INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1970
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Lives Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1983-1984
Grant McEwen Community College Edmonton, Alberta
1984-1985
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada
1986-1987
Independent Study Program, Florence, Italy
1985-1988
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
The Start of a Gauntlet of Beings, (collaboration with Kevin Hanley) Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California.
9,000 Pieces, Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Catalog.
KIMBALL 1901, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA. Catalog.
9,000 Pieces, Silver Flag, Montreal.
The Great Tidal Wave Played a Final Tune on This Piano, Galleria S.A.L.E.S , Rome
9,000 Pieces, Loop Video Exhibition. Barcelona
2010
TAKE THE DARK OUT OF THE NIGHT TIME, Arrow Projects, Beijing, China Catalog.
The Sound of Ice Melting, Dripping, AOYAMA/MEGURO Gallery, Tokyo.
The First and the Last, Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto.
A Little Ramble, Western Bridge, Seattle. Catalog.
2009
Man Crying, Punching Bag, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Mercy Flush, Goodwater, Toronto, Canada
The Field, Galerie Michael Zink, Berlin
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney Australia
2008
The Field, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Birch/Libralato, Toronto
Selected Work 1997-2007 Survey, The Luckman Gallery, Cal-State University LA
Everythinghappensatonce St Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax
Twinset, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand, Curated by Justin Patton
2007
Selected Standards, Stadtische Galerie, Haus Der Kultur, Waldkraiberg (Artist book)
A Mosquito Under A Paper Cup In Tokyo, AOYAMA/MEGURO Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Standards, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Euan Macdonald Survey, Kenderdine Museum, Canada
2006
Two Places at Once, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
You Are My Nebula, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Where Flamingo’s Fly, Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto
Healer, Times Square, Creative Time, The 59th Minute, New York
2005
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Two Places at Once, U of T, DMG, Scarborough
University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery, Mississauuga
2004
Eclipse, and Other Chance Appearances, Kunstbunker
Kunstverein Neurnberg, curated by Hans-Jurgen Hafner
Cohan and Leslie, New York
The Tower, Toronto Sculpture Garden
Natura, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2003
Some Summer Day, University Art Museum, Longbeach, CA, curated by Mary Kay Lombino
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Zink and Gegner, Munich
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
2002
Cohen Leslie and Browne, New York
The Shadow’s Path, D.P.A.G., New Zealand
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2001
James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
2000
Shaheen Fine Art, Cleveland
Galerie Zink, Munich
Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
1999
Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
New Phase Art Space, Taiwan
Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto
Four Walls, San Francisco
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1998
Present Tense, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Or Gallery, Vancouver
Oakville Galleries, Oakville
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Impakt festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Light in Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Work on Paper, ACME, Los Angeles
2010
Everything Everyday, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
This Modern World?, Public Billboard project, Shanghai, China
CUE: Artists Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery
Art on Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art Kansas
Like Tears in Rain, Palácio das Artes, Porto, Portugal, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas (catalog)
Days of The Eclipse, Mercer Union, Toronto
Elogio della Semplicità, Fondazione Stelline. Milan, Italy, curated by Giorgio Verzotti (catalog)
2009
Best of Loop, Film and Video, Pacifc Design Center, Los Angeles, curated by Paul Young
Disegni Europei, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee gallery, Rome, curated by Giorgio Verzotti (catalog)
Standard TV. Curated by Creative Time, New York, Miami, Los Angeles
For Example, MSUV Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (catalog)
Video Exhibition, Public Sculpture park, curated by Laura Fried,Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
2008
California Video, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, curated by Glenn Philips, (catalog.)
SchauM, Maneimer Kunstverein, Germany (catalog.)
Unknown Pleasures, Aspen Art Museum USA
To Illustrate and Multiply, MOCA, Los Angeles, curated by Lisa Gabriel Mark
The Desert Shore, Luckman Gallery Cal State Los Angeles, curated by Jan Tumlir (catalog.)
2007
Tempo AO Tempo, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, curated by
Isabel Carlos and Iñaki Martínez (catalog.)
Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog)
Looking Up Noorderzon festival, The Netherlands
Lowlands festival, The Netherlands
Is There a There, There?, National Gallery of Canada (catalog.)
Lucky Day, San Francisco Arts Commission
2006
Supernatural, The Physics Room Christchurch, New Zealand
Lichjaren, Public Art Exhibition Gouda, The Netherlands
Spooky, The Dark Side of Light, Het Gebouw Utrecht, The Netherlands
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York, curated by Peter Eleey
Into The Black, Western Bridge, Seattle Art in America, Arario Museum, Korea
2005
El equilibrio y sus derivados, Casa Del Lago, Mexico City, curated by Tatiana Cuevos
Seducidos por el accidente, Fundación Luis Seoane Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Spain
Irreducible, Wattis Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, curated by Ralph Rugoff (Catalog)
blau nacht kunsthalle Nuremburg
Still Things Fall From The Sky, California Museum of Photography, curated by Ciara Innis
2004
Treble, The Sculpture Center, New York, curated by Regine Basha
The Joy of My Dreams, Sevilla Bienale, curated by Harald Szeemann Seville, Spain (catalog)
2048 km, Or Gallery, curated by Melanie Ward Vancouver
Dwellan - Contemporary Video Art, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (Catalog)
Friendly Fire, Gus Fischer Gallery, New Zealand
Break Away, curated by Linda Sawchin, Kellowna Art Gallery
2003
Adorno, Kunstverein, Frankfurt , curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen (catalog)
Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art (Catalog)
Twilight Zone, Hallen für Kunst im E-Werk, Freiburg/Breisgau
Rest Assured, Bard College Museum
Without Fear And Reproach, Pulse of America, Wittezaal, Ghent, curated by Jerome Jacobes
Echo Sparks, ars electronica center (aec), Linz, Austria
Kunstbuero, Vienna, Austria
17 Reasons, Jack Hanley, San Fransisco, curated by Kate Fowle
Friendly Fire, curated by Leonhard Emmerling
Frauenfeld, Shedhalle Im Eisenwerk, Switzerland
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany (Catalog)
Silent Ways of World Making Too, Berlin, curated by Harm Lux (Catalog)
Near Life Experience, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, curated by Clair Doherty
Inaugural exhibition, Palazo Roccella Museum, Naples, Italy
Sculpture Center, New York
2002
Gimme Shelter, Videos on Urban Discomfort, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Event Horizon, Lothingstrasse 13, Munich
Gap Show, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Dortmund
Hammertown, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, curated by Reid Sheir
L.i.s.t. Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Zero Arte Contemporanea, Milan
BANG: When seeing is blinding Canadienne, Institute du Culture Paris, France, curated by Eileen Sommerman (Catalog)
DV Noir California Arts Centre, Escondito, CA
In Szene Gesetze, Museum fur Neue Kunst zkm Karlsruhe, Germany
Zero Arte Contemporenea, Milan
2001
Mayday, Mayday, Swiss Institute, New York, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahlner
Galerie Zink, Munich
Shelf Life, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, UK , curated by Smith and Fowle (Catalog)
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Orange marble, Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Manray Hsu (Catalog)
010101, Art in Technological Times, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2000
Too, Platform Gallery, London, UK
Dave Muller 3 Day Weekend, The Approach, London
Montreal Biennale, Montreal Canada, curated by Peggy Gale (Catalog)
Fresh, New museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Almost, The Living Room, curated by Regine Basha, Santa Monica
1999
Altoids Collection, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami
National Aviation Museum, Ottawa
The Time it Takes to Eat a Sandwich: Recent video Art from Canada, Depot Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna
Platform, London, England
1998
Version City, Buffalo, New York
In Lieu, Toronto
57 HOPE, Brooklyn, New York
Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
1997
Floating Gallery, Winnipeg
Waiting For Something to Happen, Toronto
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1996
Gallery 101, Ottawa
1995
Mercer Union, Toronto
1993
Birganart, Toronto
1990
Gallery 76 Toronto
PAGE ART
2003
Plan for a Billboard in America, Front cover, C Magazine, Spring 2003, issue #77 edited by Eileen Sommerman
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Views From A Little Ramble, Western Bridge, Seattle WA.
2011 KIMBALL 1901-, Pitzer Art Galleries, CA
2011, 9,000 PIECES, Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
2010, TAKE THE DARK OUT OF THE NIGHT TIME, Arrow Factory, Beijing
2007 Selected Standards, JRP Ringier, Stadtische Galerie, Haus Der Kultur, Waldkraiburg
2006 You Are My Nebula/You are My Sunshine, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2005 Euan Macdonald (everythinghappensatonce) mongraph Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg
2003 You Are Here, DPAG, New Zealand (Catalog)
1999 Euan Macdonald, SAAG (Catalog)
COLLECTIONS
MAXXI, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Turin
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal
DAIWA Radiator collection museum Hiroshima, Japan
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
NEW MUSEUM, New York
Western Bridge, Seattle
A.G.O. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Oakville Galleries Canada
V.A.G. Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arning, B., Obrist, H., Ritchie, C., Salzman, S Euan Macdonald, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1999
Berardini, A. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. in Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue #17, February/March 2009, pp.122-125
Berardini, A. review, Art Forum 2008
Berwick, C. Euan Macdonald ARTnews 1 November 2004
Bishop, J. Euan Macdonald 010101: Art in Technological Times catalogue 2001
Brennan, S. Strangely Normal, Pavement, #52, April/May 2002
Braun, A. Euan Macdonald, The Gap Show (ex.cat.), Museum AM Ostwall ortmund, Germany, 2002
Chu, I. Review, Frieze, January-February 2000
Church, A. Art on Paper 2007
Cooper, J. everything happens at once Canadian Art 2001
De Bois, N. withstanding the Obvious L’envers des Apparences exhibition catalogue, 2005
Ennis, C. The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back,(interview). Kimball 1901- catalogue. Pitzer Art Galleries 2011
Gale, P. Every Time, Every Time: La Biennale de Montreal (ex.cat.), Montreal, Canada, 2000
Gavaghan, A. Taiwan News, 15 October, 1999
Gilmore, J. Euan Macdonald tema celeste 1 April 2003
Godmer, G. Art That Resists L’envers des Apparences exhibition catalogue, 2005
Gopnik, B. Globe and Mail, 14 January, 1999
Gosselin, C. Canadian Art, Primer La Biennale de Montréal, Fall 2000, page 38-43
Guaglianone, P. Euan Macdonald, S.A.L.E.S. Arte E Critica, April 2005
Hafner, H. Kunstforum, Spring 2003
Harrison, A.S.A For Real: Telling the Truth in Art and Writing, C International Contemporary Art, issue #76, Canada, winter 2002/03
Hart, D. Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Howard, V. Artists brush away stereotypes Ottawa citizen 17 March 1996
Holubitsky, I. MUD, Catalogue Essay, November 1996
Jordan, B. review The Globe and Mail, 28 September 1996
Jordan, B. MUD Canadian Art, Spring 1996
Fischer, B. Still Speed or Speed Still in Euan Macdonald everythinghappensatonce 2006
Fowle, K. Shelf Life (ex.cat.), Gasworks Gallery, London, 2001
Kern, K. Between the still and the moving image, Dwellan (ex.cat.), Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Charlottenborg, Germany, 2004
Knight, C. review Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2001, page 27
Knight, C. review, Los Angeles Times 2008
Lacayo, R. Euan Macdonald Time Magazine (Canadian Edition) 14 October 2002
Laurence, R. Euan Macdonald: You are my nebula in Straight.com, 7 December 2006, www.straight.com/article/euan-macdonald-you-are-my-nebula
MacKay, G. Globe and Mail, 28 September, 1996
Madill, S. Thinking Space: Selections from the Ann and Marshall Webb Collection (ex.cat.), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada, March 2000
Mark, L.G. Images of Change, Kimball 1901- catalogue. Pitzer Art Galleries 2011
Martens, A. Euan Macdonald Flash Art 1 November 2003
Martin, V. review, Artweek 2008
Matsui, M. Shadows of a Continuous Universe, Euan Macdonald’s Art of Synchronic Perception in Euan Macdonald everythinghappensatonce 2006
Massier, J. Or Gallery Exhibition Booklet Essay, 1998
Massier, J. A Spy in the House of Art (Curatorial essay) 1994
Miles, C. Euan Macdonald, in Artforum, March 2001, page 149
Monk, P. review, Parachute (Summer) 1999
Motley, J. review FRIEZE MAGAZINE 2010
Myers, H. Crawling through time LA Times 2003
Paton, J. You are Here, catalogue essay, In the Shadow’s Path, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, June 2002
dwellan, exhibition catalogue, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, 2004
Pollack, B. Spirited Away Time Out 2006
Ritchie, C. Based On A True Story, A.G.O. Exhibition Brochure 1996
Rodney, L. Still Life, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Catalogue Essay, 6 January- 5 February, 2000
Rugoff, R. Irreducible (ex.cat.), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, January 2005
Rugoff, R. Responsiveness Testing, 9,000 Pieces catalog, YBCA 2011
Salzman, G. review, Canadian Art Review, Summer Issue 1999
Smith, R. At shows painted with sound be prepared to see with your ears The New York Times 21 May 2004
Sommerman, E. the Potential threat of nothing, Bang (ex.cat.), Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 2002
Stebbins, J. Euan Macdonald SAAG 1999
Szeeman, H. The joy of my dreams, I Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla (ex.cat.), Seville, Spain, 2004
Taylor, K. A courageous modesty The Globe and Mail 12 May 1993
Thorn, K. work vs play Nothing BANG – When seeing is blinding catalogue 2002
Tranberg, D. Bending Time, Cleveland Free Times, November 1, 2000
Turner, M. This Land is Your Land Hammertown catalogue 2002
Urban, R. Der ball in wasser ist ein mond Nurnberg Mittwoch May 2004
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg everythinghappensatonce, (Monograph) 2005
Verzotti, G. Euan Macdonald. Galerie Zink & Gegner, Artforum, XXLI No.10 Summer 2004
Verzotti, G. Catalog. Elogio della Semplicità, Fondazione Stelline. Milan, Italy 2010
Verzotti, G. Mysterioso, The Oneiric Work of Euan Macdonald, in Euan Macdonald everythinghappensatonce 2006
Williams, A. Tema Celeste, March-April 2001, page 84
Yao, P. TAKE THE DARK OUT OF THE NIGHT Catalog. Arrow Factory Publication, Beijing, China 2010