Craig Scott Gallery Artists

Rudolf Bikkers is a printmaker, painter, and professor of Printmaking at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) in Toronto. He was born in Hilversum, the Netherlands. His arts education involved both the visual arts and music... [read more]

Samuel Chow is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; prior to that, he received his BA (Honours) in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, during all four years of which he was a National Scholar. Chow is an accomplished mixed-media painter and digital printmaker, while he is primarily known for his accomplishments in video. His film “Banana Boy” (2003, Digital Video and Super 8, 7 min, English and Cantonese) won the 2003 Reel Asian International Film Festival Emerging Artist Award and was subsequently adapted as a CBC Radio Play in 2005... [read more]

For Ron Eady, encaustic painting is a medium that permits him to carve out subjects and images from deep within his soul, resulting in unique and powerful works. His compelling canvases fascinate viewers even as they very often also disturb. Rich in ambiguity, his work triggers within viewers constantly changing emotions and reflections... [read more]

Shanghai artist Maleonn has been engaged in photography-based art only since 2004, following a career as a short-film maker. Craig Scott Gallery became Maleonn's first gallery (in late 2005) and continues to represent him and place his works with collectors worldwide. Since his inaugural May 2006 Transfigurations show at Craig Scott Gallery, much of note has happened that justifies understanding Maleonn not only as one of the most exciting and important photography-based artists working in China today but also as an artist who has made his mark worldwide in very short order... [read more]

On March 5, 2009, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opened a major retrospective of the works of Naoko Matsubara, widely (and long) recognized as one of the world's greatest woodcut printmakers. The Carnegie Museum shared the retrospective with Chatham University's art gallery, with 72 pieces exhibited at the Carnegie and 20 at Chatham. Paralleling the show, Matsubara was awarded an Honourary Doctorate to Matsubara by Chatham University. The Carnegie exhibition followed on from another major Matsubara exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2003 (Tree Spirit: The Woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara; curated by ROM curators Arlene Gehmacher and Klaas Ruitenbeek, who also published a 314-page catalogue with Introductory Essay by John Rosenfield)... [read more]

Samer Muscati is a documentary photographer, lawyer and former journalist who has worked in Rwanda, Iraq and East Timor in the fields of human rights and development. His photographs have been published in Time Magazine and other publications in North America and Europe. He is currently based out of New York working for Human Rights Watch as a researcher for their Middle East and North Africa division. The opening night of Samer Muscati's exhibition of photography at Craig Scott Gallery, "The Men Who Killed Me", during CONTACT 2009 was the 15th anniversary of the day the killing started in Rwanda in 1994. In the 100 days of genocide that ravaged Rwanda, 500,000 women and girls were raped... [read more]

Rome-based artist Eugenio Orciani was born in Palermo in 1951. By the age of nine, he was already spending much time at the workshop of a painter who was a distant relative of his father. After enrolling at the Liceo (High School) Artistico di Palermo, he successfully balanced his studies with two other activities: spending time at the School of Mosaics which was located in an annex of the high school; and apprenticing in the afternoons and evenings with a noted restorer of art... [read more]

Montreal-based Lorraine Pritchard was born in and of the Canadian Prairies (Manitoba), whose rhythmic fields and large open sky indelibly impressed themselves in her imagination and forever have influenced her spatial sense. These early memories of landscape, the open emptiness of space have been a catalyst for mapping the interior. In November 2007, for her “Au diapason” (‘in tune with’) solo show at Craig Scott Gallery, Pritchard collaborated with Toronto-based pianist John Ebata to produce a body of work -- paintings and music -- through the back-and-forth engagement of the two artists, each composing their works interactively, in response to each other, in a combination of a kind of non-stop jam session and an ongoing process of 'tuning.' The collaboration was simultaneously a tribute to the music of Dizzy Gillespie. Music composed and recorded by Ebata as part of the collaboration was performed at the show’s opening. It was while studying Interior Design in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she realized she wanted to pursue art... [read more]

Noriko Saito was born in Japan and resides in Toronto, while dividing her time between Canada, Japan and Germany. She studied art, cultural history and geography both in Japan and Germany, and received her Master of Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts. Over the past 20 years, she has exhibited widely, including 31 solo shows since 1990... [read more]

Simultaneous with the exhibition “Introducing Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew” (February 10 – March 4, 2007), Craig Scott Gallery displayed three works by Narakorn Sittites as well as two works by another member of the Tall Poppies Art Group, Chainarong Kongklin. In March 2008, four new paintings by Sittites were part of a three-artist exhibit of Craig Scott Gallery at Bridge New York / The Waterfront art fair. Sittites received his BA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Central Rajamagala Institute of Technology in Thailand. He is currently working on his Masters of Fine Art at Silapakorn University, Thailand... [read more]

In his catalogue essay (“Julie Tremblay’s Reflections: Sculptural Presence and its Double”) for Julie Tremblay's "Reflections" exhibitions at Craig Scott Gallery, May 2008, and Galleri Rebecca Kormind (Copenhagen), October 2008, Gary Michael Dault observed “airy figures that swoop like angels and trapeze artists, that hang like monkeys, that start out from the wall, that billow like smoke and glitter like collections of dust motes suspended in raking light,... Tremblay’s figures are not so much models of the human figure as they are extrapolations from it. Shards of hi-tech Platonism, her airy personages are shadows of a sort, swooping and arcing and dangling through space—and not only through it: they are, in themselves, space... [read more]

Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Marian Wihak currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Originally trained as a theatre designer, she has studied at the University of Regina, Dalhousie University in Halifax, The Banff Centre, The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Ontario College of Art and Design, and Studio Arts Centre International in Florence, Italy. Wihak was a recipient of a 2008 Canada Council Grant for Research and Creation, and completed a Creative Residency at the Banff Centre in March, 2009. She was a Central Canadian Finalist in the 2001 RBC New Canadian Painting Competition and is featured in the recent publication celebrating the Competition’s 10th Anniversary. In December 2009, Wihak’s solo show, Boundless: Sublime Maelstrom was mounted by the Art Gallery of Regina... [read more]