Richard Prince

Richard Prince



Born: Comox, B.C., 1949

Education:

1967-1971 University of British Columbia, B.A., Arts
1972-1973 University of British Columbia, Post Graduate Work,
Department of Fine Arts
1970 Emma Lake Workshop, University of Saskatchewan

Solo Exhibitions:

1974:
"Woodlore and Other Romances", Anna Leonowens
Gallery,Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, N.S.

1976:
Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1977:
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1978:
Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1979:
"Figure Structures", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.

1982:
"Richard Prince - Figures", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1982:
"Tables", Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1984:
"Natural Phenomena", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario

1985:
"Simple Objects", Retrospective, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1987:
Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy

1988:
"Search", Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1988:
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1989:
"Kinetic Aesthetic Stories", Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C.
49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, N.Y.

1991:
"Richard Prince: A Selection of Sculpture & Models", Grand Forks
Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C. and travelling to The West
Kootenay National Exhibition Center, Castelgar, B.C.

1992:
"Science and Other Fictions", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1993:
"Oracles and Knowledge", Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, B.C.

1996:
"Richard Prince: Philosophical Landscapes", Mendel Art
Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.

1997:
"Richard Prince: A Selection of Works from the
Collection", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

2000-2001:
"Richard E. Prince - The Aurora on All Three
Channels": MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Recital Installation, School of Music, University of BC
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Memorial University,Corner Brook, NF
University of Calgary, Recital Hall, Calgary, AB

2001:
"Aurora Borealis: Richard E. Prince", Visual Arts Burnaby,
Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC

2002:
"Richard E. Prince: How the aurora came to visit the north",
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon

2003:
"Aurora Borealis", Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
"Richard Prince: A Taxonomy of Islands", Kamloops Art
Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2004:
"A Taxonomy of Islands", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC


Group Exhibitions:

1970:
Emma Lake Workshop travelling exhibition, Norman
MackenzieArt Gallery, Regina, Sask.

1972:
"Directions ?72", Vancouver Art Gallery, two man show
with Dean Ellis

1973:
"British Columbia Artists", Pacific Northwest Arts Centre,Seattle, Wa.
"Process Editions", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.
"Sights and Sounds of Canada's North and West",
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Pacific Vibrations", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

1974:
"Nine Out of Ten - A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Art",
Art Gallery of Hamilton and Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
"Landscape Abbreviations", Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria,Victoria, B.C.

1975:
"Young Contemporaries", London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
"Pacific Coast Consciousness", Robert McLaughlin Gallery,
Oshawa, Ontario (Travelling Show)

1976:
Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
"B.C. Artists from the Provincial Collection", Olympic
Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec
"Eleven Artists from the West Coast", Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
"Western Untitled", Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta
"Current Pursuits", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Young Contemporaries ?77", London Regional Art Gallery,
London, Ontario (Travelling Show)

1977:
"Articipation", exhibition organized by Toronto Women's Assoc.
of the Arthritis Society, Bank of Montreal, First Canadian Place,
Toronto, Ontario
Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada Exhibition,
Harbourfront Art Gallery, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
"Making Marks - An Exhibition of Current Canadian
Drawing", Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask.
"From This Point of View - An Exhibition of British
Columbia Artists", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1978:
"Performance", Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
"Obsessions, Rituals, Controls", Norman Mackenzie Art
Gallery, Regina, Sask.

1980:
"A New Decade: Vancouver", Alberta College of Art
Gallery,Calgary, Alberta
The Canada Council Art Bank Exhibition, Harbourfront Art
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario and Robson Square Media Centre,
Vancouver, B.C.

1981:
"Contemporary Figure Sculpture: Prent, Prince, Whittome",
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

1982:
"British Columbia Heritage", Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
"15 Works - 14 Artists", Canada Council Exhibition, Gallery III,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1983:
"Vancouver Heritage, 1931-1983", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1984:
"Reflections/Reflets", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

1985:
"Tables", Convertible Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"A Selected View - The Longstaffe Collection", Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Contemporary Canadian Sculpture", Winnipeg Art
Gallery,Winnipeg, Manitoba
"Alberta and British Columbia Sculptors", Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C.

1986:
"Garden Show", Grand Forks Art Show, Grand Forks, B.C.
"Vancouver Now/Vancouver ?86: Insertion", Travelling
exhibition which originated at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta:
London Regional Art Gallery
Montreal (5 Parallel Centres: Oboro, Skol, Dazibao, Powerhouse, Optica)
Winnipeg Art Gallery
"Landscapes", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Ten Years Later", Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1987:
"Tactile Values", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Nature City",Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
"Tables Turned - Aspects of Furniture as Visual Art",
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta

1988:
"Sculpture Show", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1990:
"North of the Border", Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Wa.
"Within Range - 33 Canadian Artists", Pritchard Art
Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

1991:
"Small Works", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1992:
"Distant Skies - Gathie Falk, Greg Murdock, Richard
Prince", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1993:
Artropolis, Vancouver, B.C.
"Reflecting Paradise", Canadian participation, Expo ?93, Taejon, Korea
"Match Boxes", Yavneh Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh, Israel
(Travelling)

1994:
"Art and Spirit", Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C.

1995:
"Reinventing the Emblem", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Ct.
"Vancouver 1965-'75: Context & Influences", Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1996-1997:
"Strangers in the Arctic", organized by the Pori Art Museum,
Pori, Finland. Exhibited: Rundetarn Museum, Copenhagan,
Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

1996:
"Telling Moments - 25th Anniversary Show",
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Contemporary Canadian Classics", Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

1997:
"The Ghost in the Machine: Unrealized Public Art Projects
in Vancouver", Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1999:
"Cosmologies", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

2000:
"Lucioles", a project of Laboratoire-Sculpture urbaine,
Grenoble, France, executed in Grenoble
"Art of Our Century, Part II, Modern Art at Millenium's End",
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL

2001:
"Sculpture", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

2006:
"Views of the Coast", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC



Commissions:

1985-1986 Canada Pavillion, Expo ?86
1995-1996 C.K. Choi Asian Centre, University of British Columbia
1995-1996 Concord Pacific, Vancouver

Collections:

Vancouver Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada
Government of the Province of B.C. Art Bank
City of Vancouver Art Collection
Burnaby Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Brant
Canadian Paraplegic Association
B.C. Central Credit Union
Canada Council Art Bank
Gulf Oil Company
Shell Oil Company
National Museum of Canada
B.C. Lotteries Foundation, Kelowna, B.C.
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Telesat Canada, Ottawa
Nova Corporation, Calgary
Carleton University, Ottawa
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Kamloops Art Gallery
Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
The Art Gallery of Peterborough
Mendel Art Gallery
Surrey Art Gallery
Nesbitt Burns, Vancouver
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Canadian Fund, National Capital Commission, Ottawa
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

Publications:

"Richard Prince", Avis Lang Rosenberg, Artscanada, Toronto,
Ontario, Feb-Mar, 1973

"Art in Boxes", Alex Mogelon & Norman Laliberte, New York, Van
Nostrand Reinhold, 1974

"Interviews and Images", Capilano Review, Capilano College, North
Vancouver, Spring, 1975

"Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon", Mary Fox, Western Living
Magazine, Vancouver, April, 1976

"La Hantise du Vent", Art Perry, Vie des Arts, Montreal, Hiver, 1976-77

"Richard Prince and Alan Wood", Art Perry, Art Magazine, Toronto,
May-June, 1977

"Richard Prince: Bringing the Outdoors In", Joan Lowndes,
Artscanada, October-November, 1978

"Richard Prince: Figure Structures", Art Perry, Vanguard,
September-October, 1979

"Richard Prince: An Interview", Lois Redmond, Capilano Review,
Vol. 18, 1980

"Gathie Falk, Richard Prince", Rosalie Staley, Vanguard, May, 1982

"Visions", Contemporary Canadian Art Series, Donald Thompson,
Film for T.V. Ontario.

"Richard Prince", Secondary Art Series, Bernard Motu, Film for
Provincial Ministry of Education, B.C.

"Contemporary Canadian Art", David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff,
McClelland and Stewart, 1984

"Richard Prince - Natural Phenomena and Simple Objects", Rosalie
Staley, Vanguard, June, 1985

"Richard Prince - Simple Objects", Rosalie Staley, Canadian Art,
Summer, 1985

"Richard Prince - Two Shows Review", Joel Kaplan, Parachute,
Summer, 1985

"Focus on Richard Prince", Stephen Godfrey, Canadian Art, Fall,
1988

"Interview - Richard Prince", Capilano Review, Spring, 1989

"Richard E. Prince - 49th Parallel", Artforum, Jennifer P. Bonum,
January, 1990

"Fast Forward", Canadian Art, by Ann Rosenberg, Fall, 1992,
Volume 9, No. 3, p. 21

"Great Work: An Overview of Contemporary British Columbia
Artists", by Melanie Gold, Art Advisory Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.,
p.p. 68-69, 1996

"Fast Forward", Canadian Art, by Betty Ann Jordan, Spring 1996,
Volume 13, No. 1

"Strangers in the Arctic: ?Ultima Thule' and Modernity, Exhibition
Catalogue, 1996

"Landscape ?96: Placing Site/Siting Place", p. 12-15 "Richard Prince:
The Philosophical Landscapes", Dan Ring, Mendel Art Gallery,
Saskatoon, Sask., 1996

Essays in Canadian Writing, number 59, Fall 1996; cover image
"aurora Borealis", 1977, collection of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

"Ideas and Inspiration", interactive CD-ROM of contemporary
Canadian art, Pebble Beach Interactive Co. Ltd., Regina, Sask.,
1997

Blitzer, A., College Algebra, Simon and Schuster, Prentice Hall
Higher Education Group, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1997; two works, "The Cone of
Apollonius", 1982, collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery and "The
Planets", 1980, collection of the Canada Council Art Bank used as
illustrations of mathematical principles.

Illustration for an article, "An Accommodating Comet", by Robert
Zimmerman, The Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences,
New York, N.Y., March/April 1997, p. 13: image used of "The Planets",
1980, collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON

The Canadian Collection , Pierre B. Landry, editor; CD-ROM
published by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, 1997

Illustration for a double book review, "The Unknown and the
Unknowable", by Joseph F. Traub, The Sciences, New York Academy
of Sciences, New York, N.Y., January/February 1999, p. 44: image used
of "Venus and Mars", 1998

Illustration for an article, "Miracles of Rare Device", by Freeman J.
Dyson, The Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, New York,
N.Y., March/april 1999, p. 37: image used of"Ex Machina", 1987, mixed media
sculpture now in the collection of the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

"Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia", by Ian M. Thom, p.
14, 138/139, Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC, 2000

"Canadian Art From Its Beginnings to 2000", by Anne Newlands, p.
258, Published by Firefly Books, Willowdale, ON, 2000


"Richard Prince: A Taxonomy of Islands", by Ian M. Thom,
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, December, 2003