LYNDAL OSBORNE: RESUME
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Edmonton, Alberta Canada Web: www.lyndalosborne.com
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Born: 1940 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Education
1971 MFA University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, M.F.A. Printmaking
1961 Sydney Teacher s College, Sydney, Australia
1960 BA National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Professional Experience
2005 Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
1971- 2004 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
1970 Instructor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
1961-65 High school teacher: NSW, Australia; London, UK; Powell River, Montreal &Vancouver, Canada
Awards
2006 Salute to Excellence Award, City of Edmonton, AB
2006 Recipient, Alberta Centennial Medal, Edmonton, AB
2005 Helen Collinson Award, Edmonton Artist s Trust Fund, Edmonton, AB
2004 Performance Award, Salute to Excellence, City of Edmonton AB
1998 Elected member, Royal Canadian Academy
1994 -2004 Printmaking Division recognized as an area of research excellence, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
1991 J. Gordon Kaplan Award for excellence in research (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB)
Sapporo International print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan, award
1990 McCalla Professor, (1 year research grant), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
International Triennale of Graphic Art, Cracow, Poland, award (1 of 10)
Real Canadian Superstore Award 90 (Established Artist Category) $5,000.00
Prints International 1990, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA award
1987 63rd Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA, USA (on tour), award
1986 Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, award
1981 1 of 3 Canadian artists work for presentation to the 7 ministers of the Summit, Ottawa, ON (July)
Graphex 7, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, ON award: best colour
1979 Bathurst Art Prize, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, award
1978,1977 Graphex 6, Exhibition of prints & drawings, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, awards
1974 5th International Print Biennale, Cracow and Katovice, Poland, purchase award
1973 Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC award
1972 12th Annual Calgary International Graphic Exhibition, Calgary, AB purchase award
Selected Exhibitions: Solo, Duo and Group Shows
2012 Animal, group Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS (catalogue)
Witness, duo (with Sherri Chaba) Strathcona County Art Gallery @ 501, AB (catalogue)
Where Rivers Meet Sea, solo The Rooms: Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL (catalogue)
Tracing Tides, Discovery Centre, Gros Morne National Park, NL (catalogue)
Animal, group The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON (catalogue)
2011 2112: Imagining the Future, group, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (catalogue)
Animal, group Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (catalogue)
Departure, duo Stony Plain Multicultural Centre, Stony Plain, AB
4th Biennale International Portneuf, solo collaboration with John Freeman, Deschambault, Quebec
Cereal Gen, duo University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge AB (catalogue)
Animal, group Museum London, London, ON (catalogue)
Farm Show: Seeding, group Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
Farm Show: Growing, duo in collaboration with Sherri Chaba, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, AB
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2010 Ornamenta, solo Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB (catalogue)
A Renaissance, group Enterprise Square Gallery, (organized by Art and Life) Edmonton, AB
Timeland: 2010 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, group Art Gallery of Alberta, AB (catalogue)
ab ovo, solo Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Ornamenta, solo Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK (catalogue
2009 10th Symposium international d art in situ, group Val David, Quebec (collaboration with John Freeman)
Ornamenta, solo Harcourt House Arts Centre, Edmonton AB (catalogue)
Ornamenta, solo Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC (catalogue)
2008 Seeing Through Modernism: Edmonton 1970 -1985, group Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB (catalogue)
Ornamenta, solo Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Kitchener, ON (catalogue)
Oil, Science & Soil, duo collaboration with Sherri Chaba, Capital Arts Building Gallery, Edmonton AB
Ornamenta, solo The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON (catalogue organized by RMG))
Imagining Science: An Exploration of Science, Society and Social Change, group Art Gallery of Alberta, AB
(Catalogue: first prize, Scholarly/Reference category in the 2009 New York Book Show)
Impression: Prints from the AGA Collection, group Art Gallery of Alberta, AB (catalogue)
Landscape Stories, group Moose Jaw Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK (catalogue)
Landscape Stories, group Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON (catalogue)
2007 Landscape Stories, group Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB (catalogue)
Tidal Trace, (collaboration with John Freeman), Kerry Woods Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2006 Landscape Stories, group Thames Gallery, Chatham, ON (catalogue organized by Thames Gallery)
Garden, solo Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB (catalogue)
Shoalwan: River Through Fire, River of Ice, solo Capital X, (Sportex) Edmonton, AB
Tidal Trace, duo collaboration with John Freeman Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon
2005 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, group Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB (catalogue)
Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB (catalogue)
2004 human/nature: Contemporary Canadian Installation, group Kenderdine Art Gallery, SK (catalogue)
L oeuvre au naturel ou du naturel a l oeuve, solo Musee Regional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec
human/nature: Contemporary Canadian Installation, group Doland Modern Art Museum, Shanghai
human/nature: Contemporary Canadian Installation, group, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, HK
Tidal Trace, duo, collaboration with John Freeman, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2003 Shoalwan: River Through Fire, River of Ice, solo Whyte Museum of the Rockies, Banff, AB
Selections from Poetic Structure of the World, solo Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, ON (catalogue)
Illusions, solo Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
2002 Geographies & Objects of Enticement, solo Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2001 River City, solo Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
Fluttering Ways, (Triennial) group Adria Palace Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
2000 Lines of Site: 2000, group Old Town Hall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
Poetic Structure of the World, solo Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (catalogue)
1999 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, group Edmonton Art Gallery, AB (catalogue)
20/20 Vision: Roots, collaboration Brian Webb Dance, L Uni Theatre, La Cite-Francophone, Edmonton, AB
Lines of Site Ideas, Form & Materialities, group Gulbenkian Galleries, RCA, London, UK, (catalogue)
Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms & Materialities, group Musashino Art University Galleries, Tokyo, Japan
Nature, Culture and Community, group Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
1998 (un)Natural Histories, duo with Gwen Curry, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB (catalogue)
Selected Works, group Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Nfld.
Solo show, De Leon White Gallery, Toronto, ON
Alta. Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, group Glenbow Museum, Calgary (catalogue)
Beauty and Banal, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1998 Poetic Structure of the World, solo FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (8 installations)
1997 Hung, Drawn and Quartered, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Of Mudlarkers & Measurers, group Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON (catalogue)
Of Mudlarkers & Measurers, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON (catalogue)
(un)Natural Histories, duo with Gwen Curry, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC (catalogue)
1996 Solo exhibition SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Site Markers, group Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB (catalogue)
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1995 Solo exhibition, Keyano College Gallery, Fort McMurray, AB
1994 Collecting Edmonton: A passion show, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1993 Natural Survivors, solo Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Group invitational (4), Musee Louis Hemon, Peribonka, Quebec
1992 Objects from Nature & Imagination, solo Manitoba Printmakers Association Gallery, Winnipeg, MA
Objects from Nature & Imagination, solo Winnipeg Printmakers Forum Gallery, Windsor, ON
Songs of the Stone, solo National Library Gallery, Montivedego, Uruguay
Natural Selection, solo Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, AB
1991 Imprints: New Alberta Art, group Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Objects of Nature & Imagination, solo Front Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1990 Lyndal Osborne: Songs of the Stone, solo Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB (catalogue)
Solo exhibition, Estudio Lisenberg, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (tour: Cordoba, Rosario & Mar del Plata)
1989 Alberta Drawings, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1988 Edmonton Prints in Brazil, group Brazilia, Campinas, Curitibu, San Paulo (catalogue)
Surroundings, group Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
1987 Contemporary Edmonton Art, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1984 Contemporary Canadian Printmaking, group Queensland College of Art, Qld., Australia (tour)
1983 Solo Exhibition, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Duo exhibition (with Liz Ingram), World Bank Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1982 Solo exhibition, La Troisieme Gallery, (ARG), Quebec City, Quebec
Canadian Contemporary Printmakers, group Bronx Museum of Fine Art, NY (tour USA)
1980 Solo exhibition, Frans Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Canadian Prints, sponsored by the World Print Council, San Francisco, CA, USA
Not Just Another Print Exhibition, group Alberta 75th Anniversary Commission (on tour in Alberta)
1979 Alberta Art, group (Sapporo, Obihiro, Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Yokohama) Japan
1977 Realism in Canada: Traditional and New, group Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
1976 Solo exhibition of Prints and drawings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB (catalogue)
17 Canadian Artists: A Protean View, group Vancouver Art Gallery, BC (6 works), catalogue
Women as a Viewer, group Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1975 Alberta Art Foundation Premier International Exhibition, group (on tour: London, Brussels, Paris)
1974 Alberta Realists: Exhibition of Realists & Neorealist, group Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Invited and Juried Print exhibitions: 1968-2004 (over 250 exhibitions)
Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kochi-shi, Hakodate, Sapporo, Kanagawa, Wakayama, Nagoya, Amagasaki
Spain: Ibza
Bulgaria: Sophia, Varna
India: Bhopal, Bharat Bhavan
Poland: Torun, Cracow, Katowice, Poznan, Lodz
Slovenia: Ljubljana
Egypt: Giza
USA: Auburn, Chicago, San Francisco, Flint, Dickinson, Miami, Silvermine, Lubbock, Worcester,
St Joseph, Boston, NY, Columbus, Houston, Kingston, Los Angeles, New Canaan Corvallia, Columbus
Germany: Berlin, Nurnberg, Frechen
Norway: Fredrikstad
Finland: Jyvaskyla
Uruguay: Montivedego
Argentina: Buenos Aires
Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Bathurst, Warrnambool, Freemantle, Maitland, Grafton
Sweden: Stockholm
Iceland: Reykjavik
UK: Bradford, London
Czech Republic: Prague
ROC: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Korea: Seoul
Brazil: Cabo Frio, San Paulo, Curitibu, Brazilia
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Canada: Ottawa, Kitchener, Medicine Hat, Toronto, Kelowna, Vancouver, Burnaby, Brantford, Winnipeg,
Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Banff, Guelph, Quebec City, Red Deer, London, Hamilton
Belgium: Brussels
France: Paris
Netherlands: Maastricht
Permanent Collections
In over 75 permanent collections in USA, Europe, Australia, NZ and Canada- including universities,
international corporations, regional and provincial galleries and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Residencies
2012 Ecotone Artist Residency, Lethbridge, AB (organized by SAAG) (1 week)
2010, 2002 Mentor, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC (8 days each)
2008, 2005 Participant, Thematic Residency, Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff, AB (7 weeks each)
2006 Participant, Ted Harrison Artist Retreat, Whitehorse, Yukon (I month)
2004 Instructor, Workshop: Engaging with Nature, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, NC, USA (2 weeks)
2002, 1996 Mentor, Prairie North, Grande Prairie College, Grande Prairie, AB (2 weeks each)
2002 Artist in Residence: Bundanon Artist Trust, Bundanon, NSW, Australia (1 month)
2000 Artist in Residence: Parks Canada, Gros Morne National Park, NL (1 month)
1993 Artist in Residence, Malaspina Printmakers, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC (2 weeks)
Artist in Residence, Memorial University, Corner Brook NL (2 weeks)
1992 Artist in Residence, Windsor Printmakers Forum, Windsor ON (2 weeks)
1983 Artist in Residence, Atelier de Realization de Graphic de Quebec, Quebec City (2 weeks)
Selected Juries
Lee Fund for the Arts 2008, Ernst and Young Toronto, 2003, Edmonton Public Schools 1998, AFA 2008 1991
Canada Council 199*-****-****, Harcourt House Centre 1990, Visual Arts Branch 1988, Athabasca
University 1983, Manitoba Arts Board 1980, PDCC 1979 1976, Provincial Museum Alberta 1977 Edmonton
Arts Council 2011, 2008
Boards
Visual Arts Alberta Association 2003-09, Salute to Excellence: City of Edmonton 2006-10, Edmonton Art
Gallery 1993-1996, Latitude 53 Gallery 1988 -1990, SNAP 1978-82, Print & Drawing Council of Canada 1979-80
Selected Lectures
Grande Prairie 2011 2004, Banff 2010 2009, Toronto 2010, Red Deer 2010, Val David 2007, Grande Prairie 2002
2004,Calgary 2003, Kelowna 2003 2000, Plattsburgh NY 2003, Wells BC 2011 2001, Lethbridge 2000, Nanaimo
1999, Thunder Bay 1998, Edmonton 201*-****-**** 2003 1998, Kingston 1997, Ottawa 1997, Kamloops 1996,
Vernon 1996, Sydney, Australia 1996, Fort McMurray 1995 1994, Halifax 1993, Stephenville 1993, Corner Brook
1993, Alma 1993, Waterloo 1992, Poznan Poland 1991, Windsor 1999, Winnipeg 1987, Victoria 1987, Vancouver
1987, Montreal 1986, Kingston 1986, Dundas 1984, Hamilton 1984, Val David 1983, Toronto 1983, Calgary 1982,
Melbourne Australia 1978
Teaching/ Workshops/Symposia
Faculty of Extension Edmonton 2007, Environmental Studies Calgary 2001, EAG Edmonton 1999, Sightlines
Symposium 1997, coordinator: Commonwealth Print Portfolio, Edmonton 1996-1997
Selected Reviews
2012 Art House, by Janice Ryan, Edmonton Journal March 31, pp E4-5
2010 Lyndal Osborne: ab ovo by David Garneau, Vie Des Arts #218 Spring p16
2009 Lyndal Osborne: Ornamenta by Sarindar Dhaliwal, Espace, pp 42, 43
Lyndal Osborne by Gil McElroy, Sculpture, April (3 reproductions)
Lyndal Osborne: Delectable Decay by Margaret Rodgers, Canadian Art January online review
2008 Art & science collide in a beautiful way by Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal, Nov 15, D2
2007 Saskatoon, human/nature by David Garneau, Vie des Arts, No. 198, p 92-93
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2004 Lyndal Osborne: Whyte Museum of Rockies by Mary Beth Laviolette, Canadian Art, spring p88
Reflecting on the sea s power, nature of memory by Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal, Mar.
2003 Lyndal Osborne: Selections, Poetic Structure of World by Virginia Eichhorn, Espace, Fall p 42
2002 Lyndal Osborne by Gary Pearson, Sculpture, Vol. 21, #8, p 87
2001 River City by David Garneau, Canadian Art winter, and 01, p 82
1997 Impirical Virtues by Roger Boulet, Canadian Art, Winter p 62
Rigours of Collecting: Rituals of Seeing by Joan Richardson, Border Crossings (Winter 97) p 61-66
1996 Lyndal Osborne: Boxed Set by David Garneau, Canadian Art, Winter 98, p 78
1995 The Collectors by Paula Halkes, Border Crossings, Summer 1997 p 75
1976 To celebrate Drawing by Karen Wilkin Arts Canada, April/May
17 Canadian Artists: A Protean View by John Noel Chandler, Arts Canada Oct/Nov
Catalogues
2011 Lake: a Journal of Arts & Environment, UBC Okanagan, by Briar Craig, pp 48-57 plus cover illustration
Animal, Museum London, ON curated by Corinna Ghaznavi (56 p) pp 7-8, 38-39
2009 Timeland, 2010 Alta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, pp 48 49 & 71
2008 Imagining Science: Art Science and Social Change, ed. S & T Caulfield, U of A Press, pp 46-49 105
Seeing Through Modernism, Edmonton 1970 -1985, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmon. AB by Anne Whitelaw
Lyndal Osborne: Ornamenta, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON by Linda Jansma & V Eichhorn 48p
2007 Landscape Stories: Erik Edson, Lyndal Osborne, Rod Strickland, Thames Gallery, Chatham ON 22 pp
Aberta Art & Artists: an Overview by Mary-Beth Laviolette & Patricia Ainslie 160pp, 1 illus.
2004 Banff, Alberta, Canada, Lyndal Osborne by Ruth Donovan, Sculpture October, P5 & 78
human/nature: Contemporary Canadian installation, in Chinese & English 44 pp
2003 Shoalwan: River Through Fire, River of Ice, essay by Lisa Christiansen, Whyte Museum of the Rockies 4 p
Geographies & Objects of Enticement, essay by Ihor Holubizky, Kelowna Art Gallery BC 6 pp
2000 Lyndal Osborne: The Poetic Structure of the World, by David Garneau, Southern Alta Art Gallery AB 44pp
1999 Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms and Materialities, pub Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta, AB 144pp
1997 Sightlines: Printmaking & Image Culture, edited Walter Jule, Uof A Press 332pages pp158-9
1997 Mudlarkers & Measurers, by Sarindar Dhaliwal, Agnes Etherington Centre 22 pages
1995 (un)Natural Histories: G Curry & L Osborne, essay Robin Laurence, design Sue Colberg, 32 p (self pub)
1996 Site Markers: 3 Contemporary Alberta Artists, J. Sybesma essay, S. Colberg design 6 p (self published)
1991 Inside/Out: Four Artists from Edmonton, Pozan and Kracow, Poland 56 pp design B Hildebrand p 47-56
Grafika: 4 Graphic Artists from Edmonton by Izabella Gustowska, Poznan University, Poland pp 1-6
1990 Lyndal Osborne: Songs of the Stone by Roger Boulet, Edmonton Art Gallery, design Marna Bunnell 24 p
1989 Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985 by Bente Roed Cochran, U of A Press p 116-118
1988 Contemporary Edmonton Prints, Bente Roed Cochrane, Edmonton Art Gallery 24 pp
1982 Edmonton Prints: Brazil, to accompany exhibition to Brazil, published by SNAP 24 pp
Grants
2012 Canada Council grant to professional artist ($20,000)
2011 Travel Grant, Canada Council ($2,500)
Project grant, Edmonton Arts Council ($19,840)
Project grant, Alberta Foundation For the Arts ($12,640)
Travel grant, Edmonton Arts Council, AB ($700)
MicroGrant, Edmonton Arts Council, AB ($500)
2010 Cultural relations grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($14, 700)
2009 Project grant, Alberta Creative Development Initiative, AB ($19,5000)
Project grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($11,409)
2008 Project grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($9,000)
Individual artist grant, Canada Council for the Arts ($20,000)
2007 Project Grant, Alberta Foundation For the Arts, AB ($7,500)
Project grant, Edmonton Arts Council, AB ($15,000)
2006 Project grant, Alberta Foundation For the Arts, AB ($5,000)
2005 Edmonton Artists Trust Fund, Edmonton Arts Council, AB ($5,000)
Canada Council grant to professional artist ($17,000)
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Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($7,500)
2004 Grant for human/nature show (Hong Kong, Shanghai) Dept of Foreign Affairs ($24,000) group
Canada Council travel grant, Shanghai, ($25,000) group
Grant for human/nature show (Shanghai, Hong Kong), University of Alberta, AB ($20,000) group
2003 Grant for human/nature show (Shanghai, Hong Kong), Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($20,900) group
2002 Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($14,000)
Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($5,000)
1999 Canada Council Grant to Professional Artists ($34,000)
1997 Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for Arts, AB ($3,000)
1996 Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for Arts, AB ($3,000)
1994 C.R.F. Grant for technical assistance prints and sculpture, U of A, AB ($4,260)
1992 Visual Arts Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB ($5,000)
1991 Time Release for course, Endowment Funds, University of Alberta, AB (4 months)
1990 Project Grant, Alberta Culture & Multiculturalism, AB ($4,800)
Canada Council Project & Travel Grant ($5,400)
1988 Time Release for course, Endowment Funds, University of Alberta, AB (4 months)
1987 Time Release Grant, Endowment Funds, University of Alberta, AB (4 months)
1985 Time Release Grant, Endowment Funds, University of Alberta, AB (4 months)
1981 Project Grant Canada Council
1976 Travel Grant Canada Council (Vancouver)
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