Carol Wainio, CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Vers L’incertitude”, Trépanier Baer, Calgary, Alberta
2021 “Fabulisme/Paroles aux Bêtes”, Occurrence, Montréal, Québec
2021 “Figures in a Shifting Ground”, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2020 “Human Natures”, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
2019 “Disasters for Little Children”, Diefenbunker, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 “The Fall”, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
2014 “Dropped from the Calendar”, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2014 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, Galerie UQAM, Montréal, Quebec
2013 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, MacIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
2013 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
2013 “Old Masters”, curated by Crystal Mowry, Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2013 “Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future (again)” Paul Petro Contemporary, Toronto
2013 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2012 “Folk Tales”, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario
2011 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Québec
2011 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario (touring)
2010 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2010 “The Book”, curated by Diana Nemiroff, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
2004 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2003 Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 “Days Arrayed”, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2001 “Les Registres du Contemporain/Contemporary Registers”, Touring Exhibition, Musée d’art de Joliette 2000; Oakville, Ontario 2001, London, Ontario 2001, Calgary 2001
2000 “Le Livre, La Livrée”, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, Québec
1998 “Persistent Images”, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario
1996 “Operating Theatre”, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, Québec
1995 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1993 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1991 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal, Québec
1989 Galerie d’art du Centre Culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Québec
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Painting Nature with a Mirror”, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
2018 “Adisòkàmagan/We all become stories”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2017 “Tributes and Tributaries”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2015 “Elles Aujourd’hui”, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
2015 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2015 “Un Pays de Merveilles”, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montréal, Québec
2014 “GGAVMA 2014”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2014 “In a Word”, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Montréal, Québec (catalogue)
2013 Toronto International Art Fair, (Paul Petro Contemporary), Toronto, Ontario
2013 “History Becomes You”, Paul Petro Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
2013 “Other Worlds”, curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Ontario
2013 “Project Peinture/The Painting Project”, Galerie UQAM, Montréal, Québec (catalogue)
2012 “Menaginary”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2012 “60 Painters”, Humber College, Toronto, Ontario
2011 “Between the Cracks”, Oboro, Montréal, Québec
2011 “25 ans”, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Québec
2010 “Femmes artistes”, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City
2009 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2009 Storylines (with Ron Shuebrook), Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax (catalogue)
2008 Through the Looking Glass, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
2008 “Carte Blanche”, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (catalogue)
2008 “Carol Wainio, Ron Moppet, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2008 “Build-Up”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Contemporary Galleries, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2002 “Painters 15”, Shanghai Art Museum, China (2002); Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2000 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 “Les Peintures”, Galeries René Blouin, Montréal, Québec
1999 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1998 “Peinture/Peinture”, Belgo Building, Montréal, Québec
1997 “Blaast”, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, Québec
1995 “A Notion of Conflict – Contemporary Canadian Art”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1994 “Shirley Wiitasalo, Carol Wainio”, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, Québec.
1993 “Reflecting Paradise”, Expo ’93, Taejon, South Korea
1993 “Perspectives in Contemporary Art”, Centre D’Exposition Du Vieux Palais, St. Jerome, Québec
1992 “Vues d’Ensembles”, Centre Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Montréal.
1991 Anninovanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
1991 “Working Truths/Powerful Fictions”, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (catalogue)
1990 “Aperto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
1990 “S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1980-1990”, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1989 “Ludger Gerdes, Serge Murphy, Carol Wainio”, 49th Parallel, New York, NY.
1988 “Les Temps Chauds”, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, Québec (catalogue)
1988 “The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition”, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1988 “Contemporary Canadian Works on Paper”, Concordia Art Gallery, Montréal.
1986 Group Show, The Willard Gallery, New York, New York.
1986 “Songs of Experience”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (catalogue)
1986 “City Detour”, Optica, Montréal, Québec.
1985 “Anxiety/Alienation/Aphasia”, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.
1985 “Ecrans Politiques”, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, Québec (catalogue)
1985 “Contemporary Canadian Painting”, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1985 “Perspective ’85”, (two-person show), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (catalogue)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, 2014; Frankfurter Kunstverein Residency, 2010; George Gilmour Award (Art Gallery of Ontario) 1985
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, University of Lethbridge, Hart House/University of Toronto, London Regional Art Gallery, Air Canada, Lavalin, Chase Manhattan Bank, CIL, McCarthy Tetrault, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Royal Bank, Toronto Dominion, External Affairs, Canada Council Art Bank, other public, private, corporate collections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dick, Terence. “Carol Wainio at Paul Petro”, 2020, Akimbo, https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/carol-wainio-at-paul-petro-toronto/
Dick, Terence. “Carol Wainio at Paul Petro”, 2015, Akimbo http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/index.php?id=967
Milroy, Sarah. “Once Upon A Time Before: The Art of Carol Wainio”, Bordercrossings, Volume 32, 2014
Delgado, Jérôme. “De jeunesse et d’expérience”, Le Devoir, January 18, 2014
Pohl, John. “Wainio explores stories and images”, The Montréal Gazette, January 18, 2014
Genois, Audrey (Ed.). Le Projet Peinture/The Painting Project (catalogue), Galerie UQAM, 2013
Beatty, Gregory. “Unspun Fables”, Prairie Dog, April 18, 2013
Raine, Emily. “Galerie de l’UQAM Celebrates a Threefer”, Cult Mtl#, Jan. 9, 2014
Schechter, Fran. “Wainio’s Twisted Folklore”, Now Magazine, March 2013
Sandals, Leah. “Carol Wainio on Wentegate, Fairy Tales & Climate Change”, Canadian Art, February, 2013
Dickinson, Terence. Carol Wainio at Paul Petro, Akimbo, February, 2013
Wylie, Liz. “Wonderful technique on dark ruminations”, Kelowna Capital News, Feb. 1, 2013
Milroy, Sara. Review, Canadian Art, Fall, 2011
Innes, Randy. “The Book”, (Exhibition Catalogue), Carleton University Art Gallery, Fall 2010
Tousley, Nancy. “Artist prowls the world of Puss in Boots”, Calgary Herald, May 22, 2010
Falvey, Emily. “Unsettling Painting’s Landscapes”, Canadian Art – Online, April 22, 2010
Shuebrook, Ron. “Black and White with Storylines”, (Catalogue), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nov. 2009
Carter Flinn, Sue. “Ron Shuebrook and Carol Wainio:”, Canadian Art October 2009
Barnard, Elissa. “Shared Exhibit sheds light on art of mentoring”,Chronicle Herald, Sept. 24, 2009
Gordon, Holly. “Ron Shuebrook Carol Wainio: Black and White with Storylines”, The Coast, August 2009
Milroy, Sarah. “Curatorial Celebrations”, Globe and Mail, November 22, 2008
Roenisch, Clint. “Carte Blanche V.2 Painting”, Magenta Foundation
Sandals, Leah. “Uncertain terms”, Now Magazine, Volume 28, Number 7, Fall 2008
Black, Anthea. “Ron Moppett and Carol Wainio”, Border Crossings, Summer, 2008
Woodley, Eric. “Carol Wainio, Wynick/Tuck Gallery”, Canadian Art, Winter 2007
Dault, Gary Michael. “Carol Wainio at Wynick/Tuck”, Globe and Mail, June 9, 2007
Alexander, Matt. “Carol Wainio’s Ramshackle Paintings”, BlogTO, June 13, 2007
Anderson, Randall. “Carol Wainio”, Galerie René Blouin, Border Crossings, #102, 2007.
Dault, Gary Michael. “Wainio’s Secret Paint Garden”, Globe and Mail, November 6, 2004.
Gessell, Paul. “Wainio Returns to Rave Reviews.” Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2003.
Rochefort, Jean-Claude. “Carol Wainio: Matrice picturale”, Spirale, March-April 2003.
Enright, Robert. “The Very Rich Hours of Carol Wainio”, Border Crossings, February, 2003.
Milroy, Sarah. “Brushes With the Best”, Globe and Mail, May 11, 2002.
Milroy, Sarah. “Critic’s Choice”, Globe and Mail, May 4, 2002.
Thériault, Michèle. Carol Wainio: Les Registres du contemporain/Contemporary Registers, (Catalogue), Musée d’art de Joliette, 2000.
Dault, Gary Michael. “Wainio’s eccentric wonderlands”, Globe and Mail, May 6, 2000.
Lamarche, Bernard. “De la lecture”, Le Devoir, Mars 7, 1999.
Tousley, Nancy. “Persistent Images”, (Exhibition Catalogue), York University, 1998.
Aquin, Stéphane. “Carol Wainio: Théâtre intime”, Voir, November, 1996.
Mignot, Dorine. “Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art (Exhibition Catalogue), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1995
Aquin, Stéphane. “Hors Cadre”, Voir, May 5, 1994
Lacroix, Laurier. “Peinture Ponctuation”, Trois, Volume no. 3, 1994
Spalding, Jeffrey. “Reflecting Paradise”, (Exhibition Catalogue), Expo ’93, 1993.
St-Pierre, Gaston. “Vues d’ensemble” (Catalogue), Centre International d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1992
Barilli, Renato. “Anni Novanta” (Exhibition Catalogue), Galleria Communale d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Bradley, Jessica. Working Truths/Powerful Fictions. MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1991.
Bérard, Serge. Carol Wainio (Exhibition Catalogue) Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1991.
Rasponi, Simonetta, “La Biennale Di Venezia” (Exhibition Catalogue), Venice, Italy, 1990