Eldon Garnet (b. 1946, Canada)
2012 – Editor at Impulse
1976 – Professor at Ontario College of Art & Design 

 

Education
University of Toronto
1982 – 1984 M.A. York University

Select Solo Exhibitions
2023 Amalgamation, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2020 Saved & Drowned, shown at the Christopher Cutts Gallery as an online exhibition, Toronto, CA
2020 Memories of Tomorrow, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016 Garden Of Hell On Earth, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 Shadows And Shades, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 Categories of Disappearance: Book Launch, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2011 Helpless, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Money Dreams and Other New Works, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Impulse Archaeology, White Box, New York, CA
2007 Forgive, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid, Spain, ES
2005 Imitative Archaeology, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
2004 Imitative Harmonies, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 DUST, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA
2002 The Melodious Child, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Geographically Based  And Other Small Sculptural Statements, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Eldon Garnet, Amsterdam Centrum Voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Geographically Based, Fly Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Other Small Sculptural Statements, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2001 The Fallen Body, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, CA
2000 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Ricco/Maresca, New York, US
1999 The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, CA
1998 No, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
1997 The Narrative Body, Four Sites, Meg, Toronto, CA
1997 Fissure, Wave, Toronto, CA
1997 Aliyah, Tableau Vivant Gallery, Toronto, CA
1996 Four Sites, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
1995 Promise, Stitching de Bank, Enschede, NL
1995 Promise, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto, CA
1994 When?, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1993 The Narrative Body, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
1992 Vanitas, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992 Trembling, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1990 Trembling, The First Edition Bronze Sculptures, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, DE
1990 Emblems Of Circumstance, The First Edition Bronze Sculptures, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
1990 The First Edition Sculptures, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1989 Heavy Industry, Cold City, Gallery, Toronto, CA
1987 Artists In Residence Project: Interference, Hologram Gallery, Toronto, CA
1985 Caves, Artsource Resource Centre, Toronto, CA
1985 Caves, P.S. 1, New York, US
1984 Caves, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, CA
1983 In Trouble, Caves, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, US
1983 Cultural Connections/Liaisons Culturelles, Musée D’art Contemporain, Montréal, CA
1983 Caves, Zona, Florence, IT
1983 Privacy, Cameron Public House, Toronto, CA
1981 Cultural Connections/Liaisons Culturelles, Canadian Centre Of Photography And Film, Toronto, CA
1980 New Photo Work, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1977 The Work Of Eldon Garnet, La Mamelle, San Francisco, CA
1977 Blurs, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1975 All Dulled Out In Tartarus, A Space, Toronto, CA

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2023 Director’s Choice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2019 The Created Image, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2018 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2015 Director’s Choice 2, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 Winter Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Christmas Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Pulse, Torch Gallery Amsterdam, Dubai, AE
2008 Garden Of Delights, Yeosu, Korea, KR
2008 Pulse, NY & Pulse Miami, Torch Amsterdam Gallery, NL
2007 20th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Nuit Blanche, Lancaster, Toronto, Ca
2007 Vic’s Crane, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
2007 Contemporary Curiosities, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Ca
2007 Collected, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Ca
2006 Contact Tickler, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 The Book Of Love, Spin Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 The Constant Possibility Of Erasure, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York, US
2006 Diva, NY, Galerie Begona Malone, Spain, ES
2006 Pulse, NY, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Sculpture Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 20th Anniversary, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
2005 Bug City, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
2005 The Slayed Land, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid, ES
2004 Kapital, Mind Control, Toronto, CA
2004 XXX…The Summer Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 The Photography Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 Paris Photo, Paris, With Torch Gallery, Paris, FR
2003 Public Responsibility, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, US
2002 Plaques And Angels, Alliance Française, Toronto, CA
2002 National Gallery of Canada, permanent collection, CA
2001 The Claustrophobic Horse, Kenderine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CA
2001 Bigshots, Art System, Toronto, CA
2001 Exhibiting The Works From The Permanent Collection, Kamloops Art Gallery, CA
2001 La Vie, La Mort, Le Cérémonial, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montréal, QC
2001 Droomoord, Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie, Noorderlicht, NL
2001 Pool, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CA
2001 Hitchcock And Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
2001 Bedroom Gallery 2.0, Milk Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 The Admittance Of Photography, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CA
2000 Hitchcock And Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA
2000 Words, TPW, Toronto, CA
1999 Glo, Archive Inc., Toronto, CA
1999 Naked, Ricco/Maresca Photography, New York, US
1999 Truth, Lies And Photographs, Art Gallery of Peel, Peel, CA
1999 ASHKENAZ: A Festival of Yiddish Culture, Toronto, CA
1999 Picturing The Toronto Art Community: The Queen Street Years, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1998 Lewd, Archive Inc., Toronto, CA
1998 No, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1998 Figuratively Speaking, Wave, Toronto, CA
1998 No, Ricco/Maresca, New York, US
1997 Skin/Strata, Archive Inc., Toronto, CA
1997 Tenth Anniversary Celebration, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1997 Happy End, Promise, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, DE
1997 Nature Studies, Vanitas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, CA
1996 Nobody’s Bizniz II, Torch, Amsterdam, NL
1996 The Body/Le Corps, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
1995 White Men In Suits, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, US
1994 Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, CA
1994 Made In Canada Vi, Today Tonight, Tomorrow, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1992 The Zone Of Conventional Practice And Other Real Stories, Heavy Industry, Galerie Optica, Montreal: tour in Canada, CA
1990 Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
1989/1990 The Zone Of Conventional Practice And Other Real Stories, Presentation House, Vancouver, CA
1989 A Space, Toronto, CA
1989 American Fine Art, New York, US
1989 Gallery Artists, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1989 Active Process, I Shot Mussolini, Presentation House Gallery,  North Vancouver: tour in Canada, CA
1988 Lunatic Of One Idea, Imprison Polluters, Public Access, Toronto, CA
1988 Images In Time And Space, Expotec, Montreal: tour in North America
1988 Inaugural Exhibition, I Shot Mussolini, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, CA
1986 Lumières: Perception- Projection Light Industrial, Centre international d’art Contemporain de Montréal, CA
1986 Interior Rites, Art Culture Resource Centre, Toronto, CA
1985 Canadian Holography Now, Museum of Holography, Brussels; Canada House, London; tour in UK
1984 303 Park South, New York, NY
1983 New Holography, Advice, A Space, Toronto; tour in Europe, EU
1982 New Canadian Photography, In Trouble, Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, CA
1979 Learning a Perceptual Motor Skill, A Space, Toronto, CA
1979 Toronto Photographers, Spirlling JFM232 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, US
1978 Studies In Time And Motion, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
1974 The Poet Machine, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA

Art Fairs
2023 Art Toronto, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2020 Scope, NY, Christopher Cutts Gallery, New York, US
2019  Art Miami, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Miami, US
2017 Art Miami, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Miami, US
2012 Art Miami, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Miami, US
2011 Art Toronto, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2009 Contact Photography Festival, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Scope, NY, Christopher Cutts Gallery, New York, US
2008 Art Chicago, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Chicago, US
2006 Scope, NY, Christopher Cutts Gallery. Toronto, CA
2004 Project Space, Chicago Art Fair, US
2004 TAAFI, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 Scope LA, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2004 Scope New York, Christopher Cutts Gallery, New York, US
2003 The Armory with Torch Gallery, NL
2003 Scope Miami, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Miami, US
2003 Berlin Forum, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003 Scope New York, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, New York, US
2003 Scope L.A., with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2003 Le Salon Du Printemps, Montreal, CA
1989 Fair Image, Musée de la civilisation, Québec, CA
1986 Art Technology Informatics, I Shot Mussolini, Venice Biennale, IT

 

Publications (Books)
2013 Categories of Disappearance, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Lost Between The Edges, Semiotext (e), New York, US
2005 Impulse Archaeology, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, CA
2003 Mimesis Anti Mimesis In Photography, Blank Slate, Toronto, CA
2002 The Melodious Child/Dust, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art/Christopher Cutts Gallery, CD catalogue, Toronto, CA
2002 Eldon Garnet, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, CD catalogue, Amsterdam, NL
1998 The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, CA
1995 Reading Brooke Shields: The Garden Of Failure, Semiotext(e), New York, NY
1993 When?, essay by Richards Rhodes, Interview with Richard Rhodes, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1992 The Narrative Body, essays by Sylvere Lotringer, Bruce Ferguson, Paul Groot, Autonomedia, New York, US
1989 Today Tonight Tomorrow, Limited edition, Impulse Society for Cultural Production, Toronto, CA
1987 I Shot Mussolini, Limited Edition (3), artist book, Toronto, CA
1984 Caves, Art Culture, Resource Centre, Toronto, CA
1982 Cultural Connections/Liaisons Culturelles, Image Nation, number 24 (Spring 1982), Toronto, CA
1980 TONGUES, limited edition, artist book
1979 Spiraling/Jfm 232, 1W1 Communications, Toronto, CA
1978 Einstein’s Joke, Impulse magazine, vol. 6, number 3, microfiche, Toronto, CA
1977 Brébeuf, A Martyrdom Of Jean De, Press Porcepic, Toronto, CA
1975-90 Editor, Impulse Magazine, Toronto, CA
1974 editor, Where? Other Canadian Poetry, Press Porcepic, Toronto, CA
1973 The Last Adventure, Oberon, Ottawa, CA
1973 Asparagus, Missing Link Press, Toronto, CA
1971 Angel, Press Porcepic, Toronto, CA

 

Select Publications (Writings & Visual)
Canadian Art, Frieze Art Fair, April 2008, text
Carte Blanche, “Fissure,” photo work, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, 2006
The Flayed Landscape, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid, 2005
Magenta Foundation, NO#3, photograph.
Impulse Archaeology, ”It Will Happen,” University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 2005, text.
Canadian Art, “Video Green,” March 2005, text.
Montage, “Favourite”, Summer 2003, “Bladerunner,” text.
“Afterlife,” The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, Sylvere Lotringer editor, Semiotext(e), New York, 2001.
Over Magazine, Thailand, Lost, 2001, photographs
Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets, Vintage Contemporaries, New York, 2001, jacket cover photograph.
Simona Vinci, “What we donʼt know about children”, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001, jacket cover photograph.
Shift, “Eye Tech”, October 2000, photography.
Flux, “Have I seen the future?”, 1998, text.
Purgatory: The Gate, Yellowhat, Toronto, 1997, Fictocritical essay.
C Magazine, Winter 1997, cover photograph.
Toronto Life Magazine, Soulʼs Kitchen, November 1997, Vol. 31, No. 16, article photography.
AK2 Plain Dealer, “The Garden of Failure Reading Brooke Shields”, No. 1. March, 1996, literary excerpt.
Toronto Life Magazine, Slings and Arrows, November 1996, Vol. 30, No. 16, article.
C Magazine, “Fear of Symbols”, Summer 1995, article.
C Magazine, Winter 1994, issue 40, cover photograph.
Parachute, “Debate/Issues: Public Signs”, Issue 63, article and photography.
The Jewish Advocate, “Boston’s Holocaust Memorial Designs Miss the Point” June 7, 1991, article
Architecture and Urbanism, Tokyo, 1991, text and installation project proposal.
Impulse, “William Burroughs”, 1990, Vol. 15, No. 4, interview.
Impulse (New City Fiction), Summer 1988, author portraits.
Impulse (Cold City Fiction), Spring 1986, author portraits with Carolyn White.
Impulse, “Expo 1986”, Summer 1986, Vol. 12, No. 1, SITE interview.
Impulse, Winter1985, Vol. 12, No. 2, cover.
Impulse, “I Shot Mussolini”, Winter 1985, vol. 11, No. 4, literary excerpt.
C Magazine, “Allegory: To speak other wise”, Summer 1985, essay and photographs.
Impulse, Fall 1984, Vol. 11, No. 2, cover photograph.
Impulse, “Not For Sale”, Fall 1984, Vol. 11, No. 2, photograph.
Project Studios One, “Special Projects”, Winter 1984, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., Toronto.
Impulse, Fall 1983, Vol. 10, No. 4, cover.
Impulse, “Caves”, Spring/Summer 1983, Vol. 10, No. 3, art piece (text and photographs), cover.
Rampike, “Erotika: Jealousy”, Spring 1983, text and image.
Impulse, Summer 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1,cover.
Impulse, “Privacy”, Summer 1982, Vol. 10, No. 1, art piece (text and photographs).
Rampike, “Wood: “Bubblegum”, Spring 1981, text and image.
Catalogue (Experimental Faculty OCA)“Gordon Pask”, 1980, photographs and text.
Catalogue (Experimental Faculty OCA), 1980, edited and produced.
Impulse, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2, cover photograph.
Impulse, “Interview: Bob Colacello”, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2, interview.
Impulse, Cover, Spring 1980, Vol. 8, No. 2.
Impulse, “Escapism”, Fall/Winter 1980, literary piece and photographs.
Impulse, “Personal Hygiene: Dental Floss vs. periodontal disease”, Winter 1979, Vol. No. 3, literary piece.
Impulse, “Andy Warhol Interview”, Summer 1979, interview and photograph.
Aurora, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1979, poetry.
C Magazine, “Pages from the journal”, Fall 1979, prose and photographs.
Deciphering America, Kontext Publications, Amsterdam, 1979, poetry.
Impulse, “Jonathan Richmond”, Fall 1979, Vo. 8, No. 1, interview.
MATRIX, Champlain Regional College, Lennoxville Que, 1978, poetry
Aurora, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1978, poetry
Impulse, “A Critical Investigation”, Winter 1977, photograph and essay.
IS. Erotics, Fibre Studios, Toronto, 1976, collage.
Landscapes: Pacific Coast Photographs, Impressions, Toronto, 1976 (poetry)
Impulse, “Eldon Garnet”, Vol. 4, No. 4, Vol. 5, No. 1, photograph.
Impulse, Avrom Isaacs and Carmen Lamanna, Spring 1975, Vol. 4, No. 2, interview.
Impulse, “El topo: A film by Alexandro Jodorowsky”, Spring 1975, cover and film review
Image Bag, “Printed Matter”, “Myth Structure”, June 1974, No. 5, limited edition magazine.
Editor, A Book of Process, Rumplestillpress/La Club Foot, Toronto, 1974
The Canadian Forum, “Fog”, January/February, 1972, poetry.
Open Letter, Toronto, 1971, review.
A Three Legged Tiger, York Literary Series, Toronto, 1971, poetry.
The Earth and You, Sherwood, Toronto, 1971, poetry.
Saturday Night, January 1970, book review.
Notes for a Native Land, Oberon Press, Toronto, 1969, poetry.
On The Bias, Innis College Student Society, 1969, poetry.
Thumbprints, 1969, Peter Martin & Associates, Toronto, poetry.
T.O. Now, 1968, House of Anansi, Toronto, poetry.
Acta, The Victoria College Union, 1968, poetry.

 

Public Commissions
2001/2006 Grace, Oshawa, CA
2003/2004 Turning, Toronto, CA
2000 Gift, Toronto, CA
1996 Time: And A Clock, Toronto, CA
1988/1989 Memorial To Commemorate The Chinese Railroad Workers In Canada, Toronto, CA
1987/1989 The Metropolitan Toronto Police Headquarters, Toronto, CA

 

Film, Audio, Video, Computers
2007 If Only For A Moment, Video, 3 Loops, 2 Min., 2:10min, 5:28 Min
2005 New Kapital, Video, 24 Min
1989 Today Tonight Tomorrow, Video, 180 Min
1986/1989 $300, Maclean Hunter Cable Television
1986 I Shot Mussolini, Computer Work, Black And White, 14 Min
1977/1987 Portraits, Super-8, Colour, 60 Min
1984 The Political Error, 16mm, Black And White, 12 Min
1980 Videozine, Video, Black And White, 30 Min. La Mamelle, San Francisco
1979 Eldon Garnet Live, Audio Cassette/ Cassette Audio, Art Contemporary Editions, San Francisco
1977 Einstein’s Joke, Super-8, Colour, English Subtitles, 15 Min
1976 Airswim, Super-8, Colour, 5 Min
1975 Enclosure, Super-8, Colour, 15-Min, Loop
1967 Pictures, 16mm, black and white, 17 min

 

Institutional Collections
Appleton Museum Florida
Art Bank
Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Cape Brenton
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Carlton University Gallery
Dunlop Art Gallery
Georgian Art Gallery
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Hamilton Art Gallery
Ryerson Art Gallery
Sudbury Art Gallery
Kamloops Art Gallery
Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
University of Lethbridge
University of Toronto Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
Wilfred Laurier University Gallery
Windsor Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art gallery
York University Gallery
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation