EXHIBITIONS
2024 Body / Armour, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Exhibition, Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Northern Borders - Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, USA, Bathers - Public Sweat/Art Spin, Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
2022. Bathers - Festival of Cool, Harbourfront/Art Spin, Voyager - Bulger Gallery, group show, Toronto, Canada
2020 Group show - Portrait Gallery of Canada, Personae, Indigenous and Canadian Portraits 1861 - 2020
2019 Group show - Rear View Mirror, Image Foundry, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Water, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2018 Group show - Water Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, until May 27
Group show - From the collection, rotating works, RIC Centre, Toronto, Canada, Summer
2017 Book Launch - Bathers, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada, October 7,
2016 Group show - Ways of Seeing, RIC Centre, Toronto, Canada
2015 Group show - Celebrating 20 Years, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013 Group show – Here and There, Media Wall, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
2012 Group show – Contacting Toronto: We’re in this Together, Public Installation, Subway Stations
2010 Solo show – Some Kind of Divine, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show – In Her Presence, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Enamored, GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2009 Group show – Lisette Model and her Successors, Galeria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy,
Mount Holyoke College Art Musuem, Massachusetts
2008 Group show - Lisette Model and her Successors, Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada, Museo di Rome in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Aperture Art Auction, Aperture Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Faculty Show, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada
2007 Group show – Lisette Model and her Successors, Aperture Gallery, New York
2006 100 Portfolios, Wright State University, Dayton, U.S.A.
2005 Group show – People in Place, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto Canada
Group show – Life of Water, Photo Sensitive, Toronto, Canada
Group show – Toronto the Good, University of Toronto, St. Regis College, Toronto, Canada
2004 Solo show - Bathers, Art Gallery of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Canada
Solo show - Bathers, Quai de la Batterie, Arras, France
2003 Solo show - Bathers, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Toronto Grid Works, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2002 Curator - Quebec Summit of the Americas, 2001, Photo Eclipse, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Body of Water, Luft Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Whereabouts, York Quai Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 Solo show - Bathers, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Group show - White, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Toronto at the Millennium-Urban Sites, Market Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group show - Toronto 5, Havana, Cuba
Group show - Pool, York Quai Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
2000/1999 Participant in The Century of the Body:Photoworks 1900-2000 curated by Musee de
L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, Lisbon, Portugal
1999 Solo show - Water, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada
Solo show - Contact 99, Kur, Area Gallery,Toronto, Canada
1998 Solo show - Social Milieu, Ryerson Gallery, Contact 98, Toronto, Canada
1996 Group show - Inheritance, Centre Interculturel Strathearn, Montreal, Canada
1995 Group show - 5 Photographers, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1994 Group show-Toronto After Dark, Market Gallery,Toronto, Canada
1993 Solo show - Bathers and Black-Tie, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1988 Group show - Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Canada\Mexico Exchange, Mexico City
1987 Group show - Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
1984 Solo show - Portraits, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
1982 Group show - Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
1981 Solo show - Ryerson Gallery, Toronto
GRANTS, AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2024. Canada Council Travel Grant
2023. La Porte Peinte Art Residency, France
Canada Council Arts Abroad Grant, OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
2022 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
2020 Canada Council Grant, Research and Creation
2018 Toronto Arts Council Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Grant
2011 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Grant
2009 Ryerson Graduate Scholarship, SPE Student Award
2006 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Grant
2003 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2004 National Magazine Award (silver)
2001 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (January 2001)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (August 2001)
Canada Council Travel Grant
Canada Council Mid-Career Grant
National Magazine Award (gold)
1999 Millennium Arts Fund Grant for The Grid Project (Toronto Millennium) by 5 photographers
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1997 Canada Council Type B Grant, Toronto Arts Council Grant
1995 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
1994 Canada Council Type B Grant
1993 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1992 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
1984 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1982 Canada Council Grant, Ontario Arts Council Grant
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: TEACHING
2024 Instructor, Documentary Photography, TMU, Chang School, Spring
Instructor, Photo for Communication, OCADU, Fall
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2023. Instructor, Documentary Photography, TMU Chang School, Spring, Contemporary Photo, TMU Chang School, Winter
Instructor, Photo for Communication, OCADU, Fall
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2022. Instructor, Documentary Photography, Toronto Metropolitan U, Chang School, Spring
Instructor, OCADU, Body and Lens, Photo for Communication
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2021. Instructor, Documentary Photography, Toronto Metropolitan U, Chang School, Spring
Instructor, OCADU, Photo for Communication
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2020 Lecturer, History of Photography, Fall, Ryerson CE
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Fall
Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Making a Photographic Book, Spring
Professor, Masters Production, Documentary Media MFA, Ryerson U, Spring
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2019 Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer, Fall, From Still to Motion, Fall
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Fall
Borderless Citizen Symposium Workshop, Harbourfront Centre, November
Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44
2018 Professor, Masters Production class, Documentary Media MFA, Ryerson U, Spring
Instructor, Documentary Photography, Stills to Motion, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer, Fall
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter, Fall
Workshops, Gallery 44, Making a Photographic Book - Ryerson CE, Documentary Photo -
Ryerson CE
2017 Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer Intensive
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Workshops: Ryerson CE, Gallery 44
2016 Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer Intensive
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Workshops: Ryerson CE, Gallery 44
2015 Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer Intensive, Fall
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Workshops: Gallery 44, private
2014 Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Winter, Summer Intensive, Fall
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Instructor, History of Photography, Sheridan C, Winter
Workshops: Gallery 44
2013 Instructor, Documentary Photography, U of T, Winter
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Instructor, History of Photography, Sheridan C, Fall, Winter, Intro to Media, Fall
Instructor, Documentary Photography, Ryerson CE, Fall
Talk, Ryerson Image Center Archives, April
Jury Member, SNAP awards
2012 Instructor, Photo Production 4rth yr, Documentary Photo (CE), Ryerson U, Fall
Instructor, Photography for Communication, OCADU, Winter
Instructor, Intro to Media/History of Photography/History in Practice, Sheridan U, Fall
Workshops, Gallery 44, Intro Darkroom, Basic and Intermediate Darkroom
Workshop, Photo Educators Forum, Lighting
2011 Instructor, Photography for Graphic Design, OCADU, Fall
Instructor, Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School for the Arts, Fall
Lecturer, Documentary Photography, University of Toronto, Winter
Instructor, Culture of Photography, Sheridan College, Winter
Instructor, Approaches to Documentary Photography, Ryerson U, Winter
Instructor, Intro Black and White, Lighting, Toronto School of Art, Spring
Workshop, Gallery 44, Black and White Darkroom, Winter, Summer
Workshop, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, October
2010 Guest Lecturer, Empire State College (SUNY), Documentary Workshops, NYC, November
Instructor, Photography for Graphic Design, OCADU, Fall
Instructor, Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School for the Arts, Fall
Instructor, Approaches to Documentary Photography, Ryerson U, Winter, Fall
Instructor, Techniques of Photography 1, Ryerson U, Winter, Spring
Instructor, Culture of Photography, Sheridan College, Winter
Instructor, Gallery 44, Intermediate and Basic darkroom, Winter, Spring
Instructor, Intro Black and White, Toronto School of Art, Spring
2009 Instructor, Techniques of Photography 1, Ryerson U, Fall
Instructor, Approaches to Documentary Photography, Ryerson U, Winter, Spring
Instructor, Photography, OCAD, Fall
Instructor, Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School for the Arts, Fall
Instructor, Intro to Photography, Toronto School of Art, Winter, Spring, Fall
Instructor, Photo Lighting, Toronto School of Art, Spring, Workshop, Beginner and Intermediate
Darkroom, Gallery 44, May, October, Lecture Toronto Camera Club
Workshop, Associated Hebrew Schools, Story-telling Through Cameras
2008 Instructor, Photo, 2nd yr Production, Ryerson University, (Day Program), Winter
Instructor, Approaches to Documentary Photography, Ryerson U, Winter, Spring
Instructor, Intro to Black and White Photography, Toronto School of Art, Winter, Spring, Fall
Ontario Educators Forum Workshop (May)
Pikto Workshops (Location Lighting, March, Contact galleries tour, May)
Instructor, Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School for the Arts, Fall
Black and White Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44 (October), Instructor, Photography, OCAD, Fall
2007 Instructor Photo Production, Ryerson University (Day Program), Fall
Instructor, Tech 1, Ryerson CE, Winter
Black and White Darkroom Workshops, Gallery 44 (March, October)
Ontario Educators Forum Workshop (May)
2006 Instructor Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School of the Arts, Fall
Instructor, Illustrative Portraiture 2 (Day) Sheridan College, Winter
Instructor, Tech 1, Ryerson CE, Winter
Black and White Darkroom Workshop, Gallery 44 (February/March)
Ontario Educators Forum, Workshop May
Instructor, Black and White Photo 1 and 2, Haliburton School for the Arts, Fall
2005 Instructor, Illustrative Portraiture 2, (Day) Sheridan College, Winter, Fall
Instructor, Tech 1, Ryerson CE, Fall
Instructor, Darkroom Practice Workshop, Photo Educators Forum (May 8)
Instructor, Intro to Photography, The Photo Essay, NSCAD (Day), Advisor Independent
Study, Summer, Ontario Educators Forum, Workshop, May
2004 Instructor, Tech 1, Ryerson CE, Fall
Instructor, Illustrative Portraiture 1 (Day), Sheridan College, Fall
Instructor, Foundation Photo, Basic Colour, The Situated Portrait, NSCAD U, Winter (Day)
2003/02 Instructor, Intro black and white, CE, Humber College, 3 semesters
Instructor, Tech 1, Intro black and white, CE, Ryerson University, Fall semester
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENTS
1981-2024 Editorial portraiture published in major Canadian publications, documentary projects
EDUCATION
2020 FORT and TADO certificates for remote teaching
Member of Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University
2008-2010 Ryerson University, School of Image Arts
Master of Fine Arts, Documentary Media
1977-1981 Ryerson University, Major: Photographic Arts, Bachelor Applied Arts
1975-1977 Concordia University, Major: Photography and Painting, Undergraduate
COLLECTIONS
2022. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
2017 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collection, Montreal, Canada
2012 Art Gallery of Ontario collection, Toronto, Canada
2010 City of Toronto Archives, Toronto, Canada
2004 Peter Higdon Resource Center, RIC, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
1999 Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
1998 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1995 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1992 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
1986 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1985 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
1983 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
various private collections
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS
2023 Ciel Variable Magazine, The Crossing
2021 Global Conversations/Aga Khan Museum, February
2020 Podcast, Defend the Darkroom series, March
2018 Bathers - Walrus Magazine, April
2017 Bathers - The Guardian, U.K., August, Tatler, U.K., December, Geist Magazine, Fall, Bant Magazine, Turkey, September, AnOther Magazine (UK),
Musee Magazine (USA), El Ritual del Bano - New York Times T Magazine, Spain, September, Life-Force (UK)
Bathers book - Photo Ed, Canada, September
2016 In Spas and Bathhouses, Epic Nudes, NYTimes Lensblog, April
Bathers, Vogue Italia, May
Some Kind of Divine, Life-Force Magazine, May
2010 Humanity is the Message, and the Medium, Some Kind of Divine, catalogue, essay by Malka Greene
Visura Magazine, www.visuramagazine.com Issue #10, Some Kind of Divine, August
2007 Ukula Magazine, Bathers, Summer 2007
Las Ranas, The Bathers, Spring 2007 2005
2005 Photo Ed, A Liberating Experience, Fall, 2005
2004 BorderCrossings, Bathing Beauties, Spring, 2004
2003 Geist ,Steam, p.44-59, Spring 2003
Go Nudity, CBC radio, host Brent Bambury
National Post, Review, AL 5, 19/06/03
The Globe and Mail, Critic’s Choice, R 21, 21/06/03
The Globe and Mail, Gallery Going, R14, 21/06/03
Toronto Star, Review, G8, 26/06/03
Toronto Star, Making Contact, Review, C2, 04/05/03
2001 Canadian Geographic, Cleansing Rituals, p. 100-101, May/June, 2001
Saturday Night Magazine, Thunder Bay, Saturday Night Back Page, July 2001
2000 The Globe and Mail, Taking the Waters, p.R12-13, July 22, 2000
Thunder Bay Saunas, CBC radio interview, Thunder Bay, September 2000
1999 Shift, Swimming Through Sound, p.28-29, June 1999
1996 CV Photo, cover and p.14-21, Spring 1996
1994 Matrix, Bathers and Black-Tie, p.44-51, Vol.45, 1994
1993 Photo Life, Private Moments Public Places, p.26-30, October 1993
MONOGRAPHS
2017 Bathers, Damiani Editore, essays by Larry Fink and Marni Jackson