John Monteith

Monteith has exhibited internationally at the Tate Modern, London, the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, X Initiative, New York, the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, the DUMBO Art Center, New York, 7th Beijing Biennale, Beijing, and Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City.

He has held residencies at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai (2024), I Project Space, Beijing (2018), Kunsthalle Roveredo, Switzerland (2014), and CAT Cologne, Germany (2011).

Reviews and essays dedicated to his work have been included in Mousse Magazine, Canadian Art, Art in America (print and online), Charley, C Magazine, October, The Huffington Post, K-48, Petit Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, the New Yorker and others.

Monteith has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. He currently lives and works in Toronto where he is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

His work can be found in the following collections: the Canadian Embassy,
Ankara, Tricon Residential, San Francisco, Toronto, Atlanta, Tampa, and Jacksonville, the Swatch Foundation, Shanghai, Majudia, Montreal, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Scotiabank, Toronto, The New School, Manhattan, New York, Torys LLP, Toronto, TD Bank, Toronto, BNY Melon, New York.

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John Monteith

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John Monteith

BORN

1973 in Toronto, Canada

EDUCATION

2008
Parsons The New School for Design, MFA Graduate, New York, NY

1997
The Ontario College of Art and Design, Graduate, Toronto, ON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Spatial Configurations, a Particular Rhythm, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China

2024
Signal to Noise, collaborative exhibition with Lou Sheppard, Mónica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2023
Signal to Noise, collaborative exhibition with Lou Sheppard, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, ON

2019
Urban Fabric, Atelier Zerebecky with Art Yuyuan, Shanghai, China

2018
In This Moment, I: Project Space, Beijing, CN
Kindred Spirits, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei, TW
Resonances, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON

2017
Cabinet, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, CH

2016
Somewhere Else, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
In the Absence (of), 8eleven, Toronto, ON

2014
At Night All Cats Are Grey, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2012
Memorial Day, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2011
Grace, The Artlog Loft, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Lost Highway, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2009
River’s Edge, Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2007
Undercurrents, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON

2006
(Re) constructing Love, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON

2005
Christopher, Solo Exhibition, Toronto, ON
Concealed Weapon, Galerie Accidentelle, Montreal, QC

2004
am: After Midnight, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
As Long as it Lasts, Atelier Christian Awe, Berlin, DE curated by Sarah Belden

2022
Tattarrattat, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, ON
Giving Entry, Namara Project Space, Toronto, ON
Voicing the City, Beijing 22, The German Embassy, Beijing, CN curated by Antonie Angerer and Anna-Viktoria Eschbach

2021
Parallel Universes: Parafacts and Parafictions, Design Republic, Shanghai, CN curated by Peipei Han
Alle, Galerie Wenger, Zürich, CH

2020
Good Trouble, Artists Respond to the 2020 Presidential Election, Whitebox, Manhattan, NY
Experiments, Galerie Wenger, Zürich, CH

2019
Techne and Art: Ecologies of Pre- and Post-modern Subjectivities, Space Station Gallery Beijing, CN Curated by You Mi
4²+1, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2018
Art Biesenthal, Mikel and Ayla Hecken Foundation, Biesenthal, DE

2017
7th Beijing Biennial, National Museum of Art, Beijing, CN
Alternative Histories, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
Cabinet, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, CH

2016
Watch My Face To read My Thoughts, LUMA Project Space, Texas State University, San Marcos Texas, US

2015
Alle, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, CH
Alpina Huus, House of Deep Transformations in 11 Acts, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany, curated by Elise Lammer and Denis Pernet
Stories Told, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2014
New Associations, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland, Curated by Elise Lammer
Reconstalation, Prak-sis N3w M3edia Art Festival, Chicago, IL
Vector Issue 5, Schau Fenster, Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Germany

2013
The Assemblance of Presence, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland
Echoing Nostalgia, San Art, curated by Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Under New Management, ODD Gallery, The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, curated by Suzanne Carte & Su-Ying Lee, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Translation, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Curated by Rachel Farquharson

2012
Up Against It, Munch Gallery, Manhattan, NY, Curated by Billy Miller
10×10, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

2011
Petit-Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, Forever and Today, Manhattan, NY
B-B-B-B-Bad, Anna Kustera Gallery, Manhattan, NY, Curated by Billy Miller and DougMcClemont
City Speaks; A Conversation at the Dinner Table, Atelier Oliver Kunkel, Presented by CAT Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2010
No Soul For Sale, K-48 Kontinuum; The Tate Modern, London, England
NY Art Book Fair “Straight To Hell Outpost,” PS1 Long Island City, NY
131, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Geometry and Gesture, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY

2009
No Soul For Sale, K-48 Kontinuum; X-Initiative, Manhattan, NY
Overlap, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Paper In the Wind, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Summer Camp; Like a Moth to the Flame, Exile, Berlin, Germany

2008
Zwischen, Galerie Stefan Ropke, Cologne, Germany
K-48, John Connelly Presents, Manhattan, NY
O Canada, Gallery MC, Manhattan NY, Curated by Miriam Katz
Parsons MFA Exhibition, The Kitchen, Manhattan NY

2007
Art With Heart, The Carlu with Ritchies Auctioneers and Appraisers, Toronto, ON
Signs of Life, 141 North 7th St, Williamsburg, NY, Curated by David Gibson

2006
Glocal, Canadian Art Foundation, Toronto, ON 2006
Art In The Workplace, The Investors Group in Association with The Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, ON Curated by William Huffman

Special Projects, Commissions and Art Fairs

2019
Resonances, Photofairs, Staged Section, Shanghai, CN

2018
Kindred Spirits, Unique Multiples, Sarah Belden Fine Art, Madrid, Spain

2017
Art Toronto, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON

2016
Art Toronto, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON

2015
Drawing Now Paris, Paris, France, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland

2014
Art Toronto, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Drawing Now Paris, Paris, France, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland

2013
Kunst 13 Zurich, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Toronto, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2011
The Expat Effect, Canadian Art Dealers Association, The Armory Show, Manhattan NY

2009
Closer to God, Curatorial Project, The AAF, Manhattan, NY

2008
Hide and Seek; Living Room Project, Flux Factory in collaboration with Openhouse New York.
K-48, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
Reading Room, Pulse Art Fair, Manhattan NY, Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak

2005
Perpetual Motion, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Gallery Commission, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON

Collections

Majudia, Montreal, Canada
The Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Canada
The New School, Manhattan, New York, USA
Torys LLP, Toronto, Canada
TD Bank, Toronto, Canada
BNY Mellon, New York, USA
Morris and Associates, London, England