Approved: 06.07.2009

Trevor Kiernander

Artist

Approved: 06.07.2009

Trevor Kiernander's works rigorously propose a formal examination of the space of painting and drawing. Through the association and collision of multiple perspectives and the deployment of overlapping technical approaches, he explores the basic, fundamental duality between background and foreground, and figure/ground relationships as forms per se.  Kiernander works simultaneously

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    Artist Statement

    Trevor Kiernander's works rigorously propose a formal examination of the space of painting and drawing. Through the association and collision of multiple perspectives and the deployment of overlapping technical approaches, he explores the basic, fundamental duality between background and foreground, and figure/ground relationships as forms per se.  Kiernander works simultaneously on several canvases positioned together on the same wall and experiments with many configurations, with the aim of unifying the composition in a complex but resolved manner. In so doing, the assemblage of canvases and images are deconstructed and reconstructed, creating contradictory but stimulating and coherently finished works, whose final installation is the result of that research outcome in the studio.

    CV & Education

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    2023     
    Upcoming, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada

    2020      
    Art Mûr, "Let’s Get Lost", Montreal, Canada

    2019      
    Galerie d'art d'Outremont, “Are We Here?”, Montreal, Canada

    2018      
    Maison de la culture NDG, "In Free Fall", Montreal, Canada
    Art Mûr, "Bound and Boundless", Berlin, Germany

    2017      
    Maison des arts de Laval (foyer) "Désorientation", Laval, Canada

    2016      
    Art Mûr, "Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place", Montreal, Canada
    McClure Gallery,"Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place", Montreal, Canada

    2014    
    Art Mûr, "Uncommon Ground", Montreal, Canada

    2013    
    Vitrine, “Fallen”, London, UK

    2012    
    Art Mûr, "Here. Not Here.", Montreal, Canada

    2010    
    The Woodmill, "Project:Space", London, UK
    Art Mûr, "To Build A Home", Montreal, Canada
    Bearspace, "Trade Skins", London, UK

    SELECTED DUO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    2022     
    Rhythmus Zu Hause, Schkeuditz, Leipzig, Germany
    Autumn Rundgang, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
    Image Fétiche, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
    Man kann es drehen und wenden wie man will, Sunnybrook Art Centre, Göhrenz, Germany
    [E]spaces w/ Lucie Bitunjac, Centre Cultural Georges Vanier, Montreal, Canada

    2021   
    Art Mûr, "Terra Nova", Montreal, Canada

    2019     
    Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Couleurs Manifestes, Sherbrooke, Canada
    Spinnerei, Autumn Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany
    Spinnerei, LIA Open Studios, Leipzig, Germany
    APT Gallery, Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony!, London, UK

    2018
    Galerie Michel Guimont, Quebec City, Canada
    Atlas House, Ipswich Biennale, Ipswich, United Kingdom
    Art Mûr, "Grâce du dessin", Montreal, Canada
    Spinnerei Werkschau, "Sediments", Leipzig, Germany
    LIA Spinnerei, Winter Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany

    2017
    LIA Spinnerei, Open Studios, Leipzig, Germany
    Galerie Michel Guimont, Off-Manif, Quebec City, Canada

    2016     
    Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, "Sightings 17: The Time of Work", Montreal, Canada

    2015     
    The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museu, "The Open West", Cheltenham, UK

    2014
    HUSK, "Teleology", London, UK
    L’Blassa, “BAB//\\DAR”, in collaboration w/ Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
    Le 18, “Here & Now - Sound Matters”, Marrakech, Morocco

    2013
    St James Hatcham Goldsmiths, "Post Post", London, UK
    Maria Stenfors Gallery, "Endogenous II", London, UK
    Southbank Centre, “My Deptford: 8 Minutes From Here”, London, UK
    Enclave, “Feedback”, London, UK
    Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, “Héritage de Borduas”, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada
    Departure Foundation, “Satelike”, London, UK
    CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York, USA
    Jotta, Battersea Evolution, “An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World”, London

    2012
    Contact, “Location Relative”, Manchester, UK
    Deptford X, “Bringing Home The Art”, London, UK
    Bussey Building, “For Display Purposes Only”, London, UK
    London Art Fair, "Art Projects w/ Axis", London, UK

    2011
    Kunstverein Speyer, "So Here We Are", Speyer, Germany
    Central House Of Artists, "TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE", Moscow, Russia
    Art Mur, "Question De Principe, Matter Of Principle", Montreal, Canada
    The Woodmill, "S.A.G.S.", London, UK
    The Woodmill, "Nicolas Party: Elephants at the Woodmill", London, UK
    38b Peckham Rye, "I Have No Use For The Truth", London, UK
    Collective Show Los Angeles w/ LA Pedestrians Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

    2010
    Vulpes Vulpes, "Heliotrope", London, UK
    ShopAt34, “Say What What Way”, London, UK
    BEARSPACE, “Print Now II”, London, UK
    The Woodmill “The Devil’s Necktie”, London, UK

    CURATORIAL PROJECTS
    2023     
    Pictura MTL, Montreal, Canada

    2020     
    Pictura MTL, Montreal, Canada
    Art Mûr, Echo, (w/ Charlene Hahne, Franziska Holstein, Franz Jyrch, Etienne Lafrance, James
       Low, Christine Nobel, Maria Schumacher, Matt Schust, Julia Lia Walter), Montreal, Canada
    Maison de la culture NDG, Lucky Dip, w/ Clovis Alexandre Desvarieux, James Gardner, Marley   
       Johnson, Benjamin Klein, Madeleine Mayo, Daniel Oxley, Bea Parsons 
    Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, Reserches Pictural, co-curated with Benjamin Klein, w/ Adèle    
       Beaudry, Sonia Haberstich, Caroline Lindsay Hart, Daniel Oxley, Cameron Skene

    2013     
    St James Hatcham Goldsmiths, Post Post, London, UK

    2010
    ShopAt34, Say What What Way, London, UK

    ART FAIRS
    2023    
    Encounters, London Art Fair, London, UK
    Upcoming, Positions, Berlin, Germany

    2022     
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2021     
    Papier, Montréal, Canada
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    2020
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2019
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Positions, Berlin, Germany
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2018
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Drawing Now, Paris, France
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2017
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2016   
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2015
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2014
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Papier, Montréal, Canada

    2013
    CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York City, USA
    Jotta, Battersea Evolution, An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World, London, UK

    2012    
    London Art Fair, Art Projects w/ Axis, London, UK

    2011    
    Central House Of Artists, TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE, Moscow, Russia

    2010    
    Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    COLLECTIONS
    Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (CPOA)
    Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
    Loto-Québec
    Mouvement Desjardins
    Toronto Dominion Bank
    Microsoft
    Concordia University
    Université de Sherbrooke
    Conseil des arts de Montréal
    FIFA (Festival International du Film sur l’Art)
    Orford Centre for the Arts
    Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
    Collection Luc LaRochelle
    Courchesne Larose Ltd
    EROS
    Tadeschi Collection
    Stanley Mills Collection
    TCGO Inc.
    Tilquin Collection
    Various private collections in Canada, USA, UK, Russia, Europe, and Saudi Arabia

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • Éric Clément, “Trevor Kiernander : expressif et rayonnant” La Presse (Canada) 5 December 2020
    • Marie-Anne Letarte, “Pictura: Pleins feux sur la peinture montréalaise” L’Inconvenient Magazine - no 83, Winter 2020/21
    • Jérôme Delgado, “Montréal, ville-peinture avec «Pictura»” Le Devoir (Canada) 7 November 2020 
    • Marie-Anne Letarte, “Loin des yeux, près du cœur” L’Inconvenient Magazine - no 81, Summer 2020
    • Edwin Janzen, “Trevor Kiernander. Crossovers” Border Crossings (Canada) 151 (September 2019)
    • Benjamin Klein, “In Free Fall,” Vie des Arts (Canada) 253 (Winter. 2019) 
    • Marie-Anne Letarte, “Trevor Kiernander résourde l’espace” L’Inconvenient Magazine - no 73, Summer 2018
    • Éric Clément, “La Fibre Internationale D’art Mûr,” La Presse, 3 Feb. 2018
    • Anais Castro, “Trevor Kiernander. Bound and Boundless,” Wall Street International, 13 Jan. 2018
    • Christian Roy, “Regard double en parallèle: Les paysages composites de Trevor Kiernander” Vie des Arts 14 Sep. 2016
    • Michael Valinsky, “Visual Interview,” The Wild Magazine, 21 Aug. 2014 
    • Tom Jeffreys & Oscar Rickett, “10 Ways to Make British Art Less Annoying in 2014,” Vice, 6 Jan. 2014
    • Crystal Bennes, “Trevor Kiernander,” The Learned Pig, 27 Nov. 2013 
    • Susie Pentelow, “A Conversation with Canadian Artist Trevor Kiernander,” Traction Magazine, 6 Nov. 2013
    • “Fallen: A conversation with the Canadian artist Trevor Kiernander,” Wall Street International, 23 Mar. 2013
    • “Art Moscow 2011: A Round Up” (video), Huffington Post, 21 Oct. 2011
    • Jerome Delgado, “Arts visuels—De l’intime jusqu’à la peinture extreme,” Le Devoir (Montréal), 31 Dec. 2010
    • Christian Roy, “TREVOR KIERNANDER: La construction d’un monde pictural,” Vie des Arts (Canada) 219 (Sum. 2010) 
    • Lori Callaghan, “Roots Of Home Reveal Where The Heart Lives,” Montréal Gazette, 12 Jun. 2010 
    • Jerome Delgado, “Le chaos raffiné de Kiernander,” Le Devoir (Montréal), 5 Jun. 2010 
    • Goldsmiths—But Is It Art (documentary), dir. Magnus Temple and Emma Tutty, Dragonfly and BBC Four, Apr. 2010 
    • Susan Holtham, “Setting Up Art-Shop With soShow!,”  Dazed Digital, London, Dec. 2009 
    • “Gold & Delicious,” MESCALINA.IT: Rivista on-line di Arte e Cultura, Feb. 2008 
    • di Francesca Cavazzana, “Gold & Delicious,” archimagazine, Feb. 2008
    • Christine Redfern, “A Stroke of Art,” Montréal Mirror, Aug. 2007

    PUBLICATIONS
    “Pictura: Painting… In Montreal’s Image”, Montreal, Canada, Dec 2020
    Mylène Lachance-Paquin, “Let’s Get Lost”, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada, Oct 2020
    Andrea Valentine-Lewis, “Let’s Get Lost”, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada, Oct 2020
    Anais Castro, “Bound and Boundless”, Art Mûr, Berlin, Germany, Jan 2018 
    Benjamin Klein and R. Travis, “Event Horizon: This Must be the Place”, McClure, Montréal, Sept 2016
    Stephanie Locas and R. Travis, “Event Horizon: This Must be the Place”, Art Mûr, Montréal, Sept 2016
    Tom Trevatt and C. Barnabe, “Uncommon Ground,” Art Mûr, Montréal, September 2014
    Michael Heilgemeir, “The Nomadic Studio,” Edition Taube, London, March 2013
    Dominique Allard, “Trevor Kiernander: Here. Not Here.”, Art Mûr, Montréal, April 2012
    Cameron Skene, “Meditations In An Emergency,” Art Mûr, Montréal, April 2012
    Ian Gonczarow, “Translate/Transcribe,” Central House of Artists, Moscow, September 2011
    Sandra Erbahcer, “So Here We Are,” Kunstverein Speyer, Germany, September 2011
    Catherine Barnabe and S. Wilkinson, “To Build A Home,” Art Mûr, Montréal, May 2010
    Carte Blanche 2, Painting Magenta Foundation, November 2008
    Lyne Crevier and Katey Apsey, “Relative Detachements,” Art Mûr, Montréal, July 2007 

    RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
    2022     Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association Professional Development Grant
                   ($7500), Canada
    2021     Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Exploration et recherche/Arts visuels
                   ($21,000), Canada
                 Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation Grant, ($20,000), Canada
    2020     Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation Grant, ($25,000), Canada
                 Conseil des arts de Montreal, Recherche ou Création / production, ($8,000) Montreal,
                   Canada
    2019     Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Travel Grant, ($1,800), Canada
                 Canada Council for the Arts, Artist Abroad: Residencies Grant, ($10,000), Canada
                 LIA Leipzig International Artist Programme Residency, Leipzig, Germany
    2018     Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant, ($25,000), Canada
    2017     LIA Leipzig International Artist Programme Residency, Leipzig, Germany
                 Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Vermont, USA
                 Merit-based Artist Grant ($1700USD) Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Vermont, USA
    2014     MINT Collective Residency, Riad Biba, Marrakech, Morocco
    2013     PEER Residency w/ Merike Estna, London, UK
    2012     Treignac Project, Treignac, France
    2010     John Moores Contemporary Painting 2010 (short list), London, UK
                 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 (short list), London, UK
                 Woodmill Travel Grant, London, UK
    2007     RBC Painting Competition (short list): Eastern Division, Canada