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DAVID BIERK
Born in Appleton, Minnesota, 1944EDUCATION
M.F.A. Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
B.A. Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001-2002 "Representing Representation V," Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
2001 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia2002-2002 "after History, The Paintings of David Bierk,"
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga
Las Vegas Art Museum, Nevada
"Selected Histories," Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Telfair Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, traveling to Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Indiana, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Las Vegas Art Museum, Nevada, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah2000 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver1999 Associated American Artists, New York
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal1998 Associated American Artists, New York
Fassbender Gallery, ChicagoFassbender Gallery, Chicago
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Meredith Long & Company, Houston
Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa
Galerie l'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa1997 Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Justine M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, New York
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver1996 Associated American Artists, New York
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Leedy-Voulkos Galleries, Kansas City, Missouri
Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie l'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa1995 Associated American Artists, New York
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Russell Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Vancouver
Jan Baum Gallery (L.A. International), Los Angeles1994 Erickson and Ellins Fine Art, San Francisco
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver1993 Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas
Galerie l'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio1992 Arts Court Gallery, Ottawa
Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
Russell Gallery, Lindsay, Ontario
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Barclay Simpson Fine Arts Gallery, Lafayette, California1991 Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Struve Gallery, Chicago
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario1990 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Arts Sutton, Sutton, Quebec
Felicita Foundation, San Diego
Robert Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis
Wynick/Tuck Gallery (small gallery), Toronto
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles1989 Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco1998 Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
"Painted Photomontages," Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London1987 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angles
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1981-83 "David Bierk: Ten Years," Peterborough and traveling: Lindsay, Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Stratford, Sudbury
1975-76 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto
1975 McKenzie Gallery, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
St. Lawrence College Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 "Real(ist) Men," Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
2001-2002 "Winter Orchidarium," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2001 "The Body Project," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"Many Moons," Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, Salem, New York2000 "The Creative Surround: The Framed Image," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"Objects of Desire II," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"Re-Presenting Representation IV," Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
"The Still Life Show," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
"Contemporary Landscape," Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal1999 "The Art of Landscape," Adam Whitney Gallery, Omaha
"Deja Vu: Reworking the Past," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
"Glass: A Celebration,"Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"In Camera," Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
"La Figure Humaine," Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
"Landscape and Memory," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
"19th and 20th Century American Still-Life Painting," Meredith Long & Company, Houston
"Second Annual Realism Invitation," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
"The SINGLE Tree," London Regionnal Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario
"Tempus Fugit," Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
"The Splendor of Color," Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas
"What Goes Around Comes Around," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
"Elements of Landscape," Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California1998 "Coast to Coast 1," M D Modern, Houston
"Grand Opening Celebration Exhibition," Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
"The Magic of Venice," Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas
"New Realism for a New Millennium," Memorial Art Museum, Rochester, New York
"Objects of Desire," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"The Still-Life Show," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
"Summer Pleasures," Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas
"Land, Light and Metaphor," Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, New York1997-1999
"Making the Figure," Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
"New Horizons," Meredith Long & Company, Houston
"On Paper," Associated American Artists, New York
"The Painters Newfoundland," Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland
"Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American Landscape," South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Indiana
"The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art," Art Gallery of North York, Ontario
"Before the Lane, Behind the Camera," Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, traveling to Galerie d'Art de Sudbury, Ontario; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary; Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick; Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario1997 "Figured," Associated American Artists, New York
"Romanticism and Contemporary Landscape," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California1996-1997 "Before the Land, Behind the Camera," Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
"Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties," Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville1996 "Health, Happiness and Wholeness in Twentieth Century Art," New York Academy of Sciences, New York; Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghampton, New York
"The Middle Show," Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto1995-96 "Re/Grouping A Living Legacy," McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
"Up North, Down South, Back East and Out West," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
1995 "The Constructed Landscape," Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
"Impure Painting," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles1994-95 "Hidden Values: Contemporary Art in Corporate Collections," McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
"Informal Ideas: 95.4 (reflect)," Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
"Nature Studies," University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The New Landscape," Associated American Artists, New York
"New Landscapes," Pfizer, Inc., New York (MoMA extension)
"Sum and Substance," Associated American Artists, New York
1993 "An American Renaissance," The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
"Approaching the 21st Century," Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, North York, Ontario1992 "Holiday Exhibition," Leedy Voulkos Galleries, Kansas City, Missouri
"A Gallery Retrospective," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
"Highlights," Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky
"Landscapes I/Paysages I," Galerie l'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa
"Nature Mor(t)e," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
"Where is Here?," Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario
"New Landscape," The Gallery Three Zero, New York1991 "The Big Picture," Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
"The Purloined Image," Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan
"Quotations," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco
"Contemporary Landscape," Met Life Gallery, New York1990 "Contemporary Landscape," ABC Television Inc., New York (MoMA Extension exhibition)
"Critical Revisions," Bess Cutler Gallery, New York1989 "Contemporary Landscape: New Perspectives," Hearst Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California
"Horizons," Pfizer, New York (MoMA Extension Exhibition)
"Photomontage/Photocollage: The Changing Picture 1920-1989," Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles1988 Gallery 101, Ottawa
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London1987 "David Bierk, Malcolm Rains and Jeffrey Spalding," Diane Farris Gallery; Vancouver
"Landscape Anthology," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
"Life Stories: Myth, Fiction and History in Contemporary Art," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Wunick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
"David Bierk and Jeffrey Spalding," North Bay Arts Centre, North Bay, Ontario
"The Current Landscape," Felicita Foundation, San Diego
"Nature Redefined: A Cultural Perspective," Peizo Electric Gallery, New York; Segal Steinberg, Montreal
"Painting," Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
SELECTED PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Banana Republic, Inc., San Francisco; New York
Bank of America, Toronto
Becton Dickinson Corporation, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Brampton Art Gallery, Brampton, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Canadian Postal Museum, Ottawa
Canadore College, North Bay, Ontario
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Central Guaranty Trust, Toronto
The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Department Of External Affairs, Ottawa
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta
Four Seasons Hotels Ltd., Toronto
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong
The Granite Club, Toronto
Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Health Net, Woodland Hills, California
Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago
Intercontinental Hotels, Toronto
Intrawest Corporation, Vancouver
Jones Howard Investments Management, Montreal
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto
McDermott, Will and Emery, Chicago
Metropolitan Life, New York
Microsoft, Seattle
National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa
Nova Corporation, Calgary
NTT, Tokyo
NYNEX, White Plains, New York
Olympia & York Developments, Ltd., Toronto
Pacific Motion Pictures, Vancouver
City of Peterborough, Ontario
Petro-Canada, Calgary, Alberta
Power Corporation, Montreal
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, Ohio
Prudential-Bache, New York
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Redpath Mining Associates, North Bay, Ontario
RJR Nabisco, New York
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Scotiabank Group Fine Art Collection, Toronto
Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
Steinberg, ltd., Montreal
Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto
Touche, Ross & Co., Los Angeles
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Les Trois Marches, Versailles, France
U.S. Trust Corporation, New York
UBS Canada, Toronto
United Missouri Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
Vincor, Toronto
W.R. Grace Inc., New York
AWARDS
1992 Honorable Mention, Album Cover of the Year, Rolling Stone Magazine Annual Music Awards
1991 Best Album Cover of the Year, RAW Magazine
1981 Canada Council Artist-in-Residence, St. Catharines, Ontario
1980-81 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Poster Design, First Prize
1980 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Catalogue Design, First Prize
1979-80 Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Best Overall Gallery Image, First Prize
1979 Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Newsletter Design, First Prize
Canada Council Artist-in-Residence, North Bay, Ontario1978 Canada Council Short Term Grant
1974, 1986, 1987 Canada Council Project Grant
1975, 1983, 1985 Canada Council "B" Grant
COMMISSIONS
Atlantic Records, New York (album cover and design)
Billingsley Company, Dallas
Canada Post Corporation, Ottawa (postage stamp design)
Canadore College, North Bay, Ontario
Delta Hotel, Vancouver
Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Inc., Chicago
I.O.D.E., Peterborough, Ontario
Intrawest Corporation, Vancouver
Music Gallery, Toronto
NTT, Tokyo
Government of Ontario, Ministry of Health, Kingston, Ontario
Government of Ontario, Ministry of Revenue, Ottawa
Princess Hotels Ltd., Scottsdale, Arizona
Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Los Angeles
RJR Nabisco, New York
Saks Fifth Avenue, Charleston, North Carolina
Sheraton Grande Hotel, Los Angeles
Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
Star Canyon Restaurant, Dallas
Stitzel Company, San Francisco
U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.
USA Group, Indianapolis
Watergate Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Wedgewood Hotel, Vancouver
Windsor Arms Hotel, Toronto
Wood Gundy at Park Place, Vancouver
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