2006 RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Judging Panel Biographies
Western Canada
Wayne Baerwaldt
Wayne Baerwaldt is the Director/Curator of Exhibitions at
the Alberta College of Arts and Design in Calgary. He is also
Curator of the Biennale de Montreal 2007 and adjunct curator
with the Toronto International Film Festival. Prior to his
appointment in Calgary, he was the director of The Power Plant
contemporary art gallery in Toronto. Baerwaldt has curated
or co-curated numerous exhibitions including Under the Influence
of Fluxus (1991), Caroline Dukes (1994), Pierre Molinier (1994),
Fragile Electrons: A Video Survey for the National Gallery
of Canada, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Paradise
Institute (Venice Biennale 2001), The Royal Art Lodge: Ask
the Dust (2003), Glenn Ligon: Some Changes (current) and many
others.
Baerwaldt recently co-curated a major exhibition of work
by Glenn Ligon for the Power Plant, which is traveling to
the Wexner Art Centre, the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston,
and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, among other cities.
He has developed and presented projects at the Sao Paulo Biennial
in 1994, the Istanbul Biennial in 1999 and the 49th Venice
Biennale in 2001.
Baerwaldt is the only Canadian member of the Exhibition Committee
of Independent Curators International; in addition to this
curatorial practice, he has contributed to publications such
as City Magazine, Art & Text, Border Crossings, Art Paper,
and numerous catalogues.
Eleanor Bond
Eleanor Bond is a Winnipeg-based artist who is known for
a distinctive body of paintings focusing on urban environments.
Her works are produced on large, un-stretched canvas and
have been described as surreal and encompassing. She uses
unusual perspectives and blurred colours to play with ideas
of space, place and community.
For the past decade, Bond has been focusing her research
and interpretation on particular cities, such as Rotterdam,
Salzburg and Detroit. Bond has exhibited internationally since
1987 with several major showings, including the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo, Witte de With in Rotterdam,
the Clocktower in New York and the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Montreal. Her most recent exhibitions were in Tokyo,
Seoul, Hamilton, and Berlin.
Bond was born in Winnipeg in 1948. She graduated from the
School of Art, University of Manitoba in 1976. Bond teaches
at Concordia University but currently is on a leave of absence
and focusing on her work in Winnipeg.
Andy Sylvester
Andy Sylvester is currently the Director of the Equinox Gallery
in Vancouver. In addition to his current position, Sylvester
also sits on the Art Committee at Vancouver General Hospital.
Previously Sylvester has sat on the Board of Directors for
the Professional Art Dealers Association and worked at the
Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff.
Sylvester was educated at the Banff School of Fine Arts and
the University of Ottawa.
Central Canada
John Brown
John Brown is a Toronto-based artist who has been exhibiting
his work nationally and internationally since 1981. In 2001
and 2002 he attended residencies in Germany and France.
Brown has recently shown work in China and Toronto, at the
Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, respectively. He will be showing new work at
the Olga Korper Gallery in September 2006.
Brown is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and also
received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph.
Barbara Fischer
Barbara Fischer is the Director/Curator of the Justina M.
Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto.
Prior to working at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Fischer
was the Director /Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and has
also worked at the Open Space Gallery, the Walter Phillips
Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Fisher also taught
contemporary art, art history, theory and criticism, and curatorial
studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design and at the
University of Western Ontario.
She has curated numerous solo exhibitions of contemporary
Canadian artists as well as group exhibitions, including the
internationally touring retrospective exhibition of General
Idea, which will be showing at the KunstWerke ICA in Berlin
in the summer.
Fischer has a Master of Arts from York University.
Patrizia Libralato
Patrizia Libralato is the Co-Director of the Birch Libralato
Gallery, along with colleague and friend Robert Birch. The
focus of the gallery is to represent top Canadian and American
artists in Toronto but also to expand and challenge the artists
on an international level by participating in international
art fairs and events.
Previously, Libralato was Associate Director at the Sable-Castelli
Gallery and before that, began her gallery career at Wynick/Tuck
Gallery. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and
holds a degree in Art History.
Eastern Canada
Shauna McCabe
Shauna McCabe was recently appointed the Director of The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Previously McCabe worked with the Confederation Centre Art
Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. She has also
worked as a Research Associate with the University of Prince
Edward Island and been an Adjunct Professor with Mount Allison
University.
McCabe studied at McGill University and Simon Fraser University.
She completed her doctoral research at the University of British
Columbia where she explored critical landscape aesthetics
in contemporary art.
She has produced numerous exhibitions and research publications,
such as Curb Appeal (2005), Beauty Queens (2004), Littoral
Documents (2004) and Between Earth & Sky (in knowing one,
one will know the other): Geoffrey Hendricks (2003).
Shauna McCabe has been making the east coast her home since
1998.
Lilian Rodriguez
Lilian Rodriguez has directed Galerie Lilian Rodriguez in
Montreal since 1989. She has a social sciences background
and holds a Master of Arts in art history from the University
of Montreal. Rodriguez devotes herself to developing relations
between the Americas through exhibitions and exchanges.
Galerie Lilian Rodriguez presents contemporary art in all
its forms with a special emphasis on Latin American art, and
explores different cultures from an aesthetic as well as anthropological
point of view.
Eric Simon
Eric Simon has been a practicing artist for over 20 years.
Starting as a student at Concordia University in 1984, Simon
received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and then went on
to get his Masters of Visual Arts from the Université
du Québec in Montreal in 1999.
Simon mostly produces paintings but his body of work also
includes sculptures, digital prints, traditional prints, photos
and drawings. His subjects range from realistic portraits
to alien monsters and abstract gestural paintings. Simon has
had many solo exhibitions, including shows at Camac in Marnay-sur-Seine
in France, at the Christof Merian Foundation in Basel and
at the One-Room Gallery in Zurich. His work has also been
part of group exhibitions in the United States, Australia,
Taiwan, Czech Republic, France and Switzerland.
Simon is a visiting professor in Concordia's Studio Arts
program and lives in Hudson, Quebec.
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