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
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.
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
