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BIO / Born in Pittsburgh in 1976, moved to Canada from Texas at 13. Has lived in Toronto since 2000.

2008 - September 28 - NOV 9 / Dance Dance Revolution Co. / a new work at the Harbourfront Centre's York Quay Gallery in the project room / video installation, 6 min video in collaboration with Ryan Kamstra / Toronto

GROUP SHOW / 2008 - Sept 18 - Oct 18 / I have 1 new painting in DECADE - 10 Years of KM Projects / Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects / Toronto

REVIEW FOR TEENAGER HAMLET / Leah Sandals / Gallery Picks: Notable Toronto Shows / A blog from Canadian Art Ciritic Leah Sandals / Unedit my heart / September 2008

FOR TEENAGER HAMLET / The Movie Is The Medium / Leah Sandals / National Post / Sept 6 2008

REVIEW FOR TEENAGER HAMLET / Film Festival Insider / Teenager Hamlet / / NOW Magazine / Toronto / September 3 2008

FOR TEENAGER HAMLET / FUTURE PROJECTIONS, Teenager Hamlet 2006/ Damian Rogers / EYE Weekly / September 3 2008

FOR FUTURE PROJECTIONS / Where art and cinema meet: On the wall, all over the town / Dave McGinn / Globe & Mail / August 30 2008

2008 - SEPTEMBER 5 - 13 / premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival of TEENAGER HAMLET 2006 / Installation + feature-length video project by Margaux Williamson / Curated by Steve Gravestock and Presented by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in association with Future Projections / 1082 Queen St. West / Reservations and Info / starring Sheila Heti, Sholem Krishtalka, Milosh Rodic and Ryan Kamstra / shot by Lee Towndrow / music direction by Steve Kado / produced by Julia Rosenberg and January Films /

2008 - August 1st / Vancouver - GROUP SHOW Opens Friday, August 1st, 7pm - 11 pm + Saturday August 2 from 12 - 5 pm / A Good Summer to Stay Inside / curated by Mark DeLong and Lisa Giroday / LES Gallery presents at EAST VAN STUDIOS, 870 East Cordova /

INTERVIEW / Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh with Margaux Williamson; Hamlet-Inspired / associate editor / NY Arts Magazine / New York / Spring 2008 /

CO - CURATED Trampoline Hall Lecture show in San Francisco with Sarah Robayo Sheridan / hosted by Misha Glouberman / Feb 25 2008 /

ON - GOING VISUAL COLLABORATION with Trampoline Hall since awhile /

FEATURE / Stepping behind the camera brings a new stillness to this Canadian painter's work / Gen Art Pulse / website / Los Angeles / Feb 25 2008 /

SOLO PAINTING SHOW / trophy ghost / 2 person solo show with Melanie Bonajo / Fette's Gallery / Los Angeles / Feb March 2008 /

ON_GOING REALITY COLLABORATION with Sheila Heti since 2006 /

PRINT / Spotlight; Toronto Now / Canadian Art Magazine, Winter issue, December

2008

CURATED / Trampoline Hall lecture show / Lecturers: Jordan Tannahill on Bravislovia, Daniel Arci on brain hacking and Desmond Cole on Jesus was a cunt t shirt/ Dec 10 2007

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW / Sabine 7 / Girl / Art MoCo/ website / Nov 2007

SOLO PAINTING SHOW / the Girls show Dostoyevsky the new darkness / Marvelli Gallery / New York / Oct 2007 /

GROUP SHOW / Cement Garden / with Skyler Brickey, Dominic Mañgila, and Emily Mae Smith / Marvelli Gallery / New York / Feb March 2007

GROUP SHOW / Second Nature / with Eelco brand, Jasper de Beijer, Nicola Pecoraro, Marijn van Kreij, and Julie Zemel / Fette’s Gallery / Los Angeles / April May 2007 /

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW / Sarah Milroy / for Paul Petro group exhibition “Little Dude” / The Globe & Mail - newspaper / Canada / Saturday, Feb 3, Toronto p M4    

GROUP SHOW / Little Dude / Paul Petro Gallery / Toronto/ Jan Feb 2007 /

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW LOVE/ HATE / The Artfag / The Toronto Manifesto. / Artfag #18

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW LOVE/ HATE / Sarah Milroy /The Globe & Mail - newspaper / Canada / Saturday, July 14 2007 /

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW LOVE/ HATE / DAVID JAGER / for Mocca Love/ Hate show / NOW magazine - weekly / JULY 12 - 18, 2007 | VOL. 26 NO. 45                                        

GROUP SHOW / Love/Hate: New Crowned Glory in the G.T.A / curated by Camilla Singh and David Liss / Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art  / Toronto / July August 2007 /

CURATED / Trampoline Hall lecture show / Lecturers: Kristen Aspevig on Artificial Intelligence / Diane Borsato on Fungus and Eugene Slonimerov on Why you can only write songs when you're sad / May 14 2007

PRINTED DIALOGUE / Sheila Heti and Margaux Williamson Interview each Other / Pyramid Power - Magazine / edited by Conor Holler, vol 1 no 1, Vancouver, pp 18 - 23

2007

LIST / Best of Toronto 2006 -  Editors’ Picks for the Year / for Painting to moby dick / Eye Weekly - Magazine / Toronto/ Dec 21 – 26 /

LIST / Best of Toronto 2006 -  Editors’ Picks for the Year / Tomboyfriend end of poverty Nuit Blanche performance / Eye Weekly - Magazine / Toronto / Dec 21 – 26

COLLABORATION / with Ryan Kamstra + Tomboyfriend / THE DECEMBER SHOW: Big in Afghanistan / featuring Ulysses Castellanos / Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

COLLABORATION / with Ryan Kamstra, Marlena Zuber and Lee Towndrow / end of poverty; take 5 / for Nuit Blanche All Night arts festival / Toronto / Sept 29 2006

COLLABORATION with Ryan Kamstra since 2001

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW / Kevin Temple / Northern Art Stream Blows Into New York/ The Star, Aug. 27, Canada                          

TELEVISION / Michael Glassbourg, “Margaux Williamson; The Artist Life”  30 min. documentary, BRAVO (Television)                

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW / David Balzer / Margaux Williamson "Painting to Moby Dick" / EYE magazine / Toronto / Dec 14 – 20, 2006 /

SOLO PAINTING SHOW / Painting to moby dick; works that were made while the computer, in its own voice, read aloud Melville’s Moby Dick / solo show / Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects / Toronto / Dec 2006     

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW / David Balzer, Preview  for “Painting to moby dick”, Toronto Life magazine. Dec. p 140.

TWO PERSON SHOW with Tyler Clark Burke / Skew Gallery / Calgary / Fall 2006

GROUP SHOW / Beautify / curated by Patrick Macaulay / Harbourfront Centre / Toronto

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW / Globe and Mail - newspaper / NowNow at Fran Hill / Gary Michael Dault / Saturday Feb 18, Toronto    

GROUP SHOW / NOWNOW, 5 generations of artists / curated by Kathryn Bemrose / Fran Hill Gallery / Toronto / 2006

CURATED a Trampoline Hall lecture show / lecturers: Peggy Gale on 20 year old transcripts, Brian Malette on Nature and Amy Langstaff on Etiquette

PRINT / Matrix magazine, issue 72, winter, paintings for front and back covers, Montreal

2006

REVIEW FOR GROUP SHOW / Gary Michael Dault / Gallery Going; You Don’t Want to Miss That Shit / The Globe & Mail - newspaper / Canada / December 31 / 2005

GROUP SHOW / You Don’t Want to Miss That Shit, curated by Katharine Mulherin / Gladstone Hotel / Toronto / Dec 2005

ART FAIR / Pulse Art Fair / with Sixtyseven Gallery / Miami

LIST / Critic’s Pick; Best Painter / NOW magazine, Oct 27 – Nov 2, Toronto

CURATED a Trampoline Hall lecture show / lecturers: Sholem Krishtalka on the Art of Complaining, Angela Dizes on Slowness and Otino Corsano regarding The Statue of Liberty

PRETTY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SHOW / Carl Wilson/ ZOILUS blog / June 2005 /

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW IN THE WOODS / David Balzer / “Rewind: Margaux Williamson” / Canadian Art magazine / Vol 22 #4 p 95, 98 / winter issue / 2005 /

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW IN THE WOODS / The ARTFAG / Margaux Williamson, In the Woods - from no. 9, ‘the heady aromas of superciliousness’ / July 2005

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW IN THE WOODS / Kevin Temple / Surreal Streets / NOW magazine / Toronto / July 14                   

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW IN THE WOODS / David Balzer / Eye Candy / EYE weekly - magazine / Toronto / July

SOLO PAINTING SHOW / In The Woods / Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto / May June 2005

GROUP SHOW / BLAME IT ON CANADA / Harvey Levine Gallery / Los Angeles

INTERVIEW with Otino Corsano “Interview w/ Margaux Williamson” for the Samplesize website / July 2005                           

2005

PRINT / cover painting for Sherwin Tjia's book of pseudohaikus, The World is a Hearbreaker / Coach House Press

LIST / Art 2004 top 10; for Darby and the Angels / edited by Kevin Temple / NOW magazine / Toronto / December 2004

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE for show Important Canadian Art at Ziehersmith gallery / Text by Lee Henderson and others / New York / 2004

FEATURE / Carl Wilson / The Importance of Being Margaux / Hive Magazine / Canada / Spring 2004

RADIO / Outside Opinion; Important Canadian Art Emerges / CBC Radio 3 / No. 02.36, May 14 – 20

SOLO INSTALLATION / Darby & the angels / Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects / Toronto/ March April 2004

GROUP SHOW / Important Canadian Art / ZieherSmith Gallery / New York

2004

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW / Pick of the week/ Eye Weekly - magazine / Toronto / July 17

REVIEW FOR SOLO SHOW / Peter Goddard / Artist finds sweetness in dark places / Toronto Star - Newspaper / page H7 / July 12, 2003 /

SOLO PAINTING SHOW / drugs and the riot / Katharine Mulherin Gallery /Toronto / 2003

GROUP SHOW / The Electric Eye / curated by Matt Crookshank /Sis Boom Bah / Toronto

GROUP SHOW / Salon Dollop, curated by Sherwin Tjia, Rad'a Gallery, Montreal

2003

PRINT / The Big Picture Feature / Lola magazine / Fall 2002

PRINT / cover painting Harvey for Sherwin Tjia's book of poems, Gentle Fictions / Insomniac Press

REVIEW FOR CURATED SHOW / Peter Goddard, “A show of cheek from city’s east end” (Twin Dogs II, curated by Williamson), Toronto Star, August 29, 2002, Canada

CURATED / a multiples group show with 12 artists Twin Dogs II / Art at the Union / Toronto/ 2002

2002                             

PRINT / cover painting for Ryan Kamstra's book lATE cAPITALIST sUBLIME / Insomniac Press

PRINT / Castle of Pony artists’ project with Ryan Kamstra, PUBLIC magazine, issue 22/23, (cities/scenes) / edited by Janine Marchessault and Will Straw and Sarah Robayo Sheridan / 2001

RAN an art space for 2 years / Art at the Union / for inexperienced artists / Toronto.

2001