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

New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
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

2017

Chiesa di San Samuele, Venice, Italy: Evan Penny : Ask Your Body

May to November, 2017
2012

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue)
MARCA, Cantanzaro, Italy: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue)
2011

Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue)
Sperone Westwater, New York: New Work
2009

Sperone Westwater, New York: New Work (catalogue)
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

2023

Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, France:
Hyper sensible : Un regard sur la sculpture hyperréaliste
April 7 to September 3, 2023
2022

Meşher, Istanbul, Turkey:
I Am Nobody. Are You Nobody Too?
September 14, 2022 to February 12, 2023
Musee Maillol, Paris, France:
Hyperréalisme : Ceci n'est pas un corps
September 7, 2022 to March 6, 2023
La Sucrière, Lyon, France:
Hyperréalisme : Ceci n'est pas un corps
February 11 to July 24, 2022
2021

Palais Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
June 18, 2021 to January 2, 2022
2020

MUDEC, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
November 5, 2020 to March 21, 2021
Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
May 22 to October 18, 2020
National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Halls, Taipei:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
Opened June 28, 2019
2019

Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany:
Thrill of Deception
August 17, 2018 to January 13, 2019
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
July 21 to October 21, 2018
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany:
Thrill of Deception
February 22 to June 30, 2019
2018

Palazzo Doria Pamphilij, Rome, Italy:
Skin
Autumn 2018
Chiesa di San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples, Italy:
Evidence of Contemporary Disquiet
June 31 to July 31, 2018
Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
March 2018 to July 2018
2017

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
October 20, 2017 to February 18, 2018
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
February 4 to June 11, 2017
2016

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
October 15, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain:
RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture
June 7 to September 26, 2016
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: Human Scale (working title)
March 11 to April 10th, 2016
Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta: Haunting Holbein
January 20 to February 27, 2016
2015

Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe
2014

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona: Lifelike
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya-ku, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe
Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany: Haut/ab! (Snip/it!)
Trépanier Baer Gallery — Calgary, Alberta: Sculpture
2013

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas: Lifelike
New Orleans Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana: Lifelike
The Moving Museum, Gate Village, DIFC, Dubai: Tectonic
2012

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lifelike
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria: The Naked Man
McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Australia: Double Vision
2010

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: Atopia. Art and the City in the 21st Century
The Flag Art Foundation, New York: Evan Penny & Size Does Matter
2009

Trépanier Baer Gallery — Calgary, Alberta: Evan Penny & Stephan Balkenhol
2008

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany: Diana and Actaeon, The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: Transformation AGO inaugural installation
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

2011

Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
2010

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
2009

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
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

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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

Please see: Bibliography

Representation

Evan Penny is represented by:

Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada - trepanierbaer.com