CURRICULUM VITAE Selected/ abbreviated
Jeffrey John Spalding Born November 5, 1951; Edinburgh, Scotland Citizenship: Canadian
EDUCATION
1973 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada B.A. (Fine Art)
1975 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA M.A. (Art Ed)
1976 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada M.F.A. (Fine Art)
HONORS and AWARDS
1992 Alberta College of Art Board of Governors Award of Excellence (Presented to one person annually in recognition of meritorious contribution to the arts)
2005 Elected member of Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts; Atlantic Representative to National Governing Council
2007 President, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts
2007 Elected Member, The Order of Canada
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
1973-75 Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1973 Assistant Director, Saturday Workshop Art Classes, Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1973/74/76 Teaching Assistant, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1976 Special Gallery Assistant and Consultant, Manuge Galleries Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1976-77 Instructor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Assistant Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1977-78 Assistant Professor; Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery; Director, Foundations Programme, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1978-81 Curator, Art Department, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1981 Summer Coordinator, Studio Programme, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S.; concurrent, coordinator of Visitor's Programme, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1982-1999 Director, Curator of Collections, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta. Professor of Art, Assistant Dean, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1983 Acting Head, Visual Art, Summer School, Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1984 Co-Director, Visual Art, Summer Programme, The University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1995-1997 Assistant Dean; School of Fine Art, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1995-2003 Co-Director, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1999-2002 Director and Chief Curator The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala FL Professor of Art, Florida State University, Florida, USA
2002-2007 Director and Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2007-2009 President, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2005-present Executive Director, the Oscar Cahen Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2011 Instructor, studio art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Artistic Director, The Triangle Gallery of Visual Art, Calgary
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1973/76 Paintings, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1980 November/December, Drawings, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
1981 February, Recent Paintings, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
August 17 - September 21, New Paintings, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
November, Jeffrey Spalding, S.U.B. Art Gallery, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1982 December, The Black Paintings, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, (illustrated catalogue- colour)
Galerie Anne Doran, Ottawa, Canada
James Ulrich Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1984 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
1985 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Oct 18 - Nov. 5, Night Visions,; Waddington & Shiell, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1988 The Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Dec. 7-23, Jeffrey Spalding: Recent Paintings. Waddington & Shiell, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1991 April 6-May 1, Jeffrey Spalding. Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sept.25-Oct. 15, Jeffrey Spalding: Transfiguration; Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nov. 16- Dec. 10, Jeffrey Spalding: In the Shadow of the Oldman. Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Exhibition flyer (illustrated colour)
1992 May 30- June 23, Jeffrey Spalding Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996 Nov. 28- Dec. 21, Jeffrey Spalding: Paintings; Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada exhibition flyer (ill. colour)
1997 Jeffrey Spalding-Video works, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
1998 Post-Production: New Systemic Paintings; Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2006 Neues Bild: Trianon, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2007 Neues Bild: Rotunda; Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2008 Third Quarter Correction, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2009 Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2010-11 October 25, 2010- February 4, 2011, 4 Walls/ 6 Decades: Jeffrey Spalding; Yellow Box Gallery, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
2011 Jan 11- Feb 15; Jeffrey Spalding Le Droit de Suite: Process painting 1974-2011, StFX University Art Gallery, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
July, “Black and Back” Udell Gallery, Edmonton
July, The Edge Gallery, Canmore
September, Jarvis Hall Gallery, Calgary
October, Moore Gallery, Toronto
2012 Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Gallery/Art Placement Saskatoon
Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China and subsequent tour
2013 Sir Winfred Grenfell University Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1974 Video Circuits, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
1975 Videoscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
British Arts Council Invitational Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1976-77 Atlantic Coast: An Illustrated Journal, exhibition circulated across Canada by National Programme of the National Gallery of Canada (catalogue)
1976 First Artists' Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1977 The New Art, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (catalogue)
William Tucker and Jeffrey Spalding, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1978 Young Contemporaries, national touring exhibition circulated by London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada (catalogue)
1981 (June 29 - July 14) Canadian Securities from the Canada Council Art Bank, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
September, John Will, Ron Moppett, Jeffrey Spalding, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1982 Galerie Anne Doran, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
New Image Alberta, National Touring Exhibition, originated by Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
Art as Commodity, Exhibition Centre, Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada
1983 The Miniature Art Show, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
The Banff Retrospective Exhibition, Banff, Alberta, Canada
September, Iain Baxter and Jeffrey Spalding, Ulrich Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1984 The Tower Show, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Images: New Representational Art, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Seven Artists from Alberta: Art in this Region, international touring exhibition opening at Canada House, London, England (illustrated catalogue)
Now Showing in Europe, Beaver House Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Artist's Choice: Six New Faces, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contemporary Art in Southern Alberta (a selection), Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1985 Waddington and Shiell, Gallery Artists, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank, Selections, College Park Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1986 Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1986-87 The Romantic Landscape Now, Art Space, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; National Touring Exhibition (illustrated catalogue)
1986 Culture's Nature, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
Navy Pier Show, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1987 Contemporary Painting in Alberta, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Waterworks, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
Selections from Canada Council Art Bank, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spalding/Kirton, 49th Parallel, New York, New York, USA (illustrated flyer)
The Canadian Landscape, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Spalding/Bierk, North Bay Art Centre, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Spalding/Clark/McCarroll, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1988 Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Canadian Landscape: Spalding/Bierk/Rains, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, Bristish Columbia, Canada (illustrated flyer)
80/20: 100 Years of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
1989 Construction De-Construction, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
The University of Guelph Fine Art Graduates, The University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Eye of Nature II, Spalding/Taho, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada (illustrated catalogue)
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Octagon Expedition, Canadian Forces Base, Comox, British Columbia, Canada
1990 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Visions of Nature: Barbara Milne and Jeffrey Spalding, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada (colour illustration) exhibition brochure
Art L.A. 90 International Art Exposition, Los Angeles, California, USA
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Contemporary Collection, Ottawa
Alberta Collects Selected Works from the Collections of the Glenbow Museum and Nickle Arts Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
4 February - 4 March, Recent Canadian Art from the University Collection, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
20 May - 4 August , Selections from McMaster's Permanent Art Collection, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1991 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Building the Contemporary Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
If the Walls Could Talk: Images from the Interior, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (Saskatchewan touring exhibition)
The Oldman River Expedition, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Beautiful B.C., Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A Tribute to the Gallery Artists, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1992 Darkness, Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spring Show, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Big Picture, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
New Acquisitions, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Whimsey, Harcourt House Arts Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1993 (January-February) Spalding, Colville and Tousignant, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(March 6) Prints, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(June 5-30), Spalding, McCarroll, Cooke, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
New Editions, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Big and Bold, Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Culture-Nature Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Kluane Expedition: an introduction, Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Small Packages, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1994 Kluane Expedition; Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada McMichael Canadian Collection; Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
Hidden Values Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Prosperity Returns: The Oral Tradition in Painting, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1995 Milieu: of the order of presentation, S.L.Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kirton/Spalding; Atelier Gallery, May 13- 31; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1995-96 November 5, 1995 – January 14, 1996, Canadian Landscape, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1996 Imagining Eden, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
1997 Dis-Representation, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Alberta tour
Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Concealing/ Revealing, Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida and Appleton Art Museum, Ocala, Florida, USA.
Repeated Gestures; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1998 Layers, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spalding, Duschenes, McCarroll, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Remembering Calgary, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Painting: Calgary Window reproduced in colour, cover of Where - Calgary magazine, January 1998
Twin Peaks, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton Alberta, Canada
The Land; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
1998-99 Nov. 14, 1998 -Jan 31, 1999, weak thought Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1999 Artists as Children, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax Nova Scotia,
Canada
June 6- August 15, Sky, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2001 By Invitation, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario,
2002 Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida, USA
2003 Newton's Prism Gallery One, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/layer.html\
2005 McIntyre Ranch Exhibition: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Exhition toured across western Canada: Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta and others.
Thinking Inside the Box: Recollections of art at NSCAD in the Seventies, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2005-6 October 15 2005 to January 2, 2006, Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists; Vanouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Analogue: Pioneering Video from the U.K., Canada and Poland (1968-88); the Tate Gallery, UK and international tour, USA, Poland, Canada
2008 May 24 - October 13,The Group of Seven to Takao Tanabe...Inspiring Landscape; The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2009 February 14 to May 10, Enacting Abstraction; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2010-12 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c.1965-1980 organized by University of Toronto Art Centre and a consortium of art museums, exhibition touring across Canada
2011 “Summer Show”, The Edge Gallery, Canmore
2012 Art Sousterain, Montreal
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Greater Victoria National Gallery of Canada Agnes Etherington Art Centre Vancouver Art Gallery MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Musee Des Beaux Arts de Montereal Univ.of Guelph Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal University of Lethbridge Art Gallery of Hamilton MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie Glenbow Museum McMaster University Art Gallery of Alberta Georgian College, Barrie Mendel Art Gallery Memorial University, Cornerbrook MacKenzie Art Gallery Whyte Museum of the Canadian McMichael Canadian Collection Rockies, Banff Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Banff Centre Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery Alberta Art Foundation Canada Council Art Bank Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison Department of External Affairs University Canadian Embassy, Washington City of Calgary Art Collection Canada House, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, CanadianConsulate; Sydney, Florida Australia Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Lavalin Trimac Husky Oil Petro Canada Guaranty Trust First Marathon Security First City Capital Markets Toronto Dominion Bank Argus Corp. Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Reader’s Digest
Represented by Jarvis Hall Gallery, Calgary; Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton; The Edge Gallery, Canmore; the gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon; Moore Gallery, Toronto
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Armstrong, John; The Romantic Landscape Now, catalogue essay, illustrated colour; Artspace-Peterborough 1986.
Barnard, Elissa ’Omnivorous’ Spalding displays his artistic diversity, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Feb. 11, 2011. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1227157.html
Baster, Victoria; Jeffrey Spalding; The Black Paintings 1973-75, illustrated colour catalogue. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 1982.
Baster, Victoria; Jeffrey Spalding's New Paintings, in Jeffrey Spalding: Paintings, illustrated colour catalogue. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon 1981
Bellerby, Greg; Jeffrey Spalding: Recent Paintings, illustrated catalogue. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C., 1984.
Boxall, Michael; Jeffrey Spalding, Western Living magazine, November 1989, p.154, Event (yellow), illustrated, colour.
Boxall, Michael; Focus on Jeffrey Spalding, Canadian Art, Spring 1990, p.95, "Event (blue)", illustrated, colour.
Cameron, Eric; Jeffrey Spalding, Des Metaphors En Ordre, Vie Des Arts, Col, 24, No. 96 (Autumn 1977): 73-65 (French); 101-102 (English original), illustrated, colour.
Cameron, Eric; Structural Video Tape in Canada in Schnieder, Morot (ed.), Video Art. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Janovich, 1976.
Cameron, Eric; Miscellaneous Notes in Relation to Jeffrey Spalding's Recent
Paintings in Jeffrey Spalding: Paintings illustrated colour catalogue. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 1981
Cameron, Eric; Videotape and the University Art Programme, Studio International, Vol,187, No. 967, (June 1974), p.291.
Dawn, Leslie, Douglas Kirton and Jeffrey Spalding Vanguard 16 No. 5 N 87 p. 35-6
Halkes-Halim, Petronella: Changing Concepts of the Sublime and the Landscape: The "Landscape" Paintings of Eleanor Bond and Jeffrey Spalding; M.A. Thesis Carleton University, Ottawa 1995, 275 pages
Laviolette, Mary-Beth; Appropriation: When Does Borrowing Become Stealing, interview with Jeffrey Spalding, Last Issue, Autumn 1987, p.20-23, Nightfall, illustrated in colour.
Murray, Joan; Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Dundurn Press 1999-11-01 ISBN: 1550023322
Nasgaard, Roald; Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas and McIntyre 2007
Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art: From the Beginnings to 2000, an introductory look at artists who have made a distinct contribution to our artistic heritage. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Newlands, Anne; Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings; Firefly Books
Pakasaar, Helga; Eye of Nature, catalogue essay, illustrated, colour, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, 1991.
Richardson, Joan; Canadian Landscape, exhibition flyer, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, 1989
Swain, Robert; Comments on the Drawings, in illustrated exhibition catalogue Jeffrey Spalding Drawings, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 1908.
Tousley, Nancy; Second Look at Nature Reflects our Lost Ideals, The Calgary
Herald, August 16, 1989, E10.
Tousley, Nancy, Culture's Nature, Canadian Art - No. 2 JC 87 100, 102
Tousley, Nancy; Artist Enters New Phase, The Calgary Herald, March 15, 1985.
Tousley, Nancy; Seven Artists from Alberta: Art in this Region, illustrated catalogue, Canada House, London, 1984.
Tousley, Nancy: New Image Alberta: Uneven Quality of Exhibition Disappoints, The Calgary Herald, December 2, 1982, C12.
Tousley, Nancy; Edgy Tension Links Widely Different Work, (Iain Baxter and Jeffrey Spalding at Ulrich Gallery), The Calgary Herald, September 15, 1983, D6.
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte; Iain Baxter, Jeffrey Spalding, Vanguard, November 1984, 39-40.
White, Peter; Culture's Nature: Landscape in the Art of Gerald Ferguson, Douglas Kirton, Jeffrey Spalding and David Thauberger, illustrated catalogue, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina,1986
THESIS PUBLICATION
1975 M.A. Thesis, "The Foundation Programme: An Introduction to Art", Ohio State University
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS WRITTEN BY JEFFREY SPALDING
Coasts: The Atlantic Sea and Canadian Art, Arts
Decorated Furniture, Arts
The Expressionist Image Art Magazine
Michael Fernandes, Artscanada, 35:44 AP-MY 78
Jonathan Forrest: Splinter Group at Newzones, Calgary, Thru April 17, 2009; Canadian Art Magazine http://www.jonathanforrest.com/
Susan Gibson, Artscanada, 35:72 F-MR 78
Richards Jarden, Julia Healy, Eric Fischl, Artscanada, 35:53-4 O-N 78
Joe Norris, Vie Des Arts
Robin Peck Vie Des Arts, 23:72-3 Spring 79
Gerhard Richter Art Magazine
Gerhard Richter, Parachute
John Taylor, Art Magazine
Tim Zuck, Artscanada, 34:68-9 MR-AP 77
Regular contributor to Galleries West Magazine 2010-
SELECTED CATALOGUE ESSAYS WRITTEN BY JEFFREY SPALDING
2010 essay for retrospective Jacques Hurtubise for AGNS
2009 Will Gorlitz retrospective
2008 Garry Kennedy for Museum London
2005 essay for Stride Gallery, Calgary anniversary publication
2005 essay for retrospective exhibition monograph: Takao Tanabe (for
Vancouver Art Gallery)published by Douglas and McIntyre
2005 essay for Christopher Pratt retrospective for the National Gallery of Canada, published by Douglas and McIntyre
2004 Atlantica: the View from Away for Dalhousie Art Gallery
Foreword: Tim Zuck retrospective catalogue for London Regional Art Gallery, USA and Canadian tour Fall 2002 http://www.appletonmuseum.org/Zuck%20essay%202002.htm
Immaculate Misconception: Pure Joy Versus Pure Painting, foreword to the catalogue Jean-Paul Riopelle, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, June 2002 http://www.appletonmuseum.org/riopelle%20edited%20version.htm
PAINting The Tangled Garden of Michael Smith; exhibition catalogue 2001
Gallery Bellfleur, Montreal www.appleton.org/links/staffpublications/PAINting.html
The Canadian Rootedness of Eric Cameron’s Englishness, foreword to the publication English Roots, The Tate Gallery St. Ives 2001
From the Mystic Lamb to the Mystic North: The Spiritual Quest of Rockwell Kent, for the Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge Ma.; 2000
Showdown at Tombstone: A Willful Brush with the Hereafter; introductory essay to retrospective catalog for John Will; Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary http://www.appletonmuseum.org/publicationstombstone.html
The ABCs of Pop Art, for Florida State University, Museum of Fine Art; 2000
Foreword, Masterworks of 20th Century African-American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York and Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala , Florida http://www.appletonmuseum.org/publicationsafricanart.html
Hearts, Skulls, Death and the Maiden: large scale prints and other works 1964- 1989 by renowned American Pop Artist, Jim Dine. from the collections of The University of Lethbridge October 17 - November 22, 1998. Web catalogue co-authored with Ryan Doherty: http://home.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/exhibitions/Dine/Dine.htm
Little Life on the Prairies: Pop Art, and the Comfort and Trauma of a Mediated Existence for the exhibition and catalogue: “Soup to Nuts Pop Art and its Legacy”; Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA.
Twilight at Walden Pond: a short story about art on the edge of nowhere and everywhere, essay for the exhibition catalogue and web catalogue- “Revealing/ Concealing: Voices from the Canadian Foothills”. Museum of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts & Dance, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida October 17- November 23, 1997; Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida January 13- March 22, 1998. Web catalogue: http://home.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/exhibitions/CR/Twilight.1.html
John Hartman: A Prodigal's Progress in the Garden Among the Hurons, essay for catalogue by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; and The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Patterned After: Ornament, Repetition and Pattern in 20th Century Art from The University of Lethbridge Art Collections Triangle Gallery, Calgary and Trianon Gallery Lethbridge, September 29 - October 31, 1997 . Hard copy exhibition pamphlet (colour illustrations) and exhibition website: http://home.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/exhibitions/P&S/P2.html
-and associated show- Peter Schuyff web catalogue:
http://home.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/exhibitions/P&S/P&S.front.html
Ted Fullerton: Belle and the Minotaur, Grimsby Public Art Gallery
Art and Law, contributed two chapters for the book, editor Stephen Smart
Reflecting Paradise, Expo '93, Seoul, Korea; exhibition toured Taegu, Pusan, Kwangju, Korea
Foreword, Chris Cran: Heads, University of Lethbridge, 1993
Nota Beny for Roloff Beny: A Visual Memoir, Editor Mitchell Crites, Thames and Hudson, London, England
Terence Johnson: Marking Time, unpublished essay for Vancouver Art Gallery, Retrospective
John Clark: A Tribute, foreword to exhibition pamphlet, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 1989
Nicholas de Grandmaison, Master's Gallery, Calgary
Robin Peck: 1971-1991, essay for retrospective catalogue, Burnaby Art Gallery, 1991
West Coast Stories, unpublished essay for guest curated exhibition for Latitude 53, Edmonton
Mary Shannon Will, Stride Gallery
Tim Zuck, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1980
John Will: The End is Near, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1980
Aspects of Canadian Painting in the Seventies, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1980
Picasso, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Silversmithing in Canadian History, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1979
Max Ernst, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Deacon/Hushlak, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Nov 17, 1978- Jan 2, 1979
Tim Zuck, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1977
Coasts, the Sea, and Canadian Art, The Gallery/Stratford, 1978
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED BY JEFFREY SPALDING
Over 100 special exhibitions organized for numerous museums and galleries across Canada, USA, and beyond including:
Art of Our Century, Appleton Museum of Art; 1999-2000
Matisse and the Inuit Face, Appleton Museum of Art, 1999-2000
ABCs of Pop Art, Florida State University, 2000
The Salon, Appleton Museum of Art
Silversmithing in Canadian History, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1979. Illustrated catalogue
John Will: The End is Near, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, April 2-June 22, 1980
Max Ernst 30 Sept- 14 Nov, 1982 Glenbow Museum plus North American tour including: Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal; Phoenix Art Museum and others. Illustrated catalogue (plus french edition)
Mary Shannon Will; May 9-31, 1987 Stride Gallery, Calgary. Illustrated catalogue
Great Strides; and Bridge. Two exhibitions for the Calgary 1988 Olympic festival. United Management, Calgary and the Downtown former Eaton’s store, Lethbridge
Art of Our Century. United Management, Calgary 1988
John Clark: A Tribute. Oct. 6, 1989 University of Lethbridge; & McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg
The Drawings of Illingworth Kerr; May 27- Aug. 92 The University of Lethbridge. Catalogue foreword; Alberta tour.
Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and its Legacy, Calgary ArtWeek Sept 19-26 1992; & The Works festival Edmonton
Abstraction Which Way from Here? Calgary ArtWeek contributing curator- Future Traditions seven artists selected by seven curators; inaugural exhibition Art Gallery of North York June 21- Aug 28, 1994
Mysteries of the Flesh; Art Week, Calgary. Sept. 15-24 1995
Calgary Collects for Art Gallery of Calgary, Sept 2011-Jan 2012
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1973-75 "Video as Art", Columbus, Ohio, Halifax, N.S.
1974 Synopsis of Video Art panel discussion, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man., U.A.A.C. Journal
1976 Chairman, panel discussion, "Graduate Education in Canada", U.A.A.C. Conference, Edmonton, Alberta
Research project, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, comparative study of Crooked Knives of Native Peoples of North America and Euro- Canadians
1977 Juried Shows: Atlantic Amateur Association, Halifax, N.S Contemporary Art Society, Halifax, N.S.
Secretary, Atlantic Provinces Art Galleries Association
Participated in Canadian Museum Association conference "2001: The Future of Museums in Canada"
1978 Guest Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, "Senior Students, N.S.C.A.D."; Selections from the Permanent Collection, N.S.C.A.D.
Guest Curator/ Author, "Coasts: The Sea and Canadian Art", July 28 - October 1, for the Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
Juror, Nova Scotia Art Bank Selection Committee
Consultant to the Whitney Museum of American Art on their retrospective exhibition, "Marsden Hartley" (December), New York
1977-82/85 Canada Council and Canada Council Art Bank Adjudicator, Ottawa
1981 Invited paper, "The Artist as Critic, the Critic as Artist" to the U.A.A.C. Conference, Montreal
1978/80-84 Visiting Artist, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
1983 WCAA Conference, Panelist "Exhibition Programming Philosophy and Practice"
Visiting Artist, David Thomson University Centre, Nelson, B.C.
1983 + Member of Advisory Board, 49th Parallel, Gallery of Contemporary Canadian Art, New York
1983 + Member, City of Lethbridge Art Acquisitions Committee
1983 + Visual Art Advisor to the 1988 Calgary Olympic Committee
1984 Lecturer in Art History, Summer School, Banff School of Fine Art
Visiting Artist, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
Juror, Alberta Society of Artists Exhibition
1986-87 City of Calgary Municipal Building Sculpture Competition Committee
1986 Visiting Artist, Emily Carr College of Art; University of Regina; Ontario College of Art
1987 Visiting Artist, York University; Dundas Valley School of Art; McMichael Canadian Collection
Board of Directors, Arspace, Peterborough
Juror, Canada Council Art Bank
1988 Juror, Canada Place Prow Sculpture Competition, Vancouver
Guest Lecturer: "Encountering the Objects of History: Art Collections, Research and the University", University of Calgary, Calgary
Keynote Address: "Massaging the Body Politic", to the Conference of the Western Canada Art Association, Edmonton, Alberta
1989 Planning Committee for National Conference 1991 The Arts in Society: "The Kingston Conference 1941/91", Kingston
Juror, Lethbridge Regional Hospital Art Acquisition Project
Invited artist participant "The Octagon Expedition", Comox, B.C.
Moderator, panel "Representation and Modernity", Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Organized "Bridge" Art Exhibition and Festival, Lethbridge
1990 Lecture "John Clark and Seventies Painting", Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Lecture "The Last Picture Show", Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Juror, The Bay-Adelaide Centre Sculpture Competition, Toronto
1990 Co-organizer, "The Oldman River Expedition", Lethbridge
Painting commissioned, "Banff Reflections", for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
1991 Guest Curator Exhibition, "West Coast Stories" for Lattitude 53, Edmonton (and public presentation)
Lecture "The University Art Gallery and Walden Pond", to the University Art Association of Canada, conference, Kingston
Lecture "Modernism and the Canadian Land", McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa
1992 Guest Curator, "Terence Johnson: Marking Time", for Vancouver Art Gallery (plus lecture)
Lecture "Ronald Bladen and Terence Johnson", Vancouver Art Gallery
Guest Writer for exhibition "Tim Zuck The Commonplace Sublime", Art Gallery of Windsor
Lecture "The Last Picture Show" for Edmonton Art Gallery.
Lecture "Art and its Audiences" conference CARFAC, Saskatoon
Guest curator, lecturer "From Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and its Legacy", special exhibition for the Works Festival, Edmonton and Vicual Arts Week, Calgary
1993 Guest curator, lecture "Abstraction: Which Way From Here?" exhibition for Visual Arts Week, Calgary
Lecture "Policing Preference: John Ruskin, Modernism and Morality", Conference Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. University of Lethbridge
Paper delivered, "The Artist as Administrator" to the U.A.A.C. conference, Windsor
Lecture, "Breaking the Chain of Failure: the Future of Art Museums" and visiting artists presentation on "Jeffrey Spalding: Recent Work", conference, Atlantic Provinces Art Galleries Association, Halifax. 1993 Suite of prints commissioned by Georgian College, Barrie
Invited artist participant, Kluane Exhibition, Whitehore, Yukon
Panel member UAAC Conference Nov 4-7, Windsor: Artists as Administrators: challenges and Satisfactions
1994 Lecture, Feb.17 Calgary Teachers Convention, Calgary: First Principles, Last Resort: Art Institutions and Teachers in Partnership for Quality, relevant education.
1995+ Co-Chair programmes, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art
included in CD-ROM on Canadian art published by Heartland Pictures
included in National Gallery of Canada Slide publication programme and CD-ROM: The Canadian Collection of the NGC
Visiting artist and lecturer throughout Canada and USA
1996 Lecture to Vancouver contemporary Art Society, at ECCAD: “Does Modern Matter”
1997 “Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and its Legacy”: lecture at Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane WA.
1997 visiting artist and speaker Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Painting, Clouds Evolving, illustrated on cover of Canadian Studies
Grant Programs booklet. Canadian Embassy Washington
1998 Conference Speaker: Organization for the History of Canada; topic “ Open the 49th Parallel, etc.”
1999-2000 Juror Royal Canadian Academy exhibition, Toronto
2000 Sept 16, Paper presented, “Rockwell Kent and the Canadian Group of Seven” Rockwell Kent Rediscovered Symposium 2000, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA.
2001 Paper presented, “Rockwell Kent and the Canadian Group of Seven” London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
2000-2002 juror for various Florida Art Fairs :Sarasota Arts Council Awards; the Gasparilla Arts Festival; Halifax Art Festival- Ormond Beach; Fine Arts For Ocala-Ocala. Leesburg Arts Festival
2001 Guest curator to select the Alabama-Georgia Biennial, for the Albany Museum of Art, Georgia.
2011 Juror, Canada Council York Wilson Prize
Juror, The Mayors Urban Design Awards, Calgary
SELECTED PERSONALITY PROFILES numerous press, radio and television profiles annually including:
Who’s Who in Canada (annually since 1982)
Portrait Maclean's 93:53 F 19 1980
Comments on R.C.A. interview with Clive Kemp, Arts West 5:IV O 1980
Jeffrey Spalding is an Artful Curator, col port, TODAY p.12 JA. 10 81
Portrait Alberta Report 8:26 JA 16 1981
Art blooms in a prairie town, Financial Post v 87(15) April 10/12 1993, p S5
Jeffrey Spalding: Five Easy Pieces; Bruce Grierson interviewer, Western Living; v 27(7) S97, p 18,20 ill
Lethbridge Living; cover story
Clôture, Acrylic on Canvas Vie Des Arts 28:73 D83-JA-F 84
“All excited on the western front”, John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail; Oct. 30 1995; A11
“Artists worth a Look”, Betty Ann Jordan, The Globe and Mail. Feb 8, 97; p.C5
“A Curator with a Mission”, John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail. Sept. 3, 94; p.C14
Guelph Alumnus Magazine, 1997
Artweek/Artwalk Canadian Art v 10(4) Winter, 93, p 61-63
Reader’s Digest, backcover illustration January 2000, international edition
Selected Public Service Appointments
1999+ committee member, Tourism and Hospitality Action Committee, Chamber of Commerce of Ocala/Marion County
2002+ Chair, Tourism and Hospitality Action Committee, Chamber of Commerce of Ocala/Marion County
2002+ Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce of Ocala/Marion County
2000 + Board of Directors, Central Florida Philharmonic Orchestra
2002 + Honorary Board Member, Fine Arts For Ocala 2002 + Honorary Board Member, Marion Cultural Alliance
2002 Arts and Culture advisor, Advisory Board, Junior League of Ocala
2003 Accompanied the Governor General of Canada upon Canada's State Visit to Iceland and Finland
2003 Juror Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
2005 Cultural Advisory Committee City of Halifax