My work takes visual cues from real and virtual environments, examining, assembling and also deconstructing space, exploring figure/ground relationships and the representation of architectural motifs. Starting with visual ideas drawn from photographs of buildings and landscapes, I break down and reconstruct a world formed of dislocated and interwoven partial planes, lines and shapes.My
My work takes visual cues from real and virtual environments, examining, assembling and also deconstructing space, exploring figure/ground relationships and the representation of architectural motifs. Starting with visual ideas drawn from photographs of buildings and landscapes, I break down and reconstruct a world formed of dislocated and interwoven partial planes, lines and shapes.My paintings attempt to create dynamic tension between formal elements, such as splashes of colour, shapes reminiscent of the outlines of architectural structures, dissecting lines, charcoal under-drawings, and masking tape intentionally left in place or used to paint hard edges. Layered over these are occasionally solid blocks of dark earth tones that occlude parts of the image, producing a sense of realistic three-dimensional space, part of which is obscured from view.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2009 MFA, Art Practice—Goldsmiths University of London
2006 BFA w/ Distinction, Major Painting & Drawing—Concordia University, Montreal
2000 Canada Interpretive Illustration Diploma—Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2016 Art Mûr, Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place, Montreal (September 2016)
2016 McClure Gallery, Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place, Montreal (September 2016)
2014 Art Mûr, Uncommon Ground, Montreal
2013 Vitrine, Fallen, London
2012 Art Mûr, Here. Not Here., Montreal
2010 The Woodmill, Project:Space, London
2010 Art Mûr, To Build A Home, Montreal
2010 Bearspace, Trade Skins, London
2007 Art Mûr, Relative Detachments, Montreal
2005 LaFabriq, Form, Fond, Couleur, Montreal
SELECTED DUO / GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, The Open West, Cheltenham
2014 HUSK, Teleology, London
2014 L’Blassa, BAB//\\DAR, in collaboration w/ Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
2014 Le 18, Here & Now—Sound Matters, Marrakech, Morocco
2013 St James Hatcham Goldsmiths, Post Post, London
2013 Maria Stenfors Gallery, Endogenous, London
2013 Southbank Centre, My Deptford: 8 Minutes From Here, London
2013 Enclave, Feedback, London
2013 Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Héritage de Borduas, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
2013 Departure Foundation, Satelike, London
2013 CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York City
2013 Jotta, Battersea Evolution, An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World, London
2012 Contact, Location Relative, Manchester
2012 Deptford X, Bringing Home The Art, London
2012 Bussey Building, For Display Purposes Only, London
2012 London Art Fair, Art Projects w/ Axis, London
2011 Kunstverein Speyer, So Here We Are, Speyer, Germany
2011 Central House Of Artists, TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE, Moscow
2011 Art Mur, Question De Principe, Matter Of Principle, Montreal
2011 The Woodmill, S.A.G.S., London
2011 The Woodmill, Nicolas Party: Elephants at the Woodmill, London
2011 38b Peckham Rye, I Have No Use For The Truth, London
2011 Collective Show Los Angeles w/ LA Pedestrians Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Vulpes Vulpes, Heliotrope, London
2010 ShopAt34, Say What What Way, London
2010 The Woodmill, The Devil’s Necktie, London
2009 ShopAt34, soSHOW!, London
2009 Area10, Groupe/Grope, London
2009 James Taylor Gallery, Notes From The Underground, London
2009 Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery, How to Manage When Everything’s a Priority, Glasgow
2008 Lewisham Art House, New Cross Art Prize Exhibition, London
2008 Tender Pixel Gallery, New Paintings w/ Sungyeon Park, London
2007 FOFA Gallery, Stanley Mills Purchase Prize Exhibition, Montreal
2006 Parisian Laundry Collection I, Montreal
2006 AWOL Gallery Square Foot, Toronto
2006 Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, The Only Way Out Is In, Montreal
ART FAIRS
2015 Art Toronto, Toronto
2015 Papier, Montreal
2014 Art Toronto, Toronto
2014 Papier, Montreal
2013 CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York City
2013 Jotta, Battersea Evolution, An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World
2012 London Art Fair, Art Projects w/ Axis, London
2011 Central House Of Artists, TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE, Moscow
2010 Art Toronto, Toronto
2008 Art Toronto, Toronto
COLLECTIONS
CPOA du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Concordia University
Collection Luc LaRochelle
Courchesne Larose Ltd
FIFA (Festival International du Film sur l’Art)
Loto-Québec
Orford Centre for the Arts
Parisian Laundry
Stanley Mills Collection
Tilquin Collection
Toronto Dominion Bank
Université de Sherbrooke
Various private collections in Canada, USA, UK, Russia and Europe
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Michael Valinsky, “Visual Interview,” The Wild Magazine, 21 August 2014
• Crystal Bennes, “Trevor Kiernander,” The Learned Pig, 27 November 2013 • Susie Pentelow, “A Conversation with Canadian Artist Trevor Kiernander,” Traction Magazine, 6 November 2013
• “Trevor Kiernander. Fallen: A conversation with the Canadian artist Trevor Kiernander,” Wall Street International, 23 March 2013
• “Art Moscow 2011: A Round Up” (video), Huffington Post, 21 October 2011
• Jerome Delgado, “Arts visuels—De l’intime jusqu’à la peinture extreme,” Le Devoir (Montreal), 31 December 2010
• Christian Roy, “TREVOR KIERNANDER: La construction d’un monde pictural,” Vie des Arts (Canada) 219 (Summer 2010)
• Lori Callaghan, “Roots Of Home Reveal Where The Heart Lives,” Montreal Gazette, 12 June 2010
• Jerome Delgado, “Le chaos raffiné de Kiernander,” Le Devoir (Montreal), 5 June 2010 • Goldsmiths—But Is It Art (documentary), dir. Magnus Temple and Emma Tutty, Dragonfly and BBC Four, April 2010
• Susan Holtham, “Setting Up Art-Shop With soShow!,” Dazed Digital, London, December 2009
• “Gold & Delicious,” MESCALINA.IT: Rivista on-line di Arte e Cultura, February 2008
• di Francesca Cavazzana, “Gold & Delicious,” archimagazine, February 2008
• Christine Redfern, “A Stroke of Art,” Montreal Mirror, August 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Tom Trevatt and Catherine Barnabe, “Uncommon Ground,” Art Mûr, Montreal, September 2014
Michael Heilgemeir, “The Nomadic Studio,” Edition Taube, London, March 2013
Dominique Allard, “Trevor Kiernander: Here. Not Here.”, Art Mûr, Montreal, April 2012
Cameron Skene, “Meditations In An Emergency,” Art Mûr, Montreal, 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 Sarah Wilkinson, “To Build A Home,” Art Mûr, Montreal, May 2010
Carte Blanche 2, Painting Magenta Foundation, November 2008
Lyne Crevier and Katey Apsey, “Relative Detachements,” Art Mûr, Montreal, July 2007
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2014 MINT Collective Residency, Riad Biba, Marrakech, Morocco
2013 PEER Residency w/ Merike Estna, London
2010 John Moores Contemporary Painting 2010 (short list), London
2010 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 (short list), London
2010 Woodmill Travel Grant, London
2007 RBC Painting Competition (short list): Eastern Division, Canada
2006 Stanley Mills Purchase Prize, Montreal
2002 Cambridge Centre for the Arts Jurors Award: First Annual Juried Exhibition
2002 Nominated: Bernice Adams Memorial Award: Contribution to Visual Arts in the Community
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, TEACHING, ARTIST TALKS
2015 Artist Talk, Concordia University, Montreal
2012 Visiting Tutor BA Fine Art, British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
2012 Artist Talk, British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow
2009 Co-director, ShopAt34, London{C}
