Gabrielle de Montmollin’s c.v.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Weird Baby World, Window installation. Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
2021 Hear Me Cry, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
2016 We Shall See What We Shall See, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto (CONTACT 16)
2015 Imaginary Friends, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
2013 Stephen Harper Hates Me, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
2007 Crime Scene, Gladstone Hotel #212, Toronto (CONTACT 07)
2007 Secret Lives, curated by Carl Lavoy and Alison Kenzie (catalogue) Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario; also Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
2006 Un mondo di bambole, Fotographie 1992-2004 (catalogue), Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bondeno (FE), Italy; also exhibited at the Museo del risorgimento e della resistenza, Ferrara, (FE) Italy
2004 Bird Women, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
2003 Miss Milligan and La Belle Lucie, at the dance , Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto (CONTACT 03)
2002 Featured Artist, Zone 9: Art Flatfile Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
2001 Train Time Is Any Time, LeBel Gallery, University of Windsor, Ontario
2001 Train Time Is Any Time, Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto (CONTACT 01)
1999 Carnevale at the Hotel of the Bridge of Sighs, Gallery 132, Toronto (CONTACT 99)
1994 The meticulous construction of the tranquil life of Amazons, Birganart, Toronto
1992 The Fruit & Vegetable Series and The White Series, Studio Show, Toronto
1990 Than Anywhere Else on Earth , Roschar Gallery, Toronto
1988 Stilled Life Twenty Black and White Photographs, Roschar Gallery, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020 PAG25, Celebrating 25 Years of Propeller Artists, online exhibition
2020 Mirror Image, Don’t Take Pictures, online exhibition February 19—May 19
2018 NOW HERE (with Michael Bedard and Tony Calzetta), AIH Studios, Welland, Ontario
2018 Biannual Juried Exhibition, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario
2018 Color Space: Contemporary Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, USA
2017 Imago mundi, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy, curated by Francesca Valente (catalogue); also, Onsite Gallery, Toronto
(2018)
2017 Two Person Exhibition (with Tony Calzetta), Welland Museum, Welland, Ontario
2016 Holiday Salon, yumart, Toronto
2016 genderhow? Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 Members Exhibition, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, USA
2015 The Red Head Gallery at 25, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
2015 In the Tiger’s Eye, Mehu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015 Graphic Narratives, OCADU Continuing Studies Gallery, Toronto
2014 Summer Salon 2014: People, Places, and Objets d’Art, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto
2013 Mini Moi, Galerie Youn, Montréal, Québec
2013 The Red Head Gallery at the Toronto International Art Fair (with Lynn Christine Kelly, Margie Kelk and Sally Thurlow)
2013 Only Human, Short Photo Story #1 (catalogue), Galerie Anamorfose, Izegem, Belgium
2012 Inside/Outside, Red Head Gallery Toronto; also Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (2013); ARC Gallery, Chicago, USA
(2014)
2011 Narrative: the Photographic Image, (curated by Holly Andres), Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, USA
2011 Still Life, (curated by Lori Nix), Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, USA
2010 …and do, and do you like what I do, curated by Clint Griffin, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2010 Bank on Art, (curated by Kelly McCray), Toronto
2009 Fluxhibition #3, FLUXmUSeum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (ART IS HELL with Tony Calzetta)
2009 A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA
2009 Broken Dream of the Free Body, Galerie Anamorfose, Izegem, Belgium
2009 Feed Your Soul, Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental and Sales, Toronto
2007 GOOD Editions, INDEXG, Toronto
2006 LO SPECCHIO IN FRANTUMI Donne viste da donne, Galleria Artè, Ferrara, Italy
2006 FE/MALE Identità del corpo, L’Ariete Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
2005 Equus, Mehu Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Seno Guerriero Images of Amazons in art from the 17 century to the present, curated by Roberto Roda;
Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bondeno (Ferrara), Italy
2004 Panorama, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
2004 That Obscure Object of Desire, curated by Gordon Hatt, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario
2004 Monkey See, Monkey Do SPIN Gallery, Toronto
2004 Parrot Project Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
2003 Flight! Mehu Gallery, New York, USA.
2003 Tatouage: Sources of Surrealist photography, curated by Xavier Debeerst, Breda Museum, The Netherlands
2003 Wegway 2nd Annual International Exhibition, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
2003 New Members’ Show, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
2002 The Dark Side of Happy, curated by Robert Windrum, Gallery Stratford, Ontario
2001 A Recipe for Change: Contemporary Women Artists Re-Imagine the Domestic Body, Carleton University Art Gallery,
Ottawa
2000 Arts2000, Gallery Stratford, Ontario
1999 The Passion of Madness, Gallery 1313 (Parkdale Village Arts Collective), Toronto
1997 Whirling Dervishes: Fe-Mail Art Inc., Le mois de la photo à Montréal;
also Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC), Toronto
1997 3 Canadiens de Toronto à la Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, (with Wally Ballach and Tony Calzetta) Gordes, France
1995 Face to Face, Six Photographers, Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto
1992 Not A Child’s World Latent Images, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
BIBILIOGRAPHY: Essays and Reviews
2021 Weird Baby World by Bart Gazzola, Curated. The Covert Collective web site
2019 All the world’s a stage: Montmollin’s Dreams, Delusions and Other Traffic Circles by Bart Gazzola, The Sound
(February)
2018 Art is Hell: Tony Calzetta and Gabrielle de Montmollin Move to Welland by Ann Ireland, Canadian Notes and Queries,
#101
2017 Art is Hell in Welland by Bart Gazzola, The Sound (August)
2015 Gabrielle de Montmollin’s Imaginary Friends by Ashley Johnson
2013 Art Under Harper by Ashleigh Gaul, broken pencil, Issue 60
2013 Review of Stephen Harper Hates Me by Leanne Unruh, KAPSULA Review 07.18.2013
2013 Nine Shows We Want to See this Spring (Besides Venice) by Leah Sandals, Canadian Art Online
2013 The Fantastic, Fearless and Furious World of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Susan Swan (catalogue)
2007 Manual Labour: The Photography of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Alison Kenzie (catalogue),
published by Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
2006 Dollies who are sick, sick, sick by Peter Goddard: Toronto Star, August 5
2006 Secret Lives by Peter Marshall published online at www.photography.about.com
2006 Le Bambole di Gabrielle de Montmollin by Roberto Roda in Un Mondo di Bambole (catalogue)
published by Editoriale Sometti, Mantova (FE) Italy
2005 Equus at Mehu Gallery by Maximillien de Lafayette published online at www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/art7.htm
2004 Photographs of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Ned Richardson-Little, Scrivener Creative Review #28
2003 Abuse Muse by Thomas Hirschmann: Now Magazine May 22-28, Toronto
1999 Secret Lives by Kate Regan in Gabrielle de Montmollin (catalogue) published by PRESSWERK EDITIONS
FILM CREDITS
1987 Black and White is Cheaper; director/producer; produced by Capital M Productions
1985 Dishpan Hands; director/producer; produced by Capital M Productions
1985 Winters Past; film editor; produced by McAdam Road
1984 Music of the Spheres; co-writer; produced by Lightscape Motion Picture Co. Ltd.