Carol Wainio

Carol Wainio was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1955. After studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto, she earned an M.F.A. from Concordia University in 1985. She taught in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Ottawa from 1987 to 1989 and was an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Concordia from 1989 to 1998. She lives and works in Ottawa, where she is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. Her exhibition The Book, curated by Diana Nemiroff for Carleton University Art Gallery, contains works from 2002-2010. A comprehensive hardcover catalogue is available. An exhibition of new work, Old Masters, also appeared at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, March 8 - April 28, 2013. Wainio's work was exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as part of the group exhibition Her Story Today, October 8, 2015, to August 7, 2016. In 2018 she was included in the inaugural group exhibition We'll All Become Stories at the new Ottawa Art Gallery. In 2019 she was named the Artist-In-Residence at the Diefenbunker, Ottawa, which led to the exhibition Disasters for Little Children. Wainio's work can also be found in the current group exhibition, Painting Nature with a Mirror, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal to June 15, 2020. Carol Wainio is a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014).

Solo Exhibitions
2020	Human Natures Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2019	Disasters for Little Children, Diefenbunker, Ottawa
2017	Stories, Seasons Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2016	The Fall Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2014	Dropped From The Calendar Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto The Book, Galerie UQAM, Montréal
2013	Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future (again) Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto The Book, MacIntosh Gallery, London, ON The Book, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
2012	Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON
2011	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto Galerie René Blouin, Montreal The Book, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON
2010	Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
2008	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2007	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2006	Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
2004	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2003	Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
2002	Days Arrayed, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2001	Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2000-01	Contemporary Registers, Touring solo show, Musée d'art de Joliette (2000), Oakville, Ontario (2001), London, Ontario (2001), Calgary (2001)
2000	Le Livre, La Livrée, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999	Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, Québec
1998	Persistent Images, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
1996	Operating Theatre, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal
1995	S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1993	S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1991	Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1990	Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal, Québec
1989	Galerie d'art du Centre Culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke, QC
1988	S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1987	Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal
1986	S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1985	Imagining the Past/Remembering the Future, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1983	Carol Wainio, Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal
1982	Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020	Canaries in a Coal Mine, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2019	Painting Nature with a Mirror, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal We'll All Become Stories, Ottawa Art Gallery
2018	in medias res, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2015	Elles Aujourd’hui, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, Montréal 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China Un Pays de Merveilles, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montréal
2014	Her Story Today Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal Second Time Around Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto GGAVMA 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa In a Word, Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Montréal
2013	History Becomes You Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto Other Worlds, curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harbourfront Center, Toronto Project Peinture/The Painting Project, Galerie UQAM, Montréal
2012	Menaginary, Glenbow Museum, Calgary Sixty Painters, Humber College, Toronto
2011	Between the Cracks, Oboro, Montreal 25 ans, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
2010	Femmes artistes, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City
2009	Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary (with Ron Shuebrook) Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax (catalogue)
2008	Through the Looking Glass, Glenbow Museum, Calgary Carte Blanche, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto Carol Wainio, Ron Moppet, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary Build-Up, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2006	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2005-06	Contemporary Galleries, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2002-03	Painters 15, Shanghai Art Museum, People's Republic of China (2002); Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario (2003)
2002	Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2000	Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1999	Les Peintures, Galeries René Blouin, Montréal Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1998	Peinture/Peinture, Belgo Building, Montréal
1997	Blaast, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal
1995	A Notion of Conflict - A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1994	Shirley Wiitasalo, Carol Wainio, Galerie Rochefort, Montréal
1993	Reflecting Paradise, Expo '93, Taejon, South Korea Perspective in Contemporary Art, Centre D'Exposition Du Vieux Palais, St. Jerome, Québec
1992	Vues d'Ensembles, Centre Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Montréal
1991	Anninovanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna> Working Truths/Powerful Fictions, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1990	Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1980-1990, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1989	Ludger Gerdes, Serge Murphy, Carol Wainio, 49th Parallel, New York
1988	"Les Temps Chauds, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax Contemporary Canadian Works on Paper, Concordia Art Gallery, Montréal
1986	Group Show, The Willard Gallery, New York Songs of Experience, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa City Detour, Optica, Montréal
1985	Anxiety/Alienation/Aphasia, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta Ecrans Politiques, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal Contemporary Canadian Painting, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis Perspective '85", (two-person show), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1984	Wainio/Mackenzie, Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto

Selected Collections
National Gallery of Canada Musée des beaux arts de Montréal Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Art Gallery of Ontario Glenbow Museum University of Lethbridge Air Canada Lavalin Chase Manhattan Bank CIL McCarthy Tetrault Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Royal Bank of Canada Toronto Dominion Bank Ministry of External Affairs, Canada Canada Council Art Bank

Selected Bibliography
Dick, Terence. “Carol Wainio at Paul Petro”, 2015, Akimbo Milroy, Sarah. “Once Upon A Time Before: The Art of Carol Wainio”, Bordercrossings, Volume 32, 2014 Delgado, Jérôme. “De jeunesse et d’expérience”, Le Devoir, January 18, 2014 Pohl, John. “Wainio explores stories and images”, The Montréal Gazette, January 18, 2014 Genois, Audrey (Ed.). Le Projet Peinture/The Painting Project (exhibition catalogue), Galerie UQAM, 2013 Beatty, Gregory. “Unspun Fables”, Prairie Dog, April 18, 2013 Schechter, Fran. “Wainio’s Twisted Folklore”, Now Magazine, March 2013 Sandals, Leah. “Carol Wainio on Wentegate, Fairy Tales & Climate Change”, Canadian Art, February, 2013 Dick, Terence. Carol Wainio at Paul Petro, Akimbo, February, 2013 Wylie, Liz. “Wonderful technique on dark ruminations”, Kelowna Capital News, Feb. 1, 2013 Milroy, Sara. Review, Canadian Art, Fall, 2011 Innes, Randy. The Book, (Exhibition Catalogue), Carleton University Art Gallery, Fall 2010 Falvey, Emily. “Unsettling Painting’s Landscapes”, Canadian Art – Online, April 22, 2010 Shuebrook, Ron. Black and White with Storylines, (Catalogue), Dalhousie Art Gallery, November, 2009 Carter Flinn, Sue. “Ron Shuebrook and Carol Wainio:”, Canadian Art, October 2009 Barnard, Elissa. “Shared Exhibit sheds light on art of mentoring”, Chronicle Herald, Sept. 24, 2009 Milroy, Sarah. "Curatorial Celebrations", Globe and Mail, November 22, 2008 Roenisch, Clint. "Carte Blanche V.2 Painting", Magenta Foundation Sandals, Leah. "Uncertain terms", Now Magazine, Volume 28, Number 7, Fall 2008 Black, Anthea. "Ron Moppett and Carol Wainio", Border Crossings, Summer, 2008 Woodley, Eric. "Carol Wainio, Wynick/Tuck Gallery", Canadian Art, Winter 2007 Dault, Gary Michael. "Carol Wainio at Wynick/Tuck", Globe and Mail, June 9, 2007 Alexander, Matt. "Carol Wainio's Ramshackle Paintings", BlogTO, June 13, 2007 Anderson, Randall. "Carol Wainio", Galerie René Blouin, Border Crossings, #102, 2007 Dault, Gary Michael. “Wainio’s Secret Paint Garden”, Globe and Mail, November 6, 2004 Gessell, Paul. "Wainio Returns to Rave Reviews." Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2003 Rochefort, Jean-Claude. "Carol Wainio: Matrice picturale", Spirale, March-April 2003 Enright, Robert. "The Very Rich Hours of Carol Wainio", Border Crossings, February, 2003 Milroy, Sarah. "Brushes With the Best", Globe and Mail, May 11, 2002 Milroy, Sarah. "Critic's Choice", Globe and Mail, May 4, 2002 Thériault, Michèle. Carol Wainio: Les Registres du contemporain/Contemporary Registers, (Catalogue), Musée d'art de Joliette, 2000 Dault, Gary Michael. "Wainio's eccentric wonderlands", Globe and Mail, May 6, 2000 Lamarche, Bernard. "De la lecture", Le Devoir, Mars 7, 1999 Tousley, Nancy. Persistent Images, (Exhibition Catalogue), York University, 1998 Aquin, Stéphane. "Carol Wainio: Théâtre intime", Voir, November, 1996 Mignot, Dorine. Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art (Exhibition Catalogue), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1995 Aquin, Stéphane. "Hors Cadre", Voir, May 5, 1994 Lacroix, Laurier. "Peinture Ponctuation", Trois, Volume no. 3, 1994 Spalding, Jeffrey. Reflecting Paradise, (Exhibition Catalogue), Expo '93, 1993 St-Pierre, Gaston. Vues d'ensemble (Catalogue), Centre International d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1992 Barilli, Renato. Anni Novanta (Exhibition Catalogue), Galleria Communale d'arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Bradley, Jessica. Working Truths/Powerful Fictions. MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1991 Bérard, Serge. Carol Wainio (Exhibition Catalogue) Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1991 Rasponi, Simonetta, La Biennale Di Venezia (Exhibition Catalogue), Venice, Italy, 1990