Al McWilliams

Al McWilliams


Born: June, 1944, Vancouver, B.C.

Education:

1962-1964 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
1964-1966 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, B.C.
1967-1969 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, B.C.

Exhibitions:

2007:
Al McWilliams, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, AB

2005:
"Real Pictures: Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and
Andrew Gruft", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Group)
(catalogue)
"Soft Passages, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (Group)
"The Cold City Years", The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery,
Toronto, ON (Group)

2003:
"Here and There", The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
(Group), Vancouver, BC

2002:
"Show and Tell", Trepanier Baer, Calgary, AB (Group)
"Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver", Presentation House
Gallery,
North Vancouver, BC (Group) travelling to:
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Centre d'Art Contemporain Basse Normandie (catalogue)

2001:
"Sculpture", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)

1999:
"Al McWilliams: New Works", Trepanier Baer Gallery,
Calgary, Alberta (Solo)
"Les Peintures", Galerie Rene Blouin/Galerie Lilian
Rodriguez, Montreal, Quebec (Group)

1998:
"Heads", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Solo)
"Queries", Art Gallery of the North Okanagan, Penticton, BC (Solo)

1997:
"Extreme Close-up: The Body in Context", Kenerdine
Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. (Group)
"The Ghost in the Machine: Unrealized Public Art Projects
in Vancouver", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (Group)
"History in the Making - Linda Adlestein/Al McWilliams",
Freedman Gallery, Center for the Arts, Albright College,
Reading, Pa.

1996:
"Reflections of the Soul - Contemporary Canadian Art",
Art Gallery of North York, North York, Ontario (Group)
"The Permanent Collection: Our Second Year", Art Gallery
of North York, North York, Ontario (Group)

1995:
"Confounding Figures", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario

1994"
"Quotation: Re-Presenting History", Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba (Group)
"64-'94 Contemporary Decades", Emily Carr Institute of
Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1993:
"Reflecting Paradise", Canadian Participation Expo ?93,
Taejon, Korea (Group)
"Encounters", Center for Creative Photography, The
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (Solo)
"Embodied Spaces", Vox Populi, Montreal, Quebec (Group)
"Arcadia/Paradise/Utopia", Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (Group)
"Word and Image", Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
(Group)
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. (Solo)
Modernism, San Francisco, Ca. (Solo)

1992:
Al McWilliams", Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C.;
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario; Art Gallery of Windsor,
Windsor, Ontario; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta;
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Cornerbrook, Nfld. (Solo) (Catalogue)
"Legal Perspective: Selected Works from the Collection
of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt", McMicheal Canadian Collection,
Kleinburg, Ontario
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Solo)

1991:
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Solo)
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec. (Solo)
49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York,
N.Y. (Solo)
"West Coast Stories", Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta;
Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (Group)
"Site Memory - Contemporary Art from Canada",
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario; Cleveland Center
for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Group)

1990:
"North of the Border", Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Wa. (Group)
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Solo)
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Solo)

1989:
"New Work", Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta,
(Solo) (Catalogue)
"Installation Art from the Art Bank Collection", McMaster
Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario (Group)
"Works on Paper", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group)
Cold City Artists, Or Gallery/Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver,
B.C. (Group)
Cold City , Toronto, Ontario (Group)
"Body is a Loaded Word", Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
(Group)

1988:
The Utsukushi-ga hara, Open Air Museum, (invitational), Hakone,
Japan (Group)

1987:
B.C. Placed", University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge,
Alberta (Group)
Cold City, Toronto, Ontario (Group)
"Traces: Contemporary Canadian Drawings", Fonds Monetaire
International, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (Travelling Group Show),
(Catalogue)
Cold City, Toronto, Ontario (Solo)

1986:
"Vancouver Now/Vancouver 86: Insertion", Walter Phillip
Gallery, Banff, Alberta; London Regional Art Gallery, London
Ontario; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Group)
(Catalogue)
"Ten Years Later", Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group) (Catalogue)

1985:
"Aurora Borealis: Installations d'Artistes", Centre
International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Place du Parc,
Montreal,
Quebec. (Group) (Catalogue)
"La Boite Dans l'Art", Centre d'Exposition, Alymer, Quebec (Group)

1984:
"Matter for Consideration", The Art Gallery at Harbourfront,
Toronto, Ontario (Group) (Catalogue)

1983:
"Kinstler aus Kanada, Raume und Installationen",
Kunstverein, Stutggart, West Germany (Group) (Catalogue)
"Chicago: Sculpture International", Navy Pier, Chicago,
Il.(Group)(Catalogue)
"October Show", Vancouver, B.C. (Group) (Catalogue)

1982:
"B.C. Heritage", Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group) (Catalogue)
"Mise en Scene", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)
(Catalogue)

1981:
"Al McWilliams", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (Solo)
(Catalogue)

1980:
"Sitings", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Touring Group
Exhibition)
"Four from Vancouver", Articule, Montreal, Quebec (Group)

1978:
"Obsessions, Rituals and Controls", Norman MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Sask. (Group) (Catalogue)

1977:
"Transitions", University of B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group)
"For the Birds", University of B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group)
"From This Point of View", Vancouver Art Gallery (Group)
(Catalogue)
Vancouver Civic Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
(Group)

1976:
"Spectrum Canada", Complex Desjardins, Montreal, Quebec
(Group) (Catalogue)
Faculty Exhibition, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff,
Alberta (Group)
"West Coast Waves", Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
(Group) (Catalogue)
"What's New", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
(Group)(Catalogue)

1975:
"Current Energies", Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec
(Group) (Catalogue)
"B.C. Sculpture", Extension Department, Vancouver Art
Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)
"Six Sculptors, New Works", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.
(Group)

1974:
"Scan", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)

1971:
"Image Bank Postcard Show", University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C.
(Travelling Group Show)
"Egg Show", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C. (Group)
"March Wind", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C. (Group)

1969:
Douglas Gallery/Ace Canada, Vancouver, B.C. (Group)

1968:
"Eleventh Winnipeg Show", Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba (Group) (Catalogue)
"Canadian Artists ?68", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
(Group) (Catalogue)
"Younger Vancouver Sculptors", University of B.C. Fine
Arts Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Group) (Catalogue)
"Spectrum ?68", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.


Awards and Commissions:

1969 Canada Council B Grant
1975 Canada Council B Grant
1980 Canada Council B Grant
1982 Canada Council B Grant
1983 Canada Council B Grant
1985 Sculpture commission for the King Street Plaza, Toronto
Dominion Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Canada Council Project Cost Grant
1988 Canada Council A Grant
1988 The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
1991 Seattle Arts Commission
1994 Canada Council A Grant
2000 The Landmark Mews Project, Concord Pacific, Vancouver,
B.C.
2008 Delta Development Limited Commission for the City of
Vancouver, Bute and Hastings Streets, Vancouver, BC


Collections:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona,Tucson,
Arizona
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
City of Vancouver British Columbia Government Art Collection
Russell & DuMoulin, Vancouver, B.C.
Osler Hoskin Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto, Ontario
John Labatt Limited, London, Ontario
Seattle City Lights Collection, Seattle, Wa.
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Sun Life Assurance Company, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of North York, North York, Ontario
Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
King County Justice Center Art Collection, Kent, Wa.



Articles and Reviews:

Wall, Jeffrey, "Art and Artists", The Province, February 16, 1969, p.
23
Pinney, Marguerite, "Reviews", Vancouver, Artscanada, No. 130/
131,
April, 1969, p. 34
Townsend, Charlotte, "Art", Vancouver Sun, Sept. 19, 1969, p. 7A
Lowndes, Joan, "Art and Artists", The Province, Sept. 27, 1969
Rosenberg, Ann, "Art", Vancouver Sun, Oct. 25, 1969, P. 9A
Simmins, Richard, "Potpourri of Energy", The Province, Mar. 10,
1972, p. 22
"Canadian Artists in Exhibition", Roundstone Council for the Arts,
Toronto, Ontario,1972, p. 170
Lowndes, Joan, "Modalities of West Coast Sculpture", Artscanada,
No. 190/191, Autumn, 1974, p. 68-73
Lowndes, Joan, "Art", Vancovuer Sun, April 29, 1975, p. 39
James, Geoffrey, "Reviews: Montreal", Artscanada, No. 198/199,
June, 1975, p. 82-83
Artscanada, No. 200/201, Autumn, 1975, p. 16
Rosenberg, Ann, "West Coast Waves at Winnipeg Art Gallery",
Vanguard, Volume 5, No. 9, November, 1976, p. 10
Artscanada, No. 212/213, Mar/April, 1977, p. 51
Morris, Fred, "Al McWilliams: A View from the Threshold", Vanguard,
Volume 6, No. 8, November, 1977, p. 8-10
Keziere, Russell, "Al McWilliams", Vanguard, Vol. 10, No. 9, Nov.,
1981, p. 42-43
Glowen, Ron, "Six Perspectives Mise en Scene", Vanguard, Vol 11,
No. 7, Sept., 1982, p. 8-9 and cover photograph
Diemer, Karl, "Osterwolds Garten", Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Feb.
11,1983
Rainer, Wolfgang, "Auf Safari in Kanada", Stutgarter Zeitung,
Feb.11, 1983
Hubl, Michael, "Nazimilch and Glaslandschaft", Die Rheinpfalz Ausg.
Westpflaz Kaiserslautern, Feb. 16, 1983
Wurster, Rheinhold, Swei Wolfe in der Halle", Schwabische Post,
Aalen, Feb. 26,1983
Handler, Ruth, "Kein Reprasentativer Uberlich", Badische Neueste
Nachrichten Karlbruhe, Mar. 10, 1983
Handler, Ruth, "Freche Spiele", Nurnberger Zeitung, Mar. 11, 1983
Nemiroff, Diana, "Identity and Difference/Canadians at Stuttgart",
Vanguard, Vol. 12, No. 5/6, Summer, 1983, p. 18-21
Keziere, Russell, "What Price Art?", Vancouver Magazine, Vol. 16,
No. 7, July 1983, p. 62-67
Snider, Greg, "Mise en Scene", Parachute, No. 28, Autumn, 1983, p.
45-47
Ferguson, Bruce, & Osterwolf, Tilman, "Stuttgart: Artists from
Canada", Artsmagazine, Vol. 14, No. 63-64, Autumn, 1983, p. 8-12
and 72-73
Rosenberg, Ann and Steele, Aaron, "Al McWilliams/Recent
Sculpture",
The Capilano Review, November 27, 1983, p. 22-50 and cover
photograph
Bringhurst, Robert; James, Geoffrey; Keziere, Russell; Shadbolt,
Doris, "Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada", Douglas and
McIntyre,
1983, p. 32 & 37
Mays, John Bentley, "Sculptural Treats for Toronto Streets, The
Globe and Mail, Oct. 6, 1984, p. E5
Mays, John Bentley, "Northern Lights Shine in Installation Show",
The Globe and Mail, June 15, 1985, p. E5
Wittenberg, Clarissa K., "Aurora Borealis: Avant Garde Installation
in Montreal", Washington Review, Aug/Sept., 1985, p. 10-11
Payant, Rene, "Aurora Borealis", Parachute, Fall, 1985, p. 48-49
Blanchette, Manon, "L'Installation, Evanesence d'une Theatralite",
Vie des Arts, Sept., 1985, p. 26-31 and cover photograph
Graham, Robert, "Aurora Borealis Meliorist Underground", C
Magazine, Fall, 1985, p. 92-93
Dagenais, Francine & Tourangeau, Jean, "Aurora Borealis un
Editoriale Canadien", Vanguard, Vol. 14, No. 9, Nov., 1985, p. 21-25
Mays, John Bentley, "Things Are Looking Up for Public Art", The
Globe and Mail, November 23, 1985, p. C5
"The Toronto Dominion Commission: Would Mies Be Pleased?",
Canadian Art, Winter, 1985, p. 14-15
Taylor, Kate, "Diversity, Unique Style Stand Out", The London Free
Press, July 5, 1986
Ranff, Erich, "Reviews", Canadian Art, Summer, 1987, Vol. 4, No. 2,
P. 103-104
Rushton, Al, "Hot Seat. Ruminations on a Set of Circumstances",
Midcontinental, Vol. 4, No. 4, July/August, 1987, p. 41
Murray, Joan, "The Best Contemporary Canadian Art", Hurtig, 1987,
p. 124-125, 3 illus.
Carr-Harris, Ian, "Ironic Disguise", C. Magazine, Winter 1987-1988,
p. 72-73
Gottlieb, Tom, "Al McWilliams at Cold City", Art Post, Winter 1987-
1988, p. 38-39
Mays, John Bentley, "Seeing a Fresh Take on the Body", The Globe
and Mail, September 2, 1989, p. C4
"Al McWilliams", The Capilano Review, Series 2, Number 1, Fall,
1989, p. 87-96 and p.p. 120-123
Aird, Elizabeth, "Depicting Language of Body", Vancouver Sun, Feb.
28, 1990, p. 27
Laurence, Robin, "Sensuality After the Fall", The Georgia Straight,
February 23 to March 2, 1990
Perry, Art, "Art as Intimate Industrialization", The Province,
Thursday, Feb. 22, 1990
Lacey, Liam, "Deceptively Simple Works Reflect Complex Artistic
Exploration", The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, February 27, 1990
Wallace, Keith, "Fast Forward", Canadian Art, Winter, 1989, Volume
6, Number 4, p. 33
"Site Memory - Contemporary Art from Canada", Catalogue, critical
essay by Ingrid Jenkner, Curator, 1991
"Heavenly Bodies" by Stephen Godfrey, Canadian Art, Fall, 1991,
Volume 8, Number 3, p. 58-59
"Al Williams" by Bill Jones, Arts Magazine, October, 1991, p. 82
"The Pacific Northwest: Sex, Landscape and Videotapes" by Patricia
Failing, Art News, December, 1991, p. 88-93
"Al McWilliams" by Andrea Hunard, Etc., Montreal, Numero 17,
Febrier 1992, Hiver and cover
"One Word Works", Impulse, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 46
"Vancouver Arts", Roberta Stokes, CV Journal of the Arts, Vol. 3,
No. 4, Dec.-Feb.,1991
"Vox Populi", Etc., Montreal, No. 15, Aug. 1991, p. 59
"Les Serce des Ange", Myrian Merette, Voir Vol. 5, 26 Sept.-2
Oct.,1991
"Homage au Cinq Sens", Marie-Michele Cran, Le Devoir, Samedi, le
14 Sept.,1991,B-11
"Body Thoughts Bring Multiple Exposures", by Robin Laurence, The
Georgia Straight, Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 1992, p. 27
"Al McWilliams", by Robin Peck, p. 68-69, Parachute, October,
November, December, 1992, #68
"Artists Cook Up Dishes of Eros", by Ann Rosenberg, Saturday
Review, The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, October 10, 1992, D9
"Al McWilliams - Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver", by
Robin Laurence, C Magazine, Winter, 1993, p. 64-65.
"Modern Convention Defied", Robin Laurence, The Weekend Sun,
July 31, 1993, D7
"Orvieto" - a Collaboration with Michael Kenyon, Border Crossings,
Spring, 1993, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 36-41
"The Art of Gardening", Petra Rigby Watson, Border Crossings, Fall,
1993, p. 72-74
"Exploring Word and Image", Nancy Baele, The Ottawa Citizen, Aug.
23, 1993
"Decoding The Language of Desire", Robin Laurence, Weekend Sun,
Mar. 19, 1994, p. D7
"Artist Brings to Sculpture a Sense of Relief", Robin Laurence, The
Weekend Sun, Saturday, December 9, 1995, D4.
"The Intimacy of Skin", Robin Laurence, Canadian Art, Summer
1997, Volume l4, Number 2, p. 66-69
"Out of the Public Eye", Michael Scott, Weekend Sun, Saturday, July
19, 1997, B1
"Compromising Art", Noel Hulsman, Vancouver Courier, Oct. 15,
1997, p. 1, 4 &
"Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia", by Ian M. Thom, p.
168/169, Published by Douglas & McIntryre, Vancouver, BC, 2000