GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Reunion: Potters From The Time Of Bernard Leach”, showed 11 works (pots with photos), Leach Pottery Museum, St Ives, Cornwall
2017 “Nature’s Way”, exhibited 3 works (pots with photos of Storm Bay), Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto
2017 “AlterNation”, an exhibition from the permanent collection, marking the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Kamloops Art Gallery
2017 “#GGArts 2017”, Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery
2016-17 “Vancouver Special: Ambiguous Pleasures”, exhibited 9 works (ceramics and photographs from 2015 Franc Gallery exhibition
2016-17 “Kitchen Midden”, An exhibition of Vancouver artists’ collections, curated by Gareth Moore and Anne Low, Griffin Gallery, N. Vancouver
2015 exhibition of same artists’ work who were part of the book, a reprint of B.C. Almanac(h)C-B, Lewis exhibited a photograph of an early collage work,
Presentation House, North Vancouver
2015 “from the collection: The Poetics of Space”, showing of video Blue Tape Around City Block, 1969, Vancouver Art Gallery
2014 “Get Hold of This Space : A Geography of Conceptual Art in Canada”, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris. A selection from “Continental Drift” 2013
2013-14 “Archiving”, 5 works shown, Trench Gallery, Vancouver
2013 “Special Collection Acquisitions and Archives”, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, catalogue
2013 “Background/ThisPlace/Vancouver”, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
2013 “Full Frontal”, texts and photographs of ‘Artifact’, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver
2013 “Continental Drift”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, a selection from “Traffic – Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980” exhibition (see 2010-
2012 details below)
2012- 2013 “Wild New Territories” project, exhibited video and photographs, London, Vancouver, Berlin
2012 “Immaterial; Pictorial Sensibility”, 8-person exhibition, showed 12 serigraphs ‘Sponge Step Alphabet”, 1387 Richards St., Vancouver
2012 “Again and Again and Again…Repetitive Actions and Serial Formats”, Artifact” ceramic mural from 1969, Vancouver Art Gallery
2011 “We Give a Shit Because We Care”, showed “No Shit” photo collage with text, book produced under same name, Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2011 “Mobilicity”, exhibited a series of small box sculptures, Trench Gallery, Vancouver
2011 “from the collection Unreal”, showed 3 sculptures from 1968, Vancouver Art Gallery
2010 “Recipes for an Encounter”, exhibited, “Japanese Pickle”, 1969 video, Dorsky Gallery / Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY, curators: Berin Golonu & Candice Hopkins, small catalogue
2010 -2012 “Traffic – Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980”, exhibited film installations (on DVD) “Blue Tape Around a City Block” 1969, and “Forest Industry” 1970, organized by Barbara Fischer, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, opening at University and Public Galleries, Toronto in Sept/2010, traveling to Halifax, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Leornard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue
2010 “to show, to give, to make it be there Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954 -1969”, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, curator, Michael Turner, small catalogue
2009 “Ruins in Process”, www.vancouverartinthesixties.com A website as exhibition on the art in Vancouver during the 60’s and 70’s, a collaborative project from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC and Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Exhibition, “The Performed Object: Against a Pathetic Fallacy”, part of LIVE 2007 Performance Art Biennale
2005-06 Exhibition: “Intertidal Vancouver Art & Artists”, main exhibition of new work by Vancouver artists, and a historical archive exhibition with another group of Vancouver artists, including Lewis’ “Blue Tape Around a City Block”, 1968, 16mm film on DVD, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium,
curators: Dieter Roelstrete and Scott Watson, catalogue, pp205
2004 “Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics”, a large historical exhibition regarding the influence of Leach with over 600 works from about 14 artists, Selected by Matthew Higgs as one of the Top 10 shows of 2004 (Artforum International), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver. Book, 304pp, ed. Scott Watson, Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of “Making Art Ordinary” and photographs
2004 Video exhibition, “Eternal Network – Videos From the Western Front Archives 1973 – 2001”, to be screened at Videographe, Montreal; Pool, Winnipeg; Western Front, Vancouver and at a number of locations internationally, G. Lewis tape “New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver at the Blue Horizon” was and Japanese
‘Test Kitchen’, showed video tape “Chinese Rice Garden”, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
2002 “New Media, Vancouver Art from the Sixties and Seventies”, Gallery at Ceperley House, City of Burnaby. Curated exhibition
2001 Designed a playing card for grunt gallery, Vancouver, fund-raising project, “Playing With a Full deck”
2000 Showed a photo of Marilyn Monroe in exhibition, ‘Canoes: The Shape of Success’, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa
2000 ‘The Problem of Nature’, in exhibition, ‘Utopiary’, Burnaby Art Gallery
1999 – 2000 Designed a set of plates for the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, exhibited on Robson St. and Canadian Craft Museum
1999 “Out of This Century”, Sixties Section, curated by Douglas Coupland, Vancouver Art Gallery
1999 “Making it New, The Big Sixties Show”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, catalogue, showed live cow
1999 “Last Tangle in Paris” mailing invitation for “Canada Trajectoires” 1973 included in Ray Johnson exhibition, curated by Michael Morris and Sharla Sava, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, U.B.C., Vancouver
1998 “Home Base”, Kamloops Art Gallery
1997 “From the Collection: Gardens”, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
1996 “Transient Moments: Vancouver and the Performance Photograph, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, lent photographs
1996 “The Culture of Nature”, Kamloops Art Gallery, exhibited photographs of Marilyn Monroe
1996 Exhibition of recent acquisitions, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, U.B.C., Vancouver, exhibited print “Tying up the Critics”, 1972
1996 An exhibition of ceramics from the Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa Karsh-Masson Gallery, included a sculpture
1995 “Managing: documents 1967-1974″, Art Metropole, Toronto
1995 ‘World Tea Party”, curated by Brian Mulvihill, Daniel Dion and Su Schnee, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, contributed objects to exhibition
1995 “Vancouver 1965-1975: Context and Influences”, Vancouver Art Gallery, included 3 sculptures
1995 “The Intermedia Society”, an exhibition at Art Metropole, Toronto
1994 “64 – 94 Contemporary Decades”, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, inaugural exhibition celebrating opening of new facilities. Catalogue
1993 Group exhibition, Prior Editions, Vancouver. Exhibited edition of 6 Marilyn Monroe photographs published by Prior Editions. Also shown at Los Angeles Art Fair and Seattle Art Fair
1993 “Vancouver Drawing: Working Documents”, Artspeak, Vancouver. Exhibited 2 collaborations with Zainub Verjee and Brice MacNeil
1993 “50/50”, a benefit exhibition sale, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1992 “The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop”, an exhibition of the prints produced at the Screen Shop in Winnipeg run by Bill Lobchuck from 1968 to 1987, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina. Catalogue
1991 “Private Addresses”, on-site exhibition of installations at various locations in Vancouver, Lewis produced “Application of Development”. A butterfly garden with a ‘development’ sign, Association of Noncommercial Culture
1987 “From Sea to Shining Sea”, Power Plant, Harbourfront Toronto. Exhibited large marble sculpture ‘Classical Toy Boat’. Catalogue (Edited B.C. section)
1987 “The Influence of Bernard Leach”, Pro Art, St. Louis, Mo. Catalogue
1986 “Dog Days”, Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver
1986 “Making History – Recent Art of the Pacific West”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1983 “Western Front Archaeology”, Western Front, Vancouver
1983 “Museums by Artists”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal. Book
1983 “Art in Vancouver 1931 – 1983”, Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue
1983 “October Show”, wharehouse on Hamilton St., Vancouver. Catalogue
1983 “The Growth Years”, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
1983 “New Works in Holography”, A Space, Toronto
1983 “The Great Western Canadian Screen Shop – A Fifteen Year Survey 1968 – 1983”, Gallery 1.1.1., School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
1983 Photographic works, Shell Gallery, Calgary
1983 “Western Front Exhibition”, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart
1983 “Artworks in the Gardens”, “Four Direction to Locate the Centre”, Royal Botanical Gardens, Art Gallery of Greater Hamilton
1982 “True Dough Rococco”, London Art Gallery, London, ON
1981 “Paper Works”, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver
1981 Garden Photographs and texts, International Federation of Landscape Architects congress, U.B.C., Vancouver
1980 – 1983 “Paradise/Le Paradis”, Photo Gallery, National Film Board, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Peterborough; Canada House Gallery, London, England; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, N.B.; Mount St.Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris. Catalogue
1980 International Mail Art Exhibition, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
1980 Video screening of “We All Sing the Same Song” in exhibition of Canadian video tapes, Sony Tower Building, Osaka; Zebra House, Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan
1980 33 prints, “Survival Paradise” in international exhibition, “Architectural References”, Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue
1980 Installation “Pairidaeza” in international exhibition, “Yesterday and After / Hier et Apres”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue
1979 – 1981 “Art and Correspondence from the Western Front”, Vehicule, Montreal; Confereration Art Centre, Charlottetown; Dalhousie University Art Gallery,
Halifax; A Space Gallery, Toronto; Art Gallery of Greater Hamilton; Nickel Art Museum, Calgary; Open Space Gallery, Victoria. Catalogue
1979 Video screening, “We All Sing the Same Song”, Video Free America, San Francisco
1979 Rubber Stamp Exhibition, Apropos Gallery, Luzen, Switzerland
1979 International Postal Art Exhibition, Center/Gallery, Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A.
1979 Mail art exhibition and book, Studio 46 Piergiorgio Firinu, Torino, Italy
1978 – 1979 “Other Realities – The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art”, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Ont.; Canada House Gallery, London, England; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France.
1978 Video screening of “We All Sing the Same Song”, Fifth Network Video Conference, Toronto
1978 Malaspina Print Exhibition, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1978 “The Human Image”, The Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver 1978 Video screening of “We All Sing the Same Song” at “Input, First International Public Television Screening Conference”, Milan, Italy
1978 “Rolling Landscape Show”, T.T.C. Subway car no. 5780, Nightingale Arts Council, Toronto
1977 Western Front group show, Open Space, Victoria
1977 Western Front/Pumps exchange exhibition, Pumps, Vancouver
1977 Vancouver Art Gallery Extension Dept. B.C. travelling exhibition from the civic collection
1976 “West Coast Waves”, Winnipeg Art Gallery
1976 “Celebration of the Body”, organized by the N.E. Thing Co., Agnes Ethrington Art Centre, Kingston, ON
1976 “The Last Correspondence Show”. California State University Art Dept., Sacramento, CA
1976 “Canadada Postcards”, University of Manitoba Gallery, Winnipeg
1976 “Bated Breath”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C., Vancouver.
1976 “International Postcard Show”, Arizona State University Art Dept. Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
1975 “B.C. Sculptors”, Vancouver Art Gallery travelling exhibition
1975 “A Pictorial History of the World”, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute
1975 “Current Energies – British Columbia 75”, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1975 “Chairs”, Art Gallery of Ontario
1974 “Open Encounter on Video”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England and Place Cardin, Paris
1974 Image Bank postcard show, and/or Gallery, Seattle
1974 “Project 74”, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany. Video screening of “Hollywood Decca Dance”
1974 “Artists of the Stamps”, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Vancouver
1974 “Background Vancouver”, collaborative photographic project with Gerry Gilbert Taki Bluesinger, Michael de Courcy and Glenn Lewis 10’ x 13’ mural on mapping Vancouver with 260 photos, taken 1972, Vancouver Art Gallery
1974 “Surfacing on the Subliminal”, Western Front, Vancouver. Exhibition of material from Hollywood Decca Dance
1973 “Traces”, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.
1973 “Canada Trajectoires 73”, Musee moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France. Exhibited N.Y. Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver material from correspondence art event. Catalogue
1972 “Art Probe”, Vancouver Art Gallery. Exhibited books of material from New Era Social Club
1971 “Image Bank Postcard Show”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C., Vancouver. One card and two others in collaboration with Michael Morris.
1970 “B.C. Almanack”, National Film Board, Ottawa. Book
1970 “Realisms”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (collaboration with Michael Morris). Exhibited live cow
1970 “Art in the Mind”, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
1970 “Intermedia Exhibition and 9 Evenings of Performances”, Vancouver Art Gallery.
1969 “Intermedia Sculpture Exhibition”, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1969 “New Art of Vancouver 1969”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, California; Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara. Catalogue
1969 “Intermedia Exhibition – Electrical Connection”, Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue
1969 “Six Man Show”, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver
1969 “Across the Border”, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1968 “Younger Vancouver Sculptors”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C., Vancouver
1968 “Younger Vancouver Cross Section 68”, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Catalogue
1968 “Winnipeg Annual”, Winnipeg Art Gallery
1968 “Canadian Artists 68”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Catalogue
1968 “Spectrum 68”, Vancouver Art Gallery.
1967 “B.C. 67”, Vancouver Art Gallery
1967 “Vancouver 5”, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.
1967 “Perspective 67”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1967 “Joy and Celebration”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C., Vancouver. Catalogue
1967 “Birth and Rebirth of Objects”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of B.C., Vancouver
1967 “Canadian Fine Crafts” Canadian Pavilion, Expo 67, Montreal. Catalogue
1966 – 67 “Crafts”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa