JEANNIE THIB

BORN North Bay, Ontario, Canada

EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Arts - Honours - York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1979

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 St. Francis Xavier University Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia - curator Bruce Campbell (upcoming)

2008 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (upcoming)

2008 Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario (upcoming)

2007 Glifo: diseño, naturaleza y fragmento Museo de Arte INBA, Ciudad Juarez , Chihuahua , Mexico

2006 Fac-similé, Maison Patrimoniale de Barthète, Boussan, France

Construct, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005 Pattern Fields, Foreman Art Gallery , Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec - curator: Gaetane Verna

2004 Lure, The Koffler Gallery,Toronto , Ontario - curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell

Lure, The Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario - curator: Celeste Scopelites

Dissections, Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

2003 Flourish, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2002 Spill, De Overslag, Eindhoven , The Netherlands

Interlace, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, USA

2001 Fret, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Fret, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

Second Skin, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario

2000 Fret in Manifestation Internationale d'Art de Québec, Galerie Engramme, Québec, Québec- curator: Andrée Daigle

Corpus, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Memorial U, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland

Preserve, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario - curator: Illi-Maria Tamplin

Second Skin, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario , London - curator: Catherine Elliot Shaw

Token, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Guise, Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

1999 Archive, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

Archive, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, British Columbia - curator: Geraldine Parent

Scribe, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery , Owen Sound , Ontario - curator: Laura Millard

Scribe, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie , Ontario - curator: Laura Millard

1998 Geographia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery , Lethbridge , Alberta - curator: Joan Stebbins

Body, Artifact and Absence - A ten year survey WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario - curator: Dennis Geden

Binary Codes, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Folio, Joan Ferneyhough Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

Corpus, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario - curator: Mary Rashleigh

1997 Model/Mimic, Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gallery, Oakville , Ontario - curator: Marnie Fleming

Augur, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

1995 Jeannie Thib: Body Works The Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario - curator: Stuart Reid

Archive, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

Vanitas, The Hammer Gallery, Hamilton , Ontario

1994 Readings, Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharine's, Ontario

1993 Survival Tips, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

Terra Incognita, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario

1992 Rorschach, The Red Head Gallery Showcase, Toronto , Ontario

1990 White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Ice Follies, WKP Kennedy Gallery (offsite), North Bay , Ontario - curator Dermot Wilson (upcoming)

2007 Making and Meaning, Object Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - curator: Brian Parkes

For Example, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - curator: Micah Lexier

Them, Kenderdine/College Building Galleries, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon - curator: Micah Lexier

2006 Design Exchange Awards Design Exchange, Toronto Landscape Architecture category for MOTH Gardens public artwork

Fray, Koffler Gallery and Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto - curators: Bell Farrell and Quinton

The Perm Show, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art , Toronto , Ontario - curator: David Liss

On Paper 2: Ideas of Order, University of Toronto Art Centre , Toronto , Ontario - curator: Liz Wylie

2003 Artists' Echoes: Contemporary Responses to the ROM's Collections - curated by The Institute for Contemporary Culture

Royal Ontario Museum (Samuel European Galleries) Toronto , Ontario (three person)

DE LUXE: Varieties of Transitional Light - curator: Allan MacKay, Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario (three person)

Artists and Maps: Cartography as a Means of Knowing - curator: Linda Tesner, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA

2002 semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery , Halifax , Nova Scotia - curator: Susan Gibson Garvey (three person)

Found Object/Gentle Transformations - curator: Katja Jacobs

Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

2001/2 Dos Naciones: Obras Sobre Papel/ Two Nations: Works on Paper - curator Dave Carlin, Cuba: Centro Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Centro de Santiago de Cuba, Centro De las Tunas, Centro de Cienfuegos, Centro de Matanzas, traveling in Ontario

2000 Des idées reçues, Dare-Dare, Montreal, l'Oeil de Poisson, Québec, le Lobe, Chicoutimi, all in Québec

The Multiple Image, Whitby Arts Inc., Whitby, Ontario (three- person)

Retrospective, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

1999 The Hand, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto , Ontario - curator: Marc Mayer

One Thing After Another, Oakville Galleries, Oakville , Ontario - curator: Marnie Fleming

Some Subtle Sympathy, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario - Ernst and Young Print Competition

XXYYZ, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1998/9 Tradition/Contemporanéité - organized by the Conseil des arts textiles du Québec, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Biblioteque Gabrielle-Roy, Québec, Québec, Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Centre d'exposition de Mont-Laurier, Québec, Belgo Building, Montréal, Québec, Centre national d'exposition de Jonquiere, Québec

Permutatciones Anatomicas: Diez Artistas Canadienses - curator: Dianne Pearce, Galeria del Edificio Central, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City , Mexico

XXVI Festival Internacional Cervantino, Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato, Gto , Mexico

1998 In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art - curator: Liz Wylie, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario The Word in

Contemporary Canadian Art - curator: Glen Cumming, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York, Ontario

Visiting Artist Exhibition, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto , Ontario (two person)

1997/8 Topographies de la Peau: Tracer l'Interface - curator: Tila Kellman

Langage Plus, Alma, Québec, Galerie Glendon, Toronto, L'Oeil de Poisson Québec, Québec

1997 Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art - curator: Philip Monk, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto ,

Off/Set, Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario

The Multiples Project, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

20th Anniversary Exhibition, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

1996 Le corps aux abords du dessin, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec - curator: Carl Johnson

10th Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Text, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario

1995 Away, OO Gallery, Halifax , Nova Scotia and The Red Head Gallery, Toronto , Ontario

Bookworks, David Mirvish Books on Art, Toronto, Ontario - curator: Katja Jacobs

1994 Hidden Values: Canadian Corporations Collect McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario

Untitled, Redpath Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (two- person)

in the seam, Les Cours Mont-Royal, Montreal , Eaton Centre, Toronto - collective

Rethink, Rework, Recontextualize, The Hammer Gallery, Hamilton , Ontario

1993 Cross Reference, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

With, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia

Red Head Light, grunt gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

Tous Azimuts/Common Ground, 80 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario - collective

Soundings: Metaphors of Experience, Extension Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1992 Tous Azimuts/ Common Ground, Voûtes du Palais, Québec, Québec - collective

By a Lady, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto - curator: Penelope Stewart

The Image Mill, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto - curator: Stuart Reid

1991 Name 10 parts of the body, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario - collective

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books

Bucquoye, Moniek,

Van den Storm, Deiter Forms with Fantasy, Stichting Kunstboek, Belgium 2007

Eguchi, Real Landscape Design @ Canada, Pace Publishing Ltd., Hong Kong 2007

Philips, Ed Ernst and Young Great Canadian Printmaking Collection, Ernst and Young LLP, Canada 2005

Walker, George The Woodcut Artist's Handbook, Firefly Books, Canada 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Exhibition catalogues

Armstrong, John Preserve, The Art Gallery of Peterborough 2001

Baert, Renee "Signatures On Every Fragment" in Jeannie Thib: Body Works, Art Gallery of Mississauga 1995

Baert, Renee in the seam, Name 10 parts of the body 1994

Campbell, Nancy Name 10 parts of the body, Name 10 parts of the body 1991

Carruthers, Meredith and Jeannie Thib, Pattern Fields, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University 2005

Cherry, Maralynn Tous Azimuts/Common Ground, Tous Azimuts 1993

Daigle, Andrée "Mot de la commissaire" in Manifestation Internationale d'art de Québec, Manif d'art 2002

Dault, Gary Michael DE LUXE: Varieties of Transitional Light, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2004

Dault, Gary Michael Geographia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 1999

De Overslag De Overslag 2002-2003, Eindhoven , The Netherlands

Escallón, Ana Maria Jeannie Thib - Interlace, Art Museum of the Americas 2002

Fabo, Andy "Augur: Fragments from the Intestinal Archive" in Corpus, Grimsby Public Gallery 1998

Fleming, Marnie Model/Mimic, Oakville Galleries 1997 and Geographia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 1999

Fleming, Marnie One Thing After Another, Oakville Galleries 1999

Geden, Dennis Face, WKP Kennedy Gallery 1997

Geden Dennis Jeannie Thib: Body, Artifact and Absence, WKP Kennedy Gallery 1998

Gibson Garvey, Susan "Objects persistent and peculiar" in semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery 2002

Johnson, Carl Le corps aux abords du dessin, Musée Régional de Rimouski 1998

Kellman, Tila Topographies de la Peau: Tracer l'Interface, The Red Head Gallery 1997

Kellman, Tila "Topographies of the Skin" in Paysages Inter sites, Langage Plus 1997

Mahon, Patrick "Jeannie Thib: Swarm and Fret" in Fret, Stride Gallery, 2001

Malenfant, Nicole "De l'estampe à l'art" in L'Estampe Contemporaine: La Perméabilité des Frontières, Engramme, 2006

Millard, Laura Scribe, Catalogue MacLaren Art Centre, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery 1999

Monk, Philip Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant 1998

Pearce, Dianne "Permutaciones Anatomicas" in XXVI Festival Internacional Cervantino, Mexico 1998

Papararo, Jennifer Redrospective, The Red Head Gallery 2000

Randolph, Jeanne "Lives of objects brief and endless" in semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery 2002

Randolph, Jeanne "Embellissement de certains faits" in Manif Internationale d'art de Québec, Manif d'art 2002

Reid, Stuart "Dissection: Subtexts for..." in Jeannie Thib: Body Works, Art Gallery of Mississauga 1995

Scott, Kitty/Wright J R Canadian High Commission Official Residence Catalogue, Canada House, London, England 2007

Thib, Jeannie texte du colloque in L'Estampe Contemporaine: La Perméabilité des Frontières, Engramme, 2006

Wylie, Liz In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1998

Wylie, Liz "Composing Composites" in The Multiple Image, The Station Gallery 2000

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Selected Reviews, interviews, and artist's projects

Armstrong, John "Thoughts arising..." Essay/images/cover image C Contemporary Art - #67/68 Winter 2000-01

Barbour, Carol "Second Reading" Review and images Matriart - 5, No. 4 Fall 1995

Barbour, Carol "Survival Tips" Interview and images Artword - Issue No. 19 Spring 1994

Barnard, Elissa "Assembling illusion" Review/image The Sunday Herald, Halifax -17 February 2002

Beltran Martinez Maria Esther, "Permutaciones Anatomicas" Review El Dia, Mexico - 6 April 1999

Bendo, Ségolène "Des motifs floraux qui ont la cote" Review La Nouvelle, Lennoxville, Québec -14 Sept 2005

Broadhurst, Maura "Pattern Fields" Essay/image C Contemporary Art Issue #89 Spring 2006

Buchanan, Hamish "Ornament, decoration and camp..." Review Xtra! - 3 July 1997

Cherry, Maralynn "Tous Azimuts/Common Ground" Review/image La chambre blanche Bulletin - 21,1992

Condon, Sean "examines human need to control…" Review/image The Standard, St. Catharines - 21 Oct 1994

Dault, Gary Michael "Construct" Review/image The Globe and Mail - 6 Jan 2006

Dault, Gary Michael "Textiles transformed by history" Review/image The Globe and Mail - 3 April 2004

Dault, Gary Michael "Flourish: Jeannie Thib at Leo Kamen" Review/image dArt International Vol. 7, No.1 winter 2004

Dault, Gary Michael "Jeannie Thib at Leo Kamen" Review The Globe and Mail - 1 November 2003

Dault, Gary Michael "Curtain goes up on a virtuoso veil" Review The Globe and Mail - 13 October 2001

Dault, Gary Michael "Thib's sure hand maps body's polarities" Review/image The Globe and Mail - 15 April 2000

Dault, Gary Michael "A dialogue, poetic sketches by a master" Review/image The Globe and Mail - 12 Dec 1998

Dault, Gary Michael Rewind "Hamlet's Camel" Review/image Canadian Art - Vol. 15, No. 1 Spring 1998

Dault, Gary Michael "Deft, Sensitive..." Review The Globe and Mail - 6 June 1997

Dawson, Jessica "Jeannie Thib: ...an arabesque of obsession" Review/images The Washington Post - 4 April 02

Eichhorn , Virginia M "DeLuxe: Varieties of Transitional Light" Review/image Artichoke - Spring 2004

Edemariam, Aida "Ernst's handsome prints" Review/image National Post - 22 May, 1999

Fabo, Andy "Augur: Fragments from the Intestinal Archive" in Descant 103 - Vol. 29, No. 4 Winter 1998

Gabrielle Mark, Lisa "Rococo Tattoo" Review Artforum - November 1997

Garneau, David "Letter from Calgary" Preview/images C Contemporary Art - Issue # 57 Feb-April 1998

Geden, Dennis "W.P.K. Kennedy Gallery: Jeannie Thib" Profile Showtime, North Bay - Sept/Oct 1998

Giguère, Élise "Art Déco" Review/images Voir Estrie - September 2005

Goddard, Peter "The 10 most memorable art shows of the year" Review/image Toronto Star - 30 December 2006

Goddard, Peter "Art garden rich in meaning" Review/images Toronto Star - 15 July 2006

Goddard, Peter "Looking at little as the new big" Review Toronto Star -14 January 2006

Goddard, Peter "Thib's intricate patterns have layers of significance" Review/image Toronto Star - 30 Oct 2003

Gopnik, Blake "Print competition" Review The Globe and Mail - 26 June 1999

Groot "Installatie Thib in De Overslag" Review/image Groot Eindhoven, The Netherlands - 19 June 2002

Hirschmann, Thomas "At the ROM - Artist's Echoes" NOW - 20-27 November 2003

Hirschmann, Thomas Critics Picks NOW - Fall Guide 2003

Hitzeroth, Connie "Jeannie Thib: Survival Tips" Review/images Extension Journal - #3 Spring 1994

Hume, Christopher "Zoom with a view" Review Toronto Star - 2 December 2006

James, Royson "A Garden of Delights" Review/images Toronto Star - 19 August 2006

Jordan, Betty Ann "A tyro's guide to art collecting" Article/image The Globe and Mail - 8 Feb 1997

Jordan, Betty Ann “Art: Jeannie Thib” Toronto Life - February 2003

Kapusta, Beth "A common ground" Review Azure - November - December 2006

Mahon , Patrick "Fray" Review Canadian Art - Vol 24, No. 1 Spring 2007

McPherson, Anne "Tradition/Contemporanéite" Review/image Fibrearts - Vol. 25, No. 2 Fall 1998

Mahon, Patrick "Jeannie Thib" Review/image Canadian Art - Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring 2004

Marks, Laura U "in the seam/en couture" Review/image Fuse - XVII No. 3 Spring 1994

Meditskos, Stavroula "Leather, catch of the show" Cover/review/image The North York Mirror -13 March 2004

Millard, Laura "Jeannie Thib: Navigating the Body" Text/images Art City - Issue 1 Vol. 3, Winter 1998/99

Miller, Earl "Rococo Tattoo" Review Parachute - 89 Jan/Feb/March 1998

Monahan, Iona "Coat of Human Hair" Review Gazette, Montreal - 31 May 1994

Nikkei Voice "National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life, winning design" Nikkei Voice - Vol. 13, No. 6 1999

Noreau, Pierre-Paul "L'art Insolent" Review Le Soleil Québec - 2 September 2000

O'Flanagan, Rob "Lasting imprints in North Bay" Review/image Sudbury Star - 12 Sept 1998

Parcours des Arts "Jeannie Thib, Fac-similé" Text/image Parcours des Arts, Toulouse - No. 7 Juillet, Aout, Sept 2006

Pearce, Dianne "Diez artistas canadienses y el cuerpo humano" Artes de Mexico - Numero 45

Pearce, Dianne "Canadian Artists encounter Cervantes.." Que Pasa - Vol. III, No. 4 Winter 1998

Pearce, Dianne "Anatomical Permutations..." Voices of Mexico - Number 46 Jan-March 1999

Pelletier, Denise "Dix-sept femmes utilisent le textile…autrement" Cahier B, Progres-Dimanche - 31 Jan 1999

Quine, Dany "La réalité des apparences" Review Le Soleil, Québec - 29 November 1997

Rangel, Enrique "Examinan 10 artistas permutaciones del cuerpo" Review Reforma, Mexico - 14 Oct. 1998

Row, D K "Attitudes about Latitudes" Review/image The Oregonian, USA - 30 September 2003

Smith, Marjie "Two women, two artists; a profile of talent" Review The North Bay Nugget - Oct 1998

Solorzano, Lilia "Del cuerpo y otras razones" Review Correo, Mexico - 22 Oct 1998

Solorzano, Adolfo "El cuerpo humano Visto desde Canada" Review/image El Universal, Mexico - 26 March, 1999

Stewart, Penelope "in the seam/en couture" Interview/image Matriart - No. 4 Fall 1994

Taylor , Kate "Art About" Review The Globe And Mail - 21 August 1992

Thib, Jeannie Rorschach Artist project Extension Journal - 1992

Thib, Jeannie Vanitas Images "Bodies, Vesture, and Ornament" Tessera - Vol. 19, Winter 1995

Thib, Jeannie Portfolio Descant 103 The Anatomy Theatre & Theatre of the Body - Vol. 29, #4 Winter 1998

Thib, Jeannie Manual and Archive Images Literary Review of Canada - Vol. 8, No. 2 March 2000

Thib, Jeannie Artist project and Text Visible Language Journal, Rhode Island School of Design - 2007 (upcoming)

Tibol, Raquel "Artes Plasticas en el XXVI Cervantino" Review/image Proceso, Mexico - October 1998

Vincent, Isabel "On Show" Review The Globe and Mail - 4 August 1989

Wade, Nicholas "Jeannie Thib's vitrines" Review/image Expression - Spring/Summer 2006

WARC "Jeannie Thib" Profile/images Update (WARC) - Vol. 5, Issue 1 Spring 1998

Wylie, Liz "Jeannie Thib" Profile/image Canadian Art - Vol. 12, No. 3 Fall 1995

Wylie, Liz "Canoeing and Canadian Art" Queen's Quarterly - Vol. 103, No. 3 Fall 1996

GRANTS

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Travel Grant 2007

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2003/04

Canada Council Arts Grants B 2002, 1998, 1995, 1993

Canada Council Paris Studio 2001

Canada Council Travel Grants 2006, 2002, 2000, 1998

Canada Council Short Term/Project Grants 1992, 1991, 1988

Ontario Arts Council Senior Visual Artists Grant 2007, 2003

Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grants 1996, 1995, 1992, 1989,

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants 1998, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1990, 1988

Ontario Arts Council Special Projects Grant 1991 Name 10 parts of the body collective

Toronto Arts Council Grant to Visual Artists 2007, 2002, 1995

Toronto Arts Council Cultural Grant/Interim Grant 1991/92 Name 10 parts of the body

Ontario-Quebec Commission Exchange Grant, MCC 1992 Name 10 parts of the body collective

PERMANENT PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2005/6 Downsview Memorial Parkette, Toronto, Ontario - commissioned by the City of Toronto, project lead

with landscape architect Scott Torrance, "MOTH gardens" - stone sculpture, steel arbour, integrated landscape

2004/6 Bloorview Kid's Rehab, Toronto - collaboration with artist Carl Taçon

"Sky Map", "Landmarks", Field Study" - three interior stone wall installations, Architect: Montgomery Sisam

2004/5 Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta - commissioned by the City of Medicine Hat

exterior glass frit design - 1.78m x 74m - south and west facades, Diamond and Schmitt Architects

2001 Artist Garden at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario - collaboration with Bruce Holland, trellis and plantings

2000 Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto - "The Cranes: A National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life"

interior slate and maple wall installation with dedications - 3.4m x 17m x 30cm - Architect: KPMB

AWARDS

Great Canadian Printmaking Competition - Ernst and Young and Canadian Art Foundation 1999

Design Exchange Awards: Landscape Architecture - Honourable Mention for MOTH Gardens 2006