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2381 Moran Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada, B3K 4K1
Tel: (902) 422 - 3524
Fax: (902) 422 - 0812
alexl@ns.sympatico.ca
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EDUCATION
1995 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
London,
England
1983 Bachelor of Fine
Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada
1982 The Cooper Union, New York City, N.Y., United States
EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Fine
Arts, NSCAD University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 New Work, Leo Kamen
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Recent Digital Prints,
Where Where Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 Alex Livingston:
Digital Paintings, Galerie ZK, Berlin, Germany
2008 Alex Livingston, Studio
21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2007 The Mechanized Gesture: New
Digital Prints by Alex Livingston, curated by Gary Michael
Dault, G + Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Alex Livingston, Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2005 Alex Livingston: 1985-2005
Paintings, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2003 Alex Livingston, Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 Land and Water Paintings, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
2001 Alex Livingston, Studio
21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1999 A History of Four-footed Beasts and Other Curiosities,
The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario/Artspace,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
1999 Alex Livingston, Studio
21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1998 Alex Livingston: Paintings, Gallery 1.1.1., University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1998 Alex Livingston, Studio
21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997 A History of Four-footed Beasts and Other Curiosities,
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia/Sir Wilfred Grenfell
College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
1997 A History of Four-footed Beasts
and Other Curiosities, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
1996 Alex Livingston: Paintings, Kyhber Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
1995 MA Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art
and Design, London, England
1994 Alex Livingston: New Paintings, Owens Art Gallery,
Sackville, New Brunswick
1994 Paintings, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
1991 Recent Paintings, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
1989 Recent Paintings and Drawings, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1988 Recent Paintings, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1986 Vistas, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Nova
Scotia
1985 Trees, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1983 Paintings, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Faves, Leo Kamen
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Arboretum, Art Gallery
of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 With a Twist: NSCAD
Division of Fine Art, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
2010 New Canadiana: The
Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Art as Social History,
Anges Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
2010 Safe Passages and Welcome
Harbours - Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Peter
Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2009 The New Drawing Show,
Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art
2009 Paintings On Paper, New
Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
2008 Big, Big Bangs/Small, Small
Bucks, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2007 NSCAD – The
Ulsan/Halifax
Project, Gallery H, Ulsan, South Korea
2006 NSCAD – The 80’s, Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2006 Fabulous, Dalhousie Art
Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2006 Vault Series V,
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
2005 From New Image to New Wave:
Legacy of NSCAD in the Seventies, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
2005 A Garden of Forking Paths,
Art
Gallery of Newfoundand and Labrador, The
Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2003 Atlantic Canadian Art,
National Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Boat Show, Wynick/Tuck
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Dualities: Contemporary Work from the Permanent Collection,
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 Wild Things, Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2002 New Additions, Museum London, London, Ontario
2002 Fall Painting Faculty, Anna Leowowens Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
2001 Vault Series VI: Water, New Bedford Art Museum, New
Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
2000 The Single Tree, London Regional Art and Historical
Museums, London, Ontario (traveling
to Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery)
2000 Artists in a Floating World - Marion McCain Atlantic Art
Exhibition 2000, curated by Tom Smart, Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredricton, New Brunswick (regional and national touring show)
1997 Theatrum Mundi, The Marion McCain Atlantic Art
Exhibition, curated by Susan Gibson-Garvey (regional and international
touring exhibition)
1997 Eastern Front, Carl Davis Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1997 R + D (Research and Development), York Quay Centre,
Toronto, Ontario
1996 Far and Wide: The VANS 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 Khyber Members Exhibition, Khyber Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
1995 Studio A + B Faculty Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
1995 Alex Livingston and Carolina Rastrilla, Francis-Graham
Dixon Gallery, London, England
1995 Swiss Bank European Art Competition, Smith’s Gallery,
London, England
1994 Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition - Anecdotes and Enigmas,
The
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredricton, New Brunswick
(nationally
traveling exhibition)
1994 Hidden Values - Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate
Collections, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
1993 New Painters - Gerald Collins, Alex Livingston, Luke Murphy,
Ron Wakkary, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992 SUBJECT / MATTER - Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
in Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
1992 Snakes and Ladders: Recent Paintings by Harlan Johnson, Alex
Livingston, and Leslie Sasaki, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
1990 Paintings - Suzanne Gauthier, Alex Livingston, Laura Newman,
Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1989 May, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1987 Eastern Perspectives, Quan - Schieder Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario
1986 Visual Facts '86, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
1985 INNOVASCOTIA, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova
Scotia (national traveling exhibition)
CATALOGUES / ESSAYS
2010 New Canadiana, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens
University, pg. 27, pgs. 79-81
2007 Susan Gibson Garvey, Alex Livingston: The Painted World, essay in Six Nova Scotia Artists: Following the
Vision, Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Robert Pope Foundation, pgs.
45-63, 2007
2007 The Ulsan/Halifax Project, Gallery H and College of Fine Arts
University of Ulsan South Korea, pps. 6-7,
2006 Bruce Barber, NSCAD: The 80’s, Anna Leonowens Gallery
2005 Sue Gibson
Garvey, Alex
Livingston: Paintings 1985-2005, © Dalhousie Art
Gallery
(http://artgallery.dal.ca)
2003 Sue Gibson Garvey, Dualities:
Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection, Dalhousie Art
Gallery
2000 Laura Millard, The Single Tree, The London Regional Art
Gallery and Historical Museums, pg. 19
2000 Tom Smart, Artists in a Floating
World, Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition 2000, pp
1999 Laura Millard, Each Creature is
Story, The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
1998 Cliff Eyland, Alex Livingston:
Paintings, Gallery 111, University of Manitoba
1997 Susan Gibson Garvey, Theatrum
Mundi, The 1997 Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, pp 17-18
1994 Les Sasaki, Alex Livingston: New
Paintings, Owens Art Gallery
1994 Terry Graff, FAR & WIDE The VANS Biennial Juried
Exhibition, Dartmouth Heritage Museum, p.18
1994 Hermenegilde Chiasson, Anecdotes and Enigmas, Marion
McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, p. 32
1994 Robert Swain, Hidden Values, Contemporary Canadian Art in
Corporate Collections, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, p. 138
1992 Susan Gibson Garvey, Snakes and Ladders, Recent Paintings by
Harlan Johnson, Alex Livingston, Leslie Sasaki, Dalhousie Art
Gallery
1992 Robin Metcalfe, SUBJECT MATTER, Contemporary Painting and
Sculpture in Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1989 Robin Metcalfe, Alex Livingston, Recent Paintings and Drawings,
Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia
1986 Robert Pope, VISTAS, Alex Livingston, Mount Saint
Vincent Art University Gallery
1986 Leo Rosshandler, INNOVASCOTIA, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, p.p. 16-17
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Peter Goddard, "Abstract Perfection", Toronto Star, January 12
2011 Mathew Purvis, "Art Agenda: Alex Livingston and John Kissick at
Leo Kamen", blogTO, January
19
2008
Meredith Dault, "Alex Livingston in Review: Blurring the Boundaries."
Canadian Art Magazine on-line canadianart.com, June 26, 2008
2008 Elissa Bernard, "The Joy of Colour: Livingston Uses New Technology
to Create Vibrant Paintings." The Chronicle Herald, Halifax,
April 27, 2008, pg. B3
2008 Doug Pope, "The Arabesque and Fantastic in the Art of Alex
Livingston", unpublished essay, University of Concordia, pgs. 1-12,
April 2007
2005 Sean Flinn, "Alex Livingston, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax",
Canadian Art, Summer
2003 Gary Michael Dault, "Deck your walls with originals", The Globe
and Mail, L12, December 13, 2003
2003 Gary Michael Dault, "The Boat Show at Wynick/Tuck", The Globe and
Mail, R8, July 19, 2003
2002 Gary Michael Dault, "Rettig and
Livingston at Wynick-Tuck", The Globe and Mail, R7, June 15, 2002
1998 Kevin Matthews,
"Alex Livingston: Paintings, Gallery 111", Manitoban, October 28th,
1998, pg. 14
1997 Gil McElroy, "Alex
Livingston: A History of Four-Footed Beasts and Other Curiosities",
Arts Atlantic, Fall/Winter
1997 Terri Robin Vernon, "Alex Livingston: A History of Four-Footed
Beasts and Other Curiosities", Visual Arts News, Fall 1997
1995 Nicholas Drake, "Alex Livingston and Carolina Rastrilla", Evening
Standard, London, England., Aug. 11
1995 Martin Coomer, "Two Painters from the Chelsea College of Art",
Time Out, London, England, Aug.16/23
1995 John Murchie, "Alex
Livingston: New Paintings", Arts Atlantic, Spring
1993 Kate Taylor, "Four New Painters and Gerald Ferguson", Canadian
Art, Summer
1993 Gil McElroy, "Snakes and Ladders", Arts Atlantic, Winter
1992 John Murchie, "Subject/Matter: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
in Nova Scotia", Canadian Art, Fall
1992 Ray Conlogue, "Subject/Matter: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
in Nova Scotia", The Globe and Mail, C 10, July 18, 1992
1991 Cliff Eyland, "Alex Livingston: Recent Paintings", Arts Atlantic,
Fall
1990 Anna - Marie Larsen, Jeff Viner, "Alex Livingston: Recent
Paintings and Drawings", Arts Atlantic, Winter
1987 Cliff Eyland, "Alex Livingston", Vanguard, Summer
1987 Gloria Hickey, "Eastern Perspectives: Five Nova Scotia Artists",
Arts Atlantic, Summer / Fall
1987 Barbara Lounder, "Alex Livingston: Vistas", Arts Atlantic, Spring
1986 Robin Metcalfe, "Visual Facts ‘ 86", Arts Atlantic, Summer
1986 Harry Thurston, "INNOVASCOTIA", Canadian Art, Spring
1986 Charlotte Townsend Gault, "Seeing Art in Nova Scotia, Ecphore and
Innnova", Vanguard, April /May
AWARDS
2010 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture,
Presentation Grant
2010 Canada Council, Travel Grant
2009 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture,
Presentation Grant
2007 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Presentation Grant
2006 Canada Council, Travel Grant
2005 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Presentation Grant
2003 Canada Council, Mid-Career Creation/Production Grant
1999 Canada Council, Mid-Career Creation/Production Grant
1998 Nova Scotia Arts Council, Presentation Grant
1996 Canada Council, Travel Grant
1996 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Exhibition
Assistance Grant
1996 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Skills Development
Grant
1994 Canada Council, Travel Grant
1994 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Exhibition
Assistance Grant
1992 Canada Council, "B" Grant
1989 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Exhibition
Assistance Grant
1988 Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture, Exhibition
Assistance Grant
1986 Canada Council, Project Grant
1986 Nova Scotia Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness,
Exhibition Assistance Grant
1985 Canada Council, Short-Term Grant
COLLECTIONS
CI Financial
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
McInnes Cooper
Blois, Nickerson & Bryson
Department of National Defense
Dalhousie Art Gallery
Museum London
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Telesat Canada
Canada Council Art Bank
Nova Corporation
Nova Scotia Art Bank
Purdy’s Wharf Development Corporation
Private Collections
PANELS
Painters 3, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Figurative Painting, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Generational Views, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
RESIDENCIES
OCAD University
Digital and Drawing Lab, Toronto, Ontario
Beijing International Residency and Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
WASP’S Artist’s Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
VISITING ARTIST
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
Buckingham Chilterns University College, Wycombe, England
Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
University of East London, London, England
Eton College, Windsor, England
The Khyber – Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Moncton University, Moncton, New Brunswick
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Western Community College, Newfoundland
JURIES
Portia White Award
Canada Council Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grants
RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Canada Council Art Bank
Nova Scotia Art Bank
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture - Exhibition Assistance
Grants
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