Artist CV - Olga Korper Gallery

ERIC SNELL
Born 1953, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Lives in Guernsey, Channel Islands
EDUCATION
1985-86 Guest of DAAD "Artist-in-Berlin" programme
1973-76 Hornsey College of Art, London, England
1972-73 Birmingham Polytechnic, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 Galerie König, Hanau, Germany
2004 Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
‘the gallery’ Grange House, St Peter Port, Guernsey
2002 Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Guernsey
2001 Le 19, Centre Régional d’Art, Contemporain, Montbéliard, France
2000 The Kelo wna Museum and Art Gallery, BC, Canada
The Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico, USA
1999 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1996 Gallery 360º, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
1994 Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Interform Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Bernard Jordan Galerie, Paris, France
Galerie Plesis, Nantes, France
1991 Galerie Forlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, U.S.A.
Galerie Carla Fuehr, Munich, Germany
1990 Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Mark Quint Gallery, La Jolla, U.S.A.
Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, U.S.A.
Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Guernsey
Museum Moderne Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Germany
Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Bernard Jordan Galerie, Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Con’t
1989 Galerie Schoeller, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Carla Feuhr, Munich, Germany
1988 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
CREDAC, Centre d'Art Contemporain,Ivry, France (catalogue)
Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France
Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern, Germany
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.A.
Galerie Carla Fuehr, Munich, Germany
1987 Galerie Luise Krohn, Munchen, Germany
Galerie Karo, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1986 DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Pforzheimer Kunstverein, Pforzheim, Germany
Galerie Hoffmann, Frieberg, Germany
Galerie Seestrasse, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany 1985 (catalogue)
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Galerie Carla Fuehr, Munich, Germany
Ruine der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1984 Mini Galerie, Schnaffhausen, Switzerland
Galerie der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany
City University, London, England
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden
Galerie Lang, Malmo, Sweden
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
1983 Touchstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Macdonald Ste wart Art Gallery, Guelph, Canada
1982 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, England (catalogue)
Galerie Hoffman, Friedberg, Germany
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1981 Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1980 Galerie Rechermann, Köln, Germany
Jordan Gallery, London, England
1979 Electric Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1978 Jordan Gallery, London, England

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 ‘Minimalism’, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla,
USA
‘Placements’, Galerie König, Hanau, Germany
‘Chasing the Origin’, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany
2004 ‘Ein-Sehen’, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
2003 ‘Transit Narrative’, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
2001-2002 ‘Bra Joe From Kilomanjaro’, University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane, Australia
1999 ‘Postionen’
Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
1998 ‘L’abstraction & ses territories’, Centre d’Art Contemporain,
M ontbéliard, France
1996 ‘Open Door’, Academy of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary
1995 ‘Schewberen’, Sculpturenmuseum, Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
1994 "Dall'intuizione alla programmazione", Flash Art M useum of
Contemporary Art, Trevi, Italy
"Blick Uber Den Armelkanal", Pfalz Museum, Kaiserslautern,
Germany
1992 "la part du feu", Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts du Mans, Le
Mans, France
1991 "Ruine der Kunste", Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
"Brandspuren", Museum Folkwang
"Survey of British Art Today", San Diego Museum of Contemporary
Art, La Jolla, U.S.A.
1990 ‘British Constructivism’, KKK Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Noli me tangère’, Musees du Valais, Sion, Switzerland
‘Numbering’, Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
‘Sculpture / Drawing’, Flowers East, London, Great Britain
1989 ‘Out of the Wood’, Common Ground - Touring Exhibition, Great
Britain
49th Parallel, New York, U.S.A.
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Art Cologne (Galerie Bernard Jordan), Germany
1988 ‘Die Ecke’, Kantonales Kunstmuseum, Sion,
Switzerland; and Ingolstadt, Ausstellungsraume, Germany
‘Die Ecke’, Kantonales Kunstmuseum, Sion, Switzerland,
Ingolstadt, Ausstellungsraume, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Con’t
1987 ‘Mathematik in der Kunst der letzen dreizig Jahre’, Wilhelm-Hack-
Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
‘Ephemerite’, Chapelle St. Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris, France
"Konstruktion, Kontemplation, Expression", Galerie im Trudelhaus,
Baden, Switzerland
‘Mathematik in der Kunst der letzten dreizig Jahre’, Wilhelm-Hack-
Huseum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
‘Ephémèrité’, Chapelle st-Louis de la Salpétrière, Paris, France
‘Knostruktion, Kontemplation, Expression’, Galerie im Trudelhaus,
Baden, Switzerland
1986 ‘Distances’, Chapelle St. Louis de la Salpétrière, Paris, France
‘Geometrie, Espace, Relief’, Galerie Grare, Paris, France
1985 ‘Labile Skulpturen’, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
‘Der Baum’, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Stadt
Galerie Saarbrucken, Germany
1984 ‘20th Century Abstract Art And Design’, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich,
England
‘konkret vier’, Kunsthaus, Nurnberg, Germany
1983 ‘Z.B. Skulptur’, Tanit Galerie, Munich, Germany
‘Critic's Choice’, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
‘Line, Form, and Non-Function’, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto,
Canada
‘Perspective '83’, ART 14, Kunstmesse, Basel,Switzerland
‘Harmonie und Balance’, Tetra Pak, Factory Installation, Berlin,
Germany
1981 ‘Rule to Draw’, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
1979 ‘Pulse Plus Process’, Markham Street Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1978 ‘Electric Art’, Naham Galleries, New Orleans, U.S.A.
COMMISSIONED WORK
1994-95 ‘Liberation Monument’, States of Guernsey, Channel Islands
1993 ‘Site-Specific Wall Drawing’, Les Beaucamps School, Guernsey
‘Site-Specific Wall Drawing’, Head Office of Banque Belge,
Guernsey
1988 ‘La Façade’, Theatre de la Bastille, Paris, France
1986 ‘Aleatorius’, The Artist and the Theatre in the 20th Century, Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 ‘Line through Bath’, Bath Festival, Bath, England
1984 ‘Line over London’, Hayward Gallery, London, England
1982 ‘Aleatory' - a dance of light", South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell,
England
‘Heat Lines’, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
1980 ‘Light Rain’, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, England

AWARDS
1992-93 Cité des Arts, Artist in Residence, Paris
1990 British Council, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
1986 British Council, Theatre de la Bastille / CREDAC, Paris
1985-86 DAAD, Artist in Residence, Berlin
1985 South West Arts, Bath Festival
1984 British Council, Miro Foundation, Barcelona
PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES
Eric Snell, “Vie w through to the other side of the World”, catalogue, 2004
British Library National Sound Archives, “Artists Lives” , London, 2003
Ihor Holubizky, “View through to the other side of the World”, Institute of Modern Art
publication, Brisbane, Australia, 2003
British Council, “From Reality to Abstraction”, documentary film, Paris, France, 2002
Roswell Artist in Residence Programme, N.M. USA, Roswell, Mexico, 2001
Dr. Hugh Davies, “Blurring Boundaries”, MCA publication, 1997
Civic Trust Award Supplement, “Liberation Monument - Eric Snell”, Building Magazine,
1997
Glendon Gallery, “catalogue”, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1995
M el Gooding, “British Artists”, Vie w over the Channel/catalogue, 1994
Gallery 360º, “catalogue”, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
Galerie Fortlaan 17 (with Jan van Munster), “hand printed catalogue”, 1991
Sala Mendoza, Caracas, “ catalogue”,Venezuela, 1990
Museum Moderne Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, “catalogue”, 1990
Neurer Berliner Kunstverein, “catalogue”, Berlin, Germany, 1990
Leach Ollman, “Burnt Offerings”, L.A. Times, May,1990
Michael Hübl, “Art and its Attraction”. Across Architecture, March, 1989
Susan Freudenheim, "La Jolla; Eric Snell", Art Forum International, New York, U.S.A. p.125,
Jan, 1989.
Liliana Albertazzi,"Paris", Contemporanea, New York, U.S.A., pp.14-15, Jan./Feb., 1989.
John Bentley Mays, "Drawing's Physical Qualities Focus of Artist's Work", The Globe &
Mail, Toronto, Canada, p.C5, Dec. 16, 1988.
Carole Corbeil, "Art That is Down to Earth",The Globe & Mail, Toronto, Canada, 1986.
Thomas Wolfen, "Eric Snell: DAAD Galerie", Kunstforum International, no.82, 1986.
Angelika Stepken, "DAAD: Eric Snell", Berliner Kunstblatt, no.80, 1985.
Michael Hubl, "Sinnpause: Eric Snell", Kunstforum Internatonal, no.80, 1985.
Intervie w, The Art Post, Toronto, Canada, March, 1985.
Christopher Hume, "A World of Peace and Quiet", The Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada,
1984.
"Perspective '83: Eric Snell", Kunstmagazine, Summer, 1983.
"An honesty of ideas - an honesty of materials", Aspects, no.15, Summer 1981.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, U.S.A.
Deutsche Bank, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
The Constructivist Collection, The University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
The Bayer Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
The Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
The Agnes Etherington Arts Center, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
The National Collection for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
The Mandoza Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Pfalz Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
The Donald Anderson Museum, Roswell, New M exico, USA
Guernsey Museum, Guernsey, Channel Islands
The Peter C Ruppert Collection, Wurzburg Museum, Germany