Catalogues and Monographs
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Venice, Italy,
Chiesa di San Samuele,
May to November, 2017,
Evan Penny: Ask Your Body,
Milano, Italy: Skira Edidore, 2017.
catalogue essay by Michael Short
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New York,
Sperone Westwater,
9 January to 14 February 2009,
Evan Penny,
New York: Sperone Westwater, 2009.
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Columbus, Ohio,
Columbus Museum of Art,
11 May to 2 September 2007 (touring),
Evan Penny,
Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 2007.
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New York,
Sperone Westwater,
9 September to 29 October 2005,
Evan Penny: No One - In Particular,
New York: Sperone Westwater, 2005.
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London, Ontario,
Museum London,
20 December 2003 to 14 March 2004 (touring),
Evan Penny: Absolutely Unreal,
London: Museum London, 2004.
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Zaragoza, Spain
Galeria Fernando Latorre,
March and April 1999,
Evan Penny,
Zaragoza: Galeria Fernando Latorre, 1999.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,
Art Gallery of Algoma,
13 February to 13 March 1987 (touring),
Evan Penny: A Survey,
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Art Gallery of Algoma, 1987.
Contributions in Catalogs
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New York,
The FLAG Art Foundation,
19 February to 27 May 2010,
Size Does Matter,
New York: The FLAG Art Foundation, 2010, p. 67.
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Merrill Falkenberg,
“Intimacy, Empathy, and the Essence of the Thing Itself”,
Southampton, New York,
The Parrish Art Museum,
12 August to 14 October 2007,
All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy,
Southampton, New York: The Parrish Art Museum, 2007, pp. 18, 102-3.
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Montréal,
The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts,
11 July to 22 October 2006,
Sound and Vision: Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art,
Montréal: The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006, unpaginated.
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Zürich,
Kunsthaus Zürich,
16 June to 3 September 2006,
The Expanded Eye: Stalking the Unseen,
ed. by Bice Curiger, Cathérine Hug, Linda Schädler,
Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006, p. 210.
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Xandra Eden,
“Evan Penny: L. Faux and No One - In Particular”
Toronto,
The Power Plant,
23 March to 26 May 2002,
Bruce Mau Design / Evan Penny,
Toronto: The Power Plant, 2002, unpaginated.
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Philip Monk,
“Rococo Tattoo”,
Toronto,
The Power Plant,
26 June to 7 September 1997,
Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art,
ed. by Alison Reid,
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1997, pp. 6, 12-13.
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Hamilton, Ontario,
Art Gallery of Hamilton,
19 April to 23 June 1991,
Practicing Beauty,
Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1991, unpaginated.
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Guelph, Ontario,
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre,
3 May to 14 June 1981 (touring),
Realism: Structure & Illusion,
Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1981, pp. 7, 27.
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Mississauga, Ontario,
Art Gallery of Mississauga,
18 September to 26 October 1997,
Loving the Alien,
Stuart Reid, Mississauga, Ontario, 1997
Books
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Richard D. Segal and Monica M. Segal,
Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection,
ed. by Lindsay S. Brown, Jade Chan, Elizabeth Fuller,
Portland, Oregon: Collectors Press, 2007, pp.136-37.
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Judith Collins,
Sculpture Today,
London: Phaidon Press, 2007, pp. 22-3.
Journals and Periodicals
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Anne Koval
Evan Penny: Ask Your Body,
Queen’s Quarterly
Issue 125, Fall 2018
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Caoimhe Morgan-Feir
Evan Penny Enters His Next Phase – In Venice,
Canadian Art
May 8, 2017
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The Body and Its Beautiful Damage,
Border Crossings,
2017, vol. 36, no.1, issue 141, pp. 20-21.
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Katy Donoghue,
Evan Penny,
Whitewall,
Spring 2011, no. 21, pp. 22, 102-9.
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Michaël Amy,
Evan Penny at Sperone Westwater,
Sculpture,
April 2010, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 73-4.
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Ken Johnson,
Sculpture Show,
The New York Times,
21 August 2009, p. C24.
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Nancy Tousley,
On scanning, or skewing off into virtual space,
Impressions (The Calgary Herald blog),
posted 18 May 2009.
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Nancy Tousley,
Opposites show each other off,
The Calgary Herald,
16 May 2009.
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Blake Gopnik,
Critics’ Picks: Evan Penny,
Artforum.com,
posted 3 February 2009.
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Ken Johnson,
The Art Fair as Outlet Mall,
The New York Times,
6 December 2008, pp. C1, C8.
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Gary Michael Dault,
Reality, twice removed,
The Globe and Mail,
19 May 2007, p. R16.
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Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh,
The Artful Doubter: Evan Penny & the making of extraordinary objects,
Border Crossings 98,
June 2006, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 24-39, cover.
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Angela Vettese,
Tra l'avanguardia e il consume
ll Sole-24,
11 June 2006, p. 41.
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Begoña Rodríguez,
Ron Mueck / Evan Penny / Richard Stipl: Reality and its excesses,
Lapiz 224 (Spain),
June 2006, p. 28-45.
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William V. Ganis,
Evan Penny,
Sculpture,
March 2006, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 75.
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P.C. Smith,
Evan Penny at Sperone Westwater,
Art in America,
February 2006, vol. 94, no. 2, p. 125.
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Juan Pablo Colin,
Evan Penny: Esculturas vivas,
Arte Al Limite (Chile),
January/February 2006, p. 8-18.
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Ute Krepler,
Focus: Evan Penny,
Artinvestor,
2006, no. 4, p. 66-7.
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Kathryn Shattuck,
What It Takes to Get a Head,
The New York Times,
23 October 2005, p. AR4.
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Ken Johnson,
Evan Penny: No One - In Particular,
The New York Times,
14 October 2005, p. B34.
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Evan Penny: Back of Evan,
Bas Art Magazin,
16 June 2005, p. 7.
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Wes LaFortune,
Real as folk,
FFWD (Calgary),
18 November 2004, unpaginated.
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Janet Naclia,
Visual feast,
Calgary Herald,
12 September 2004, p. AG12.
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Sarah Milroy,
Skin Deep,
The Globe and Mail,
1 March 2004, pp. R1, R7.
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Noel Gallagher,
Challenging Perceptions,
The London Free Press,
21 January 2004, p. D4.
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Jaume Vidal,
Independència,
El País (Spain),
21 November 2002, p. 7.
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Retratos escultóricos de Evan Penny,
La Vanguardia,
18 November 2002, p. 11.
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Peter Goddard,
Facing up to the hyper-real,
The Toronto Star,
11 April 2002, p. H7.
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Betty Ann Jordan,
Art and Illusion,
Where Toronto,
March 2002, p. 14.
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Nancy Tousley,
A new perspective,
Calgary Herald,
26 January 2002, p. ES8.
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Gary Michael Dault,
Human, all too human,
The Globe and Mail,
3 November 2001, p. V2.
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Jaume Vidal,
Petits herois I superherois,
El País (Spain),
1 October 1998, unpaginated.
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David Garneau,
A week in the life…,
FFWD (Calgary),
18 September 1997, p. 21-22.
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Debbie O’Rourke,
The complex geometry of the flesh,
Espace 40,
Summer 1997, p. 24-28.
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Meeka Walsh,
A Field of Interpretation: The Work of Evan Penny,
Border Crossings,
April 1995, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 1, 18-21.
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Kate Taylor,
Art About: Out of the gallery and into the world of television,
The Globe and Mail,
27 November 1992, p. C9.
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Michael Fressola,
Artist-in-residence blends traditions,
Staten Island Sunday Advance,
27 January 1991, p. E1, E4.
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Linda Genereux,
Dismantling the Body,
Metropolis,
10 May 1990, p. 28.
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Virginia Wilson,
Penny puts mask on the traditional,
At Guelph (Guelph, Ontario),
July 1989.
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Peter Gard,
Evan Penny: The bare essentials,
The Newfoundland Herald,
5 November 1988, p. 20.
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Anne Lemar,
Disturbing sculptures show us the reality of our own bodies,
The Sunday Express (St. John’s, Newfoundland),
16 October 1988, p. 23.
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Gary Michael Dault,
Evan Penny,
Canadian Art,
Fall 1986, vol. 3, no.3, p. 58-63, cover.
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Karen Wilkin,
review,
ARTnews,
May 1986, vol. 85, p. 125.
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Jerry McGrath,
Evan Penny at Wynick/Tuck Gallery,
Vanguard,
April/May 1986, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 57.
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Mitch Moldofsky,
In Review,
The Art Post,
March/April 1986, p. 11-12.
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John Bentley Mays,
Traditional and a tour de force,
The Globe and Mail,
17 May 1984, p. E4.
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John Bentley Mays,
Art world Davids are out to battle Goliaths,
The Globe and Mail,
13 January 1984, p. E6.
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Maggie Callahan,
Evan Penny,
Update (Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton),
March/April 1981, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 3-4.
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Janet Naclia,
Penny figures prominently,
Calgary Herald,
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Betty Ann Jordan
Skin Deep
Toronto Life