TREVOR KIERNANDER

Trevor Kiernander’s works rigorously propose a formal examination of the space of painting and drawing. Through the association and collision of multiple perspectives and the deployment of overlapping technical approaches, Kiernander explores the fundamental duality between background and foreground, and figure/ground relationships as forms per se. Heavily influenced and inspired by music (especially jazz and cut-up, sampled-based hip-hop, house, and techno), the compositions within each painting play rhythmically throughout their own distorted space, which is often void of a horizon or particular points of perspective. The construction of the paintings could be compared to that of counterpoint in music, where elements are independent, yet dependent on each other to create the whole. The image itself, a possible visible result of Musique Concrète or electroacoustics: the crafting of sonic environments to enhance emotions.

Born: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Resides: Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal 

Education

2009
Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK MFA, Art Practice                  

2006    
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada BFA w/ Distinction, Major Painting & Drawing

2000    
Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada Interpretive Illustration Diploma

Collections

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (CPOA)
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Loto-Québec
Mouvement Desjardins
Toronto Dominion Bank
Concordia University
Université de Sherbrooke
Conseil des arts de Montréal
FIFA (Festival International du Film sur l’Art)
Orford Centre for the Arts
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Collection Luc LaRochelle
Courchesne Larose Ltd
EROS
Parisian Laundry
Stanley Mills Collection
TCGO Inc.
Tilquin Collection

Various private collections in Canada, USA, UK, Russia and Europe

Solo Exhibitions

2023      
Art Mûr, "Oceans Were Taller in Other Dimensions", Montreal, Canada

2020      
Art Mûr, "Let’s Get Lost", Montreal, Canada

2019      
Galerie d'art d'Outremont, “Are We Here?”, Montreal, Canada

2018      
Maison de la culture NDG, "In Free Fall", Montreal, Canada
Art Mûr, "Bound and Boundless", Berlin, Germany

2017      
Maison des arts de Laval (foyer) "Désorientation", Laval, Canada

2016      
Art Mûr, "Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place", Montreal, Canada
McClure Gallery,"Event Horizon: This Must Be The Place", Montreal, Canada

2014    
Art Mûr, "Uncommon Ground", Montreal, Canada

2013    
Vitrine, “Fallen”, London, UK

2012    
Art Mûr, "Here. Not Here.", Montreal, Canada

2010    
The Woodmill, "Project:Space", London, UK
Art Mûr, "To Build A Home", Montreal, Canada
Bearspace, "Trade Skins", London, UK

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Group Exhibitions

2022
Rhythmus Zu Hause, Schkeuditz, Leipzig, Germany
Autumn Rundgang, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Image Fétiche, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
Man kann es drehen und wenden wie man will, Sunnybrook Art Centre, Göhrenz, Germany
[E]spaces w/ Lucie Bitunjac, Centre Cultural Georges Vanier, Montreal, Canada

2021   
Art Mûr, "Terra Nova", Montreal, Canada

2019     
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Couleurs Manifestes, Sherbrooke, Canada
Spinnerei, Autumn Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany
Spinnerei, LIA Open Studios, Leipzig, Germany
APT Gallery, Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony!, London, UK

2018
Galerie Michel Guimont, Quebec City, Canada
Atlas House, Ipswich Biennale, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Art Mûr, "Grâce du dessin", Montreal, Canada
Spinnerei Werkschau, "Sediments", Leipzig, Germany
LIA Spinnerei, Winter Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany

2017
LIA Spinnerei, Open Studios, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Michel Guimont, Off-Manif, Quebec City, Canada

2016     
Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, "Sightings 17: The Time of Work", Montreal, Canada

2015     
The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museu, "The Open West", Cheltenham, UK

2014
HUSK, "Teleology", London, UK
L’Blassa, “BAB//\\DAR”, in collaboration w/ Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
Le 18, “Here & Now - Sound Matters”, Marrakech, Morocco

2013
St James Hatcham Goldsmiths, "Post Post", London, UK
Maria Stenfors Gallery, "Endogenous II", London, UK
Southbank Centre, “My Deptford: 8 Minutes From Here”, London, UK
Enclave, “Feedback”, London, UK
Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, “Héritage de Borduas”, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada
Departure Foundation, “Satelike”, London, UK
CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York, USA
Jotta, Battersea Evolution, “An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World”, London

2012
Contact, “Location Relative”, Manchester, UK
Deptford X, “Bringing Home The Art”, London, UK
Bussey Building, “For Display Purposes Only”, London, UK
London Art Fair, "Art Projects w/ Axis", London, UK

2011
Kunstverein Speyer, "So Here We Are", Speyer, Germany
Central House Of Artists, "TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE", Moscow, Russia
Art Mur, "Question De Principe, Matter Of Principle", Montreal, Canada
The Woodmill, "S.A.G.S.", London, UK
The Woodmill, "Nicolas Party: Elephants at the Woodmill", London, UK
38b Peckham Rye, "I Have No Use For The Truth", London, UK
Collective Show Los Angeles w/ LA Pedestrians Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2010
Vulpes Vulpes, "Heliotrope", London, UK
ShopAt34, “Say What What Way”, London, UK
BEARSPACE, “Print Now II”, London, UK
The Woodmill “The Devil’s Necktie”, London, UK

Art Fairs

2020
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2019
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Positions, Berlin, Germany
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2018
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Drawing Now, Paris, France
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2017
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2016   
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2015
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2014
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Papier, Montréal, Canada

2013
CART @ Armory Week: Dream Baby, New York City, USA
Jotta, Battersea Evolution, An Undelivered Postcard From The Edge Of The World, London, UK

2012    
London Art Fair, Art Projects w/ Axis, London, UK

2011    
Central House Of Artists, TRANSLATE / TRANSCRIBE, Moscow, Russia

2010    
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Residencies, Awards, Distinctions

2020     
Canada Council for the Arts, Research & Creation Grant, Canada
Conseil des arts de Montreal, Recherche ou Création / production, Montreal, Canada

2019     
Canada Council for the Arts, Artist Abroad: Residencies Grant, Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Travel Grant, Canada
LIA Leipzig International Artist Programme Residency, Leipzig, Germany

2018    
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant, Canada

2017    
LIA Leipzig International Artist Programme Residency, Leipzig Germany
Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Vermont, USA
Merit-based Artist Grant ($1700USD) Vermont Studio Centre Residency, Vermont, USA

2014    
MINT Collective Residency, Riad Biba, Marrakech, Morocco

2013    
PEER Residency w/ Merike Estna, London, UK

2010    
John Moores Contemporary Painting 2010 (short list), London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 (short list), London, UK
Woodmill Travel Grant, London, UK

2007    
RBC Painting Competition (short list): Eastern Division, Canada

Bibliography

5 December 2020, “Trevor Kiernander : expressif et rayonnant” by Éric Clément, La Presse (Canada) https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2020-12-05/galerie-art-mur/trevor-kiernander-expressif-et-rayonnant.php

Winter 2020/21, “Pictura: Pleins feux sur la peinture montréalaise”, by Marie-Anne Letarte, L’Inconvenient Magazine - no 83 (Canada)

7 November 2020, “Montréal, ville-peinture avec «Pictura»” by Jérôme Delgado, Le Devoir (Canada) https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/589201/arts-visuels-montreal-ville-peinture-avec-pictura

Summer 2020, “Loin des yeux, près du cœur” by Marie-Anne Letarte, L’Inconvenient Magazine - no 81 (Canada)

September 2019, “Trevor Kiernander. Crossovers” by Edwin Janzen, Border Crossings Magazine (Canada) 151
https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/trevor-kiernander?fbclid=IwAR1QPqOrIFa7A97rH3rrL6rz2Td1g9CEv_tSlVugpZiY0KVGjylh4xsag04

January 2019, “In Free Fall,” by Benjamin Klein, Vie des Arts (Canada) 253 (Winter. 2019) 
https://viedesarts.com/visites/trevor-kiernander-in-free-fall/

3 February 2018, “La Fibre Internationale D’art Mûr,” by Éric Clément, La Presse
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201802/05/01-5152721-la-fibre-internationale-dart-mur.php

13 Jauary 2018, “Trevor Kiernander. Bound and Boundless,” by Anais Castro, Wall Street International https://wsimag.com/art/35109-trevor-kiernander

14 September 2016, “Regard double en parallèle: Les paysages composites de Trevor Kiernander” by Christian Roy, Vie des Arts
http://viedesarts.com/article1013-Les-paysages-composites-de-Trevor-Kiernander

21 August 2014, "Visual Interview", by Michael Valinsky, The Wild Magazine http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/visual-interview-trevor-kiernander/

27 November 2013, The Learned Pig, by Crystal Bennes,
http://www.thelearnedpig.org/trevor-kiernander/601

6 November 2013, Interview by Susie Pentelow, Traction Magazine  
http://tractionmagazine.co.uk/post/66180462852/trevor-kiernander

23 March 2013, “Trevor Kiernander. Fallen: A conversation with the Canadian artist Trevor Kiernander”, Wall Street International http://wsimag.com/art/3273-trevor-kiernander-fallen

21 October 2011, “Art Moscow 2011: A Round Up (Video), Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/constantin-bjerke/art-moscow-2011-roundup-v_b_1023477.html

31 December 2010, “Arts visuels - De l'intime jusqu'à la peinture extreme”, by Jerome
Delgado, Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada

Summer 2010, “TREVOR KIERNANDER: La construction d’un monde pictural”, by Christian
Roy, Cover Story, Vie Des Arts Magazine, Canada (No. 219) 
http://viedesarts.com/article1014-Trevor-Kiernander-La-construction-d-un-monde-pictural

June 12 2010 “Roots Of Home Reveal Where The Heart Lives” by Lori Callaghan, Montreal Gazette, Canada
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Roots+home+reveal+where+heart+lives/3145656/story.html#ixzz0qm75Px90

June 5 2010 “Le chaos raffiné de Kiernander” by Jerome Delgado, Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/290264/le-chaos-raffine-de-kiernander

Apr 2010 “Goldsmiths – But Is It Art” documentary by Magnus Temple & Emma Tutty, Dragonfly and BBC Four

Publications

Dec 2020, “Pictura: Painting… In Montreal’s Image”, by Trevor Kiernander, Benjamin Klein, and Ian Gonczarow, Montreal, Canada,
Oct 2020, “Let’s Get Lost”, by Mylène Lachance-Paquin, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada,
Oct 2020, “Let’s Get Lost”, by Andrea Valentine-Lewis, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada,
Jan 2018, “Bound and Boundless”, by Anais Castro, Art Mûr, Berlin, Germany,
Sep 2016 “Event Horizon: This Must be the Place”, by Benjamin Klein & R. Travis, McClure, Montréa, Canada
Sep 2016 “Event Horizon: This Must be the Place”, by Stephanie Locas & R. Travis, Art Mûr, Montréal ,Canada
Sep 2014 "Uncommon Ground." by Tom Trevatt & Catherine Barnabé, Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
Mar 2013 “The Nomadic Studio.” by Michael Heilgemeir, Edition Taube, London, UK
Apr 2012 “Trevor Kiernander: Here. Not Here.” by Dominique Allard, Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
Apr 2012 “Meditations In An Emergency” by Cameron Skene, Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
Sep 2011“Translate/Transcribe” by Ian Gonczarow, Moscow, Russia
Sep 2011“So Here We Are” by Sandra Erbahcer, Speyer, Germany
May 2010 “To Build A Home” by Catherine Barnabe & Sarah Wilkinson, Art Mur, Montreal Canada
Nov 2008 "Carte Blanche 2" – Painting Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Jul 2007 “Relative Detachements”: Lyne Crevier, Katey Apsey, Art Mur, Montreal, QC