Alex Cameron: Biography

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

1971          

1974          

1975          

1976          

1977          

1978          

1979          

1980          

1981

 

1982          

1983          

1985          

                                                                              

        

1987          

          

1988          

1989          

1990          

          

1992          

1994

1995          

          

          

1996          

1997          

1999

2000          

2001          

2002          

          

2003          

          

2005          

2006          

2007          

2008

 

2009          

2010

2011

2012

2013

 

2014

2015

 

 

2016

2017

2018

A Space, Toronto Goodman & Carr, Toronto

Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto

Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

“Alex Cameron: The Energy of Line and Colour,” Art Gallery of Ontario

Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto

Watson/de Nagy Gallery, Houston

“Alex Cameron in Mid-Career” at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Windsor, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredricton; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Klonaridis, Inc. & Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto

Klonardis, Inc. Toronto

Klonardis, Inc. Toronto

Galerie Elca London, Montreal, Quebec

Klonardis, Inc. Toronto

Galerie Elca London, Montreal, Quebec

Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta

Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario

Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, Alberta

Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario

James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Thielsen Galleries, London, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Thielsen Galleries, London, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“New Landscapes”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“Landscapes: Newfoundland and Beyond”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“Changing Weather”, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

“Looking Out and Away”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Retrospective, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Moore Gallery, Toronto Ontario

Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland

Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“16 Eclectic Paintings”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“Rainbow Station”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“New Paintings”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“Electric Landscape”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“New Paintings Opening”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

“David’s Bonfire,” Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

1969  

1973          

         

          

          

1975          

1976  

          

          

1977          

         

          

          

         

1978          

          

          

1980          

1981          

1982          

              

1983          

1985          

          

1987                                                                                                                                            

1989          

1992          

1995          

1996          

1997          

1998          

          

2009          

2015          

2015

“Canadian Young Artists,” Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto

“Open Studio Published Prints,” Morris Gallery, Toronto

“Prints,” Art Gallery of Ontario

“Five New Artists,” Isaacs Gallery, Toronto          

“Works on Paper,” Jared Sable Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick

“Young Contemporaries,” London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario

“Abstractions,” XXI Olympiad, Montreal; The Gallery Stratford; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; Canada House, London, England

“Ontario Now,” Art Gallery of Hamilton; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

“Four Toronto Painters,” Art Gallery of Ontario

“14 Canadians,” Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

“New Abstract Art,” Edmonton Art Gallery

“Making Marks,” Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

“Gallery Artists,” Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.

“The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection,” Province of Ontario

“Toronto Sensibility,” Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto

“The image of Man in Canadian Painting, 1878-1978,” University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

“The Challenge of Watercolour,” London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario

“Selections from the Canada Council Art Bank,” Nabisco World Headquarters, East Hanover, New Jersey

“The Heritage of Jack Bush,” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

“Canadian Artists,” Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona

“Sixth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition,” Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax        

“Contemporary Canadian Art,” Edmonton Art Gallery

“Toronto Now,” Sarnia Art Gallery

“Gallery Artists,” Watson/de Nagy Gallery, Houston

“The Printshops of Canada,” Macdonald-Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; The Gallery Stratford; Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Burnaby Art Gallery, B.C.

“A Watercolour Show: Alex Cameron, Eric Gamble, Malcolm Rains,” Costin & Klintworth, Toronto

“Echoes of Tom Thomson,” Robert McLaughlin Gallery

“A Tribute to Alkis Klonardis,” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

“Gallery Artists,” Moore Gallery, Hamilton

“Great Canadian Artists for a Great Canadian Cause,” Moore Gallery, Toronto

“John Cabot, a Celebration,” St. John’s, Newfoundland

Alex Cameron & David Boldue, Works on paper, David Mirvish Books on Art, Toronto

“Bright Colours, Big Canvas: Jack Bush”, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON

“For the Love of Paint”, Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County, Ontario

Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Selected Collections

 

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Peel

Bank of America Canada

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Bell Canada Enterprises

Canada Council Art Bank

Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Canadian General Electric

Citibank Canada

Claridge Investments, Montreal

Goodman & Carr, Toronto

Imperial Oil

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

The Lambton Gallery, Sarnia

Lang Michener Lawrence & Shaw, Toronto

Laurentian University, Sudbury

McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton

Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary

Northern Telecom

Office of the Prime Minister of Canada

The Oshawa Group, Toronto

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto

Prudential Reinsurance Co.

The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection

The Hudson Bay Company

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

Royal Bank of Canada

Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, Toronto

Superior Propane, Toronto

Toronto Dominion Bank

United Westburne Industries, Montreal

University of Lethbridge

Xerox Canada

 

Bibliography

 

Abstract Painting in Canada, Roald Nasgaard, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 2007.

Alex Cameron in Mid-Career, Joan Murray, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1985

The Best Contemporary Canadian Art, Joan Murray, Hurtig Publishers, 1987

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Joan Murray, Dundurn Press, 1999

The Colour Connection, Nancy Dillow, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983

Contemporary Canadian Art, David Burnett & Marilyn Schiff, Hurtig Publishers,1983

14 Canadians: A Critic’s Choice, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977

The Heritage of Jack Bush, Ken Carpenter, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1981

Hidden Values: Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, Robert Swain & Robert Fulford, Douglas & Mclntyre, 1994

Making Marks, Carol Phillips, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1977

Out of the Park: Modernist Painting in Toronto, 1950-1980, Barrie Hale, “Provincial Essays,” Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985

The Printshops ofCanada, Ingrid Jenkner &Geraldine Davis, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1987

Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection, Government of Ontario, 1977

A Secret History of Toronto Painting, Earl Miller, Lake Galleries, 1991

The Sixth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, David Bolduc, Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1982

Tom Thomson: The Last Spring, Joan Murray, Dundurn Press, 1994