Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 |
- Burn, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
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| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2018 |
- Sugar Maple, Art Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
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| 2016 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2014 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2011 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2008 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2006 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2003 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2002 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 2000 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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- Verdure, (with Ernest Lindner, 1897-1988), Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
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- Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound
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| 1998 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 1996 |
- Desert, Jet, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
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- White Pine, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
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| 1994 |
- Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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| 1993 |
- Robert Wiens: Recent Sculpture, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
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- Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
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- Le Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette
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- Musée régionale de Rimouski, Rimouski
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- Université de Moncton, Moncton
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- Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
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| 1991 |
- Giving Voice, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
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| 1990 |
- Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
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- Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay
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| 1989 |
- The Rip and the Little Boy, Or Gallery, Vancouver
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| 1986 |
- All the Work that’s to be done, Artcite, Windsor
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- Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
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- Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
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| 1984 |
- Sculpture, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
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| 1983 |
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| 1980 |
- Passage Zone, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
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- Site Construction, Mercer Union, Toronto
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Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
- Watershed, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
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| 2022 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2018 |
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| 2012 |
- Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
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| 2010 |
- New Canadiana, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
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- Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle
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| 2009 |
- Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
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- Projections, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
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| 2008 |
- Projections, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
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| 2007 |
- Projections, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
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| 2006 |
- Micro/Macro, Gallery Stratford, Stratford
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- Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough
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| 2002 |
- Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
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| 2001 |
- Paul Morris Gallery New York
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- Great Lakes, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
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- Sensing the Forest, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx
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| 1999 |
- The Hand, The Power Plant, Toronto
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| 1998 |
- Sustentation, Plein Sud, Longueuil, Québec
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| 1997 |
- Survey Results Show, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
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- Nickle Arts Museum Calgary
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- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
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| 1994 |
- Art Gallery of North York, North York
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| 1991 |
- Anni Novanta, Galleria d’Art Moderne, Bologna, Italy
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- Place/Practice, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
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| 1990 |
- Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art, London Regional Art Gallery, London
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- Mississauga Civic Centre, Mississauga
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| 1987 |
- Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d’histoire), The Power Plant, Toronto
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- Paradise Then and Now, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
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- Songs of Experience, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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| 1985 |
- Subjects and Objects, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
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- Perspective 85, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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- Anxiety, Alienation, Aphasia, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge
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| 1984 |
- On Earth and in Heaven, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
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- 80/1/2/3/4/Toronto: Content/Context, Mercer Union, Toronto
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- Open Space Gallery, Victoria
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- Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
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- The New City of Sculpture, Gallery 76, Grunwald Gallery, Mercer Union, and YYZ, Toronto
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- Amsterdam—Toronto, Fodor Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Vestiges of Empire, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
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| 1983 |
- Chromaliving, The Colonnade, Toronto
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| 1982 |
- Directions: Four Artists, SL Simpson Gallery, Toronto
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- Monumenta, Joint exhibition at A Space, ChromaZone, Gallery 76, and YYZ, Toronto
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| 1981 |
- Books in Manuscript Form, Mercer Union,Toronto
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| 1979 |
- Toronto—L.A. Exchange, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Bibliography
| Books: |
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- The Donovan Collection, Daniel Donovan. U of T, St. Michael’s College, 2010
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- Speak for the Trees, by Andrea Friesen. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2009
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- Postmodernism in Recent Canadian Art: Ironies of Memory, Mark Cheetham. Double Talking; Toronto: ECW Press, 1992
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- Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art, Mark Cheetham and Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991
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| Articles / Essays: |
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- FrameWork 3/14, Ella Dawn McGeough . Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2014
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- White Pine Red Pine, Richard Rhodes. Canadian Art, Fall 2000
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- Carving new meanings from an old standby, Betty Ann Jordan. The Globe and Mail, 15 August, 1998
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- Free at Last or Why There’s Nothing Left to Imitate: The Almost Free Spirit in Toronto Painting and Sculpture, Donald Kuspit. C Magazine, Winter 1985
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| Exhibition Catalogues: |
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- Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Dara Solomon. San Francisco: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2012
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- New Canadiana, Jan Allen. Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010
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- Sensing the Forest, Jennifer McGregor , Bronx: Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, 2001
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- Sustentation, Brenda Wallace. Longueuil, Québec: Plein Sud, 1999
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- Robert Wiens: Desert, Jet, Jan Allen. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1996
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- Robert Wiens: Recent Sculpture, Carolyn Bell Farrell and Barbara Fischer. Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 1993
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- Robert Wiens: Giving Voice, Matthew Teitelbaum, Windsor: Art Gallery of Windsor, 1992
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- Anni Novanta: The Nineties, Renato Barilli. Bologna, Italy: Galeria d’Arte Moderna, 1991
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- Toronto: A Play of History/Jeu d’Histoire, Louise Dompierre. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
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- Continuum: Robert Wiens, Lorne Falk. Lethbridge, Alberta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1986
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- Songs of Experience, Jessica Bradley + Diana Nemiroff . Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1986
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- Perspective ’85, David Burnett. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985
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| Reviews: |
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- Trees to See, Leah Sandals. National Post, 5 April 2008
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- Robert Wiens: Susan Hobbs Gallery, Peter Blendell. Canadian Art, Fall 2006
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- Exhibit A: Awesome Arboreal, Gary Michael Dault. The Globe and Mail, 12 May 2006
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- Robert Wiens, Peter Blendell. Wildflower, Autumn 2002
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- Art grows in a forest, Sarah Milroy. The Globe and Mail, 6 September 2002
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- Reassembling nature’s building blocks, Gary Michael Dault. The Globe and Mail, 6 April 2002
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- A Walk in the Woods, Daniel Rothbart. NY Arts Magazine, September 2001
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- Robert Wiens at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Gary Michael Dault. The Globe and Mail, 22 Jan. 2000
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- Eclectic, electric and eccentric, Blake Gopnik. The Globe and Mail, 24 July 1999
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- Robert Wiens at Susan Hobbs Gallery, John Armstrong. C Magazine, Sept-Nov 1998
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- Robert Wiens at Susan Hobbs, Gillian MacKay. The Globe and Mail, 28 February 1998
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- Art that will make you think, Lee Parpart. The Kingston Whig-Standard, 24 February 1996
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- Robert Wiens, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Gary Michael Dault. Canadian Art, Spring 1987
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- Toronto, Robert Wiens, Richard Rhodes. Artforum, March 1987
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- Allegorical Margins, Christopher Hume. The Toronto Star, 10 May 1985
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- The New City of Sculpture, Ian Carr-Harris. Parachute, Winter 1984-85
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- A Journey around the New City of Sculpture, Marshall Webb. Canadian Art, Winter 1984
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- The New City of Sculpture, Bruce Grenville . C Magazine, Winter 1984
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- The Irony of Power, William Wood. C Magazine, Summer 1984
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- The flowering of a creative discontent, John Bentley Mays. The Globe and Mail, 17 March 1984
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- Robert Wiens, YYZ, Jeanne Randolph. Vanguard, April 1983
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- Robert Wiens, Mercer Union, Martha Fleming. Vanguard, October 1980
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