“Painting is of the body. It is hand and eye, gesture and movement. It is thinking without words. It is memory that resides in skin and muscle and bone. It is breathing underwater. It is improbable. It is where I feel most alive.”
margaret glew C.V.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 World of Threads Festival, Oakville, On Solo Exhibition 2023 Drey Gallery, Toronto, ON “Cardboard and Cloth'“. 2021 Corner Gallery, Haliburton, “Slow Time”
2019 MarchFifteen, Toronto “New Work”
2018 SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC “Cross Examinations”
2017 Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto. “Initial Conditions”
2016 GNSTUDIO Contemporary, Oakville, ON. “Language, Invention, Process”
2015 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON, “New work”
2013 Rumi Galleries, Mississauga, ON
2012 Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, “Who’s Afraid of Red?”
2012 Gallery 6PDX, Portland, OR. “Torn and Painted Collages”
2012 Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, “Voyages”
2011 SOPA Fine Art, Kelowna, BC, “Letters to a Friend”
2011 Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto. “Letters to a Friend”
2010 Engine Gallery, Toronto, “Free Fall”
2009 Engine Gallery, Toronto, “Lines of Communication”
2008 Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto, “Close Encounters”
2008 Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto, “Silence and Slow Time”
2007 Engine Gallery, Toronto, “Shifting Borders”
2006 Loop Gallery, Toronto, “Traces”
2005 Engine Gallery, Toronto, “Winter Fire”
2004 Cell Gallery, Gallery 1313, Toronto, “Marking Time”
2003 Praxis Gallery, Toronto, “Animal, Vegetable or Mineral”
2003 Loop Gallery, Toronto “Ordinary Angels”
2002 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1996 York University Faculty Club, Toronto
1994 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1991 Arcadia Gallery, Toronto
1990 Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, Cornwall, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Drey Gallery, Toronto, ON “Paper Trails”
2017 The Painting Center, New York, NY “Kindred Spirits”
2016 Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, SC. “Kindred Spirits”
2016 GNSTUDIO Contemporary Art, Oakville, ON. “The Substance of Abstraction”
2015 SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC. “Next in Line” (two person)
2014 SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC, “Over and Under” (two person)
2013 Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
2013 SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC. “Ties That Bind” (two person)
2013 AWOL Gallery, Toronto, ON. “Five Star”
2011 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC, “The Red Show”
2009 John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, “Septette”
2007 511 Gallery, Chelsea, New York, “PARCA, Canada in New York”
2005 Gallery 1313, Toronto, “Earthworks” (two person)
2004 Engine Gallery, Toronto, “Engine”
2004 Parts Gallery, Toronto
2003 Coop Gallery, Toronto
2002 J. B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, “Capable of Transformation” (three person)
2001 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough
1993 J. B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, (two person)
GRANTS
2006, 2001, 1996 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
COLLECTIONS
City of Scarborough Sunnybrook Regional Health Centre
City of Toronto Archives Toronto Historical Board
Dominion Ventures Limited Transamerica Life
Richmond Hill Public Library Canadian Standards Association
MEMBERSHIPS
John B. Aird Gallery, Member of the Board of Directors, 2006 – 2012
Loop Gallery (Artists ‘ Collective) 2003 –2006
Gallery 1313, Member of the Board of Directors from 2003 – 2005. Member of the Program Committee from 2003 – 2005.
PRESS
Essay, Geoffrey Nawn, “Language, Invention, Process. New Paintings by
Margaret Glew” 2016
Review, ARTORONTO, Ashley Johnson, “5-Star”
Catalogue essay, Ashley Johnson, 2013
Review, Hamilton Spectator, May 17, 2012. Regina Hago.
Catalogue essay, Gillian Reddyhoff, “Free Fall”
Catalogue essay, Ashley Johnson, “Lines of Communication”
Canadian House and Home, Dec. 2009, image
Sofa Deco, April 2008. Image.
Artery, Spring 2005, volume 10, issue 1. Review of ‘Winter Fire”.
The Toronto Star, February 17, 2005. Image.
Artery, Spring 2004, volume 9, issue 2. Review of “Ordinary Angels”
Canadian House and Home, December 2004. Images.
Magazine d’Art, fall, 2004. Image.
Sunday Sun, May 26, 2000, “Of Moose and More, Portrait of an Artist”. Article, images.