Robin Peck › CV
Education
MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Teaching Positions
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, B.C.
University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B.
Full Professor of Visual Arts at Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B.
Selected Private Collections
James Carl, Toronto
Benjamin Diaz, Toronto
Gerald Ferguson, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Philip Grauer, New York City
John Galbraith, Poughkeepsie, New York
Alex Katz, New York
Al McWilliams, Vancouver, B.C.
Molly Parker, Los Angeles
Eva Pressenhuber, Zurich
Mary Riddell, New York City
James Schauefele, Beacon, New York
Selected Public Collections
Alberta Art Bank
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
Canada Council Art Bank
D.C. Space Collection, Washington, D.C.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
University of Lethbridge
Vancouver Art Gallery
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
A Space/Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Or Gallery, Vancouver, September 14 - October 12, 1996,
Montgomery Fine Arts, Vancouver
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
Gallery 25M2, Reykjavik, Iceland
Stride Gallery, Calgary
Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge
Canada, New York City
Evergreen Gallery, Vancouver
Canada, New York City
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Canada, New York City
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
The Independent, New York City (with Gerald Ferguson)
Canada, New York City
Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, ON (with Gerald Ferguson)
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
'Sculpture 81,' Halifax, N.S.
'5th Anniversary Exhibition,' D.C. Space, Washington, D.C.
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
'Policing Preference: Modernism and Morality,' the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
'Sculpture '94,' Halifax, N.S.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Charles Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Trepanier-Baer Gallery, Calgary Alberta
Wynick-Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Canada, New York City
Canada, New York City
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD
Enacting Abstraction , Feb.-March, Vancouver Art Gallery (curator Daina Augaitis)
YBG, Fredericton (Curator William Forrestall)
Canada, Armory Show, New York City, March 2011
University of Lethbridge and Triangle Gallery, Calgary, In the Stillness, May 27 – June
22 (Curator Jane Edmundson)
Canada, New York City, Free Soil June 19- July 24
Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary, Calgary Collects, September 9, 2011 - January
28, 2012 (Curator Jeffrey Spalding)
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Material World, January 21 - May 6 (Curator D. Diviney)
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, “Dreams of Order At The Edge Of Chaos:
Contemporary Geometric Abstraction, Feb. 21- May 26. (Curator Terry Graf
The Thick Stream, CANADA, New York
Selected Publications
'The Extinction of Sculpture.' REAL LIFE Magazine, New York, No. 7, pp. 29
'Alan Storey.' Issue Magazine No. 13
James Graham, Sculpture as the Threat of Violence. Parachute, Vol., pp. 45.
'Boss Symbolism.' C Magazine, pp. 45.
'Objecthood of Terror.' C Magazine, pp. 88.
'Travels with Brancusi.' C Magazine, Vol. 16, pp. 32-39.
'Henry Moore in the Pub.' C Magazine, pp. 20-24.
'Modernism and the Memorial.' C Magazine, pp. 46-53.
'Cyclopia.' Vanguard, pp. 39.
'The Sculptor and the Mauser.' C Magazine, Vol. 19, pp. 50-59
'Twilight.' C Magazine, Vol. 19, p. 77.
Dinosauria.' Vanguard, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 21-23.
'Further Travels with Brancusi.' C Magazine, Vol. 22, pp. 64-68
'States of Distress.' Vanguard, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 32.
'Underworld.' Parachute, Vol. 57, pp. 49-50.
'Antiquarian Modern.' Parachute, Vol. 58, pp. 49-50.
'Petrified Forest.' Catalogue Essay, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge,
'Sculpture of a New Dark Age.' C Magazine, Vol. 25, pp. 28-31.
'Petrified Forest.' C Magazine, Vol. 30, pp. 14-18
'Sculpture and the Sculptural in Vancouver and Halifax.' Vancouver Anthology, Vancouver:
Talonbooks, pp. 207-223. (Stan Douglas, editor)
'Michael Shumiatcher.' Parachute Vol. 64, pp. 58-59.
Ulrich Homdash.' C Magazine, Vol. 33, pp. 4748.
'1968-1972, Sculpture Afloat on Authenticity.' Catalogue Essay, Vancouver Art Gallery,
'Standard Stoppages.' Front Magazine, pp. 26-27.
'Al McWilliams.' Parachute, Vol. 68, pp. 68-69.
'James Carl.' Parachute, Vol. 72, pp. 62-63.
'The Rocking Stone.' Catalogue Essay, Surrey Art Gallery,
'Ghosts: Sculpture Photographed at Pier 21, Halifax.' C Magazine, pp. 21-25.
'Dia and the Dinosaur. 'C Magazine, Vol. 49, pp26-35
July 1996
'The Dentist'. Canadian Art, Spring
'Pills'. Catalogue Essay, New Sculpture Series, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,
'Journey to the Circumference of the Earth'. Canadian Art, Summer
'Scattered Across the Floor'. C Magazine, Issue #61, pp. 8-13
‘Beauty Piece’. Catalogue Essay, New Sculpture Series, Vancouver,
'Flow Tide'. Catalogue Essay, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge,
‘Detritus...Aidas Bariekis’, Catalogue Essay, Greater New York, P.S.1. (MOMA)
‘The Time Machine’, Catalogue Essay, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery,
‘Rock, Scissors, Paper: the Sculpture of James Carl’, CAG, Vancouver,
‘Rebecca Bourgault, Fun Island’ ESPACE sculpture, 69 Automne
SCULPTURE, A Journey to the Circumference of the Earth, Fredericton, Canada: BJ Press
‘James Carl’ C Magazine
‘Endless Columns’, Espace,
‘Ás (Hub)’, Hannes Larusson Catalogue Essay, FUGL, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘Speed Bump Memorial’, Naswaak Review
‘Monstra, The Sculpture of Michelle Allard and Kate Terry’, ESPACE 78
‘Shacks: Sarah Braman and Joe Bradley’, Dicksmith Gallery, London, England
James Carl, Catalogue Essay, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
‘Tatlin’s Woodpile, The Sculpture of Richard Clements’, artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy,
‘Tatlin’s Woodpile’, Sculpture, Vol. 28 No. 9
‘Gutter Snipes 1, The Sculpture of Cal Lane’, Grunt Gallery,
‘Internal Flame, The Once and Future Sculpture of Ron Huebner’, Canadian Art,
‘Cal Lane: Veiled Histories in Steel’, Sculpture,
‘Empire’, The Sculpture of Mark Whidden, YBG,
Selected Bibliography
Spalding, Jeffrey. 'Robin Peck.' Vie des Arts .Vol XXIB, No. 94 (Printemps, 1979), pp. 72-73.
Rhodes, Rick. 'Robin Peck.' Vanguard, Vol. 9, No. 2 (March 1980), pp. 29.
Carroll, N. 'Locations.' Vanguard, Vol. 9, No. 7 (September 1980), pp. 24.
Wilkin, Karen. 'Sculpture 81.' Dalhousie University (1981).
Macleods, S. 'Sculpture 1981' ArtsAtlantic, Vol. 12, (1981).
Kennedy, Gary Neil. 'R. Peck.' Parachute, Vol. 32 (Fall 1983), pp. 39.
Davis, T. 'Robin Peck, Sculpture.' Issue Magazine, (September 1984).
Daniel, B. 'Robin Peck.' Vanguard, October, Vol. 13, No. 8 (1984), pp. 34-35.
Graham, James. 'Sculpture as Pique.' C Magazine, (Fall 1985), pp. 72-73.
Wylie, Liz & Stacey, Robert. Eighty/twenty 100 Years of NSCAD, AGNS, (1988).
Kennedy, Gary Neil. 'Robin Peck, Factory Models.' C Magazine (Winter 1989).
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. 'Robin Peck, Construction Equals Consumption.' Catalogue Essay,
the Art Gallery of Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S. (Spring 1989),
Davis, Todd A. 'Robin Peck: 1971-1991.'Catalogue, Burnaby Art Gallery. (1991), pp. 3-5.
Rhodes, Richard. 'Robin Peck, 'The Writer.' Catalogue, Burnaby Art Gallery, (1991), pp.6-8.
Spalding, Jeffrey. ‘Robin Peck 1971-91'. Catalogue, Burnaby Art Gallery, (1991), pp. 9-20
Graham, James. 'Robin Peck: New Minimalism.' Burnaby Art Gallery (1991), pp - 21-26.
Gill, Dennis. 'Robin Peck 1971-1991.' C Magazine, Vol. 32 (Winter 1992), pp. 48-49.
Wood, William. 'Surrey Travelogue.' Parachute, Vol. 66 (Spring 1992), pp. 48-49.
Obrien, John. 'Vancouver Anthology.' Parachute, Vol. 66 (Spring 1992), pp. 55-56.
Alteen, Glen. 'Neutral Stability.' Parachute, Vol. 67 (Summer 1992), pp. 44-45.
Wood, William. 'Robin Peck.' Catalogue Essay (1992).
Metcalfe, Robin. 'Robin Peck, NSCAD. 'Arts Atlantic, Vol. 47 (Fall 1993), pp. 15-16.
Gislason, Olafur. Sculpturinn sem myndliking, DV (August 25, 1997), pp. 16
McElroy, Gil. 'Robin Peck', Sculpture, Vol. 16 No. 8 (October, 1997), pp. 67-68
Kliner, Dion. ‘Back to Babel’. Robin Peck, New Sculpture, Stride Gallery Catalogue, 2000
Brewer, Aaron, ‘Robin Peck’, Canadian Art, Summer 2001
Dault, Gary Michael, Walking the Line 7: Robin Peck, Globe and Mail, 5/22/2006
Lebredt, Gordon, Robin Peck’s Zones of Indiscernibility, ESPACE 77 (2006)
Miller, Earl, Representation of a Sculptor: Robin Peck Interview, C Mag, Spring 2007
Papararo, Jenifer, ‘A Shallow Flight of Stairs’, CAG Vancouver, 2007
Kliner, Dion, ‘Robin Peck’ Canadian Art, Fall 2007
Dault, Gary Michael, http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2011/01/20/robin_peck/
Kliner, Dion, Distance, Difference and Memory, ESPACE 95 Spring 2011
Diviney, David, ‘Living in a Material World’, Material World, AGNS 2012
Garry Neil Kennedy, The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978,
MIT Press, 2012
La Rocco, Ben, "Robin Peck." The Brooklyn Rail March 5, 2015
Micchelli, Thomas, "Taking the Minimal
Hyperallergic March 14, 2015