Born 1975, Canada

 

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1997, University of British Columbia

 

Solo & Two Person

2009
Cultivated View, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

2008
New Works, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007
Works on Paper; Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Union Gallery, London, England

2005
Another Photography, Regan Projects, Los Angeles
Analyzing Trapping Inspecting, Union Gallery, London, England

2004
Gardens, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/Toronto, Canada

2003
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Boathouse, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2002
Scott McFarland, Sharon Essor Gallery, London, England
Photonomena, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
A Weird Science, Evan Lee and Scott McFarland, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2001
Cabin, Scott McFarland, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2000
Scott McFarland, Owen Kydd, Anodyne Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1999
Cabin, 1999
Torstrasse 102, Berlin, Germany

1998
Scott McFarland, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

 

Group Exhibitions

2009
Clark & Faria Presents:, Clark & Faria, Toronto

2008
Garden of Eden, Statdtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

2007
Garden of Eden, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Re-Envisioning Habitat, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
New Photography 2007, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA
The Constructed Image: Photographic Culture, Museum or Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Hybrid, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Crack the Sky, Biennale de Montreal 2007, Montreal, Canada
Sound and Vision, Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France

2006
Grid < > Matrix, Midred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Landscape Photographs Recent Acquisitions, Musuem of Modern Art, NY, USA
A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Sound and Vision, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Boys with Flowers, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, USA
Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA
Clickdoubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany – touring to Bozar, Brussels, Belgium (cat.)

2005
Real Pictures, Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada (cat.)
Buccolica, Wallspace Gallery, NY, USA
Intertidal, Art from Vancouver, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium (cat.)
The Space of Making, Neuer Berliner Kunstverien, Berlin, Germany – touring to Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Kunstsammlungen der Stadtischen Museen Zwickau, Stadtiche Galerie Waldraiburg, Germany (cat.)
Variations on the Picturesque, Kicthener Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada

2004
Fabulation. VOX, Montreal, Canada. Marie Fraser, guest curator
Everything Gone Green, Photography and the Garden., National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England
Important Canadian Art, Zeihersmith Gallery, N.Y., USA (cat.)

2003
Various Properties, Recent Acquisitions. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Proposal for an Exhibition. Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2002
elsewhere, WBD, Berlin, Germany
Imago Exhibition, Salamanca, Spain

2001
Roy Arden, Scott McFarland, Howard Ursuliak, Stephen Waddell, Jeff Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada
These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

1999
After Photography, Monte Clarke Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Roy Arden, guest curator

1998
Edgecity, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
Christopher Brayshaw, guest curator (cat.)

 

Selected Bibliography

Catalogues – solo & group exhibitions

Edgecity, Chris Brayshaw, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, 1998.
After Photography, Roy Arden, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, 1999.
Imago 2002, Salamanca, Spain, 2002.
Coastal Cabin, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003.
Important Canadian Art, Lee Henderson, Ziehersmith Gallery, NY, 2004.
Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Aus Kanada, NBK, Berlin, Germany, 2005.
Intertidal, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium, 2005.
Click Doubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2006.
Grid < > Matrix, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, St. Louis, USA, 2006.

 

Articles and Periodicals

Artist’s Project, Canadian Art, Summer, 2004.

Artist’s Project, Image and Inscription, an Anthology of Contemporary Canadian
Photography, Ed. By Robert Bean YYZ Books, 2005

Artist’s Project, National Post, January 13, 1999.

Artist’s Project, Adbusters, no.29. The Media Foundation, 2000.

Arden, Roy. After Photography, Canadian Art, December, 2000.

Arnold, Grant. Real Pictures, Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and
Andrew Gruft, Vancouver, 2005. Pg

Beck, Claudia. A Proposal for an Exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, 2002.

Brayshaw, Chris. Garden Optics, CV Photo, no 54. Montreal, 2001. Pg. 7-13

Brayshaw, Chris. Cabin, 2001, C Magazine, Winter 2001.

Buckrell Pos, Tania. Cold Fusion, Canadian Art, Spring 2003.

Dault, Michael. Photographs have a Cape Fear quality, The Globe & Mail, September 20,
2003.

Driedger, Sharon Doyle. Ten Artists Who Rock, Maclean’s Magazine, January 12, 2004.

Gopnik, Blake. Reticence in Photography is Good, Interview with Jeff Wall.
The Globe & Mail, November 6,1999.

Goddard, Peter. Photographic Shows Work in Remembrance of Things Past, The
Toronto Star, February 27, 2003.

Harrison, Sarah. Scott McFarland, ArtReview, April 2005. Pg. 105

Henderson, Lee. The Empire Grows Back, Border Crossings, no 94. Summer 2005. Pg
50-56.

Jean, Marie-Josee. The Space of Making, Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Aus Kanada,
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2005.

Langford, Martha. Doubtful Realisms and Paradisiacal Gains, Image & Imagination,
Montreal, 2005. Pg 119 -122

Milroy, Sarah. Onward and Upward, The Globe and Mail, August 13, 2001, R3.

Milroy, Sarah. Nothing is Perfect in Shangri-la, The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2004,
R23

Rae, Ines. More Plant Matters, Source 39, Summer 2004.

Scott, Michael. Art of Global Importance, The Vancouver Sun, May 5, 2001.

Scott, Michael. Late Light, Canadian Art, Fall 1999, Toronto.

Sengrave, Lorissa. A Proposal for an Exhibition, Canadian Art Spring 2003.

Skerrett, Penny. Everything’s gone Green Photography and the Garden, Archive,
National Museum on Photography, Film and Television, Archive Publication, Bradford,
England, pg 23.

Shirreff, Neil. Garden Designs, Source 42, Spring 2005. Pg. 52-53.

Thorton, Sarah. Nocturnes, Contemporary, No. 62, 2004. Pg. 32-37.

Turner, Michael. Wall and Void, Modern Painter Magazine, Summer 2003.

 

Public Collections and Foundations

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
Canadian Museum of Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Mendal Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
JM Barnicke Gallery, Harthouse, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of Photography & Film, Bradford, England
Oakville Gallery, Ontario, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada