# Medrie MacPhee URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/medrie-macphee/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Medrie MacPhee: Qualia: I Feel You](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/medrie-macphee-qualia-i-feel-you.md): June 1 — July 6, 2024 · Gallery III · Artists: Medrie MacPhee ## Biography Born in Edmonton, Alberta Lives and works in New York, NY BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design **Selected Solo Exhibitions** 2024 "Qualia, I Feel You," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2023 "Seeing is Knowing," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2022 "Words Fail Me," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2021 "The Weight of Matter," Nicholas Metivier Gallery , Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2017 Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York 2015 Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014 Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2012 Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011 Art 45, Montreal, Canada 2010 "What It Is," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY Art 45, Montreal, Canada 2008 Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK 2006 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY ArtCore Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2003 "Kunstkabinet Hespert," Reichshof Hespert, Germany Stadtische Galerie Haus, Siegen, Germany Trier Galerie Haus, Trier, Germany 2002 "Double Vision," Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada 2001 "Dreamland," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AlbertaPari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1999 "Flight in the Variable Zone," National traveling one person show with catalogue: Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada Art Gallery of Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada Espace 502, Montreal, Canada 1997 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Linda Genereux Gallery, “Ora/Labora”, Toronto, Canada 1994 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY Art and Living Gallery, Seigen, Germany 1993 Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 1991 Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1988 49th Parallel, New York, NY Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2023 “Pattern Language," Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY “Come A Little Closer," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY “Travels with Don Quixote," Armory Show, Tibor de Nagy Booth 235, Hall 3E, Javits Center, New York, New York “SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form + Textile," Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2022 “RE: visiting," Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada 2021 “Inner Workings: Works on Paper by David Humphrey and Medrie MacPhee," The New York Studio School, New York, NY 2020 “Old Friends Part II," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY “On Paper | Part I," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (virtual exhibition) “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2019-2020 “Painting Nature with a Mirror," Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2019 “Or Both,” The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA 2018 “Interventions,” Galerie McClure, 31 Women Artists, Montreal, Quebec, Canada “Summertime,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2017 “99 Cents or Less,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI 2015 The American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, New York, NY 2013 “Rewilding Modernity”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada “Land Reformed,” The Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario 2012 “Waiting Ground,” Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY 2010 “Vivid,” Shroeder Romero and Shredder, New York, NY 2009 “Objects in the Forest,” Sadler Wells, London, UK 2008 “Carte Blanche,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada “The Empire of This,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY 2007 “Horizon,” The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY 2006 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2005 “Somewhere Out There,” Shroeder RomeroGallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 2004 “Strange Relationship,” Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK “Invitational,” 150 Cubic Meter Largas, Cologne, Germany “A Dot That Went for a Walk,” Plus Ultra Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY “Exquisite Corpse,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME “In Polytechnicolor”, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY “Slippage,” Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY 2003 “Future Species,” D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, NY “Recent Acquisitions,” Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2002 “Short Stories,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada “Recent Acquisitions,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2001 “Pushing Paint,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY 1999 “Hunter Selects”, Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY “MAD,” Stadtische Galerie Haus,Siegen, Germany “Inscape”, The State of Art, Brooklyn, NY “Rapture”, 529 West 20th St., 8th Floor, New York, NY Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY “25 American Artists,” Campo Campo, Antwerp, Belgium “Peinture, Peinture”, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada “Your Place or My Place”, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada Starwood Urban Investments, Washington, DC “Private Eye,” Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, NJ 1998 “The Mind is a Beast”, Workspace, New York, NY “Food”, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1997 Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Canada “In the Spirit of Landscape,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1996 “L’Oiel du collectionneur,” Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada “Two Rooms,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY “Four American Painters,” Medrie MacPhee, James Hyde, Donna Moylan and Christopher Lucas, Milan, Italy 1994 “MacPhee, Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY 1990 “The Technological Muse,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY “Work Sites,” Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada “The Urban Landscape,” Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY “Contemporary Environment,” G.E. Gallery, Organized by Museum of Modern Art, CT 1988 “Canada Nouveau,” Liberty’s, London, UK “New York City Works,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY “Medrie MacPhee/Susanna Heller,” Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada “Landscape Anthology,” Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY 1987 “The Drawing Concern,” Katzen Brown Gallery, New York, NY “Vistas,” Einstein Gallery, New York, NY “Immigrants and Refugees,” Exit Art, New York, NY 1986 Winter Olympics National Billboard Project, Canada “Mainly on the Plane,” 56 Bleeker Street, New York, NY “4 X 4,” Jus de Pomme Gallery, New York, NY “Short Stories”,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY 1985 The Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY The Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY “Actual Size,” Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada **Bibliography** 2023 Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel (ed.), Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York, NY, 2023, 432 pgs. 2021 Eisenman, Nicole (essay), Sillman, Amy and MacPhee, Medrie (in interview), Words Fail Me: Medrie MacPhee (exhibition catalog), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 2021, 43 pages. Wilkin, Karen, “Medrie MacPhee: Works on Paper”, The Hopkins Review, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021, pp. 267-276. Fateman, Johanna, “Medrie MacPhee”, The New Yorker, n.d., 2021. Smith, Roberta, “4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Medrie MacPhee”, The New York Times, February 17, 2021. Stevenson, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee, David Humphrey, and the power of recognition”, The NYC blogazine, February 14, 2021 Smith, Roberta, “A Bouquet of Group Art Shows Near Houston Street”, Critics Notebook, New York Times, August 13, 2020 Wilkin, Karen, “The Covid Chronicle”, The New Criterion, September 2020 2020 Waltemath, Joan (ed), with writings by Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Jutta Koether, Barry Schwabsky, Rethinking Painting, MICA, 2020, page 75 Shields, Andrew (poems) and MacPhee, Medrie (paintings), “The Castles of America”, Evergreen Review, Summer 2020 2018 Interventions: 31 Women Artists (exhibition catalogue), Galerie McClure, Montreal, Quebec 2017 Wayne, Leslie, “Comfort Clothing for Fraught Times” (Medrie MacPhee in conversation with Leslie Wayne), Artcritical: the online magazine of art and ideas, July 20th, 2017 Maine, Stephen, “The Clothes Make the Painting”, Hyperallergic, July 8, 2017 “Goings on About Town: Medrie MacPhee”, The New Yorker, New York, July 2017 Butler, Sharon, “Medrie MacPhee: Flat-out at Tibor de Nagy”, Two Coats of Paint Blog, New York, June 17, 2017 Hoffman, Jens, 99 Cents or Less (catalogue), Karma, New York, 2017 Gopnik, Blake, “Medrie MacPhee Paints With a Tailor’s Shears”, The Daily Pic, Artnet News, June 20, 2017 Mudd, Elena, and the G-Module Team, “Review: Medrie MacPhee ‘Scavenge’”, G-Module Art Advisory, August 1, 2017 “Medrie MacPhee at Tibor de Nagy, New York”, Blouin Art Info: International, June 13, 2017 2016 Butler, Sharon, “Interview: Medrie MacPhee in Ridgewood”, Two Coats of Paint Blog, New York, March 17, 2016 2014 Hunt, Stephan, “Fictional Spaces”, The Calgary Herald, Calgary, December 12, 2014 Baldissera, Lisa, “Rewilding Modernity”, e Catalogue, Mendal Art Gallery, 2014, Sask., Saskatchewan 2011 Smith, Roberta, “Vivid”, New York Times, January 20, 2011 2010 Christine Kee, “Futuristic Species”, artcritical.com, July 16, 2010 Wilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries”, Hudson Review, Volume LXIII, No. 2 Summer 2010 2009 McLean-Ferris, Laura, “Reviews, Marathon, London”, Art Review, January/Feb, 2009 2008 Tully, Judd, “Chelsea’s Silver Lining”, ARTINFO ( www.artinfo.com) January 23, 2008 2006 Dault, Gary Michael, “To Know or Not to Know: That is The Question”, Medrie MacPhee, Toronto Globe & Mail, November 4, 2006 Goodman, Jonathan, “Under My Skin, Medrie MacPhee”, Art In America, May 2006 2004 Biro, Mathew, “In Polytechnicolor”, Contemporary, Issue #66, Oct. 2004, London UK Genocchio, Ben, “A Backup Plan With Refined Results”, New York Times, May, 30, 04 2003 Peden, Paul “It’s the New Thing”, Miser and Now Issue #1, Nov. 14, 2003, London UK “Zukunft ist interdisziplinar: Medrie MacPhee Architeckturkonstrukte und Korperbaustellen”, Seigener Zeitung, Oct.4, 2003 2002 Dahle, Sigrid, “Short Stories, Captivating Addictive Exhibit”, Winnipeg Free Press, 7/02 2001 Bouchard, Gilbert, “Between Reality and Our Dreams”, Edmonton Journal, Nov. 30/01 Thorkelson, Erila ADreamland, SEE Magazine, Issue # 417, November 29, 2001 Johnson, Ken, APushing Paint, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York Times, Sept.14, 2001 Enright, Robert, Ungrounding Science, Medrie MacPhee’s Meditations on Survival, Border Crossings, Volume 20 Number, Issue No.78, Summer 2001 Dault, Gary Michael, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, April 14, 2001 Hanna, Deidre, A Surreal Deal, Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Now Magazine, April 18-24, 2001 Theberge, Pierre, Director’s Notebook, Vernissage, National Gallery of Canada, 2001 2000 Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art From Its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly, Ottawa, 2000 1999 Lambrecht, Mark, “26 American Artists”, catalogue essay, Campo, Antwerp, 1999 Mackay, Gillian, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Gallery”, Globe & Mail, June 19, 1999 Laurence, Robin, “Medrie MacPhee, An Interview”, Canadian Art, Summer 1999 Jordan, Betty Ann, “Future Swirl”, Toronto Life, Toronto, June 1999 Lamarche, Bernard, “Recyclage pictural: Des univers machiniques suranné”, Le Devoir, Montreal, May 16, 1999 Houpt, Simon, “Dual Citizenship”, Toronto Globe & Mail, May 15, 1999 Lehmann, Henry, “Artist Animates Life’s Nuts and Bolts”, Gazette, Montreal, May 1, 1999 Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee: Unnatural Selection”, Medrie MacPhee, Charles H.Scott, Gallery Publications, 1999 Laurence, Robin, “MacPhee Meditates on Modernism’s Failings”, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, March 11-18, 1999 Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee and Amy Sillman; Two Painters From New York City” Contemporary Visual Arts, January 1999 1998 Mumford, Steve, “Exquisite Corps: On The March Again”, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, Volume 4, Number 2, Oct. 1, 1998 MacKay, Gillian, “Gallery Going”, Globe & Mail, Sat. March 14, 1998 1996 Thomsen, Christian, Bauen Fur Die Sinne – Erotik und Sexualitat in der Architektur, Prestel, 1996 (English edition 1998) New York, NY Summer 1996, Vol. 55 No.2, Artist’s Pages Wilkin, Karen, “At The Galleries”, Partisan Review, Volume LXIII, No.1, 1996 Goodman, Jonathan, review, Canadian Art, Volume 13, No.1, Spring 1996 1995 The Paris Review, Issue 137, Winter 1995 (Cover) Balken, Debra Bricker, Owen Drolet and Donna Masini, Medrie MacPhee, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, 1995 1994 Swain, Robert, Hidden Values; Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, Douglas & McIntyre Vancouver, Toronto,1994 The Paris Review, Issue 129, Winter, 1994, Artist’s Pages 1993 Johnson, Ken, “Medrie MacPhee/ Baldacci Daverio”, Art In America, July, 1993 Scott, Susan, “Medrie MacPhee/Baldacci Daverio”, Art News, New York, June, 1993 Clarkson, David, “Medrie MacPhee/Paolo Baldacci Gallery”, Canadian Art, Summer 1993 1992 Taylor, Kate, “Art About”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, Sept. 18, 1992 Hanna Deidre, “Medrie MacPhee/Mira Godard Gallery”, Now, Toronto, Sept. 10, 1992 Raven, Arlene, “The Doctor Is In”, The Village Voice, New York, June 30, 1992 Negri, Massimo, La Fabbrica Romantica, catalogue, Kriterion, Milano, 1992 1991 Cohen, Ronny, “Medrie MacPhee/Daverio Gallery”, Artforum, New York, Oct., 1991 Ottenbrite, Phillip, “Medrie MacPhee”, catalogue, Phillipe Daverio Gallery, NYC 1990 Fillin-Yeh, Susan, The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY: catalogue, 1990 “As 6 Artists Saw Cities Since 1910”, New York Times, July 19, 1990 Thomsen, Christian, “Personal Metaphors: Medrie MacPhee’s Magical-Fantastical Realism”, PARNASS, Vienna, January, 1990 1989 Freedman, Adele, “Medrie MacPhee’s Industrial Poetics”, Canadian Art, Fall, 1989 Thomsen, Christian, LiterArchitekture, Dumont Buchwerlag, Koln, 1989 Sturman, John, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art News, New York, June, 1989 Berlind, Robert, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art In America, April, 1989 Clark, John, “No Apologies”, Vanguard, review, No.18(1) 1989 1988 Tully, Judd, “Medrie MacPhee”, Taxi, preview, Oct. 1988 Lehmann, Henry, “Poetry In Ruins: MacPhee’s Luminous Art Elected member of the National Academy of Design, New York”, Daily News, Montreal, 1988 **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award, New York, NY 2019 Elected member of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY 2018-2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2016 Anonymous Was A Woman Award 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2004 Canada Council Established Artist Grant 2000 Canada Council Established Artist Grant 1996 Canada Council Established Artist Grant 1990 Canada Council B Grant 1988 New York Foundation For The Arts 1985 New York Foundation For The Arts The National Endowment for the Arts Elizabeth Greenshields Award **Public Collections** Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC Bank of Canada Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada Blackburn Group, London, UK Canada Council Art Bank Canada House, London, UK Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, Montreal, Canada Chase Manhattan Bank, NY Concordia University Art Gallery, Quebec, Canada Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada Deloitte’s, UK Deutsche Bank Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada Memorial University Art Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Musee d’ Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada The National Academy of Design, New York, NY National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Nova Corporation Tricon Residential, Toronto, Canada The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, Canada The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University Prudential Insurance of America Royal Bank, NY Starwood Urban Investments, Washington, D.C. Sun Life Assurance Swiss Bank Corporation Toronto Dominion Bank, NY