Groombridge’s sculpture is characterised by a deceptive simplicity of form
and an economy of materials. His work makes evocative use of structural and
poetic elements, including aspects of communication, perception,
construction and measurement. His work is full of references to the
transient nature of things, to balance, and to reciprocity. These references
are visual cues to something else and implore the question: what is that
point at which things intersect?
1953
Born in Sarnia, Ontario
1972
Sheridan College, Oakville
1974-78
Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1977
O.C.A. New York Off-Campus Study Program
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
small telescopes, YYretroZective, YYZ, Toronto
2010
Convenience Gallery, Toronto
2008
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2005
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2002
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2000
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1997
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1995
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1994
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1993
Galerie Lallouz et Watterson, Montréal
1992
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1991
WW3, Toronto
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1990
The Points of Contact are the Points of Gesture, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
New Model for Measurement, Art Metropole, Toronto
Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
1988
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
Comets Tell of Great Distances Travelled, Massey-Ferguson Buildings, Toronto
1987
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
The Power Plant, Toronto
1986
Continuum, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1985
Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
1984
Evidence of the River, YYZ, Toronto
1983
A System of Five Moving Parts, Optica, Montréal
1981
Portions; Traces, Forest City Gallery, London
Constructing Parallels, Mercer Union, Toronto
1979
Architectural Targets, YYZ, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
The Most She Weighed/The Least She Weighed, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2010
Site Exercises, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2008
Momentum, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2007
Me and Them, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Reading the Picture, Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown
2005
The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto
2004
Objective Information, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
2001
the way up and the way down are one and the same, An exhibition in a home, Toronto
2000
2000 and Counting, Part ii, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1998
The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of North York, Toronto
1997
Site/Work, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Off/Set: Artists Interpreting the Printing Process, Harbourfront, Toronto
1996
Wild Life, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Vital Signs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Type Culture, Design Exchange, Toronto
Ten, Cold City Gallery/Mercer Union, Toronto
1995
Art Metropole: Twenty Years, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1993
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1991
Vittu Pane Puu Pallo, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1990
Numbering, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
1989
Cold City Artists – The Vancouver Exchange, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1988
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1987
Sans Demarcation, Visual Arts Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie
Artscape, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington
1986
Patio Lawn Slope, Scarborough College, University of Toronto, Toronto
1985
Territories, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
1984
The New City of Sculpture, Mercer Union, Toronto
1982
Monumenta, A Space, Toronto
1981
Displacements, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
1980
Locations, Mercer Union, Toronto
The Sculptural Image, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto
1978
Drawings, A Space, Toronto
3D in 2D, Gallery 76, Toronto
Brian Groombridge
by E. C. Woodley (review)
Border Crossings, Issue no. 125,
read (pdf)
Brian Groombridge: YYZ & Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Charles Reeve (review)
frieze 153, March 2013
read (pdf)
Brian Groombridge: YYZ and Susan Hobbs
by E. C. Woodley (review)
Art in America, February 2013
read (pdf)
FrameWork 11/12
by Joel Herman (essay)
Susan Hobbs Gallery, November 2012
read (pdf)
GALILEO’S FINGER
by Jen Hutton (pamphlet)
YYZ, 2012
read (pdf)
... THE WING SPAN OF AN OWL, ENABLING FLIGHT ...
by Yam Lau (pamphlet)
YYZ, 2012
read (pdf)
Could this be a radio? Maybe just for today
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 8 November 2008
read (pdf)
Brian Groombridge
by Charles Reeve and Siobhan Roberts
(monograph)
Toronto: Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2008
Brian Groombridge at Susan Hobbs
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 5 November 2005
Brian Groombridge, Shirley Wiitasalo at Susan Hobbs
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 9 December 2000
Brian Groombridge: Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Reid Diamond (review)
Lola, Summer 1998
Toronto Sculpture Garden
by Barbara Fischer and Ihor Holubizky (book)
Toronto: Toronto Sculpture Garden, 1998
shape shifters
by Ihor Holubizky (book)
Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1997
Wild Life
by John Massier (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Koffler Gallery, 1996
Sculpture/Toronto
by June Ardie (book)
Toronto: Leidra Books, 1994
Decalog: YYZ 1979-1989
by Barbara Fischer (book)
Toronto: YYZ, 1992
Uitersten bijeen in Apollohuis
by René Van Peer (review)
Eindhoven Dagblad, 5 November 1991
Brian Groombridge
by Ihor Holubizky (article)
C Magazine, Spring 1991
Vittu Pane Puu Pallo
by Noel Harding, Paul Panhuysen and Joanne Pasila Eindhoven
(catalogue)
The Netherlands: Het Apollohuis, 1991
Brian Groombridge: Toronto Sculpture Garden
by Linda Genereux (Article)
Artforum, October 1990
Within One Action There are Many Gestures
by Christopher Dewdney (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Toronto Sculpture Garden, 1990
Poetic Polarities
by John Bentley Mays (article)
The Globe and Mail, 18 July 1990
Focus: Brian Groombridge
by Earl Miller (article)
Canadian Art, Summer 1989
Numbering
by Ihor Holubizky (exhibition catalogue)
Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1989
Brian Groombridge
by Ihor Holubizky (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1988
Sans Demarcation
by Michael Burtch (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Visual Arts Ontario, 1987
Continuum: Brian Groombridge
by Jeanne Randolph (exhibition catalogue)
Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1986
Sculpture that knows its place
by Robert Everett-Green (article)
The Globe and Mail, 30 August 1986
Patio Lawn Slope
by Susan Schelle and Lora Carney
(exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Scarborough College, University of Toronto, 1986
Territories
by Kit Lort (review)
Arts Atlantic, Spring 1986
Territories
by Jerry McGarth (review)
Vanguard, February-March 1986
Territories
by Bruce Grenville and Stephen Horne
(exhibition catalogue)
Halifax: Eye Level Gallery, 1985
Quiet Reciprocity
by Gregory Salzman (article)
C Magazine, 6 Summer 1985
Brian Groombridge: Sculpture
by Anne West and Laurie Milner
(exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Glendon Gallery, 1985
A Journey Around the New City of Sculpture
by Marshall Webb (review)
Canadian Art, Winter 1984-85
The New City of Sculpture
by Ian Carr-Harris (review)
Parachute, Winter 1984-85
The New City of Sculpture
by Bruce Grenville (review)
C Magazine, 3 Fall 1984
Brian Groombridge
by Jerry McGarth (article)
Vanguard, September 1984
Brian Groombridge at YYZ
by John Bentley Mays (review)
The Globe and Mail, 26 April 1984
Upstairs and Down: Installations
by Wayne Johnston (review)
University of Western Ontario Gazette, 15 September 1981
Parallel Lines and Red Tape
by John Bentley Mays (review)
The Globe and Mail, 22 August 1981
Out of Site Works
by Martha Fleming (review)
Fuse Magazine, July 1980
