Miklos Nikolaus Legrady 310 Bathurst st. Toronto, ON, M5T2S3 647-292-1846 legrady@me.com www.legrady.com EDUCATION 1985 Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Media Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Qc 1978 Bachelor of Science, Photography, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. / S.U.N.Y. Purchase N.Y. PUBLISHED WRITING 2022 An Autopsy of Canadian Art Magazine, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), April. 2021 Kate Brown, the next generation Yayoi Kusam.The Ritz Herald, N.Y. Sept. 2021 Iain Baxter& & the Ampers&.New Art Examiner (U.K.) . August. 2021 Scouting the Blog with Miklos Legrady New Art Examiner (U.K.). April. 2021 Iain Baxter& - From Art in America to Art in Ampersand. The Ritz Herald, N.Y., March. 2021 Eldon Garnet's Visual Language The Ritz Herald, N.Y., Jan. 2020 MOCA Toronto + The Trendy Thing New Art Examiner (U.K.) . Dec. 2020 Diane Lingenfelter, Among Toronto Artists The Ritz Herald, N.Y., Dec. 2020 Against Racism, Against Sexism, Against Ageism New Art Examiner (U.K.) . Nov. 2020 Bruce Barber Lighthouses Came First, The Ritz Herald, N.Y., September 2020 Rae Johnson, When An Artist Dies, The Ritz Herald, N.Y., September. 2020 Amy Bassin review, In Praise of Strong Spines, Tussle Magazine, N.Y., July 2020 The Artwork of The Naked Ape, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), July 2020 Bruce Barber’s Littoral Act and Communicative Action. The Ritz Herald, N.Y., June 2020 Information Theory, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), April-May 2020 New York Feels Empty, Notes from 1995, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), April-May 2020 La lecture visuel comme expérience de pensée, conference panelist Scénographie & Technologie #3 by Franck Ancel, Paris, France, May. 2020 Anatoli Vlassov Dance During COVID-19, The Ritz Herald, N.Y., April. 2020 Scouting the Blogs with Miklos Legrady, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), Jan.-Feb. 2019 #CulturalAppreciation, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), Nov.-Dec. 2019 Investment Risk In Contemporary Art, The Ritz Herald, N.Y., November. 2019 DIAPHONER with Iain Baxter& & Anatoli Vlassov, Tussle Magazine, New York, N.Y., November. 2019 Scouting the Blogs with Miklos Legrady, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), July-August 2019 Scouting the Blogs with Miklos Legrady, New Art Examiner, (U.K.), May-June 2019 David Urban @ Corkin gallery, Tussle Magazine, (New York), March 2019 Bruno Billio / Tron 209, Tussle Magazine, (New York), March 2019 Decenter Redux II, YYZ artist outlet publications, Toronto, ON. 2019 Duchamp and the science of art, Contemporary Aesthetics, RISD (New York), February 2018 Rae Jonhson in Toronto, Painting in Canada, New Art Examiner (U.K.), December 2018 Jerry Saltz and the devil in disguise, New Art Examiner (U.K.) March. 2018 Duchamp, who proved that art isn't anything you can get away with, Grimsby Art Gallery Opening lecture for the Art Café Lecture Series, Jan. 19, Grismby ON. 2017 The Curious Case of Marcel Duchamp, part1, New Art Examiner (U.K.) Ill. 2017 The Curious Case of Marcel Duchamp, part2, New Art Examiner (U.K.) Ill. 2017 Destabilizing Marcel Duchamp, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2017, Arts and Opinion (Montreal) 2017 Ydessa Hendeles, The Milliner's Daughter, Tussle Magazine, N.Y. 2017 Deconstructing Walter Benjamin, R.I.S.D. Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics, N.Y. 2016 Deconstructing Walter Benjamin, conversations.e.flux, N.Y. 2016 She paints it personal, Rae Johnson, Tussle Magazine, N.Y. 2015 Walter Benjamin & semiotic art in the age of digital comprehension, Hamliton Art & Letters, Hamilton, ON. 2015 Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari, the Gods that failed. Maple Tree Literary Supplement. Ottawa, ON 2015 Martin Luther Paradigm, Kapsula Magazine, Toronto, ON. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Doggy Dog, Phunky London Gallery, Toronto, ON 2019 Théorie de l'art sur Facebook, Phunky London Gallery, Toronto, ON 2018 Théorie de l'art sur Facebook, Phunky London Gallery, Toronto, ON 2014 War! Installation, Roadside Attractions, weseeinc.com, Toronto, ON. 2010 The Effect of Gamma Rays, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB. 2009 Adding Insult to Imagery, Paul Petro Special Projects, Toronto, ON. 2008 Fountain of Doom, Centennial College/Centre for Creative Communication, 2008 Fountain of Doom, Centennial College/Wallace Studio, Toronto, ON. 2007 Fountain of Doom, White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON. 2007 No Bad Art, OCAD street interventions, Toronto, ON. 2007 No Bad Art, street interventions, Toronto, ON. 2003 Chocolate Covered Fish, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2002 Chocolate Covered Fish, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2001 Traumwelt, Cameron Public House, Toronto, ON. 1997 Traumwelt, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. 1996 Neither Marx nor Jesus, K.O.A.P., New York, N.Y. 1995 No Bad Art, street interventions, Collective Unconscious, New York, N.Y. 1995 Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Limelight, New York, N.Y. 1994 Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Collective Unconscious, New York, N.Y. 1994 Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Gas Station, New York, N.Y. 1993 Notes from the Lab, The Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory, New York, N.Y. 1993 Visual Language, Educational Alliance, New York, N.Y. 1991 Surprised? It’s Art! Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, Qc. 1991 20th Century Images, Artspace, Peterborough, ON. 1991 20th Century Images, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 1987 Mythical Creatures With Human Features, Focus Gallery, Montréal, Qc 1987 Catastrophy Theory, Vu Gallery, Québec, Québec. 1986 Catastrophy Theory, Photographers’ Union, Hamilton, 1985 Catastrophy Theory, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta. 1985 Catastrophy Theory, Garnet Press, Toronto, ON. 1985 I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Center Eye Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1985 I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON. 1984 I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Optica Gallery, Montréal, Qc., Québec. 1984 I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Mistletoe Magic 2021, Jogn B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON. Dec. 2020 Painting 2020, Jogn B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON. Oct.-Dec. 2020 Ontario Society of Artists online exhibition, Toronto, ON. Oct.-Dec. 2020 100,000 Poets For Change Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, ON. Sept. 2020 Dog Days, John B. Aird gallery, Toronto, ON August/Sept. 2020 Terminalia 2020: Walking Women, ARTIFACTS, Grange Park, Toronto, ON 2019 Has the artist been paid? with ARTIFACTS, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON 2019 Hair Stories, Nancy Buchanan book, 25 artists, Los Angeles, CA 2019 FACIO, with ARTIFACTS, Carbon Art and Design, Picton, ON 2018 The Listening Ground, with ARTIFACTS, Eco Art 2018, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON 2018 Re:animation/ ![]() 2018 Among Questions Raised, with ARTIFACTS, Ontario Society of Artists, 145th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto, ON 2016 Ted Hiebert - Imaginary Friend, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, B.C. 2015 Feminist FOMO NOMO, with ARTIFACTS, OCADU, Toronto, ON 2015 Feminist Architecture, with ARTIFACTS, Artscape/Youngplace, Toronto, ON. 2015 Feminist Architecture, with ARTIFACTS, OCADU, Toronto, ON. 2015 WIFF, Wardrobe International Film Festival, Roadside Attractions, Toronto, ON 2014 Agency of Unrealized Projects, Vidkole & Aranda, http://e-flux.com/aup/#, New York, NY 2014 The In-Tension2, Seiji Shimoda, Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon (ISBA), France, and epitelesis Performance Art Foundation, Athens, Greece 2013 The In-Tension, Seiji Shimoda, epitelesis Performance Art Foundation, Athens, Greece 2013 Darkness at the Edge, curated by Thom Sokoloski, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2013 Narrow and Wide, Scotiabank CONTACT 2013, IX Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2013 ARTIFACTS performance group, Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, ON. 2012 ARTIFACTS performance group, Pentimenti, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON. 2012 ARTIFACTS performance group, Individual Points of Fiction, A Space, Toronto, ON. 2012 Timeraiser, Framework Foundation, Ottawa ON. 2012 Timeraiser, Framework Foundation, Edmonton AB 2012 ArtToronto.ca Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2012 Contacting Toronto, Scotiabank CONTACT 2012, TTC subway platform screens, Toronto, ON. 2012 Dreamworld Color, Scotiabank CONTACT 2012, Junction Dundas West, Toronto, ON. 2012 Artist's Book of the Moment, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON. 2012 An Artists' Affair, Artists' Health Centre Foundatio, Carlu, Toronto, ON. 2012 Bank On Art, Artworks displayed on ATM machines, curated by Kelly McCray, Toronto, O 2012 Big Art Book digital anthology, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, ON. 2011 Timeless, curated by Moses Znaimer, Direct Energy Centre, CNE, and Twist Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2011 Spin 7, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 2011 Renewal, Courvoisier Collective, Toronto, ON. 2011 Passages, Art Gallery of Peel, Peel, ON. 2011 Public bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON. 2011 With Us At Every Age, CONTACT Photography Festival, I.M.A. Gallery, Ryerson U., Toronto, ON. 2010 Gallery Artists, Moos Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2010 Colliers, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. 2010 Nuit Blanche, Fountain of Doom, Moos Gallery/Milagio Rest., Toronto, ON. 2010 (And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales, 2-person show, Grimsby Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON. 2010 Exposed: The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON. 2010 SNAP - AIDS committee, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2010 The Kingston Prize 2009, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Waddington’s Auction House, Toronto, ON., Acadian University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Grand Theatre, Kingston, ON. 2009 Area Artist Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. 2008 Evil Ducky, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, ON. 2008 Evil Ducky, Durham Gallery, Silent Auction, Durham, ON. 2008 Evil Ducky and the Fountain of Doom, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON. 2008 Timeraiser, Framework Fundation, Vancouver, BC 2008 Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON. 2008 No Bad Art 2008, Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond, Art In The Hall, Toronto, ON. 2008 Blink, CONTACT Photography Festival, Evil Ducky, Centennial College/Wallace Studios, Toronto, ON. 2007 The Anonymous Art Awards, Rhyzome.org, New York. 2007 The Artworld Eats Its Own, with Artcrime: Ulysses Castellanos, sheetalina, Aliyyah Fazil, Miklos Legrady. Alter Toronto, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON. 2007 Public bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON. 2007 No Bad Art 2007, Nuit Blanche, Dyan Marie Projects, Bloor Nightlight, Toronto, ON. 2007 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA 2007 The Kingston Prize, Honourable Mention, Canadian Portraiture - Painting competition, Kingston, ON. 2007 PROPAGANDA III, (touring) START SOMA gallery, San Fransisco, CA 2007 12 ON 12, CCCA benefit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON. 2006 Photorama, TPW / Toronto Photography Workshop, Toronto, ON. 2006 Paint Jam, Dyan Marie Projects, Toronto, ON. 2006 Public bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON. 2006 Nike/OCAD Benefit, Joga Bonito, Queen st. west, Toronto, ON. 2006 Toronto Art Expo, Toronto School of Art, Metro Convention Centre - Toronto, ON. 2005 Ability, Steamwhistle Gallery, Toronto ON. 2005 Dexteritas , The Cryptic Canvas, Distillery District, Toronto, ON. 2005 Queen west Art Scum Garage Sale, MOCCA, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON. 2005 5th Anniversary Group Show, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2004 Slowtime?........ Cinematheque by Agricola de Cologne, Le-musée Divisioniste Cologne, Germany 2003 Fanny Larouche Artspace, Toronto, ON. 2003 Artists Legal Advice Services (ALAS), Toronto, ON. 2003 December Group show, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2003 Works on Paper, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON. 2002 Lacademie Amiens, Amiens, France. 2003 Le Médiathèque du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Qc., 2001 A Kodak Moment. Publikation Uden Navn. København Denmark 2001 Taking On Colour Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON. 2001 Cultural Resistance, Studio Cleo, London,UK.. 2001 Artcrimes, ARCO-EL MUNDO Net-Art, Madrid, Spain. 2001 ArtCrimes, Wigged.net. April - May 2001, New York, N.Y 2001 Holokaust, Art of / Art Against Torture and Execution The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad Russia, 2000 Holokaust, INFOS 2000 "net.art" Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2000 Holokaust, Rhizome Artbase, an online documentation and preservation archive for Internet art http://www.rhizome.org/artbase New York, N.Y. 2000 ArtCrimes, Art on the Net 2000. http://art.by.arena.ne.jp/mcmogatk/ Machida, Japan. 1999 Kosovo War, An Internet Project. Postmasters Gallery, New York, N. Y. 1998 Internet Kovek, Magyar Kulturahaz, Budapest, Hungary 1998 Internet Galaxy, Iparmuveszti Museum, Budapest, Hungary Fluxus, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1997 Theatre of Objects, Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, Yukon. 1997 Theatre of Objects Michigan State U., East Lansing. M.I 1996 The Tunnel, curated by Michael Alig, New York, N.Y. 1996 KOAP Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1995 Pseudo Inc., Prodigy Internet. New York, N.Y. 1993 Artists in Residence, Interference Hologram Gallery, Toronto, ON. 1992 Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa ,ON. 1991 Theatre of Objects, Exxon Cntr. Calgary, Alberta. 1991 Theatre of Objects, Musée de la Civilisation, touring Québec. 1991-1996 Le Réel et ces Simulacres, Centre nationale d’exposition, Jonquière, Centre d’exposition Plein Sud, Longueil, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Palais Montcalm, Québec, Délégation générale du Québec, Paris, France, Halle au Blé, Normandie, France, Espace Contretype, Bruxelles, Belgique. 1990 Optica Gallery, Montréal, Qc 1989 Mirabile Visu (Faire Image), Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, Qc. 1989 Power Plays, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1989 Power Plays, Canada House, London and tour of England. 1989 Foto Fest, Houston, Texas. 1988 Foto Fest, Houston, Texas. 1985 Garnet Press, Toronto, ON. 1983 Latitudes & Parallels, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Man. 1978 Hansen Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1978 Optica Gallery, Montréal, Que. 1978 Open Studio, Victoria, B.C. 1977 National Film Board, Stills Photography Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 1976 George Legrady / Miklos Legrady, A Space, Toronto, ON. 1975 Chair Show, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. 1975 Exposure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 1973 Photography and Cinema, Cinemathèque québecoise, Montréal, Qc. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2022 Website design and coding for Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee of ARTIFACTS. 2021 Collaboration with Iain Baxter& - http://www.mikidot.com. 2017-2021 Toronto Editor New Art Examiner. U.K. 2020 Web design of Covid-19 Anxiety, Pam Patterson, Joanna Black, Daniel Payne. 2020 Web design and post-production video editing of Fluting Isolation, by Pam Patterson. 2020 PHONESIC PERFORMAGRAPHY, Dance and photography, Collaboration between Miklos Legrady and Anatoli Vlassov Online covid-19 project. Paris, France - Toronto, Canada. 2020 Presenter, Scenography & Technology Symposium #3, Franck Ance, Paris, France. 2012-2020 Performance photographer ARTIFACTS feminist performance group. 2019 PHONESIC PERFORMAGRAPHY, Dance and photography, Collaboration between Miklos Legrady and Anatoli Vlassov Fletcher's Field, Angel Statue, Av. du Parc, Montreal, Canada 2019 Jury for TD THOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT 2019 ART PRIZE Olga Korper, Miklos Legrady, Carrie Shibinsky jurors. 2018 The curious case of Marcel Duchamp, Opening lecture for the 2018 Art House Café Lecture Series, Grimsby Art Gallery, Grimbsy ON 2018 A view from the easel, Hyperallergic, July, https://hyperallergic.com/449605/a-view-from-the-easel-92/ 2015 Photography documentation, ArtNow/Expectations, curated by TIMEANDDESIRE (Denise St. Marie and Timothy Walker), TOAE, Toronto, ON. 2006-2013 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Documentation website; web design/production, team leader of video/photography documentation, for the City of Toronto and the Canadian Art Database, www.ccca.ca, Toronto, ON. 2001-2013 Art director, web designer, the Canadian Art Database, www.ccca.ca, Toronto, ON. 2005-2012 Digital Art and Photography Instructor, Toronto School of Art. 2011 Short listed to paint the commissioned portrait of the Speaker of the House of Commons. 2002-2009 Performance photography for FADO, Toronto performance series 2008 OAAG, videography for Art Institutions and the Feminist Dialectic, Toronto, ON. 2002 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, October 31 - November 10, 2002 http://www.imageandtext.org.nz/bruce_work_scraping.html 2001 Roma Cszernysz @ Caffeine. Lola shotgun review. December 2001 Researcher, Sheridan College, Knowledge Transformation Environment, Oakville, ON. 1999 CD-ROM production, Feature Films History series, Hungarian Film Institute, Budapest 1998 Visiting Professor, Internet Design, Fine Arts Academie. Budapest, Hungary. 1998 Narrative in Stalinist Newsreels of the 1950's: an Internet and CD-ROM project conceived by George Legrady, produced in association with George Legrady and Varga Ballas; produced in conjunction with the Hungarian Film Institute, Budapest, and the C3 Soros Foundation, Budapest 1997 CD ROM production, George Legrady's From Analog to Digital / Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, Germany http://www.fondation-langlois.org/legrady/ 1995 Internship, Artists Space, New York 1994 Collective Unconscious Spoken Word, Columbia University Poetry, WKCR-FM 1994 Co-founder and associate director, the Collective Unconscious, New York 1994 Bosch Food Chain: performance artist and assistant director in a work by Dan Green, The Mustard Factory, New York 1993 Associate director, Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory. New York 1993 Jury for A.I.R., Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON. 1992 Special effects images, Oneira Films International, Beverly Hills, California 1992 Artist-in-residence, Polaroid Corp. Studio, New York. 1992 Artist-in-residence, Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON. 1991 Cultural representative, Québec/ Belgium Commission. 1990 Administration staff, Optica Gallery, Montréal, Qc. 1985 Computer animation at Colorization , Toronto, ON. 1981 Researcher, McCord Museum Photographic Archives, Montréal, Qc. 1980 Photography instructor, Dawson College, Montréal, Qc. 1979 Graphic production, CBC French Language News, Toronto, ON. 1977 Columnist, Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York 1975 Researcher, W5 News, C.T.V., Toronto COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON. Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa,ON Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON. Nikon Canada Ltd., Montréal, Qc Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON. Polaroid Corp., Boston, Massachusetts University of Ottawa, ON. Myra Goddard Research Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Rhizome Artbase, New York, N.Y. Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA. Private collections BIBLIOGRAPHY Note: an asterisk [*] after an entry indicates an exhibition catalogue. D'arcy Sardone on Miklos Legrady, The Science of Beauty. The Market Herald, Jan. 2022 Walk-Listen-Create, Terminalia 2020: Walking Women February2020 Jonny Dovercourt (Wavelength), Any Night of the Week: A DIY History of Toronto Music 1957-2001, Coach House Books. 2019 Rachel Greene, Internet Art, 2018, A book published by Thames and Hudson, London U.K. Cardboard Paintings, Miklos Legrady, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 9.1, 2016 Interview Earth Magazine Toronto, January 2017 Painting cover image, We Have to Watch, Geoff Nilson, Quilliad Press, February 2016 Lisa McMahon and the Death of Painting, Fjords Review · Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. Fall/Winter 2015/2016 Whipping the dead horse of painting, NuWork magazine, Spring. 2015. Fountain of Doom, Agency Magazine, Vancouver, BC. 2007 Fountain of Doom, Grimm Magazine, Kitchener, ON. 2007 Beau. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1992.* Blackflash (Saskatoon) (1989). Gosselin, Gaétan. The question of politics in current Québec photography. Latitudes and Parallels. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.* Miles, Geoff. Miklos Legrady at Garnet Press. Vanguard (Vancouver) (1985). Mirabile Visu. Hull, Quebec: Musée de la Civilisation, 1990.* New Works: Artists Supplement. C Magazine (Toronto), no. 7 (1985). Obsessive Love. Cedar Tavern issue. Unbearables Magazine (New York), no. 2 (1995). Power Plays. Edinburgh: Stills Gallery, 1989.* Souvenir-Écran. Quebec: Vu Gallery, 1994.* Chair Show. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.* Exposure. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.* |