SPRING HURLBUT

1952 Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Forthcoming Exhibitions
2011 Group exhibition, Mememto Mori, Art Mûr, Montréal, PQ, Canada (March 12 –April 21)
Solo/group exhibition, curated by Crystal Mowry, Kitchener-Waterloo Art
Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, Canada (September 2011 - January 2012)

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Shut Up, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
Le jardin du sommeil, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada
(touring exhibition, catalogue)
2009 Le jardin du sommeil, curated by Josee Belisle, Musee d’art contemporain de
Montréal, Montréal, PQ, Canada (touring exhibition, catalogue)
Deuil, curated by Scott McLeod, Carleton University Art Gallery,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Little Willie, Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada
2008 Deuil II & Airborne, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
Unlimited Theatre, District Museum of Everything that Matters, Leeds, UK
2007 Deuil, curated by Scott McLeod, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto,
Canada (essay by Maia Sutnik, Art Gallery of Ontario)
Lingual Consoles, from the series Sacrificial Ornament, Georgia Scherman
Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2004 Beloved & Forsaken, Manchester Museum, UK
2002 Mannequin, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2001 The Final Sleep, ICC/The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
1997 Les Biberons Infanticide, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1996 L’Ascension, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University,
Montréal, PQ, Canada
1995 La Somnolence, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
Oology, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1994 Ornement Sacrificiel, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, PQ, Canada
The Ritual Scream, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
1993 Ornement Sacrificiel, Musée du Québec, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Le jardin du sommeil, Musée du Québec, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
1992 Sacrificial Ornament, Creative Time Inc./Municipal Art Society, New
York, NY, USA; National Gallery of Canada, ON, Ottawa, Canada; The
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada
1991 Sacrificial Ornament, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB,
Canada
1990 Capitals & Entablatures, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Viniculum, Artsite, Windsor, ON, Canada
1989 The Sacrificial Column, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
1987 Walls & Columns in Situ, The Embassy Cultural House, London, ON,
Canada
1986 Column in Situ, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1985 A Wall in Situ, The London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON, Canada
1984 A Wall and fish work, Studio Exhibition, Toronto, ON, Canada
A Wall in Situ, The London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON, Canada
1981 A wall on location, P.S.1. Long Island City, New York, ON, USA

Group Exhibitions
2010 It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, The National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hantise, Art Mûr, Montréal, PQ, Canada
Airborne presented in the curated section of the main program In seclusion, 4th
International Photography Festival F/Stop, Leipzig, Germany
Art at Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today, Art gallery of Mississauga,
Mississauga, ON, Canada
A to B, curated by Micah Lexier, MKG127, Toronto, ON, Canada
Vanitas: the Figuer and the Object, curated by Alain Tapie, Fondation Pierre
Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
2009 The Matter of Loss, Art Gallery of Ontario - Gallery 133, Toronto, ON,
Canada
True Lies, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON, Canada
2007 Putting Figures on Paper, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON,
Canada
2006 Within a Budding Grove, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
(Un)Natural Selections, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON,
Canada
2002 Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000 Ornamental Architecture, La Manifestation internationale d’art, Québec,
PQ, Canada
1998 Art Grandure Nature, Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Parc
départemental de la Courneuve, France
Entre corps et âme, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia
University, Montréal, PQ, Canada
1997 Insite 97, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA; Instituto Nacional de
Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico; Tijuana Border Projects, San Diego,
CA, USA
Reconstructing Ritual, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
1995 Survivors in Search of a Voice, Woodlawn Art Foundation, Toronto, ON,
Canada; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada; The Gallery
Stratford, Stratford, ON, Canada; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax,
NS, Canada; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Canada
1993 Towards a New Vision, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991 Currents, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
1990 The Shaping of Nature, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada
1989 City Visions & Revisions, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
1987 Sans Demarcation, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada
1986 Between here and there: The Memory of Disruption, S.E.S.C. Fabrica da
Pompeia, San Paulo, Brazil
Paradise Now & Then, The Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON,
Canada
1984 Repositioning the Familiar, The Glendon Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1983 Kunstler aus Kanada: Raume and Installation, Wurttembergischer
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, West Germany
1981 Hurlbut, Martin, Massey, Singleton, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON,
Canada

Screenings
2009 Le Jardin du Sommeil, interview/English,
www.macm.org/en/expositions/58.html, Musée d’art contemporain de
Montréal, PQ, Canada
Le Jardin du Sommeil, interview with Josée Belisle/French,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwT1nTtTaJc, Musée d’art contemporian de
Montréal, PQ, Canada
2001 The Final Sleep/La Dernier Sommeil, ROM/Discovery Channel
The Final Sleep/La Dernier Sommeil, Power Plant Productions, Toronto,
ON, Canada
1995 La Somnolence, Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
1992 Sacrificial Ornament, National Gallery of Canada, colour video, 24
minutes, Ottawa, ON, Canada
1991 Teitlebaum, Matthew. ICA Currents 1991: Interviews with the Artists,
video, 48 minutes, Boston, MA, USA
1990 Mangaard, Annette. A Dialogue with Vision

Lectures
2011 Collaborations with the dead, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
2006 Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin
York University, lecture to Graduate Sculpture Class, Toronto, ON, Canada
2003 Collections, Culture, Change, Conference: Manchester University, Manchester,
UK
Roll of Artist in an art + non-art institution
Alchemy Project: Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
The Final Sleep, presentation to Daniel Libeskind, ROM, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 Museums after Modernism Symposium, Artist as Curator Panel,
Harbourfront/York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
MFA Students, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Critiques MFA students, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Artists in Museums Symposium, London Art Gallery, London, ON, Canada
Cabinets of Curiosities, Fine Arts Cultural Studies, York University, Toronto,
ON, Canada
2001 Classical Design, Architecture University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000 Classical Design, Architecture University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Publications
2010 Shaughnessy, Jonathan. “It is what it is: recent acquisitions of new
Canadian art,” The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, p.
80, image p. 81
2009 Belisle, Josee. “Spring Hurlbut: Le Jardin du Sommeil,” Musee d’art
contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, PQ, Canada
2001 Baluk, Ulana. “The Final Sleep/Le Dernier Sommeil: An Installation by
Spring Hurlbut,” Institute of Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
1999 Bradley, Jessica. InSite97 Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
1998 Ardenne, Paul. “Art Grandeur Nature,” Parcours d’oeuveres d’art in-situ;
Seine-Saint-Denis, France
1995 Dompierre, Louise. “La Somnolence,” The Power Plant, Toronto, ON,
Canada
1991 “Sacrificial Ornament,” Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB,
Canada
1983 Phyla Osterwald, Oilman. Kunstler Aus Kanada: Raume undo
Installation, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Articles/Reviews
2010 BRAVO! News, http://watch.bravo.ca/#clip290915, interview, 3:57,
Toronto, ON, Canada, 19 April
Clark, Bill. “Spring Hurlbut: Deadfall Dialogues,” www.canadianart.ca,
Toronto, ON, Canada, 15 April
2009 World News online, http://wn.com/Spring_Hurlbut, interview, Le jardin
du sommeil, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, PQ,
Canada
Mancuso, Anna. "Deuil: Spring Hurlbut," Esse, Montréal, PQ, Canada,
Issue 65, pp. 44-45, 47, Winter
2008 Thomas, Ann. “Deuil; New Works by Spring Hurlbut,” Art on Paper, Vol.
12 No. 4, pp. 56-57, New York, NY, USA, March/April
Adler, Dan. “Critic’s Picks: Spring Hurlbut,” www.artforum.com, New
York, NY, USA, November/December
Sandals, Leah. “Structures restructured,” The National Post, Toronto,
ON, Canada, 6 December
Bradshaw, James. “Art Gallery of Ontario acquires three works at
Toronto Art Fair,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, section R3,
23 December
Burman, Monika. “Death Becomes Her,” Mass Art Guide, Toronto, ON,
Canada, pp. 35-36 (cover), October
2007 Sutnik, Maia-Mari. “Deuil; New Works by Spring Hurlbut,” Prefix Photo,
Toronto, ON, Canada, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 18-31 (cover), Spring
2004 Green, Clare. “Beloved & Goresaken: Spring Hurlbut at The Manchester
Museum,” Flux Magazine, Manchester, Issue No. 43, July/August
“First Choice–Visual Art: Beloved and Foresaken at Manchester
Museum,” The Times, London, UK, 13 May
HD. “Five Star Exhibition Review: Beloved and Foresaken at Manchester
Museum,” Metro, Toronto, ON, Canada, p. 18, 19 May
2002 Dault, Gary Michael. “Sculptor evokes museums of yore,” The Globe and
Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, 12 January
Harvey, Elizabeth. “Spring Hurlbut at Sable-Castelli Gallery,” Canadian
Art, p. 77, Summer
2001 Milroy, Sarah. “Nearer, my death, to thee: Spring Hurlbut,” The Globe
and Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. R1, R3, 9 May
Caldwell, Rebecca. “The Artist’s Life: Spring Hurlbut,” The Globe and
Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, p. R8, 16 June
Roulstone, Karen. “The Final Sleep at the Royal Ontario Museum,”
C Magazine, Toronto, ON, Canada, Fall
Halkes, Peter. “Spring Hurlbut: White Exploits,” Border Crossings,
Winnipeg, MB, Canada, pp. 84-85
Isherwood, Barbara. “ROM exhibit focuses on death: The Final Sleep
organized from an artist’s perspective,” The Annex Gleaner, Toronto,
ON, Canada, July
1998 Bédarida, Catherine. “Artistes dans la nature,” Le Monde, Paris, France,
16 July
Fleck, Robert. “Im Sommer geht die Kunst ins Grune,” Art Das
Kunstmagazin, Germany, Issue No. 8, August
Le Gac, Christophe. Visuel(s) revue d’arts magazine, Rouen, France,
January/March
Popp, Von Ursula. “Kunst-Park dear Extraklasse,” tain: magazine für
architektur, kunst und design, Munich, Issue No. 5, September/October,
pp. 44-45
1997 Knaff, Devorah. “Shedding Traditional Ideas and Biases Through Art,”
The Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, USA, p. 43, 16 October
Pincus, Robert L. “Hurlbut’s Classical Work Has Eyes for Ritual,”
The Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, USA, 19 September
1996 Couêlle, Jennifer. “Au sceau austère de la retenue victorienne,”
Le Devoir, Montréal, PQ, Canada, 31 March
1995 Feinstein, Roni. “Spring Hurlbut at The Power Plant,” Art in America,
New York, NY, USA, May
Taylor, Kate. “Waking up to eerie presences and absences around us,”
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, 27 February
1994 Lamoureux, Johanne. “La bête à deux têtes,” Parachute Magazine,
Montréal, PQ, Canada, Issue 73
Feinstein, Roni. “Opening Doors,” Art in America, New York, NY, USA,
November
1993 Ruzicka, Joseph. “Spring Hurlbut at the Municipal Art Society,” Art in
America, New York, NY, USA, January
Perdue, Jane. “Spring Hurlbut’s Sacrificial Ornament,” The Canadian
Architect, Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 28-31, February
Campbell, Nancy. “Spring Hurlbut at Oakville Galleries,” C Magazine,
Toronto, ON, Canada, p. 69, Winter
McGrath, Jerry. “Spring Hurlbut: Ritual Ornament/Elemental Dream,”
Parachute, Montréal, PQ, Canada, Issue 72, pp. 10-13,
October/December
McPherson, Anne. “Spring Hurlbut at Musée du Québec,” Canadian Art,
Toronto, ON, Canada, p. 70, Winter
1992 Mays, John Bentley. “Architecture in the Flesh,” The Globe and Mail,
Toronto, ON, Canada, 27 July
Madill, Shirley. “Hurlbut Investigates Origins of Classicism,” Tableau,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, p. 2, September/October
1989 Richards, Larry. “Spring Hurlbut’s Tree Columns,” exhibition publication,
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
1988 McGrath, Jerry. “Sans Demarcation, Cultural Exchange between Ontario
and Quebec,” Vanguard, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March
1986 Corbeil, Carole. “A Timely Reminder of Common Good: The
Interpretation of Architecture,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON,
Canada, May
1983 Ferguson, Bruce. “Artists from Canada at Stuttgart,” Artsmagazine,
Toronto, ON, Canada, Summer
Nemiroff, Diana. “Identity and Difference: Canadians at Stuttgart,”
Vanguard, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Summer

Museum Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, PQ, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
National Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, PQ, Canada
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
Départment Seine-Saint-Denis, Conseil Général, France