Biography

  1926 Born in Montreal, Canada
 



Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Nomenclature, Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal
2007 Nomenclature, Gallery One One One, Winnipeg
Lessons, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2006 Nomenclature, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
2005 Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Christo, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2004 Orford String Quartet, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Joseph Beuys, Goethe Institut, Toronto
2003 Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
  2001 Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
  1999

Arnaud Maggs: Work 1976-1999, The Power Plant, Toronto
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

  1997 Arnaud Maggs: Early Portraits, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Répertoire, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
  1996 Notification, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1994 Travail des enfants dans l'industrie, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1992 Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Hotel, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1991 Köchel Series
-Cold City Gallery, Toronto
-Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal
1990 8 Numberworks, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Joseph Beuys, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
Identification, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal
1989 Numberworks, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
Joseph Beuys, Stux Gallery, New York
1988 The Complete Prestige 12" Jazz Catalogue, YYZ, Toronto
1985 Dusseldorf Photographs, The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
1984 Photographs 1975-84
-Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
-Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
-Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
Photographs 1981-83, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
1983 Turning, Photography Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto
Joseph Beuys, Optica, Montreal
1981 Downwind Photographs, Mercer Union, Toronto
1980 Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1979 Ledoyen Series, YYZ, Toronto
1978 64 Portrait Studies, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax
 



Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2005 The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto
Visages de l'histoire: Portraits de Vancouver, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France
2004 Making Faces, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Facing History, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Je t’envisage, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 The Bigger Picture, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Confluence: Contemporary Canadian Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
  2001

Facing History, Presentation House, Vancouver
2000 and Counting, part II, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Memory: Transcribing Loss, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
Mémoire et archive, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal

  1999 Reflections of the Artist, Portraits and Self-Portraits, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
  1997 Eros and Thanatos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
A Little Object, The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London, England
Notification, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
  1996 Double vie, double vue, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
  1995 Obsessions: From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace, Foto Biennale Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, The Netherlands
  1993 Within Memory
-Montage 93, Rochester, New York
-The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
  1992

Beau
-Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
-Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
-Canada House, London, England
Special Collections:
The Photographic Order from Pop to Now
-International Center of Photography Midtown, New York
-Fondation Deutsch, Lausanne, Switzerland
-Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Evanston, Illinois
-Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
-The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
-Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
-The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
-Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
-Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
-Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

  1991 Photo Based Works, 49th Parallel, New York
1990 Numbering, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
1985 Contemporary Canadian Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Identities, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1984 Contemporary Canadian Photography, International Museum of Photography, Film and TV, Bradford, England
Evidence of the Avant-Garde Since 1957, Art Metropole, Toronto
Responding to Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1983 Seeing People, Seeing Space, Photographers Gallery, London, England
1982 Persona, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
1979 Photo-Extended Dimensions, Art Gallery of Winnipeg, Winnipeg
1978 Sweet Immortality, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
1981 Displacements, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
1977

7 Canadian Photographers, National Film Board, Ottawa

 

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