| Curriculum Vitae | |
| kristanhorton.com | kristanhorton@gmail.com |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2007 | Master of Fine Arts, Guelph University, Guelph, Canada |
| 1993–1996 | Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto |
| 1990–1992 | University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2015 | Tabarium, Work Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2013 | Sligo Heads, Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto |
| A Haptic Portrait of Groping Imagination, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada | |
| 2012 | One For Yourself, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |
| 2010 | The Echo Chamber, Silver Flag Projects, Montreal |
| 2009 | Orbits, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto |
| 2008 | White Room, White Columns, New York |
| Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal | |
| 2007 | Kristan Horton, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto |
| Crowd, Nuit Blanche, Toronto | |
| Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto | |
| Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver | |
| Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada | |
| 2006 | Cig2Coke2Tin2Coff2Milk, YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto |
| 2005 | All At Once, Mercer Union, Toronto |
| Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto | |
| 2003 | The Balcony, Toronto |
| 2001 | Art Metropole, Toronto |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | Clocks For Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion, Alberta Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta |
| 2016 | If By Dull Rhymes: Kristan Horton and David Armstrong Six, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto |
| 2015 | Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| Still Life, Still Living, Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto | |
| Cut-Up, PLATFORM centre for photographic and digital arts, Winnipeg | |
| Boxing: The Sweet Science, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa | |
| 2014 | Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
| Integral House (home of violinist/mathematician James Stewart, Shim Sutcliffe Architects, 2008) curated by Clint Roenisch | |
| 2013 | Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| Drift: The Exhaust of Their Effects, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa | |
| 2012 | Freedom of Assembly, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
| Oh Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Material World, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
| Navigations, Model Arts Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland | |
| 2011 | The Limits, Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| In Rotation, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto | |
| Out of Print, Mercer Union, Toronto | |
| 2010 | It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| The Grange Prize, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago | |
| The Grange Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | |
| Obsolete Concepts, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| Days of the Eclipse, Mercer Union, Toronto | |
| 2009 | Beautiful Fictions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| My Evil Twin, Mirror Series, MacKenzie Art Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Obsolete Concepts, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada | |
| Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War. The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland |
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| Here Now or Nowhere, Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada | |
| What It Really Is, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto | |
| One After Another, National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| 2008 | TOY VOID, Martin Hast (Vienna) and Kristan Horton, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich |
| Stutter and Twitch, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto | |
| Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto |
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| Self-Storage, Curatorial Industries, San Francisco | |
| Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Lofoten, Norway | |
| Lost In the Woods. In There, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto | |
| Albright Knox, Buffalo, New York. Beyond/In Western New York. | |
| 2007 | Art Gallery of York University, Lost In The Woods. In There. |
| Stutter and Twitch, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA | |
| On The Beach, Artspeak, Vancouver | |
| Beyond/In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA | |
| 2006 | We Can Do This Now, The Power Plant, Toronto |
| Crowds / Conversations / Confessions, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| 2005 | Informal Ideas:05-04:(FAIT), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
| Inaugural exhibition, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto | |
| 2003 | The Horse They Rode In On, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto |
| Free Sample, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
| Future Cinema, Max Dean/Kristan Horton, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| 2002 | Inter Communications Center, Tokyo |
| A Text Book Case, Artists’ Bookworks from the Art Metropole Collection, Harbourfront Center, Toronto |
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| Future Cinema, ZKM, Max Dean/Kristan Horton, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 1998 | Glassbox. Paris, France. Loisirs (working title). Curated by Frederic Beaumes |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY – BOOKS AND CATALOGUES | |
| 2017 | Smith, Shawn Michelle, et al. Photography And The Optical Unconscious. : Duke University Press. |
| 2016 | Brito Cador, Amir, ed. O livro de artista e a enciclopedia visual. : Imprensa Universitaria UFMG. |
| 2015 | Portis, Ben, et al. Kristan Horton. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing Ltd. |
| 2014 | Andrea Caputo,ed. Public Domain – The Tunnel Issue. Milan, Italy: Whole Train Press |
| 2013 | Long, Timothy. double or nothing: Problems of Presence in Contemporary Art. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery. |
| 2012 | Markonish, Denise, ed. Oh, Canada. North Adams: MASS MoCA, and Cambridge: MIT Press. |
| 2010 | Donovan, Daniel. The Donovan Collection. Toronto: University of St. Michael's College. |
| Drouin-Brisebois, José e, et al. It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. |
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| 2009 | Brown, Nicholas. What It Really Is. Toronto: Red Bull 381 Projects. |
| 2008 | Groys, Boris, Sé amus Kealy, Gene Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande. Signals in the Dark: Art win the Shadow of War. Toronto: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto. |
| Modrak, Rebekah, and Bill Anthes. Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. | |
| 2007 | Horton, Kristan. Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University. |
| Beyond-In Western New York 2007. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery. | |
| 2006 | Knechtel, John, ed. Trash. 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT. |
| 2005 | Mark, Kelly. Free Sample, Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. |
| 2002 | Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, eds. Future Cinema: Cinematic Imaginary After Film. Cambridge, MA: ZKM | Zentrum fü r Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe/ MIT Press. |
| AWARDS | |
| 2010 | The 2010 Grange Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario [now AIMIA prize] |
| 1996 | Governor General’s Academic Medal |
| Ontario College of Art Medal | |
| M. Joan Chalmers Scholarship | |
| Samual Lazar Kagan Award | |
| 1995 | Louis Odette Sculpture Award |
| 1994 | Sully Corth Memorial Fund |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY – ARTICLES AND REVIEWS | |
| 2017 | Syme, Alison. "Kristan Horton and David Armstrong Six" Artforum. February. |
| 2013 | Whyte, Murray. "AGO’s Light My Fire Part 2 flickers but still burns." Toronto Star. 4 December. |
| 2012 | Whyte, Murray. “A Manic Joy.” Canadian Art. Fall. pp 130-135. |
| Milroy, Sarah. “Sligo Heads: New works by artist Kristan Horton are monstrous.” Globe and Mail. 15 March. | |
| McLaughlin, Bryne. “Kristan Horton Masters the Mix at MacLaren Art Centre,” Canadian Art online, 21 March. http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/03/21/kristan-hortonmaclaren- art-centre | |
| Goodden, Sky. “25 Questions.” Blouin ARTINFO.com. 22 March. http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/882236/25-questions-with-the-chimeric-andgrotesque-kristan-horton | |
| 2011 | Bozak, Nadia. “Digital Neutrality: Agnes Varda, Kristan Horton and the Ecology of the Cinematic Imagination.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 28:3. |
| Zalucky, Juliana. "Kristan Horton: In Conversation." Mercer Union Online. 23 Jan. mercerunion.org/blog/index.php/2011/01/23/juliana-zalucky-interviews-kristan- Horton | |
| 2010 | Adams, James. “Toronto Artist Kristan Horton Wins Grange Prize For Photography.” The Globe and Mail. 4 November. |
| Adler, Dan. “Kristan Horton: The Echo Chamber.” C Magazine. Autumn. pp. 41-42. | |
| Leong, Melissa. “Toronto’s Kristan Horton wins $50,000 Grange Prize For Photography.” National Post. 3 November. | |
| Whyte, Murray. “Grange Prize Show Brings Attention to Good Work.” Toronto Star. 20 November. | |
| "Grange Prize Recipient: Kristan Horton," Canada AM. CTV: Toronto, 7 November. | |
| "Grange Prize Finalists." Arts & Minds: Artist of the Week. Bravo! TV Network, Toronto, 25 October. | |
| 2009 | Adler, Dan. “Kristan Horton,” Frieze. Nov-Dec. |
| Laurence, Robin. “Here Now or Nowhere.” Border Crossings. No.110, pp. 93-94. | |
| Turner, Leah. “What It Really Is,” C Magazine. No. 102. | |
| Whyte, Murray. “Motionless Motion Pictures,” Toronto Star. 1 September. | |
| 2008 | Carson, Andrea. “Bridging the gap between war's myth and reality.” Globe and Mail. 27 February, R5. |
| Sandals, Leah & Sé amus Kealy. “Drawing Enemy Lines,” National Post, January. | |
| Heath, Terrence. “Kristan Horton, White Columns.” Canadian Art, September, p. 136. | |
| 2007 | Adler, Dan. “We Can Do This Now.” Artforum. March. |
| Heather, Rosemary. “Reviews: Kristan Horton.” Flash Art. October, p.132. | |
| Milroy, Sarah. “A Dissembler Who Loves to Make Strange,” Globe and Mail. 12 May. | |
| Milroy, Sarah. “A Meeting of Art, Power and the City,” Globe and Mail. 10 January, R3. | |
| Enright, Robert. “Human Generator,” Border Crossings. No. 101, pp. 107-108. | |
| “Toronto Now.” Canadian Art. Winter, pp. 58-60. | |
| 2006 | Balzer, David. “In Review: Kristan Horton,” Canadian Art. Spring, pp. 92-93. |
| Carr-Harris, Ian. “Kristan Horton” Contemporary [UK] annual, pp. 66-67. | |
| Lau, Yam. “Kristan Horton: An Image of Sculpture,” C Magazine. Autumn, pp. 36-38. | |
| Temple, Kevin. “Horton Trashes Packaging,” NOW Magazine, 20 April. | |
| 2005 | Anderson, Jason. “Remade/Remodeled.” Eye Weekly, 20 January 20. |
| Balzer, David. “Eyecandy,” Eye Weekly, 13 January. | |
| Deseriis, Marco. Se Fossi Kubrick, D - La Repubblica delle Donna,19 March, pp.25-26. | |
| Goddard, Peter. “The Essential Clint: Mercer Union show distills essence,” Toronto Star, 17 November. | |
| Goddard, Peter. “Artist's Truly Strange Love of Kubrick Film.” Toronto Star, 15 January. | |
| Milroy, Sarah. “At The Galleries,” Globe and Mail, 7 January. | |
| Temple, Kevin. “The Physics of Sculpture: Kristan Horton's brilliant work takes form into a new dimension.” NOW Magazine, 24 November. | |
| Turner, Toko-pa. “Reasonable Transplants (Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove).” NY Arts, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 24-29. | |
| “Best Artist to Watch: Kristan Horton.” NOW Magazine, 9 October. | |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| AIMIA Collection, Toronto | |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | |
| BNC - Banque National du Canada Collection, Montreal | |
| The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto | |
| Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago | |
| National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa | |
| Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | |
| RBC Royal Bank of Canada Collection, Toronto | |