Education
2008 Parsons The New School for Design, MFA Graduate, New York, NY
1997 The Ontario College of Art and Design, Graduate, Toronto, ON
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Spatial Configurations, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2024 Signal to Noise, a collaborative exhibition with Lou Sheppard, Mónica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023 Signal to Noise, A collaborative exhibition with Lou Sheppard, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Resonances, Photofairs, Staged Section solo presentation curated by Georgia Griffiths, Shanghai, CN
2019 Urban Fabric, Atelier Zerebecky and Art Yuyuan, Shanghai, CN
2018 In This Moment, I: Project Space, Beijing, CN
2018 Kindred Spirits, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei, TW
2018 Resonances, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Somewhere Else, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 In the Absence (of), 8eleven, Toronto, ON
2014 At Night All Cats Are Grey, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2012 Memorial Day, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2011 Grace, The Artlog Loft, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Lost Highway, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2009 River’s Edge, Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Undercurrents, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 (Re) constructing Love, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Christopher, Solo Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2005 Concealed Weapon, Galerie Accidentelle, Montreal, QC
2004 am: After Midnight, XEXE Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 As Long as it Lasts, Atelier Christian Awe, Berlin, DE curated by Sarah Belden
2022 Tattarrattat, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Giving Entry, Namara Project Space, Toronto, ON
2022. Beijing 22, The German Embassy in Beijing, curated by Anna Eschbach and Antonie Angerer, Beijing, CN
2021 Alle, Galerie Wenger, Züich, CH
2021 Parallel Universes: Parafacts and Parafictions,, Design Republic, Shanghai, CN curated by Peipei Han
2020 Good Trouble, Artists Respond to the 2020 Presidential Election, Whitebox, Manhattan, NY
2020 Experiments, Galerie Wenger, Zürich, CH
2019 Techne and Art: Ecologies of Pre- and Post-modern Subjectivities, Space Station Gallery, Beijing, CN
curated by You Mi
2019 Four Squared Plus One, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2018 Art Biesenthal, Mikel and Ayla Hecken Foundation, Biesenthal, DE
2017 7th Beijing Biennial, National Museum of Art, Beijing, CN
2017 Alternative Histories, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Leaden Hearts, Galerie Riccardo Crespi, Milan, IT
2016 Watch My Face To read My Thoughts, LUMA Project Space, Texas State University,
San Marcos Texas, US
2015 Alle, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, CH
2015 Alpina Huus, House of Deep Transformations in 11 Acts, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany,
curated by Elise Lammer and Denis Pernet
2015 Stories Told, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2014 New Associations, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland, Curated by Elise Lammer
2014 Reconstalation, Prak-sis N3w M3edia Art Festival, Chicago, IL
2014 Vector Issue 5, Schau Fenster, Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2013 The Assemblance of Presence, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Echoing Nostalgia, San Art, curated by Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2013 Under New Management, ODD Gallery, The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture,
curated by Suzanne Carte & Su-Ying Lee, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2013 Translation, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Curated by Rachel Farquharson
2012 Up Against It, Munch Gallery, Manhattan, NY, Curated by Billy Miller
2012 10x10, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2011 Petit-Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, Forever and Today, Manhattan, NY
2011 B-B-B-B-Bad, Anna Kustera Gallery, Manhattan, NY, Curated by Billy Miller and
DougMcClemont
2011 City Speaks; A Conversation at the Dinner Table, Atelier Oliver Kunkel, Presented by
CAT Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2010 No Soul For Sale, K-48 Kontinuum; The Tate Modern, London, England
2010 NY Art Book Fair “Straight To Hell Outpost,” PS1 Long Island City, NY
2010 131, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2010 Geometry and Gesture, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2009 No Soul For Sale, K-48 Kontinuum; X-Initiative, Manhattan, NY
2009 Overlap, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2009 Paper In the Wind, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2009 Summer Camp; Like a Moth to the Flame, Exile, Berlin, Germany
2008 Zwischen, Galerie Stefan Ropke, Cologne, Germany
2008 K-48, John Connelly Presents, Manhattan, NY
2008 O Canada, Gallery MC, Manhattan NY, Curated by Miriam Katz
2008 Parsons MFA Exhibition, The Kitchen, Manhattan NY
2007 Art With Heart, The Carlu with Ritchies Auctioneers and Appraisers, Toronto, ON
2007 Signs of Life, 141 North 7th St, Williamsburg, NY, Curated by David Gibson
2006 Glocal, Canadian Art Foundation, Toronto, ON 2006
2006 Art In The Workplace, The Investors Group in Association with The Toronto Arts Council,
Toronto, ON Curated by William Huffman
Special Projects, Editions, Commissions and Art Fairs
2024 Art Toronto, Mónica Reyes Gallery. Toronto, ON
2023 Combine Art Fair, Mónica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 Kindred Spirits, Unique Multiples, Sarah Belden Fine Art, Madrid, Spain
2017 Art Toronto, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Art Toronto, Division Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 Drawing Now Paris, Paris, France , Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Art Toronto, O’Born Contemporary,Toronto, ON
2014 Drawing Now Paris, Paris, France , Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland 2013
2014 Kunst 13 Zurich, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland 2013
2014 Art Toronto, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2011 The Expat Effect, Canadian Art Dealers Association, The Armory Show, Manhattan NY
2009 Closer To God, Curatorial Project, The AAF, Manhattan, NY
2008 Hide and Seek; Living Room Project, Flux Factory in collaboration with
openhousenewyork, Manhattan, NY
2008 K-48, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
2008 Reading Room, Pulse Art Fair, Manhattan NY, Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak
2005 Perpetual Motion, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International,
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2005 Gallery Commission, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
Residencies
2024 Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2018 I Project Space, Beijing, China
2014 Kunsthalle Roveredo, Roveredo, Switzerland
2011 CAT Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Awards and Distinctions
2024 $10,000.00 Mid-Career Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2020 $10,000.00 Mid-Career Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2019 $3000,00 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2018 $18,500.00 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 $3000.00 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2017 $5000.00 Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2014 $5000.00 Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Dedalus Foundation Fellowship nominee
2006 Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons The New School for Design
2005 $5000.00 Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2003 $4000.00 Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Publications and Press
2024 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist in Residence Interview, Shanghai Daily News, November 2024
2024 Representing and Interpreting Abstraction Today (Art and Visual Culture) essay by Travis
Jeppesen, edited by Alessandro Ferraro, Magütt Publishing, Milan IT
2024 Travis Jeppesen, Signal to Noise, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, June 5 2024
2024 Xenia Benivolski, Signal to Noise, Exhibition Review C Magazine Issue 157, April 2024
2023 Studio Visit, Berlin Art Link https://www.berlinartlink.com/2023/10/20/john-monteith-studio-visit-toronto/
2022 Speculate Grounds: Positions on Beijing’s Transformation, Anna-Viktoria Eschbach & Antonie Angerer
2019 Travis Jeppesen, Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body). Some Notes Toward a Probability, Mousse Magazine 66
www.moussemagazine.it/queer-abstraction-travis-jeppesen-2019
2018 Sheryl Cheung, Kindred Spirits Review, Canadian Art Magazine, December 4 2018 www.canadianart.ca/reviews/john-monteith
2018 Travis Jeppesen, See You Again In Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
2018 Anna Kovler, The Spaces We Inhabit… www.arsenaltorontol.com
2017 Anna Kovler, Alternative Histories www.arsenalmontreal.com
2015 Bojan Zlatkov, Interview, Widewalls, October 2015 www.widewalls.com
2015 Managing Editor, Vector Issue 6, Toronto, July 2015
2014 Associations New @ SALTS, Atractivoquenobello, November 11 2014
2014 John Monteith, In Search of a New City, Vector Issue 5, Berlin, September 2014
2014 Travis Jeppesen, Norko Realism, Art in America, June 2014
2012 Matt Bua and Max Goldfarb, Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawing of Buildings
2012 Bill Clarke, John Monteith, Memorial Day, Magenta Magazine, Fall/Winter 2012
2012 Travis Jeppesen, Shadows and Corners: on John Monteith’s Recent Photos & Paintings
www.disorientations.com
2012 Rachel Anne Farquharson, 10x10 Photo Exhibit a Portrait of Toronto’s Queer Community
www.huffingtonpost.ca
2012 Catalogue, 10x10 Photography Project
2011 Carlos Motta and Joshua Lubin-Levy, Petit-Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public
2011 Rachel Anne Farquharson, John Monteith: Lost Highway, C Magazine, Summer 2011
2011 Jakob Schillinger, Recessional Aesthetics: An Exchange, October 135, Winter 2011
2011 Jarrett Moran, On Our Walls, Artlog February 27 2011 www.artlog.com/posts/1-on-our-walls
2010 Charley Independents, K48 Kontinuum, No Soul For Sale, May 2010
2010 Dick Averns, No Soul for Sale, Material Gestures and Energy and Process
at the Tate Modern akimbo.ca, May 2010
2010 glass, Pop Up Art, May 2010
2010 Times Online, The Editor’s Choice: What to See This Weekend, London, England May 14, 2010
2010 FAD, May 10, 2010
2010 Carol Vogel, Tate Modern Free-for-All, The New York Times, April 22 2010
2009 Sarah Hromack, K-48 Kontinuum, artinamericamagazine.com June 2009
2009 Holland Cotter, No Soul For Sale, The New York Times June 24th 2009
2009 Butt Magazine, Hotnuts, June 2009
2008 K-48, The Space Issue, September 2008
2008 The New Yorker, “O Canada,” October 2008
2007 Behance.com August/September 2007
2007 Daryl Vocat, Pretty Disasters, Xtra, August 30th, 2007
2007 Toro Magazine, November, December 2005
2005 Style, Volume 117, Issue 3, March 2005, Kenneth R. Wilson Silver Medal winner for best
Art Direction of an Opening Spread, Canadian Business Press
2004 Daryl Vocat, am. After Midnight, Xtra, September 16, 2004
2004 Highrise Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2004
2000 Toronto Life, January 2000.
1998 British Good Housekeeping, October 1998.
Teaching/Artist Lectures
Sessional Lecturer, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, The University of Toronto
2020 Queer Abstraction lecture Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax NS
2018 Visiting Artist, The Ontario College of Art and Design University
2016 Artist Talk, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
2013 Panelist, The Past in Words and Images, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2013 Artist Talk, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2012 Artist Talk, Memorial Day, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2011 Artist Talk, Lost Highway, Toronto, ON
2010 Artist Talk, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
2008 Visiting Critic, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
Collections
Scotiabank, Toronto, ON
Tricon Residential, Atlanta, USA
Canada Goose, Berlin, DE
Tricon Residential, San Francisco, USA
Canada Goose, Chengdu, CN
The Canadian Embassy, Ankara, Turkey
Majudia, Montreal, Toronto, Canada
Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Canada
The New School, Manhattan, New York, USA
Torys LLP, Toronto, Canada
TD Bank, Toronto, Canada
BNY Melon, New York, USA
Morris and Associates, London, England