Janet Read

www.janet-read.com

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2021: High Arctic Light, Heliconian Club, Toronto, ON
2020: High Arctic Light, paintings and bookworks, Propeller Gallery
2019: High Arctic Light, The Gallery at LE Shore, Thornbury, ON. OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
2018: Travelling Mercies Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018: Embers of the Sky, Lee Contemporary, Orillia, ON
2017: Embers of the Sky, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON. OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
2016: Janet Read, Recent Work, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016: Janet Read, Atmospheric Abstraction, Navillus Gallery, 110 Davenport, Toronto, ON
2016: The marks water makes, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St. N.,North York, ON
2015: Janet Read, Lake Simcoe: a book of hours, Propeller, Toronto, ON (Nov.26- Dec. 13)
2015: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, B21
2013: Janet Read: An Abstract Practice, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
2013: Ways of Cloud & Water, Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
2013: Recent Work, Context with Lorna Ducek, CBC Building, Wellington St, Toronto, ON
2013: Recent Work, Galerie d’Avignon, Montreal, QC
2012: Reading the Wave, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012: Reading the Wave, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, ON
2011: Recent Paintings: Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
2010: Hem of the Sea, Colborne Art Gallery, Colborne, ON
2010: Hem of the Sea, A Mano Libera Gallery, St. Catherine’s, ON
2009: Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008: Yorkminster Park Gallery, Toronto, ON
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, ON
2007: Ocean as Vessel, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, with catalogue Oshawa, ON
Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
2006: Ocean as Vessel, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON
2005: Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, ON
2004: Nomad/ A Traveler’s Paintings, On Sight, Toronto, ON
Upstairs Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Port Hope, ON
2002-03: Imag~isle, isle d’Orleans, Quebec, Canada
2001: First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto
Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
1997-2004: Annually Painted City, Toronto
1991: 1991 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

Duo & Group Exhibitions (selected)

2020-21: Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Juror’s Prize award
2020: Permanent Collection Exhibition, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON
2019: Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art and History
2017: Rebecca Last and Janet Read, Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
2016: Wetlands, Watershed Project, Double Doors Gallery, Anten Mills, ON
2015: Janet Read and Meredith Bingham, Christensen Fine Art, Peterborough, ON
2014: Colour, In Theory, 4 large scale paintings Intro Gallery, Varley Gallery, Unionville, ON companion show to permanent collection
2012: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, ON
2012: Yorkminster Park Gallery anniversary show, Toronto, ON
2011-12: OSA pARTners project, travelling exhibit, southern Ontario including the Woodstock Gallery, John. B. Aird Gallery and The Japanese Paper Place
2010: Being and Time, OSA Juried Show, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON
2008: Sublunary, (duo) Whitby Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
2007: Imag~isle, isle d’Orleans, Quebec, Canada
2006: Fragility & Hope, St. James’ Cathedral, Toronto, ON
(International AIDS conference exhibit)
Sarah Beveridge, Barrie, ON Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Toronto
2005: Gallery 121, Belleville, ON
2004: Longueil Art Centre, Neville Clark, Terence Jon Dyck, Janet Read, Montreal, Quebec
2003: The Water Project, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
2002: Northumberland Artists, Upstairs Gallery, AGN, Port Hope
Blue Piano, Painted City, Toronto
2001: 400 Shades of Green, landscape across the spectrum, Sean McQuay, Janet Read, Andres Villars, The Mill Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Clarington, ON
2000: 7 Ontario Artists, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto
Winter Show, Painted City, Toronto
1998: The Light is Waking, Laura Hair and Janet Read, Whitby Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
1996: Music in your Eyes, Edward Day Gallery, Kingston
Exhibit Ten, Edward Day Gallery, Kingston
Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
1991: Four From the Region, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
1991: Janet Read & Alison Seale, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
1990: Janet Read & Suzanne Routh, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville
1989: Janet Read & Suzanne Routh, The Mill Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Clarington

Grants

1990-2003, 2017, 2019 Exhibition Assistance Grants, Ontario Arts Council
1994 Writer’s Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council

Collections

Ontario Government Archives Collection
Royal Bank Collection, Toronto
Town of Markham, ON
Markham Museum, ON
Cornell Library, Markham, ON
Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, ON
Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
Whitby Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
Mackie Research Capital Inc. T-D Centre, Toronto
Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, Toronto, ON
private collections in Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, England, Australia, Washington and New York

Education

M.A. Philosophy of art, aesthetics, on phenomenology of the body and metaphor, focus on Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur
B.A. Honours. Philosophy, English and Medieval studies, U of Toronto
Diploma in Child Study. Institute of Child Study, U of Toronto
Ontario Teaching Certificate. Primary specialist parts 1 and 2
Art studies York University, Georgian College and OCAD
Music studies Royal Conservatory of Music, pipe organ studies with Deirdre Morrell (co-director, La Jeunesse Youth Choirs, Cobourg, ON)

Residencies

Pouch Cove Foundation, August 2004, Dingle, Ireland July 2008

Publications: Catalogues

2020: Catalogue: 60 Years: An Anniversary: The Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg (p.33)
2020: Catalogue: High Arctic Light: Janet Read paintings essay by Margaret Rodgers
2017: Catalogue: Janet Read/ Recent Work, essay by Judith A. Mason
2011: Catalogue: Janet Read/ Recent Paintings, essay by Gil McElroy
2007: Catalogue: Janet Read: Ocean as Vessel, Robert McLaughlin Gallery:
catalogue essay by David Aurandt, curator and executive director
2000: Catalogue: The Light is Waking, Whitby Station Gallery

Writing by the artist

2001: Letters From Tom, Borealis/Tecumseh Press, Ottawa.
Children’s time shift novel about a soldier’s letters home from WWI
www.borealispress.com/lettersfromtom.html
1998: Wilberforce Street, ITP Nelson: children’s historical novel about black Ontario history in the l840’s, with teacher’s guide
1998: Sing for the Inner Ear, (anthology) Sandburg-Livesay Award
1995: A Walk By The Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris, Black Moss Press (anthology)
1992: Blue Mind’s Flower, Moonstone Press, finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first collection of poetry, given by the League of Canadian Poets

Poems published in The New Quarterly, A Room of One’s Own, Hawthorne Chapbook Society, Livesay-Sandburg Competition

Reviews

Surfacing Winter 2013, Canadian Poetry Magazine, Durham Arts Magazine, Kingston Whig-Standard, Le Soleil, Lola, Markham Economist and Sun, National Post, Ontario Black History Association Magazine, Oshawa Times, Port Hope Evening Guide, Where

Television

profile segment on Studio Two, TVO, April 2004

Readings

readings have been given in galleries, schools and public libraries: most recently at 66 King, The Poetry Workshop, Cobourg
Peterborough, Port Hope, & Cobourg Public libraries
Kingston C.V.I. Kingston, ON
Markham-Stouffville Hospital, Markham, ON
Peterborough Women’s Art Association, Peterborough, ON

Workshops

2018 Cobourg Art Club, Abstract Painting Techniques workshop
2018 Whitby Station Gallery, Composition in Abstract Painting,(spring and fall workshops)
2014, 2015 composition and technique in abstract painting, acrylic mediums and paints
Varley Gallery, Oakville Society of Artists

Retreat

Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, North York, ON (weekend guided retreat) 2016,2017

Jury

2003 Peterborough Hospital Health and Healing
Arts and Letters Club, members exhibitions, 2010, 2015

Affiliations

Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, Ontario Society of Artists, CARFAC, The Writers’ Union of Canada, CBBAG

About the artist…

Read is a poet, musician and artist. The ways of cloud and water over ocean and lake are her subject matter in a mode of atmospheric abstraction. Her work references the legacy of abstract expressionism and current UK painters such as Sean Scully and Howard Hodgkin.

Representation

Art Rental, Art Gallery of Ontario, ago.ca/shop/art-rental-sales Toronto, ON 416-977-4654
Propeller Gallery, www.propellerartgallery.ca, Toronto, ON