Ray Mead (1921 – 1998, United Kingdom)
Education
1939 Slade School of Art in London, UK
Select Solo Exhibitions
2019 One From The Vault, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017 Paper Trail: A Selection of Works from the Estate Of Ray, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2014 A Survey: Works from the 50’s-90’s, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Master Mark Maker, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 Ray Mead, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2000 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1999 Ray Mead, M13 Gallery, New York (catalogue), US
1998 New Paintings, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1996 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1995 New Works on Paper, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1994 Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992 Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, CA
1991 Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto, CA
1989 Ray Mead in Europe ’89: Amsterdam and The Hague, Holland; Copenhagen, Denmark; Madrid, Spain.
1988 Waddington & Gorce Inc., Montreal., CA
Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, CA
1985 Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, CA
1984 Waddington & Gorce Inc., Montreal, CA
Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, CA
1982 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, CA
The Robert McLaughin Gallery, Oshawa”Two Decades Ray Mead”
1981 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, CA
1980 Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, CA
Margot Samuel Gallery, Oshawa, CA
Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, CA
1979 Margot Samuel Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1963-64 Galerie du Siecle, Montreal, CA
1963 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal “Ray Mead and Paterson Ewen”, CA
1962 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal “Ray Mead and Gabriel Filion”, CA
1957 George Loranger Gallery, Ottawa., CA
The Greenwich Gallery, Toronto. “Recent Paintings, Ray Mead and Walter Yarwood”, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Director’s Choice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2018 Summer Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2016 Starry Night, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2015 Director’s Choice 1, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2012 Armory Modern, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2011 Painting Toronto’s Modern Masters, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Christmas Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Abstract Painting, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Vintage Abstraction, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, 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
1993 Christopher Cutts Gallery, The Gesture, Toronto,CA
1992 Christopher Cutts Gallery, The White Show, Toronto, CA
The National Gallery of Canada, Abstraction in Canada in the Fifties and Sixties, Ottawa, CA
1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, US
1987 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, US
1983-84 Concordia University Art Gallery traveling show, Non-Figurative Artist
Association The Lindsay Art Gallery
1980 Theo Waddington Galleries, Toronto, CA
1979 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa Painters Eleven in Retrospect.
1978 Theo Waddington Galleries, Montreal, CA
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
Gallery One, Toronto, CA
The Gallery, Stratford, CA
Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, CA
1976 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Painters Eleven, Kitchener-Waterloo, CA
1975 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
The Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Painters Eleven.
Sudbury Arts Festival, Spectrum ’75, Painters Eleven.
The MacKenzie Gallery, Trent University, Peterborough, Canadian Landscape Drawings.
1974 The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Painters Eleven.
1972 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Toronto Painting 1963-65.
1971 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1968 Art Gallery of Oshawa, CA
1967 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Centennial Exhibition., CA
1965 Galerie du Siècle, Montreal, CA
1964 Galerie du Siècle, Montreal, Dynanisme ’64., CA
1962 5th Festival des Deux Mondes, Spoleto, Italy La Peinture Canadienne Moderne.
1961 Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal, CA
1960 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, The Formal Lyricist.
The Stable Gallery
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1960-61 Circulating Exhibition through The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
Non-Figurative Artists of Montreal.
1958 The Park Gallery, Toronto, CA
The Alan Gallery, Hamilton, CA
Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal, CA
1958 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, CA
Circulating Exhibition through The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
59 Painters Eleven: Winnipeg, Vancouver, Regina, Edmonton, Kingston, Sackville
1957 The Park Gallery, Painters Eleven, Toronto, CA
1956 The National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Abstract Painting, Ottawa, CA
Riverside Museum, 20th Annual Exhibition of America, New York, US
Abstract Artistes with Painters Eleven of Canada.
Roberts Gallery, Small Pictures by Painters Eleven, Toronto, CA
1955 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, First Biennial, Ottawa, CA
Roberts Gallery, Painters Eleven, Toronto, CA
1954 Robertson Gallery, Ottawa, CA
Roberts Gallery, Painters Eleven, Toronto, CA
1953 The Robert Simpson Company Limited, Toronto Abstracts at Home
1952-56 Canadian Group of Painters
Canadian Society of Watercolour Artist
Canadian Society of Graphics Arts
1950-56 Ontario Society of Artists
1950 Art Gallery of Toronto, Jubilee Year Art Show
1947-51 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Annual Exhibition, Hamilton, CA
Art Fairs
2023 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2022 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2019 Art Miami, Miami, US
2015 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2014 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2012 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2011 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2009 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
Bibliography
Burnett, David, Ray Mead — Recent Painting, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 1966, pp. 85-86
Duval, Paul, Canadian Drawings and Prints, Toronto: Burns and McEachern, 1952
Duval, Paul, Canadian Watercolour Painting, Toronto: Burns and McEachern, 1954
Duval, Paul, Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and Their Contemporaries,
1930-1970. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1972
Enright, Laurel, Painters Eleven in Retrospect: A Thriving Legacy, Arts West, 6 (July – August 1981): pp.20-24
Hudson, Andrew, Phenomenon: Colour Painting in Montreal, Canadian Art 21 (November – December 1964): pp.358-361
Hume, Christopher, Mead in Canada, Toronto Star, September 12,1996
MacDonald, Colin S., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Vol.4, Ottawa: Canadian
Paperbacks Publishing Limited, 1974
Murray, Joan, Painters Eleven in Retrospect, Oshawa: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1979 (Exhibition catalogue)
Murray, Joan, Ray Mead Abstractions, Chimo 3 (October 1980): pp.28-32
Murray, Joan, Ray Mead: Two Decades, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1982
Murray, Joan, The Best Contemporary Canadian Art, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1987, pp.112-113
Ray Mead: Works from 1993 ‚ 1998. Christopher Cutts Gallery. Toronto
Reid, Dennis and Barrie Hale, Toronto Painting: 1953-1965, Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1972 (Exhibition catalogue)
Ross, Val, Pools of colour, shores of paint, Globe and Mail, September 30, 1996
‘C. 1996’ & The Collective Concept, ArtFocus, September 1996.
MacLaren Advertising Appointment, The National Star, 17 October 1957
Vodka and Mead, Newsprint 7 1980): pp.2-4
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
National Gallery of Canada, CA
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
Art Gallery of Hamilton, CA
London Regional Historical Museum & Gallery, CA
McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, CA
Lethbridge University Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, CA
Art Gallery of Windsor, CA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, CA
Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA
University of Toronto Art Gallery, CA
Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA
University of Toronto Art Gallery, CA
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, CA
Laurentian University Art Gallery, Sudbury, CA
Lynnwood Art Centre, Simcoe, CA
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, CA
York University, Toronto, CA
University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, CA
