laser cut aluminium, spray paint (37 pieces)
laser cut aluminium, spray paint (55 pieces)
laser cut aluminium, spray paint
digital prints, 2@46 x 61 cm, 1@61 x 46cm
steel, wood, paint, 80 x 75 x 88cm
edition of 3, aluminum leaves, nylon,
spray paint, variable dimensions
graphite and watercolour on paper, 32.5 x 82 cm
edition of 3,
randomly sequenced animations
edition of 3, randomly sequenced animations
nor any other skill, he failed at every craft, 2016,
wood, paint, 198 x 162.5 cm
nor any other skill, he failed at every craft, 2016,
wood, paint, 198 x 162.5 cm
inkjet on canvas, 250 x 300 cm
multi-screen installation, dimensions variable
520 ceramic tiles, grout, variable dimensions
lenticular print on curved aluminum, 184 x 107 x 17 cm
lenticular print on dibond, 183 x 114.5 cm
lenticular print on dibond, 183 x 114.5 cm
lenticular print on dibond, 183 x 114.5 cm
Gareth Long
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Delaware Abstract Corporation, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
Less: Meech Boakye and Gareth Long, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
Kidnappers Foil, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
Let's Look at the Figures, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
What is Work? Is it a HERB?, Super Dakota, Brussels
Square Peg, Round Hole, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
He knew many things, but he knew them all badly, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Oysters, Austrians, & Ostriches, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich
Kidnappers Foil, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
From the dilettante's library (with notations), SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Literary Asses, TORRI, Paris
Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Roman Copies & Copiés Roman, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Never Odd or Even, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Four Stories, TORRI, Paris
Gareth Long & Liam Gillick: Who Invented the Desk?, The Apartment, Vancouver
Section Man, Kate Werble, New York
Gareth Long: Second, Third, Fourth, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Comedies of the Status Quo, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Upend the Air, The Luminary, St. Louis
A Portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth Harmon, Tenderpixel, London
We Are the Center..., Hessel Museum of Art - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Paint Her to Your Own Mind, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, UK
The Shift, Flat Time House, London
A Zoo for Chris Marker, Tenderbooks, London
AA Bronson's Garden of Earthly Delights, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Wayfarers, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Philadelphia
You Never Read Alone, The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Remake/Remodel, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Soft Shock, Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York
Seymour, Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg
The Book Lovers, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
Oracular/Vernacular, Marseille Modular Centre d'art de la cité radiieuse (MaMo), Marseille
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Learn to Read Differently, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Summer Reading, The Hole, New York
Paraphernalia, Telemark Kunstsenter, Skien, Norway
Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London
Book Machine (Paris): The Imaginary Library, Centre Pompidou, Paris
TORRI chez/at Klemm's, Klemm's, Berlin
Furniture, Invisible Exports, New York
Read, Look!, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
il gatto è sul tavolo/the cat is on the table, SpazioA, Pistoia
One Day Will Come, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Books on Books, Swiss Institute, New York
Book Report, Bank of America Center, Houston
Wish You Were Here, Adds Donna, Chicago
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Sobey Art Award 2011 Ontario Long List, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Funhouse, Western Bridge, Seattle
We Are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
Invocations of the Blank Page, Spike Island, Bristol; NICC, Antwerp
Nights of Skoob Sadness & The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas, Flat Time House, London
Meer, Voorkamer, Lier
The Perverse Library, Shandy Hall, Coxwold
After Image, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore
Booksmart, Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin
Learn To Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Seven in One! Seven in One-Third!!, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
Learn To Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Beauty Underfoot, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
Salad Days III, Artists Space, New York
Without Border IV: Play, Fast Forward, Rewind, University of Maine, Orono
Coercive Atmospheres, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center Gallery, Brooklyn
First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekshill
Espace/Temps, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
Less — Gareth Long & Meech Boakye
by Liam Mullen (review)
C Magazine, 25 September 2022
Gareth Long Puts a Spotlight on the Grift of Local Entertainment–and Dabbles in It, Too
by Sean J. Patrick Carney (review)
Art In America, 7 February 2020
Gareth Long Revisits the Greatest Cinematic Con Job You’ve Never Heard Of
by William Harris (review)
Frieze, 10 January 2020
Art Trip: Gareth Long’s Kidnappers Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston
by Rosie Prata (review)
The Globe and Mail, 2 December 2019
FrameWork 3/19
by Anna Gallagher-Ross and Jacob Gallagher-Ross
(essay)
Susan Hobbs Gallery, March 2019
In Toronto’s Don Valley a Public Art Project Exploring Work, Shelter and Sanctuary
by David Balzer (review)
Frieze, 20 July 2018
Gareth Long's perfect show for our stupid Trump moment
by Murray Whyte (review)
The Toronto Star, 29 March 2017
Archival Anomaly: An Interview with Gareth Long
by David Balzer (interview)
Canadian Art, 2 January 2015
Konzeptkunst trifft Castingshow
by Michael Huber (review)
Kurier Austria, 16 November 2014
The Star of his Childhood
by Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer (review)
Wiener Zeitung, 13 November 2014
Repeat Performance: Kidnapper's Foil, (1936-1952/2014)
by Erika Balsom (essay)
Kunsthalle Wien, November 2014
Geliebte, geächtete Kopie
by Anne Katrin Fessler (review)
Der Standard, 13 November 2014
Catalyst Artists
by Charlotte Cosson (review)
Performa Magazine, 30 May 2013
Never Odd or Even
by Erika Balsom, Simon Crtichly, Maria Fusco, Kevin Killian and Frances Loeffler
(exhibition catalogue)
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2012
Rubbing Elbows
by Michael Bilsborough (review)
School of Visual Art: Continuing Education, 23 May 2012
The Book Lover: Gareth Long on art and reading
by Alissa Firth-Eagland (interview)
Canadian Art, Summer 2011
Gareth Long: Who invented the desk?
by Erika Balsom (essay)
Art & The Public Sphere, December 2011
Gareth Long: "Section Man" at Kate Werble
by Colby Chamberlain (review)
Artforum, January 2010
Invocations of the Blank Page @ Spike Island
by Regina Papachlimitzou (review)
Aesthetica Magazine, 17 February 2010
Gareth Long: "Section Man" at Kate Werble Gallery
by Karen Rosenberg (review)
The New York Times, 19 February 2010
Booksmart
by Andy Campbell (review)
Art Lies, Spring 2010
Downtime at New Year? It's Filled
by Holland Cotter (review)
The New York Times, 31 December 2009
Gareth Long: Second, Third, Fourth
by Alissa Firth-Eagland, AA Bronson and Liam Gillick
(exhibition catalogue)
Oakville Galleries, 2008
Don Quixote
by Jeanne Gerrity (review)
Code Magazine, Spring 2008
Frame by Frame
by Michael Bilsborough (review)
Slash Magazine, Summer 2007
Gareth Long
by Ann Danilevich (review)
Canadian Art, Spring 2006
La video sur grand écran
by Jerome Delgado (review)
La Presse, January 2005