Gabrielle de Montmollin



curriculum vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
We Shall See What We Shall See, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

2015
Imaginary Friends, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

2013
Stephen Harper Hates Me, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

2007
Crime Scene, The Gladstone Hotel #212, Toronto (CONTACT 07)
Secret Lives (catalogue), Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario and the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario

2006
Un mondo di bambole, Fotographie 1992-2004 (catalogue), Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bondeno (Ferrara), 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, California

2001
Train Time Is Any Time, LeBel Gallery, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Train Time Is Any Time, Part I, 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

2018
Imago mundi, Onsite Gallery, Toronto
NOW HERE: Three Welland-based artists,
(with Michael Bedard and Tony Calzetta), AIH Studios, Welland, Ontario
Biannual Juried Exhibition, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario
Color Space: Contemporary Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, USA

2017
Imago mundi, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy, curated by Francesca Valente (catalogue)
Two Person Exhibition (with Tony Calzetta), Welland Museum, Welland, Ontario

2016
Holiday Salon, yumart, Toronto
genderhow?
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Members' Exhibition, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, USA
Inside/Outside,
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Ontario; also, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

2015
The Red Head Gallery at 25, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Holiday Salon, yumart, Toronto  
Graphic Narratives,
OCADU Continuing Studies Gallery, Toronto   
In the Tiger’s Eye, Mehu Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014     
Insomnia, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Summer Salon 2014: People, Places, and Objets d'Art, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto 
Inside/Outside, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2013
Mini Moi, Galerie Youn, Montréal, Québec  
Red Head Gallery at the Toronto International Art Fair  (with Lynn Christine Kelly, Margie Kelk and Sally Thurlow)
...and the livin’ is easy... yumart, Toronto   
Inside/Outside,
Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Ghost City, yumart, Toronto
Only Human, Short Photo Story #1 (catalogue), Galerie Anamorfose, Izegem, Belgium

2012
Inside/Outside, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

2011
Narrative: the Photographic Image (curated by Holly Andres), Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Still Life (curated by Lori Nix), Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto

2010
Bank on Art, Toronto (curated by Kelly McCray)
…and do, and do you like what I do (curated by Clint Griffin), Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto

2009
Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Fluxhibition #3, FLUXmUSeum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (ART IS HELL with Tony Calzetta)
Broken Dream of the Free Body, Galerie Anamorfose, Izegem, Belgium
Feed Your Soul, Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental and Sales
Stuff, Fran Hill Gallery (ART IS HELL with Tony Calzetta)

2007
GOOD Editions, INDEXG, Toronto

2006
Hello Dolly, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
LO SPECCHIO IN FRANTUMI Donne viste da donne, Galleria Artè, Ferrara, Italy
FE/MALE Identità del corpo
, L’Ariete Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy

2005
Equus, Mehu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Woof, curated by Y.M. Whelan, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
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
XXX (Valentines Show), Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto

Gallery Artists and Friends, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
By Association (Members Show), Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto

2004
Panorama, SPIN Gallery, Toronto

Gallery and Invited Artists, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
That Obscure Object of Desire (curated by Gordon Hatt), Cambridge Galleries, Ontario
Monkey See, Monkey Do SPIN Gallery, Toronto
Parrot Project, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto
Splash! (Members Show), Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto

2003
Flight! Mehu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tatouage: sources of Surrealist photography, curated by Xavier Debeerst, Breda Museum, The Netherlands
Open Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario
Wegway 2nd Annual International Exhibition, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
Members Show + Propelleristi (New Members Show), Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto

2002
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, Ontario

2000
Arts2000 (juried), Gallery Stratford, Ontario

1999
The Passion of Madness (juried), 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
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


BIBLIOGRAPHY: Essays and Reviews

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 (catalogue)

2013     
Art Under Harper by Ashleigh Gaul, broken pencil, Issue 60  
Review of Stephen Harper Hates Me by Leanne Unruh, KAPSULA Review 07.18.2013  
Nine Shows We Want to See this Spring (Besides Venice) by Leah Sandals, Canadian Art Online
The Fantastic, Fearless and Furious World of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Susan Swan (catalogue)

2006
Manual Labour: The Photography of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Alison Kenzie (catalogue), published by Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario (link)
Dollies who are sick, sick, sick by Peter Goddard: Toronto Star, August 5
Secret Lives by Peter Marshall published online at www.photography.about.com
Le Bambole di Gabrielle de Montmollin by Roberto Roda in Un Mondo di Bambole (catalogue) published by Editoriale Sometti, Mantova (FE) Italy (link)

2005
Equus at Mehu Gallery by Maximillien de Lafayette published online at www.worldjewishnewsagency.org

2004
Photographs of Gabrielle de Montmollin by Ned Richardson-Little in Scrivener Creative Review #28 (link)

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. (link)


BIBLIOGRAPHY: Photographs in Print

2011
Something About the Animal (front and back cover images) published by Biblioasis

2006
M-pty #06

2005
n + 1
3rd floor #3

2004
Kiss Machine #8 Babies and Robots issue

2003
Wegway #6, Fall 2003

1999
Give Me Your Answer (cover image) published by The Porcupine's Quill

1998
Blood & Aphorisms, No. 31, Summer 1998

1991
Self-portrait; Women's Daybook, Second Story Press, Toronto


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
Winters Past; film editor; produced by McAdam Road

1984
Music of the Spheres; co-writer; produced by Lightscape Motion Picture Co. Ltd.