Michael Thompson Biography 

Michael Thompson was born in 1954 in Montréal, Québec.

EDUCATION

• 1976 -1978 Graduate Program in Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal

• 1973 - 1976 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2001 'Shadows and Light', Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville

• 1996 Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville

• 1994 Kitchener- Waterloo Art Gallery

• 1990 Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto

• 1988 Gallery Moos, New York

• 1986 Gallery Moos, Toronto

• 1984 Gallery Moos, Toronto

• 1983 The Art Gallery of Hamilton

• 1982 Gallery Moos, Toronto

• 1981 Gallery Moos, Toronto

• 1979 The University of New Brunswick Art Centre Fredericton

• 1979 The Mena'Sen Gallery, Sherbrooke

• 1979 The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal

• 1978 The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

• 1978 Sir George Williams Galleries, Montreal

• 1978 Gerard Gorce Fine Art

 AWARDS

• 1994 Ontario Arts Council Grant

• 1991- 92 Chancellor's Associates Society; Memorial University of Newfoundland

• 1986 Ontario Arts Council Grant

• 1984 Ontario Arts Council Grant

• 1982 Canadian Arts Council Grant

• 1978 Greenshields Foundation Grant

• 1977 Greenshields Foundation Grant

 COLLECTIONS

• Art Gallery of Algoma

• Art Gallery of Hamilton

• Art Gallery of Mississauga

• Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

• Art Gallery of Ontario

• Art Gallery of Peel

• Art Gallery of St. Thomas-Elgin

• Banque Nationale du Canada

• Beaverbrook Art Gallery

• Cineplex Odeon Corporation

• CIT

• City of North Bay

• Concordia University Art Gallery

• Counsel Trust Company

• Davies Ward & Beck

• de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California

• Dorset Partners

• Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS

• Ernst & Young

• Exco Technologies

• Garth H. Drabinsky Collection

• Gluskin, Sheff and Associates

• Greenshields Foundation

• Guaranty Trust

• Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

• London Regional Art and Historical Museums

• Memorial University Art Gallery

• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

• New Brunswick Museum

• Newcourt Credit Group

• Ontario College of Teachers

• Sarnia Art Gallery

• SunLife Insurance Company of Canada

• The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

• University of Sherbrooke Art Gallery

• Vivian & David M. Campbell Collection

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Duval, Paul, Catalogue Essay, "Passion Over Reason", Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1994

• Reid, Robert, "Michael Thompson Clearly One of Canada’s Best Young Realist Artists", The Record, Kitchener, Nov. 10, 1984, pp. 12-13, ill.

• Burnett, David, Catalogue Essay, "Michael Thompson : A Ten Year Survey", Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, 1990

• Moos, David, Catalogue Essay, "Crisis and Triumph of the Real : The Paintings of Michael Thompson", Moos Publishing Ltd., New York City,1988

• Rondos, Spyros, "The Work of Michael Thompson", Discussion, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1985. Pp. 12-13, ill.

• Duval, Paul, Catalogue Essay, "Michael Thompson Recent Works", Hurtig Publishers Ltd., Toronto, 1984

• Burnett, David, and Schiff, Marilyn, "Contemporary Canadian Art", Hurtig Publishers Ltd., Toronto, 1983, pp. 170-171, ill.

• Inglis, Grace, "Gallery Show Depicts Man – Nature Alienation", The Spectator, Hamilton, June 11, 1983

• Hume, Christopher, "Is Yorkville Ready for Leather Realism?", The Toronto Star, December 18, 1982, pp. 5, ill.

• Webb, Marshall, "Michael Thompson", Vanguard, February 1982, pp. 47, ill.

• O’Brien, Paddy, Catalogue Forward, "Young Contemporaries `78", London Regional Art Gallery, 1978, pp. 69-70, ill.

• Wylie, Elizabeth, "Thompson’s Means Mask His Message", The Georgian, Montréal, February 17, 1978

• "Dictionary of International Biography", International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England

• "The Canadian Who’s Who", University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Michael's Home Page