James Carl – Curriculum Vitae


1960 born in Montreal, Canada
1993-1996 MFA, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
1995+90 Diplomas, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China
1992 BA, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1983 BFA, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada


Grants and Awards (Selection)


2006
Paris Studio, Canada Council


2003
Ontario Association of Art Galleries Design Award


2002
Canada Council Production Grant
Canada Council Travel Grant
Ontario Arts Council Project Assistance


2001
Canada Council Travel Grant


1999
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
Canada Council “B” Grant


1997
Canada Council “B” Grant

1996
Toronto Arts Award, Protégé Award


1995
FCAR Research Grant


1995
Canada Council “B” Grant


1994-95
Chinese-Canadian Graduate Scholar Award


1994
Canada Council “B” Grant


1993
Conseils des Arts du Québec Project Grant
Canada Council Short Term Grant


1992
Japanese-Canadian Culture Center Award
Canada Council Travel Grant


1989-90
Chinese-Canadian Undergraduate Scholar Award


Solo shows


2008
do you know what: A Survey 1990-2008, Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Jalousie, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2007
Jalousie, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlruhe, Germany


2006
Negative Spaces, Florence Loewy, Paris, France


2004
Final Concession, The Balcony, Toronto, Canada


2003
Plot, Contamporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


2002
Bottom Feeder, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada


1999
Work, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe, Germany


1998
Clark Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Stock, Art Metropole, Toronto, Cananda


1997
Fountain, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada


1996
Still Life, Paul Petro, Toronto, Canada
Out of Service, Civic Square, New Brunswick, NJ,USA


1994
Unentitled, YYZ, Toronto, Cananda

1993
public works, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Cananda


1992
re-possession, Clark Gallery, Montreal, Cananda


1991
Spring Collection, a public sculpture, Montreal, Cananda


1990
Border Patterns, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Bejing, China


Group shows (Selection)


2008
Pulp, Open Space, Victoria, Canada


2007
Fun House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Admontan, Canada


2006
Habitat, Jessica Bradley Projects, Toronto, Canada


2005
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada


2004
Le Lieu en Practique, Artexte, Montreal
Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough


2003
Re:cycle, McMaster University, Hamilton

2002
Don, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
New Modular, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Pile, Barkenhoff Atelier,Worpswede,Germany


2001
Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Pool, York Quay Centre, Toronto, Canada
Forever, Embassy of Cananda, Beijing
First Light, Bellevue Art Museum, USA
Objets de convoitise, Galerie 101, Ottawa


2000
Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, USA
Minutia, SECCA, North Carolina, USA
Climbing the walls, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, USA


1999
New Urban Sculpture, Metrotech, New York, USA
Spatial Interest, Workspace, New York, USA
Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
Something, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
I'm the Boss of Myself, Sara Meltzer, New York, USA


1997
Wrong Place, Right Time, Double Pleasure, New York, USA
Mannequins, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
Face Value, PS 122, New York, USA
Work/Site, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cananda
Vague Pop Part One, View Room, New York, USA

1996
Limousine, Free Parking, Toronto, Cananda
MGSA Group Show, 420 West Broadway, New York, USA
Sac de Hockey, Paul Petro @ 100 Yonge, Toronto, Cananda


1995
HOA, Library of Art History, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Weihai Public Sculpture Symposium, Shangdong, China
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Cananda
Central Akademy of Fine Art, Bejing, China


Projects (Selection)


2000-2004
The Balcony. http://www.thebalcony.ca


2000
Being on Time. Central Technical School, Toronto and Public Access Collective, Toronto, Canada


1999
Summit, Gallery 5020 Salzburg, Austria


Bibliography (Selection)


1999
Carol Vogel “Inside Art”, New York Times, 15.10.99, p. B32
New Yorker, “Goings on About Town”, 13.9.99
John Grande, “James Carl”, Sculpture Magazine, Chicago, April 1999, p. 18-25


1998
Marcus Miller, “Essential Items”, Mirror, Montreal, 8.10.99, p. 31

1997
Christopher Hume, “A Panoramic View…”, The Toronto Star, 5.6.97, p. G12
Gillian McKay, “Sculptural Surrogates…”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 31.5.97, p. C13
Barbara Fisher, “fountain”, Toronto Sculpture Garden catalogue essay
Blake Gopnick, “James Carl's Corrugated Craft”, The Global and Mail, Toronto, 15.2.97, p. C4


1996
John Grande, “Exhibition Review”, Atlanta Art Papers, 11/96


1994
Li Fei Dong (trans.), “James Carl the Gong Gong Zuo Pin”, Shi Jie Meishu (World Art, Peking), 1994, Nr. 4, p. 45
Oliver Girling, “Uncanny Cardboard…”, Eye Magazine, Toronto, 15.9.94, p. 60
John Grande, “Which Public…”, Espace Sculpture, Montreal, 9/94, p. 6


1993
Robin Peck, “Exhibition Review”, Parachute, Montreal, 9/93, p. 62
Ann Rosenberg, “Saturday Review”, Vancouver Sun, 17.4.93, p. C9
Liane Davison, “James Carl, Public Works”, Grunt Gallery Publication, Vancouver
Yvan Moreau, “Court Circuit”, Etc. Montreal, Feb/Mai 1993, p. 63
John Grande, “James Carl's Euphemistic Reality”, Espace, Montreal, Frühling 1993, p. 40


1991
Wang Zhou Fan, “Chang Cheng Xia de Si Lu”, Ming Pao Monthly, Hong Kong, 5/91, p. 71


work in collections


Canada Council Art Bank
National Gallery of Canada, Art Metropole Archive
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Cananda
McCarthy-Tétrault, Toronto Cananda
Morey and Jennifer Chaplick, Toronto, Cananda
private collections in Toronto, Montreal, Bejing


(K) = catalogue