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Biography - Iain Baxter

Born

1936 Middlesborough England, Lives and Works in Canada

Education

1964 MFA Washington State University
1962 MA (Education), University of Idaho
1959 BS University of Idaho

Note- The N.E. Thing Co. Ltd is a pseudonym/nom de plume for Baxter, founded in 1966

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Television Works, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Passing Through: Iain Baxter& Photographs, 1958-1983, Art Gallery of Windsor, Winsor Ontario
2005 Iain Baxter&, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 Iain Baxter/ N.E. Thing Co., Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Iain Baxter - Stuff & Installation, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
2000 Iain Baxter: Vacuum Forms, 1965, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1999 Animal Preserve, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
N.E. Thing Co. Early Works, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver, N.E Thing Co., Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Iain Baxter, Landscape Works, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
1997-98 Iain Baxter, Place, Products & Phenomenon, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON
1995 N.E. Thing Co., The Ubiquitous Concept, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
1994 NO - KNOW, Lake Galleries, Toronto, ON
1993 You are Now in the Middle of an N.E. Thing Co. Landscape, Fine Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1991 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1990 Iain Baxter, Some Early Photography, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1988 White Winter Show, University of Calgary, AB
1987 Food for Thought, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
1982 Baxter - Any choice Works, 1965 - 70, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1981 Reflected Paris Beauty Spots, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
1980 N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Polaroid Works, The Hague, The Netherlands
1977 Another 2 projects: People/ Language & Eye Scream Restaurant, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
1976 Iain Baxter: Celebration of the Body (‘76 Olympics), Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston, ON
1971 N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Radio and T.V. ads, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., University of Alberta, Edmonton
1969 N.E. thing Co. Ltd., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1968 Piles, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1967 N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Centennial Projects, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1966 Bagged Place, Exhibition/Installation/Environment, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1961 Yamada Contemporary Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Group Museum and Public Exhibitions

2004 Food, Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
Portraits, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2003 Global Village, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, QC
My Petite Enterprise, Meymac, France
2002 The 1970’s: Art in Question, Bordeaux Art Museum, France
2001 Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
The Power of Reflection, Saidy Bronfman Gallery, Montreal, QC
Sea of Forking Paths, International Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Appleton Museum of Art, Daytona Beach, FL
The Power of the Image, Museum of the Photo, Montreal, QC
2000 ABC’s of Pop Art, Florida State University, Miami
1999 Out of this Century, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
New Acquisitions, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1997 Geographies, City Museum, Corsica, France, Curated by Christophe Domino
1995 Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965 - 1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Reflecting Paradise, Expo ‘93, Canadian Pavillion, Taejon, Korea
1991 Projectionos, Castello di Rivara Gallery, Torino, Italy
1989 Picturing California: A Century of Photograpy, Oakland Museum, CA
1988 Opening Exhibition, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1987 From Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, ON
1985 In Grande Scale, tour: Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg
1983 Vancouver Art/Artists 1931 - 1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
1982 Selections 1, Koln, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen
1981 Polaroid Works, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland
1980 Pluralities (19 Canadians), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
10 Canadians in the 80’s, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1978 10 Canadian Artists, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
1972 Mail Art, Paris Biennial, Paris, France
Soft Ware Show, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1971 Situation Concepts, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
1970 Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969 10th Sao Paolo Biennial (represented Canada in photo-print), Sao Paolo, Brazil
577,087, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Concept Art, Leverkusen City Museum, Germany
1968 Canadian Art - Aujourd’ hui, 14 Canadian artists, toured art galleries in major cities of Europe: Brussels, Rome, Paris, Lucerne (organized: National Gallery of Canada)
Soft Sculpture toured art galleries in major cities in the U.S.A.
Canadian Artists 68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
7th Biennial of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1965 6th Biennial of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1963 5th Biennial Canada Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

Projects

1992 One Canada Video (5,000 miles of videotaped landscape; 100 hours of Canadian landscape)
1988 White Winter Snow (Internationally televised performance in Olympic Plaza, Calgary, Alberta)
1987 Sensitive Information Inc., product and graphic design company, Calgary, Alberta
1982-83 Creative Consultant to S. Oland, President, Labatt Brewing Co., Toronto, Ontario
1982 Instant America, 12,000 mile tour of America, sponsored by Polaroid Corporation, Boston, Massachussetts
1977 Eye Scream Restaurant, 2043 W. 4th Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
1976 Vancouver Magazine, co-founder, Vancouver, British Columbia
1974-75 Established a Cibachrome Photo Lab called N.E. Professional Photo Display Labs Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia
1972 Edgeley Community Athletics, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. Hockey team sponsorship, Downsview, Ontario
1970 Conceived and co-organised conference on Art and Computers at Simon Fraser Unviesrity, Vancouver, British Columbia
1970 Consultant on program concepts, CBC, Ottawa and CTV, Vancouver, British Columbia
1969 Organised conference on Sensitivity Information, Communications & Ramifications in connection with the N.E. Thing Co.
Environment at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, participants included Brydon Smith, David Silcox, Lucy Lippard, Seth Seiglaub, John Chandler, Ann Brodzky, Don Theill, Dennis Reid, Mark Whitney, Greg Curnoe and Pierre Theberge
1965 Festival of Fine Arts, Designer of Visual Area of “Medium is the Message”, multisensory public happening, University of British Columbia, (described in “Kandy Kolored Tangarine Flaked Streamlined Baby”, by Tom Wolfe)
1963 National Gallery of Canada, Assistant to Russell Harper, Curator of Canadian Art, Ottawa, Ontario (Worked on Homer Watson exhibition and catalogue)
1960 Assistant to several curators, Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, Alberta (Compiled natural history material and biographies on artists in early west)
1959 Illustrator of bird and animal drawings for a Wildlife Guide to the Northern Rocky Mountains and a Wildlife Guide to California
1958–59 Research Assistant to Prof. Earl Larrison, (rodent population and ecology research in Raft River area of Southern Idaho and Utah, Biological Science Department, University of Idaho, summer projects

Collections

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
Brock Hall Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Nickle Art Gallery, University of Calgary, Alberta
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Civic Centre, Oshawa, Ontario
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Univeristy of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
York University, Toronto, Ontario

Teaching Appointments

1988 University of Windsor, Department of Visual Arts, Professor, Windsor, Ontario
1985-88 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta