des beaux-arts. While this uniquely multifaceted artist was first renowned as a dancer and choreographer, it has been her work as a painter, sculptor and photographer that has truly stood out in her long career. Along with Paul-Émile Borduas, she was one of the founding members of the avant-garde Automatiste movement, and one of the signatories of that group’s 1948 manifesto, the Refus global. Moreover, in that revolutionary document Borduas included the entire text of Ms. Sullivan’s celebrated lecture on La danse et l'espoir.Since then, her work has been shown at countless different solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (1993) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2003). Another major exhibition will be dedicated to her at the MMFA in the fall of 2023, on the occasion of her centennial anniversary. She received the Paul-Émile Borduas Award in 1987 and holds honorary degrees from UQAM and Toronto’s York University. A teacher at Concordia University for over 30 years, Françoise Sullivan was also a board member of the Montreal Arts Council, a jury member and lecturer.

Creator Id: 583
Year of Birth: 1929
City: Montreal
Province: Québec
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Gender: Female
Mediums: dance, installation, painting, performance, sculpture

Kai Chan immigrated to Canada in 1966, having graduated with a degree in biology in 1963. He has received numerous grants and awards including the 1998 Jean A. Chalmers National Crafts Award and in 2002, the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Fine Crafts. In 2003, and again in January 2010, Chan was awarded the Canada Council's Paris studio residency. Kai has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe, and is represented in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Gatineau, Quebec), Museum London (London, Ontario), the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, SK); the Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa, Ontario), the Library & Gallery (Cambridge, Ontario), and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimusem in Norway.

Creator Id: 123
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Year of Birth: 1940
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Country of Birth: China
Gender: Male
Mediums: commission, fibre, sculpture, wood