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Art and Art History Presents
Richard Rhodes
Thursday 7 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1
Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.
In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.
As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.
Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).
