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Terry Fenton

Artist Biography

 

Born
Regina, Saskatchewan, 1940
 
Education
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, 1969 (led by Michael Steiner)
Emma Lake Artist's Workshop, 1967 (led by Frank Stella)
Post-graduate studies in English Literature, University of Regina, 1965-66
Emma Lake Artists Workshop, 1965 (led by Lawrence Alloway and John Cage)
BA cum laude; English Literature, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 1960-62
School of Fine Art, Regina College, 1958-60
 
Employment
Artist, writer, president, Saskatchewan Arts Alliance; Canadian contributor, "Architectural Digest", 1999
Terry Fenton Art Services Inc., 1997-1998
Director, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1993-97
Terry Fenton Services Inc., Artistic Director to the Leighton Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, 1987-93
Director, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 1972-87
Assistant to the Director, The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1965-71
Social Worker with the Alberta Department of Public Welfare, Edmonton, Alberta, 1962-65
 
Lectures, Symposia, Workshop, Commisions
Three Lectures on Saskatoon artist, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 2005
Art Gallery Grants juror, Canada Council, 1998
Two lectures, Univeristy of Lethbridge, 1998
Chair and Visiting Artist, "Landscape '98", Saskatoon, 1998
Commissioned by Cameco Corp to make paintings of Uranium mine sites in northern Saskatchewan, 1998
Visiting Artist, Leighton Foundation, Calgary, 1997
Panel Speaker: "The Influence of Art Institutions on the Production of Art", University of Lethbridge, 1993
Organized: three Visiting Artists Sessions for Leighton Foundation, two near Calgary, one near Pincher Creek, 1992
July. Working artist and visiting critic, Emma Lake Workshop, 1991
Sept. organizer and partcipant, Leighton Foundation Visiting Artists Session, Waterton, AB, 1991
Organized three other Visiting Artists Sessions and two Paint-Ins for Leighton Foundation, 1991
Organizer of three Leighton Foundation Visiting Artists Sessions, 1990
Visiting critic, Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Norfolk, England, 1990
May. Organizer and participant, Leighton Foundation Visiting Artists Workshop, Waterton, AB, 1989
July. Visiting Critic, Emma Lake Artists Workshop, Canada, 1988
August. Visiting Critic, Hardingham Workshop, Norfolk, England, 1988
September. Organized first "Paint-Ins" at Leighton Foundation, Calgary, 1988
August. Visiting Critic, Hardingham Workshop, Norfolk, England, 1986
May 23. Position Paper on Federal Arts Funding, CMA Anuual Conference, Ottawa, 1985
June. Visiting Critic, Sculptors Workshop, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 1985
May 15. "What was St. Martins?" (Panel chairman) at Sculpture events at the Royal College of Art, London, England, 1984
May 17. "Sculpture in Western Canada" (Lecture) at Sculpture events at the Royal College of Art, London, England, 1984
May 18. " Cycles and Watersheds: Recent Developments in Sculpture" (Panel chairman) at Sculpture events at the Royal College of Art, London, England, 1984
July. Triangle Workshop: With Sir Anthony Caro and Robert Loder, MP, co-founder and organizer as well as first visiting critic at Triangle Worksop, Pine Plains, NY, 1982
Juror, Red Deet Sculpture Symposium, 1980
Jan 18. Juror, Commenwealth Games Sculpture Symposium, 1978
May 6-7. Juror, SGIO Juried Art Competition, Regina, 1978
Sept 27. Lecture, "Contemporary Art and Western Canada", The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1978
Feb 4. Panel Moderator: "Canadian Artists on Canadian Art", The Hirshhirn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1977
March 2-3. Keynote speaker and panel moderator at a symposium on Contemporary Canadian Painting prganized by the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, 1977
May. Lecture "New Canadian Painting", Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1977
May 26. Opening speaker, Jack Bush Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1977
August. Visiting critic (with sculpture Sir Anthony Caro) at Emma Lake workshop, 1977
Oct 6. Lecure "The Art Environment in Canada", Canadian Society of Education Through Art, Annual Meeting, Calgary, 1977
Dec 1. Lecure, "Pictorial Art", The Banff Centre, 1977
"Lives of the Painters", weekly radio series on CFRN-FM, Edmonton, 1975-78
 
Awards
1988  Alberta Achievement Award
 
Selected Curatorial Work and Publications
2005  Reta Summers Cowley, University of Calgary Press
2003  Anthony Caro: Emma Lake Sculptures, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan (May)
2002  Qu'appelle, Tales of Two Valleys, Border Crossings (November)
2002  Kenneth Noland, Themes and Variations, 1958-2000, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
  The English Novelty - British Watercolours from the 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
1991  Appreciating Noland, Edmonton Art Gallery
1989  A.C. Leighton in the Rockies, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
1986  Anthony Caro, Ediciones Poligrapha, Barcelona; Thames and Hudson, London; Rizzoli, New York
1986  Peter Hide in Canada, The Edmonton Art Gallery
1983  Dorothy Knowles: Paintings 1964-1982, The Edmonton Art Gallery
1979  Jules Olitski and the Traditiom of Oil Painting, The Edmonton Art Gallery
1978  Modern Painting in Canada, Hurtig, Edmonton (With Karen Wilkin)
1978  The Picture Book, Edmonton Art Gallery
1975  How to look at a Painting, The Edmonton Art Gallery
1975  Abstraction West; Emma Lake and After, National Gallery of Canada
1975  Jack Bush: A Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario
1974  The ABC of Sculpture, The Edmonton Art Gallery
1971  Watercolour Painters from Saskatchewan, National Gallery of Canada
 
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2005  Prairie Landscapes, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, Alta.
2004  A Wide Horizon, Swift Current Art Gallery and Moose Jaw Gallery (Catalogue introduction by Helen Marzolf)
2004  Virginia Christopher Fine Art, Calgary (Solo Exhibition)
2004  Winchester Gallery, Victoria (Solo Exhibition)
2003  Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC (Solo Exhibition)
2003  Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg (Solo Exhibition)
2003  Regina Paintings, Regina Public Library (Group Exhibition)
2002  Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC (Solo Exhibition)
2001  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Sole Exhibition)
1999  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Group Exhibition)
1998  Visiting Artists, landscape 98 (Group Exhibition)
1996  Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Solo Exhibition)
1996  Art Placement; Saskatoon; Leighton Foundation; Calgary (Group Exhibitions)
1995  Loading Bay Gallery, Calgary (Solo Exhibition)
1995  Meredith Long Gallery; Houston; Koffler Gallery; Poughkeepsie, NY; and Art Placement; Saskatoon (Group Exhibitions)
1994  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Solo Exhibitions)
1994  Leighton Foundation, Calgary (Solo Exhibitions)
1993  Large Recent Paintings, RXN Visions, Calgary
1993  Recent Work, Leighton Foundation, Calgary
1993  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Group Exhibition)
1993  Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton (Solo Exhibitions)
1992  Small Oils from Nature (Group Exhibition organized by the Leighton Foundation)
1992  Christmas Exhibition, RXN Visions, Calgary
1991  The Leighton Foundation, Calgary (Solo Exhibitions)
1990  The Gallery; Art Placement, Saskatoon (Solo Exhibitions)
1990  Western Landscape Painters, Gallery One, Toronto (Group Exhibition)
1990  Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton (Solo Exhibitions)
1989  Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton (Solo Exhibitions)
1989  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary (Solo Exhibition)
1989  Edmonton Art Gallery (Group Drawing Exhibition)
1988  Alberta Landscape Painters, ACA Gallery, Calgary
1988  Summer exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery
1988  Group Paint-In exhibition, Leighton Foundation
1987  Grand Forks Regional Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C. (Solo Exhibition)
1986  Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary. (Solo Exhibition)
1985  Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York City (Two person Exhibition)
1985  Western Landscape Painters, Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary
1984  The Gallery; Art Placement, Saskatoon. (Solo Exhibition)
1983  Gallery One, Toronto (Solo Exhibition)
1983  Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton. (Solo Exhibition)
1982  Three Edmonton Landscape Painters, Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary
1982  Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary (Solo Exhibition)
1982  Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton. (Gallery artists)
1981  Hett Gallery, Edmonton (Solo Exhibition)
1981  Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton (Gallery artists)
1981  The Gallery; Art Placement, Saskatoon (Landscape artists)
1979  Hett Gallery, Edmonton. (Solo Exhibition)
1978  Canadian Galleries, Calgary (Two person Exhibition with Ron Myren)
1970  Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library. (Two person Exhibition with Dorothy Knowles)
 
Collections
Alberta Foundation For The Arts
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Canada Council Art Bank
Cameco
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
Edmonton Art Gallery
Kamloops Art Gallery
Leighton Foundation, Calgary
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Moose Jaw Art Museum
Saskatchewan Arts Board
SaskTel
University of Lethbridge
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Private and corporate collections in Canada, USA, and England
 
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