Renee Van Halm

Selected Solo Exhibitions	2012 Drawing Survey, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC (touring) 2009 Reverse Engineering, Birch Libralato, Toronto, ON 2006 Tourist, Birch Libralato, Toronto, ON 2003 Dream Home & Taste: 100 Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC 2002 Dream Home: Renée Van Halm, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Dream Home & Taste: 100 Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Out-Takes: New Work, Taste: 100 Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2000 Closed Set, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1997 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1996 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1995 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1994 Anonymous Volumes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON 1992 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1990 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1989 Forest City Art Gallery, London, ON 1988 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON 1987 Display: A Temptation to Follow, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON 1986 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON L’eau a la bouche, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC 1985 Recent Work, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Saint Marie, ON 1984 In Attaining the Vertical Stance, One Assumes Power, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON The Confusing Elements of Passion and Power, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, QC Recent Work, 49th Parallel, New York City, NY 1983 In Killing the Dragon, Peace is Restored, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON Anticipating, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, New York City, NY Voor Gerrit/Healing, KAAl, Kingston, ON 1982 Voor Gerrit/Healing, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB 1983 Recent Work, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON 1980 Interior Projections, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
Group Exhibitions	2011 This is Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON 2010 Home Team, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2009 Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Construct, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2007 real space, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, Ohio 2006 Contemporary Painters, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 2005 Architypes, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan 2004 Architypes, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Architypes, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2002 This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2001 Sculpture, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1999 Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Les Peintures, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, QC 1998 weak thought, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC The Monumental New City: Art and Community, Robert McLachlan Gallery, Oshawa, ON 1997 Work Site, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Vancouver Perspectives, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Vancouver Perspectives, Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 1996 Interventions; Anne Ramsden and Renée Van Halm, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC 1995 The Monumental New City: Art and Community, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON Survivors in Search of a Voice, various venues incl. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1993 Joanne Tod and Renée Van Halm, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON De la perspective...dans l’art contemporain, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jerome, QC Reflecting Paradise, Expo ‘ 93, Taejon, Korea Visual Evidence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK Dialogues, CIAC, Montreal, QC 1991 The 80’s, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON 1990 Nine From Toronto, Newcastle, England S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1980-1990, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON
Awards/Grants	1991, 1994, 2002 Canada Council A Grant 1977, 1978 Aide aux Expositions, Ministere des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec 1981, ‘82, ‘84, ‘85, ‘87 Canada Council B Grant 1989, Canada Council Paris Studio 1979, Canada Council Travel Grant 1977, 1978 Canada Council Short Term Grant 1984, 1986 Ontario Arts Council Grant 1984, OAC Award for Best Drawing in Graphex
Collections	Air Canada Art Gallery of Ontario Bank of Montréal Canada Council Art Bank Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa Household Financial Corporation Kamloops Art Gallery London Regional Art Gallery London Life Insurance McCarthy Tétrault Musee d’art Contemporain, Montreal Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal National Gallery of Canada Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt Price Waterhouse Royal Bank of Canada The Prudential Insurance Company of America Toronto Dominion Bank Tory and Tory, Toronto University of Lethbridge S.L. Simpson, Toronto Vancouver Art Gallery Private Collections in Canada and the United States
Commissions	2010 South Hill (South Fraser) neighbourhood banner and mural project, Vancouver, BC 2002 Taste/ 100 painting of the 20th century, Keesee Office Building, now Kirkpatrick Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Bibliography	Scott, Michael, Review, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., October 28, 2000 Canadian Art From Its Beginnings to 2000, by Anne Newlands, p. p. 323, Published by Firefly Books Ltd., Willowdale, ON, 2000 Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia, p. 220/221, Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, BC, 2000 Miller, Earl, Review, Parachute 91, Montreal, QC, Summer 1998 Dault, Gary Michael, Review, Canadian Architect, Toronto, ON, 1997 Preece, Robert, Review, Asia Art News, Hong Kong, Fall 1997 Jeffs, Angela, Review, “Sister artists from sister city offer 12 perspectives”, Japan Times, November 10, 1996 Bellerby, Greg, Vancouver Perspectives, Yokohama, Citizens’ Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, 1996 (catalogue) Laurence, Robin, Review, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, BC, February 6, 1996 Various, “Residence”, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Quebec, QC, 1996 Girling, Oliver, Review, Emily Carr Uptown, Eye, Toronto, ON, March 23, 1996 Brackett, Donald, “Painterly Inclinations”, Financial Post, Toronto, ON, Sept. 13, 1997 Johnstone, Lesley & Bradley, Jessica, “Sight Lines: Reading Canadian Contemporary Art”, Artexte, Montreal, QC, 1994 Ninacs, Anne-Marie, “La perspective...dans l’art contemporain, Le Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jerome, QC, 1993 (catalogue) Spalding, Jeffrey, “Reflecting Paradise”, Expo ‘93, Taejon, Korea, 1993 (catalogue)