News at Diaz Contemporary

 

Diaz Contemporary would like to congratulate Christian Giroux & Daniel Young on winning the 2011 Sobey Art Award. The duo's new catalogue, entitled Young & Giroux, has been published this October by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and is distributed by ABC Art Books Canada.  It features essays by Kenneth Hayes, Jesse Huisken and Mark Lanctôt.  To purchase please visit ABC Art Books Canada. We also congratulate Daniel Young on receiving a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for a year-long residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, 2011-2012.

BGL will be featured in a solo exhibition entitled Concessionaire at Parisian Laundry in Montréal from January 18 to February 25, 2012.

Brendan Fernandes is currently featured in Location/Dislocation, a group show organized by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the Jackman Humanities Institute in Toronto.  The show is curated by Denise Ryner in collaboration with Barbara Fischer and runs from September 15, 2011 to June 15, 2012. Fernandes is also featured in a solo exhibition entitled Devil’s Tongue at Seven Art Limited in New Delhi, India running from 21 January to 18 February 2012, and his work is part of the exhibition Found in Translation which travels to the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, 28 January to 9 April.

Peter MacCallum is included in Songs of the Future, Canadian Industrial Photographs 1858 to Today at the AGO.  The show continues until April 29, 2012.

Kelly Mark is currently featured in a two-person show with Micah Lexier entitled Head to Head which will tour to Oshawa in January 2012.

Elspeth Pratt has released a new book edited by Kathy Slade and published by Emily Carr University Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Cooley Gallery. This book showcases Elspeth Pratt's twenty-eight years of work and includes writings by Lorna Brown, Lisa Robertson, Bitter/Weber, Matthew Stadler, Oliver Neumann, Stephanie Snyder and a forward by Kathy Slade. To purchase please visit www.publicationstudio.biz

Flavio Trevisan is featured in a solo show entitled “The Museum of the Represented City,” at 80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 501, as part of the Koffler Gallery Off-Site program, curated by Mona Filip.  The show opens January 19 and runs until April 8, 2012.

Robert Youds’ latest public artwork, Seeing You Seeing: Colour Wheel, commissioned by Cadillac Fairview, has just been installed in the lobby of RBC Dexia at Wellington and Simcoe in Toronto.

Last updated: Janurary 25, 2012