GARRY KENNEDY
Biography
| 1935 | born in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
| 1960 | OCAD Ontario College of Art, Canada |
| 1963 | BFA, University of Buffalo, USA |
| 1965 | MFA, Ohio University, USA |
| 1967-1990 | Präsident des Nova Scotia College of |
| Art and Design (NSCAD) Halifax, | |
| KCanada |
Selected olo Exhibitions
| 2014 | The Big Five, Emerson Gallery Berlin |
| 2013 | ARTISSIMA – Back to the Future, Kunstmesse |
| Turin, Italy | |
| BC – PATTISON wall/text painting, OR Gallery, | |
| Vancouver, Canada | |
| MB – GOD! (text in Window), Art Space | |
| Building, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| MB –GNK: Photoworks, 1969 – 2011, | |
| Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| 2012 | ON – Quid Pro Quo and The Four Seasons, |
| Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
| ON – PATTISON (an exterior wall painting), | |
| G Gallery, Toronto, Canada | |
| NB – GNK: Photoworks, 1969-2011, Louise | |
| and Reuben Cohen Gallery, University of | |
| Moncton, Moncton, Canada |
Selected Grop Exhibitions
| 2013 | BC – Blank Out, The Apartment, Vancouver, |
| Canada | |
| Continental Drift (with Canadian Artist), | |
| in the Badischen Kunstverein | |
| Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 2012 | Oh, Canada (with 60+ Canadian Artists), |
| Mass MoCA, Museum o fContemporary | |
| Art, Massachusetts, USA |
Awards and Grants
| 2014 | Artist- in-Residence, University of British |
| Columbia | |
| 2011 | Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, NSCAD |
| University | |
| 2009 | Distinguished Alumni Award, Ohio |
| University, Athens, Ohio | |
| 2004 | The Governor General’s Award in the Visual |
| and Media Arts | |
| 2003 | Order of Canada, Member |
| 2000 | The Portia White Prize – awarded by the |
| Nova Scotia Arts Council | |
| 1993 | Honorary Fellowship, the Ontario College of |
| Art and Design |
Recent Bibliography
| Stephen Horne, C Magazine, Pattison, Spring 2014, Review |
| Matthew Carver, Border Crossings, Isssue 126, 2013 Review, Visual Arts |
| Bryne McLaughlin, Don’t Take Kennedy for Granted, Canadian Art, Online, 2012 |
| Daniel Baird, Kennedy Takes Stock of Phrases, Toronto Star, 2012 |
| Peter Dykhuis, Boundary Breaker, Border Crossings, Summer, 2009 |
| Chris Downs, Facts & Figures: Garry Neill Kennedy, Visual Arts News, Winter 2009 |
| Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2007 |
| Carrie Moyer, Shit Happens/ “In Search of the Miraculous, Continued” The Brooklyn Rail, 2006 |
| Sherri Irvin, Garry Neill Kennedy, catalogue essay – The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, 2004 |
| Sherri Irvin, No More Boring Art, Canadian Art, (spring, 2002) |
| Garry Neill Kennedy: Work of Four Decades, catalogue essays, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the National Gallery of Canada, 2000 |
Public Collectins
| Acadia University, Wolfville, NS |
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
| Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB |
| Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB |
| Nova Scotia Art Bank, Halifax, NS |
| Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS |
| Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY |
| National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON |
| Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,BC |