Walter Bachinski: Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1967
1971
1972-73
1974
1975
1977
1979
1980
1981
1982
1984
1985
1986
1987
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1995
1996
2000
2009
2013
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Ontario College of Art, Toront
Mazelow Gallery, Toronto Mazelow Gallery, Toronto
Bachinski: 1967 to 1972*, Regional Tour: Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S./ N.E., Mount St. Vincent University, Halilfax, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Nfld.
Mazelow Gallery, Toronto Mazelow Gallery, Toronto
Peter Hess Gallery, Hamilton
Gallery 1640, Montréal
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Bachinski: Work from 1966 to 1976*, Regional Tour: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Stratford Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Rodman Hall, St. Catharine’s,
University of Guelph
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Gallery Moos, Calgary
Walter Bachinski Sculpture and Drawing Retrospective*, Art Gallery of Hamilton
West End Gallery, Edmonton
Keenlyside Gallery, Vancouver
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Galerie l’Art Français, Montréal
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Robertson Galleries, Ottawa
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Robertson Galleries, Ottawa
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo
Approaching Classicism*, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver
Bachinski: Still Life - Ten Years*, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Robertson Galleries, Ottawa
Walter Bachinski, Recent Work*, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Walter Bachinski: A Fifteen Year Survey of Prints, Erindale College, University of Toronto
Walter Bachinski Recent Work*, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Variations on the Birth of Venus, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
À la suite du classicisme / Approaching Classicism*, Han Art Gallery, Montréal
Selected Group Exhibitions
1967
1968
1968-69
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1976
1977
1980
1981
1982
1983-84
1985
1986
1988
1989
1990
1992
1993
1995
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
38th Northwest Printmakers International Exhibition, Seattle
35th Annual Exhibition, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, London, Ontario
Three Printmakers, Travelling exhibition, National Gallery of Canada
Young American Printmakers, Southern Methodist University, Texas
Canadian Graphics, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Toronto
Adams and Yves Gallery, Toronto
Exposition internationale des arts graphiques*, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Three Canadian Printmakers, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford XI Bienniale of Prints & Drawings*, Lugano, Switzerland
Canadian Printmakers, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
5e Biennale internationale de la gravure*, Kracow, Poland
Group Exhibition (CPE) Commonwealth Art Gallery, London, England
Bachinski, Urquhart, Weinstein, Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery
Contemporary Canadian Prints & Drawings, McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
IV International Biennial of Graphic Art, Florence, Italy
Graphics Canadian, Travelling exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario
Spectrum Canada*, Travelling exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy
Portraits on Paper, Morris Gallery, Toronto
Four Canadian Printmakers*, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA
Ontario Now*, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
International Sculptures, Gallery Moos, Toronto
Of Human Bondage*, Travelling exhibition, The Robert McLaughlin, Oshawa
Visitors, Exiles and Residents: Artists since 1827*, University of Guelph, Ontario
Sculpture from Public Collections in Ontario: 1950-1980, Burlington Cultural Centre, ON
Viewpoints: 29 by 9*, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Regional Tour
Art For Architiecture*, The Macdonald Gallery, Toronto
Variations: Bachinski, Chu, Green, Urquhart*, Wellington County Museum, Elora, Ontario
The Hand Holding the Brush: Self-portraits by Canadian Artists*, London Regional Art Gallery, National Tour
Celebrating 20 Years: 1965-1985*, University of Guelph Faculty of Fine Arts, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
V Bienal americana de artes graficas*, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia
Yellow, Durham Art Gallery, Ontario
The Object is the Object, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario
Blue, Durham Art Gallery, Ontario
Red, Durham Art Gallery, Ontario
The Print Defined, The Blyth Art Gallery, Blyth, Ontario
Practice and Pedagogy, London Regional
Art Museum, London, Ontario
A Show of CATS: The Feline in Art, Prior Editions, Vancouver
Printmakers at Riverside*, Travelling exhibition, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Here’s Looking at Me Kid: Artists Look at Themselves, Art Gallery of North York
Museologic, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
Three Master Printmakers, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary
New Etchings and Pastels, John Szoke Gallery, New York
Great Canadian Art for a Great Canadian Cause, Ron Moore Gallery, Toronto
Sculptures, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Galerie de Bellefeuille
Art Expo, John Szoke Editions, New York.
Naked Emotion, Kitchener-Waterloo
Art Gallery, Kitchener
TWO NATIONS: Works on Paper, Travelling Exhibition, Canada and Cuba, 2000-2002*
Art Expo, John Szoke Editions, New York
Contemporary Still Life,
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Art 2002, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Public Collections
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Civic Museum, Lugano, Switzerland
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Vancouver Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Robert McLauglin Art Centre, Oshawa
Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario
Art Gallery of North York, Ontario
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,
Owen Sound
Department of External Affairs, Canada
Government of Ontario
University of Iowa
University of Guelph
University of Lethbridge
University of Windsor
McMaster University, Hamilton
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo
Erindale College, University of Toronto
Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario
Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax
University of Manitoba
Athabasca University, Alberta
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catharine
Royal Bank of Canada
Canadian Pacific Railways
Shell Canada Collection
Sun Life Insurance of Canada
Claridge Collection, Montréal
The Toronto Stock Exchange
The Toronto Star
General Foods of Canada, Toronto
Cineplex Odeon Limited, Toronto
A.E. Lepage Ltd., Toronto
Drabinsky Collection, Toronto
Rothmans of Canada Collection, Toronto
Guaranty Trust, Toronto
OMERS, Toronto
Hammerson Canada Inc., Toronto
Esso Resources Ltd., Calgary
Norcen Energy, Calgary
CADVision, Calgary
Public Commissions
1975
1977
1980
1984
1985
1988
1992
University of Waterloo
Kitchener, Court House
Mohawk College, Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton
Maclean Hunter Building, College Park, Toronto
Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Cineplex Odeon Theatre, Kitchener
Mines & Minerals Research Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury
Honours, Awards, and Grants
1969
1971
1973
1974
1978
1979
1982
Canada Council Short-Term Grant, for the production of portfolio of lithographs
After Birth. Printed by George C. Miller and Son, New York
University of Guelph Research Advisory Board Grant
Prix Albert Dumouchel, Exposition Internationale d’art graphique, Montréal
University of Guelph Research Advisory Board Grant
Merit Prize, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, International Exhibition
Premio dell’instituto Bancario S. Paolo di Tuono, (Prize), V Biennale (Graphic Arts), Florence
Canada Council Materials Grant
Arts Council of Ontario Grant
Canada Council Materials Grant
Arts Council of Ontario Grant
Canada Council Short-Term Grant to study in France
Selected Bibliography
1980
1982
1984
1989
Morris, Jerrold, 100 Years of Canadian Drawing, Methuen, Toronto
Parkin, Jeanne and Boyle, William, Ed., Art in Architecture (Art for the Built Environment in the Province of Ontario), Visual Arts of Ontario, Toronto
Bayer Fern, The Ontario Collection, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto
Burnett, David, Cineplex Odeon: The First Ten Years, Cineplex Odeon Corporation, Toronto
Shanty Bay Press Books
Virgil. Eclogues. Translated by C.D. Lewis with 23 two colour linocuts by Walter Bachinski. Published by Shanty Bay Press, 1999
Crispin Elsted. Ode: Still Life with Vase of Flowers. Broadsheet. 18 by 27 ½ inches. Hand set 18 point Deepdene with Garamond for display. 12 colour pochoir illustration (14 3/4 by 5 3/8 in.) by Walter Bachinski. Signed by Elsted and Bachinski, 2000
CIRCUS. 5 poems on the circus with pochoirs and woodcuts by Walter Bachinski. Published by Shanty Bay Press, 2002
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Translated by Susan C. Shelmerdine with pochoirs and woodcuts by Walter Bachinski. Published by Shanty Bay Press, 2003
Bodleian Library, John Johnson Collection, Oxford British Library, London
Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, New York
Florida Atlantic University, Mata and Arthur Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects, Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, Florida
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massachussets
Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Easton, Pennsylvania
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
McGill University Libraries, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Montréal, Québéc
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, Special Collections, Toronto, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Library, Ottawa, ON
National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New York Public Library, Rare Books Division, New York
Rochester Institute of Technology, Melbert B. Cary Jr., Graphic Arts Collection, Wallace Library, Rochester, New York
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Simon Fraser University, Special Collections, WAC Bennett Library, Burnaby, BC
Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Special Collections, Topeka, Kansas
University of Alberta, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Iowa, Special Collections, Iowa City
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto
University of Vermont, Burlington, Bailey/Howe Library, Vermont
Williams College, Chapin Library, Williamstown, Massachussets