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2024

• Group Exhibition: The Whispering Streams of Memory, curated by Thomas Kellner, Pingyao International Photography Festival 2024, September 2024, 24th Pingyao Shanxi, People’s Republic of China. Other participating artists: Wolfgang In der Wiesche, Morteza Majidi, Karin Apollonia Müller, William Oldacre, Elizabeth Siegfried, Gesche Würfel.

• Invited Lecture: on the shore: collecting images, in search of Anna Lois, artist talk on 17 June 2024 in connection with exhibition LA LUMIERE ET LA BRUME / LIGHT AND FOG at Grand-Métis, Reford Gardens, Québec.

• Book Release: I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY, Bassano in Teverina published by Nearest Truth Editions (2023; ed. of 250) now available at the Menil Collection Bookstore, Houston, Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris and in New York City at Dashwood Books, Karma Bookstore, and Mast Books.

• Upcoming Exhibition: LA LUMIERE ET LA BRUME / LIGHT AND FOG with focus on watercolourist Anna Lois Dawson Harrington (1851-1917) and responses by photographer and poet Ewa Monika Zebrowski. Curated by Hélène Samson. Exhibition at Grand-Métis, Reford Gardens, Québec, from 1 June to 6 October 2024 (Vernissage 16 June 2024) and included in Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspesie.

2023

• Exhibition: I have promises to keep: Rethinking Photography in Times of Trouble, LIANZHOUFOTO, Lianzhou, China, December 2023, curated by Dr. Moritz Neumuller.

• Book Presentation, November 2023: I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY, Bassano in Teverina published by Nearest Truth Editions will be presented during Paris Photo (9-12 November 2023) on 11 November at 1pm at polycopies (Bateau Concorde-Atlantique - Berges de Seine Port de Solferino - 75007 Paris). 

• Artist Residency, July 2023: I have been invited by curator,  Hélène Samson, former Curator of Photography at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, Quebec, to participate in a project which explores the life and art of Anna Lois Dawson Harrington (1851-1917).

  Anna Lois was the eldest daughter of Sir John William Dawson, a leading Canadian geologist who was the Principal of McGill University from 1855 to 1893. Anna Lois was an artist.  She illustrated many of her father's books and articles and eventually became a landscape painter while spending her summers in Métis with her nine children.  

  I will be an Artist in Residence at the Reford Gardens in Métis in July 2023 in order to begin working on this project, experiencing the landscape and community that so inspired Anna Lois.

  In the Summer of 2024 there will be an exhibition, Anna Lois Dawson Harrington: Her Life and Work, at the Reford Gardens in Métis, Quebec. 

• Press: Review of Milan exhibition at Luisa Cevese Reidizioni by poet, Dean Rader.  Rader’s newest book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, published by Copper Canyon Press, pairs 50 of Rader’s poems with drawings and paintings by Twombly.

• Exhibition: An Unending Conversation with Cy Twombly, a solo exhibition at Luisa Cevese Riedizioni in Milan, Italy from 22 March to 12 April 2023.

2022

• Invited Lecture: Art Break: Musings on Cy Twombly, a virtual talk with curator Scott Allan at the J. Paul Getty Museum on 31 August 2022. Available to view on YouTube here.

• Exhibition: a fragile landscape, an outdoor solo presentation included in Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie in Chandler, Québec from 15 July to 30 September 2022. Curated by Serge Clément.

• Exhibition: Eating Local/Manger Local, outdoor group exhibition organized by the McCord Museum featuring the project A Celebration of Place, Chateaufort Community Garden. On view from 17 June to 16 October 2022 on McGill College in Montréal.

• Press: Artist’s book, van gogh’s bed, featured on the PhotoBook Journal website. Review by Douglas Stockdale. A collaboration with poet, Anne Michael’s van gogh’s bed reflects on the year Van Gogh lived at the asylum in Saint Remy from May 1889 to May 1890. During this time at the asylum Van Gogh produced 142 paintings, his most prolific period. See van gogh’s bed page to view the artist’s book.

• Press: End of Beauty, is included in a special showcase, Photography and Color, part of Thinking About Photography, a bi-monthly celebration of the medium curated by Ann Mitchell.

2021

• Acquisition: The National Gallery of Art in Washington. D.C. has added four artist’s books to their collection: twombly, italia, The White Sculptures, Finding Wyeth, and at the window.

• Exhibition: Cy Twombly, poetry and remembrance at Menil Bookstore, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas features new artist’s book, I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY: XX POEMS, and a single print, on display from 15 June to 22 August 2021.

• Event: a tangled time and 24 Hours in Somerset featured in Canada Day Auction in support of Canada-UK Foundation, London, UK which promotes education and cultural exchange between Canada and the United Kingdom.

• Press: Artist’s book, now & beyond, featured on Ciel variable website. The book, an homage to the late writer and dear friend, James D. Campbell, is a narrative that considers the impermanence of life, as reflected in images of a Mediterranean island. See Ciel variable website to view the project.

• Exhibition: a tangled time (Temps Troubles), a triptych of images exhibited by invitation at Occurrence: espace d’art et d’essai contemporain in Montréal from March 18 to April 24 2021. See Occurence website for details.

• Press: Feature article by Zoë Tousignant entitled The Photobook as Space of Collaboration in Ciel variable magazine (Winter 2021). To read more go to the Ciel variable website.

• Competition: Selected by Stephen Perloff, Editor for The Photo Review, as part of 2020 Competition Web Galleries (Theme: Alone)

2020

• Exhibition: Bassano in Teverina exhibited as part of the Biennale fur aktuelle Fotografie curated by David Campany in Mannheim, Germany, February 2020. 

• Acquisition: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal acquires two digital archival colour prints from twombly, italia, entitled boats and  Riviera di Ulisse, for their permanent collection.

• Acquisition: The McCord Museum in Montréal acquires a portfolio of 23 black and white silver gelatin prints, A Celebration of Place, for their permanent collection.  This portfolio celebrates the community garden program and the gardeners at the Mahatma Gandhi Community Garden.

• Acquisition: The Farnsworth Museum of Art, in Rockland, Maine, adds 25 prints from the artist’s book at the window to their permanent collection.
  at the window, as well as Finding Wyeth are both already part of the permanent collection at the Farnsworth Museum. Both works celebrate the legacy of Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth and the Olson House.

• Acquisition: The Stanford University Photo Collections, in Palo Alto, California, adds remembering brodsky to their permanent collection. The acquisition consists of a limited edition artist’s book and a series of 20 black and white prints.

  remembering brodsky was inspired by Watermark, a novel written by the Nobel Prize winning poet, Joseph Brodsky.  Brodsky visited Venice on many occasions during the winter months. Venice heightened his sensibilities and appealed to his sense of poetry. In Watermark, Brodsky reflects on his ties to this city of canals, islands and bridges.

  The artist’s book, remembering brodsky, contains an original endnote by American poet, Mark Strand.