JEANNIE THIB

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2005 Patterned Fields, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec curator: Gaetane Verna

2004 Lure, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell
Lure The Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario curator: Celeste Scopelites

2003 Artists' Echoes: Contemporary Responses to the ROM's Collections, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario curated by the Institute of Contemporary Culture
Flourish, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2002 Spill,  De Overslag, Eindhoven, The Netherlands  
Interlace,  Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington DC, USA,

2001 Fret,  Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Fret,  Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Second Skin,  Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario

2000 Fret in Manifestation Internationale d'Art de Quebec, Galerie Engramme, Quebec, Quebec curator: Andree Daigle
Corpus,  Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Memorial University, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
Preserve,  The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario curator: Illi-Maria Tamplin
Second Skin,  McIntosh Gallery, U of Western Ontario, London curator: Catherine Elliot Shaw
Token,  Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Guise,  Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

1999 Archive,  SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Archive,  Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, British Columbia curator: Geraldine Parent
Scribe,  Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario curator: Laura Millard
Scribe,  MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario curator: Laura Millard 

1998 Geographia,  Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta curator: Joan Stebbins
Body, Artifact and Absence - A ten year survey,  WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay curator: Dennis Geden
Binary Codes,  Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Folio,  Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Corpus,  Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario curator: Mary Rashleigh

1997 Model/Mimic,  Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario curator: Marnie Fleming  
Augur, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 

1995 Jeannie Thib: Body Works,  The Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario curator: Stuart Reid
Archive,  The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario  
Blueprint,  Paul Petro Contemporary Art @ 100 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario
Vanitas,  The Hammer Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario 

1994 Readings,  Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharine's, Ontario 

1993 Survival Tips,  The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Terra Incognita,  Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario 

1992 Rorschach,  The Red Head Gallery Showcase, Toronto, Ontario

1990 White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2003 Artists' Echoes: Contemporary Responses to the ROM's Collections, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario: curated by the Institute of Contemporary Culture (three person) 
DE LUXE: Varieties of Transitional Light Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario curator: Allan MacKay (three person) 
Artists and Maps: Cartography as a Means of Knowing, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon curator: Linda Tesner

2002 semble,  Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia curator: Susan Gibson Garvey (three person) 
Found Object/Gentle Transformations, Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto curator Katja Jacobs
Dos Naciones: Obras Sobre Papel,  Centro Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Centro de Santiago de Cuba, Centro de las Tunas, Centro de Cienfuegos, Centro de Matanzas, Cuba

2001 Two Nations: Works on Paper,  White Water Gallery, North Bay, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Timmins Museum, South Porcupine, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario curator Dave Carlin

2000 Des idees reeues,  l'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec, le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Dare-Dare, Montreal, Quebec
The Multiple Image, Whitby Arts Inc., Whitby, Ontario (three person) 
Redrospective,  The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1999 Permutatciones Anatomicas: Diez Artistas Canadienses,  Galeria del Edificio Central, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico curator: Dianne Pearce
The Hand,  The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario curator: Marc Mayer
One Thing After Another,  Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario curator: Marnie Fleming
Tradition/Contemporaneite,  Belgo, Montreal, Centre national d'exposition de Jonquiere, Quebec
Some Subtle Sympathy,  Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
XXYYZ, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Retrospective: un projet commemoratif, 1990-1998, Galerie Glendon, Toronto, Ontario

1998 Permutaciones Anatomicas: Diez Artistas Canadienses, XXVI Festival Internacional Cervantino, Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico curator: Dianne Pearce
The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art,  Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York, Ontario curator: Glen Cumming
Tradition/Contemporaneite,  York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Biblioteque Gabrielle-Roy, Quebec, Quebec, Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jereme, Quebec, 
Centre d'exposition de Mont-Laurier, Quebec
In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario curator: Liz Wylie
Visiting Artist Exhibition,  Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (two person) 
Topographies de la Peau: Tracer l'Interface,  Galerie Glendon, Toronto, Ontario curator: Tila Kellman

1997 Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art,  The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario curator: Philip Monk
Topographies de la Peau,  Langage Plus, Alma, Quebec, and L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec, Quebec
Off/Set: Artists Interpreting the Printing Process,  Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
The Multiples Project,  The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition,  White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Narrative,  Archive, Toronto, Ontario

1996 Le corps aux abords du dessin,  Musee Regional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec curator: Carl Johnson
Tenth Annual Invitational Exhibition,  Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Text,  Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario

1995 Away,  The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario and OO Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Bookworks,  David Mirvish Books on Art, Toronto, Ontario curator: Katja Jacobs

1994 Hidden Values: Canadian Corporations Collect,  McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Redpath Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (two person) 
Dreaming of You,  Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Micah Lexier: Collaborative Works,  The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
in the seam,  Access Art Now, Eaton Centre, Toronto, Les Cours Mont-Royal, Montreal, Quebec (collective) 
Rethink, Rework, Recontextualize,  The Hammer Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

1993 Micah Lexier Cross Reference,  Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
With,  Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia (Micah Lexier collaborative works) 
Red Head Light,  grunt gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Tous Azimuts/Common Ground,  80 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario (collective) 
Soundings: Metaphors of Experience,  Extension Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1992 Chanson de Geste, a postering project, various locations, Toronto (collective) 
Tous Azimuts/ Common Ground, Vo�tes du Palais, Quebec, Quebec (collective) 
By a Lady,  Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario curator: Penelope Stewart
The Image Mill: Explorations in Printmaking,  John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto curator: Stuart Reid

1991 Name 10 parts of the body,  John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (collective)

 

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, and ARTIST\'S PRJECTS 

Armstrong, John. "Thoughts arising..." Essay/images/cover image C Contemporary Art #67/68 Winter 2000-01
Barbour, Carol. "Second Reading" Review and images Matriart 5, No. 4 Fall 1995
Barbour, Carol. "Survival Tips" Interview and images Artword Issue No. 19 Spring 1994
Barnard, Elissa. "Assembling illusion" Reveiw/image The Sunday Herald Halifax 17 February, 2002
Beltran Martinez, Maria Esther. "Permutaciones Anatomicas" Review El Dia Mexico 6 April, 1999
Buchanan, Hamish. "Ornament, decoration and camp..." Review Xtra! 3 July 1997
Cherry, Maralynn. "Tous Azimuts/Common Ground" Review/image La chambre blanche Bulletin 21,1992
Condon, Sean. "examines human need to control" Review/image The Standard St. Catharines, 21 Oct 1994
Dault, Gary Michael. "Textiles transformed by history" Review/image The Globe and Mail 3, April 2004
Dault, Gary Michael. "Flourish: Jeannie Thib at Leo Kamen" Review/image dart Vol 7, No .1, winter 2004
Dault, Gary Michael. "Jeannie Thib at Leo Kamen" Review The Globe and Mail 1, Nov 2003
Dault, Gary Michael. "Curtain goes up on a virtuoso veil" Review The Globe and Mail 13 October 2001
Dault, Gary Michael. "Thib's sure hand maps body's polarities" Review/image The Globe and Mail 15 April 2000
Dault, Gary Michael. "A dialogue, poetic sketches by a master" Review/image The Globe and Mail 12 Dec 1998
Dault, Gary Michael. Rewind "Hamlet's Camel" Review/image Canadian Art Vol. 15, No. 1 Spring 1998
Dault, Gary Michael. "Deft, Sensitive..." Review The Globe and Mail 6 June 1997
Dawson, Jessica. "Jeannie Thib: ...an arabesque of obsession" Reveiw/images The Washington Post 4 April 02
Eichhorn, Virginia M. "DeLuxe: Varieties of Transitional Light" Review/image Artichoke Spring 2004
Edemariam, Aida. "Ernst's handsome prints" Review/image National Post 22 May, 1999
Fabo, Andy. "Augur: Fragments from the Intestinal Archive" in Descant 103 Vol 29, No. 4 Winter 1998
Gabrielle Mark, Lisa. "Rococo Tattoo" Review Artforum November 1997
Garneau, David. "Letter from Calgary" Preview/images C Contemporary Art Issue # 57 Feb-April 1998
Geden, Dennis. "W.P.K. Kennedy Gallery: Jeannie Thib" Profile Showtime North Bay Sept/Oct 1998
Goddard, Peter. "Thib's intricate patterns have layers of significance" Review/image Toronto Star 30 Oct 2003
Gopnik, Blake. "Print competition" Review The Globe and Mail 26 June 1999
Hirschmann, Thomas. "At the ROM - Artist's Echoes" NOW 20-27 November 2003
Hirschmann, Thomas. Critics Picks NOW Fall Guide 2003
Hirschmann, Thomas. "Case closed" Review NOW 4-10 April 2002
Hitzeroth, Connie. "Jeannie Thib: Survival Tips" Review/images Extension Journal 3, #3 Spring 1994
"Installatie Thib in De Overslag" Review/image Groot Eindhoven, The Netherlands 19 June 2002
Jordan, Betty Ann. "A tyro's guide to art collecting" Article/image The Globe and Mail 8 Feb 1997
Jordan, Betty Ann. "Art: Jeannie Thib" Toronto Life February 2003
McPherson, Anne. "Tradition/Contemporaneite" Review/image Fibrearts vol 25, No. 2 Fall 1998
Mahon, Patrick. "Jeannie Thib" Review/image Canadian Art Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring 2004
Malcher, Christian. "entre callejones" Review El Dia Mexico 17 October 1998
Marks, Laura U. "in the seam/en couture" Review/image Fuse XVII no. 3 Spring 1994
Meditskos, Stavroula. "Leather, catch of the show" Cover/review/image The North York Mirror 13 March 2004
Millard, Laura. "Jeannie Thib: Navigating the Body" Text/images Art City Issue 1 Vol. 3, Winter 1998/99
Miller, Earl. "Rococo Tattoo" Review Parachute 89 Jan/Feb/March 1998
Monahan, Iona. "Coat of Human Hair" Review Gazette Montreal, 31 May 1994
"National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life, the winning design", Nikkei Voice Vol. 13 No. 6, 1999
Noreau, Pierre-Paul. "L'art Insolent" Review Le Soleil Quebec Sept. 2, 2000
O'Flanagan, Rob. "Lasting imprints in North Bay" Review/image Sudbury Star 12 Sept 1998
Pearce, Dianne. "Diez artistas canadienses y el cuerpo humano" Artes de Mexico Numero 45
Pearce, Dianne. "Canadian Artists encounter Cervantes.." Que Pasa vol III, no. 4 Winter 1998
Pearce, Dianne. "Anatomical Permutations..." Voices of Mexico Number 46 Jan-March 1999
Quine, Dany. "La r'alite des apparences" Review Le Soleil Quebec 29 Nov. 1997
Rangel, Enrique. "Examinan 10 artistas permutaciones del cuerpo" Review Reforma Mexico 14 Oct. 1998
Row, DK. "Attitudes about Latitudes" Review/image The Oregonian 30 September 2003
Solorzano, Lilia. "Del cuerpo y otras razones" Review Correo Mexico 22 Oct 1998
Solorzano, Adolfo "El cuerpo humano Visto desde Canada" Review/image El Universal Mexico 26 March, 1999
Stewart, Penelope "in the seam/en couture" Interview/image Matriart 4, No. 4 Fall 1994
Taylor, Kate. "Art About" Review The Globe And Mail 21 August 1992
Thib, Jeannie Rorschach Artist project Extension Journal 1992
Thib, Jeannie. Vanitas in "Bodies, Vesture, and Ornament", Images Tessera Vol. 19 Winter 1995
Thib, Jeannie. Portfolio Descant 103 The Anatomy Theatre & The Theatre of the Body Vol. 29, No. 4 Winter 1998
Thib, Jeannie. Manual and Archive Images Literary Review of Canada Vol. 8, No. 2 March 2000
Tibol, Raquel. "Artes Plasticas en el XXVI Cervantino" Review/image Proceso Mexico October 1998
Vincent, Isabel. "On Show" The Globe and Mail 4 August 1989
Women's Art Resource Centre. "Jeannie Thib" Profile/images Update Vol. 5 Issue 1 Spring 1998
Wylie, Liz. "Jeannie Thib" Profile/image Canadian Art Vol. 12, No. 3 Fall 1995
Wylie, Liz. "Canoeing and Canadian Art" Queen's Quarterly Vol. 103 No 3 Fall 1996
 

CATALOGUES 

Armstrong, John. Preserve, The Art Gallery of Peterborough 2001
Baert, Renee. "Signatures On Every Fragment" in Jeannie Thib: Body Works, Art Gallery of Mississauga 1995
Baert, Renee. in the seam, Name 10 parts of the body 1994
Campbell, Nancy. Name 10 parts of the body, Name 10 parts of the body 1991
Cherry, Maralynn. Tous Azimuts/Common Ground, Tous Azimuts 1993
Daigle, Andree. "Mot de la commissaire" in Manifestation Internationale d'art de Quebec, Manif d'art 2002
Dault, Gary Michael in DE LUXE: Varieties of Transitional Light, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2004
Dault, Gary Michael Geographia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 1999
Escallen, Ana Maria. Jeannie Thib - Interlace, Art Museum of the Americas 2002
Fabo, Andy. "Augur: Fragments from the Intestinal Archive" in Jeannie Thib:Corpus, Grimsby Public Gallery 1998
Fleming, Marnie. Model/Mimic, Oakville Galleries 1997 and in Geographia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 1999
Fleming, Marnie. One Thing After Another, Oakville Galleries 1999
Geden, Dennis. Face, WKP Kennedy Gallery 1997
Geden Dennis. Jeannie Thib: Body, Artifact and Absence, WKP Kennedy Gallery 1998
Gibson Garvey, Susan. "Objects persistent and peculiar" in semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery 2002
Johnson, Carl. Le corps aux abords du dessin, Musee Regional de Rimouski 1998
Kellman, Tila. Topographies de la Peau: Tracer l'Interface, The Red Head Gallery 1997
Kellman, Tila. Topographies of the Skin in Paysages Inter sites, Langage Plus 1997
Mahon, Patrick. "Jeannie Thib: Swarm and Fret" in Fret, Stride Gallery, 2001
Millard, Laura. Scribe, Catalogue MacLaren Art Centre, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery 1999
Monk, Philip. Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant 1998
Papararo, Jennifer. Redrospective, The Red Head Gallery 2000
Randolph, Jeanne. "Lives of objects brief and endless" in semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery 2002
Randolph, Jeanne. "Embellissement de certains faits" in Manif Internationale d'art de Quebec, Manif d'art 2002
Reid, Stuart. "Dissection: Subtexts for..." in Jeannie Thib: Body Works, Art Gallery of Mississauga 1995
Thib, Jeannie. "Body, Artifact and Absence: A Ten Year Survey" WKP Kennedy Gallery 1998
Wylie, Liz. In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1998
Wylie,Liz. "Composing Composites" in The Multiple Image, The Station Gallery 2000
 

AWARDS AND GRANTS 

Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2003/04
Canada Council Arts Grants B 2002, 1998, 1995, 1993
Canada Council Paris Studio 2001
Canada Council Travel Grants 2002, 2000, 1998
Canada Council Short Term/Project Grants 1992, 1991, 1988
Ontario Arts Council Senior Visual Artists Grant 2003
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grants 1996, 1995, 1992, 1989
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants 1998, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1990, 1988
Ontario Arts Council Special Projects Grant 1991
Toronto Arts Council Grant to Visual Artists 2002, 1995
Toronto Arts Council Cultural Grant/Interim Grant 1991/92
Ontario-Quebec Commission Exchange Grant, MCC 1992  

PERMANENT PUBLIC COMISSIONS

2005 Downsview Memorial Parkette, commissioned by the City of Toronto, project lead, teamed with landscape architect Scott Torrance: MOTH gardens: stone sculpture, steel arbour, integrated gardens and landscape
2004-5 The Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta - design: exterior glass "vitrines" - south and west facades, Architect: Jack Diamond, Diamond and Schmitt
2003-5 Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre, Toronto, Ontario - in collaboration with artist Carl Taeon - stone wall installations - three interior artworks - Architect: Montgomery Sisam
2000 Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada The Cranes: A National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life, slate and maple wall installation with dedications, interior artwork, Architect: Bruce Kuwabara, KPMB
2001 Artist Garden at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario - collaboration with Bruce Holland

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
The Washington DC Convention Centre, Washington, DC, USA
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
City of Toronto Archives
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade - Canada
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
University of Alberta Art Collection, Edmonton, Alberta
W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
 

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS 

  • AIM Management, Toronto, Ontario
  • Canadian Pacific, Montreal, Quebec
  • CIBC Mellon Bank
  • Clarkson Gordon, Toronto, Ontario
  • Dow Jones, Toronto, Ontario
  • Ernst and Young, Toronto, Ontario
  • Fidelity, Toronto, Ontario
  • F.M.C. Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • KPMG, Toronto, Ontario
  • The Manufacturer's Life Insurance Co., Toronto, Ontario
  • McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto, Ontario
  • Nestle Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario
  • Omers, Ontario
  • Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, North Bay, Ontario
  • Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
  • The Royal Bank of Canada
  • R.M.E. Capital Corp, North Bay, Ontario
  • Tampa Bay Engineering, Tampa, Florida, USA
  • Torys, Toronto, Ontario
  • Trimark, Toronto, Ontario