ANITRA HAMILTON

Solo Exhibitions
2008 BizArt, Shanghai, China,two off-site projects, Curator Davide Quadrio, catalogue
  Audio Parade: Feild Recording #1, Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, Ontario
2007 Retrospective on Parade, AGYU, curated by Philip Monk and Emelie Chhangur
  Ming, Paul Petro Multiples + Small Works, Toronto
  The Koffler Gallery, Satchel Gallery Off-Site
  commission for Georgians Uhlyarik
2004 Hugs + Kisses, Natural Light Window, Toronto, Canada
  Bomb Ride, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario, catalogue, Curator Gordon Hatt
2003 -4 Untitled, Art Gallery at York University, off site project, Curator, Emelie Chhangur
2003 Untitled, Solo Exhibition Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 War Museum, Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfred Laurier University
  Smarty-Pants, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 Bombshell Material Matters, Toronto, Canada
1989 A Room Full of Situations, Grafeteria, Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2007 Beater, Mercer Union, Toronto, curator Dave Dyment
2006 Run For Your Lives, DiverseWorks, Houston Texas, curator Diane Barber
2005 Windowing, Harbourfront Centre, Curator Patrick McCauley
  The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art 1950-2005, curator David Moos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, catalogue
  Albright Knox Biennial, Buffalo NY, catalogue
  Free Sample, Mount St. Vincent, Halifax NS, Curator Kelly Mark, catalogue
  Come Up To My Room, Gladstone Hotel, TO, curator Pamela Matheru
2003 Action Experience: 30 Days, 8th Havana Biennial, Cuba
  Alchemy and Mysticism #2, UDT, Toronto, Canada+Americas Society, NYC
  Flower Show, weewerk gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Ready For War, The University Galleries of Illinois State University
2002 Yourself/Autoritratto, Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy,catalogue
  Camp X, Robert Maclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, catalogue
  Sleeping With The Elephant, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland Snapshot, traveling, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, USA
  Officina America, Museo di San Domenico, Italy, curator Renato Barilli, catalogue
2001 Trophy, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Urban Disco Trailer + Everyone, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2000 Artist Proof Sale and Open House, special project, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
  Snapshot, traveling Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
  Arts2000, Gallery Stratford, Stratford Ontario
1999 Mighty Canadian Artists, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  bottle/d, Pheobe Street Project, Toronto, Canada
1998 Chaos Theories, Curator Germaine Koh, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
  Holiday Show, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Great Canadian Art, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  The Edge of Everything, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Open Juried Exhibition, The Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
1995 Art Fair 95, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Red Head Ice, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Open Juried Exhibition, The Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
1994 Art Fair 94, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  SEAM, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
1993 Out of the Woods, In the Making, Toronto, Canada
1990 Pas De Poubelles, La Gallerie des Foufounes, Montreal, Quebec
  Housing: A Right, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
  H(Earth), The Purple Institution Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Jungle, The Purple Institution Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  Jungle, ABC No Rio, New York City
1988 Remote Control, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Grants and Awards
2006 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts award
  Ontario Arts Council, Mid-career Artist's grant
  nominated, Untitled Arts Award, best solo in an alternative space
2005 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant
  nominated, Untitled Art Awards, best solo in an alternative space
2004 Satchel Gallery voted best creative curating, Now Magazines Critic'c Choicce
  nominated, K.M. Hunter Prize
2003 Ontario Arts Council,Exhibition Assistance Grant
  Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Artist's Grant
  Chalmers Arts Fellowship
2002 Canada Council, Mid-Career Creation /Production Grant
  Canada Council, Travel Grant
  Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Artist's Grant
2001 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant
2000 Ontario Arts Exhibition Assistance Grant
1999 Canada Council, Mid-Career Creation/Production Grant
  Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Artist's Grant
1998 Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Arts Grant
  Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
  Canada Council, Emerging Artist Grant
1997 Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Arts Grant
1996 Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Arts Grant
  Canada Council, Short Term Grant
1995 Jurors' Award, Open Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Ontario
  Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Arts Grant
1994 Ontario Arts Council, Individual Visual Arts Grant
Collections
2005
  • The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994
  • Nestle' Canada Incorporated Private Collections
Reviews and Publications
2006 GlassTire, Texas Visual Arts on Line, Run For Your Lives, Ryan Martin
  Does Art Live in Syriana, Candy Minx, 10.27.06
  The End of Days, Huston Press, Kelly Klaasmeuer, Oct.5.06
  Globe and Mail, Deirdre Kelly, 02.11.06
  Canadian Art Magazine, summer 2006, Laurel MacMillan
2005 Lemonhound, October, Colour at the AGO, Chris Shephard
  Flack #3 summer issue, The New is Now, Mary McKenzie
  Bordercrossings,Issue 95, Nadja Sayej
  Globe and Mail,Toronto Shuffles off to Buffalo, Sarah Milroy, 6.1.05
  Toronto Star, Buffalo takes aim at Toronto's primacy, Peter Goddard, 7.5.05
  Art Papers, 9.05, Nadja Sayej
  Art Post, That Obscure Object of Desire, Allan Doyle
  Lancette Journal of the Arts, Alide Kohlhaas, 6.05
  L'Express, Hugo de Grandpre
  Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, 15.5.05
  From Nature to Psychobabble, Buffalo News, Cynnie Gaasch and Jackson Forsberg
2005 Art Attack, Droppin the Bomb, Dose Magazine, Ceiran Bishop, 2.6.05
  The Halifax Herald, Sean Flinn, 4.4.05
  CBC Radio, Mainstreets
  City Art, Allan Doyle, Vol 1 No 2
  Design Lines Toronto, The Art World, Catherine Osborne
  CBC Radio 3
  Metro Morning, CBC Radio
2004 Galleries Without Borders, Heather Diack, Hive issue # 4
  Real bomb a blast of a ride, The Cambridge Record,Bonnie Malott, 19.7.04
  Bag It, NOW Magazine, Kevin Temple, 15.7.04
  The Big Picture, National post, Catherine Osborne, 4.10.04
  The Big Picture, National Post, Catherine Osborne, 20.3.04
2003 Tessera, "Blood Issue
  Canadian Art, vol. 20 # 1, Spring, "Finding Camp X, Margaret Rogers
2002 Tessera, "Fetishism, Vol.31
  The New York Times, Sarah Boxer, March, 8
  [a-n] Magazine For Artists, "Toronto, Graham Ramsay, Feb. 2002, Glasgow UK
La Repubblica, "Officina America, Jan. 28, 2002, Italy
New York Arts Magazine, "Officina America, by Stefano Pasquini,Vol.7 No. 3
2001 CIUT Arts On Air with Carla Garnet
2000 The Washington Post, Micheal O'Sullivan, Nov. 17
  Kitchener/Waterloo Record, Robert Reid"The Dichotomy in the Human Heart
1998 The Edge of Everything, booklet, by John Massier
  Mix Magazine, Artist-Run Culture, Spring Issue
  The Ottawa Citizen, Artists Link Diverging Work in Blend of Imagery and Issues, Donna Wawzonek, Feb, 3
  Xpress, Total Chaos Reigns at SAW by Chari Marple, Issue 243
1990 March, "Gallery Walkabout, Judith Sandiford and Ronald Weihs, Work Seen, Pg. 13
Projects
2003 -present
  • Satchel Gallery, a mobile gallery, I carry the work of one artist for one month in my shoulder bag/satchel
2003
  • artist's project for samplesize.ca, web site organized by Kelly Mark
Published Works
  • 1998 - present Contributing writer for Lola Magazine
Performances
2003
  • Demonstration, Power Ball, Power Plant Galley, Toronto, Canada

 
  • Fat Wall, for Teresa Margolles at the Stretch opening, Power Plant,TO, Canada
  Guerilla Gardening, with Germaine Koh, Toronto, Canada
Projects
2001 - 2004
  • Board of Directors, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 - present
  • Installation Technician at The Power Plant Gallery. Toronto, Canada
1990
  • Board of Directors, The Purple Institution Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Juries
2004
  • Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Visual Arts