Jane Buyers

Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2022	Making Amends, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2020	Colddust and Rootglow, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2017	Jane Buyers, Art Toronto, solo booth
2016	Hang upon tomorrow and lose today, AKA artist-run, (with Zachari Logan) Saskatoon
2015	Gather...Arrange...Maintain, Museum London, London, Ontario Fold, Durham Art Gallery, Durham
2014	Collect…Order…Amend, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2010	Amend, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2007	Images for Words/Memory for Things, Stratford Gallery, Stratford
2006	Into the Woods, with Mary Catherine Newcomb, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
	from Inscriptions, Paul Petro Multiples and Small Works, Toronto.
2005/06	Inscriptions, Robert McLaughlin, Oshawa. Solo, curated exhibition, with catalogue. Travelling to Koffler Gallery, Toronto; UW Art Gallery, Waterloo.
2000	Analogue, with Ingrid Nicolai, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo sculpture and works on paper, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1998	Botanica Barocca, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
1997	The Pumphouse, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Folio, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto Iconoclasts (with David Mcgee), McIntosh Gallery.London, Ontario Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario
1996	Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (catalogue)
1994	The Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto
1992	Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023	Editions Part Two, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2022	The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2019/20	Industrial Elements Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
2019	The Perennials, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
2018	Garden of Skin, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London UK
2017	So Lightly Here, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
2016	Red, Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph Plexus, DNA, London
2012	Editions Part Two, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto Toronto Berlin 1982-2012, Zweigstelle Berlin, Germany
2010	Art at Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today, Part 1, Art Gallery of Mississauga
2008	Not A One Night Stand, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
	If you go out in the Woods today..Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.
2007/08	Pictured: image and object in Canadian sculpture, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
2007	Still Life, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo.
2006	Art Fiction . Art Mur, Montreal.
	Natural Selection,Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
2005	The Suitcase Show . Harbourfront, Toronto.
	You Get What You Get. Akau, Toronto.
2004	Toronto International Art Fair, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
	Art and Paper VI. Galerie d’art Jean-Claude-Bergeron, Ottawa.
2003	Genius Loci. Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery.
2002	Reading Without Words: Books as Objects . Gallery Stratford.
	Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. Artists’ Books.
2001	Herbarium . Art Gallery of Peterborough.
	Chronicles: The Great Canadian Printmaking Competion. Edward Day Gallery, Toronto.
	Great Lakes. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
2000	The Single Tree, London Regional Art Gallery (catalogue) Cote cour, cote jardin, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal
1999	Ways to Remember,, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto TSA 30: Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Retrospective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto. A Look Back
1998	Wonderland, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1996	Second Skin, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (catalogue)
1994	X-Sightings, The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1991	International group show, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, (national touring). Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, 3 person. Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound (provincial touring)
1990	Memory Work: The Post Modern Impulse in Canadian Art, London Regional Art Gallery, London (national touring) Garden Project, Power Plant, Toronto
1986	The Interpretation of Architecture, Sandy Simpson Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)
1984	Something to do with Space, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto (catalogue) The New City of Sculpture, YYZ, Toronto
1983	Chromaliving, Chromazone, Toronto
1982	O Kromazone, Das Institut Unzeit, Berlin Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto

Public Commissions
2001	Golden Queen Hybrid, RIM Park, Waterloo, Ontario Between The Acts, Theatre and Company, Kitchener, Ontario
2000	John Labatt Barley Field, Labatt Park, Waterloo, Ontario
1997	Agricultura, Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario

Grants & Awards
2002	Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Awarded Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award for Visual Arts
2001	Honourable Mention, Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition
1996/97	Canada Council 'B' Grant
1995	UW Social Science and Humanities Grant Award
1994	Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
1993	Ontario Arts Council Project Grant Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grant
1991/92	Canada Council 'B' Grant Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grant
1990	Ontario Arts Council Project Grant Canada Council Short Term/Project Cost Grant
1988	Ontario Arts Council Professional Grant

Selected Bibliography
2017	Canadian Art, Spring 2017, Alexis Kinloch. “Hang upon Tomorrow and Lose Today”
2013	Canadian Art, 26 February, 2013, Janice Andreae, “Jane Buyers Brings Feminist Eye to Art and Labour at KWAG” The Record, January 26, 2013. Robert Reid, “Labour of purpose and beauty”
2010	Toronto Life, March 2010. David Balzer, “Not Just a One Night Stand” blogTO, 19 July 2010. Matthew Purvis,“Art Agenda: Eli Langer and Jane Buyers at Paul Petro”
2007	Descant: Margins and Borders , vol 38, no2, Summer 2007. P 151
	156. "Inscriptions" portfolio
	The Coast, Dec. 13-20, 2007. p. 49, Jane Kansas, "Objects of affection"
2006	The Globe and Mail, Saturday, Oct 7, p. R16. Gary Michael Dault. “Natural Selection at Paul Petro Contemporary Art”.
	The Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 15, .P. R12. Gary Michael Dault. “Black rose works make deep impression. “
	ESPACE: Sculpture, Vol 75, Spring. p. 41. Margaret Rodgers
	Fusion, Winter 2006, Vol. 30 No.1. Front cover, p.14-15, 23. Gil McElroy
	Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Friday, February 24, 2006, p. D4. Robert Reid.
	Hours, 28 septembre. p.4
	Ici, 25 octobre, p. 51
	Le Devoir, 14-15 octobre, p.E3.. Rene Viau.
	Mirror, 11 octobre, p. 56. Christine Redfern. "Fiction Addiction"
2002	La Nazione, Florence, Italy. "L’opulenze che finanzia i restauri."
	Catalogue, The Single Tree. Text by Laura Millard, "The Single Tree" exhibition, London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario.
2000	Montreal Gazette, June 10, p. J2, Cultivating a garden of the imagination: where nature and culture meet, Henry Lehmann The Record, Kitchener, July 14, p. B3 Ready for Harvest (photograph with caption) The Record, Kitchener, July 22, p.E4, Sculpture commemorates brewing industry, Donna Cooper.
1999	Tessera: Coincidence of the Page, Volume 27. 58-59 Globe and Mail, December 18, Gillian MacKay.
1997	Kitchener-Waterloo Record, September 30, p.6. Robert Reid Globe and Mail, November 22, p.C16 A garden of artistic delight, Gillian MacKay Guelph Mercury, October 1. P.A5 Tessera: Work/Le Travail, Volume 22. P.68-70 Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again (catalogue), Anne McPherson
1996	The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Robert Reid, July 2 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Folio (catalogue) Lynne Bell and Carol Podedworny Globe and Mail , June 4, p.C3. John Bentley Mays
1995	C Magazine, Spring 1995, p. 56, Carol Podedworny.
1992	Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor, October 16th. Citta Nuova (Rome). June Catalogue, La Mèmoire postmoderne: Essai sur l'art contemporain, Mark Cheetham, postface de Linda Hutcheon.
1991	Catalogue. Remembering Post Modernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art, Mark Cheetham with Linda Hutcheon. Oxford University Press.
1990	C Magazine, Issue 26, Summer '90, J. Andreae.
1989	Parachute, Spring/Summer, J. Andreae.
1986	Catalogue The Interpretation of Architecture, Andy Patton.
1985	C Magazine, Winter no. 4, Donald Kuspit.

Selected Collections
Department of Foreign Affairs Art Gallery of Nova Scotia National Capital Commission- Governor-General’s Residence, Ottawa Museum of Contemporary Art , North York Art Gallery of Hamilton Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Citicorp Canada, First Canadian Place, Toronto Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa Detroit Edison Ontario Hydro, Toronto Canada Permanent Trust, Toronto Toronto-Dominion Bank First Federal Savings, Detroit Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph McDonald's Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

Visiting Artist
2006	Public lecture in conjunction with Inscriptions solo exhibition, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
2003	Guest artist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.
2001	Canada Council Visiting Artist, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.
1999	Canada Council Visiting Artist, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon and University of Regina.
1991	Guest artist, Open Studio, Toronto.
	Art Gallery of Peterborough. Sponsored by Art Gallery of Ontario “Artists’ with Their Work Program”. Lectures and workshops on sculpture, in conjunction with solo exhibition.
	Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound. Sponsored by Art Gallery of Ontario “Artists’ with Their Work Program”. Lectures and workshops on sculpture, in conjunction with solo exhibition.
	Canada Council Visiting Artist, University of Windsor.
1990	Guest artist, Colour Xerox project, Visual Arts Ontario.

Papers Presented
2006	Invited public lecture- Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture Series. Winnipeg
	“Mending: The Art of Recuperation in the work of Recent Women Artists”
2002	7th Conferenza Internazionale sulla Conservazione e IL Restauro, Florence Italy. Presented a paper ”On the Recuperative Impulse in Recent Art” for the panel Dal Testo al Testo.
2001	University Art Association of Canada Conference, University of Quebec, Montreal. Paper “Material Matters: Junk, Stuff. Things”, for panel THE ARTIST AS A MATERIAL CULTUROLOGIST OR THE MATERIAL CULTUROLOGIST AS AN ARTIST?
	Visual Arts Ontario Career Management Training Course, Queens University, Kingston, The Fine Art of Being a Professional. “Making Art and Making a Living : How to Survive as an Artist”.

Education
1990	Master of Education (History and Philosophy), University of Toronto
1973	Honours B.A. (Visual Art) York University