Born
1976 in Pittsburgh. Lives & works in Toronton, Canada.
education
1999
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
solo exhibitions
2008 Trophy Ghost, fette's gallery, Los Angles
2007 The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the new darkness, Marvelli Gallery,
New York
2006 Painting to moby dick; works that were made while the computer,
in its own voice, read aloud Melville’s Moby Dick, Katharine
Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2005 In The Woods, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects,
Toronto
2005 Vancouver Paintings, Skew Gallery, Calgary
2004 Darby & the angels, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art
Projects, Toronto
2003 drugs and the riot, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
group exhibitions
2007
Love/Hate, an exhibition of Toronto artists - curated by Camilla
Singh and David Liss, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2007 Second Nature, fette's gallery, Los Angeles
2007 The Cement Garden, 4 person exhibition at Marvelli Gallery,
New York
2007 Little Dude, Paul Petro Gallery, Jan - Feb, Toronto
2006 Scope Art Fair with Katharine Mulherin, Miami
2006 with Tyler Clark Burke at Skew Gallery, Calgary
2006 Art Vs. Real Life, curated by Katharine Mulherin, Morgan Lehman
Gallery, New York
2006 Beautify, curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harbourfront Centre,
Toronto
2006 The Stray Show, with Katharine Mulherin, Chicago
2006 fresh stART (5), fundraiser curated by Cris McCall, Nancy Baker
Cahill etc., Santa Monica
2006 NOWNOW, 5 generations of artists, curated by Kathryn Bemrose,
Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2006 You Don’t Want to Miss That Shit, curated by Katharine
Mulherin, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2006 artLA, with Katharine Mulherin, Santa Monica
2005 Pulse Art Fair, with Sixtyseven Gallery (New York), Miami
2005 BLAME IT ON CANADA, Harvey Levine Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Important Canadian Art, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York
2004 The Electric Eye, curated by Matt Crookshank, Sis Boom Bah,
Toronto
2003 Salon Dollop, curated by Sherwin Tjia, Rad'a Gallery, Montreal
2002 WegWay; primary culture, The Propeller Centre for the Visual
Arts, Toronto
2002 with Anne Marie Peña and Erin O’Hara at Union
Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
bibliography
2007 Sarah Milroy, “From underdog to uber-dog; The mascot
of Queen Street West is starring in his own art show”, for
Paul Petro group exhibition “Little Dude”, The Globe
and Mail (Newspaper), Saturday, Feb 3, Toronto p M4
2007 “Sheila Heti and Margaux Williamson Interview each Other”,
Pyramid Power (Magazine), edited by Conor Holler, vol 1 no 1, Vancouver,
pp 18 - 23
2006 Eye Weekly (Magazine), “Best of Toronto 2006; An Artful
Year” Editors’ Picks for the Year including 2006 2006
“Tomboyfriend’s Nuit Blanche Performance” and
“Painting to Moby Dick”, Dec 21 – 26, Toronto,
pp 5, 39
2006 David Balzer, Eye Canday “Painting to moby dick”,
EYE weekly (Magazine), Dec 14 – 20, Toronto
2006 David Balzer, Preview for “Painting to moby dick”,
Toronto Life magazine. Dec. p 140.
2006 Kevin Temple “Northern Art Stream Blows Into New York”,
The Star, Aug. 27, Canada
2006 David Balzer, “Rewind: Margaux Williamson”, Canadian
Art magazine, winter issue, Vol 22 #4 p 95, 98
2006 Matrix magazine, issue 72, winter, pp front and back covers,
Montreal
2006 Michael Glassbourg, “Margaux Williamson; The Artist Life”
30 min. documentary, BRAVO (Television)
2006 Globe and Mail (Newspaper), “NowNow at Fran Hill”
Gary Michael Dault for Group show, Saturday Feb 18, Toronto
2006 Lupe Rodriquez, Here and Now, CBC radio 1, Feb 15, Toronto
2005 Gary Michael Dault, “Gallery Going; You Don’t Want
to Miss That Shit”, The Globe & Mail, December 31, Review,
p 10, Canada
2005 Critic’s Pick, “Best Painter”, NOW magazine,
Oct 27 – Nov 2, Toronto
2005 The ARTFAG (Zine / website), “Margaux Williamson, In
the Woods” from no. 9, ‘the heady aromas of superciliousness’.
July/ August, Toronto
2005 Otino Corsano, “Interview w/ Margaux Williamson”,
samplesize website, July
2005 Kevin Temple, “Surreal Streets”, NOW magazine,
July 14, Toronto
2005 David Balzer, “Eye Candy”, EYE weekly (Magazine),
July 7, Toronto
2005 Julia Dault, “Images of last – chance optimism”,
National Post (Newspaper), March 31, Canada
2005 Liz Worth, “Creativity Confirmed”, Toronto Star,
March 8, Canada
2004 Kevin Temple, “Art 2004 top 10”, NOW magazine,
December 23, Toronto
2004 “Important Canadian Art”, Exhibition Catalogue,
Ziehersmith gallery. Text by Lee Henderson and others, New York
2004 Carl Wilson, “The Importance of Being Margaux”,
Hive Magazine, Spring 2004, Canada
2004 “Outside Opinion, Important Canadian Art Emerges”,
CBC Radio 3, No. 02.36, May 14 – 20, p. 5, Canada
2003 Peter Goddard, “Artist finds sweetness in dark places”,
Toronto Star, July 12, 2003, H7, Canada
2003 “Pick of the week”, Eye Weekly, July 17, Toronto
2002 “The Big Picture Feature” Lola magazine, Fall 2002,
pp. 36 – 38, Canada
2002 “Juried Show”, WEGWAY (Magazine) Fall 2002 p. 48,
Toronto
2002 Exhibition catalogue, Union Gallery, edited by Jocelyn Purdie,
Kingston
2002 Peter Goddard, “A show of cheek from city’s east
end” (Twin Dogs II, curated show), Toronto Star, August 29,
2002, Canada
2001 “Castle of Pony” artists’ project with Ryan
Kamstra, PUBLIC magazine, issue 22/23, (cities/scenes), edited by
Janine Marchessault and Will Straw, Canada
awards and grants
2005 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant
2004 Canada Council for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2003 Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant
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