Curriculum Vitae

DAVID HLYNSKY Department of Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Toronto, ON M1C 1A4 (416) 287-7139

Home 62 Borden Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 2N1 phone (416) 944-8337 [email protected]

Personal web site with examples of work http://davidhlynsky.com/

Communist Store windows web site on Photoarts, New York City http://www.photoarts.com/journal/Hlynsky/Pages/statement.html

CCCA http://www.ccca.ca/artists _____

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EDUCATION

BFA, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1971.

EMPLOYMENT

2005- Graduate faculty advisor, University of Toronto, St George Campus for the following students. David Kemp, Nicole Collins, Erika DeFreitas, Lorna Bauer 2005- Lecturer (teaching stream), University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Department of Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts. 2003-05 Sessional faculty, faculty University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Department of Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts. 2001-03 Teaching assistant. University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Department of Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts. 1996-05 Partial Load Faculty Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario 1990-93 Sessional faculty, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, (now University), Toronto 1987-97 Sessional faculty, Ontario College of Art, Toronto 1976-78 Sessional faculty, Three Schools, Toronto

TEACHING 2010 Winter VPSA72H3 Introduction to Photography VPSA74H3 Introduction to Digital Studio Practice VPSC58H3 Advanced Photo Concepts

2009 Fall VPSB75H3 Photo-Based Work VPSB80H3 Digital Studio Practice VPSC70H3 Theory and Practice: New Media in Studio (first offering)

2009 Winter VPSA72H3 Introduction to Photography VPSA74H3 Introduction to Digital Studio Practice VPSC58H3 Advanced Photo Concepts

2008 Fall VPSB75H3 Photo-based Work VPSB80H3 Digital Studio Practice VPSD58H3 Advanced Seminar: Two-Dimensional Work

2008 Winter VPSA72H3 Introduction to Photography VPSB75H3 Photo-based Work VPSC66H3 Theory and Practice: Two-Dimensional Work

2007 Fall VPSB80H3 Digital Studio Practice VPSC58H3 Advanced Photo Concepts VPSD58H3 Advanced Seminar: Two-Dimensional Work

2007 Winter VPSB75H3 Photo-based Work VPSD56H3 Advanced Studio Practice

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NMEB20H3 Design in Visual Culture

2006 Fall VPSB80H3 Digital Studio Practice VPSC66H3 Theory and Practice: Two-Dimensional Work VPSD63H3 Independent Study in Studio: Advanced Level

2006 Winter VPSD56H3 Advanced Studio Practice NMEB20H3 Design in Visual Culture

2005 Fall VPSC66H3 Theory and Practice: Two-Dimensional Work VPAB03H3 Computers and the Arts I

2005 Winter VPSB73H3 Computers and the Arts II VPSC61H3 Supervised Study in Studio VPSC62H3 Supervised Study in Studio VPSC63H3 Supervised Study in Studio VPSC64H3 Supervised Study in Studio VPSC65H3 Supervised Study in Studio VPSD63H3 Independent Study in Studio: Advanced Level VPSD64H3 Independent Study in Studio: Advanced Level VPSD65H3 Independent Study in Studio: Advanced Level VPSD66H3 Independent Study in Studio: Advanced Level NMEB20H3 Design in Visual Culture

2004 Fall VPAB03H3 Computers and the Arts I

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2004- De Long Gallery, Toronto 1992-99 Member Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1983-91 Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Gallery TPW 1972-83 Editor/Publisher of image nation magazine. 1973-84 President (and co-founder) of Fringe Research Holographics 1971-74 Graphic Designer at Coach House Press, Toronto

ADVISORY ROLES

2001-09 David Hlynsky was a member of the Art Committee for Public Places, a Toronto Government, art policy think tank, creating public art policy. He served this committee from 2001 to 2009.

2003-07 David Hlynsky was President of The Artists Foundation a charitable corporation devoted to managing emergency funding for artists.

1990-02 Curatorial Committee, Photo Passage at Harbourfront, Toronto

1983-91 Board of Directors, Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Gallery TPW Publications editorial board, Views Magazine, Gallery TPW

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1975-96 David Hlynsky has been a frequent advisor to The Canada Council, The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council concerning the following programs. Photography, Film, Holography, Aid to Artist Run Centres, Multidisciplinary Explorations, Media Arts (including computer art, screen writing, video art and broadcasting initiatives for artists) and exhibition assistance to individual artists. During this time he served on approximately twenty-five arts awards juries. (dates are approximate).

1972- I occasionally serve as an exhibition jurist. Following are some of the organizations I have advised. Burlington Art Centre Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts Stratford Camera Club Hart House Camera Club

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2004 Canada Council Travel Grant Canada Council “A” Grant Ontario Arts Council “A” Grant Canada Council Travel Grant Canada Council Travel Grant 1997 Canada Council "A" Grant 1995 Ontario Arts Council A Grant 1994 Canada Council Project Cost Grant 1993 Canada Council "A" Grant 1992 Canada Council Project Cost Grant Ontario Arts Council Venture Grant for writing 1991 Ontario Arts Council, A Grant Canada Council Project Cost Grant Toronto Arts Council Project Grant National Magazine Award in photojournalism. (silver award) 1990 Canada Council Project Cost Grant Toronto Arts Council Project Grant National Magazine Awards, Silver award for Photojournalism. Windows through the Curtain. 1989 Ontario Arts Council A Grant Canada Council Project Cost Grant 1988 Ontario Arts Council A Grant Chalmers Grant 1987 Ontario Arts Council A Grant Canada Council Arts Grant "B" 1986 Canada Council Project Cost Grant 1985 Ontario Arts Council A Grant 1982 Canada Council Arts Grant "B" 1980 Canada Council Arts Grant "B" 1975-85 numerous Canada Council Operating Grants for Fringe Research Hoslographics 1975-85 numerous Ontario Arts Council Grants for Fringe Research Holographics 1974-84 numerous Canada Council Operating Grants for image nation 1974-84 numerous Ontario Arts Council Operating Grants for image nation 1973-80 numerous personal Ontario Arts Council Project Grants 1972-80 numerous personal Canada Council Project Grants

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PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2003 A temporary installation outside the Stratford Festival Theatre. 1998 Two permanent sculptures for Kensington market (commission with Shirley Yanover) 1997 Four permanent sculptures for Spadina LRT Development (commission with Shirley Yanover) 1996 Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, 8x18 foot mural, digital photo and wood. 1993 Toronto Metro Hall, four 4x8 foot photomurals.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008-10 Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto in the 1970’s through the lens of the Coach House Press. This exhibition was commissioned by AGO’s Canadian Curator, Dennis Reid. Coach House, director, Stan Bevington, consulted with twelve artists to conceptualize the exhibition. David Hlynsky proposed including a retrospective of ephemera from 1970’s designed to document the rise of artist-run galleries and collective efforts in Toronto. Hlynsky researched, collected and processed nearly eight hundred images into a multiple-screen exhibition. A very large number of these images were from portrait and documentary photographs he made of the period.

2009 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax “Flight Dreams” (group show) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Western Branch, Yarmouth, “Flight Dreams” (group show) Doris McCarthy Gallery, Guilt by Association, (group exhibition)

2008 Raymond James offices, Toronto, “A Celebration of Canadian Art and Artists”

2007 Gladstone Hotel. CCCA benefit exhibition. (group) Caritas Gallery, Berlin, (solo exhibition, Communist Store Windows) The Fit DeLong Gallery, Toronto (solo) Nightlight Nuit Blanche at the House of Lancaster Tavern (group) Gallery TPW Photorama (group) Broken Ground, Acadia Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, March 8-31, (group)

2006 L.O.F.T Gallerie, Berlin (solo exhibition, Communist Store Windows) Burlington Art Centre Broken Ground (group show) City of Toronto Archive, April 27-Sept 16 (group show)

2005 Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Prague (solo show, 9 rooms 3 floors) Art Mur, Montreal (solo show, 2 rooms) Kichener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Broken Ground group show) Jan 31-April 15 James Baird Gallery Pouch Cove, Newfoundland (group show) Burlington Cultural Centre (Broken Ground group show) May-July 2006 Power Plant, Toronto, The Cold City Years, (group retrospective) curated by Pamela Meredith, Marlene Klassen and Nancy Campbell.

2004 DeLong Gallery, New Xanadu, (solo exhibition). Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Prague, June 9-July 14 (Broken Ground group show) Martin-Gorpius-Bau, Berlin Sept 23-Nov 8, 2004 (Broken Ground group show) One Minute Film Festival (group) winner of award for best use of low tech. Dislocations, curated by Ocean Pounds, Fringe Club, Hong Kong, China (group exhibition) Dislocations Lee ka-sing Gallery (group exhibition.)

2003 Photographic Gallery, July 19-Aug 31, New York City (28 photographs in group exhibition) Gallery 111, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Discovery Centre, Stratford Normal School, Stratford Ontario, commissioned installation. Transmigrations, Ann Bryant Art Gallery, East London, South Africa Nov (group) Art Works!, Carlton University, Feb 9-April 18, (group) photographs of labour.

2002 York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Roundabout, Contact Festival opening exhibition. (group) Co-curated with Patrick McCauly Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa, April 7 - July 21, 2002 Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, SA Sept 17 - Nov 3, 2002 Biofilia Exhibition, New Mexico Capitol Rotunda, Sante Fe, New Mexico (group) Artcite, Windsor, Ontario, (group show) Gallery 96, Stratford Ontario, two-person show with Shirley Yanover Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, (solo show). Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia (solo show) Gallery TPW, Toronto, excursions: Selections from the Collection, June 27-July 20 (group) Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, “Through men’s eyes” April 10-May 25

2001 Case Studies, Queen’s Quay Centre, Harbourfront, Toronto

2000 Open M Gallery, New York City John Carter Gallery, Toronto Gallery 111, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo) Harbourfront Gallery, “The Photography Lesson” curated by David Hlynsky, Contact Festival.

1999 Sadie Bromfman Centre, Montreal (group) Queen's Quay Gallery, Toronto (group curated by David Hlynsky)

1998 Cutting Edge, ARCO, Spain. (group)

1997 Cutting Edge art fair, ARCO, Spain. (group)

1996 The University of Rhode Island Art Gallery (solo) The Photographers' Gallery, Saskatoon (solo) Gallery La Gare in l'Annonciation, Québec July (solo) Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Ontario (group show) Cold City Gallery (group exhibition)

1995 Cold City Gallery (solo) University of Rhode Island Art Gallery (solo)

1994 Montreal Association of Photographers (commissioned group show) Mediatricks CBC Building (group show organized by Cold City Gallery) Ottawa School of Art, Naturae Humanae, (solo show) Cold City Gallery, Toronto (solo show) Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, (solo)

1993 Harbourfront Photo Passage, Moscow Before the Fall (solo) Cold City Naturae Humanae (solo) Cold City (inaugural group) Galerie Sequence, CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN. "Trouées dans le rideau", April 3rd to April 26 Chicoutimi, (Saguenay), Québec.

1992 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (National Gallery), Ottawa “Beau" Show (group) Gallery Sequence (solo) Langley Centenial Museum, Fort Langley, BC (solo)

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1991 Gallery Vu, Quebec City (solo) Justine Barnicke Gallery, Toronto (solo) Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, Ontario (solo) The Gallery Stratford (solo) Commission for four permanent photomurals, Metro Toronto Government Hall. Cold City Gallery, (group)

1990 Art Gallery of Windsor Windows through the Curtain (solo exhibition Sept.) Kamloops Art Gallery “Meditations on Banality” (solo exhibition) "Lake", Performance art by Elizabeth Chitty, Toronto (David Hlynsky designed and produced the optical projection effects.) Lloyds Bank Photographs of Children (group exhibition, 10 city tour to 1992) Premiere Dance Theatre, Harbourfront, Toronto, (solo)

1989 Gallery ZAPF Krakow, Poland (group) Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary (solo)

1988 Peggy's Song. Theatre Passe Muraille, (Hlynsky shot and assembled 210 projected slides as essential plot elements in Jim Garrard's play, 'Peggy's Song', a detective drama structured around a series of photographs supposedly made by Peggy’s dead husband, a race-horse broker and suspected pedophile. Artspace, Peterborough (solo photography exhibition) Month of Photography, Merida, Mexico, (a solo exhibition of photographs of Poland) Krakow, Poland (an exhibition of photographs of Toronto streets) Toronto Image Works, Toronto (solo exhibition) Lake, Toronto, Visual effects for dance performance directed by Elizabeth Chitty, Centre Culturel, Universite de Sherbrooke (solo photo exhibition tour from CMCP) Meditations on Banality Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (solo) Nykytaiteen Museon Puolesta-Kokoelma, Pro Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (mail art show) Images in Space and Time, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa. (group holography) Images in Space and Time, Technology Center of Silicon Valley, San José, California.

1987 Gallery TPW, Toronto, Satellites: A view through the curtain. (first solo exhibition of photos of Eastern Europe) Sept 12-Oct 17 Galeria Klubu MPiC, Poland (15 works in a group show) ARC, Toronto (Republic exhibition) “The secret life of objects” Gallery 101, Ottawa (group exhibition) Music Gallery, Toronto (slides and light show projection with Tanya Mars "Pure Nonsense") Images in Space and Time, (group holography) Montreal and Ottawa Kingston Artists’ Association Inc. Kingston, Ont. (group holography)

1986 Vu, Quebec City (solo) Music Gallery, Toronto (solo exhibition. Illustrations for Gordon Monahan’s Piano Mechanics) Optica, Montreal (two person) Gallerie Des Foto Video, Krakow, Poland (five person) Performance Art Festival, Winnipeg (Moral/Passion stage projections for Elizabeth Chitty) The Market Gallery. City of Toronto Archive. Fashion period cover photo of CN Tower.

1985 Gallery 44, Toronto, (group exhibition of stereo photographers) Centre Eye, Calgary, (solo)

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Latitude 53, Edmonton, (solo) Centennial Gallery, Oakville, Likeness and Artifact (solo photos and graphics) Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, (solo) National Gallery, Ottawa (group photography) Canada House, London, England, (group holography) Museum of Holography, Brussels, (group holography) Milton Keynes Centre, Milton Keynes, U.K. (group holography) Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (group holography) Hologramme Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland (group holography) Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton, U.K. (group holography) Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington, U.K. (group holography) Castle Museum, Nottingham, U.K. (group holography) Gallery 44, Toronto, (group 3-D show curated by David Hlynsky). Moral/Passion, The Great Hall, Toronto. (Theatrical and dance performance directed by Elizabeth Chitty. David Hlynsky designed multiple slide projections and photo illustrations as a stage set. Moral/Passion toured to The Winnipeg Performance Festival in1986) VU, Gallery, Québec.

1984 Salon Theatre, Toronto, (solo exhibition, paintings and photographs) Rivoli, Toronto, (portraits of artists, solo photo exhibition) Music Gallery, Toronto, (multi projector stage effects for Elizabeth Chitty's Moral/Passion).

1983 Matteus Lauk Gallery, Cologne, West Germany (group holography) Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, (group holography) Light Fantastic, London, England, (Fringe Research holography) Edinburg Art Festival, Scotland, (Fringe Research holography) Canada House, London, Canadian Holography Now, (group holography) A Space, Toronto, (group holography curated by David Hlynsky) Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia, (group holography) IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York (group holography) Chromaliving, Toronto, (group painting show) London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario The Hand Holding the Brush: Self-portraits by Canadian Painters, The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario (group) St Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana Light vistas light vision, (group holography exhibition).

1982 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. Seeing Double: a survey of contemporary stereo imagery, (group exhibition of 3-D photography) Dec.3-Jan. 29 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, (group holography) Boston Museum of Science, (group holography) Art Gallery of Stratford, Ontario (four person photography) Bus Shelter Show, Toronto (group show, photographs in backlit advertising spaces). Open Space Gallery. Victoria, British Columbia: The Stereo Show: An Invitational Exhibition dealing with the Illusion of Three Dimensionality, including Stereographs, Anaglyphs, Vectographs, Holograms and Polarized Slides. This Ain’t The Rosedale Library. (solo show)

1981 Museum of Holography, New York City, Fringescapes, April 17-July 12 (two-man holography, performance and mixed media) SAW Gallery, Ottawa, (two-man holography, performance and mixed media)

1980 Centennial Art Gallery, Oakville Ontario (Fringe Research, two man) TTC, Station to Station, (group exhibition of murals in subway station advertising spaces) Toronto Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery, (Fringe Research, two man), June

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Adelaide Festival of Art, Adelaide, South Australia, (group holography) Jane Corkin Gallery, (group exhibition.) Jan 12-Feb 8 Jane Corkin Gallery, (group exhibition.) July 22-August 27 Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York City, July 1-31 (group)

1979 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gambling on the Future Fringe Research (holography, painting, photography and performance), September. Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto (two man exhibition, paintings and photographs), May 17-June 13 Rochester Museum Science Center, Rochester, N.Y. (group holography) CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (group exhibition) Art Gallery of Hamilton, Order of the Broom. (group exhibition) Dec. 79-Jan. 80 Trent University Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, Canadian Images, March Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, opening exhibition, (group), February. A Space Gallery, works, (group) Jan 24-April 10 TTC, Station to Station, Sept 5-Nov 30 (group photography mural exhibition, mounted on TTC subway platforms.

1978 Artspace, Peterborough, (two person holography, performance and mixed media) February White Water Gallery, North Bay Ontario (two person holography, performance and mixed media) TTC, The Rolling Landscape (group photo exhibition in a single subway car), Toronto, February. Museum of Holography, New York City (group holography) Scarborough College, Scarborough, Ontario. (lecture and exhibition) University of Waterloo Art Centre, (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) Sept. Laurentian Museum and Art Centre, (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) June White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario. (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition)

1977 A Space, Toronto (two man, Fringe Research holography, photography painting, performance) Museum of Modern Art, New York City (group holography) Museum of Holography, New York City Reflections of Future Space, (group holography) Salon des artistes, Harbord St. Toronto, (group exhibition) Owens Art Gallery, Mt Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, (group) St Lawrence College Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, (Fringe Research exhibition) December

1976 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Whole Message Holography (group holography) Museum of Holography, New York City, (opening show, group holography) The Western Front, Vancouver, B.C. (two-person, holography, mixed media) A Space Gallery, Business as Usual, (group) The Looking Glass. Museum of Holography, New York City, (group show circulated until 1979) Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta. (Fringe Research exhibition) Art Gallery of Victoria, (Fringe Research exhibition)

1975 International Centre of Photography, New York (group) Art Gallery of Ontario, Chairs, (intervention in group show) Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal, Order of the Broom, (group)

1974 Art Gallery of Ontario, Present Company. (group mixed media) Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, (group) Memo From Turner Gallery, Toronto, Photo memo, A Space Gallery, Toronto, (group)

1973 A Space Gallery, Toronto, (solo) The Waiting Room, A Space Gallery, Toronto, (group) After Paris,

1971 Silver Image Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (group)

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1965-71 As an art student, David Hlynsky designed light shows for music and dance performances. He also shared a graphics and silkscreen studio and designed and printed music and political posters.

DAVID HLYNSKY WORKS IN COLLECTIONS OF…

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia City of Toronto Archive (recent acquisition 35 portrait prints of Canadian artists.) Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa (numerous purchases, most recently 2007) National Archives of Canada, Ottawa (one hologram and 22 portraits of Canadian artists) Carlton University Art Gallery Georgian College Art Gallery U of T Art Gallery (photographs) Ryerson Polytechnical University: Mira Goddard Resource Centre Archive of the Museum of Holography, New York City National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa Archive of Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto Ontario Film Development Corporation, Toronto (photographs) Nestle Corporation, Toronto (photographs) MIT Museum, Fitsall, Jon Gnagy Memorial Hologram, no soap, wine and cheese, (4 holograms, 1975-81) Gallery TPW, Toronto Musée du Québec, Québec. (20 documentary photographs shot in Montreal) Pro Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (mail art, 1988) House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

Paintings, holograms and photographs are also in numerous private collections internationally.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES GIVEN

2009 Art Gallery of Ontario. (lecture to Your graduate student class)

2006 L.O.F.T. Gallery, Berlin (lecture/presentation of Communist store window pictures)

2004 Sheridan College, Oakwood, Ontario

2003 Discovery Centre, Stratford Ontario. (artist’s talk)

2002 Artist talk at the Biofilia Exhibition. Sante Fe, New Mexico. Artist talk. Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia.

1996 Common Ground Gallery, sponsored by The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor Ontario. Dec 3.

1995 University of Rhode Island (artist’s talk)

1994 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa Images Festival, John Spotton Theatre. NFB, Toronto. Panelist. “Cyberspace: Virtual Systems and Interactive Media.”

1993 McMichael Gallery. Nature photography workshop.

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1992 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Toronto Image Works, Toronto Sheridan College, Oakwood, Ontario (artist’s talk)

1991 London Regional Art Gallery Fanshawe and Beal Colleges, London Sault College, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (documentary photography workshop) Toronto Image Works (portraiture workshop) Toronto Image Works (colour printing workshop)

1990 Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

1986 Brave New Waves, CBC Radio, Montreal

1985 Harbourfront, Toronto 1984 "Artists Talk About Technology" a Symposium at the ANNPAC annual general meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1982 Ontario College of Art, Toronto (Art and Technology Conference)

1981 Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon Stratford Public Gallery, Stratford Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. Fringescapes, Museum of Holography, New York City.

1980 Centennial Art Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, September

1979 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York University of Vermont, Living and Learning Center, Burlington, Vermont (workshop) Winnipeg Art Gallery, (performance & lecture)

1978 Ontario College of Art, Toronto York University, Toronto Scarborough College, Scarborough, Ontario. (lecture and exhibition) University of Waterloo Art Centre, (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) Sept. Laurentian Museum and Art Centre, (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) June White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario. (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) April Artspace, Peterborough, (holography demonstration and performance) February

1977 Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina St Lawrence College Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, (Fringe Research, lecture, performance and exhibition) December A Space, Toronto (Fringe Research holography demonstration and performance)

1976 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Western Front, Vancouver, (Fringe Research holography, demonstration and performance) Emily Carr School of Art, Vancouver (Lecture) Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta. (holography demonstration) Art Gallery of Victoria, (holography demonstration)

1975 Vehicule Gallery, Montreal

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009 Brick Issue 82 winter issue Transitions Online, Prague. (interview and photos re Communist store windows for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of East Bloc, publication in autumn)

2008 Brick Issue 81 summer issue Malahat Review, Issue 165, Cover illustration Dazed magazine, Moscow. (pop culture and fashion). Dazed published a small portfolio of Communist era store window pictures by David Hlynsky.

2007 Brick Issue 80 winter issue Brick Issue 79 summer issue Next Model Men website interview, review and portfolio. Dance Collection Danse The Magazine, Toronto, Issue # 64.

2006 Brick Issue 77 summer issue Creative Vision: Traditional Methods for Inspiring Innovative Photography (192 pages Paperback) by Jeremy Webb, St Martin’s Press, Lausanne. (Wilderness Camp photos used as examples)

2005 Image and Imagination, McGill-Queens University Press, Edited by Martha Langford Forefront: The Culture of Shop Window Design, edited by Shonquis Moreno, Large portfolio by David Hlynsky, hard cover, Boston: Birkhäuse ISBN 90-77174-08-7 Creative Vision, edited by Jeremy Webb, Ava | academia Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland. ISBN 2-88479-072-1 FLUID issue #50, a fashion and pop culture magazine, Warsaw, Poland, ISSN 1641-1978 (Published a portfolio of 30 Communist store window images) Caught in the Act Women’s Performance Art numerous photographs. Dislocation, curated by Ocean Pounds, Hong Kong, China (on-line publication) Broken Ground, exhibition catalogue, by Andrew Danson Danushevsky, Published by nervebyte. ISBN 0-9734566

2003 Public Magazine, edited by Dot Tueur, Toronto, Communist Store Windows.

2001 Window Shopping in the Evil Empire. (Communist shop windows) self published CD ROM P Magazine, artist’s issue, Spring, Polaroid Corporation, London England. ISSN 1080-3653

2000 Wilderness Camp, self published CD ROM Style Monte-Carlo issue #13, Wilderness Camp portfolio Monte-Carlo, Monaco

1999 Scan Magazine, #1, (Interview) Common Ground Editions, Windsor, Ontario, ISSN 1448-495X

1996 Virtuoso of the Banal an on-line dialogue between David Hlynsky and Gustave Morin. Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Ontario. Harpers, two photographs, November issue Man About Town, a catalog for David Buchan exhibition at the Grimsby Public Library Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario. (Catalog design, image treatments and production by DH)

1995 Descant 26, no. 1, Spring Issue. "Naturae Humanae." Descant pages 31-40. People magazine, Images and interview for a story on Keanu Reeves. May 08, 1995.

1994 Naturæ Humanæ Artist's bookwork Dead Matter, Paul Savoie, CRYPT editions, Toronto, (cover illustration and design)

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Star (grocery store tabloid), June 28, 1994, Photos of Keanu Reeves as a teen age actor playing a gay role in Theatre Passe Muraille production of Wolfboy.

1993 Black Flash Vol.11, No. 3 Fall, The Authority of Silence-Lucinda Devlin's Omega Suites: Hlynsky’s essay on the interior design of American execution chambers.

1993-95 Dudley the Dragon, David Hlynsky worked on three seasons of the children’s television production of Dudley the Dragon. The work included shooting all publicity and production stills, and processing these as digitally, collaged composite images for promotion packages, posters and VHS video covers for multiple episodes in both French and English.

1992 Beau: A Reflection on the Nature of Beauty in Photography. Martha Langford Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography catalogue, Ottawa, Ontario.

1991 The Hysterical Male, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, New World Perspectives MacMillan editions, London. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ISBN 0-920393-69-1. (Numerous illustrations)

1990 Canadian Art, vol.7, #3 "Windows through the Curtain." Cover and feature portfolio. Pages 85-91 (Winning the Silver Prize, National Magazine Awards, for Photojournalism, 1990). Windows through the Curtain, Exhibition catalog from the Art Gallery of Windsor Vincent Varga/David Hlynsky ISBN 0919837298 (0-919837-29-8) Children in Photography: 150 Years, by Gary Michael Dault and Jane Corkin. Firefly Books, Willowdale, Ontario:

1989 VIEWS #6, Breathless between the Pages. Essay/review of new works by Lumiere Press. Brushes with Greatness. Edited by Michael Ondaatje, David Young, and Russel Banks. (pg 76) The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Stories. Galerie Optica, Montreal, Edited By Cheryl Simon, (DH wrote a short, hypothetical screenplay). Parallelogramme. Toronto. (Cover image)

1987-91 VIEWS, Gallery TPW newsletter, misc critical writing.

1988 Vox Pop (poster) for Video Cabaret holosphere, Museum of Holography, New York City, David Hlynsky reviews “Images du Futur.”

1987 The Canada Council Art Bank Catalogue, 1972-1987. Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario. Borderlands Artcite catalogue, Windsor, Ontario. (photos) From Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant Catalogue, Toronto (photos)

1986 impulse- Volume, 12, #3, Cold City Fiction issue (short story) Photocommunique, contribution to the Photography, science and technology issue.

1985 Photocommunique, autumn issue (photographs and short story) Parallelogramme special Art/Technology issue (essay) Last Issue, Calgary, (portfolio) NOW June photo supplement (portfolio) Randy and Berenicci tour of Holland (poster) Likeness and Artifact. Centennial Gallery, Oakville (catalog of solo show). People magazine, Vol.43, #22 Much Ado about Keanu, Interview re Wolfboy photos of Keanu Reeves by David Hlynsky.

1984 Gala Against Censorship (poster) impulse magazine, volume 11, #2 Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of the National Film Board.

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Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje, New Press, (cover illustration)

1983 Rampike, Toronto (essay) Holosphere, New York City (essay) 12 duotone postcards self-published. Series of five posters for Theatre Passe Muraille NOW Vol 2, #31 (cover and portraits of Jackie Burroughs) NOW Vol 3, #12 (cover and portrait of Layne Coleman) Light vistas light vision, holography catalogue. St Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana Toronto Life Fashion, fashion spread shot by invitation of the editor.

1982 NOW Vol 2, #9 (portraits of Hummer Sisters) NOW Vol 2, #31 (cover portrait of Earle Birney or what?) NOW Vol. 1, no. 48 (cover image- self portrait) August 19-25 Art vs Art, Hummer for Mayor poster, Hummer Sisters running against Art Eggleton for Mayor

1981 salvage, a book of short stories by David Hlynsky illustrated with his photographs. Coach House Press. ISBN 0889101558 (0-88910-155-8) Twelve Canadians: Contemporary Canadian Photography, catalog, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto.

1980 Impressions (DH interviews Marien Lewis about money) impulse magazine, volume 8, #3 “3-D perspectives” (interview) impulse magazine, volume 8, #4 “The Day Time Stopped Standing Still” (short fiction)

1979 Jane Corkin Gallery (smoking toaster poster) Winnipeg Art Gallery (Gambling on Future, exhibition catalog) ISBN 0-88915-077-X impulse magazine volume 7, #2-3

1978 Print Letter, #13, Zurich. “Concerning Holography and the Collector” by David Hlynsky. Terrific at both ends, Victor Coleman, Coach House Press, (cover and illustrations)

1977 Canadian Forum, December Issue, "Learning to appreciate raw art." By David Hlynsky. Page 9. Canadian Forum, March Issue, #669, (cover illustration)

1976 Vancouver Art Gallery (hologram catalog intro) Impulse magazine volume 4. #4 Only Paper Today, Station to Station, catalog Vol.6, #6/7 Birds of the West. By David Bromige, Coach House Press (cover illustration) IS erotics issue # 19/20, (Photos and texts) Coach House Press, Edited by Victor Coleman.

1975 mute visit, David Hlynsky and Stephen Cruise, (collaborative collage book), A Space printing.

1974 baggage a monograph of hand coloured and duotone photographs. published by Coach House Press. Clothbound. “Fringe Research HOLOGRAPHY”, by David Hlynsky, Only Paper Today, October (a manifesto marking the beginning of the holography studio in Toronto)

1973 Birds of the West, by David Bromige. Coach House Press, (cover illustration)

1972 Ceremonial by David Dawson, Cover and illustrations by David Hlynsky Coach House Press. The Date Seed Collection The Great lakes Fiche Co. Coach House Press microfiche.

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1972-84 Throughout the 1970’s and early 1980’s, David Hlynsky was a regular contributor to three art tabloids edited by Victor Coleman, Proof Only, Only Paper Today, Fashion Period. These were produced out of Coach House Press and A Space Gallery in Toronto.

SELECTED REVIEWS

2007 Impulse Archeology by Eldon Garnet. Boingboing review by Mark Frauenfelder, Dec 4. This review of the Communist Store Window section of my web site generated 1.78 million hits in the following seven weeks. Canadian Art Summer issue. Exhibition review by Ashley Johnson. Art work shown. Caritas Gallery, Berlin, on-line review by Axel Sommer

2006 Holographic Visions – A History of New Science, by Sean Johnston, Oxford University Press, UK, ISBN-10: 0198571224 ISBN-13: 9780198571223

2005 Image and Imagination McGill-Queens University Press, review by Martha Langford Montreal Mirror, September, on-line review and photos Interview, Prague Radio

2003 Yahoo Search Engine Picks! David Hlynsky’s Communist Store Windows portfolio on photoarts.com as best photojournalism project on line. September, 2003

2002 Weekly Mail & Guardian April 5, 2002 Johannesburg, South Africa

2001 The Toronto Star Richard Ouzounian review of Dream a Little Dream

2000 A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth century Art Forms by Linda Hutcheon University of Illinois Press. 2nd Edition.

1998 Literary Review of Canada, vol. 7, no. 1 (January/February 1998), Dyck, Sandra J. "Mundane events and banal objects: David Hlynsky's photographs of communist Europe." pages 11-16.

1996 Blackflash 14, no.2 (Summer 1996) review by Justin Wonnacott.

1995 Photo Life, vol. 20, # 1 "A Growing Concern." By Terry Byrnes, pages 21-25. 1994 Feuillets d'artistes 1990-1994. Gosselin, Gaëtan, et al. Québec, Québec: Galerie Vu.

1993 Canadian Art , "Paradise 5 a.m." vol. 10, # 4 (Winter 1993): pages 47-51 What’s this?

1992 Beau: A Reflection on the Nature of Beauty in Photography. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, by Langford, Martha. Al Razutis, Holographic History at Visual Alchemy.

1990 Canadian Art, Volume 7 #3, Fall 1990

1989 VIEWS, Edward Burtynsky, Feb 89

1988 'Peggy's Song' A detective drama by Toronto playwright Jim Garrard is structured around a series of 210 slides and a home video. Review (Source of review unknown. Toronto Star?).

1987 Toronto Star, Christopher Hume, Oct 2. NOW, Jane Perdue, Oct. 1987

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VIEWS, September 1987 Canadian Art. vol 4, # 4: Jane Perdue, "David Hlynsky: Satellites . . . A View through the Curtain. Toronto Photographers Workshop." Pages 92, 94. R/S The Initial as a Sign, by Victor Coleman, for Rick/Simon: Printed Matter Catalogue The Glendon Gallery, York University.

1986 Globe and Mail, May 3, 1986 Brave New Waves, CBC Radio interview, May 29,1986 Borderlands: Art from the Edge. Vito Signorile and Alf Bogusky. Artcite, Windsor, Ontario.

1985 Vanguard, vol 14, no. 5/6, (Summer 1985), Heather Elton, "David Hlynsky" pages 35-36. A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth century Art Forms by Linda Hutcheon University of Illinois Press.

1984 Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of the National Film Board. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, Aggregates: a Festival of Groups, catalog by Vic d’Or,

1984 Canadian Holography Now. London, England: Canada House Cultural Centre. by Andrew Pepper

1983 Globe and Mail, J. B. Mays Jan 15 Canadian Literature page 113-115 review of salvage by Lorne Daniel Toronto Star, Christopher Hume, Jan 16 Toronto Arts News, Karl Jirgens, Feb. issue. The Gallery Stratford. Stratford, Ontario. Perceptions: Photographs by Robert Bourdeau, David Hlynsky, Carol Marino, Volker Seding. By John Silverstein. London Regional Art Gallery Catalog, London, Ontario, The Hand Holding the Brush: Self Portraits by Canadian Artists. by Robert Stacey.

1982 Toronto Arts News, May , Karl Jirgens (salvage review) Globe and Mail, Jan.7, Afterimage, April Quill and Choir, June NOW Vol. 1, no. 48 (review, cover image was a self portrait) August 19-25 Open Space Gallery Catalog, Tom Gore et al. The Stereo Show: An Invitational Exhibition dealing with the Illusion of Three Dimensionality, including Stereographs, Anaglyphs, Vectographs, Holograms and Polarized Slides. Victoria, British Columbia.

1981 Photo Communique, Winter 81-82 Artviews, Winter (salvage review) Canadian Art Database, Canadian Writer’s Files. “Art According to Gossip”, by Dennis Tourbin,

1980 Oakville Weekend Post, Sept. 27 “Fringe Research Celebrates the Absurd”, by Louise Crawford, The Real Paper, Boston, Mass. July 19, “3-D and Beyond”, by Tom Ahern, Toronto Star, “Art show inspired tomfoolery.” Gary Michael Dault. May 26, page F5 Gambling on the Future: Holography, Photography and Painting from Fringe Research Inc., Curator’s statement, David Wager, Winnipeg Art Gallery. Maclean’s, Oct 15, “Looking to the Laser for Art” by Ann Roberts. PhotoLife, June, “Exploring Holography” by John Oughton,

1978 Shapiro, Barbara, et al. Parallelogram Retrospective 2, 1977-78. Montréal, Québec: ANNPAC/RACA. “Authentically Bizarre Art Makes Boredom Interesting for Off-Beat Toronto Pair” by Trish Wilson, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Sept 19

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Ottawa Journal, April 29 “Show Gives Composite View of Five Photographers’ Styles” by Donna Isaal-Gelfand Ottawa Citizen, April 25, review, Peterborough Examiner, Feb. 20 “Toronto Group Mixes, Magic, Music and Art” by Pat Sullivan,

1977 Canadian Forum, December/January 77/78: pages 5-8, "The mind is quicker than the hand." By Lionel Willis. Regina Leader Post. Oct 6 “Images Three-Dimensional” by Ken Cuthbertson,

1976 Performance, November. “Holography, a Medium in its Infancy is Explored by Vancouver Art Gallery” by Andrew Scott. Open Letter Summer “Against interpretation… Ten Years After”, by Janis Runge. Review of baggage. Afterimage, May-June issue. Rochester, New York, “baggage” by Ilka Normile, (review of baggage) Vancouver Sun, Jan 14 , “Holograms-Behold Visions of a Fantastic Future”, by Scott Macrae

1975 Proof Only, Toronto, June issue. “Vis a Vis: The Other D” by David Young,

1974 artmagazine/19, Toronto, “The revival of the Slide” by Lora Carney

David Hlynsky’s work has been published on these sites and many more

No-bug.net Brussels, http://www.no-bug.com Yahoo Picks Communist Store Windows, best photojournalism website, September 3, 2003 Gramo Blog, Romania, http://gramo.ro/?s=Hlynsky Cybermuse, http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/ National Gallery of Canada, (educational outreach site) icon magazine, Harvard http://www.iconmagazine.com/icon.html Concordia University http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/hlynsky.html de Visu www.devisu.org, Nancy, France English Russia http://englishrussia.com (large portfolio) Daily Green Cine http://daily.greencine.com/archives/000135.html boingboing http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/04/communist-era-store.html

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DESCRIPTION OF SELECTED PROJECTS baggage by dh Porter. A finely printed, rare edition book of David Hlynsky’s painted photographs published by The Coach House Press circa 1973.

Likeness and Artifact loosely refers to a body of photographs produced between 1983 and 1988. Likenesses were photographic portraits (in caricature) of Toronto artists and actors. Artifacts were still life meditations on photographic banality, which elevated common objects to uncommon status and prestige. This work exists now in part as a traveling exhibition owned by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. image nation was a periodical devoted to the most eclectic artistic uses of photography. Many individual issues were thematic, investigating such genres as the snapshot, 3-D photography and crime scene photographs. This publication was edited and published by David Hlynsky from 1973 to 1983. It is now out of print but well remembered by a generation of Canadian photographers who began their careers during this era.

Fringe Research Holographics Inc. Fringe Research Holographics Inc. was a charitable corporation devoted to the development of holography as an artistic medium. Founded by David Hlynsky and Michael Sowdon in 1973, Fringe Research was also an umbrella under which Hlynsky and Sowdon created paintings and works of performance art. Hlynsky and Sowdon were also founding members of New York’s Museum of Holography (11 Mercer Street… now closed.) In 1983 David Hlynsky left Fringe Research to pursue more personal writing and photography projects. salvage is a book of short stories written and photographically illustrated by David Hlynsky in the late 1970's. It was later transformed into the basis of his screenplay, Tap Dance on Quicksand. After earning considerable writing fees the Canadian government’s film development initiatives of the late 1980’s went into hiatus and Hlynsky moved on to other projects.

Piano Mechanics. In 1985, David Hlynsky was commissioned by Toronto’s Music Gallery to produce a series of illustrations for Gordon Monahan's CBC award winning experimental piano score, Piano Mechanics. A copy of that illustrated score is now in the collection of the Art Bank.

Windows through the Curtain In 1986, David Hlynsky was part of a portrait exhibition in Krakow, Poland. Travel to this exhibition gave him an unprecedented look at the life in the East Bloc. Informed both by his own ethnic background and his experience as a child in cold war America, Hlynsky began a documentary photographic project in Communist Europe. His personal photographic aesthetic focused on the non-dramatic and often mundane aspects of Communist street life. Between 1986 and 1990 he made more than 8,000 colour, Hasselblad negatives in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Berlin and Moscow. His photo essay in the fall 1990 issue of Canadian Art was nominated for a National Magazine Award in photojournalism. A selection of this work was featured in the inaugural exhibition of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa (a division of the National Gallery of Canada.)

Window Shopping in the Soviet Empire. 1986 to present (operating title for a book work in progress). Window-shopping in the Evil Empire is an ironic and informative collection of medium format colour photographs documenting commercial window dressing in Moscow and Eastern Europe before the collapse of Communism. These windows operate as naive museum cases, exhibiting the products, fashions, aesthetics, quantities and quality of East bloc consumerism. These windows also contain subtle signs of hope, compliance, despair, cynicism and denial. The subliminal comparison with the Western consumerist cornucopia illustrates the materialist and industrial age underpinnings of the Cold War. Taken metaphorically Window Shopping in the Evil Empire is also about cultural voyeurism and the Western tendency to judge human value against the yardstick of style and ability to consume.

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Naturæ Humanæ / Wilderness Camp 1992 to 2002. Naturæ Humanæ / Wilderness Camp is a project in which the textures and forms of the Ontario woodland landscapes are used as context for a postmodern exploration of nature/culture mythologies. David Hlynsky has taken inspiration from many natural science texts to construct neo romantic, sepia coloured, giclée prints of still life constructions and staged tableaux. These images frequently use taxidermy and realistic plastic animals in juxtaposition with the artifacts and signs of science. Some images also include minimal applications of text or hand made markings intended to operate as references for human language itself. David Hlynsky has evolved a working methodology in which he transports a 4x5 camera, equipment, lights and props into the Ontario forest. He then shoots using Polaroid Type 55 positive/negative film and evolves picture concepts over the course of the day with much the same attitude as a 19th century landscape painter. Negatives and proof prints are processed in the field. Digital scans are made for fine-tuning. later evolved the project to also be photographed in close-up in two purposely grown wilderness gardens at his Toronto home and studio. During long winters, the work continued as a series of tabletop photographs in which artificial foliage stands in for real.

This work began as a series of four murals commissioned for Toronto's Metro Hall in 1992. These photographs have also been printed at large scale (some as large as 4x8 feet) and are installed using non- traditional framing. (Cold City, May 1993 and May 1994. Wilderness Camp Dec, 1995 and frequent exhibitions in 2002). As a result of this work, Hlynsky was awarded a commission in 1996 to produce a similar 18’v8’ mural for the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital. Some of this work has been published in Polaroid’s P Magazine (London, England) and a large portfolio was reproduced in Monaco’s fashion magazine, Style Montecarlo. Versions of Hlynsky’s Wilderness Camp have been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and South Africa.

Theatrical collaborations...David Hlynsky has been a frequent collaborator with the Toronto theatrical and performance art communities. His photographs have illustrated posters and publicity for Randy and Berenici, Dr. Brute, Mr. Peanut, Vic d'Or, Gala Against Censorship, The Dora Awards, Theatre Passe Muraille, Video Cabaret, Tanya Mars, Elizabeth Chitty and the Clichettes.

Furthermore he has collaborated extensively with Elizabeth Chitty on a series of performance/dance works in which multiple slide projection systems and unusual optical projection effects created the stage set and ambiance for the performance.

Hlynsky also collaborated with playwright, Jim Gerrard to create a fictional character entirely through the use of photographic slides. In Gerrard's play Peggy's Song, Hlynsky created the never-seen character of Howard solely through an examination of Howard's supposed amateur slide show. Howard's widow and her private detective try to uncover Howard's infidelities through an examination of three trays of slides supposedly made over the last two decades of Howard's life. This work needed to accurately imply the hand of an evolving, amateur photographer, create dramatic tension and reveal clues to the play's mystery.

David Hlynsky has also collaborated with writer, Paul Ledoux, in his last four productions of Dream a Little Dream: the almost true story of the Mamas and the Papas. In this production, Hlynsky has created digital illustrations of the 1960’s super group The Mamas and the Papas through digital manipulations of period photographs of the group. Through on stage monologue, the original (and only remaining) Papa, Denny Doherty, recounts the inside dirt of the band’s rise and fall while accompanied by a ghost band playing selected and poignant songs from his musical career. The 2001 Toronto production contained more than 500 projected images. A subsequent version of the show played through the spring and summer 2003 in Greenwich Village.

New Xanadu Work in progress exploring the aesthetics and narratives of large corporate culture. Hlynsky blended original photographs and stock images of generic businessmen into stylized corporate illustrations intended for a gallery audience. This work was first shown at Delong Gallery, Toronto, May 2004 and is scheduled to be shown in Montreal’s Month of the Photograph in September in2005. David Hlynsky plans to evolve this project into an interactive digital work.

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GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTS

The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, David Hlynsky was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1947 and spent formative years in northern Ohio. He studied creative writing and fine art at Ohio State University and received a BFA in painting with a minor in photography in 1970. During his last years at Ohio State University, he worked as a research assistant for Charles Csuri in the development of computer animated film. During his student years, he free lanced as an advertising photographer and was part of an artist collective designing and printing political and music posters. He also did light shows for local rock bands. In 1971, he was offered a design and production job at Toronto’s Coach House Press, which was producing literary works by cutting edge international writers such as Alan Ginsburg, bp Nichol and Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient). Coach House Press also produced visual art projects by internationally acclaimed artists such as General Idea and The Western Front. At Coach House Press David Hlynsky became editor of image nation magazine, an eclectic periodical devoted to the photographic image.

David Hlynsky is also known as co-founder and director of Fringe Research, a studio dedicated to the development of holography as a fine art. David Hlynsky was co-director of Fringe Research from1975 to 1985 during which Fringe Research exhibited holograms, painting and photographs as well as staged neoDada performances and technical workshops. Fringe Research exhibited in Canada the US and Europe.

David Hlynsky is also a former board member of the Gallery TPW and Cold City Gallery. He has contributed on-stage visual design for dance, theatre and performance art events through Theatre Passe Muraille, Video Cabaret, The Music Gallery and in touring programs with independent performance artist, Elizabeth Chitty. He also designed the computer projection environment for Paul Ledoux’s musical play, Drear a Little Dream with multiple tours to Toronto, Halifax and New York City. David Hlynsky was the resident graphic designer for three years on the popular children’s television series, Dudley the Dragon.

David Hlynsky has produced 11 permanent works of public art. Six of these were outdoor installations in bronze, steel, fiberglass and cast aluminum in collaboration with Shirley Yanover. The others were photographic and computer assisted murals for Toronto Metro Hall and The Whitby Mental Health Facility.

Throughout his career, David Hlynsky has been an artist and collaborator in various capacities and media. He has exhibited as a photographer, painter, and holographer and worked as a graphic designer, writer, performance artist, lecturer, teacher, editor, publisher, curator and arts administrator. His projects have been awarded more than fifty arts grants. Three of these were the highest national awards given to visual artists in their respective years. He currently teaches digital design and photographic aesthetic theory at Sheridan College and at The University of Toronto in Scarborough.

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