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Provenance:

Art 45, Montreal, QC

Note:

MICHAEL JOLLIFFE (1945 - )

Born in 1945 in Darlington, England, Michael Jolliffe studied at the Vancouver School of Art from 1974 to 1975, and received his Master of Fine Arts in 1982 from Concordia University in Montreal. He started his artistic career as a printmaker, but with his discovery of Christianity in 1980, began exploring religious themes in large brightly colored and heavily impastoed oils and mixed media abstractions. After a visit to Florence in 1992, his palette became more subdued, but still focused on biblical parables.

Jolliffe has been exhibiting his works across North America since the mid-1970’s, and his work is included in numerous public and corporate collections. He has also taught at Concordia University and at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Jolliffe lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC
Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
La collection pret d’oeuvres d’art, Musee du Quebec, QC
Lantic Sugar, Montreal, QC
Loto-Quebec, Montreal, QC
Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, QC
Musee des beaux-arts, Montreal, QC
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Steinberg, Inc., Montreal, QC

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 Meat and Mystery: Life After Vancouver, Han Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
2008 Hill+ St. Laurent, Ottawa, ON
2004 Hill+ St. Laurent, Ottawa, ON
2003 City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2002 Articule, Montreal, QC
1997 Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, QC
1994 Art 45, Montreal, QC
1991 Art 45, Montreal, QC
1989  Art 45, Montreal, QC
1987 Art 45, Montreal, QC
1986 Tower Gallery, New York
1984 Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
Grunewald Gallery, Toronto, ON
1983 Grunewald Gallery, Toronto, ON
1981 Grunewald Gallery, Toronto, ON
Galerie Jolliet, Montreal, QC
Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC
             
Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 20 ans de peinture, Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, QC
2008  PaperWorks, Stewart Hall, Centre culturel de Point-Clarie, QC
2007 Loto-Quebec, La Galerie d’ art, Drummomdville, QC
2006 Hill + St.Laurent, Ottawa, ON
2005 Paul Kuhn,Gallery,Calgary,Alberta
2005 Hill + St. Laurent, Ottawa, ON
2004 Paul Kuhn, Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2005 Galerie Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC
2003 Hill + St.Laurent, Ottawa, ON
La peinture figurativement contemporaine, Artmur, Montreal, QC
1999 Les peintures, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, QC
1999 Redefining the Still Life, Concordia University, Montreal, QC 
1999 Hill + St.Laurent, Ottawa, ON
1998 Hill + St.Laurent, Ottawa, ON
1998 Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, QC
1994 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992 Ader Tajan, Paris, France
1992 Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
1990 Nouvelles Acquisitions, Musee des beaux-arts, Montreal, QC
1987 Studio Blanc, Montreal, QC
1986 Tower Gallery, New York, New York
The Figure, Burlington Art Center Burlington, ON
1983 Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
1982 Meat and Mystery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
New Directions, Toronto/Montreal, Harbourfront, Toronto Ontario
Montreal Painting Now, Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
1981 3rd Biennale, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, QC       
1980 Two Montreal Artists, Champlain Gallery, Bishop’s University Lennoxville, QC
1979 20 x 20, Italian-Canadian Exchange, Milan, Italy
Faculty of Fine Arts Biennale, Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
Preview: 20 x 20, Factory 77, Toronto, ON
1978 Three Montreal Artists, A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, ON
1977 03 23 03, Montreal, QC
1st Biennale, Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, QC
 Faculty of Fine Arts Biennale Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
1976 Cent Onze Dessins de Quebec, Musee d'art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
1975 Members' Exhibition, Malaspina Printmakers' Society, Vancouver, BC
New Faces, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1974 Print Exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
SCAN, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Crank Production, Mido Gallery, Vancouver, BC
             

 
Selected Awards

Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec
Pollock Krasner Foundation
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.