390 x 38 x 48 cm
detail
polymerized gypsum, textile, plastic, 44 x 38 x 17 cm
plymerized gypsum, plastic, 27 x 29 x 26 cm
polymerized gypsum, doilies, string, paper, plastic bags,
58.5 x 39.5 x 15 cm
polymerized gypsum, tissue paper, handkerciefs, plastic bags,
48 x 40.5 x 15 cm
wool, platinum cure silicon rubber,
71 x 54.5 x 11.5 cm
wool, dye, fabric, metal, plastic, and thread, 147 x 62 x 10 cm
wool, dye, fabric, metal, plastic, and thread, 147 x 62 x 10 cm
wool, fabric, metal, thread and wood,
149 x 63 x 12 cm
wool, fabric, metal, thread and wood, 149 x 63 x 12 cm
wool, fabric, metal, polymerized gypsum, and wood,
163 x 399 x 2.5 cm
wool, fabric, metal, polymerized gypsum, and wood,
163 x 399 x 2.5 cm
polymerized gypsum, chewing gum, cigarette, 21 x 38 x 29 cm
polymerized gypsum, cigarettes, wood, 57 x 121 x 63.5 cm
polymerized gypsum, ash, wood, 58 x 68 x 68 cm
polymerized gypsum, ash, wood, 58 x 68 x 68 cm
polymerized gypsum, fibreglass, 88 x 84 x 254 cm
edition of 3, one of ten silver-gelatin photographs,
41 x 51 cm each
installation at Art Gallery of Ontario
edition of 2, one of fourteen selenium toned silverprints,
41 x 51 cm each
Liz Magor
Magor’s practice utilizes sculpture and photography to explore notions of memory, history, shelter, and survival. Exploring both natural and domestic themes, her sculptural works are forms of refuge that also confound the boundary between the real and the imagined.
“ I am always looking for comfort in a world disturbingly subject to change. Sometimes I find it in work, as a recording of my activity. Sometimes I find it in objects, things that sit still for awhile and slowly gather, then release, their history. I wanted to do work that would objectify some history of a life, or at least the life of a body and the process of change that affects that body. ”
— Liz Magor
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Style, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
The Separation, MOCA, Toronto
The Rise and the Fall, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England
Fresh from Failure, Marcelle Alix, Paris
I Have Wasted My Life, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Downer, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
One Bedroom Apartment, Esker Foundation, Calgary
Xhilaration, Marcelle Alix, Paris
TIMESHARE, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco
BLOWOUT, Renaissance Society, Chicago
BLOWOUT, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
Previously ..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
you you you, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
you you you, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
Humidor, Marcelle Alix, Paris
The Blue One Comes in Black, le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Habitude, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto about the exhibition
Liz Magor: Six Ways to Sunday #06, Peep-Hole, Milan
Liz Magor: Surrender, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
A Thousand Quarrels, Presentation House, Vancouver
No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion, Triangle, Marseille
I is being This, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Torontoabout the exhibition
Military Through the Ages,Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
about the exhibition
Storage facilities, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Unversity of Toronto, Scarborough; Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
The Mouth and other storage facilities,Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver
The Mouth and other storage facilities,Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
MOUTH:FULL, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
The Power Plant, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Deep Woods, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Liz Magor: Early Works, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Constructing Cultural Identity: Liz Magor, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Liz Magor, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; Musee d’art contemporain, Montréal
Production/Reproduction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions
When the Stones Clash, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Scouring, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York
2021Some say the soul is made of wind, Downs & Ross, Tribeca Apartment Gallery, New York
2019Kreislaufprobleme, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
You, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Lo Spazio Esistenziale. Definizione #2, Casa Morra, Naples
LoSt + FoUnD, Remai Modern, Saskatoon
Cabin Fever, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Fences & Windows, Modern Art, London
Figures of Sleep, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto
The Undercover Economist, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
All the Names, Scrap Metal, Toronto
Lyric on a Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
On Space and Place, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
You be Frank, and I'll be Earnest, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
MashUp, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
The Green of Her, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
History Made By Artists, C L E A R I N G, New York
Walks and displacements, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Woosh: Two North Shore Collections, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver
Our Lacustrine Cities, Chapter NY, New York
Still Life: Looking at the Overlooked, Trepanier Baer, Calgary
L'intruse, Marcelle Alix, Paris
You've Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Simple Present, Future Anterior, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of
Art, Newport Beach, California
Light my Fire: Some Propositions about
Portraits and Photography, Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto
2012
ZOO, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal
After Presence, MacKenzie Art Gallery,
Regina
The Most She Weighed/The Least She Weighed, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Marburg! The Early Bird!, Marburger
Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
In Dialogue with Carr, Vancouver Art
Gallery, Vancouver
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of
Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape
Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Nothing to Declare, The Power Plant, Toronto
Uneasy Pieces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander,Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
WHATITREALLYIS, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto
Take Me There (Show Me The Way), Haunch of Venison, New York
Bureau de Change, Walter Phillips Gallery,
Banff
Comic Relief, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
The Tree: from the Sublime to the Social,
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Momentum, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Remaking the Real, Susan Hobbs Gallery,
Toronto
Burrow, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Recent Acquistions, Musée d’art
contemporain, Montréal
Cabin in the Snow, National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa
Borrowings, National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa
Embodied Matter, McMaster Museum of Art,
Hamilton
Intertidal – Vancouver Art and Artists,
MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
CAMP(Sites), Walter Phillips Gallery,
Banff; Museum London, London
Elements of Nature, La Cité de l’énergie,
Shawinigan
Histoires des Amériques, Musée d’art
contemporain, Montréal
Baja to Vancouver, Wattis Insitute,
San Francisco; Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver; Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego
Oasis, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
Elusive Paradise, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
Beaver Tales, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
singularFISSION, Diefenbunker, Carp
Model Homes: Explorations on
Alternate Living, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Points of View, McMaster Museumof Art, Hamilton
inSITE, San Diego\Tijuana
Real Fictions: Four Canadian Artists,Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace,Foto Biennale Enschede, Enschede, The Netherlands
Small Histories, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Canada, une nouvelle generation,FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Getigne-Clisson, France; Musee des beaux-arts, Dole, France
Pour la suite du Monde, Musee d’artcontemporain, Montréal
More than one Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Between Views and Points of View,Walter Phillips Art Gallery, Banff
Places with a Past: Site Specific Art in Charleston, Spoleto Festival,Charleston, South Carolina
Meeting Place: Robert Gober, Liz Magor, Juan Muñoz, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Canadian Biennale of Contemporary Art,National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Camera Lucida, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d’histoire), The Power Plant, Toronto
Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object, The Power Plant, Toronto
Documenta 8, Orangerie, Kassel,Germany
Ten Years Later, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Aurora Borealis, Centre international d’art contemporain, Montréal
Ian Carr-Harris / Liz Magor, XLI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1x2: Liz Magor and John McEwen, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Mise en Scene, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Winnipeg Perspective 1981 – Ritual,Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Obsessions, Rituals, Controls, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
West Coast Waves, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Young Contemporaries ‘75, London Regional Art Gallery, London
Librations, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Thing Maker: An Interview with Liz Magor
by Robert Enright (interview)
Border Crossings, issue 163, January 2024
“Style” — Liz Magor and “Mirror-vase.jpg” — Jeremy Laing
by Joey Ngai Chiu (review)
C Magazine, 18 October 2023
Liz Magor offers a provocative reflection of life
by Kate Taylor (review)
The Globe and Mail, 23 September 2023
visit (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Liz Magor: The Rise and the Fall
by Tom Denman (review)
Studio International, 4 April 2023
visit (www.studiointernational.com)
Interview between Liz Magor
and Katharine Stout
(interview)
Focal Point Gallery, February 2023
Surfacing a New Understanding of the Everyday
by Dorothy Woodend (review)
The Tyee, 10 January 2023
Visual artist Liz Magor collects writing from the past 40 years in Subject to Change
by Janet Smith (review)
Stir, 20 December 2022
1593 Practice makes pretext
by Michael Turner (review)
The British Columbia Review, 21 October 2022
Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews
by Liz Magor (book)
Concordia University Press, 2022
MONOLOGUE FOR A DREAMING DOG
by Karen Hines (play)
Permanent Collection, Esker Foundation, September 2021
visit (permanentcollection.eskerfoundation.com)
Liz Magor’s new sculptures
by Tausif Noor (review)
The New York Times, 16 June 2021
Liz Magor
by Nancy Tousley (review)
Border Crossings, December 2019
Liz Magor: BLOWOUT
by Dan Byers, Solveig Øvstebø, Sheila Heti, Mitch Speed
(exhibition catalogue)
Carpenter Center for the Arts/The Renaissance Society, Cambridge/Chicago, 2019
Growing Up and Letting Go With "Blowout"
by Andrew Farry (review)
The Chicago Maroon, 3 May 2019
Liz Magor/Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
by Mira Dayal (review)
Artforum, May 2019
The things they carried, in a striking show at Harvard
by Murray Whyte (review)
The Boston Globe, 14 February 2019
Tainted Goods
by Dan Adler (book)
New York: Routledge, 2018
Cabin Fever
by Meredyth Cole (review)
Canadian Art, 19 July 2018
The Undercover Economist
by Stefan Heidenreich (review)
art agenda, 5 December 2017
All The Names
by Kari Cwynar (essay)
Scrap Metal, October 2017
Der Geist in den Dingen
by Nicole Buesing und Heiko Klaas (review)
Dare Magazine, August 2017
Textiles/Liz Magor's Objects of Care
by Mitch Speed (article)
Berlin Art Link, 21 April 2017
Liz Magor
by Penny Rafferty (review)
Art in America, 2 May 2017
visit (www.artinamericamagazine.com)
Katzen und Hunde, Alkohol und Zigaretten
by Beate Scheder (review)
Missy Magazine, February 2017
Zwischen Fakt und Fake
by Gregor Lüthy (review)
Zürcher Miszellen, 26 February 2017
visit (zuerchermiszellen.wordpress.com)
Liz Magor
by Benjamin Klein (review)
Border Crossings, December 2016
Liz Magor - Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
by Guillaume Benoit (review)
Slash, 5 October 2016
Liz Magor, déchiffreuse de rebuts
by Judicaël Lavrador (review)
Libération, 18 September 2016
Liz Magor: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
by Nicholas Brown (review)
Canadian Art, Fall 2016
Two artists channel McLuhan's extensions
by Robert Everett-Green (review)
The Globe and Mail, 29 June 2016
visit (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Habitude
by Dan Adler, Lesley Johnstone, Liz Magor, Heike Munder and Bettina Steinbrügge
(catalogue)
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2016
Liz Magor tackles the meaning of things in MAC exhibition Habitude
by Susan Schwartz (review)
Montreal Gazette, 22 June 2016
The Scum on the Surface
by Daniella Sanader (exhibition essay)
Oakville Galleries, February 2016
The Importance of Being an Influence by Jens Hoffmann
by Liz Magor (contribution)
Mousse Magazine, no 52, February 2016
These are not ideas; these are things:
A conversation with Liz Magor
by Sky Goodden (interview)
Momus, 13 November 2015
Animal instinct
by David Jager (review)
NOW Magazine, 12-18 November 2015
Gershon Iskowitz Prize Talk
by Liz Magor (talk)
Art Gallery of Ontario, 28 October 2015
double or nothing: Problems of Presence in Contemporary Art
by Timothy Long (exhibition catalogue)
Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2013
Liz Magor: Cool as Corny, Luxury as Trash
by Lisa Marshall (review)
Canadian Art, Spring 2013
Liz Magor’s ‘I is being This’ is only about itself
by Robin Laurence (review)
The Georgia Straight, 4 December 2012
The Potency of Ordinary Objects: a conversation with Liz Magor
by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo (article)
Sculpture, November 2012
The familiar transformed into the mysterious
by R.M. Vaughan (review)
The Globe and Mail, 7 May 2011
Real Dead Ringers: The Art of Liz Magor
by E.C. Woodley (article)
Border Crossings, Spring 2011
Wilderness Escape - Liz Magor
and Emily Carr
by Shannon Heth (article)
Montecristo, Autumn 2010
City vs Country
by Leah Sandals (review)
The National Post, 2 January 2010
Nothing to Declare
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 17 December 2009
Liz Magor
by Nicholas Brown (article)
Hunter and Cook, Fall 2009
What It Really Is
by Tejpal S. Ajji, Nicholas Brown, and Jen Hutton
(exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Red Bull 381 Projects, 2009
Liz Magor: The Mouth and other storage facilities
by Sara Krajewski and Bill Jeffries
(exhibition catalogue)
Seattle/Vancouver: Henry Art Gallery/ Simon Fraser University Gallery, 2008
Take Me There (Show Me the Way)
by Michael Rooks (exhibition catalogue)
New York: Haunch of Venison, 2008
Not just another pile of laundry
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 24 July 2007
Burrow
by Shannon Anderson (exhibition catalogue)
Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 2007
Look closer to grasp Molly’s Reach
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 12 March 2005
Elements of Nature
by Jonathan Shaughnessy (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa/Shawinigan: National Gallery of Canada/La Cite de L’Energie, 2005
Histories des Amériques
by Pierre Landry (exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain, 2004
Material Intelligence:
The Art of Liz Magor
by Robin Laurence (article)
Border Crossings, May 2003
Give her shelter
by Sarah Milroy (article)
The Globe and Mail, 19 December 2002
Liz Magor
by Grant Arnold and Philip Monk et. al.
(exhibition catalogue)
Toronto/Vancouver: The Power Plant/Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002
’Flaws’ point to artist’s crucial theme: artificiality
by Blake Gopnik (article)
The Globe and Mail, 2 September 2000
Liz Magor
by Nancy Tousley (interview)
Canadian Art, Spring 2000
Liz Magor
by Nancy Tousley, Lucy Hogg and Reid Shier
(exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver/Toronto: Contemporary Art Gallery/Art Gallery of York University, 2000
Liz Magor, Equinox Gallery
by Philip Monk (review)
C Magazine, September-November 1999
Report from Toronto: Opening Doors
by Roni Feinstein (article)
Art in America, November 1994
Canada, une nouvelle generation
by Marc Mayer and Catherine Bedard
(exhibition catalogue)
Getigne Clisson, France: FRAC des Pays de la Loire, 1993
Pour La Suite du Monde
by Gilles Godmer and Real Lussier
(exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain, 1992
Cumulus from America: Places with a past
by Lynn Gumpert (review)
Parkett, Fall 1991
Places With a Past
by Mary Jane Jacob (exhibition catalogue)
Charleston, South Carolina: Spoleto Festival, 1991
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art
by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1989
A play of history (Jeu d’histoire);
The Power Plant
by Bruce Grenville (review)
Parachute, Sept/Oct/Nov 1987
Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object
by Bruce Grenville (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
Liz Magor: an Interview
by Ian Carr-Harris (interview)
C Magazine, Fall 1986
Liz Magor
by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986
Aurora Borealis
by Elio Graziolo (review)
Flash Art, October-November 1985
Aurora Borealis
by Rene Blouin and Normand Theriault
(exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Le centre international d’art contemporain, 1985
Highlights of Festival
by Annelie Pohlen (review)
Artforum, September 1984
Kunst, Grenzenlos
by Michael Huebl (review)
Kunstforum International, June-August 1984
Ian Carr-Harris/Liz Magor: Canada XLI Biennale di Venezia
by Jessica Bradley (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984
Installation art wise choice for Venice
by John Bentley Mays (review)
The Globe and Mail, 28 January 1984
Contemporary Canadian Art
by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff (book)
Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1983
Four Places
by Alvin Balkind (article)
Vanguard, March 1977