Solo Exhibitions
2008:
Harbinger
Gallery,
Waterloo,
Ontario.
2008:
Artcore/Fabrice
Marcolini,
Toronto:
See
True.
2007:
Kitchener/Waterloo
Art
Gallery,
Ontario:
Still
Water
&
Rain
(Catalogue).
2004:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
2001:
Museums
London,
Ontario.
Doug
Kirton:
Times
of
Uncertainty
(Catalogue).
2000:
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art,
Toronto,
Ontario.
Doug
Kirton:
Times
of
Uncertainty.
2000:
University
of
Waterloo
Art
Gallery.
Doug
Kirton:
Times
of
Uncertainty.
1999:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1996:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1994:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
(M.F.A.
thesis
exhibition).
1991:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1990:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1989:
Tom
Thomson
Memorial
Art
Gallery,
Owen
Sound,
Ontario.
Organized
by
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
“Artists
With
Their
Works”
Program.
1988:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1987:
Susan
Whitney
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan.
1987:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1987:
The
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
Organized
by
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
“Artists
With
Their
Works”
Program
(Catalogue).
1986:
Kingston
Artists
Association
Incorporated,
Kingston,
Ontario.
Organized
by
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
“Artists
With
Their
Works”
Program.
1986:
Hennepin
Art
Gallery,
Welland,
Ontario.
Organized
by
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
“Artists
With
Their
Works”
Program.
1985:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1984:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1982:
Torbolton
Oaks
Gallery,
Woodlawn,
Ontario.
1981:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1980:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto.
1980:
Mount
Saint
Vincent
University
Art
Gallery,
Halifax,
N.S:
Douglas
Kirton:
Recent
Work
(Catalogue).
Group Exhibitions
2011:
Common
Ground,
recent
paintings
by
Sky
Glabush,
Doug
Kirton
&
Erin
McSavaney,
Michael
Gibson
Gallery,
London,
Ontario
2008:
Glenbow
Museum,
Calgary,
AB:
The
Big
Gift.
2007:
Agnes
Etherington
Art
Centre.
see
you
tomorrow.
January
–
April.
2007:
Artcore/Fabrice
Marcolini,
Toronto:
Huge.
2006:
Armory
Show.
New
York,
N.Y.
Fabrice
Marcolini
Artcore,
Toronto.
2006:
Letters
for
Literacy,
Hart
House,
University
of
Toronto.
(Catalogue).
2005:
Helen
Christou
Gallery,
University
of
Lethbridge,
Alberta.
Planes,
Trains
And
Automobiles:
The
Art
of
Transportation.
2005:
Nouveau
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan.
(Inaugural
Exhibition).
2005:
Art
Gallery
of
Nova
Scotia,
Halifax.
From
New
Image
to
New
Wave:
Legacy
of
NSCAD
in
the
Seventies.
2005:
Sampler:
The
2nd
KWAG
Biennial,
Kitchener
Waterloo
Art
Gallery,
Ontario
(Brochure).
2004:
Letters
For
Literacy,
Hart
House,
University
of
Toronto.
(Catalogue).
2004:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto,
January.
2003:
Whitby
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
Station
Crossings:
Timeless
Passages,
September
6
–
October
12.
2003:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery,
Toronto,
August.
2003:
Kitchener/Waterloo
Art
Gallery,
Kitchener,
Ontario.
1st
KWAG
Biennial.
2003:
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art,
Toronto.
Painters
15.
(Brochure).
2002:
Shanghai
Art
Museum,
Shanghai,
China.
Painters
15.
Co-organized
by
the
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art
and
the
Shanghai
Art
Museum,
and
funded
by
the
Department
of
Foreign
Affairs
and
International
Trade,
Toronto
Culture,
The
Henry
Jackman
Foundation,
and
the
Canada
Council,
this
was
the
first
exhibition
of
contemporary
Canadian
Art
ever
to
be
held
in
mainland
China
(Brochure).
2002:
Letters
For
Literacy,
Hart
House,
University
of
Toronto.
(Catalogue).
2002:
Art
Gallery
of
Peel,
Brampton,
Ontario.
Suburbia.
(Catalogue).
2001:
York
Quay
Gallery,
Harbourfront,
Toronto:
Pool.
(Catalogue).
2001:
The
Tom
Thomson
Memorial
Art
Gallery,
Owen
Sound,
Ontario.
The
Single
Tree.
(Catalogue).
2000:
Whitby
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
Station
Recollections:
30
in
2000.
(Catalogue).
1999:
MacLaren
Art
Centre,
Barrie,
Ontario.
Re-imagining
Modernism:
Works
from
the
Permanent
Collection.
1999:
Galerie
René
Blouin,
Montreal,
Quebec:
Les
Peintures.
1998:
Leo
Kamen
Gallery
and
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery,
Toronto.
Art
With
Heart.
The
Casey
House
AIDS
Benefit
Art
Auction.
(Catalogue).
1998:
MacLaren
Art
Centre,
Barrie,
Ontario.
Catch
The
Spirit
Art
Auction.
1997:
Art
Gallery
of
North
York,
Toronto.
New
Work
’97:
Additions
To
The
Collection.
1997:
Leo
Kamen
Gallery
and
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery,
Toronto.
Art
With
Heart.
The
Casey
House
AIDS
Benefit
Art
Auction.
(Catalogue).
1995:
The
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
Encore:
The
Station
Gallery
Revisited.
(Catalogue).
1994:
Art
Gallery
of
Hamilton,
Hamilton,
Ontario.
Prosperity
Returns:
The
Oral
Tradition
in
Painting.
1994:
Art
Gallery
of
Nova
Scotia,
Halifax,
Nova
Scotia.
Hidden
Values:
Atlantic
Corporations
Collect
(Catalogue).
1994:
Edmonton
Art
Gallery,
Edmonton,
Alberta.
Hidden
Values:
Western
Corporations
Collect.
(Catalogue).
1994:
McMichael
Canadian
Art
Collection,
Kleinberg,
Ontario.
Hidden
Values:
Ontario
Corporations
Collect
(Catalogue).
1994:
Gallery
Moos
Ltd.,
Toronto.
9:
New
Work
from
the
Master
of
Fine
Art
Program
at
the
University
of
Guelph.
1993:
Zavitz
Gallery,
University
of
Guelph,
Ontario.
Douglas
Kirton/David
Urban:
Body/Language.
1993:
McDonald-Stewart
Art
Centre,
Guelph,
Ontario.
Have
a
Seat.
1993:
Canadian
Participation
Expo
‘93
Taejon,
Korea.
Reflecting
Paradise.
(Catalogue).
1990:
Mackenzie
Art
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan,
Outreach
Program:
Art
For
A
Threatened
Environment.
Touring
Exhibition.
(Catalogue).
1990:
Mackenzie
Art
Gallery,
Regina,
Sask:
Art
For
A
Threatened
Environment.
(Catalogue).
1989:
The
Welch
Gallery,
Woodlawn,
Ontario.
1987:
49th
Parallel,
New
York,
N.Y.
Douglas
Kirton/Jeffrey
Spalding.
(Catalogue).
1987:
Oakville
Galleries,
Oakville
Ontario:
Nature,
Garden,
Seed.
Organized
by
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario
“Artists
With
Their
Works”
Program.
(Catalogue).
1986:
Dunlop
Art
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan:
“Culture’s
Nature:
Landscape
in
the
Art
of
Gerald
Ferguson,
Douglas
Kirton,
Jeffrey
Spalding
and
David
Thauberger.
1986:
Artspace,
Peterborough,
ON:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
Traveling
Exhibition.
(Catalogue).
1987:
McMichael
Canadian
Collection,
Kleinburg,
ON:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
McDonald
Stewart
Art
Centre,
Guelph,
Ontario:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
The
Surrey
Art
Gallery,
Surrey,
British
Columbia:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
Nova
Corporation,
Calgary,
Alberta:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
Kamloops
Art
Gallery,
Kamloops,
BC:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
Southern
Alberta
Art
Gallery,
Lethbridge,
Alberta:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
Art
Gallery
of
Algoma,
Sault
Ste.
Marie,
Ontario:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
1986:
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.,
Toronto.
Will
Gorlitz/Douglas
Kirton.
1985:
Binz
39
and
Gallery
Walcheturm,
Zurich,
Switzerland:
Fire
and
Ice
(Catalogue).
1985:
Sarnia
Public
Library
and
Art
Museum,
Sarnia,
Ontario:
Toronto
Now.(Catalogue).
1985:
C
Magazine,
#5,
Project.
1985:
Republic,
41
Dovercourt
Road,
Toronto.
Radiant
Vista:
The
Significant
Landscape.
1984:
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery,
Toronto.
Toronto
Drawing.
1984:
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
Toronto.
Toronto
Painting
’84.
(Catalogue).
1982:
Burlington
Cultural
Centre:
The
Discernible
Image.
(Catalogue).
1981:
Art
Toronto
’81:
Toronto/New
York.
(Catalogue).
1981:
Nova
Corporation,
Calgary,
Alberta:
Abstraction
and
Narration
–
Current
Trends
in
Canadian
Painting.
1980:
Mercer
Union,
Toronto.
Four
Aspects/Eight
Artists.
With
Paul
Hess.
(Catalogue).
1979:
White
Water
Gallery,
North
Bay,
Ontario.
1979:
Mercer
Union,
Toronto.
Locations.
1978:
White
Water
Gallery,
North
Bay,
Ontario.
1978:
Eye
Level
Gallery,
Halifax,
Nova
Scotia:
Object
Show.
(Catalogue).
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2008:
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Peter
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2008:
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2007:
Still
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2007:
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Grand
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Review
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Robert
Reid.
2005:
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Saturday,
July
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Gallery
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by
Robert
Reid.
2005:
Sampler:
The
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Biennial,
K-Waterloo
Art
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Ontario
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2004:
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There’s
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Gary
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2003:
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2003:
The
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Mail
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Wednesday,
April
2.
Paintings
that
would
be
king.
Review
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Sarah
Milroy.
2002:
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Abstract
Trail:
The
Painters
15
Exhibition.
Brochure
produced
by
the
Shanghai
Art
Museum
with
remarks
by
Li
Xiang
Yang,
Director
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the
Shanghai
Art
Museum,
and
Stewart
Beck,
Consul
General
of
Canada
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Shanghai.
2002:
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Literacy.
Catalogue.
2002:
Suburbia.
Art
Gallery
of
Peel,
Brampton,
Ontario.
Catalogue
essays
by
David
Somers,
Gary
Michael
Dault,
Ihor
Holubitsky
and
Judy
Daley.
2002:
Pool.
York
Quay
Gallery,
Harbourfront,
Toronto.
Catalogue
essay
by
Carla
Garnet.
2001:
The
Single
Tree.
Museums
London,
London,
Ontario.
Catalogue
essay
by
Laura
Millard.
2001:
The
Globe
and
Mail
(Toronto),
Monday,
March
12.
Painting:
Dead
Again?
Article
by
John
Armstrong,
included
a
reproduction
of
my
work.
2001:
The
Record
(Kitchener),
Saturday,
October
6.
Fine
Arts
Meets
High-Tech.
by
Robert
Reid
highlighted
the
digital
imaging
program
in
the
Fine
Arts
Department
at
UW.
2000:
Station
Recollections:
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2000.
Catalogue
for
an
exhibition
of
the
same
title
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the
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
1999:
Reverb,
(Barrie,
Ontario),
January
28.
Re-imagining
Modernism,
A
look
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collection.
Review
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Elaine
Murray.
1999:
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Review
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Modernism,
December
1998
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March
1999.
1999:
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Globe
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March
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Michael
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1996:
The
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Doug
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MacKay.
1994:
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Canadian
Art
in
Corporate
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Douglas
&
McIntyre,
1994.
Robert
Swain,
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by
Robert
Fulford.
1993:
Reflecting
Paradise
essay
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Jeffrey
Spalding,
exhibition
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Canadian
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‘93,
Taejon,
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1990:
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the
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Ferguson,
Douglas
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Jeffrey
Spalding
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1987:
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1987.
Douglas
Kirton/Jeffrey
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Dawn.
1987:
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Kirton/Jeffrey
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49th
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1987:
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number
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Garden,
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Oakville,
Ontario.
1987:
The
Oakville
Beaver,
Friday,
May
22.
Nature,
Garden,
Seed.
Review
of
exhibition,
The
Oakville
Galleries,
Oakville,
Ontario.
1987:
Nature,
Garden,
Seed:
Simon
Harwood,
Janis
Hoogstraten,
Douglas
Kirton.
Catalogue
essay
by
Dale
Barrett.
1987:
The
Durham
Journal
(cover).
Thursday,
April
9.
Doug’s
exhibit,
lecture,workshop.
Review
of
Whitby
Station
Gallery
exhibition.
1987:
The
Oshawa
Times,
Saturday,
April,
18.
Artist
Kirton
Plays
Conductor
In
Gallery
Symphony
of
Colour.
Review
by
Audrey
Maclean,
of
exhibition
at
the
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
1987:
Whitby
Free
Press,
April
8.
Painter
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‘Image’
of
Landscapes.
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of
exhibition
at
the
Station
Gallery,
Whitby,
Ontario.
1987:
Kingston
Whig-Standard
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Ontario).
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exhibition
at
the
Kingston
Artists
Association
Inc.
by
Anne
Sikora.
1987:
Culture’s
Nature.
Catalogue
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by
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White
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exhibition
organized
by
the
Dunlop
Art
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan.
1986:
The
Romantic
Landscape
Now.
Catalogue
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by
John
Armstrong
for
exhibition
organized
and
circulated
by
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Peterborough,
Ontario.
1985:
Parachute
#40.
Radiant
Vista:
The
Significant
Landscape.
Review
by
Bruce
Grenville.
1985:
Fire
and
Ice.
Exhibition
catalogue
essay
by
William
Wood
for
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at
Binz
39
and
Gallery
Walcheturm,
Zurich,
Switzerland.
1985:
C
Magazine,
number
6.
Review
by
Donna
Lypchuk
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1985:
CJRT
FM
“On
the
Arts”
Program,
June
12.
Review
by
Marshall
Webb
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1985:
0C
Magazine,
number
5.
Artist
Project.
1985:
Toronto
Star.
Artist’s
Work
is
Flying
High.
Review
by
Christopher
Hume
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1985:
The
Globe
and
Mail.
Frolicking
Among
the
Landscape
Clichés.
Review
by
John
Bentley
Mays
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1985:
The
Globe
and
Mail.
Radiant
Vista:
The
Significant
Landscape.
Review
by
John
Bentley
Mays
of
the
exhibition
of
the
same
title
at
Republic,
Toronto,
Ontario,
April
25.
1985:
C
Magazine,
number
4.
Free
at
Last,
Or
Why
There’s
Nothing
Left
To
Imitate:
The
Almost
Free
Spirit
in
Toronto
Painting
and
Sculpture.
Article
by
Donald
Kuspit.
1984:
The
Globe
and
Mail.
Review
by
John
Bentley
Mays
of
Toronto
Drawing
at
the
Wynick/Tuck
Gallery,
Toronto,
Ontario.
1984:
The
Gallery.
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario
(bulletin),
volume
6,
number
7,
September.
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for
the
exhibition
Toronto
Painting
’84.
1983:
Contemporary
Canadian
Art
by
David
Burnett
&
Marilyn
Schiff.
Hurtig
Publishers
Ltd.,
(Toronto),
in
co-operation
with
the
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario.
1983:
Artmagazine,
December/January/February.
Review
by
Marshall
Webb
of
the
exhibition
The
Discernible
Image,
Burlington
Cultural
Centre,
Burlington,
Ontario.
1981:
The
Globe
and
Mail,
September
23.
Review
by
John
Bentley
Mays
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1981:
CJRT
FM
“On
the
Arts”
Program,
September
18.
Review
by
Marshall
Webb
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition.
1981:
Artmagazine
55,
September/October.
Toronto/New
York.
Review
by
David
Burnett
of
exhibition
of
the
same
title.
1981:
Toronto/New
York:
New
Directions.
Catalogue
essay
by
David
Burnett
for
the
exhibition
of
the
same
title.
1981:
Source,
(Toronto),
August
15.
Art
and
Archetypes:
The
Works
of
Two
Toronto
Artists.
Review
by
Steve
Fistell.
1980:
Artists’
Review,
(Toronto)
October,
Volume
4,
Number
1.
Painting
at
the
Galleries.
Review
by
GerryNeedham.
1980:
Vanguard,
November.
Exotic
Modernism/Toronto.
Article
by
Donald
Kuspit.
1980:
Vanguard,
October.
Douglas
Kirton.
Review
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition
by
Nancy
Carroll.
1980:
The
Globe
and
Mail,
Saturday,
September
13.
Kirton
Delivers
Beautiful
Beds.
Review
of
Sable-Castelli
Gallery
Ltd.
exhibition
by
John
Bentley
Mays.
Selected Public Collections
Agnes
Etherington
Arts
Centre,
Queen’s
University,
Kingston,
Ontario
Art
Gallery
of
Hamilton,
Hamilton,
Ontario
Art
Gallery
of
Nova
Scotia,
Halifax,
N.S.
Art
Gallery
of
Ontario,
Toronto,
Ontario
Burlington
Arts
Centre,
Burlington,
Ontario
Canada
Council
Art
Bank,
Ottawa,
Ontario
Carleton
University,
Ottawa,
Ontario
Glenbow
Museum,
Calgary,
AB
Kitchener
Waterloo
Art
Gallery,
Kitchener,
Ontario
MacLaren
Art
Centre,
Barrie,
Ontario
Museum
London,
London,
Ontario
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art,
Toronto
National
Gallery
of
Canada,
Ottawa,
Ontario
Norman
MacKenzie
Art
Gallery,
Regina,
Saskatchewan
Shanghai
Art
Museum,
Shanghai,
China
University
of
Lethbridge,
Lethbridge,
Alberta
University
of
Waterloo
Art
Gallery,
Waterloo,
Ontario
Vancouver
Art
Gallery,
Vancouver,
B.C.
Grants and Awards
2004
Kitchener/Waterloo
Arts
Award
(Visual
Art
Category)
2002
Elected
to
the
Royal
Canadian
Academy
of
Arts
1996
Ontario
Arts
Council
Project
Grant
1996
Canada
Council
"B"
Grant
1994
Ontario
Arts
Council
Material
Assistance
Grant
1994
Ontario
Graduate
Scholarship
1993
Ontario
Graduate
Scholarship
1990
Ontario
Arts
Council
Material
Assistance
Grant
1989
Canada
Council
"B"
Grant
1989
Ontario
Arts
Council
Short-Term
Grant