BORN 1965 Montréal, Canada.

EDUCATION

 
1987-1990 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, A.O.C.A. (Experimental Arts).
1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Off Campus Studio, New York, USA.
1999 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Fall Media and Visual Arts Thematic Residency, Banff, Canada.
2000 Art Department of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Artist-in-Residence-Studios, Vienna, Austria.
2004

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artists' Work Programme, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Artists' Residency, ORTE architekturnetzwerk niederösterreich, Krems, Austria.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
2005 Oakville Galleries / Gairloch, Oakville, Canada.
2004 Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
"New Works", State Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001 Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2000 "Spides' World", Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
"Sprawl", Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada.
Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1998 Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1993

Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2003 "Utility Structures - Robin Merkisch and Eric Glavin", Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.
"Four by Four - Shelly Bahl, Eric Glavin, Myfanwy MacLeod, and Jan Noestheden, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Canada.
2002 "Selling Out and Buying In", Biz-Art, Shanghai, China.
Eric Glavin, Robin Merkisch, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2001 Detlef Becherer, Eric Glavin, Robin Merkisch, James Gecelli, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2000 "Painting: The Current Surprise", curated by Julie Sass, Galerie Susanne Højriis, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1999 "Sign Language", curated by Claire Christie, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
"Re: Location", curated by Ingrid Chu, Motor Oil Style Mart, Woodbridge, Canada.
"4 Days at the White House", curated by Eileen Sommerman, 11 Jersey Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
"The Time it Takes to Eat a Sandwich - Recent Video Art from Canada", curated by Michael Buckland, Verein Depot, Vienna, Austria.
1998 "Version City", curated by John Massier, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
"Artifice '98" Part 1 and 2, curated by Marie-Michèle Cron, David Liss, John Massier and Katia Meir, 1550 Metcalfe Les Cours Mont-Royal and Galerie du Centre des arts
"Moonlight On Vermont", curated by John Massier, The Koffler Gallery, North York, Canada.
1997 Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
"Linoleum, Display and Hired Help", SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
1996

"Perspective '96", curated by Jessica Bradley, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
"Fast" (artists' collective exhibition), 520 King Street West, Toronto, Canada.
"Pedestrian", Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Eric Glavin, Anda Kubis, Euan Macdonald, Elizabeth McIntosh, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1995 "Surface Matters" (artists' collective exhibition), 425 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Canada.

1994

"Painting Disorders" (artists' collective exhibition), 455 King Street West, Toronto, Canada.


REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

 
2003 "Industrial settings are playgrounds for neo-minimalist art", Catherine Osborne, National Post,Toronto, Canada, November 1.
Brochure, "Utility Structures", Mercer Union, text by Eric Glavin and Robin Merkisch.
2002 Catalogue, "Selling Out and Buying In", Biz-Art, essay by Natalie De Vito.
2001 "Flatlanders: Collecting the Present in Toronto", Xandra Eden, Border Crossings,, Issue 80, (Pg.35).
"sprawl", Deirdre Hanna, Now Magazine, Toronto, Canada, January 11, (Pg. 53).
2000 "sprawl", Xandra Eden, Lola Magazine, Issue 8, (Pg.86).
"Projects and Projections", R.M. Vaughan, Eye Weekly, Toronto, Canada, October 26, (Pg. 42).
Brochure, "sprawl", Toronto Sculpture Garden, text by Robert Lee.
"New York-Bredgrade tur-retur", Pernille Anker Kristensen, JPKØBENHAVN, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 3, (Pg. 7).
"Abstrakt Maleri med Overreskelser", Lisbeth Bonde, Information, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 4, (Pg. 11).
"Glidende amerikansk frihed", Eva Pohl, Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 1, (Pg. 7).
1999 "Sign Language", Corinna Ghaznavi, d'Art International, Winter Issue, (Pg.40).
"Sign Language", Andrew James Patterson, Lola Magazine, Issue 5, (Pg. 79).
"Vida Suburbia", John Massier, Canadian Art, Fall Issue, (Pg. 119).
Brochure, "Sign Language", Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada, essay by Claire Christie.
"Art meets the shopping mall", Blake Gopnick, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, July 16, (Pg. C9).
"T.O.   artists hit the highway" Si Si Peñaloza, Now Magazine, Toronto, Canada, June 3.
1998 "Northern Light", Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, December 4.
"Way into Control", Carl Skelton, Lola Magazine, Issue 2
Brochure, "Moonlight On Vermont", The Koffler Gallery, essay by John Massier.
"Eric Glavin at Robert Birch", Gillian MacKay, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, June 13, (Pg. G12).
1997 "Perspective 96", Catherine Osborne, Parachute, Summer Issue, (Pg. 53-54).
1996 "Young painters look backwards to find tomorrow's art", Blake Gopnik, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, November 23.
"Painters give off mixed signals", Nathalie Roze Fischer, Now Magazine, Toronto, Canada, December 5.
"New breed of talent", Christopher Hume, The Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada, November 28, (Pg. H11).
Catalogue, "Perspectives '96", Art Gallery of Ontario, essay by Jessica Bradley.
Catalogue, "Juicy Fruit", The Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario, essay by John Massier.
1995 "Young painters prove you can't pin good art down", John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, November   4, (Pg. C15).
Catalogue, "Niche", essays by Gordon Hatt and John Massier.
"Misrule at the Apollo", John Armstrong, C Magazine, Winter Issue, (Pg. 50-51).
1994 "The Big Picture", Oliver Girling, Eye Weekly, Toronto, Canada, November 24, (Pg. 46-47).
"Exhibit Explores Curnoe's Identity Obsession", Christopher Hume, Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada, June 2, (Pg. H7).
Catalogue, "Misrule at the Apollo", essays by Oliver Girling and Jennifer McMackon.

1993

Brochure, Mercer Union, essay by John Massier.