Jennifer Walton     Curriculum Vitae
 
   
 
 
 

EDUCATION

1989-92  Master of fine arts - in painting, Concordia University, Montreal QC

 

1982-86  Bachelor of fine arts - painting major, printmaking minor, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "Running"

 

2002       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "Jump"

 

2002       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "Coastlines"

 

2000       The University of Michigan, Residential College/East Quadrangle Art Gallery  Ann Arbor MI, "The Hunters"

 

2000       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "Points and Spaces"

 

1999       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "Surface Tension"

 

1997       The Robert McLaughlin Gallery  Oshawa ON, "Lethal Systems"

 

1995       Artspeak  Vancouver BC, "Altered Terrain"

 

1995       Neutral Ground  Regina SK, "Fathers and sons"

 

1995       Maison de la culture, Frontenac  Montréal QC, "Remaniement de terrain" (Altered Terrain)

 

1995       Open Space  Victoria BC, "Fathers and sons"

 

1995       Harcourt House  Edmonton AB, "Fathers and sons"

 

1995       Hamilton Artists Inc.  Hamilton ON, "Looking is not seeing"

 

1994       Centre culturel Université de Sherbrooke  SherbrookeQC, "Pères et fils" (Fathers and Sons)

 

1994       White Water Gallery  North Bay ON, "Fathers and sons"

 

1994       Artcite  Windsor ON, "Fathers and sons"

 

1994       Plug-In  Winnipeg MB, "The Hunters"

 

1993       The Niagara Artists' Centre  St. Catharines ON, "The Hunters"

 

1993       Galerie Skol  Montreal QC, "Regarder sans voir" (Looking is not seeing)

 

1993       Gallery 101  Ottawa ON, "The Hunters"

 

1993       The Wilson Room, Kingston Public Library  Kingston ON, "The Hunters"

 

1992       la galerie dare-dare  Montreal QC, "Les chasseurs" (The Hunters)

 

1990       Thunder Bay Art Gallery  Thunder Bay ON, "Jennifer Walton - recent paintings

 

1989       Definitely Superior  Thunder Bay ON, "Mortal Man His Form Perpetuated"

 

1988       STRUTS Gallery  Sackville NB, "In the Heart of the Ancient Wood"

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004       Galerie Trois Points Montreal QC, "20 ans de peinture, de photos, de dessins"

2008       Espace Création Montreal QC, "Fusion" art with the theme fire from the collection of Loto-Québec

2007       Firehall Theatre Gananoque ON, The Kingston Prize, Canada's National Portrait Competition

2007       Spin Gallery Toronto ON, Fundraiser for the Pouch Cove Residency

2006       Cor Braun  Westport ON, group show

2006       Smart Skool  Toronto ON, group show

2005       James Baird Gallery  St. John's NF, "I AM" -- tribute to Lynn Donoghue

2005       Mind Control Gallery  Toronto ON, "Blender 3"

2004       Seraphin Gallery  Philadelphia PA, "Masters and Mavericks"

2004       Elliot Louis Gallery  Vancouver BC, "RBC Painting Competition -- a 5 year retrospective"

2003       The Toronto International Art Fair  represented by  Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON

2003       Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON, "The Flux of Fluid"

2002       James Baird Gallery  St. John's NF, "Water"

2000       The Toronto International Art Fair  represented by  Edward Day Gallery  Toronto ON

1997       Gallery 101  Ottawa ON, "promote, exhibit, document"

1997       Visual Arts Centre  Westmount QC, "Panorama"

1997       Edward Day Gallery  Kingston ON

1996       Galerie Trois Points  Montreal QC, "Paysages limitrophes", with Judith Berry & Anne Bertoine

1996       Le Centre d'art, Baie-Saint-Paul  Baie-Saint-Paul QC, "Revoir"

1996       Heffel Gallery  Vancouver BC, "Beyond the Group of Seven"

1994       The Photographers Gallery  Saskatoon SK, "Men In Relation"

1993       Maison de la Culture, Petite-Patrie  Montreal QC

1991       Bourget Gallery  Montreal QC, "True Souvenir"

1990       Visual arts building, Concordia University  Montreal QC, "Woman's friend"

1989       Gallery 101  Ottawa ON, with Barbara Sprague

1988       The Funnel (sponsored by A Space)  Toronto ON, "Souvenir from the Northern Front"

1987       Owens Art Gallery  Sackville NB, exhibition of prints

1986       Galerie, Université de Moncton  Moncton NB

1985       STRUTS Gallery  Sackville NB, "Presswork"

1984       KAAI  Kingston ON, a juried exhibition of women's art

 

PRESS

CROSBIE, Sarah "Winning Work A portrait of turmoil; artists from coast to coast submitted works for competition in Gananoque" The Kingston Whig Standard  Oct. 10 2007

MIX GALLERY (artist profile) Mix Magazine  Summer 2004, Toronto ON

GODDARD, Peter (article/photos) "Artist's Husband Plays Buff Muse"  Toronto Star  2004, Toronto ON

MELNYK, Sherryl (article/photos) "Landscape My Body"  writers by writers  2003, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK  ISBN 1-896359-39-6

(photo) "Water, Water Everywhere"  Elm Street  Summer 2003, Toronto ON

(photo) "T"  Letters for Literacy  (art auction catalogue for Dixon Hall's Regent Park Learning Centre) April 2002, Toronto ON

(photo) "Canadian Art Gallery Hop"  Canadian Art  Fall 2001, Toronto ON

CANTU, John Carlos (review/photo) "Feminist 'Hunters' offers new perspective"  The Ann Arbor News November 19 2000, Ann Arbor Michigan

DAULT, Gary Michael (review) "Jennifer Walton at the Edward Day Gallery"  The Globe and Mail  September 16 2000, Toronto ON

(photo) "The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize"  Canadian Art  Spring 2000, p.45, Toronto ON

(photo, announcement) "The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize"  Canadian Art  Fall 1999, p.51, Toronto ON

RHODES, Richard (review/photo) "The Canadian art page"  Canadian Art  Summer 1999, p.15, Toronto ON

GOPNIK, Blake (review/photo) "Art works dive head first into eroticism"  The Globe and Mail  March 31 1999, Toronto ON

MACLEAR, Kyo (review/photo) "Freeze frame"  Toronto Life  March 1999, p.28, Toronto ON

(background art -- Surface Tension show)  Nikita  Summer season  1999

(cover photo)  Queen Street Quarterly  Volume 2, Number 4, fall 1998, Toronto ON

(photo/description) "Fast Forward"  Canadian Art  Winter 1997, p.14, Toronto ON

COUËLLE, Jennifer (review)  "Ils peignent, persistent et signent"  Le Devoir  February 17-18 1996, Montréal QC

BAWLF, Virginia (interview)  CBC Québec  August 20 1995, Québec QC

GORDANEER, Alisa (review/photo)  "It's a guy thing"  Monday Magazine  March 2 - 8 1995, Victoria BC

MAHONEY, Jeff (review/photo)  "Art of the hunter"  The Spectator  January 31 1995, Hamilton ON

ILICSIN, Ken (review/photo)  "Tracing cultural sexism"  See Magazine  Volume 4, Number 28, January 26 - February 1 1995, Edmonton AB

(photo/description) "Refiguring Histories"  Parallélogramme  Volume 20, Number 3, Fall 1994, Toronto ON

(photo/description) "Fathers and sons"  Parallélogramme  Volume 20, Number 1, Summer 1994, Toronto ON

GILLMOR, Allison (review/photo)  "Big paintings strike one note well"  Winnipeg Free Press  January 15 1994, Winnipeg MB

SCHNEIDER, John (interview)  "CKY News"  CKY Television  6:00 PM January 8 1994, Winnipeg MB

BÉNICHOU, Anne (review/photos)  "Jennifer Walton  La mise en scène de la peinture"  Vie des Arts  No 152, Fall 1993, Montréal QC

CONDON, Rae (review/photo)  The Standard  September 18 1993, St. Catharines ON

GOODES, Don (review)  "beaus and arrows"  Hour  May 20 - 26 1993, Montreal QC

(photo/description) "ART"  Montreal Mirror  May 6 - May 13 1993, Montreal QC

(photo/description) "ART"  The Gazette  April 30 1993, Montreal QC

BAELE, Nancy (review/photo)  "Walton's work makes viewer think"  The Ottawa Citizen  March 29 1993, Ottawa ON

McDONALD, Jane (interview)  "Eye on Ottawa"  CJOH TV  9AM  March 19 1993, Ottawa ON

GOOGLER, Joy (interview)  CKCU FM  8AM  March 19 1993, Ottawa ON

(photo/description) "Lethal Systems"  Parallélogramme  Volume 18, Number 4, March 1993, Toronto ON

CHRISTIE, Peter (review/photo)  "Stereotypes in art: the power and the weakness"  The Whig Standard  January 14 1993, Kingston ON

GAYSEK, Fred (interview)  "Definitely Superior: Thunder Bay's Wild Call"  ArtViews  Spring 1989, Toronto ON

SPIRES, Randi (review)  "Art in an Army Tent"  Fuse  September 1988, Toronto ON

MOORE, Lisa (review/photo)  "Art on the edge of reality"  The Kingston Whig Standard Magazine

 

COLLECTIONS

The Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston ON

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa ON

Le Centre d'art de Baie-Saint-Paul QC

Dupont Canada, Sarnia ON

Heenan Blaikie, Westmount QC

Kingston Public Library, Kingston ON

Loto-Québec, Montreal QC

Owens Art Gallery, Sackville NB

RBC Investments, Toronto ON

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON

Sun Life Insurance, Montreal QC

 

AWARDS

2007     Toronto Arts Council, grant

2007     Kingston Prize, Canada's National Portrait Competition, Honourable Mention-one of two 2nd place jury awards

2000     Canada Council, travel grant for exhibition of The Hunters at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2000     Canada Council, long term B grant

1999     The RBC Painting Competition, 1st prize

1999     Canada Council, travel grant for Landscape Residency -- Banff Centre for the Arts

1999     Banff Centre for the Arts, scholarship for Thematic Residency -- Landscape

1998     Canada Council, short term B grant

1994     Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, short term grant

1994     Canada Council, short term grant

1993     Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, long term B grant

1992     Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, long term B grant

1992     Canada Council, short term grant

1992     Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, grant

1989     Ontario Arts Council, short term grant,

1989     Ontario Arts Council, exhibition assistance

1989     Ontario Arts Council, exhibition assistance

1988     Ontario Arts Council, exhibition assistance

1986     Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, grant

 

RESIDENCIES

2000       The Pouch Cove Residency  Pouch Cove NF (run by James Baird Gallery, St. John's NF)

 

1999       Thematic residency -- "Landscape"  Banff Centre for the Arts  Banff AB

 

1998       Leighton Studios  Banff Centre for the Arts  Banff AB

 

1996       Sheffield Lake '96  Tamworth ON

 

1995       Symposium de la jeune peinture au Canada  Le Centre d'art, Baie-Saint-Paul  QC

 

VISITING ARTIST TALKS

2000       The University of Michigan, Residential College/East Quadrangle Art Gallery Ann Arbor MI

 

1995       Artspeak Gallery  Vancouver BC

 

1995       McMaster University, Dundas Valley School of Art  and  Hamilton Artists Inc.  Hamilton ON

 

1993       Panel discussion:  "Painting, Authority, Feminism" with Daniel Sharp and Deborah Margo  Galerie 101    Ottawa ON