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This image depicts an artwork by Medrie MacPhee titled "Dark Matter #28." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 16" x 12" [HxW] (40.64 x 30.48 cm). Its medium is Mixed media and oil on canvas mounted on wood.
Medrie MacPhee
“Dark Matter #28,” 2024
This image depicts an artwork by Medrie MacPhee titled "Polar Hour." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 60" x 40" [HxW] (152.4 x 101.6 cm). Its medium is Mixed media and oil on wood panel.
Medrie MacPhee
“Polar Hour,” 2024
This image depicts an artwork by Medrie MacPhee titled "Yes!." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 45" x 55" [HxW] (114.3 x 139.7 cm). Its medium is Mixed media and oil on canvas.
Medrie MacPhee
“Yes!,” 2024
This image depicts an artwork by Medrie MacPhee titled "El Retornado." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 64" x 84" [HxW] (162.56 x 213.36 cm). Its medium is Mixed media and oil on canvas.
Medrie MacPhee
“El Retornado,” 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Medrie MacPhee titled "Dark Matter #24." This artwork was created in 2019 and measures 16" x 12" [HxW] (40.64 x 30.48 cm). Its medium is Mixed media and oil on canvas mounted on wood.
Medrie MacPhee
“Dark Matter #24,” 2019

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