Murray Favro (b. 1940, Canada)
Select Solo Exhibitions
2022 Today and Yesterday, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 Nihilist Spasm Band, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 Two Decades, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2010 Lathe, Lawn-mower, Tools, Tracks & Vice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 SD 40 Diesel, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto CA
1999 Catalogue Launch, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto CA
1998 Murray Favro, McIntosh Gallery & London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, CA
1998 New Work, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1996 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1994 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1991 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1988 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1984 Murray Favro: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1984 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; London regional Art Gallery, London, CA
1984 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, CA
1983 Murray Favro: a Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA
1983 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
198218 Preparation Drawings to Construct a 55% Scaled Sabre-Jet, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, CA
1983 Sabre-Jet Under Construction, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada; Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1980 Sabre-Jet Under Construction, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1978 Murray Favro at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1977 Air Show — The Flying Flea 1976-77, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1976 Inventions 1975-76, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1975 Invention Exhibition, Forest City Gallery, London, CA
1974 London Survey — Murray Favro, London Public Library and Art Museum, London, CA
1973 Synthetic Lake 1972-73, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1973 Murray Favro, Forest City Gallery, London, CA
1972 Country Road 1971-72, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1971 Sculptural Projections 1970, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1968 Art Invention, 20/20 Gallery, London, CA
1968 Half-Scale Sabre Jet 1964-68, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2006 Sculpture Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 15 Year Anniversary, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001 Oakville Galleries, Construction Compulsion Reconfiguring the Permanent Collection. Oakville, CA
1998 London Regional Art and Historical Museum, Bealart: 80 Years of Experiment 1912-1992, London, CA
1998 Kerr Gallery, Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography, Calgary, CA
1997 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Track Records, Ottawa, CA
1997 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Works on Paper, Toronto, CA
1996 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition at 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, CA
1995 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Chinese New Year Show, Toronto, CA
1994 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Christmas Show, Toronto, CA
1993 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Christmas Show, Toronto, CA
1990 L’art Bouge: un Regard sur les ‘Seventies’, Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, CA
1990 Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art, London Regional Art Gallery, London, CA
1989 Scrutiny, YYZ, Toronto, CA
1989 The Curators Choose, Art Rental, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, CA
1989 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1988 Thunder and Lightning, London Regional Art Gallery, London, CA
1988 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1988 Galeria Latinoamericana, La Habana, CU
1987 Premier’s Office, Queen’s Park, Toronto, CA
1986 The Flying Show, 49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, US
1986 How We See — What We Say, Art Gallery of Harbourfront, Toronto, CA
1986 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1986 Focus — Canadian Art !960-1985, Art Cologne, Cologne, West Germany, DE
1985 The Gallery, Stratford, CA
1985 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1984 Quebec: 1534-1984, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Quebec City, Canada.
1984 Canadian Paintings and Sculptures, 49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, US
1983 London Artist’s of the 1960’s, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, CA
1982 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1981 Murray Favro, Mary Janitch, David Rabinowitch, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1980-81 10 Canadian Artists in the 1970’s, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DK; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghaussen, West Germany; Musee de l’Etat, Grand Duche de Luxembourg, LU; Museum Hedenaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE.
1980 Murray Favro, General Idea, Joseph Kosuth, Vincent Tangredi, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1980 Paterson Ewen, Murray Favro, Ron Martin, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1979 Carmen Lamanna Gallery at Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal, CA
1979 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1979 Creative Flight, The Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, CA
1978 3rd Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
1978 Another Dimension II, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA
1978 Murray Favro, Ian Carr-Harris, Robin Collyer, Carmen Lamanna Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
1977 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CA
1977 Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
Art Fairs
2001 Art Forum Berlin, October 2 – 8, 2001
2000 Toronto International Art Fair, November 17 ñ 20, 2000
1999 Art Forum Berlin, September 29 – October 4, 1999
1998 Art Forum Berlin, October 1 – 4, 1998
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Baker, Kenneth, “Toronto — Murray Favro at Carmen Lamanna” Art in America, March/April 1981
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Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London
McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London
Oakville Art Gallery, Oakville
Owens Art Gallery, Halifax
Transport Canada
Bell Canada
Carleton University Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Windsor
