Elizabeth McIntosh › CV
1967, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Lives and works in Vancouver
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON
Selected Solo Exhibitions
A Ball is for Throwing, Canada, New York, NY
Family, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Show Up, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Mom or Mother, Catriona Jeffires, Vancouver, Canada
Night Sweat, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Islands, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
Bricks are Heavy, Canada, New York, NY
Starry-Eyed, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Fairy Bread, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Pink Nude, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Division Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Three Oranges, Exercise, Vancouver, Canada
Violet’s Hair, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Good Play, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Cut Out, Goodwater, Toronto, Canada
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Blanket Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Two Silver Paintings, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Fire at Full Moon, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Young Night Thought, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Revolver Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
Cadmio limón, Galeria Pelaires, Mallorca, Spain
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
That’s how the light gets in, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Bonavista Biennale 2017, Bonavista Peninsula, Canada
Sticky Fingers, Arsenal Contemporary New York, NY
Elizabeth McIntosh, Monique Mouton, Silke Otto-Knapp, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
Fort Greene, Venus, Los Angeles, CA
Esplanade, As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA
Jupe bleue, une blonde, des calculatrices et un nu couché, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
10 Over 10, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver, Canada
Breaking the Surface, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Szalon, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Persian Rose, Chartreuse Muse, Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Two Women: Elizabeth McIntosh and Mina Totino, Model, Vancouver, Canada
Moyra Davey: Ornament and Reproach, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
Goodwater, G Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Painting Project, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
Cut and Paste, Equinox Project Space, Vancouver, Canada
The Shape of Things, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Saint Helen, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
The Path of Most Resistance, OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Superfudge, The Balmoral, Los Angeles, CA
Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Abstraction, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Spell: A Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Abstraction, Mendel Art Gallery,
Saskatoon, Canada; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada; Thames
Art Gallery, Chatham, Canada
Sunscreen, Newzones, Calgary, Canada
Surfaces, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada
Clementine @ Hallwalls, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Aniconica, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
Paintings and Sculptures, Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
Hungry Eyes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Salty Salute, West Wing, Toronto, Canada
All Tomorrow’s Paintings, Galleri Susanne Højriis, Copenhagen, Denmark
Something About Painting, DCA Gallery, New York, NY
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
Bruce Grenville, ‘Performative Painting’, in Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian
Painting, Black Dog Publishing, London, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Daina Augaitis, Jesse McKee, eds., Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Leila Hasham, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh’, Vitamin P3, ed. Barry Schwabsky, Phaidon, London, UK
Julie Bélisle, et al., The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montreal, Canada
Monika Szewczyk and Jan Verwoert, A Good Play, ECU Press, Vancouver, Canada
‘Violet’s Hair: Eli Bornowsky interviews Elizabeth McIntosh’, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
‘Characters and Gestures as People Do: Elizabeth McIntosh and Jessica Stockholder in Conversation’, in Paint: A Psychedelic Primer, ed. Monika Szewczyk, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Monica Tap, Hungry Eyes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Magazines and Periodicals
Gural, Natasha. “Vivid Colors Erupt at Frieze, Large-Scale Abstract and Figurative Works by Women Artists Wow.” Forbes, May 18
Blake Gopnik. “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now.” The New York Times, June 22
Mario Vasquez. “Gallery Rounds: Elizabeth McIntosh.” Artillery Magazine, April 27
Chris Hampton, ‘With and Without a Plan: Play and the Paintings of Elizabeth McIntosh’, National Gallery of Canada Magazine, 18 September
Jasmine Reimer, ‘Night Sweat: Elizabeth McIntosh at Tanya Leighton Gallery’, Peripheral Review, 26 June
Andrew Witt, ‘Painting and Obstinacy’, Peripheral Review, 9 May
Lee Plested, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh, Monique Mouton, Silke Otto-Knapp’, Artforum, September ‘“Sticky Fingers” at Arsenal Contemporary New York’, Blouin Artinfo, 1 August
April Thompson, ‘Vancouver Special and the Issue with Local Surveys’, Canadian Art online, 14 February
Andrew Witt, ‘Eccentric, Polymorphous, Abstract: Vancouver Art and other Mythologies of the Near-Future’, The Mainlander, 14 January
‘Northern Exposure: 3 Game-Changing Canadian Painters You Need to Know’, Artspace, 31 December
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh’, Artforum, December
‘Elizabeth McIntosh – Why I Paint’, Phaidon Agenda, November
Robert Enright, ‘Divided Pathways: Painting’s Choice’, Border Crossings, Issue 131, September
Mitch Speed, ‘Strange Forever,’ Turps Banana, July
Monika Szewczyk, ‘Persian Rose, Chartreuse Muse, Vancouver Grey’, Artforum, Summer
Michael Turner, ‘A Look at Painting as Journey in Vancouver’, Canadian Art online, 9 April
Aaron Peck, ‘Aaron Peck in Vancouver’, Akimblog online, 13 December
Aaron Peck, ‘Critics’ Picks: Elizabeth McIntosh at Contemporary Art Gallery’, Artforum online, 27 December
Robin Laurence, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh Arouses Abstract Curiosities with Violet’s Hair’, The Georgia Straight, 7 December
‘Elizabeth McIntosh: Collaging Beyond the Canvas’, Canadian Art online, 25 November
Adele Weder, ‘Done. Not Done. Might Be Done…’, Canadian Art, Summer
‘Elizabeth McIntosh: Optical Energies’, Canadian Art online, 10 June
Leah Sandals, ‘When Colours Fall in Love’, The National Post, 19 May
Gary Michael Dault, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh at Goodwater’, The Globe and Mail, 6 June
Rachelle Sawatsky, ‘Don’t Blink: Three Painters on the Rise’, The Block, Vol. 2 Issue 1, January
Dan Starling, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh Interviewed on her Painting and the Work of her Contemporaries’, Pyramid Power, Volume 1, Issue 3
Richard Rhodes, ‘Myspace’, Canadian Art, Spring
Gary Michael Dault, ‘Birth, New Art’, The Globe and Mail, 3 November
Catherine Osborne, ‘The Circle’s Edge’, The National Post, 29 November
Ken Johnson, ‘Elizabeth McIntosh’, The New York Times Art Guide, 3 May
Gary Michael Dault, ‘Salty Salute at the West Wing Art Space’, The Globe and Mail, 30 September
Blake Gopnik, ‘8 For 2000’, The Globe and Mail, 6 November
John Armstrong, ‘Disorderly Conduit’, Border Crossings, Issue 62, May
John Bentley Mays, ‘Young Painters Prove You Can’t Pin Good Art Down’, The Globe and Mail, 4 November
Public Works
Finger Paint, Vancouver, BC
Residencies
Artist-in-Residence, Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada
International Residency Program, Canada Council for the Arts, ISCP, New York, USA
Teaching Appointments
Associate Professor, Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice,
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Awards
VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, Vancouve
Toronto Arts Award, Toronto, Canada
Collections
Artists for Kids & Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Vancouver
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal