BIO ENG DETAILed - Catherine Young Bates

Catherine Young BATES
STUDIES
1995
1986
1960-63
1957
1956
Hugh O”Donnell Workshop, Conn, also Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont.
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Master of Education (Art)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Md., U.S.A., & Maryland Institute of Art, U.S.A.
Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada, Honours B.A., Art & Archaeology
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
2009
2008
2007
2006
2006
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
2000
1999
1998
1998
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, QC, Retrospective, director/curator Joyce Millar
McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre. Monochromes, curator Victoria LeBlanc
Galerie dʼAvignon, Montreal, December
Le Musée de Charlevoix, The QUAI SERIES, Oct. 12-Dec. 2, director Jean-Luc Murray
Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Vermont, U.S. A. Sept. 14-Oct. 9
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, QUAI SERIES, Sept. 28 – Oct. 14
Two Graces Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, Dec. 2-Jan. 7, 2006
Galerie Gillygooly, North Hatley, QC July 3-30
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON , VISTAS XII, Nov.10-27
Galerie dʼart lʼUnion-Vie, Cultural Centre, Drummondville, QC, June 27-September 12
Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, VISTAS XI: Georgian Bay, May 7-29
Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, ICARUS, March. (catalogue)
Galerie dʼAvignon, Montreal, QC, VISTAS X: Soaring, Oct. 22- Nov. 15
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, VISTAS IX, Oct. 3 -26 (catalogue)
Galerie dʼAvignon, Montreal, QC, Nov., VISTAS VIII:
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON (Nov. 4-22), VISTAS VII: :Lands and Skies
Galerie dʼAvignon, Montreal, QC Mar. 28 - April 16, VISTAS VI
Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON, VISTAS V
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, VISTAS IV: Lands and Lilies
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, QC VISTAS III: Owlʼs Head Mountain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
2008
2008
2007-2010
2006
2006
2005
2003
2003
2003
2000
1989-2006
1999
1999
Haut en Couleur, Villa Bagatelle, Sainte-Foy, QC, 24 mars – 22 août
Le Collège comme lieu de création, NDG Maison de la culture, Montreal
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Galerie dʼAvignon, 10 Anniversary Exhibit, April
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, Sketches, September
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON, Quebec Artists of R.C.A., Works on Paper
Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario, Artists Odyssey May 25 – Oct. 1
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire,QC, EAST WEST Oriental / Occidental
LANDSCAPES, July-Aug. Curator Joyce Millar
Bombardier Cultural Center, Valcourt, QC, Perspectives: Women Townships Artists,
curators Annie Boudin, Monique Nadeau-Saumier
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Vues du paysage, Sept. 4 – 27, curator Hedwidge Asselin
Musée des beaux arts, Sherbrooke, QC Salon du printemps, curator Suzanne Pressé
ARTS 2000, R.C.A., national juried exhibit, Stratford & Toronto, ON
Les Femmeuses, Pratt & Whitney, also other years back to 1989
Space and Place: Landscapes of the Eastern Townships / Espace et lieux, paysages des
Cantons de lʼEst, with Kreighoff, Fraser, Edson & Goodrige Roberts, etc., curated by
Monique Nadeau-Saumier
The Park: An Artistʼs Eye, Visual Arts Centre, Westmount, QC, curator: Victoria LeBlanc
C. Y. BATES Bio - p. 2
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2007
2006
2006
2006-05
2006-06
2004
2001
1992
1984
1978
1974
1974
The Frank Waters Foundation Residency, July-Aug., Taos, NM. U.S.A.
Distinguished Alumni Award, Victoria College, University of Toronto, (given April 2007)
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM, USA, Sept. 1- Dec. 15
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM, USA, Sept. 6, 2005-Jan.15,
Elected member of the Chancellorʼs Council, Victoria University (Un. of Toronto)
Residency Grant, Pouch Cove Foundation, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA/arc)
Grant & Award for research “Explorations of the Self: Drawing & Writing”.
The Canadian Give The Gift of Literacy Foundation and the Lydia Burton Award, with
Linda Shohet, The Centre for Literacy, Montréal
Elected Member of PEN International, The Canadian Centre
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Canada Council Travel Grant, participant, 23 Congress of INSEA (International Society
for Education through Art). Adelaide, Australia
Grant, Minist∂re des Affaires culturelles, Aide aux expositions
Purchase Award, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007
2005
2004
2004
2004-ʻ72
2003
2002
2001
2001
1997
1997-ʻ92
1994
1993
1993
1992
1992
1984
1979-74
Poetry Reading, The Yellow Door, Montreal, Dec. 13, organizer Ilona Martonfi
Painted in Change Islands, Newfoundland, July
Painted in Baffin Island (Iqaluit and Pangnirtung), July
Painted in Newfoundland, Corner Brook, June, Pouch Cove Foundation Residency
Professor, Fine Arts Department, Dawson College, Montreal, QC.
Painted in Georgian Bay area, for spring exhibit at Michael Gibson Gallery
Sketching Trip to the High Arctic with Doris McCarthy and others
Visiting artist/teacher, TASIS: The American School in Switzerland, Lugano
Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (R.C.A.)
The Leighton Foundation, Alberta, invited artist
Member, Board of Directors, Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC.
National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of the Artist, Eighth Annual
Conference of the School of Visual Arts, New York City, participant
Drawing: A Link to Literacy, editors: Catherine Bates and Linda Shohet
INSEA (International Society for Education through Art) Participant
Grant & Award for research ʻExplorations of the Self: Drawing & Writingʼ.
Grant, Resource Teacher project, The Centre for Literacy, Montréal, QC
Elected member of PEN International, Canadian Centre.
Art Critic, The Montreal Star, Artscanada, Art News, etc.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
André Seleanu, Energie et Lumière, Vie des Arts, No. 217, p.80, 2009
Joyce Millar, Interweaving the Line, in catalogue Hors limites/Out of Line, 2009
Victoria LeBlanc, Sounding the Surround, in catalogue Hors limites/Out of Line, 2009
Carmen de Cima Suarez, Icaro: Iconografia de un vuelo, Fundation Aena (Spain), p. 168-69, Dec. 2008
Juliana Joos, Anna Maria Carlevaris, Le Collège comme lieu de création, catalogue, Feb 2008
Brigitte Lacroix, Port-au-Persil, Série Quai, Le Musée de Charlevoix, QC, catalogue
Parkins, Tess, Flying High With Catherine Young Bates, Arts Scene, London, ON, May 6, 2004
Lehmann, Henry, Catherine Batesʼs Eyes of Icarus, The Gazette, Montreal, March 20, 2004
Lajoye, Julie, Bates Tackles Icarus Myth in New Show, The Westmount Examiner, March 18, 2004
Vanderstay, Marilyn, Bates exhibition is bright, bold and convincing, Westmount Examiner, Nov. 22, 2001
The Editor, The World and I, Washington, D.C. March, 2001, pp. 90-95
Grande, John K., Vistas VI (article) Vie Des Arts No.179, 2000, French and English , Montréal , QC.
C. Y. BATES - Bio. p. 3
Space and Place: Landscapes of the Eastern Townships, a celebration of two centuries of Eastern
Townships landscapes, presented at Bishopʼs University, Lennoxville, QC., June 2-20,1999, in
conjunction with the 1999 Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. Curated by Monique
Nadeau-Saumier, catalogue in the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, No.14, Spring 1999
Shepherd, Mathew, Landscapes make their Townshipsʼ debut, The Record
(Sherbrooke, QC), Thursday June 10, 1999 (review)
Larsen,Wayne, Westmount Park celebrated in major VAC show , The Westmount Examiner, QC,
Thursday, June 10, 1999 ( review)
Lehmann, Henry, A Misfit and Proud of It, (review) The Gazette, Montreal, QC., Mar 21, 1998
Meyer, John, Picking Up Speed As She Forges Ahead. MagazinʻArt, edition internationale. English and
French, Montreal, QC.,Winter 1995/96
Readerʼs Digest colour cover, March 1993, reproduction of Cliffs: Thin Crust
Lehmann, Henry, Offbeat exuberant works fill galleries, (review), The Gazette, Montréal, QC, Sept. 26,
1992.
Sabat, Christina, Quebec Art Takes Spotlight at Gallery 78, The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, N.B.,
Nov. 23, 1991.
Sabat, Christina, review, The Daily Gleaner, Fredricton, N.B., Saturday, Nov 30, 1991.
Pringle, Allan, Catherine Bates, Ecology Series - Série écologique, Catalogue, 20 pages, Montreal,
Octobre, 1988.
1985-86- 4 reviews of Counterpane: Poems and Drawings by Catherine Bates, publisher Ken Hertz
Robert, Guy, Art Actuel au Québec depuis 1970, Iconia, 1983, pp. 83, 153, 222
Ross, Christine, Au-delå et par la diversité, Exposition Actuelles I, Catalogue, 101 pages, Oct. 1983.
Sabbath, Lawerence, review, The Gazette, Feb 28, 1981.
Blundin, Judith. Art Scence, Oxford Mail, June 7, 1980.
Gosselin, Claude, Bates, Le Devoir, 30 nov. 1974.
Nixon, Viginia, Langstadt and Bates, The Gazette, Nov 23, 1974.
Lehmann, Henry and George Borgardi, Robert Langstadt and Catherine Bates, The Montreal Star, Nov
20, 1974.
Nixon, Virginia, Portraits of the Family Mark Artistʼs Return to Reality, The Gazette, Oct. 26, 1974.
Borgardi, George, review The Montreal Star, Oct. 19, 1974.
Burdett, Bob (coordinator), Canadian Artisits Exhibition, artistes canadiens: expositions 1972-73,
Roundstone, Toronto, 1974.
Kritzwiser, Kay, Batesʼ likeable aluminum people, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 8, 1973.
POETRY - Four reviews and anthology, 1985-1986, Member PEN CANADA, 1984
COLLECTIONS :
Bank of Montreal
CI Mutual Funds
Pratt & Whitney
City of Westmount
Coca-Cola Company
Imperial Oil
Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne
Davis and Henderson
McGill University
Loto-Quebec
Stewart Hall, Ville de Pointe-Claire, QC
REPRESENTED BY:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, QC
New School for Social Research, New York
Polar Capital
Readerʼs Digest
Royal Bank
Cogeco, Inc.
Intervet Canada
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Victoria University, University of Toronto
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mex.
Galerie dʼAvignon, Montreal, QC
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON
Galerie St. Laurent and Hill, Ottawa, ON
www.galeriedavignon.ca
www.robertsgallery.net
www.galeriestlaurentplushill.com
(many exhibits in Canada, the U.S.A. and England are not included in this shortened biography)