MARK ADAIR 72 Brock Ave. , , M6K 2L4 Canada

Education:

1982 MFA University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Advisor: R. Brener. Thesis Ex. Contextualizations, (sculpture-installation)

1979 BFA York University, Downsview, ON

Selected Exhibitions:

2019 The Fountain Project, A Collaboration with Patti Muratori, Loop Gallery, 2019 2018 In Progress, New Paintings by Alistair Magee and Mark Adair, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2017 Mark Adair, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2015 Glass House Window, Mon Ton Window, Toronto, ON 2015 Death’s Epilogue, Glass House Window, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2013 Remnants, Two person exhibition with Marie de Sousa curated by Gordon Hatt at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto, ON 2013 The Hungry Throat of The Sea, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2012 Collaboration in Six Works of Art for Your Interpretation, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 2011 Daphne and Apollo, Mon Ton Window, Toronto, ON 2010 Collaboration in Faithful and Faithless Messengers, Good Medicine Collective at Loop Gallery, Toronto 2010 Death’s Children, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2009 Collaboration with Mary Catherine Newcomb and Rochelle Rubinstein for Mon Ton Window Project, Toronto, ON 2009 Last Garden, Daphne and Apollo, Twister. Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, ON 2008 Last Garden. Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2008 Tree of Knowledge Studies, Members’ Exhibition For The World Washi Summit. Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2007 Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculpture of Mark Adair. A Retrospective Curated by Patrick Jenkins. Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON 2005 Vessel Drawings, The Suitcase Show, Torontoniensis Collective VII, York Quay Galleries at Harbourfront, Toronto, ON 2005 The Adventures Of Death, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2004 Death Dreams A Martini, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 2003 Chaise Longue, Death Goes Sailing, Torontoniensis Collective VI, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON 2002 Chaise Longue with Stickman and Amaryllis, Torontoniensis Collective V, York Quay Galleries at Harbourfront, Toronto, ON 2001 Dreamin’ of Demons, Death Crashes Into The Stable, Torontoniensis Collective IV, West Wing Artspace, Toronto, ON 2000 Inventions of Greed, Torontoniensis Collective III, 425 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, ON 1999 Mechanical Spirits, Death Goes Sailing, Torontoniensis Collective II, 425 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, ON 1998 Folk Art Lake Freighters, Group Show (with Patrick Jenkins and Pamela Williams), Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON 1996 Chaise Longue with Stickman and Amaryllis, Chicken Choker, Torontoniensis Collective I, 425 Adelaide St. W., Toronto ON 1991 Daphne and Apollo, Artspace Window Space Project, Peterborough ON 1990 Daphne and Apollo, Junction Collective (with Catherine Daigle and Rose Jacobson), Neo Faber Gallery, Toronto, ON 1986 Toronto Bank Robbery, Twister, Helen and The Chicken Choker, solo exhibition, Optica, Montreal, Quebec 1985 Toronto Bank Robbery, Twister, solo exhibition, Harbourfront Community Gallery, Toronto, ON 1983 Voyage of The Icebreaker Camsell, solo exhibition, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC 1982 Contextualizations, two person exhibition (with Bill Burns), Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC

Grants as Curator/Organizer:

2005 Toronto Arts Council Visual & Media Arts Project Grant for the Torontoniensis Collective VII 2005 Ontario Arts Council Visual & Media Arts Project Grant for the Torontoniensis Collective VII 2002 Ontario Arts Council Visual & Media Arts Project Grant for the Torontoniensis Collective V

Grants As Artist:

1998 Canada Council Grant ‘B’ 1993 Canada Council Grant ‘B’ 1989 Ontario Arts Council Short Term Grant 1987 Canada Council Grant ‘B’ 1986 Canada Council Grant ‘B’ 1986 Ontario Arts Council Material Assistance Grant 1984 Canada Council Grant ‘B’ 1983 Canada Council Grant ‘B’

Commissions:

1996 Boat, Public Art Commission, University of Western Ontario, London, ON Collaborative project with Katherine Knight 1992 Portraits of Eight Women, Private Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Canada Council Art Bank (), Toronto Bank Robbery

Curating / Coordinating, Arts Organizing:

2011 to 2017, Executive Chair of Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON Summer 2010, Faithful and Faithless Messengers, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON March 2007, Catherine Daigle, In Memoriam: A Retrospective, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON 1995- 2005, Founder and Organizer, Torontoniensis Collective

Media Appearances:

Winging It podcast by Winging It Productions hosted by Marc Cohen and Charles Hackbarth YOUTUBE.COM; 2021 CIUT, The Green Majority, Guest Host Frank Horvat Presents: Eco-Artist Roundtable #2; December 08, 2018 Jenkins, Patrick. Death Is In Trouble Now, The Sculptures of Mark Adair. A Film By Patrick Jenkins. Broadcast on Bravo! TV, November, 2007

Bibliography:

Dorota Kozinska, The Forgotten Art of Drawing, Vie des Arts, No. 230, Printemps 2013 Julie Oakes, Death As An Anecdote To Kicking The Living, The Art Work of Mark Adair, Vie des Arts (English Edition), No. 218 Spring 2010 Goddard Peter, Critic’s Choice, The Toronto Star, Thursday April 15, 2010 Dault, Gary Michael, The Globe and Mail, Saturday April 3, 2010 Hatt, Gordon. Torontoniensis: A Family Tree, Torontoniensis Catalogue, March 2009 Landry, Mike. Mark Adair’s Last Garden, Issue #6, Things of Desire, http://thingsofdesire.ca, September 2008 Fraser, Don. Adair Work reflects ‘anxiety about the world’, The Standard, Friday July 13, 2007 Jenkins, Patrick. Death Is In Trouble Now, The Sculptures of Mark Adair, Curatorial Essay, July 2007 Dault, Gary Michael. Catherine Daigle at Loop Gallery, The Globe and Mail, Saturday April 14, 2007 Dault, Gary Michael. John Abrams and Mark Adair at Loop, The Globe & Mail, Saturday October 8, 2005 Dault, Gary Michael. The Suitcase Show, The Globe and Mail, Saturday December 31, 2005 Rodrigues, Lupe. The Suitcase Show, CBC Radio interview/review for Here and Now, December, 2005 Jordan, Betty Ann. Mark Adair and John Abrams, Toronto Life Magazine, October, 2005 Goddard, Peter. Mark Adair gives death his due, Toronto Star, February 12, 2004 Death Dreams a Martini, Toronto Star, January 29, 2004 Howe, Linda. Politics, Sex and Death, UW Gazette, November 5, 2003 Holko, Jenna. Fine Art and the Politics of Dissent, UW Imprint, October 31, 2003 Jordan, Betty Ann. Torontoniensis, Toronto Life magazine, April 2002 Vaughan, R.M. The Year in Pictures (10 best art moments for 2001), Eye magazine, December 20, 2001 Healy, Tory. Qtips…and all that crap’, Lola, #10 Fall Issue, 2001 Dault, Gary Michael. More fun by the Torontoniensis Collective, The Globe & Mail, Saturday May 27, 2000 Jordan, Betty Ann. No fun without you, Toronto Life magazine, June 1999 Dault, Gary Michael. Meditations on the vitality of life, the certainty of death, The Globe & Mail, Saturday May 22, 1999 Brackett, Donald. Torontoniensis, Toronto Life magazine, March 1996 Jenkins, Patrick. Community Gallery at Harbourfront, Parachute magazine, December, January, February, 1985-1986 McFadden, David. Harbourfront Community Gallery, Vanguard magazine, Summer, 1985 Mays, John Bentley. Adair’s works pack a passionate punch, The Globe & Mail, Friday April 12, 1985 Thompson, Ellen. Surrey Art Gallery, Vanguard magazine, September, 1982 Keziere, Russell. The CBC Review, Saturday May 22 1982 Mertens, Susan. Artist with dynamic potential, The Sun, Saturday May 22 1982