oil and gold pigment on panel,
51 x 80 x 11.5 cm
from the Scewey Louie series, 2017,
oil and silver pigment on panel,
54.5 x 38 x 12.5 cm
2017, acrylic on canvas, 178 x 147.5 cm
acrylic on canvas, 101.5 cm diameter
acrylic on paper, 5 units, 38 cm diameter each
acrylic on paper, 5 units, 38 cm diameter each
acrylic paint, chiming wall clock,
63.5 x 43 x 12.5 cm
acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm
acrylic on canvas, 71 x 56 cm
acrylic on canvas, 69 x 76 cm
acrylic on canvas, 183 x 762 cm
acrylic on canvas, 183 x 548.5 cm
archival ink jet print, 117 x 84 cm
archival inkjet print, 99 x 76 cm
acrylic on panel and silk, wire, 166 x 61.5 x 24 cm
acrylic on linen, 122 x 152.5 cm
6 paintings, oil on panel with glass, plastic, felt,
lighting gel, mylar, 61 x 61 cm each
oil and gesso on canvas on board, 112 x 91.5 cm
oil and gesso on canvas on board, 94 x 94 cm
Sandra Meigs
“ I anticipate … an explosion of colour, at first the colours will look ungainly, like blobby forms coughed onto the wall: minty green, cerulean blue, milk chocolate brown … within the ground there are hidden figures and things: a toe, a dog head, a breast, etc. The viewer’s exploration of these comes to fruition when close to the canvas. When stepping away to a distance, they are lost. ”
— Sandra Meigs
Rhode Island
Halifax
Halifax
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Bird Stuffers, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
Sublime Rage, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
about the exhibition
The Little Lost Operas, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
The Basement Paintings, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown
Room for Mystics, with Christopher Butterfield, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Glass Ticker, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
All to All, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
The Basement Panoramas, Susan Hobbs Gallery/Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
about the exhibition
Victoria
Toronto
2009
Gallery, Ottawa
Richmond, British Columbia
Victoria
Toronto
Vancouver
Toronto
Montréal
Gallery
Cornerbrook
Plant, Toronto
Montréal
Boulanger, Montréal
University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Toronto
Art Tapes, Halifax; The Ydessa Gallery,
Toronto
Halifax; 112 Workshop, New York; A Space,
Toronto
Furnace, New York
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
Halifax
Providence, Rhode Island
Supply Co., Halifax
Selected Group Exhibitions
Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto
of Canada Collection, MOCCA, Toronto
The Most She Weighed/The Least She
Weighed, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Unreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Plant, Toronto
Monster, West Vancouver Museum,
Vancouver
I don't know whether to laugh or cry,
Museum London, London
Banff
Comic Relief, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
Realm, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Telling Stories, Secret Lives, Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Field Art 1950-2005, Art Gallery of
Ontario, Toronto
Pennsylvania
Officina America, Galleria d‘Arte
Moderne, Bologna, Italy
galleries, Victoria
Toronto
Les lieux communs, Centre International
d’art Contemporain, Montréal
Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
Toronto
Centre, Montréal
The McIntyre Ranch Project, Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Edmonton
Toronto
Written Images, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto
Trigger, Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver
College, Toronto
Edmonton; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton; Art Gallery of
Windsor, Windsor; The Gallery/Stratford,
Stratford
Theatre of the Imagination,
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts,
Montréal
Toronto/Amsterdam, Fodor Museum,
Amsterdam
Subjects in Pictures, 49th Parallel,
New York; YYZ, Toronto
Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sandra Meigs at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
by Terence Dick (review)
Akimblog, 6 July 2023
Sandra Meigs at Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Noa Bronstein (review)
Artforum, 1 June 2020
Sandra Meigs with Christopher Butterfield
by Anna Kovler (review)
Border Crossings, March 2018
Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting
by Bruce Grenville and David MacWilliam
(exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver Art Gallery/Black Dog Publishing, 2017
Visual artist Sandra Meigs on the 'meditative experience' of her exhibit, Room for Mystics
by Tom Power (interview)
Q, CBC, 20 December 2017
Sandra Meigs completes journey back to joy
by Murray Whyte (review)
The Toronto Star, 16 November 2017
The Spinning "YOLO" Sympathies of Sandra Meigs
by Kelly Jazvac (review)
Momus, 20 October 2015
Playful, personal highlight fall art season
by Murray Whyte (preview)
The Toronto Star, 9 September 2015
Sandra Meigs: Susan Hobbs Gallery and Georgia Scherman Projects
by Mimi Joh-Carnella (review)
Canadian Art, Summer 2014
Artist mines depths of personal tragedy
by Murray Whyte (review)
The Toronto Star, 15 February 2014
Sandra Meigs at the National Gallery of Canada
by Kim Neudorf (review)
The Writing Shed, 7 April 2011
Touching Animals
by Helena Reckitt (article)
C Magazine 107, Autumn 2010
Eminent Victorian:
Sandra Meigs and the sculpture of painting
by Sarah Milroy (article)
Canadian Art, Summer 2010
A puppet show that veers into tragedy
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 20 February 2010
Sandra Meigs at Carleton University Art Gallery
by Josée Drouin-Brisebois (review)
Border Crossings, December 2009
Sandra Meigs: Strange Loop
by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: Carleton University Art Gallery, 2009
Lethbridge they have seen the wind
by Julia Dault (review)
National Post, 21 July 2005
Boom! Splash! Liking that colour
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 25 June 2005
In The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art 1950-2005
by Ben Portis (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005
Sandra Meigs: The Bump and Ride Paintings
by Chen Tamir (review)
C Magazine, Spring 2005
Simply deceptive
by Peter Goddard (review)
The Toronto Star, 4 November 2004
Officina America
by Renato Barilli (exhibition catalogue)
Milano: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 2002
Sandra Meigs
by Rosemary Heather (review)
tema celeste, November-December 2001
A nice afternoon’s journey into light
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 8 September 2001
The thinking person’s artist.
by John Bentley Mays (article)
The National Post, 1 September 2001
The Newborn
by Nancy Tousley (exhibition Catalogue)
Toronto: Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2001
JOYJOYSORROW
by Corinna Ghaznavi (review)
dArt International, Winter 2000
Putting a new face on painting
by Blake Gopnik (review)
The Globe and Mail, 18 September 1999
Sandra Meigs catches a wave
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 4 September 1999
Coming face to face with our paranoia
by Blake Gopnik (review)
The Globe and Mail, 12 September 1998
Picturing the real, and then some
by Christopher Hume (review)
The Toronto Star, 27 June 1998
Les lieux communs: culture populaire et art contemporain
by Gaston St. Pierre (exhibition catalogue)
Saint Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec: Centre de sculpture Est-Nord-Est, 1998
Chasing truth through the looking glass
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 6 June 1998
Sandra Meigs: Strange Enchantment
by Nancy Tousley (article)
Canadian Art, Winter 1997
Sandra Meigs: Dummies
by Barbara Fischer (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, 1997
Making Strange makes sense
by Betty Ann Jordan (review)
The Globe and Mail, 5 October 1996
Making Strange
by Jessica Bradley (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1996
Mary
by Nancy Tousley (review)
The Calgary Herald, June 1994
Orifaces
by Colleen O’Neill (exhibition catalogue)
St. John’s: Memorial University, 1991
Sandra Meigs: Le Saisissement du reel
by Claire Gravel (article)
Vie des Arts, September 1990
Sandra Meigs
by John K. Grande (review)
Artforum, April 1990
Sandra Meigs: Pas de deux
by Louise Dompierre (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1990
It’s a Strange World
by Elke Town (review)
Vanguard, April-May 1987
Sea to Shining Sea
by ed. AA Bronson (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
Sandra Meigs
by William Wood (review)
C Magazine, Winter 1986/87
Theatre of the Imagination
by Jean Tourangeau (review)
Vanguard, April 1985
Subjects in Pictures
by Philip Monk (article)
Parachute, December/January/February 1984-85
Theatre of the Imagination
by Pierre Landry (exhibition catalogue)
Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1984
80/1/2/3/4
by Tim Guest (review)
Vanguard, May 1984
Subjects in Pictures
by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)
New York and Toronto: 49th Parallel and YYZ, 1984
Toronto Painting ‘84
by David Burnett (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984
The Snakes in the Garden: The Self and the City in Contemporary Canadian Art
by John Bentley Mays (book)
in Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada; Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1983
Sandra Meigs
by Richard Rhodes (review)
Parachute, December-January-February 1982-83
A harrowing ride through Sandra Meigs’ Maelstrom
by John Bentley Mays (review)
The Globe and Mail, 12 April 1980