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Douglas Walker, born 1958 in Brockville, Ontario, is internationally toured and widely acclaimed Canadian artist. His disparate media articulates a finely wrought vision of the beautiful residing in the strange.
Walker studied at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD) and throughout the ‘80s his emerging work in photo-drawing, photography, and sculpture received wide praise. By the ‘90s painting became his preferred expression and he recently reduced his palette to the blue and white which he is known for today.
Walker’s work has captured extensive media and critical attention wherever exhibited. Exhibitions of his work were held in London at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICU); in New York at Dia Art Foundation, 49th Parallel, and Wallwalls; in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), The Power Plant, YYZ Artists Outlet, and Mercer Union; and across Canada at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Dunlop Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Walker was the focus of a travelling mid-career retrospective, curated by The Mendel Art gallery, and an overview of his career was featured at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art gallery.
Currently, Walker is developing Cloudflower, a two-story porcelain mural for the City of Markham’s new recreation centre and is touring the solo show Other Worlds, an exhibition of architecturally-scaled paintings, across six major galleries in Canada.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca