Lyn Carter

Lyn Carter works primarily in sculpture as well as drawing and has exhibited across Canada, the U.S.A., Australia, Britain, Spain, Mexico and China. Her work is represented in a number of permanent collections, among them the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, U.S.A., Cambridge Galleries in Cambridge, Ontario, the AstraZeneca Collection in Mississauga, Ontario, and the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2016 she was invited to exhibit in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China. Her solo exhibition Lyn Carter: 11th Line toured three venues, most recently the Musée d’art de Joliette in Québec in 2018.

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Education

1994 M.F.A., York University, Toronto, Ontario
1978 A.O.C.A., Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario

2024
Grace Note, installation of commissioned permanent sculpture, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario (upcoming)
Grace Note: a work in progress, Molson Gallery, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario (upcoming)

2018
Lyn Carter: 11th Line, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada (solo)
Great and North, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group) (book)
Fall Show, Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry, organized by Resource:Art, Buffalo, NY, USA (group)
Deviating Lines, Anna Kaplan Contemporary, Buffalo, New York, USA (two person)

2017 Lyn Carter: 11th Line, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada  (solo)
Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy  (group) (book)
The Whole Shebang: A Research Project, Cambridge Art Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario (group)

2016
Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China  (group) (c)
Greater Toronto: New Artist Textiles, Fashion and Textile Museum, London, England  (group)
Greater Toronto: New Artist Textiles, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY, USA  (group)
Echo Art Fair/NYC, represented by BT&C Gallery, Highline Loft, New York, NY, USA
Echo Art Fair, Represented by BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Contemporary Textile Collection, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario  (group)

2015/16
Lyn Carter: 11th Line, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)

2015
Anatomica, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (group)

2014
Beguile, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario (two person)
Legacy, David Somers and PAMA's Works on Paper Collection, Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton, Ontario (group)

2013
F’d Up!, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (group) (c)
Bouquet, Public Art Project, Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton, Ontario, Canada (solo)

2012
Cover, 10 Year Survey exhibition – part 2, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario, Canada (solo) (c)
Beacon, Public Art Project, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario (solo)
New Work, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)

2011
Beacon, Public Art Project, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario (solo)
Columna, 10 Year Survey exhibition – part 1, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario (solo) (c)
Moon Circle Void, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2010
New Material World: Rethreading Technology, The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Art School (Dismissed), Site-installations at Shaw Street Public School, Toronto, Ontario (group)
Stretched, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, Canada (solo)

2009
Cusp, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Circular Logic, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, New York, U.S.A., (two person)
Art Textiles of the World: Canada, book launch and exhibition, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (book)

2008
Guangzhou Triennial 08, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (group) (c)
Op Art Revisited, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. (group) (c)
Mixed Messages, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)
The Cutting Edge, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2007
Peak Gallery at ARCO 07 Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (three person) (c)
Beyond/In Western New York 2007, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. (group) (c)
Making and Meaning, Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, Australia (group) (c)
Lyn Carter and Julie Voyce, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (two person)
Peak Gallery at TIAF 07 Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2006
Incognito, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada (solo) (c)
Peak Gallery at TIAF 06 Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2005
Incognito, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (solo) (c)
Incognito, The Koffler Gallery, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo) (c)
New Work, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Peak Gallery at MACO 05 Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico (three person)
Peak Gallery at TIAF 05 Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2004
Preserve, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Ignis Fatuus, Roam Contemporary, New York, New York, U.S.A. (three person)
Decoy, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (two person)
Skin Deep, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (two person) (c)
Peak Gallery at TIAF 04 Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2003
Cheat, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Skin Deep, Stratford Gallery, Ontario, Canada (two person) (c)
Dualities, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (group)
Peak Gallery at TIAF 03 Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2002
Semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (three person) (c)
Skin Deep, The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Cultural Centre, Ontario, Canada (two person) (c)

2001
Exhale, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Balance, KAAI Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Commute, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (group) (c)
Red, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)
Duologue, Case Studies, York Quay Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)

2000
Redrospective, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group) (c)

1999
Balance, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Double, Optica, multidisciplinary room, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (solo)
Surface Tension, Art in General Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A. (group)

1998
Made to Measure, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (three person)
Legato, Galerie Expression, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada (group)

1997
Between Sense and Place, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, England (group) (c)
Botantical Studies, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (two Person)

1996
Le Sympo-Fibre International de Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada (group)

1995-96
Heavy Mental, The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (four person) (c)

1994
Freuds’s Mouth, thesis exhibition, IDA Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Duke-u-menta ‘94, installations in the Duke of Connaught Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Can. (group) (c)

1993
M.F.A. Darlings Do Art, The Darling Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (three person)

1992
Body Troubles, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (solo)
In Illo Tempore, Galerie Expression, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada (two person)
The Fetish Show, Lake Galleries, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group)
Themes of Immanence, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada (group) (c)

1990
Intimité, Galerie Palardy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (three person)

1989
Lyn Carter and Scott Childs, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada (two person)
Coup de coeur, La Cite de l'Image, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (group) (c)
Directions from Historical Sources, Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (group) (c)

1985-87
Elizabeth Dances, performed at:

Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 1987
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A., 1986
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., 1986
Artcite, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1985
The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1985

2018 to present
Artist team: Lyn Carter and Carl Taçon commissioned to create a permanent sculpture for The MacLaren Art Centre, 37 Mulcaster Street, Barrie, Ontario, Canada (commission production in process)

2013
Artist team: Lyn Carter and Carl Taçon winner of an Invitational Public Art Commission for INDX Condominiums, 70 Temperance Street, Toronto, Canada. Commission completed 2017.

2012
One of three artists invited to compete for a Public Art Commission, The Yards, Fort York neighbourhood, Toronto, Canada

1996
Hibrida,a thirteen panel permanent wall work co-commissioned with artist Eva Ennist for the Student Centre Corporation, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

• Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

• Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

• Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

• AstraZeneca Collection, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Gallerie Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: www.ccca.ca/artists/lyn_carter

2012
Canadian Art: http://canadianartschool.ca/artist-video/textile-art-video/

1987
Canadian Art: Elizabeth MacKenzie & Judith Schwarz, “My Name is...I am An Artist”

2016
Out of the Bushes: Contemporary Artists from Central Eastern Canada, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy

2009
Art Textiles of the World: Canada, Telos Art Publishing, England

2017
What is the meaning of Lyn Carter’s Stripes?, essay by Peter Legris, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PDF)

2016
Weaving & We, Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art 2016, Hangzhou, China, numerous essays

2014
Legacy: David Sommers and PAMA’s Works on Paper Collection, Peel Art Gallery, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, essay by Judy Daley
Beguile, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, essay by Carolyn Bell Farrell (PDF)

2011
Material Becomings, Cambridge Galleries and Peel Art Gallery, essay by Corinna Ghaznavi
Art School (Dismissed), Lakeview Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2010
New Material World: Rethreading Technology, The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A., essay by Sharon L. Kennedy

2008
Farewell to Post-Colonialism, The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China, essays by Gao Shiming, Dr. Sarat Maharaj and Chang Tsong-zung
The Cutting Edge, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, essay by Patricia Bentley
Making + Meaning, Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia, essays by Clare Bone (Australia), Karl Chitham (New Zealand), Lesley Jackson (United Kingdom) and Sarah Quinton (Canada)

2007
Beyond In, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A., essays by various writers

2006
Incognito, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta, Koffler Gallery, Toronto and Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, essays by Dr. Sarat Maharaj and Carolyn Bell Farrell

2004
Decoy, Open Studio, Toronto, essay by Carolyn Bell Farrell

2002
Skin Deep, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham and Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, essay by Philip Beesley
Semble, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, essays by Jeanne Randolph and Susan Gibson-Garvey

1997
Between Sense and Place, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, England, essay by Victoria Mitchell

1996
Heavy Mental, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, essay by Philip Monk

1992
Themes of Immanence, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario, essay by Anne West

1990
Intimité, Galerie Frédéric Palardy, Montreal, Quebec, essay by Michel Groleau

1989
Directions: from Historical Sources, Textile Museum of Canada, essay by Helen Duffy

• Johanne Trembley, “Lyn Carter. 11e Rang”, Review and image in Espace, 120, Fall 2018, p.91-92

• Rats de Ville, “Lyn Carter @ MAJ”, Montreal Visual Arts, https://ratsdeville.org/2018/04/06/lyn-carter-maj/

• Fran Schechter and David Jager, Top 10 art shows of 2015, Now Magazine, Toronto, Dec 23, 2015

• Fran Schechter, “Shapely fabrics: Lyn Carter earns her stripes”, Now Magazine, Toronto, Oct 28, 2015

• Jaime Forsythe, “Physical Landscapes”, Visual arts News, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 11, 2015

• Gil McElroy, “Beguile: James Carl & Lyn Carter”, http://blog.sculpture.org/2014/10/08/james-carl-lyn-carter/

• Leah Sandals, "Old School, Cool School", Article and image in Canadian Art, Winter 2010/11, p. 97 -101

• Kent Wolgamott, “New Material World”, Review and image in Lincoln Journal Star, Oct. 9, 10 (Nebraska, USA)

• Gary Michael Dault, “Out of Textiles, a sculpture comes into being”, Review and image in Globe & Mail, Mar. 14, 09

• Tracey Clement, "Firebrands", Review in The Sydney Morning Herald, August 3, 2007 (Australia)

• Julia Dault, “Equal Parts Dr. Seuss and Pure Imagination”, Review and image in National Post, Dec. 1, 2005

• Gary Michael Dault, “Lyn Carter at Peak Gallery”, Review in Globe & Mail, Sept. 24, 2005

• Santiago Espinosa De Los Monteros, "MACO", Review in ArtNexus, #57, Vol. 3, June-August, 2005

• Canadian Art, "Fast Forward, Toronto", Image and notation, Summer 2005, Vol. 22, #2

• Lara Bradley, "Time for Art", Review and Image in The Sudbury Star, July 15,2004

• Wendy Landry, "Looking at Textiles", Image in Arts Atlantic, Spring 2003

• Corinna Ghaznavi, “Lyn Carter, Exhale”, Review and image in Espace, 59, Spring, 2002

• Gary Michael Dault, “Lyn Carter at Red Head”, Review in Globe & Mail, October 14, 2001

• Corinna Ghaznavi, “Redrospective”, Review and image in dʼART International, vol.3 #2, Fall, 2000

• Catherine Osborne, “Arts and Crafts”, Article and image in Lola, vol. #4, Summer, 1999

• Stuart Reid, Review in Lola, vol. #4, Summer, 1999

• Betsy Coulter, Review and image in Lola, vol. #4, Summer, 1999

• Kyo Maclear, Preview and image in Toronto Life, February, 1999

• Gary Michael Dault, “Working at Human Scale”, Review and image in Globe & Mail, August 8, 1998

• Corinna Ghaznavi, “Made to Measure”, Review and image in dʼART International, vol.1 #3, Fall, 1998

• Jenifer Papararo, “Made to Measure”, Review in Lola, vol. #3, Winter, 1998

• Megan Mueller, “City Focus: Toronto”, Review and image in Artnews, Vol.95 #5, May, 1996 (New York)

• John Bentley Mays, “Fetishes, evil toys and oddities”, Review in Globe & Mail, Dec.16, 1995

• Lisa Balfour Bowen, “Playing with the mind”, Review and image in The Toronto Sun, Dec. 17, 1995

• Gary Michael Dault, “Tragically Hip”, Article in Canadian Art, Vol.11 #4, Winter, 1994

• Kate Taylor, “Sculpture and Sampler”, Review in Globe & Mail, September 17, 1993

• Jean Dumont, “En ce temps - là”, Review and image in Le Devoir, March 14, 1992 (Montreal)

• Brenda Newman, “Solo Show”, Review in Montreal Mirror, October 6, 1989 (Montreal)

• Elizabeth MacKenzie & Judith Schwarz, “My Name is...I am An Artist”, Video, 1987

• Gilles Daigneault, “Pilon et Carter. À la Galerie Powerhouse”, Le Devoir, April 25, 1986, (Montreal)

• Lulu Darling Cameron, “Clothing as Image”, Review and image in Detroit Focus Quarterly, June, 1985

• David Livingstone, “Celebrated Occasion”, Review and image in Globe & Mail, June 12, 1984

2011, 08 Canada Council Project Grant

2012, 10, 08, 05, 03, 00, 96, 92 Ontario Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2007 Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade - grant for travel

2007, 99 Canada Council travel grant

2004, 1997 Canada Council Creation/Production Grant - Mid Career

2016, 15, 12, 10, 08, 06, 04, 03, 02, 01 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance grant

1989 Canada Council 'B' grant

1988, 87 Ontario Arts Council project grant

1986 Canada Council project grant

1984, 81 Canada Council short term grant

1981 Banff Centre Scholarship

2017
Artist talk and workshop, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway

2016
Artist talk, York University, Dept. of Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2012
Artist talk, Sheridan College, Dept. of Art and Art History, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

2011
Artist Residency, The Hafnarfjördur Center of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
Artist talk and MFA studio visits, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway

2009
Artist Talk, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2008
Invited to present a project-in-process for the second stop of the 'Moving Symposium' of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Huangshan Workshop held at Huangshan Mountain, China. The curatorial team of the Triennial launched about 15 'Projects-in-Progress' as the debating platform for the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China

2007
Artist talk, Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, Australia
Artist talk, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Artist talk, The Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra, Australia
Artist talk, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Artist talk, Dept. of Art & Art History, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada
Artist talk, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2006
Artist talk, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

2005
Artist talk, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Artist talk, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Artist talk, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2004
Artist talk, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Artist talk, Sheridan College, Dept. of Art and Art History, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

2003
Artist Residency & Artist talk, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2002
Artist talk, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1999
Artist talk, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Artist talk, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1997
Artist talk, Sheridan College, Dept. of Art and Art History, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

1996
Artist talk, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Artist Residency, Invited as one of 10 artists to participate in a month long international residency, as part of Sympo-Fibres International de Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

1994
Artist talk, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Artist talk, Sheridan College, School of Craft and Design, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

1993
Artist talk, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1992
Artist talk. University of Quebec in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1990
Artist talk, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Artist talk, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1989
Artist talk, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1988
Artist talk, Sheridan College, School of Craft and Design, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

1987 & 1981
Artist Residency, Banff Centre of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta

2018
Juror for Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, City Hall Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2016
Juror, Grants to Visual Artists: Senior, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada

2014
Juror for Public Art Commission, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ontario, Canada

2012
Member of Advisory Panel assessing applicants to the Visual Arts Artist-Run Centres and Organizations Operating Grant Program, Ontario Arts Council
Juror for exhibition: Fibreworks, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

2009
Contributor to Printed Project, Issue 11, Farewell to post-colonialism, published by Visual Artists Ireland, curator/editor Sarat Maharaj – launched at the Irish Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennial
Panelist: The Body of Desire: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and the Arts – an interdisciplinary symposium on the complexities of the human body and its relation to desire, University of Toronto

2005
Juror, Grants to Visual Artists: Mid-Career, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada

2004
Solo exhibition Cheat at Peak Gallery nominated for Best Show of the Year, (multi-dimensional category), Steam Whistle Art Awards, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2003
Invited member of the Contemporary Exhibition Committee, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
Panel member, symposium: Who Cares? A Discussion of Traditional Practice Today, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

1986
Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, funded by the Canada Council