painted wood, photo, projector, audio
paper, painted wood, silver locket. tea leaves, 23 x 66 x 84 cm
wood, paper, hardware, 87.5 x 223.5 x 150 cm
wood, paper, hardware, 91.5 x 158 x 193 cm
wood, paper, hardware, 89 x 212 x 178 cm
oil on masonite, 45.5 x 63 x 2.5 cm
oil on masonite, 45.5 x 63 x 2.5 cm
wood, paper, paint, plastic, 192 x 162.5 x 122 cm
wood, paper, paint, metal, each: 108 x 80 x 119.5 cm
wood, paper, paint, plastic, 192 x 162.5 x 122 cm
wood, paper, paint, plastic, 192 x 162.5 x 122 cm
wood, paper, paint, plastic, 192 x 162.5 x 122 cm
2009, illuminated book, aluminum, 195 x 70 x 8 cm
blackboard paint, white grease pencil, oil stick on masonite and wood,
30 x 41 x 2 cm
Ian Carr-Harris
Carr-Harris’ sculptures, installations and wall works explore knowledge and ordering systems, probing the intersections between memory and technology, image and text, and perception and description.
— Ian Carr-Harris
Born in Victoria, British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, History), Queen’s University, Kingston
Bachelor of Library Science, University of Toronto, Toronto
A.O.C.A., Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Onomatopoeias, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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Theoris: a paradox, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
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Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Primers, Stride Gallery, Calgary
Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
The Power Plant, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Josselyne Naef Art Contemporain, Montréal
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Gingko, Madrid, Spain
Books for a Public Library, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville; Oakville Galleries; London Regional Art and Historical Museum; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
proton ICA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
l’Aquarium, Valenciennes, France
Optica, Montreal
Villa Arson, Nice, France
Galerie Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Centre d’art contemporain, Herblay, France
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Metz, France
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Pages from History: Ian Carr-Harris, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Agnes Etherington Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
Ian Carr-Harris 1971-1977, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
London Regional Art Gallery, London
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto (annually)
49th Parallel, New York
Recent Work: Ian Carr-Harris, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
Yajima/Galerie, Montreal
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto (biennially)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
A Space, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
MODELS: assembly of schematics, Christie Contemporary, Toronto
Floe, Bonavista Biennale, Salt Fish Plant, Catalina
Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto
You've Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Other Worlds, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Something More Than a Succession of Notes, Bétonsalon, Paris, France; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto
Continental Drift: Konzeptkunst in Kanada: Die 1960er und 70er Jahre, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Traffic:Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 to 1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Champlain's Abitation and The Ideal House: A Project for the Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge
Traffic:Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 to 1980, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Marburg! The Early Bird!, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto
Site Exercises, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Ex Libris, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
Novel Ideas, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Projections, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Momentum, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Me and Them, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Remaking the Real, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Projections, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto
We Can Do This Now, The Power Plant, Toronto
Telling Stories, Secret Lives, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Revealing the Subject, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Canadian Stories, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Musique en Scène, musée art contemporain Lyon, France
re:presentation, Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania
La Biennale de Montréal, CIAC, Montréal
Threshold, The Power Plant, Toronto
Barbara Bloom, Ian Carr-Harris, John Massey, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 8th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Toronto: A Play of History, The Power Plant, Toronto
Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Aurora Borealis, Centre international d’art contemporain, Montreal
XLI Bienniale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Vestiges of Empire, Camden Art Centre, London, England
Fiction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (national tour)
Kanadische Kunstler, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
9e Biennale de Paris, Musee d’art moderne, Paris, France
Tracings: Writing Art 1975-2020
by Ian Carr-Harris, with introduction by Dan Adler
(anthology)
Montreal: Concordia University Press, 2024
Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989
by Wanda Nanibush (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018
Photogenesis: A Brief History of Light in Canada
by Adam Lauder (article)
Border Crossings, December 2016
Is Toronto Burning? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene
by Philip Monk (book)
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016
Something More Than a Succession of Notes
by Lina Ben Rejeb (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 2013
The Donovan Collection
by Daniel Donovan (book)
Toronto: University of St. Michael’s College, 2010
Blessed be churches that confirm
our faith in art
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 4 April 2009
Dictionnaire international de la sculpture moderne et contemporaine
by Alain Monvoisin (book)
Paris: Editions du Regard, 2008
Not just another pile of laundry
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 24 July 2007
Remaking the Real
by Claire Christie (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2007
Ian Carr-Harris: In the beginning was the word…
by Christopher Willard (review)
The Calgary Herald, 4 March 2006
Les 20 ans du CIAC
by Claude Gosselin et al (book)
Montréal: Centre internartional d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2004
Who’s Afraid of Ian Carr-Harris?
by Amish Morrell (article)
www.samplesize.ca, 31 July 2003
Ian Carr-Harris: Out of the Ordinary
by Marcus Miller (article)
Contemporary, October 2002
Affirming art’s power to illuminate
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 28 September 2002
Conceptualism gets a workout
by Peter Goddard (review)
The Globe and Mail, 28 September 2002
Ian Carr-Harris: The Transit of the Grammarian
by Gary Michael Dault (article)
Canadian Art, Fall 2002
Ian Carr-Harris: Works 1992-2002
by Philip Monk and Antonio Guzman
(exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 2002
Moments of truth, traces of fiction
by Blake Gopnik (review)
The Globe and Mail, 21 November 2000
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
by Anne Newlands (book)
Toronto: Firefly Books, 2000
Ian Carr-Harris, Dürer et le rhinoceros
by Damien Sausset (review)
L’Oeil, March 1999
Musiques en Scène
by James Giroudon and Thierry Raspail
(exhibition catalogue)
Lyon: Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 1999
Truth and Desire: The Illuminated Bookworks of Ian Carr-Harris
by Walter Klepac (exhibition brochure)
Lethbridge, Alberta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1996
Ian Carr-Harris: Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Christina Ritchie (review)
Canadian Art, Spring 1995
Report from Toronto: Canada’s Art Capital: The Public Sector
by Roni Feinstein (article)
Art in America, July 1994
Indices
by Louis Cummins, Clara Renau and Martine Needam
(exhibition catalogue)
Herblay, France: Les Cahiers des Regards, Centre d’art contemporain, 1994
Ian Carr-Harris, Optica
by Mona Hakim (review)
Le Devoir, 5-6 February 1994
Visual Evidence
by Ingrid Jenkner (exhibition catalogue)
Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1993
Encyclopedic Examinations
by Kate Taylor (review)
The Globe and Mail, 2 April 1993
Pages from History: Ian Carr-Harris, Early Works
by Carolyn Bell Farrell (exhibition catalogue)
Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 1993
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art
by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1990
Democratiser
by Richard Rhodes (article)
C Magazine, Spring 1989
Reckonings: Ian Carr-Harris
by Russell Keziere (article)
Vanguard, December/January 1987-88
Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d’histoire)
by Louise Dompierre (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
Ian Carr-Harris
by Christopher Youngs (exhibition catalogue)
Kassel, Germany: Documenta 8, 1987
Aurora Borealis
by Rene Blouin and Norman Theriault
(exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: CIAC, 1985
Ian Carr-Harris / Liz Magor: Canada XLI Bienniale di Venezia
by Jessica Bradley (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984
Staging Language and Representing History: Ian Carr-Harris
by Philip Monk (article)
Vanguard, November 1983
Fiction: An Exhibition of Recent Work by Ian Carr-Harris, General Idea, Mary Janitch, Shirley Wiitasalo
by Elke Town (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982
Ian Carr-Harris: Recent Work
by Linda Milrod (exhibition catalogue)
Halifax: Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 1982
Ian Carr-Harris, A Demonstration: Yajima Gallery
by Diana Nemiroff (review)
Parachute, Winter 1981
Confrontations
by Ann Pollock (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1979
Kanadische Künstler
by Jean-Christophe Ammann
(exhibition catalogue)
Basel, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 1978
Another Dimension
by Mayo Graham (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1977
Ian Carr-Harris: Carmen Lamanna Gallery
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
Artscanada, Winter 1975-76
Toronto
by Roald Nasgaard (article)
Artscanada, December/January 1973-74