Evan Penny

b.1953

South Africa - Canadian Citizen

Studies

1977 to 1978

Alberta College of Art - Post Graduate Sculpture
1971 to 1975

Alberta College of Art - Honours

Teaching Positions

1994 to 1997

Toronto School of Art, Toronto
1988 to 1989

Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1986 to 1988

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1982 to 1983

Alberta College of Art, Alberta

Artist in Residence

Emma Lake Artist Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Snug Harbour Cultural Centre, Staten Island, New York

Selected Guest Lectures

University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
University of Toronto (Scarborough College), Toronto
Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

Sperone Westwater, New York: New Work

January 9 to February 14, 2009
2007

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo: New Work
Flint Institute of Art. Flint, Michigan: Currents: Evan Penny
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio: Currents: Evan Penny
Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto: Evan Penny: Photographs
2005

Sperone Westwater, New York City: No One - In Particular (catalogue)
The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
Prairie Gallery, Grande Prarie, Alberta: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
2004

Glenbow Museum, Calgary: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
Museum London, London Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2003

Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery: Selections from L. Faux Series
2002

Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: L. Faux and Others
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto:
L. Faux and No One-In Particular
Goodwater Gallery, Toronto: L Faux: Tri-X
Galeria Segovia Issacs, Barcelona, Spain: No One-In Particular
1999

Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragosa, Spain (catalogue)
1998

Galeria Segovia Isaacs, Barcelona, Spain: New Work
1997

Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: New Work
1996

Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto: Murray, Anamorphs + Body Forms, New Sculpture
1995

Artweek, Calgary (solo exhibition)
Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: Figuring the Body; Three Projects
1993

I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Chicago: Figuring the Body; Three Projects
1992

Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto: New Sculpture, Installations and Drawings in Wax
1991

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island: Surface
49th Parallel, New York: Recent Work
1987'88

Six Gallery National Tour: Evan Penny: A Survey
1986'84'82

Wynick/Tuck, Toronto: New Sculpture
1981

Edmonton art Gallery, Edmonton: Recent Work

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany: Diana and Actaeon, The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body - October 25, 2008 to February 15, 2009
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: Transformation AGO inaugural installation
opens November 14, 2008
2007

Montréal Biennale, Montréal: Panagiota: Conversation
Evan Penny and Michael Awad
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY: All The More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy
Robilant + Voena + Sperone, London UK: Freeze! A selection of works
from a New York Collection
2006

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland: The Expanded Eye (catalogue)
Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland: Die Ubere Hälfte
The Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, USA: Subject
2005

Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany: Die Ubere Hälfte
Städtische Museen Heilbronn: Die Ubere Hälfte
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: Figure It Out
Vancouver Art Gallery: Real Pictures
2003

Art Gallery of Ontario
2001

Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain: Confluencias
1998

I Space, Chicago, Illinois: Warm
1997

Galleria Segovia Isaacs, Barcelona, Spain
Wave Gallery, Toronto: Figuratively Speaking
Festival Internacional de Arte Ciudad de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia
The Power Plant, Toronto: Rococo Tattoo
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga: Loving the Alien
1995

Space Gallery, Chicago: Wink Wink
Artweek Calgary, Calgary: Mysteries of the Flesh
1994

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton:
Cracks in the Modern: an exhibition of sculpture
1992

University of Akron, Akron: Figure's Edge
1991

The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton: Practicing Beauty
1984

Gallery 76, Toronto: The New City of Sculpture

Selected Art Fairs

2008

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer Gallery, Canada)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
2007

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer Gallery, Canada)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
2006

art.fair, Cologne, Germany (Trépanier Baer, Calgary)
Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer, Calgary)
2005

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
2004

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
2003

FIAC, Paris, France (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
2000'01'02'03

Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary)

Selected Public Collections

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, USA
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
National Portrait Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Museum London, London Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Mendall Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Nickle Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Selected Public and Corporate Commissions

1995

220 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada: Pi
1992

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Roissy, France
City of Waterloo Recreation Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
1989

Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario

Selected Bibliography

2007

Judith Collins: Sculpture Today pp. 22, 23; Phaidon Press
David Clark: Heads or Tails catalogue essay
Evan Penny and Michael Awad, Montreal Biennale
2006

Angela Vettese: Tra l'avanguardia e il consume
ll Sole-24, June 11, 2006, p. 41
Kunsthaus Zurich bulletin, cover
Begonia Rodriguez: Reality and its Excesses
LAPIZ No. 224, cover, pp. 28 to 45
Bice Curiger: The Expanded Eye: Stalking the Unseen
exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus Zurich
Sarah Howgate and Sandy Nairne: The Portrait Now, London
The National Portrait Gallery, 2006
William V. Ganis: review of Sperone Westwater exhibition
Sculpture magazine, March 2006
P. C. Smith: Evan Penny at Sperone Westwater
Art in America, February 2006
Juan Pablo Colin: Arte Al Limite: Evan Penny / Esculturas Vivas
cover story in the Arte Al Limite Nº17, Jan-Feb 2006
2005

David Moos: How We See Ourselves Now
catalogue essay for Sperone Westwater exhibition
Ken Johnson: Art in Review: Evan Penny: No One - In Particular
review in New York Times, October 14
Kathryn Shattuck: What It Takes to Get a Head
review in New York Times, October 23
2004

Sarah Milroy: Skin Deep
article in The Globe and Mail, March 1
Noel Gallagher: Challenging Perceptions
article in The London Free Press, January
2003

Nancy Tousley: Absolutely Unreal; exhibition catalogue
David Clark: Evan Penny's Uncertainty Principle; Absolutely Unreal exhibition catalogue
2002

Xavier Barral i Altet: Més enllà de l'hiperrealisme; AVUI; 17 de desembre
Nancy Tousley: A new perspective; The Calgary Herald; exhibition review; January 26
El Pais Jaume Vidal; Barcelona, Spain; exhibition review; November 21
La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain; exhibition review; November 18
Xandra Eden: L Faux and No One - In Particular; The Power Plant, exhibition essay
2001

Gary Michael Dault: Human, all too human; The Globe and Mail, November 3
1997

Debbie O'Rourke: The Geometry of Flesh; Espace 40
1995

Meeka Walsh: A Field of Interpretation: The Work of Evan Penny; Border Crossings, Summer
1990

Gary Micheal Dault: Focus on Evan Penny; Canadian Art
1993

David Clark: Figuring the Body: Three Projects; exhibition
1986

Michael Burtch: Evan Penny - A Survey; catalogue essay

Representation

Evan Penny is represented by:

Sperone Westwater - speronewestwater.com
Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada - trepanierbaer.com