Leslie Poole

Born : 3 May 1942, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Lives : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

B.F.A.: 1967, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

M.F.A.: 1970, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS *Museum/Public Gallery

2013 -Calgary, AB, Wallace Galleries (About Art))

-Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Crows and More)

2011 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Making the Past Present)

-Calgary, AB, Virginia Christopher Fine Art (A Look Into a Forty Year Career)

2010 -Victoria, BC, Winchester Galleries (After Manet)

2009 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (After Manet)

2008 -Vancouver, BC, Marilyn Mylrea Gallery (Off Road)

2007 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Las Meninas)

2006 -Victoria, BC, Winchester Galleries (Canadian Landscapes)

-Vancouver, BC, Marilyn Mylrea Gallery (In Your Face - Portraits)

2005 -Vancouver, BC, Marilyn Mylrea Gallery (Women/Power)

-Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Eastern Landscapes)

2004 *-Vancouver, BC, Roundhouse Centre Gallery (Celebrating the Body:

A collaboration with the Vancouver International Dance Festival)

*-Vancouver, BC, Simon Fraser University Downtown Gallery

(Art As Technology: in conjunction with the Modernist Studies Association International Conference)

2003 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Now & Then: Selected works 1976-2003)

2002 -Calgary, AB, Virginia Christopher Fine Art (Appetite and Desire)

2001 -Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Appetite and Desire)

-Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Appetite and Desire)

2000 *-Burnaby, BC, Burnaby Art Gallery (Leslie Poole’s Diary)

-Victoria, BC, Winchester Galleries (After Bonnard)

1999 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (Aspen paintings)

-Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Landscape with Cows paintings)

1998 -Vancouver BC, Heffel Gallery (Shadow/Light: new paintings)

-Victoria, BC, Winchester Galleries (Landscapes: An Overview)

1997 -Edmonton, AB, Scott Gallery (New Directions)

-Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Shadow Paintings)

1996 -Victoria, BC, Winchester Galleries

*-Vancouver, BC, Teck Gallery, SFU at Harbour Centre (Memento Mori)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Landscape with Cows)

1995 -Edmonton, AB, Kathleen Laverty Gallery (“Current Concerns”)

*-Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery (Memento Mori)

1994 -Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Tulip paintings)

-Toronto, ON, Madison Gallery (Aspens)

1993 -Toronto, ON, Madison Gallery (Cleansed Palette paintings)

-Edmonton, AB, Kathleen Laverty Gallery (Children/Tulip paintings)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED)

1992-94 *-Richmond, BC, Richmond Art Gallery

(“Through the Looking Glass: Self Portraits of Leslie Poole”). Touring to: Grande Prairie, AB; Kelowna, BC; Nanaimo, BC; Prince George, BC; Halifax, NS; Fredericton, NB; & Kamloops, BC

1992 -Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (Basic Black/White paintings)

-Toronto, ON, Madison Gallery (Goddess/Rock & Water paintings)

1991 -Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (Montage series)

*-Surrey, BC, Surrey Art Gallery (Encounters with the Goddess:

1981-1991)

-Edmonton, AB, Kathleen Laverty Gallery (After Manet paintings)

1990 *-Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery

(AFTER YALE: 1970-1976)

1989-90 *-Penticton, BC, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan

(DUALITIES: A 15 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, 1974-1989)

Touring to: Grand Forks, BC

1989 -Ottawa, ON, Robertson Galleries (Stanley Park Landscapes)

-Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Still Life paintings/drawings)

-Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (After Manet paintings)

-Los Angeles, CA, Wade Gallery (Paintings/drawings)

-Edmonton, AB, Kathleen Laverty Gallery (Still Life paintings)

1988 -Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery ((Stanley Park Landscapes)

-Toronto, ON, Quan-Schieder Gallery (Still Life paintings/drawings)

-Los Angeles, CA, Wade Gallery (Still Life paintings/drawings)

1987 -Chicago, IL, Gilman/Gruen Galleries (Water Lilies & Rhododendron

paintings)

-Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (Family Portraits)

-Ottawa, ON, Robertson Galleries (Recent paintings/drawings)

*-Richmond, BC, Richmond Art Gallery (LANDSCAPES: 1983-1987)

1986 -Toronto, ON, Quan-Schieder Gallery (Overview: 1970-1986)

-Edmonton, AB, Kathleen Laverty Gallery (Paintings/drawings)

-Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Nature series)

-Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (Rhododendron paintings/Figure

drawings)

1985 -Toronto, ON, Madison Gallery (Water Lilies)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Water Lilies & Figures)

-Ottawa, ON, Robertson Galleries (Landscapes, Neo-Baroque series)

-Vancouver, BC, Crown Gallery (Lithographs)

1984-87 *-Vancouver, BC, Charles H. Scott Gallery (Drawing Retrospective).

Touring to: Edmonton, AB; Grande Prairie, AB; Banff, AB.

1984 -Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Landscapes)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Neo-Baroque series)

-Edmonton, AB, Hett Gallery (10 Years of Figurative Paintings

& Drawings)

-Toronto, ON, Madison Gallery (Children, Landscapes, Neo-Baroque)

-Chicago, IL, Gilman Galleries (Landscapes)

*-San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-Rental

Gallery (Children paintings)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED)

1983 -Ottawa, ON, Robertson Galleries (Irises)

-Montreal, PQ, The Shayne Gallery (Irises)

-Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Children)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Landscapes)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Children)

1982 -Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Women)

-Vancouver, BC, Heffel Gallery (Irises)

-Edmonton, AB, Lefebvre Galleries (Man in the Bath & Irises)

-Ottawa, ON, Robertson Galleries (Montages)

-Regina, SK, Susan Whitney Gallery ( Still Life)

-Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Woman)

1981 -Calgary, AB, Canadian Art Galleries (Cherry Trees)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Cherry Trees)

-Edmonton, AB, Lefebvre Galleries (Works on paper)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Montages)

1980 -Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Hydrangeas)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Lithograph exhibition)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Still Life)

-Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Self Portraits)

1979 -Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Man in the Bath)

*-Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery (Self Portraits)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Orchids)

1978 *-Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia A.M.S. Art Gallery

(Studios)

-Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Sails)

-Toronto, ON, Bau-Xi Gallery (Studios)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Sails)

1977 -Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Studios)

1975 *-Penticton, BC, Penticton Art Gallery (Clouds)

-Vancouver, BC, Bau-Xi Gallery (Clouds)

1973-74 *-Charlottetown, PE, Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Recent

paintings). Touring to: St. John’s, NF; Fredericton, NB;

Ottawa, ON; Edmonton, AB; & Victoria, BC.

1970 -Toronto, ON, Nightingale Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUM/JURIED)

2013 -Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PE (Quotation)

2010 -MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (Art in Bloom: Summer Dreams)

2006 -Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (New Acquisitions)

2005 -Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (25 years - 25 artists: 1980-2005)

2004 -Surrey, BC, Surrey Art Gallery (‘Face to Face’)

2003 -Charlottetown, PE (Confederation Centre Art Gallery)

2001 -Surrey, BC, Surrey Art Gallery (Selections from the Permanent Collection)

2000 -Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery (Colouring the West: A Century of BC Painting)

1999 -Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Five Out of Five)

1998 -Kamloops, BC, Kamloops Art Gallery (Home Base)

1996 -Richmond, BC, Richmond Art Gallery (Returning Artists)

1995 -Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery (New Acquisitions)

1992 -Montreal, PQ, Saidye Bronfman Centre (25th Anniversary Exhibition)

1990-91 -Moscow, ID, University of Idaho Gallery (Within Range).

Touring to: Great Falls, MT, and Missoula, MT.

1989 -Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery (The Cult of the

Mountain)

-Vancouver, BC, (Fear of Others: Art Against Racism).

Touring to: Sacramento, CA; Montreal, PQ; Toronto, ON;

Winnipeg, MB; Calgary, AB; and Prince George, BC.

-Surrey, BC, Surrey Art Gallery (A Flower Show)

1987 -Kelowna, BC, National Drawing Competition

1986-87 -Barcelona, Spain, 6th Mini Print International Exhibition.

Touring Spain and USA.

1986-87 -Halifax, NS, Dalhousie Art Gallery (Eighth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition). Touring to: Fredericton, NB, Edmonton, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Calgary, AB.

1986 -Burnaby, BC, Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby Print Show)

-Barcelona, Spain, 5th Mini Print International Exhibition

1984 -Montreal, PQ, Concordia University Art Gallery (Edge & Image)

1983-84 -London, ON, London Regional Art Gallery (The Hand Holding the

Brush). Touring to: Guelph, ON; Hamilton, ON;

Montreal, PQ; Fredericton, NB; and Halifax, NS

1983 -Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver: Art &

Artists, 1931-1983)

-Richmond, BC, Richmond Art Gallery (Visions of Women)

1982 -Vancouver, BC, Robson Square (BC Art Collection)

1981 -Montreal, PQ, Optica Gallery (Couples)

-Calgary, AB Muttart Gallery (Emerging Canadian Artists)

-Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery (Insights)

-Fredericton, NB, University of New Brunswick (People)

1980 -Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery (BC on Canvas)

-Seattle, WA, (Entre-Nous). Sponsored by National Mayors’ Assoc.

-Calgary, AB, Alberta College of Art Gallery (5 BC Artists)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (MUSEUM/JURIED)(CONTINUED)

1978 -Edmonton, AB, Edmonton Art Gallery (Collectors’ Choice)

-Calgary, AB, (Canadian Biennial of Prints & Drawings)

1977 -Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery (From This Point of View)

1976 -Edmonton, AB, Edmonton Art Gallery (What’s New?)

-Montreal, PQ, (Forum ‘76)

-Fredericton, NB, Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Recent Acquisitions).

Touring to: Halifax, NS.

-Montreal, PQ, (BC Arts Access Olympic Exhibit)

-Canada House in Paris, Brussels, London, New York, and Montreal

1975 -Montreal, PQ, Saidye Bronfman Centre (Current Energies)

1973 -Banff, AB, Peter Whyte Gallery

1972 -Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg Art Gallery (Manisphere)

-Fredericton, NB, University of NB Art Centre

1971 -Saskatoon, SK, University of SK Art Gallery

-Fredericton, NB, Beaverbrook Art Gallery & Circuit

(APAC Biennial Exhibit)

1970 -New Haven, CT, 1076 Gallery

-New Haven, CT, a. & t. gallery

1969 -New Haven, CT, U.R.A. Gallery

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Canada Council Art Bank; Ottawa, ON

Alberta Art Foundation; Edmonton, AB

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Montreal, PQ

Beaverbrook Art Gallery; Fredericton, NB

Dofasco; Hamilton, ON

C.I.L.; Toronto, ON

BC Art Collection; Victoria, BC

Confederation Centre Art Gallery; Charlottetown, PE

Imperial Oil; Calgary, AB, & Toronto, ON

Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, BC

Toronto Dominion Bank; Toronto, ON

McGill University Rare Book Collection; Montreal, PQ

Petro-Canada; Calgary, AB

Famous Players; Ottawa, ON

University of Saskatchewan; Saskatoon, SK

Crown Life; Toronto, ON

Shell Canada Resources; Calgary, AB, & Vancouver, BC

Burnaby Art Gallery; Burnaby, BC

Canadian Pacific; Montreal, PQ, & Calgary, AB

Mount Allison University; Sackville, NB

Crown Zellerbach; Vancouver, BC

Canada Development Corporation; Toronto, ON

Mendel Art Gallery; Saskatoon, SK

Zenzen Consultants Inc; Toronto, ON

University of Alberta; Edmonton, AB

Gulf Canada Resources; Calgary, AB

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (CONTINUED)

University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, NB

Air Canada; Montreal, PQ

Canaccord Capital Corporation; Vancouver, BC

BC Central Credit Union; Vancouver, BC

Texaco Canada Resources; Calgary, AB

Ladner Downs; Vancouver, BC

North American Trust; Vancouver, BC

Husky Oil; Calgary, AB

Nova: An Alberta Corporation; Calgary, AB

Memorial University of Newfoundland; St. John’s, NF

Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada Ltd

Edmonton School Board; Edmonton, AB

Claridge Investments Ltd; Montreal, PQ

Versatile Cornat Corporation; Vancouver, BC

Pan Canadian Petroleums; Calgary, AB

Richardson Greenshields of Canada

Bumper Corporation; Calgary, AB

Athabasca University; Athabasca, AB

Trimac Limited; Calgary, AB

Kraemer Taipale Ltd; Calgary, AB

Alcan; Montreal, PQ

University of BC, Dep’t of Ophthalmology; Vancouver, BC

Du Pont Canada Inc

W.C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Univ. of AB Hospitals; Edmonton, AB

Pemberton, Houston, Willoughby; Vancouver, BC

Reed, Stenhouse; Edmonton, AB, & Vancouver, BC

CoreVest Capital Management co. Ltd; Seoul, Korea

Art Gallery of Alberta; Edmonton, AB

Glenbow Museum; Calgary, AB

Royal Bank; Vancouver, BC

Triangle Systems Corporation; Chicago, IL

Department of External Affairs; Ottawa, ON

Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC

Owen, Bird; Vancouver, BC

Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang; Vancouver, BC

Hyatt Hotel; Chicago, IL

Minto Suite Hotel; Ottawa, ON

Freeman & Company; Vancouver, BC

Harper, Grey, Easton; Vancouver, BC

Campney & Murphy; Vancouver, BC

Davis & Company; Vancouver, BC, & New Westminster, BC

Bennett Jones Verchere; Calgary, AB

Grant McEwan Community College; Edmonton, AB

Coopers & Lybrand; Vancouver, BC

ESSO Resources; Calgary, AB

Businessland Canada; Toronto, ON

Burnet Duckworth & Palmer; Calgary, AB

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (CONTINUED)

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Victoria, BC

Rothschild, Inc; Vancouver, BC

Fairmont Waterfront Hotel; Vancouver, BC

Le Devoir; Montreal, PQ

Surrey Art Gallery; Surrey, BC

McCarthy Tetrault; Calgary, AB & Vancouver, BC

BCAA; Burnaby, BC

Lang, Mitchener, Lawrence, Shaw; Vancouver, BC

Tricaster Management; Toronto, ON

AIM Funds Management, Inc.; Toronto, ON & Calgary, AB

Chieftain International; Edmonton, AB

Roberts & Stahl; Vancouver, BC

OPSEU; Toronto, ON

Superior Propane; Toronto, ON

Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC

TELUS; Edmonton, AB

Canadian Utilities; Edmonton, AB

Melcor Developments; Edmonton, AB

Carlton University; Ottawa, ON

Jones Richards & Co; Vancouver, BC

FE Advisory Group; Edmonton, AB

Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc.; Toronto, ON

Hyatt Hotel; Vancouver, BC

Fraser, Milner, Casgrain; Edmonton, AB

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Halifax,NS

University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge, AB

Mayfair Golf & Country Club; Edmonton, AB

Second City Capital; Vancouver, BC

Odlum Brown; Vancouver, BC

Coast Hotel; Victoria, BC

Newcastle College; Langley, BC

Clark Wilson; Vancouver, BC

Communications Incorporated; Calgary, AB

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation; Vancouver, BC

Stonecreek Resorts; Calgary,AB

Mohawk College; Hamilton, ON

MacKenzie Art Gallery; Regina, SK

Byrnes Pender, Calgary, AB

CATALOGUES (Solo Exhibitions)

1973 -Leslie Poole - Paintings, Across Canada touring exhibition

1978 -Sail Drawings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1979 -Confessions, Vancouver Art Gallery (Exhibition of Self Portraits)

1984 -Leslie Poole - Drawings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

(Touring Drawing retrospective)

1989 -DUALITIES: A 15 Year Retrospective, 1974-1989, Art Gallery of

the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC, & Tour

1990 -AFTER YALE: 1970-1976, Simon Fraser University Gallery,

Burnaby, BC

1991 -Encounters with the Goddess: 1981-1991, Surrey Art Gallery,

Surrey, BC

1992 -Through the Looking Glass: Self Portraits of Leslie Poole,

Touring exhibition organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery

1994 -Leslie Poole - Tulips, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1995 -Memento Mori, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC

1996 -Landscape with Cows, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1998 -Shadow / Light: new paintings, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000 -Leslie Poole’s Diary, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC

CATALOGUES (Selected Group Exhibitions)

1983 -The Hand Holding the Brush, Touring exhibition organized by the

London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON

1986 -The 8th Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, Touring exhibition

organized by the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

1989 -Fear of Others: Art Against Racism, (Touring exhibition)

2005 -Richmond Art Gallery: 25 years - 25 artists 1980-2005,organized by the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC

SELECTED AWARDS

1967 -Queen Elizabeth Scholarship

1968 -Alberta Visual Arts Scholarship

-Yale University Scholarship

-Province of Alberta Grant

1969 -Alberta Visual Arts Scholarship

-Yale University Scholarship

-Province of Alberta Grant

1972 -Canada Council Arts Grant

1974 -Canada Council Arts Grant

1975 -Canada Council Arts Grant

1980 -Canada Council Arts Grant

1985 -Canada Council Project Grant

SELECTED TEACHING

1971-72 -University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, (Sessional Lecturer)

1973 -Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, AB, (Instructor in Drawing)

1979 -Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, AB, (Painting Seminar)

1980 -Douglas College, Surrey, BC, (Instructor in Drawing)

1975-87 -Vancouver Community College (Langara Campus), Vancouver, BC,

(Lecturer in Drawing & Design)

1987-

PRESENT -Numerous adult classes