Barbara Balfour
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EXHIBITIONS and BOOK LAUNCHES 
<SOLO>
2015   
The Inkiest Black, launch of artist’s book at LA Art Book Fair, L.A, CA, USA; and inclusion in Art Basel, Switzerland; both hosted by Art Metropole, Toronto ON

2014   
The Inkiest Black
, launch of artist’s book at Katzman Contemporary Gallery, Toronto


2011   

The Slightly Sad Colour of Early Winter p.m., Katzman/Kamen Gallery Project Room, Toronto
The Farewell, the Project Room, York Quay Centre, Toronto
MISS READ Artists’ Book Fair, Kunstwerke Gallery, Berlin, Germany; This Book bookplate (German version) launch at Motto booth
Basel Art Fair, This Book bookplate (German & Spanish versions) launch with Art Metropole

2010   
Living & Dying, YYZ, Toronto. YYZ Unlimited publication, with text by Caroline Langill. Canadian Art Gallery Hop conversation with Dan Adler on Living & Dying 
This Book bookplate (French version) launch at Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec
This Book, launch of bookplate (Mandarin version) and participatory exchange at Bei Gao Studios, Beijing, China. multiple distributed by Vitamin Creative Space 

2009   
This Book, launch of bookplate (English version) at Art Metropole, Toronto                     
Ex Libris multiple, launch/ opening/ reading at Art Metropole, Toronto

2007   
to the nth degree, Open Studio, Toronto. Publication with essay by Corrina Ghaznavi
Selfish, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC. Catalogue co-published by Koffler Gallery/RAG

2005   
Selfish, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. Curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell

2004

Designs for The Anti-Bubble, The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta

2002   
Speck, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

2001   
Offspring, Open Studio, Toronto. Gallery publication

1999   
Offspring, Galerie Circa, Montréal. Gallery publication

1998   
Soft Spots, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AL. Curator: Joan Stebbins. Catalogue

1997   
Pétrification, galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal, Québec

1996   
Speculations: selected work from 1983-96, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
m  melancholia & melanomata. Exhibition and artist’s book, galerie Optica, Montréal
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<TWO AND THREE PERSON, COLLECTIVE, and COLLABORATIVE>
2016                
Indecisive Green and Windsor Yeast, with Jennifer Willett, Centre3 for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON. Publication with curatorial essay by Iris Karuna

2008                
Almost Nothing, with Yam Lau, Josh Thorpe, Akau, Toronto. Curator: Cheryl Sourkes

2007                
Multiples launch at Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario. Featuring the stack version of 100
Things That Make Me Happy (Barbara Balfour) & Bird Radio–Vogelradio (Bill Burns)

2002                
Lab Notes (see Group Exhibitions: Science Fair), http://www.studioxx.org/sciencefair
Collaborative web project with Stephanie Shepherd. Sponsored by Studio XX

2001                
The Young and the Restless, A Space, Toronto. Collaboration with Michelle Kasprzak; one of four instructor/student collaborations. Curators: Peter Kingstone and Will Kwan 

2000                
Afterglow, SAW Gallery, Ottawa. With Caroline Langill and Stephanie Shepherd

1998                
l'Excès (Excess), Musée régional de Rimouski, QC. With Nicole Jolicoeur, Mindy Yan Miller. Curator: Marie Fraser. Catalogue

1997                
Les Occupantes, apartment-based exhibition, Montréal. Initiative of the Venus Fly Trap Collective. Publication

1996                
Magic, melancholy, and safety gear
, Art Metropole, Toronto. With Bill Burns and Mark Vatsndal

1993-4                
Spontaneous Combustion Collective, 1 Queen Street East, Toronto, ON; Spontaneous Combustion Collective, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK. Initiatives of the Spontaneous Combustion Collective

1989-90            
Spontaneous Combustion, Massey Ferguson Showroom, Toronto, Ontario (1989),
 Artspace Gallery, Peterborough, ON (1990) Initiatives of the collective
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<GROUP>
 2021                
Group show of artists’ books, Imprints of the New Modernist Editing, at Shandy Hall Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwald, UK. Curated by Jane Hyslop. Part of interdisciplinary research project     developed by Dr. Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow
Invitation, installation for “Caution: Artists” text-based exhibition, Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany (custom-made danger tape wrapping around building exterior). Curator: Jürgen Obrist
Invitation to produce a limited edition artists’ multiple concurrent with “Caution: Artists” exhibition,    Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany. Curator: Jürgen Obrist
 
2020                
Invitation to participate in Collective as School workbook/artist’s book project by Jakarta based GUDSKUL Collective
 
2019                
Inclusion of This Book bookplate project (English and Spanish versions) in the Reading Material art book section of the Material Art Fair, Mexico City
Line & Verse group exhibition, invitation to participate in Canadian-Taiwanese exhibition, Toronto and Taipei (East Asian Library, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Toronto; Chiayi Cultural Centre, Taibao City, Taiwan). Curator: Carlina Chen
 
2018                
About and Beside, concurrent with Pride 2018, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto. Curator: Daryl Vocat
 
2017                
Multitudes #1 multiples exhibition: Rolodex, invitational (8 artists and writers), hosted by Container Press, Bethesda, Maryland
DRIVE-THRU multiples exhibition, Katzman Contemporary Gallery, Toronto       
 
2016-17            
Kyoto Hanga 2016: The International Print Exhibition, Canada and Japan. Organized by April Dean and Liz Ingram. Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan. Juried exhibition, travelling to Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan, and venues in Canada (University of Alberta Museum and University of Regina Museum, 2017)
Inclusion in display of Toronto artists’ books hosted by the Toronto Art Book Fair, at the Vancouver    Artists’ Book Fair, Vancouver, BC. Curator: Maxine Proctor, Director of TOABF
 
2015                
Para//el Room, DNA Artspace gallery, London, ON. Invitational exhibition of 47 books and 11 artworks (my artwork Ex Libris included as one of the latter)
Embellish, juried exhibition in honour of Jeannie Thib, Open Studio, Toronto. Curators: Marianne Katzman and Patrick Mahon
 
2014                
A Bridge Not Too Far – China, exhibition featuring the work of Canadian artists in residencies in China; curated by Patrick Macaulay, Queens Quay Gallery, Toronto
Library at Library Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Curator: Cliff Eyland
Selection of three prints from the Living & Dying series, on view at Katzman Contemporary for the   launch of the new space and the Imprint exhibition, featuring the work of the late Jeannie Thib
 
2013                
The Book Artist as Explorer
, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland. Concurrent with IMPACT8 Conference. Curator: David Faithfull
 London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, with Marcus Campbell Art Books
POSTCARD (from China), part of the China Residencies launch at Serk Space, Beijing; two pop-up shows, at Shanghai Railway Station and on the Bund, Shanghai, China. Curator: Crystal Bell
 
2011-2013         
Let’s Talk About Love
, artists’ book exhibition: Craft Alliance, concurrent with SGCI/ Southern Graphics International Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (2011); MOCAD, Detroit, Michigan (2012); Printed Matter, New York, NY (2013); iMOCA, Indianapolis, Indiana (2013); Biers Gallery, CCAD, Columbus, Ohio (2013). Curator: Chido Johnson
 
2012                
El Ultimo Libro/The Last Book, Carl von Ossietzky Staats und Universitäts Bibliothek, Hamburg, Germany. Curator: Luis Camnitzer
 
2011                
Art Toronto art fair, Toronto; Open Studio booth
Cha.CO Art Fair, Santiago de Chile; AB Projects booth
Selected artists’ projects, DANGER installation at AB Projects (Astrid Bastin) Toronto

2008-11            
El Ultimo Libro/The Last Book, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland; Aguilar Branch, New York Public Library, New York. Curator: Luis Camnitzer
 
2010                
Inaugural DICA intervention/exhibition. Mobile cart show of books and multiples; various outdoor locations in Beijing. Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art Curators: Yam Lau, Michael Yuen
 
2007-2010         
Titles, book intervention at Balfour Books, curated by the WayUpWayDown Collective(2007); Titles II, Amherst Books, Amherst, MA;Titles III (2007); L’Écume des Jours, Montreal, QC (2008); Titles IV, Attic Books, London, ON (2008); Titles V, Art Metropole, Toronto (2009);Titles VI, Musée d’art de Joliette, QC (2010); Titles VII, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario (2010). Curated by the WayUpWayDown Collective, Toronto. (2009 Canadian Art Gallery Hop)
 
2008                
Vehicle at UTAC (University of Toronto Art Centre) for Nuit Blanche 2008, Toronto. Invited to exhibit by the WayUpWayDown Collective                            
Group exhibition concurrent with Inspiring Colaborations, a symposium in honour of Barbara Godard, Pia Bouman School, Toronto. Curator: Cheryl Sourkes
EPI (Edmonton Print International) juried. SNAP and Capital Arts Building, Edmonton, AL
 
2007                
Invited artist, Falun Triennial Exhibition , Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden
Duplicate 07, The Magasinet, Falun, Sweden. Site-specific installation of DANGER
When the Front Is Also the Back, car-based show curated by Yam Lau. Unofficial intervention at Nuit Blanche 2007
 
2006-07            
Further, a print portfolio produced by artists in the book Printmaking at the Edge, written by Richard Noyce. Salem Fine Arts Center (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA); Galleria Harmonia (Jyvaskyla, Finland); Frans Masereel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium); Hanmi Photography Museum (Seoul, Korea)
 
2006                
Where She’s At, York Quay Gallery at Yoirk Quay Centre at Harbourfront, Toronto. With Yael Brotman, Libby Hague, Wanda Koop, Leesa Streifler, and Tanya Mars
Refuse to Die, Propellor Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. Guest Curator: Olga Korper
 
2005                
Making History: Construction of Queer Indentity, qu-Art Gallery, Toronto. Curator: Peter Kingstone
IVth Novosibirsk International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art. Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Krasny Prospect, Novosibirsk, Russia. Curator: Sean Caulfield
 
2004                
Invocation, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto. 10th Annual Great Canadian Printmaking Competition exhibition (honourable mention)
The Re-Shelving Initiative, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS
Quintessence, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC. Curators: Lisa McLean, Catherine Stewart       
Work and Play, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC. Curator: Corrine Corry,
Silicone, VMAC Gallery, Toronto. Curators: Self-Service Collective – Su-Ying Lee, Jennifer Matotek  

2003                
Seeing Is Believing: Skeptical Print Activity, HallSpace Gallery, Boston, MA. Curator: Ethan Berry
 
2002                
Science Fair: Feminist Configurations in Cyberspace, website to be posted for two years by Studio XX, Montréal, QC
 
2001                
Bookmobile, artists' book exhibition, travelling across Canada and USA
Macau International Print Exhibition, Macau Museum of Art, China. One of six invited Canadians
 
2000                
25 Artists, 25 Years, the Ellen Gallery - Concordia University, Montréal. Invitational, 25 graduates chosen over 25 years. Gallery publication
 
1999                
48 Rooms/48 Hours, rooming house exhibition, Montréal. Curator: Ingrid Bachmann. Catalogue
 
1997                
Let’s Talk About Art, multiples show, Goddard Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
 
1996                
Where Does It Hurt?, Walter Phillips’ Gallery, Calgary, AL. Curator: Cathy Busby. Publication
What is the Diffference Between Alienated & Collective Cultures? Mercer Union, Toronto, ON. Curators: Tom Folland and Natalie Olanick. Publication
Drawings and maquettes by sculptors, galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal. Curator: Naomi London   
Rx: Taking Our Medicine, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston. Curator: Jan Allen. Catalogue
 
1995                
Clothing by artists, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland
The Matchbook Exhibition, Art in General, New York, NY, USA
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