WANDA KOOP

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 Wanda Koop: Early Works. Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Green Zone, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2003 Sightlines, University of Winnipeg, Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, Canada

2002 Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wanda Koop: Sightlines 2002, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada

2001 In Your Eyes, Thetis Foundation, Venice, Italy
Sightlines, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, Canada
Sightlines, New Music Festival, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Canada

2000 Green Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Wanda Koop, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1999 Paintings from "Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms", Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, Canada
In Your Eyes, Bank of Commerce, Heritage Building, Winnipeg, Canada
See Everything/See Nothing, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms/Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

1998 Green Room, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
See Everything/See Nothing, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (catalogue)
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (brochure)
See Everything/See Nothing, New Gallery, Calgary, Canada (catalogue)

1997 Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms/Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1996 Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms/Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

1995 Video Scroll Poems, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada

1994 Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms, Les cent jours d'art contemporain, Centre international d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)
L'immense image, Musee regional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada (catalogue)
Harbour, VanderLeelie Gallery, Edmonton, Canada

1993 Evening Without Angels, Garth Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1992 Drawings "Notes for Prelude To War"/Notre Dame, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada

1991 No Words: Wanda Koop, Recent Paintings, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada (catalogue)
No Words: Wanda Koop, Recent Paintings, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (catalogue)
Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings, Garth Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1990 Wanda Koop: Recent Drawings, Extension Gallery, Print and Drawing Council of Canada, Toronto, Canada

1988 Flying to the Moon, 49th Parallel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1987 Northern Suite, Women in Focus, Floating Curatorial Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (catalogue)
Northern Suite, Canada House, London, England (catalogue)

1985-6 Airplanes and the Wall, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, Canadian tour: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (catalogue)

1985 Train Series, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1984 Wanda Koop (Fracture), Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
Preliminary Drawings, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada

1983 Building in the Pool of the Black Star, Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Canada
Nine Signs, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada (catalogue)

1982 Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada (catalogue)

1981 Wanda Koop, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 Wunderkammer, Lisa Couwenbergh Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Shadow of Abstraction, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
The Last Biennale, Annex Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Vitrine, Cite des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, France

2003 Blind Spot, Gallery 111, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Painters 15, MOCA, Toronto, Ontario

2002 Painters 15, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2001 Dreamland, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Five Canadian Artists (Think Canada Festival), Art Today, Delhi, Amethyst Gallery, Chennai, National Museum of Modern Art, Mumbai, India

2000 Singular Fission, Axe No-7 in collaboration with The Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Paintings from a Misshapen Century, 1900-2000, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada

1998 Convergence, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada (catalogue)
Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium, Le Centre D'Exposition De Baie-Saint-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada

1997 See Everything/See Nothing (European Premiere), 2nd Attic Global Video and Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1996 Home Is Where The Heart Is, Westergasfabrik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995 Salut au Monde, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (catalogue)

1994 Dark O'Clock, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
Art Hotel, Plug In, Amsterdam Hilton, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1993 Cultural Commentary, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (catalogue)

1991 Dialogues, Les cent jours d'art contemporain, Centre international d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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COLLECTIONS

Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Canadian Capital Commission, Ottawa
The Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Esso Avitat, Winnipeg
E.D.S. Systemhouse, Winnipeg
Novatel Corporation, Toronto
Standard Life Insurance Company, Montreal
Steinberg Corporation, Montreal
Power Corporation, Montreal
Air Canada, Montreal
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Shell Canada, Calgary
Nova Corporation, Calgary
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna
Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown
Diane Keaton, New York, USA
Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands