ARTIST | Susan Hobbs

Possessed, 2009, edition of 3,
cast polymerized gypsum, 12.5 x 17.5 x 2 cm

Watermark, 2009 (detail), edition of 3,
cast polymerized gypsum, 10 x 15 x 2 cm

Watermark, 2009, edition of 3, cast polymerized gypsum, 10 x 15 x 2 cm

VITA, 2000, glass beads, aluminum, wood, 215 x 310 x 1 cm

I Witness, 1996-2001,
glass beads, embroidery cloth, glass,
16 x 16 x 18 cm each

I’m doing the best I can., 1995,
glass beads, aluminum, lead weights, brass swivels, wire,
33 x 190.5 x 5 cm

Trial fuels media circus, 1994-95,
black and white beads, angle iron, flexible tube light, fishing swivels, lead weights, 33 x 190.5 x 5 cm

Colette Whiten

Colette Whiten’s work is intricately bound up with notions of the feminine in both content and medium. Using meticulous techniques like cross-stitch, beading and casting, she recreates images culled from media sources – and, more recently, her own documentation – to discuss power and political relationships.

1945

Born in Birmingham, England

1972

Ontario College of Art, Toronto

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition

2000

VITA, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

1998

Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

Seducing the Receiver, Dunlop Art Gallery,
Regina

1997

London Regional Art & Historical Museum,
London - Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston

1996

Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain

1995

Seducing the Receiver, Oakville Galleries,
Oakville

1994

Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

1993

Centre d’art d’Herblay, France

Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain

1992

New Needleworks, The Power Plant, Toronto

1989

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1988

Powerhouse Gallery, Montréal

Centennial Gallery, Oakville Galleries,
Oakville

1987

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1985

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1982

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1981

Alberta College of Art, Calgary

1980

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1979

McIntosh Gallery, University of
Western Ontario, London

1978

London Regional Art Gallery, London

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1977

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1975

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto

1974

Scarborough College, University of
Toronto, Toronto

1973

Agnes Etherington Centre,
Queens University, Kingston

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014

You've Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville

2010

Marburg! The Early Bird!, Marburger
Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany

2009

De L’Écriture/With Writing,
Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse;
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

2008

Momentum, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution,
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; PS1,
New York

2007

WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution,
   The National Museum of Women in
   the Arts, Washington, DC; MOCA,
   Los Angeles

2005

Moral Fibre, Mount Saint Vincent
University Art Gallery, Halifax

Visages de l’histoire: Portraits de Vancouver,
Centre d’art contemporain de
Basse-Normandie, France

2004

Facing History, Canadian Cultural Centre,
Paris

2003

The Bigger Picture, Ottawa Art Gallery,
Ottawa

2002

Over Getting Over, Southern Alberta
Art Gallery, Lethbridge

2001

Facing History, Presentation House
Gallery, Vancouver

1997

Colette Whiten, Margarita Andreu,
Permindar Kaur, Trayecto Galeria,
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

a little object, The Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research,
London, England

1996

Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto

1994

Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden,
The Netherlands

De Bergkerk, Deventer, The Netherland

1993

Corpus, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon;
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff

Witness, Presentation House, Vancouver;
   Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Leonard &
   Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal;
   Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton;
   Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Southeast
   Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach,
   Florida

1992

En Scene, W139, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

Mosta America, Museu Da Gravura,
Cidade de Curitiba, Brasil

1991

The Photographic Image, 49th Parallel,
New York

Regina Work Project, Mackenzie Art
Gallery, Regina

Denonciation, L’Usine Fromage, Ecole
d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen,
France

1990

Photographic Inscription, Institute for
Foreign Cultural Affairs, Stuttgart,
Germany

1989

Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1988

Information Systems, YYZ, Toronto

1986

Human Touch: from Canada to Belgium,
Brussels, Liege, Paris

1985

Recent Canadian Sculpture, Winnipeg
Art Gallery, Winnipeg

1982

Contemporary Figurative Sculpture,
Agnes Etherington Centre, Queens
University, Kingston

Realism: Structure and Illusion,
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph

1981

The Winnipeg Perspective 1981: Ritual,
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

3+3+9: Sculptors in Exchange: Australia
and Canada, Art Gallery at
Harbourfront, Toronto

1976

Forum ‘76, Montréal Museum of
Fine Arts, Montréal

Sculpture, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver

1975

Carmen Lamanna Gallery at the
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison
University, Sackville

Some Canadian Women Artists,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1974

Contemporary Ontario Art, Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto

1973

8e Biennale de Paris, Musee d’art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989

by Wanda Nanibush (exhibition catalogue)

Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018

The Donovan Collection

by Daniel Donovan (book)

Toronto: University of St. Michael’s College, 2010

Colette Whiten at Susan Hobbs Gallery

by Leah Modigliani (review)

C Magazine, Winter 2009

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution

by Connie Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark
(exhibition catalogue)

Los Angeles/Boston: MOCA/MIT Press, 2007

Moral Fibre

by Ingrid Jenkner (exhibition catalogue)

Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2005

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

by Karen Love (exhibition catalogue)

Paris: Centre culturel canadien, 2004

The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa

by Karen Love (exhibition catalogue)

Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery, 2004

Colette Whiten at Susan Hobbs

by Gary Michael Dault (review)

The Globe and Mail, 28 May 2000

Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000

by Anne Newlands (book)

Toronto: Firefly Books, 2000

The Collectors

by Bruce Bailey (article)

The National Post, 22 January 2000

Portraits of Ephemerality

by Terrence Heath (review)

Border Crossings, May 1999

Colette Whiten at Susan Hobbs

by Gillian MacKay (review)

The Globe and Mail, 9 January 1999

Whiten work food for thought

by Marg Langton (review)

The Spectator, 3 January 1996

Colette Whiten: Seducing the Receiver

by Marnie Fleming (exhibition catalogue)

Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 1995

The Joan and Barbra Show

by Gillian MacKay (article)

Canadian Art, Summer 1995

Witness

by Cheryl Simon (review)

C Magazine, Summer 1995

Survivors: In Search of a Voice

by Barbra Amesbury (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: Woodlawn Arts Foundation, 1995

Report from Toronto: Opening Doors

by Roni Feinstein (review)

Art in America, November 1994

Colette Whiten: Susan Hobbs Gallery

by Laura U. Marks (review)

Artforum, May 1994

Witness

by Renee Baert (exhibition catalogue)

Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 1993

Colette Whiten

by Mirjam Westen (exhibition catalogue)

Herblay, France: Centre d’art Herblay, 1993

Whiten’s fine Needleworks tests media patterns

by Deirdre Hanna (review)

NOW Magazine, 6-12 February 1992

Women’s Work

by Kate Taylor (review)

The Globe and Mail, 21 January 1992

Colette Whiten: New Needleworks

by Richard Rhodes (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: The Power Plant, 1992

Photographic Inscription: Kunst aus Toronto

by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)

Stuttgart, Germany: Institut fuer Auslandsbezeihungen, 1990

Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art

by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1989

Colette Whiten

by Richard Rhodes (review)

Artforum, May 1989

Janice Gurney et Colette Whiten

by Catherine Bedard (review)

Parachute, December 1988-February 1989

Prince Charming and the Associated Press: The Needlepoint Work of Colette Whiten

by Elke Town (article)

Descant, Winter 1987

Colette Whiten

by Carol Laing (review)

Parachute, June-August 1987

Colette Whiten, Carmen Lamanna Gallery

by Gregory Van Alystyne (review)

C magazine, June 1987

Colette Whiten

by Nancy Carroll (review)

Vanguard, Summer 1980

Colette Whiten

by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)

London: London Regional Art Gallery, 1978

Woman’s Work

by Marjorie Harris (article)

Chatelaine, July 1978

Colette Whiten at Carmen Lamanna Gallery

by Julianna Borsa (review)

Artmagazine, August-September 1977

Some Canadian Women Artists

by Mayo Graham (article)

Artmagazine, December 1975

Some Canadian Women Artists

by Mayo Graham (exhibition catalogue)

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975

The Sculpture of Colette Whiten

by Joyce Zemans (article)

Art Magazine, Fall 1974

Art on the edge of empire

by Robert Fulford (article)

Art News, Summer 1974