Education
AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Experimental Art Department, 1980
New School of Art, Toronto, 1975 -19 76
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Rae Johnson: Excuse Me While I Touch The Sky, Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
2021 Of Light and Darkness: Water, Land and Sky Paintings 1989-2009, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 Angels and Monsters: a selection of paintings from 1979-2018, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018 The City, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 INTERIORS, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Rae Johnson, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009 Winter Paintings, Paul Petro Project Space,Toronto, ON
2006 Sleeping Beauty, Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, ON
2006 Alice,Fly Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003 Rae Johnson/Stand, Art Gallery of University of Waterloo,Waterloo, ON
2000 Rae Johnson,Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
1999 Dream Girl, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
1998 Rae Johnson – Observation: Lake Winnipeg & Flesherton Pond, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON
1997 Winter Paintings ’96, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
1996 Momentary Resolution, The Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, ON
1995 Bambino Miracolo, Paul Petro @ 179 John Street, Toronto, ON
Immediate Environment, The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON
1994 Rae Johnson, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 100 Yonge Street, Scotia Bank Tower, Toronto, ON
1993 Bambino Miracolo, The Canadian Cultural Centre, Roma, Italia
1990 Rae Johnson, Oakville Galleries: Centennial Gallery, Oakville, ON
Rae Johnson, W.K.P. Gallery, North Bay Arts Centre, North Bay, ON
Rae Johnson: Paintings, Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, ON
1989 Rae Johnson: Paintings, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1988 Kinesthetic Transformations, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Nature Paintings, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1986 Paintings: Rae Johnson, Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Paintings: Rae Johnson, Lynwood Arts Centre, Simcoe, ON
1985 Rae Johnson, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
1984 Rae Johnson, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
Drawings 1984, Embassy Cultural House London, Ontario, ON
1983 Rae Johnson: “Pleasure”, The Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1982 Madonna: Rae Johnson Paintings – ‘80 – ’82, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1981 The Cameron Suite, The Cameron Public House, Toronto, ON
It’s OK, you can look at the camera, The Lacemaker’s Gallery,Toronto, ON
1979 Paintings: Rae Johnson, A Space, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Never Enough Night, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Conversations Masterworks from the Collection, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
2023 Director’s Choice 2023, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto ON
2021 Some Versions of Landscape, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2016 Form Follows Fiction: Arts and Artists in Toronto, Art Museum, Toronto, ON
2010 Nov. 12- Jan. 9, 2011 WARM ICE. Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON (Curated by Carla Garnet. Includes Michael Belmore, Deanna Bowen, Clint Griffin, Luis Jacob, Paulette Philllips, Christy Langer, Gretchen Sankey and Sharon Switzer)
Portrait of a Patron: the Dr. Janusz Dukstza Collection, University of Toronto Art Centre, St. George Campus, Toronto, ON
2009 Summer Show, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2008 If you go out in the woods today…, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
Summer Exhibition, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2006 Results of the Headhunt, Headbones Gallery, Toronto, ON
True Spectrum T Dot, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
Joy of Painting, (curated by Katherine Mulherin) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
Now Now, Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Where the Heart Lies, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
Diversity. OCAD Drawing & Painting Faculty, Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, The Hon. James K. Bartleman, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON
2003 Dislocated, (Gretchen Sankey, Kate Wilson, Shary Boyle) Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
Motherlode, WARC (401 Richmond), Toronto, ON
2002 Art in the Workplace at Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON
Paintings from the permanent collection, U of T Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Tim Jocelyn and Chromazone: New Acquisitions, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
1999 New Acquisitions, Galerie d’art Leonard & Bina Ellen, Conordia University. Montreal, QC
Awards and Grants
Canada Council Grant 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990
Ontario Arts Council Grant 1982,1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1995, 1999
Gold Award, Chicago International Film Festival 1985.
(poster design, independent film category, “No Sad Songs”, by Nick Sheehan. )
Public and Corporate Collections
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
Universite Concordia, Montreal, ON
Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
St. Jerome’s College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (40 Rae Johnson paintings donated by a private collector)
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
Gallery London, London, ON
C I B C, Toronto, ON
Noranda , Toronto, ON
Melloy Management, Toronto, ON
McDonald’s Corporation, Toronto, ON
Xerox Canada, Toronto, ON
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina College, U of Regina, Regina, SK
National Gallery of Canada, Art Metropole Collection, Ottawa, ON
Academic Appointments
1988 – present Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, OCAD, Toronto, ON
1985 – 86 Sessional Instructor , Fine Art Department, Guelph University, Guelph, ON
1983 – 84 Instructor, Arts’ Sake Inc., Toronto, ON
Conferences, Workshops, and Invited Lectures
1984 – 1991 Artists with their Work Program: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2010 panel discussion Portrait of a Patron at U of T Art Centre, U of T, Toronto, ON
2006 OCAD faculty representative, for the Canadian Art Colleges residency at Banff Centre for the Arts.
2005 slide lecture, York University, Graduate Studies, Painting.
Bibliography
Entries in reference books:
Carte Blanche vol. 2 Painting. Magenta Publishing, Toronto, 2008.
The 2000 Canadian Encyclopedia World Edition, CD-ROM. McClelland & Stewart, Canada. c. 2000
Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1983.
Contemporary Canadian Art. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1983.
Toronto Painting ‘84. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. 1984.
Art, Sight and Language. Penumbra Press. c. Moorehouse 1989.
Confessions of a Curator : Adventures in Canadian Art. Dundurn Press. c. Joan Murray 1996.
Tom Thomson : The Last Spring. Dundurn Press. c. Joan Murray 1994.
“Kanada: Ein Land In der Schwebe.” Die Horen (Zeitschrift fur Literatur, Kunst und Kritik), Herausgegeben von Kurt Morawietz, Hanover. 31 jahrgang, Band 1/ 1986, Ausgabe [ 4 ].
Catalogues, Magazines and Periodicals (selected 1993 – 2009)
ChromaZone Publications 1981 to 1987. For a complete list of catalogues go to http://www.ccca.ca Artists Projects>Chromazone Collective.
Brooks, Sharon(curator).Project Room Series 6: Rae Johnson and Tom Dean. Mercer Union, Toronto ’93.
Dault, Gary Michael. Poetry in black and light. The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Aug. 9, 2003.
Dault, Gary Michael. Rae Johnson at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Oct. 16, 1999.
Dean, Ann.(Rae Johnson and Ron Giii) Flower. (cover and inside reproductions)) Toronto,1993.
Folland, Tom. Stephen Andrews, Rae Johnson. Canadian Art. (Toronto), Spring 2000.
Goldstein, Sybil, ed. The Art of Tim Jocelyn. McClelland & Stewart. 2002.
Jordan, Betty Ann. Wonderland artists look at womanhood.The Globe and Mail, Saturday, Oct. 18, ‘97.
MacTavish, Catherine. To be seen and not just heard about: On a Painting by Rae Johnson. Special 100th Edition C Magazine. 2009.
Mark, Lisa. Getting our hands dirty. C magazine (Toronto), fall issue,1998.
Mays, John B. Passionate Brushwork: A brief love affair. The Globe and Mail, Nov. 1, 2003.
Olanick, Natalie & Folland, Tom. The Monumental New City: Art and Community. Mercer Union,Toronto ‘96.
Podedworny, Carol. Rae Johnson/Stand: Moments from the Flesherton Pond and Ghost Plane Series. U of Waterloo P. (Waterloo), 2002.
Redhill. Michael. Brick # 72 – A Literary Journal.(Toronto) issue 72, winter 2003.
Sullivan, Rosemary. Anthology of Literature. (cover) (London) Oxford U P, 2002.
Film and Video Documentation
History Channel. “Robert Markle”. The Canadians with Patrick Watson. 2002.
Loraine. Segatto, “Queen West”. Documentary about the ‘80’s music and art scene in Toronto, Toronto. c. 2000.
C B C Sunday Arts. “Local Color”. (3 / 4” video) c. 1994.
Grieve, Neil. “Neo – Toronto”. (16 mm) c. 1989.
Rubin, Shaila. “ Bambino Miracolo”. (3 / 4” video) Documentary of Rae Johnson’s exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome. c. Rome, 1993.
Shatalow, Peter “Brushes”. (3 / 4” video) c. 1991.
