andrew mcphail
  • Andrew McPhail
  • Two Views, Tallinn/Hamilton
  • TEXTiles
  • BOO WHO
  • Pandemic 2
  • Safety Performance
  • GRUDGE
  • all my little failures
  • Insecure Ts
  • CRYBABY
  • bedhair
  • birthday suit
  • Prick
  • Poof
  • Sorry
  • Stunt Double
  • cv
  • online sources/contact


 EDUCATION

1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts York University, Toronto
1987 Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto


  



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
a little a lot, The Cotton Factory, Hamilton On

2023
The Drey Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2022
The Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, Canada

2020
Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2019
The Assembly, Hamilton ON
The Fish Factory, Falmouth  UK
​
2018 
The Assembly, Hamilton ON

2017
Just Dandy, AKA artist-run, Saskatoon. Two person show with Thirza Cuthand
The Body Thieves. Art Gallery of Burlington. Two person show with Lisa J Irvine

2015
Gallery Gachet, Vancouver. Two person show with Quin Martins
Hundred Dollar Gallery, Hamilton ON. Two person show with Donna Akrey

2014

Untitled Art Society, Calgary, Alberta

2013
b contemporary, Hamilton
, ON
Stunt Double, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, ON Two person show with Leslie Furness

2011 
Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Artspace, Peterborough, Ont.
Union Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

2010

Art Gallery of Hamilton
Transit Gallery, Hamilton ON

2009  
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario,London, Ont.

Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto

2008
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ont.

Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Ont.
The New Gallery, Calgary Alberta
The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasedena, California

2007  
Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON


2006  
Gallery Deluxe Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia


2004  
Robert Birch Gallery

Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford
Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON

2001 
Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto

Gallery Stratford, ON

1999 
Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto



1996  
Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON





SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Material Choices, Art Gallery of Hamilton

The 8th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition,Ukraine
NAX5, The Cotton Factory, Hamilton
Homecoming, 10 Years in Print, Smockestack Studio, Hamilton ON
Piecework, The Assembly, Hamilton ON

2023
Fairytales, Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton ON
Cellophane Wrapper, Proteus Creation Space, Basingstoke, UK

2022
Vanishing Act, Sun Wah Centre, Vancouver, BC
Fibreworks 2022, Cambridge Art Galleries, Cambridge ON
Is this real life, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON
Funhouse, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton ON
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga

2021
Vorsicht: Kunstler- Textbotschaften in der Kunst, Kunsttempl, Kassel Germany
The Post It Note Show, Makeshift Shows, UK
The World's Shittiest Exhibition, Uncovered Collective, London, UK
Pansies, Paul Elia Gallery, curated by The Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON



2020
Pricks. Men Who Sew, The Assembly, Hamilton, Canada
Presently, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
YacYacTacTac, A Virtual Show of Artist Multiples, Vancouver, BC
Un Touchable, SomoS Art House, Berlin, Germany
Capacity 1, Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, Canada
Hamilton No Name Biennale, Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton ON

2019
Shape Open, Nunnery Gallery, London UK
Body, Thought Foundation, Birtley, UK
Skin Soft Flesh, Ventolin Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Queer Ways of Being, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, UK

2018
Surfaces, LoosenArt, Millepiani Gallery, Rome
Wanderings, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, curated by Shannon Anderson
Colour My World, Socially Engaged Art Salon/BMECP, Brighton, UK

2017
Queer Landscapes, Queer Intersections, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
That's So Gay: Uprising, curated by Syrus Marcus Ware, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Ontario Ink 150, Centre 3, Hamilton ON


2016
Images In Our Heads, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
This Could be the Place, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
, Waterloo


2015
TH&B United, Hamilton
A Minimal Doubt, Videofag, Toronto 
Hard Twist 10, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto


2014

Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS, The Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Cirque, Burlington, Ontario
Life & Limb, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia Ontario
Supercrawl, Hamilton , Ontario


2013
Portes Ouverts, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
Fibermen 3, Kherson, Ukraine
Flatlanders and Surface Dwellers, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Be Our Guest, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales

2012
Qualia, Centre 3, Hamilton, Ontario
TH&B, Hamilton, Ontario

2011   
Veiled, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario



2009 
Sucker Punch, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, Ontario

ReMix, Cienfuegos Art Center, Cuba


2008   
Urban Jealousy, Tehran Biennial, Istanbul, Berlin



2007   
Artfirm Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

Le Petit Mort Gallery, Ottawa


2006   
Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

artpositive,  Xspace, Toronto, Ontario


2005  
Loose Canon Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

Critical Mass, Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
OSA Annual Juried Drawing Show, Toronto, Ontario


2003   
art @ suite500, York University, Toronto, Ontario



 2001   
Toronto International Art Fair



2000   
Snapshot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore

Canadian Gay and Lesbian National Portrait Collection 
Museologic, Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Mississauga
Art Box 1998, York University
25 Lives, Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archive, Toronto
1997  Kicking the Covers, Artists' Books and Multiples, Art Gallery of Ontario


 
 



GRANTS

2013   Canada Council International Residency, Paris

2013   Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career Grant

2008-9 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants

2006    Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career Grant 

2006    Cadre San Francisco Artist’s Grant

1996    Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

1992    Canada Council Short Term Grant
 


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Hamilton

 Agnes Etherington Art Center

The Gallery, Stratford

 The Art Gallery of Mississauga

 University of Toronto Art Center

 Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archive

 Business Development Bank of Canada

 Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 

Trizec Hahn Corporation

Toronto Dominion Bank





SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hampton, Chris. "These laborious handcrafts help Andrew McPhail process his feelings on illness, one sequin at a time" CBC, February 2, 2021

Haggo, Regina.  “A Common Thread”, The Hamilton Spectator, December 26, 2020

Library X: Word Power, 2019

Sutherland, Caitlin, CRYBABY, Untitled Art Society, 2014

Bennett, Melissa, all my little failures: Andrew McPhail, AGH, 2010


Jurakic, Ivan, "it hurts less if you pull it off quickly", McIntosh Gallery, 2009 

Lupypciw, Wednesday, all my little failures, The New Gallery 2008  
                        
Hollick, Laura, "Yummy", View Magazine, Vol 13 #45, 2007


Haggo, Regina, "Artists Start Your Engines", Hamilton Spectator, Sept. 18, 2004

Goddard, Peter, "Tails That Never End", The Toronto Star, July 24, 2004

Dault, Gary Micheal, Gallery Going, The Globe and Mail, March 27, 1999

Reid, Stuart, Decorology, The Art Gallery of Mississauga, 1996

Homogenius 4, 1995

Homogenius 3, 1993










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