“Canada”, by Lady Tweedsmuir from the series “The British Commonwealth and Empire.”
Edited with an introduction by W.J. Turner. With 48 plates in colour and 173 illustrations
in black and white. London, Collins, 1943.
2009,
illuminated book, aluminum,
195 x 70 x 8 cm
Paradigm Series: ‘église’ [figure], 2009, painted wood, wood, plexiglass, books, support tables, dimensions variable
America, 2007, illuminated book, aluminum, 194 x 67 x 7.5 cm
Paradigm Series: ‘Tate Modern’ [Survey], 2005, wood, plexiglass, motor, light, books, paper, 201 x 175.5 x 99 cm
covet from Ten Verbs/Ten Commandments, 2005, edition of 3, blackboard paint, white grease pencil, oil stick on masonite and wood, 30 x 41 x 2 cm
Annabel, 2002, edition of 3, paper, wood, plastic, 24 x 46.5 x 74 cm
Molly, 2002, oil on chalkboard, lights, 122 x 473 x 10 cm
Carr-Harris’ sculptures, installations and wall works explore knowledge and ordering systems, probing the intersections between memory and technology, image and text, and perception and description.
“ My work situates itself in that space we reserve for our recognition that the histories and structures which we use to give definition to identity are themselves contingent and fluid, no less elusive than the identities we seek to secure. Through shifts of emphasis, the work seeks to disturb our field of knowledge while leaving it also apparently intact. ”
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Donovan Collection
by Daniel Donovan (book)
Toronto: University of St. Michael’s College, 2010
Blessed be churches that confirm
our faith in art
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 4 April 2009
Dictionnaire international de la sculpture moderne et contemporaine
by Alain Monvoisin (book)
Editions du Regard (Paris), 2008
Not just another pile of laundry
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 24 July 2007
Remaking the Real
by Claire Christie (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2007
Ian Carr-Harris: In the beginning
was the word…
by Christopher Willard (review)
The Calgary Herald, 4 March 2006
Les 20 ans du CIAC
by Claude Gosselin et al (book)
Montréal: Centre internartional d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2004
Who’s Afraid of Ian Carr-Harris?
by Amish Morrell (article)
www.samplesize.ca, 31 July 2003
Ian Carr-Harris: Out of the Ordinary
by Marcus Miller (article)
Contemporary, October 2002
Affirming art’s power to illuminate
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 28 September 2002
Conceptualism gets a workout
by Peter Goddard (review)
The Toronto Star, 14 September 2002
Ian Carr-Harris: The Transit of the Grammarian
by Gary Michael Dault (article)
Canadian Art, Fall 2002
Ian Carr-Harris: Works 1992-2002
by Philip Monk and Antonio Guzman (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto, The Power Plant, 2002
Moments of truth, traces of fiction
by Blake Gopnik (review)
The Globe and Mail, 21 November 2000
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
by Anne Newlands (book)
Toronto: Firefly Books, 2000
Ian Carr-Harris, Dürer et le rhinoceros
by Damien Sausset (review)
L’Oeil, March 1999
Musiques en Scène
by James Giroudon, and Thierry Raspail (exhibition catalogue)
Lyon: Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 1999
Truth and Desire: The Illuminated Bookworks of Ian Carr-Harris
by Walter Klepac (exhibition brochure)
Lethbridge, Alberta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1996
Ian Carr-Harris: Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Christina Ritchie (review)
Canadian Art, Spring 1995
Report from Toronto: Canada’s Art Capital: The Public Sector
by Roni Feinstein (article)
Art in America, July 1994
Indices
by Louis Cummins, Clara Renau and Martine Needam (exhibition catalogue)
Herblay, France: Les Cahiers des Regards, Centre d’art contemporain, 1994;
Ian Carr-Harris, Optica
by Mona Hakim (review)
Le Devoir, 5-6 February 1994
Visual Evidence
by Ingrid Jenkner (exhibition catalogue)
Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1993
Encyclopedic Examinations
by Kate Taylor (review)
The Globe and Mail, 2 April 1993
Pages from History: Ian Carr-Harris, Early Works
by Carolyn Bell Farrell (exhibition catalogue)
Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 1993
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art
by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1990
Democratiser
by Richard Rhodes (article)
C Magazine, Spring 1989
Ian Carr-Harris 1971-1977
by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1988
Reckonings: Ian Carr-Harris
by Russell Keziere (article)
Vanguard, December/January 1987-88
Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d’histoire)
by Louise Dompierre (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
Ian Carr-Harris
by Christopher Youngs (exhibition catalogue)
Kassel, Germany: Documenta 8, 1987
Aurora Borealis
by Rene Blouin and Norman Theriault (exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: CIAC, 1985
Ian Carr-Harris / Liz Magor: Canada XLI Bienniale di Venezia
by Jessica Bradley (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984
Staging Language and Representing History: Ian Carr-Harris
by Philip Monk (article)
Vanguard, November 1983
Fiction: An Exhibition of Recent Work by Ian Carr-Harris, General Idea, Mary Janitch, Shirley Wiitasalo
by Elke Town (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982
Ian Carr-Harris: Recent Work
by Linda Milrod (exhibition catalogue)
Halifax: Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 1982
Ian Carr-Harris, A Demonstration: Yajima Gallery
by Diana Nemiroff (review)
Parachute, Winter 1981
Confrontations
by Ann Pollock (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1979
Kanadische Künstler
by Jean-Christophe Ammann (exhibition catalogue)
Basel, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 1978
Another Dimension
by Mayo Graham (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1977
Ian Carr-Harris: Carmen Lamanna Gallery
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
Artscanada, Winter 1975-76
Toronto
by Roald Nasgaard (article)
Artscanada, December/January 1973-74