Education

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

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