Grants, Awards
2002 Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
2002 Awarded Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award for Visual Arts, 2001.
2001 Honourable Mention, Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition
2008 UW Social Science and Humanities Grant Award
2007 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
1996 Canada Council "B" Grant
1991 Canada Council 'B' Grant
1988 Ontario Arts Council Professional Grant
1986 Canada Council - Paris Studio. 4 month residency.
1985 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
Selected Collections
Department of Foreign Affairs
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
National Capital Commission- Govenor-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
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Images for Words/Memory for Things Stratford Gallery. Solo,curated., with catalogue.
2006 Into the Woods (with Mary Catherine Newcomb)Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo. Curated, two person exhibition.
2006 from Inscriptions. Paul Petro Multiples and Small Works , Toronto.
2005/6 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.
2000 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1998 Botanica Barocca Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
1997 . Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario.
1997 Iconoclasts (with David Mcgee). McIntosh Gallery.London, Ontario.
1997 Inventory Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario . (with An Whitlock) Curated, with catalogue.
1996 Folio. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (catalogue)
1992 Prossimita e Distanza. Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome
1988 Industry and Idleness . Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto. Curated.
1983/84 Mixing Memory and Desire, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Curated.
1975 Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick . Curated circulating exhibition: Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I., 1976; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s Newfoundland 1976; The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, 1976.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Not Just a One Night Stand, Paul Petro, Toronto. 3 person show
2007 If you go out in the Woods today..Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.
2007 Pictured: Image and Object in Canadian Sculpture. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, catalogue.
2007 Still Life, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo.
2006 Art Fiction . Art Mur, Montreal.
2006 Natural Selection . Paul Petro, Toronto..
2005 The Suitcase Show . Harbourfront, Toronto.
2005 You Get What You Get. Akau, Toronto..
2004 Toronto International Art Fair
2004 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.
2002 Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. Artists’ Books.
2001 Herbarium . Art Gallery of Peterborough.
2001 Chronicles: The Great Canadian Printmaking Competion. Edward Day
Gallery, Toronto.
2001 Great Lakes. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
2000 The Single Tree. London Regional Art Gallery, (catalogue)
2000 Cote cour, cote jardin. Galerie Art Mur, Montreal.
Exhibiting since 1974
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