HARTMAN, John

John Hartman was born in 1950 in Midland Ontario, and studied Fine Art at McMaster University.

He established his reputation with the exhibition “Painting the Bay” at the McMichael Canadian Collection in 1993. These were large-scale paintings of Georgian Bay, aerial views of the landscape, painted with thick, juicy paint. In the skies Hartman painted stories about the places depicted.

Hartman continued to experiment with works that combined narrative and landscape. He received national exposure with the exhibition and book “Big North” which toured Canada between 1999 and 2002.

Hartman’s path of painting the intimate relationship between people and place, took a turn in 2003. He began to paint aerial views of cities. These paintings, which present cities as living organisms, made up the exhibition and book ”Cities” which toured Canada and internationally from 2007-2009.

Hartman has recently painted a series of aerial views of New Orleans which are showing at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, October-November 2013.

Artist's CV:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 ‘New Orleans From Above,’ Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans

‘Tracing Terra Nova,’ Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s

2012 *‘Place, Story And Memory,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

*‘The Columbia In Canada,’ Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, curated by Liz Wylie and circulated to

Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, 2013

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 2013

‘Blue Rocks and Halifax,’ Studio 21, Halifax

‘The Columbia River,’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

*‘Looking At the Sault,’ Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste Marie, curated by Mary Reid

‘John Hartman,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

‘Shore Line Over View,’ MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, curated by Jennifer Withrow and Ben Portis

2010 ‘John Hartman,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

2009 ‘John Hartman, New Paintings and Drypoints,’ Studio 21, Halifax

‘John Hartman, Harbour,’ Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s

‘John Hartman, Cities,’ Winchester Galleries, Victoria

2008 ‘John Hartman, Etchings,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery , Toronto

‘Cities, Paintings and Drypoints’ , Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

*‘John Hartman, Cities,’ Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco

2007 ‘Cities’, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

‘Cities,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

‘Cities,’ Jill George Gallery, London

‘Cities,’ Projets Art 45, Montreal

*‘Cities,’ curated by Stuart Reid and circulated by the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,

with the assistance of the art gallery of Nova Scotia to

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound

Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

*catalogue or book published

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, 2008

Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, 2008

The Art Gallery of Sudbury, 2008

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, 2008

Sir Wifred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, 2009

The Rooms, St. John’s, 2009

‘ John Hartman’ Studio 21, Halifax

‘ John Hartman, Recent Work,’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

‘John Hartman, Newfoundland Paintings,’ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Western Branch

Yarmouth

2006 ‘ Watercolours and Drypoints,’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

2005 ‘ Rivers and Cities,’ Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

‘John Hartman, Paintings, Watercolours and Prints of London, Scotland and Canada,’ Jill

George Gallery, London

‘John Hartman, New Works’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

2004 ‘John Hartman, Harbours,New Paintings, Pastels and Drypoints= Mira Godard Gallery

2003 ‘John Hartman, Recent Works,’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

2002 ‘John Hartman, From the Garden, New Works on Paper,’ Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

2001 ‘John Hartman, Georgian Bay and Newfoundland,’ Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

‘John Hartman, Prints,’ Dofasco Gallery, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas

2000 ‘John Hartman, Recent Work,’ Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

1999 *‘ Big North,’ curated by Brian Meehan and circulated by the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery and The London Regional Art and Historical Museums to Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound

Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, 2000

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 2000

The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 2000

Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John=s, 2000

London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, 2001

‘John Hartman , New Paintings,’ Hart Gallery , London

‘John Hartman , New Paintings and Pastels,’ Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

1998 "The Artist's Garden" Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto.

"Panorama " Galerie Leif Jensen , Copenhagen.

"Stories from the Northland ", The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery , Lethbridge.

1997 "John Hartman" Hart Gallery, London

"John Hartman, New Work " Mira Godard Gallery , Toronto.

1996 "John Hartman, Recent Paintings, " W.K. P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay.

1995 *"With Minimal Means: John Hartman Prints 1985-1995,"McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton.

Curated by Kim Ness and circulated nationally to

Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St.-John's, 1996.

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, 1996

Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Sudbury, 1996

Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, 1996

University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, 1996

Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 1997

1995 "Canadier i Kobenhavn," Galerie Leif Jensen, Copenhagen

"John Hartman, The Prints," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

"John Hartman New Work," Hart Gallery, London, England

"Mount of Paradise," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

"The Wrecking of the Midland Simcoe Elevator," Huronia Museum and Gallery of Art, Midland

1994 "John Hartman," Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver

1993 *"Painting the Bay, Recent Work by John Hartman," McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg

"John Hartman, olie, pastel, glas grafik," Galerie Ähuset, Koge, Denmark

"John Hartman: öl auf Leinwand, Pastel, Lithographie", Galerie Schröder und Dörr, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

"John Hartman: Recent Paintings", Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary

"John Hartman: Narrative Landscapes", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

1992 *"Fired Light - The Glass Paintings of John Hartman from the Workshop of Lars Frese, Copenhagen",London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London. Circulated to MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie.

1991 "Expulsion from Paradise, an Allegory", 49th Parallel, New York

"The Big Picture", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

"John Hartman, drypoint, lithograph and pastel", Christina Parker Fine Arts, St.-John's, Newfoundland

1990 "New Works on Paper", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

*"Recent Paintings" The Library and Gallery, Cambridge.Circulated to the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie.

"Landscape Implications", Lynnwood Arts Centre

1989 "La mer douce", Gadatsy Gallery, Port Dover

1988 *"Invisible stories - a series of four one-person exhibitions", Curator Kim Moodie, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario

"John Hartman, Maleri", Galeri Marius, Copenhagen

"John Hartman, Nord Canada/Usynlige Historier", Galeri Marius, Copenhagen

*"The North: Life on the Edge", Curator Dorothy Farr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston

"The North/Invisible Stories", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"John Hartman - prints and drawings", Broadview Gallery, Peterborough

1987 "John Hartman - Colour drypoint engravings", a exhibition circulated to

Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire

Saw Gallery, Ottawa (1986)

MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph (1986)

"Job's Garden", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"Jacob's Ladder", Robertson Gallery, Ottawa

1986 "Return to Paradise", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1985 "Highway 69 drawings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"Drawings, paintings and colour drypoint engravings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1984 "Recent Works", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"Paintings and Works on paper", La Galerie Shayne, Montreal

"John Hartman, Paintings and Drawings", Ethel Flavelle Gallery, Lindsay

1983 "Peintures et oeuvres sur papier", La Galerie Shayne, Montreal

"Wendake drawings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"John Hartman - new paintings and drawings", Art Gallery of Hamilton ,curated by Glenn Cumming

1982 "New works", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1981 "Paintings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"Works on paper", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1980 "Recent Landscape Drawings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1979 "Recent Drawings", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1972 “John Hartman," Trinity College, University of Toronto

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 ‘Natural Selection: An Evolving Idea Of Canadian Landscape’ The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s

‘Blue’ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Western Branch, Yarmouth

*‘Collection, Connection and the Making of Meaning’ The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver.

‘New Acquisitions, Views and Vistas’ Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton

2012 ‘Street Life, The City as Muse’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Calgary

‘Aspects of A New Kind Of Realism’ Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, curated by Michael Klein

‘An Embarrassment of Riches: The Collection in Focus’ Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, curated by Diana Nemiroff and Sandra Dyck

‘Spotlight on 40 Years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank’ Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa.

‘From Artists and Collectors: Recent Gifts,’ University of Toronto art Centre, Toronto

‘The Way I Remember It,’ Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay

2011 ‘Sighting Land’ Museum London, London

2010 ‘Art at Work,’ Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga

‘OIL CLOTH LUNCH, and other reasons to be cheerful,’ McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, curated by Ihor Holubizky

‘Further Than Confederation,’ McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, curated by Ihor Holubizky

‘George Wallace, As I was Saying,’ McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, curated by Ihor Holubizky

‘Here to Stay: Cupids 1610,’ The Rooms Provincial Museum, St. John’s

2009 ‘sUBSTANTIAL RESOURCES’ Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury

2008 *‘Invention and Revival, The Colour Drypoints of David Milne and John Hartman’ Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, circulated to

Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, 2009

2007 *‘Georgian-Joshibi, An Exchange Exhibition of Works on Paper” The Campus Gallery Georgian College, Barrie, and Joshibi Art Museum, Japan

2006 ‘Far and Wide, the Paintings of David Alexander and John Hartman,’ Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton

‘ Into the Collection,’ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

2005 *‘Towards The Spiritual In Canadian Art’ Varley Art Gallery, Unionville

2004 ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay

‘Skies,’ MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph’

2003 ‘ThePrints of Ed Bartram, John Hartman, J.C. Heywood,’ Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

‘Re:Collection’ Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound

‘Certain Realities’, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

‘Horti-Culture’, James Baird Gallery, St. John=s

‘Remembered Landscape’, James Baird Gallery, St. John=s

‘The AGNL and the RCA, a survey’, The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s

‘Einstein’s Brain’, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton

‘The Private Collector’, Glenhyrst Gallery of Brant, Brantford

2001 ‘Alignments: Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection’, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor

‘Contemporary Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics’, curated by the Hart Gallery at Phillips auctioneers, Leeds

2000 ‘ Two Nations: Works on Paper’An exhibition organized by the Whitewater Gallery in North Bay. The exhibition toured six Ontario galleries in 2000 through 2002 and five galleries in Cuba from 2002-2003

Landscape and Memory, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

1999 "The Painters' Newfoundland: selections from the Pouch Cove Collection." Sir Wilfred

Grenfell College Art Gallery, Cornerbrook.

1998 "Gathered Into Earth: Contemporary Landscape Painting", Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla , Washington.

"The Painters' Newfoundland " Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador , St. John's.

"Prints by Painters" Paul Kuhn Gallery , Calgary

1997 "in Situ, Contemporary Canadian Prints" McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

"Recent Acquisitions " Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland.

"St. Michaels Printshop 25th Anniversary Archival Print Exhibition " RCA Visual Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland

"Nature Machine" Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.

1996 *"Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, curated by Alan Gussow, circulated to

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1997

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 1997

Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. , 1997

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, 1997

"Imagining Eden," Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, curated by Tim Nowlin

"Art 96" with the Hart Gallery, London, England.

"Beyond the Group of Seven,"Heffel Gallery, Vancouver

"Recent Acquisitions" Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.

1995 *"Selected Works from the Collection of Daniel Donovan," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton.

*"The Terminal Project," Artworks, Collingwood

"Small, Medium, Large", Eastern Edge Gallery, St-John's

1994 "Return to Paradise: Contemporary Views of Land by Canadian Artists," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton.

"Reflecting Paradise," Howe Oil Tower, Calgary.

"John Hartman, Dan Hudson, Tim Zuck, Recent Works." West Parry Sound District Museum, Parry Sound.

"Contemporary Canadian Works from the Collection of the Art Gallery - University of Lethbridge," Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, North York,Curated by Glenn Cumming.

1994 *"A Public Responsibility: The OMERS Collection," Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound.

"Hidden Values, Canadian Corporations Collect," McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg.

"The Book as Art,"Durham Art Gallery, Durham

1993 *"Reflecting Paradise," Lotte Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Travelled to Dong Ah Gallery,

Teagu, South Korea; KBS, Pusan, South Korea; Nam Do Cultural Centre, Kwangju, South Korea.

"Abstraction: Which Way From Here?", Canada Trust Tower, curator Jeffrey Spalding, Calgary

*"FIAC Edition", with Editions Copenhagen, Grand Palais, Paris

*"Art Multiple,"with Editions Copenhagen,Dusseldorf.

1992 *"Legal Perspective,"McMichael Canadian Art Collection,Kleinburg.

*"Peoples Art, XXX Anniversary Exhibition,"Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

*"The Georgian Bay Experience,"curated by Eve Baxter, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,Owen Sound.

*"The Print Defined," The Blyth Festival Art Gallery, Blyth.

1991 *"Myth and Meaning," Georgian College Campus Gallery, Barrie.

1990 *"Notes from Eden", Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound

1989 "Hartman, Thauberger & de Niverville", Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

*"Glaskunst og Billege", Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark

1988 *"Glaskunst og Billege", Galeri Brandt, Fredensborg, Denmark

"Barrie Gallery Project", Barrie Regional Gallery

1987 "Drawing Conclusions", John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto

"Alumni exhibition", McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton

"Historical perspectives - two approaches", Carnegie Gallery, Dundas

1984 "Kanada, Maler um Midland", Kulturhaus, Wetzlar, West Germany

1983 "Hagen, Hartman, Marchessault & Cullen", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

1982 "Inscape - Outscape", McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton

1981 "Small works on paper", Gadatsy Gallery, Toronto

"Alumni exhibition", McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton

1980 "Group exhibition", National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay

1977 "Larmand-Pirosko, Gibbon, Hartman", McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton

1974 "Editions 1 exhibition", Aggregation Gallery, Toronto

"Editions 1 exhibition", Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

"Editions 1 exhibition", Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston

"Editions 1 exhibition", Wells Gallery, Ottawa

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2002 Frank’s Journey, Oil on linen, The World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa

1999 Providence Centre , water colour on paper, Providence Centre, Toronto

1995 - 1996 "Lynde Creek Mouth and Oriental Lily", oil on linen, Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, Whitby (art collection of the Province of Ontario)

1990 - 1991 "Expulsion from Paradise/Return to Paradise", enamel on glass, the Canadian High

Commission Chancery, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Department of Foreign Affairs)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.

British Museum, London, England

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario

Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario

Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

Huronia Museum and Art Gallery, Midland, Ontario

Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia

La Galerie d'Art, Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire, Québec

Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Sudbury, Ontario

London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

Masterworks Foundation , Bermuda

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario

Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland

The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario

The Rooms, St John’s, Newfoundland

Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario

University of Calgary Library, Calgary, Alberta

University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta

University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg ,Alberta

WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Ontario

Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Blake Cassels & Graydon, Toronto, Ontario

Bunting, Warburg Inc. Toronto, Ontario

CI Mutual Funds, Toronto, Ontario

Ciba Geigy, Toronto, Ontario

Davies, Ward,Phillips & Vineberg, Toronto, Ontario

Deloitte Touche, Toronto, Ontario

Ernst & Young, Toronto, Ontario

Ferguson Barristers LLP, Midland, Ontario

Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, Toronto, Ontario

Hewlett Packard, Toronto, Ontario

Household Financial Corporation Limited, Toronto, Ontario

Kirkland and Ellis, New York, New York

Imperial Oil Limited, Calgary

Lac Minerals, Toronto, Ontario

Lenczner, Slaght, Royce, Smith & Griffin, Toronto, Ontario

Mclean Hunter Ltd., Toronto, Ontario

McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto, Ontario

McMillan Binch, Toronto, Ontario

Morris/Rose/Legett, Toronto, Ontario

Nesbitt Burns, Toronto, Ontario

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario

Petro-Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Scotiabank Group, Toronto, Ontario

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Toronto Ontario

SunLife Trust, Toronto, Ontario

Swiss Bank Corporation, Toronto, Ontario

Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, Ontario

Torys LLP

Trimark Investments Management Inc., Toronto, Ontario

EDUCATION

1973 Bachelor of Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton

TEACHING POSITIONS

1986 - 1999 Instructor , Painting, Part -Time Faculty, Georgian College, Barrie.

AWARDS

2012 Excellence in the Arts Award, Barrie Arts Awards

1995 First prize. "Manitou Dock." Great Canadian Printmaking Competition. Sponsored by Ernst & Young and administered by Canadian Art magazine

1994 Distinguished Alumni Award. McMaster University

Senior Visual Arts Grant, Ontario Arts Council

1992 Senior Visual Arts Grant, Ontario Arts Council

1990 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council

1988 Project Grant, Canada Council

1984 Short-Term Grant, Canada Council

1983 Short-Term Grant, Canada Council

1980 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council

1979 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council

1974 Winner, Editions 1 Printmaking Competition, Ontario Arts Council

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS

1986-87 North Simcoe Arts Council

1990-98 CARO, Canadian Artists Representation Ontario

1994-2002 MacLaren Art Centre

Chair of Programming Committee

Member and Chair of Acquisitions Committee

2004-present, Fine Arts Advisory Committee, Georgian College

2004-present, Georgian College Campus Gallery, presently Chair

2011-present, Acquisitions Advisory Committee, Tom Thompson Art Gallery

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