Myfanwy Macleod b. 1961, London, Ontario, Canada Lives and works in Vancouver Education 1995 Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1994 Independent Study, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France 1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 The Undesirables, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver 2018 Neighbours, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2016 Public Projects: Myfanwy MacLeod, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 2015 The Private Life of the Rabbit, Or Gallery, Vancouver TELL HER NOTHING SHE TELLS ALL, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 2014 Myfanwy Macleod, or There and Back Again, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver The Last Drop, Bank of Montreal Project Space, Toronto, Canada 2013 Myfanwy Macleod, or There and Back Again, Museum London, London, Canada 2012 Dorothy, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver 2009 Gold, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 2006 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2004 Don’t Stop Dreaming, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 2001 The Tiny Kingdom, Or Gallery, Vancouver Miss Moonshine, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 2000 A Brief Overview of Personology, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver How Not to Be Seen, VTO Gallery, London, UK 1997 My Idea of Fun, Or Gallery, Vancouver Swell, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada 1995 The Fountain Heads, Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver 1990 The Secret Garden, The Whitehall, London, UK Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Displacement, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 2018 Serpentine Path, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Canada zero, ground, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada The Poetics of Space, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada; Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada 2017 N. Vancouver, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada Coquitlam, Canada, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, Canada 2016 Again and Once More, Again, McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition About Rock and Rock, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver 2015 The Daily Grind, Museum London, London, UK Traces that Resemble Us, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver 2014 Whole Lotta Love, Publication Studio, Vancouver 2013 Carbon 14: Climate is Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, ICC Space, Toronto, Canada 2012 Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Oh Canada, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA 2011 Myfanwy MacLeod, William Hogarth: Miscreants and Reprobates, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver 2010 CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2009 Loaded, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2008 Keep the IS in FEMINISM, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Stories, in Pieces, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada Spectral Mews, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada 2007 The Banal, SBC Galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada 2006 MakeBelieve, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 274 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Telling Stories, Secret Lives, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada 2005 Mix with Care, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Group Show, Glenfiddich Distillery Gallery, Dufftown, Scotland 2004 Strips & Characters, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany re(framed)locations, dis(covered)desires: invading the personal & erasing communication errors, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA 2003 I Sell Security, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Seethe, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, USA; University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, USA For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Bounce, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA Hammertown, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK Re-Defining the Lalalalandscape, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver The Beachcombers, Mead Art Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 2002 Homesick, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Think Big/Voir grand, Saidye Bronfman Centre of the Arts, Montreal, Canada The Beachcombers, Gasworks, London, UK; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK Bounce, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Hammertown, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Officina America, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy 2001 Universal Pictures 3.1, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Universal Pictures 3, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island), Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2000 On Location: Public Art for the New Millenium, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Double Whammy, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver 1999 Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Universal Pictures II, Monte Clarke Gallery, Vancouver Universal Pictures: Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy MacLeod, Ron Terada, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, for Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial, Canadian Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Works for the Ideal Home, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada 6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver 1997 Browser, The Roundhouse, Vancouver Cells and Stills, Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver Framed, Or Gallery, Vancouver 1996 Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Endless Summer, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada 1995 Sexsells, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver 1994 MFA Graduate Exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver 1992 Beyond 1992: Experiments in Cross-Cultural Collaboration, A Space, Toronto, Canada 1991 Frankfurt/Montreal, Coleco Building, Montreal, Canada 1990 The Coming Decade, The Canal Complex, Montreal, Canada Student Awards Exhibition for the Toronto Sculpture Garden, City Hall, Toronto, Canada Group Exhibition, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada Monographs 2014 Cassandra Getty and Grant Arnold, eds., Myfanwy MacLeod, or There and Back Again, Black Dog Publishing, London, UK 2006 Connie Butler, Francis McKee, and Jenifer Papararo, Myfanwy MacLeod: Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2000 Kathy Slade, Myfanwy MacLeod: A Brief Overview of Personology, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver Books and Exhibition Catalogues 2016 Helga Pakasaar, Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada 2013 Scott Watson, Special Collection: Acquisitions and Archives, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver 2012 Denise Markonish, ed., Oh Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2009 Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2006 Germaine Koh, Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday’s Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Jan Allen, ed., Telling Stories, Secret Lives, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada 2005 Dieter Roelstraete and Scott Watson, eds., Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium, and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2004 Adam Budak, ‘Grammar of Sincerity: On Architecture of Communication’, in re:location 6: re(framed) locations, dis(covered) desires: ukryte pragnienia, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland Stuart Reid, ‘Flooring it in the Super Marketplace’, Four X Four, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Canada 2003 Daina Augaitis, For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Vicky A. Clark, et al., Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for A New Generation, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY 2002 Michael Turner and Reid Shier, Hammertown, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Katharine Stout and Andrew Renton, The Beachcombers, The Drawing Room, London, UK Philip Monk, Bounce, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada 2001 Barbara Fischer, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, Universal Pictures 3, poster catalogue Reid Shier, ‘Miss Moonshine’, exhibition essay, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver 1999 Kitty Scott, ‘Canada’, in Signs of Life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Scott Watson, 6: New Vancouver Modern, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver 1996 Grant Arnold, Monika Kin Gagnon, and Doreen Jensen, Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Magazines and Periodicals 2019 John Thomson, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’, Galleries West, 4 November 2018 Bronwyn Beairsto, ‘New Bowen exhibit makes wish list of artists a reality’, Bowen Island Undercurrent, 23 August Jessica Kerr, ‘Olympic Village birds return to roost’, Vancouver Courier, 14 August Janet Smith, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’s public artwork The Birds flies back to Olympic Village today’, The Georgia Straight, 14 August Kenneth Chan, ‘Giant bird statues return to Olympic Village after globetrotting repairs’, Daily Hive, 14 August Jessica Kerr, ‘Olympic Village’s giant bird flying home’, Vancouver Courier, 3 August 2017 Naoibh O’Connor, ‘Olympic Village’s giant birds headed east for repairs’, Vancouver Courier, 23 November Christine Beyleveldt, ‘Polygon Gallery opens at Lonsdale Quay’, Capilano Courier, 20 November Jeremy Shepherd, ‘Coquettish camel flirts with controversy in North Van’, North Shore News, 5 October ‘Historic B.C. camels inspire new North Vancouver