After Nadar: Pierrot Turning, 2012,
edition of 3,
12 chromira prints mounted to dibond,
151.5 x 174.5 cm installed
After Nadar: Pierrot the Painter, 2012,
edition of 3,
chromira print mounted to dibond,
96 x 75 cm
After Nadar: Pierrot receives a letter, 2012,
edition of 3,
chromira print mounted to dibond,
96 x 75 cm
The Dada Portraits: Marcel Duchamp, 2010,
edition of 3,
archival ink jet print,
103.5 x 72 cm
The Dada Portraits: Mary Wigman, 2010,
edition of 3,
archival ink jet print,
103.5 x 72 cm
Scrapbook (3), 2009, edition of 5, colour photograph, 51 x 70 cm
Contamination 152/153, 2007,
edition of 3,
colour photograph,
84 x 104 cm
Cercles chromatiques de M.E. Chevreul, 2006
edition of 3,
colour photograph,
99 x 81 cm
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, 2005
edition of 3,
colour photograph,
113 x 84 cm
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, 2005
edition of 3,
colour photograph,
113 x 84 cm
Vessel #28, 2001,
edition of 3,
toned silverprint,
110 x 84 cm
Répertoire, 1997,
edition of 3,
48 framed colour photographs,
51 x 61 cm each,
installed: 205 x 735 cm
Notification i and ii, 1996, Installation view, 96 framed colour photographs, 40 x 51 cm each, installed: 306 x 660 cm
Maggs’ discriminate photographs consistently document systems of classification and identification, often isolating a single item within each photograph. His work builds a taxonomy of objects that invites the translation of visual information to experience.
“ I use systems of identification as an underlying spine in all my work. Imposing this structure frees me to explore territories I would never have imagined. ”
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Arnaud Maggs
by Doina Popescu, Maia-Mari Sutnik, and Sophie Hackett (book)
Göttingen/Toronto: Steidl/Scotiabank, 2013
Arnaud Maggs: Identification
by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Charles A. Stainback, and Rhiannon Vogl (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2012
Animal
by Corinna Ghaznavi (exhibition catalogue)
London, Ontario: Museum London, 2011
Lost and Found
by Ben Portis (exhibition brochure)
Barrie, Ontario: MacLaren Art Centre, 2010
New Canadiana
by Jan Allen (exhibition catalogue)
Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010
Archive and Affect in Contemporary Photography
by Sarah Bassnett (article)
Photography and Culture, November 2009
Arnaud Maggs: Back to Ink
by Robert Tombs (article)
Devil’s Artisan, Fall/Winter 2009
Arnaud Maggs
by Margaret Priest
in The Gershon Iskowitz Prize: 1986 to 2006; Toronto: The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, 2009
Evidence of Existence: A conversation with Toronto-based photographer Arnaud Maggs
by Ben Portis (interview)
Art on Paper, May/June 2008
Arnaud Maggs: Nomenclature
by Martha Langford (exhibition catalogue)
Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2006
Arnaud Maggs
by Daniel Baird (article)
Border Crossings, Winter 2005
Colour revisited, in an orderly fashion
by Gary Michael Dault (article)
The Globe and Mail, 1 October 2005
Each shade, every tone in nature’s own order
by Peter Goddard (article)
The Toronto Star, 24 September 2005
Maggs dusts off some old mugs
by Sarah Milroy (article)
The Globe and Mail, 12 May 2004
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
ed. Karen Love (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery/
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002
Arnaud Maggs
by Charles Reeve (review)
Canadian Art, Fall 2001
Arnaud Maggs: Notes Capitales
by Catherine Bédard and Russell Keziere (exhibition catalogue)
Paris: Centre Culturel Canadien, 2000
logocity
by Barbara Fischer (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Blackwood Gallery, 2000
Arnaud Maggs
by Murray Whyte (review)
The National Post, 16 April 1999
With Variations
by Catherine Osborne (review)
Canadian Art, Summer 1999
Arnaud Maggs: Works 1976-1999
by Philip Monk & Maia Sutnik (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1999
Arnaud Maggs: Convergence Without Coincidence
by Russell Keziere (review)
CV Photo, Summer 1997
Tags and Letters
by Kate Taylor (article)
Canadian Art, Winter 1996
double vie, double vue
by Patrick Roegiers (exhibition catalogue)
Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 1996
Arnaud Maggs; Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Peter Hobbs (article)
C Magazine, Fall 1994
Some Photographs Never Lose Their Power
by John Bentley Mays (article)
The Globe and Mail, 12 March 1993
Hotel
by Bruce Ferguson (book)
Toronto/Vancouver: Art Metropole/ Presentation House, 1993
Seven Thousand Pictures are Better than One
by Vicki Goldberg (review)
The New York Times, 23 August 1992
Special Collections
by Vince Alleti (review)
The Village Voice, 18 August 1992
Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now
by Charles Stainback (exhibition catalogue)
New York: International Center of Photography, 1992
Numbering
by Ihor Holubizky (exhibition catalogue)
Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1990
The Narrative and its Double
by Gary Michael Dault (article)
C Magazine, Summer 1989
Arnaud Maggs at YYZ
by Gordon Lebredt
Parachute, 1989
The Many Faces of Maggs
by John Bentley Mays (article)
The Globe and Mail, 18 January 1986
Fearful Symmetry
by Gary Michael Dault (article)
Canadian Art, Spring 1985
Identites
by Michael Frizot et. al.
(exhibition catalogue)
Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1985
Arnaud Maggs Photographs 1975-84
by Karyn Elizabeth Allen (exhibition catalogue)
Calgary: Nickle Arts Museum, 1984
Seeing People/Seeing Space
by Sue Davies (exhibition catalogue)
London, UK: The Photographers’ Gallery, 1984
Arnaud Maggs, An Exhibition of Selected Works 1981-83
by Theodore Lindberg E. (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver: The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, 1984
Allocations
by William E Ewing (exhibition catalogue)
New York: 49th Parallel, 1984
Responding to Photography
by Maia-Mari Sutnik (book)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984
Arnaud Maggs at Optica
by Clara Gutsche (review)
Vanguard, December 1983
Arnaud Maggs Downwind Images
by Martha Fleming (review)
Afterimage, 1982
Object & Image
by George M Craven (book)
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982
Contemporary Photographers
by George Walsh (book)
London, England: St. James Press, 1981
Arnaud Maggs.
by David Macwilliam (exhibition catalogue)
Paris: Centre Culturel Canadien, 1980
Arnaud Maggs’ 64 Portrait Studies at David Mirvish Gallery
by Raphael Bendahan (review)
Artists Revue, May 1978