CRAM Collective Artists selected for the CT-International Print Biennale Touring Exhibition
Tobey C. Anderson
Tobey C. Anderson has been a practicing visual artist, art manager and administrator, educator, project and program developer, cultural advocate, and independent curator since 1969. Born in Washington, D.C., he became a Canadian Citizen in 1975. Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an Ontario Arts Council’s Mid-Career Artists Grant (2007) and International Residency Program Grant (2011-12). His work is represented in private and public collections internationally. These include the Kirkwood Community College Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a significant body of war-related work at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre - Queens University, Rodman Hall Art Centre - Brock University, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Tobey was Founding President of Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre (1975-79), President of Artspace in Peterborough (1976-9), and Director of Niagara Artists’ Centre (1990-98). He has been actively involved in cultural developments in Ontario and nationally for over 35 years and was Inaugural Chair of the Culture Committee for the development and adoption of a new Cultural Policy for the City of St. Catharines. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Mayor’s Trillium Award for Artistic Excellence. Rodman Hall Art Centre – Brock University, published an exhibition catalogue of his 2007-08 retrospective exhibition, Trinities: 33 Years of painting.
Alan Flint
Alan Flint is an artist, educator and master collaborator in print media based in Hamilton, Ontario. He established and for twelve years operated the Anti Press, an independent print media studio in Hamilton. After closing the Anti Press he joined the CRAM Collective and became Co-Founder of CRAM Press in St Catherines Ontario. In 2001 he was given a Mayors Award recognizing his contribution to the cultural industries in Hamilton and in 2011 he was awarded Established Artist of the Year by the City of Hamilton. Flint received an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal and has taught for years in various art programs such as McMaster University in Hamilton and Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver. Currently he teaches Media Fundamentals at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Flint has an exhibition record spanning numerous provincial, national and international venues.
José Medina
José Medina was born in Santiago de Cuba and immigrated to Canada in 2009. He specialized in Printmaking and Drawing at the Fine Arts Academy of Santiago de Cuba and later became Head of their Print Board and he has an Arts Teaching Diploma from the University of Pedagogical Sciences in Santiago de Cuba. His work has been shown in more than 90 exhibitions, including solo and group shows in Canada, Cuba, Colombia, England, United States, Spain, Italy, Mexico, and Australia. He has received over 20 honours and awards such as the Guest of Honour of Santa Marta, Colombia and Honourable Mention in the Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada 2011. His work is in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Marta, and Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, USA.
Carolyn Wren
Carolyn Wren was born in St. Catharines, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario. In the 1990’s, Carolyn served on the Board of Directors of Niagara Artists’ Centre as Treasurer and President, and she has co-curated a number of projects including the NAC 22nd Anniversary, Women and Medicine, and The Alice Project, and she is an active member of the CRAM Collective. Wren has been exhibiting her work since 1990 in group and solo shows across Ontario and internationally and was among ten artists who represented Canada in “Anatomical Permutations” at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico (1998) and the National Centre for the Arts in Mexico City (1999). In 2011 Carolyn had a solo exhibition at the Kelowna Public Art Galleries, BC. and collaborated with her partner Tobey C. Anderson in two-person exhibitions at the University of Sherbrooke, Québec and the Galeria Universal, Santiago de Cuba.
Panchal Mansaram
Based in Burlington, Ontario, Indo-Canadian print media artist Panchal Mansaram has lived in Canada producing print media art for over 30 years. Mansaram studied Fine Arts at the J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai and the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, and are part of major private and public collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi, India. Currently, Ed Video launched a major exhibition of Mansaram’s work is based on the theories of his late personal friend Marshal McLuhan.
Matt Harley
Matt Harley has been a professional artist since earning his A.O.C.A. from the Ontario College Of Art in 1978. He was a founding member of YYZ Artists’ Outlet in 1979 and was appointed to the Board of Directors of A Space by then-chairman, AA Bronson, the same year. In 1983 he received simultaneous grants from the Canada Council and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. He has been interviewed about his work on TVO and the CBC, and been featured in magazines as diverse as Canadian Art, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life. Harley has mounted over thirty solo exhibitions and been included in numerous group exhibitions including This Is Paradise in 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. His work can be found in corporate private and public collections on five continents including the National Gallery of Canada as part of the Art Metropole Collection.
Penelope Stewart, RCA
Penelope Stewart was born in Montréal, Québec and received a BFA from York University and MFA from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. In 2009 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (RCA) and her work has been in touring solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in Canada, Australia, France and the U.S.A.
Stewart has received numerous grants and awards which include residencies at the Musée Barthète, France; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Engramme, Québec City; and most recently at the International School of Art in Montecastello, Italy. Her numerous awards include: the International Sculpture Center for an architectural scale photo-based project “Canopy” - exhibited across Canada, Australia, and at Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey; the CEPA Exhibition Award for large-format photographs; an honourable mention in the Open Studio National Print Competition. Stewart was awarded a Visual Artist Project Grant from the Canada Council and an International Artist Residency Grant from the Ontario Arts Council in support of an artist residency at Canberra Glassworks, and ACT Design Museum, Canberra. Her work is held in public, corporate and private collections internationally.
Dave Gordon
Dave was born in London Ontario, Canada. He has worked as a professional artist and art teacher since 1969. Gordon was a founding member of the Forest City Gallery (London, Ont.) and Kingston Artists' Association, Inc. / Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre. Gordon's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre - Queens University, as well as in numerous private collections across Canada. He recently spent a year working and teaching in Shanghai, China.
John B. Boyle, RCA
Boyle was born in London, Ontario, Canada and is self-taught as a painter. He has worked as a full time professional artist since 1968. Founding president of the Niagara Artists' Company (NAC) and Founding Spokesperson of Canadian Artists' Representation, Ontario, Boyle has been a frequent volunteer in the visual art world, serving on the boards of the Niagara Artists' Company, the Canada Council Arts Advisory Panel, the Canadian Centre for the Arts at Owen Sound, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinberg. Boyle's works are represented in the collections of the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and most major public and corporate collections across Canada. He has exhibited widely internationally and is represented by the Loch Gallery, Toronto, the Gibson Gallery, London, CRAM International, St. Catharines, and Fukugan Gallery, Osaka. In addition to painting, Boyle has published a novel, No Angel Came, Tellem Press, 1995, and he a founding member of the world renowned Nihilist Spasm Band since 1968.
Tobey C. Anderson
Tobey C. Anderson has been a practicing visual artist, art manager and administrator, educator, project and program developer, cultural advocate, and independent curator since 1969. Born in Washington, D.C., he became a Canadian Citizen in 1975. Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an Ontario Arts Council’s Mid-Career Artists Grant (2007) and International Residency Program Grant (2011-12). His work is represented in private and public collections internationally. These include the Kirkwood Community College Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a significant body of war-related work at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre - Queens University, Rodman Hall Art Centre - Brock University, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Tobey was Founding President of Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre (1975-79), President of Artspace in Peterborough (1976-9), and Director of Niagara Artists’ Centre (1990-98). He has been actively involved in cultural developments in Ontario and nationally for over 35 years and was Inaugural Chair of the Culture Committee for the development and adoption of a new Cultural Policy for the City of St. Catharines. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Mayor’s Trillium Award for Artistic Excellence. Rodman Hall Art Centre – Brock University, published an exhibition catalogue of his 2007-08 retrospective exhibition, Trinities: 33 Years of painting.
Alan Flint
Alan Flint is an artist, educator and master collaborator in print media based in Hamilton, Ontario. He established and for twelve years operated the Anti Press, an independent print media studio in Hamilton. After closing the Anti Press he joined the CRAM Collective and became Co-Founder of CRAM Press in St Catherines Ontario. In 2001 he was given a Mayors Award recognizing his contribution to the cultural industries in Hamilton and in 2011 he was awarded Established Artist of the Year by the City of Hamilton. Flint received an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal and has taught for years in various art programs such as McMaster University in Hamilton and Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver. Currently he teaches Media Fundamentals at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Flint has an exhibition record spanning numerous provincial, national and international venues.
José Medina
José Medina was born in Santiago de Cuba and immigrated to Canada in 2009. He specialized in Printmaking and Drawing at the Fine Arts Academy of Santiago de Cuba and later became Head of their Print Board and he has an Arts Teaching Diploma from the University of Pedagogical Sciences in Santiago de Cuba. His work has been shown in more than 90 exhibitions, including solo and group shows in Canada, Cuba, Colombia, England, United States, Spain, Italy, Mexico, and Australia. He has received over 20 honours and awards such as the Guest of Honour of Santa Marta, Colombia and Honourable Mention in the Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada 2011. His work is in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Marta, and Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, USA.
Carolyn Wren
Carolyn Wren was born in St. Catharines, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario. In the 1990’s, Carolyn served on the Board of Directors of Niagara Artists’ Centre as Treasurer and President, and she has co-curated a number of projects including the NAC 22nd Anniversary, Women and Medicine, and The Alice Project, and she is an active member of the CRAM Collective. Wren has been exhibiting her work since 1990 in group and solo shows across Ontario and internationally and was among ten artists who represented Canada in “Anatomical Permutations” at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico (1998) and the National Centre for the Arts in Mexico City (1999). In 2011 Carolyn had a solo exhibition at the Kelowna Public Art Galleries, BC. and collaborated with her partner Tobey C. Anderson in two-person exhibitions at the University of Sherbrooke, Québec and the Galeria Universal, Santiago de Cuba.
Panchal Mansaram
Based in Burlington, Ontario, Indo-Canadian print media artist Panchal Mansaram has lived in Canada producing print media art for over 30 years. Mansaram studied Fine Arts at the J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai and the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, and are part of major private and public collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi, India. Currently, Ed Video launched a major exhibition of Mansaram’s work is based on the theories of his late personal friend Marshal McLuhan.
Matt Harley
Matt Harley has been a professional artist since earning his A.O.C.A. from the Ontario College Of Art in 1978. He was a founding member of YYZ Artists’ Outlet in 1979 and was appointed to the Board of Directors of A Space by then-chairman, AA Bronson, the same year. In 1983 he received simultaneous grants from the Canada Council and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. He has been interviewed about his work on TVO and the CBC, and been featured in magazines as diverse as Canadian Art, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life. Harley has mounted over thirty solo exhibitions and been included in numerous group exhibitions including This Is Paradise in 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. His work can be found in corporate private and public collections on five continents including the National Gallery of Canada as part of the Art Metropole Collection.
Penelope Stewart, RCA
Penelope Stewart was born in Montréal, Québec and received a BFA from York University and MFA from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. In 2009 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (RCA) and her work has been in touring solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in Canada, Australia, France and the U.S.A.
Stewart has received numerous grants and awards which include residencies at the Musée Barthète, France; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Engramme, Québec City; and most recently at the International School of Art in Montecastello, Italy. Her numerous awards include: the International Sculpture Center for an architectural scale photo-based project “Canopy” - exhibited across Canada, Australia, and at Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey; the CEPA Exhibition Award for large-format photographs; an honourable mention in the Open Studio National Print Competition. Stewart was awarded a Visual Artist Project Grant from the Canada Council and an International Artist Residency Grant from the Ontario Arts Council in support of an artist residency at Canberra Glassworks, and ACT Design Museum, Canberra. Her work is held in public, corporate and private collections internationally.
Dave Gordon
Dave was born in London Ontario, Canada. He has worked as a professional artist and art teacher since 1969. Gordon was a founding member of the Forest City Gallery (London, Ont.) and Kingston Artists' Association, Inc. / Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre. Gordon's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre - Queens University, as well as in numerous private collections across Canada. He recently spent a year working and teaching in Shanghai, China.
John B. Boyle, RCA
Boyle was born in London, Ontario, Canada and is self-taught as a painter. He has worked as a full time professional artist since 1968. Founding president of the Niagara Artists' Company (NAC) and Founding Spokesperson of Canadian Artists' Representation, Ontario, Boyle has been a frequent volunteer in the visual art world, serving on the boards of the Niagara Artists' Company, the Canada Council Arts Advisory Panel, the Canadian Centre for the Arts at Owen Sound, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinberg. Boyle's works are represented in the collections of the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and most major public and corporate collections across Canada. He has exhibited widely internationally and is represented by the Loch Gallery, Toronto, the Gibson Gallery, London, CRAM International, St. Catharines, and Fukugan Gallery, Osaka. In addition to painting, Boyle has published a novel, No Angel Came, Tellem Press, 1995, and he a founding member of the world renowned Nihilist Spasm Band since 1968.