More about Derek Sullivan
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, University of Guelph
1998 BFA, York University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Walking and chewing the fat at the same time, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Albatross Omnibus, The Power Plant, Toronto
Young Americans, KIOSK, Ghent
2010 It is more difficult to hit a moving target, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2009 Waiting Game, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
2008 Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty Gallery, Gent
Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York
Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
2007 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Optica, Montréal
2005 Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Solo Exhibition, Toronto 2004 Satchel Gallery, Toronto Gallery Xeno, Vancouver 2003 Mercer Union, Toronto
2002 MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario 2001 Passengers & Tour Guides (with Kevin Rodgers), Artspeak, Vancouver 2000 Olympic Village, Platform Project, Mercer Union, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
Change of Address, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent
The Object of Observation (Changes by Being Observed), Galerie Johnen, Berlin
The 2011 Sobey Art Award: Ontario Long-List, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON
La Tentation du hasard, Biennale de Montreal 2011
Books on Books, The Swiss Institute, NY
Out of Print, Mercer Union, Toronto
2010 The Copy That Dreams: Mimesis of Forms and Typologies in Artists’s Publications,Printed Matter, New York
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Drawings, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas, Drawing Session Nine, (with Gareth Long) Kate Werble Gallery, NY
2009 Art Read, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, New York
la collection, enrichissements 2008 - 2009, CDLA, Saint-Yriex-la-Perche, France
Architecture of Survival, Komplot, Brussels
Sobey Art Award Ontario Shortlist, Cambridge Galleries, ON
2008 Art Metropole: The Top 100, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
The Black Market Type & Print Shop, articule, Montréal
David Kramer, David Armostrong Six, Jennifer Murphy, Raymond Pettibon and Derek Sullivan, Moti Hassan Gallery, New York
P2P, curated by Le Bureau, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2007 Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
On being an exhibition, Artists Space, New York
2006 We Can Do This Now, The Power Plant, Toronto
Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Habitat, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Du coté de Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal
Storefront, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2005 The Gift, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York
Other Worlds, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening, The Power Plant, Toronto 2004 Sculpture. The News at 5, curated by Rick Rhodes, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia Come Up to My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 2003 Chamomile Testerosa, 1066 Project Space, Toronto
James Carl/Jennifer Murphy & Chris Rogers/Derek Sullivan, Mercer Union @ art forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Psychotopes, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto Bauhauswerk, weewerk, Toronto Lucid Clutter, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
2002 Selling Out & Buying In, Biz Art, Shanghai, China
Keep Six, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario RISK, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver Wreck Room, Art System, Toronto; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2001 It’s Not What You’re Like, It’s What You Like, Art System, Toronto
Trophy, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
2000 Inaugural Ball, West Wing Art Space, Toronto
Hat Towers 2, fourth installment of Modelumental: a project series curated by Jenifer Papararo, Red Head Gallery Showcase, Toronto
20th Century Sideshow, Blueprint Gallery, Toronto
1999 Suburban Landscape, Red Head Gallery, Toronto OTHER PROJECTS
2008 Persistent Huts, artist’s book, published by Printed Matter Inc., New York
2007 Law & Order, published by Art Metropole, Toronto
2006 Trophy and Poster design, OAAG Awards (Ontario Association of Art Galleries)
fundraising edition, Mercer Union, Toronto
Downright Ornate, web project for www.red-i-projects.com
2005 curated the exhibition News from Nowhere, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2004 collaboration with AA Bronson, John Connelly Presents, New York project for Art Metropole Retail Catalogue 26, 2003 Push Pin, permanent installation, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
AWARDS
2011 Sobey Art Award Ontario long-list nominee
2009 Sobey Art Award Ontario long-list nominee
2008 Canada Council, Travel Grants to Professional artists
2007 Toronto Arts Council Level Two
2006 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2005 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2003Toronto Arts Council Level One
2002Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Balzer, David.
Eye Candy: Dedicated to You, But You Weren’t Listening, Eye Weekly. March 24, 2005;
Eye Candy: Derek Sullivan, Eye Weekly. September 29, 2005 Bowen, Elaine. Lucid Clutter, YYZine, January 2003.
Burnham, Clint. Poster Boy, brochure, 2005. Dault, Gary Michael.
Gallery Going, The Globe and Mail. August 7, 1999. Gallery Going, The Globe and Mail. August 14, 2003.
A poster child for street life, The Globe and Mail, November 12, 2005. De Vito, Natalie. Selling Out & Buying In. catalogue essay, 2002. Demkiw, Janis. Each the Same to Start. brochure, 2003.
Godard, Peter. A Dose of Conceptual Art. Toronto Star, April 14, 2005. Hirschman, Thomas.
Messy Success, Lucid Clutter review, NOW magazine. January 15, 2003. High-quality quartet. NOW magazine. January 1, 2004.
Jordan, Betty Ann. Dedicated to you, But You Weren’t Listening, Toronto Life, April 2005. Lauson, Clifford. The Artifice of Risk. Risk: Playing the Game, brochure, 2002.
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. Nouveau Territoires. Voir, March 1, 2006. McKay, Sally. Inaugural Ball (review), Lola issue 7, Summer 2000.
Miller, Earl. Law and Ordering: On Evaluating Recent Canadian Neoconceptualism, C Magazine, Fall 2006. Milroy, Sarah.
News at Five. The Globe and Mail, 1 October 2004.
At the galleries. The Globe and Mail, 25 March 2005.
Exploring collaboration. The Globe and Mail, 5 April 2005.
Drawn Together. The Globe and Mail, 22 July 2005. Osborne, Catherine.
Suburban Landscape (review), Lola issue 5, Winter 1999-2000. Deconstructing Ikea, National Post, 14 February 2004. Papararo, Jenifer. Modelumental (brochure), 2000. Peñaloza, Si Si.
Remembering the suburbs fondly, NOW magazine. July 29, 1999. Wreck Room (review), NOW magazine. January 24, 2002.
Scott, Kitty; Shaughnessy, Jonathan; Gale, Peggy; and AA Bronson. Art Metropole: The Top 100. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 2006. Rousseau, Chantal. Trophy, YYZine, 2001. Strickland, James. Various Canadian Artists, db Magazine, January 28, 2004. Whittington-Hill, Lisa. Passengers & Tour Guides, THIS Magazine. November/December 2001. Artisitic Continuity, The Shanghai Star, 12 December 2002.