Mary Harman

Born Mary Christine Cleemput in rural Northwest Ohio, 1944.  Father a Flemish artist from Ghent who immigrated to the US. Trained as a registered nurse in Lima Ohio; worked in Ohio, Washington DC,  New York. Immigrated to Canada in 1969.  Lived in Toronto, Newfoundland, Vancouver; since 1994 living in Montreal with a studio in the Eastern Townships just above the Vermont border.


MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 - Jan 31 2010 "Object and Illusion" Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2007 "Shelf life" Center for Holographic Arts, Long Island City, NY
2007 "Lost Horizons" Sundance Gallery, Brunswick, MD
2006 "Rome Paintings" WestEnd Gallery, Montreal
2003 "Interiors" WestEnd Gallery, Montreal
2001 "Bridge to Other Places" WestEnd Gallery, Montreal
1998 "Contemporary Realism" WestEnd Gallery, Montreal (2 person)
1998 "Realistic Painting" Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver (2 person)
1997 "Paintings and Other Illusions" L’Imagier, Aylmer, Quebec
1996 "Recent Paintings" Art Sutton, Sutton, Quebec
1994 "Unsubstantial" Galerie Arts Technologiques, Montreal
1993 "Unsubstantial and Immaterial" Interference Hologram Gallery,Toronto
1990 "Excerpts" Glendon Gallery, University of Toronto (3 person)
1990 "Transitional States" Interference Hologram Gallery, Toronto
1990 "Holographie au feminin" L’Imagier, Aylmer, Quebec
1988 "Reconstructions" Interference Hologram Gallery, Toronto
1985 "Object and Illusion" Hart House, University of Toronto



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 "Toledo Area Artists Exhibition" Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1999 "Generations" New York, Florida, Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, touring exhibition of Center for Holography, NY
1999 "Visions of the Twenty-First Century" Art Gallery of Canton, Ohio
1996 "Moving Images" Museum of Holography, Chicago
1993 Fifth International Exhibit of Holography, Lake Forest, Illinois
1992 "Fiat Lux" touring exhibition of Holography, Spain
1991 "Parallel Allegories" Museum of Holography, NY
1991 Fourth International Exhibit of Holography, Lake Forest, Illinois
1991 "Interpretations of Space" Museum of Holography, Chicago
1990 "Captured Light" Museum of Holography, NY
1990 Conference on Art and Holography, Notre Dame, Indiana
1989 "World of Holography" Nagoya Science Museum, Japan
1988 Third International Exhibit of Holography, Lake Forest, Illinois
1988 International Sculpture Conference, Dublin, Ireland

Grants & Awards:

2009  "Holographic Book Project" (six international artists chosen)
         Ontario College of Art and Design/ Photon League
2009  International Holography Fund Funding 8th International Symposium
on Display Holography,   Shenzhen, China

Shearwater Foundation (USA)
- 1997 Awarded holography Materials
- 1996 Funding to attend International Holography Symposium
- 1993 Award for Excellence in Art Holography


Canada Council - Travel Grant 2000
- Media Arts Project Grant (Holography) 1990, 1988,1986
- Jury Member Media Arts (Holography) 1991

Ontario Arts Council - Holography Project Grant 1992, 1990
- Exhibition Assistance 1987
- Materials Assistance 1986, 1985
- Jury Member 1991

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec - Travel Grant 1999

Toledo Museum of Art Area Artists (Juried) Roulet Medal for Painting 1993


Artist-in-Residencies

Center for Holographic Arts, New York 1999, 2002
Fringe Research, Toronto 1992, 1987, 1986
Museum of Holography, New York, N.Y. 1991

Memberships: - RAAV
                     - ELAN (English Language Artists' Network)
                     - Studio XX Montreal         

Art Education:

1991 Ontario College of Art, Toronto (Holography workshops)
1991 New York Holographic Labs, N.Y.
1985 Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto
1978-80 Art’s Sake Inc. Toronto Fine Art
1969 Montreal Museum of Fine Art
1968 Syracuse University Syracuse, N. Y. Fine Art
1966-68 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Fine Art


Artworks in Major Collections:

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio USA
Museum of Holography, Chicago
Nagoya Science Museum, Japan
JR Ross Collection (Holograms) London, UK

Paintings in Private Collections Canada, UK, USA, France

Selected Published Graphic Illustrations
2010 "Raptors" (Cover) Toon Tellegen, Dutch poet, Carcanet Press, UK
2009 "Poetry Nation Review" Carcanet Press (7 covers 2006 - 2009)
2009 "Smoke and Lilacs" (cover) Norm Sibum, poet, Carcanet Press
2009 "The Pangborn Defence" (cover) Sibum, Biblioasis Press, Ontario
2006  CNQ 70 Canadian Notes and Queries (magazine cover)
2005 "Trouble Came to the Turnip" (cover) Caroline Bird, poet, Carcanet
2004 "Intimations of a Realm in Jeopardy" Sibum, Porcupine’s Quill, Ont
2002 "Girls and Handsome Dogs" Sibum, Porcupine’s Quill
1998 "The November Propertius" Sibum, Carcanet Press
1998 "Mapping the Soul" Stephen Morrissey, poet, The Muses’s Company, Montreal

Selected Reviews/Press
2002 Feb "Chicago's holograph museum seems to be a bit of illusion"  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
2001   May Review of painting exhibition "Bridge to Other Places" Montreal  Gazette, Henry Lehman, reviewer
2000 Apr  "Holograms not just sci-fi fantasy" News Press, Fort Myers, Fla
1998 May "Now you see it, now you don’t”" Montreal Gazette, Henry Lehmann, reviewer
1998 Spring "Mary Harman: Combining Space and Symbolism to Create New Dimensions" Magazin’art, Montreal, John Myers
1997 March Ottawa Citizen "Paintings, holograms wrestle with mortality"
1991 Spring "Holographic Installations: Sculpting with Light" Sculpture Magazine, Washington DC

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