BARBARA ASTMAN (b. United States 1950, based in Toronto)
Education
1973
- Graduate, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON
1970
- Associate Degree, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
- The Newspaper Series, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006
- Clementine Suite, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005
- Revisiting Red and Clementine Suite, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON
- Clementine Part I, II & III, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon
2004
- Clementine Part I, The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
2003
- Dancing with Che, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001
- Paris Postcard, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999
Dreaming Impressionism, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON Scenes From a Movie for One, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
1990
- Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., Toronto, ON
1988
Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., Toronto, ON
1986
Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., Toronto, ON Vu, Centre d’animation et de diffusion de la photographie, Quebec City
1979-1984
- Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., Toronto, ON
1980
- Bruce Art Gallery, Canton, New York, NY Galerie Optica, Montreal, QC
1979
- Jean Marie Antoine Gallery, Annapolis, MD
1977
Sable-Castelli Gallery Ltd., Toronto, ON
1976
- S.A.W. Gallery Inc., Ottawa, ON
1974
- Ryerson Photo Gallery, Toronto, ON
1973
- Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography, Toronto, ON
Selected Solo Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions
2005
- Clementine Suite, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon
2004-2005
- Clementine Part 1, Art Gallery of Windsor, ON
1995-1996
- Barbara Astman: Personal/Persona, 20-Year Survey Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Survey Exhibition Tour: Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
1994
- The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, ON
1993
- Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
1992
- Saint-Laurent Art Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, ON Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON The Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, ON
1986
- Musée du Quebec, QC
1984
- Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1983
- The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
1982
- Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1981
- The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
1980
- McIntosh Art Gallery, London, ON Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
1975
- National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Selected Group Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions
2007
- Impulse Archaeology, WHITE BOX, New York, NY
2005
- Les Revenants, Le Mois de las Photo, MAI (Montreal, arts, interculturels), Montreal, Quebec
- From the Source, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004
- Identities, Canadian Portraits, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON, Feb - June
2003
- Absolute Shape: Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2002
The Found and the Familiar, Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON (tour) Celebrating 60 Years, McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, London Three Artists: Barbara Astman, John Massey, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Exceler@tor, Toronto, ON
2001
- The Art of Mentoring at Ontario College of Art & Design, Lieutenant Governor’s Suite, Toronto, ON, Feb - July
2000
Reflections on the Artist: Portraits and Self Portraits, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1999
- By Invitation: Pierre Theberge, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON The Portrait, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1998
- Home Base, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C.
1995
Que sont Les Pionnieres Devenues, Galerie Arts Technologiques, Montreal, QC How Red Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON Barbara Astman/Jiri Ladocha, Art Gallery of North York, ON 1994
Suspensions, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London Looking Back II, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
- Interconnexions Copigraphiques, Montage ’93, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (tour)
1993
- A Crowd of One, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON Artists and Their Work Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1992
- Astman/Dykhuis Exhibition, Art Gallery of Peterborough, ON
1990
- Rock, is there something you’re not telling me?, Koffler Gallery, North York, ON
1980
- Reflecting a Rural Consciousness, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1979
- Electroworks, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 20 x 20 Italia/Canada, Galerie Luca Polazzoli, Milan, Italy Alternative Imaging Systems, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Selected Museum and Public Collections
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
- Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
- Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
- Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa, ON
- The Edmonton Art Gallery, AB
- The Government of Ontario Collection, Toronto
- Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
- MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- UBS, Switzerland
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
Recent Selected Bibliography
2007
Sandals, Leah, “The better way to recycle newspapers” National Post, Thursday, April 19, 2007 2006
Carte Blanche: A compendium of Canadian photographers, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, p. 54-55
2005
- Vaughan, R. M, “Barbara Astman’s Evocative Clementine Installations”, National Post, April 30, 2005
2004
- Sandra, E. Martin, “Living the Dream”, MoneySense, Vol.6, No.1, p. 47, Feb - March 2004
- Polaroid International Photography, PMagazine, P26, Issue 26, Polaroid Europe, England, Feb 2004
- Browne, Kelvin, “It isn’t a snap”, National Post, Toronto, ON, Feb 7, 2004
- “The Revolutionary Two-Step – An interview with Barbara Astman”, BorderCrossings, Issue no. 90, 2004
2003
- Wylie, Liz, “Barbara Astman”, Canadian Art, Vol. 20, No. 3, p. 139, Fall 2003
2002
- Walker, Susan, “Art by Numbers”, The Toronto Star, p. K6, June 1, 2002
2001
- Black, Debra, “Mentors help crack the glass ceiling”, International Women’s Week, The Toronto Star, pp. C1 & C8, March 5, 2001
- Mays, John Bentley, “The secret life of picture postcards,” National Post, p. F8, Sept 8, 2001
2000
- Sykes, Claire, “Barbara Astman, Insider Profile”, Photo Insider, New Jersey, Vol. 21, pp. 36-39, 2000
- Henighan, Tom, The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, Raincoast Books, B.C., pp. 84, 90, 2000
1999
- Murray, Joan, Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century; Dundurn Press, Toronto Oxford, p. 167-170, 1999
- Canadian’s Who’s Who, University of Toronto Press Inc, Toronto, ON, 1999
- Who’s Who in America, New Providence, NJ, 1999
- Dictionary of International Biography, Twenty-Eight Edition, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1999
1998
- Holubizky, Ihor, “Barbara Astman-Jane Corkin Gallery,” art/text, Australia, No. 60, p. 97, Feb - April 1998
- Mastin, Catharine M., “Changing Spirits: Canadian Art of the 1960’s and 70s”, Kamploops Art Gallery, Kamploops, B.C., pp. 8, 31-32, 1998
1997
- Jordan, Betty Ann, “Gallery Going: Barbara Astman and Eadweard Muybridge at Jane Corkin”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, p. C13, October 4, 1997
1996
- Liss, David, “Montreal, Copy Art: What Happened To The Pioneers?” Artfocus, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 20-23, Winter 1996
Recent Commissions
- 2006 The Murano on Bay, Toronto, ON
- 2005 George Weston Limited, Atrium, Brampton, ON
- 2003 Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany
- 2000 Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, University of Toronto, ON, collaboration with Susan Friedrich, etched glass window
- 1999 The Portal Project, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, ON, photo-murals
- 1995 Simcoe Place Public Art Project, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, Toronto, ON, “Tribute” Project, photographically etched glass sculpture
- 1994 Police Service Award, Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police, ON, photographically etched glass