Introducción
A Toronto-based visual artist working primarily in Painting, Installation and Performance. Brown embraces a low carbon footprint approach to art making and in so doing plays with contemporary ideas about excessive consumption in North America. By opting for abandoned materials indigenous to the area he is working, Brown comments on the culture, use and make up of public space.
Since 2005 Michael’s environmental installations/projects have raised questions about the value we place on our architecture and history. Through his environmental projects and their use of natural materials and processes Brown seeks to challenge the traditional definitions of urban and rural areas.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and in public spaces across Canada, South America and Mexico.
Michael Brown’s work has been generously supported by the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 To Go Foodbar, Cars buried in a snowstorm: New mixed media works Mar 14 – April 25
2008 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Grind, June 11 – 22, Toronto
2007 City of Toronto Archives 2000 Bricks: Remnants of Toronto’s Lost Architecture, Installation in conjunction with Doors Open Toronto 2007
2005 Shift Gallery, North: 43° 38’ 45”, West: 79° 24’ 25”, Toronto
2003 Vesuvios, Casas, Junction Arts Festival, Toronto
Selected Two person Exhibitions
2009 CONTACT at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, “Crossing Toronto by Canoe”, May 11 – 24 with Frances Patella
2002 Lorimer Gallery, with photographer Vince Pietropaolo, Junction Arts Festival, September 2002
Juried Exhibitions
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Mexico City, ArtDealers Gallery
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, TDSB Teachers
2012 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, TDSB Teachers
2011 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Nuit Blanche
Design Hope Fundraiser, Toronto
2010 IN SITU Art for Commuters, Toronto Animated Image Society and Onestop Media
Group present 1 minute animations on TTC subway platforms.
Design Hope Fundraiser, Toronto
2009 Toronto Artist Project, Toronto
2008 DeLeon White Gallery, Ecotecture, June/July
Framework Foundation, Toronto Timeraiser, Distillery District
2007 Gallery 1313, Alter Toronto: Latino Canadian Cultural Association, collaboration with Adeyemi Adegbesan
2006 Toronto International Art Fair, Martin Kletzel Gallery, Buenos Aires
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
Toronto Free Gallery, Vacant Lots
2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
2004 J.B. Aird Gallery, OSA 130th Juried Exhibition, Worship
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Arta Gallery, Holiday Exhibition, Toronto
2011 Arta Gallery, Holiday Exhibition, Toronto
2010 Arta Gallery, Thinking about Art, Toronto
2008 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Nuit Blanche
Hot House Café, Ways of Seeing|Modos de ver, performance with Ana Silva as part of Latino Canadian Cultural Association night of performance.
2007 Red Head Gallery, Insomnia, Nuit Blanche Event
Off the Map Gallery, Identity: performance with Ana Silva as part of Latino
Canadian Cultural Association’s Latin-Afro Fest
Hart House, University of Toronto, the City: TLR Club
Harbourfront Centre, LOVE exhibit, curated by Lonsdale Gallery
Galerie St. Ambroise, Montreal
2006 AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
CONTACT photography exhibit at the Supermarket, Toronto
2005 Shift Gallery, Conversation Generator, Toronto
Project Spaceman, Square Foot IV, Brooklyn
Blvd Interiors, Toronto Artsweek
Alley Jaunt, Nightshift Collective, Trinity Bellwoods Park
AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
Eastern Front Gallery, Massive Response, Toronto
2004 Lonsdale Gallery, Love, Toronto
2003 Shift Gallery, Winter Shift, Toronto
Lonsdale Gallery, Love, Toronto
AWOL Gallery, Square Foot, Toronto
Strutts Gallery, Mail Art, Sackville New Brunswick
Lula Lounge, Exhibición Hispana-Canadiense, Toronto
Gallery 1313, Twenty-nine days to the curb, Toronto
Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, Millennium Art Auction, Toronto
2002 Art System, White Out 4, Toronto
Trinity College Art Show, University of Toronto
Access Artist Run Centre, Con/Quest, Vancouver
2001 Casa de Cultura La Recoleta, Arte y Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art System, Magnum Specataculum Monstruosum, Toronto
1999 Lattitude 53 Gallery, “Spontaneous Compulsion”, Edmonton, Alberta. Collaboration with Australian Photographer Kate Hudson
1998 Digame, Cuba Documentary Film. Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival Library, 1999
Awards
2007 Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant recipient
2005 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant recipient
2003 Second Prize Painting, Millennium Art Auction, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery
2002 Toronto Arts Council Arts in the Community Grant with Harbourfront Community Centre
Selected Reviews
2012 Canadian House and Home, February 2012
2010 Design Hope Toronto, Vol 5, November 2010
2009 Urban Canoe Trip, Toronto Star Art Blog, Murray Whyte, May 2009
2008 Urban Canoe Trip, Spacing Magazine, Summer 2008
2008 The Art of Deconstruction, Orion Magazine, January/February 2008
2007 Performance underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Diversity Section, Toronto Sun, May 24
2007 Beyond the Classroom, Thursday Feb 22, 2007, CIUT 89.5 FM
2006 Every picture has a story. Wooster Collective. Dec. 28, 2006
2005 Do you ever get a sense that someone is watching you? Peter Goddard, Toronto\Star
2005 From Kipling, Queen, Warden, Finch, a moment in the life of 69 subway riders, Toronto Star,
2005 Canadian House and Home, May 2005
2002 Un sonador que pinta paredes, La Hora, Quito, June 14, 2002
Education
1997 - 2001 Ontario College of Art and Design / Toronto School of Art. Courses in drawing, painting, sculpture and installation
1991 Universite de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Diplome de deuxieme cycle, Histoire
1988 University of Toronto. Honours Bachelor of Arts History and Econ
