Transit Gallery






Selected Exhibitions


2009 Solo: Transit Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2009 Travelling Exhibition: 2006-09 Don Jean-Louis - Silver Works, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery &
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Itinerary:   The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 23 November 2006 – 14; January 2007;  Rodman Hall/Brock University, St. Catherines, 4 May – 1 July, 2007;   McMaster Museum of Art/McMaster University, 22 November; 2007 – 19 January 2008;  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 19 September 2008 – 4 January 2009

2008 Photography 101: push the button, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI.

2007 Installation of J.G. Ballard's Pool (1966-67), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary conference "New
World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness," Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada.

2005 Solo: Light Interruption/Photography, Lehmann + Leskiw Fine Art, Toronto:  March

2002 Solo: Zypr Gallery, Toronto. Monoprints and recent paintings: March
2002 Threshold, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto. Works selected from entries to the 8th Annual Canadian Printmaking Competition. Organized by Ernst & Young.
2002 Crack, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston

2001 Solo: All Things Being Equal/Nights of the Qualicum, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna,  BC: 19 October - 19 November.
2001
Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia:  22 November 2001 - February 2002.

2000   Archive Inc. Gallery & Art Library:  April 1 to May 27. Curator, Gary Michael Dault

 
1997
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of North York, Ontario

1995-6 How Red Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton: 5 October 1995 - 18 February 1996

1994-5 Prosperity Returns: The Oral Tradition in Painting, Art Gallery of Hamilton:  17 November 1994 - 12 March 1995

1993 Culture-Nature (The Metaphorical Instrument), Art Gallery of Hamilton: 1 September-31 October

1992 Small Villages, The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, 1956-1991, Art Gallery of Hamilton:  10 September - 11 October

1989 The Other Painting: Abstraction and Painting in Canada, 1957-1988, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

1988 The Other Painting: Abstraction and Painting in Canada, 1957-1988 (see above), RCA Gallery, Toronto (sponsored by The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto)

1987 La Scripta, Lavalin Gallery, Montreal

1986 Solo: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto. Concave and convex mirrors, black and silver pigment works on  4x8 foot plywood: 1 November - 2 December

1985 Solo: Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto.  Large-scale black and silver pigment works on canvas, photographs  and early drawings: 20 April - 8 through May

1982
(Still) Not Suitable for Framing (commissioned audiowork for cassette, in conjunction with sound installation exhibition, Not Suitable for
Framing), The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto

1982 Six Propositions (for communicating), The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto

1979 Action/Reaction, The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina Light/Four/Play, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto Pulse/Process, York University Fine Arts on Markham, Toronto

1978 From The Electric Gallery, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
1978 Invisible Energy, Winnipeg Art Gallery

1977 Solo: The Electric Gallery, Toronto. 10 Year Survey 1967 - 1977:  8 October - 3 November
1977
From Electrical Fires, Spirits May Be Kindled, Vancouver Art Gallery
1977 Art 7/77, Basel, Switzerland
1977
Koln Art Fair, West Germany

1976 Solo: The Electric Gallery, Toronto.  Neon installations: 11 - 30 September
1976 Electric Art in Boxes, The Electric Gallery, Toronto
1976 Ontario Now, organized and mounted by the Art Gallery of Hamilton,circulated to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery)

1975 Solo: The Electric Gallery, Toronto.  Neon installations
1975
Rotterdamse Kunstichting, Rotterdam, Holland

1974 Le Musée Electrique, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
1974 Espace V, Montreal
1974 Art 5'74, Basle, Switzerland
1974 Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario

1973 Solo: The Electric Gallery, Toronto.  Installation of wax, light, and sound tapes
1973
The Electric Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton

1972 Artario: an experiment in art education involving the work of 21 Canadian artists, sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council, the Art
Gallery of York University, and Erindale College (University of Toronto)

1969   Solo: The Isaacs Gallery Toronto.  The Nature of the Media is to Expose, Part 1 (April).   The Nature of the Media is to Expose, Part 2, subtitled, Last April's Content is this September's Environment: 2 - 22 September.    Video camera and tape, concave and convex mirrors
 
1969   Solo: 20/20 Gallery, London, Ontario
 
1969 Solo: Environmental installation for Kaleidago, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

1968
Jocox Gallery, Edmonton

1967 Solo: Illuminations, The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.   Vacuum-formed plastic and neon sculptures: 11 April - 1 May
1967 Plastic Show, Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental Gallery: 27 October - 14 November.  Works exhibited, "Nocturnal Flower" and "White Night" Canada: The New Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, circulated to the University of Guelph, Ontario
1967 The Men Choose, Art Gallery of Ontario,  10 Feburary - 5 March.  Work exhibited, "Fragments of a Landscape, Plan 7"
1967 The Ontario Centennial Art Exhibition (administered by the Art Institute of Ontario for the Province of Ontario Council for the Arts).  Art Gallery of Ontario - 22 September - 15 October. Circulation: London Regional Art Gallery and 20/20 Gallery, 26 October - 28 November, 1967;  Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 7-28 January, 1968; Lakehead University 15 February - 9 March 1968; Laurentian University, Sudbury, 22 March - 12 April 1968; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 26 April - 17 May  1968;  Art Gallery of Windsor, 29 May - 27 June 1968; Art Gallery of Hamilton 4 - 27 October 1968; Belleville Library & Art Gallery, 15 November - 15 December 1968; Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal 31 October - 15 December, 1969; Rodman Hall, St. Catherines, June 1969; Musée du Quebec, Quebec City, 30 April - 30 May, 1969.
1967
Environment Installation for Kalied-ago, Art Gallery of Ontario.

1966
Canadian Water Colours, Drawings and Prints, National Gallery of Canada

1965 Solo: Canadian Association of Architects, Toronto
1965
Festival of the Arts, Wales and England
1965 Invitation Drawing Show, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, 15 March - 3 April

1964 Solo: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto.  Black tempera paintings and ink drawings: 3 - 23 December
1964    Solo: Blue Barn Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.  Black tempera paintings and ink drawings
 
1964 The Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
1964 The Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery (received honourable mention award)
1964 Women's Committee Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec Lugano International Exhibition, Switzerland, organized by the National Gallery of Canada

1963 Solo: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. Ink drawings and monoprints: 28 March - 13 April
1963 Solo: Towne Cinema, Toronto.    Ink and graphite drawings
1963 The Contemporary Art of the Americas and Spain.  Opened in Madrid (May 1963), travelled to public galleries in Venice, Paris, Rome and
Stockholm
1963 Spring Show, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec The Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Toronto May-June. Work exhibited, "Four Organic Forms

1962 Biennial Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery
1962 London Public Library and Art Museum
1962 Victoria College, University of Toronto (organized by Douglas Duncan of the Picture Loan Society, Toronto)

1961 Solo: The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto. Ink Drawings and Monoprints. 29 September - 19 October
1961 The Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton

1960 Solo: Exhibition Hall, Toronto. Ink Drawings




Harold Klunder
Robert Creighton
Matthew Varey
Fiona Kinsella
Leslie Sorochan

Don Jean-Louis
Michael Allgoewer
Laurie Kilgour
Steve Mazza
Andrew McPhail
Martin Pearce
John W. Ford
     


Don Jean-Louis - Selected Public Collections

National Gallery of Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (transfer from the Lavalin Collection)
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
University of Western Ontario, London
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, U.S.A
Canada Council Art Bank (works transerred to the collections of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Agnes Etherington Gallery)
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant (transfer from the Douglas Duncan Collection to the Brantford Art Gallery)
Museum London (transfer from the Douglas Duncan Collection to the London Public Library and Art Museum)



Commissions

Joseph Sheppard Building, Federal Government of Canada, North York
CIL House, North York
Canadian Embassy, Beijing, China


Dealing in contemporary Canadian art, Transit Gallery is located in the heart of Locke Street, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Currently Representing Harold Klunder, Matthew Varey, Fiona Kinsella, Robert Mason, Frances Ward, Robert Creighton, Micheal Allgoewer, Terence Kinsella, and Laurie Kilgor.