Biography

Neil Wedman was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1954. Making paintings stands at the core of thirty years of studio practice, but he has devoted almost equal attention to producing drawings and works on paper including print editions, book-works and photographs. He has also made a number of short films and musical recordings although not many of the latter.

He lives and works in Vancouver and is represented there by the Equinox Gallery.

Neil Wedman has been a sessional instructor teaching studio courses for the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University since 2000 and at Emily Carr University since 1991.

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Pages, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2013
Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper, Part Two of Two
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2012
Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper 2007-11, Part One
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Fantasy Gardens
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (with Stuart McCall)

2011
Forget Me , Gallery One One One
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

2010
Recent Cowboy Dances
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2008
Untitled Flying Saucer Monochromes
CSA Space, Vancouver, BC

2004
Electric Ladyland
The Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Watercolours of the Bizarro World
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

2003
Nocturnes
Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, AB

Death Ray
University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC

2001
Plays
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1999
Chemistry Sets
Anondyne Gallery, Vancouver, BC

New Paintings
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1997
Every Bus Stop from My Place to the Race Track
Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1996
Motion Pictures
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1995
Digger Pictures
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1993
Seance Paintings
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1991
Devil Pictures
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1990
Margery
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1988
Death Ray
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Group Exhibitions

2017
Uncertain Reflections, The Or Gallery, Vancouver BC
Art School High, The Gordon Smith Gallery, West Vancouver, BC

2016
Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, BC

2012
Beyond Vague Terrain
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC

2011
The Nature of Things
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2009
Take Your Time
Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC

2008
The Constant Search for a Better Way
Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC

2006
Vancouver International Film Festival, VanCity Theatre, Vancouver, BC (World Premier of Kane Titanic, short subject 35mm film, silent with live musical accompaniment)

2005
Why I’m So Unhappy
Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Shadow of Production
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2004
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
The Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris

2003
Drawing on Architecture
Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2001
These Days
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1998
Inventors and Alchemists
Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY

1991
West Coast Stories
Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB (Toured to the University of Lethbridge, AB and Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB)

Heaven Waits
Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, ON

1990-91
Memory Work
London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, ON (Toured to Mississauga Civic Centre Art Gallery, Mississauga, ON and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB)

1990
Contemporary B.C. Drawings
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC

1986
Beyond the Line
J. Yahouda Meir Gallery, Montreal, PQ

Bibliography

2016
Patrik Andersson, Brady Cranfield, Kate Noble, Ed. Kathy Slade, Neil Wedman: Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper, Charles H. Scott Gallery and Emily Carr University Press in collaboration with Equinox Gallery

2013
Clint Burnham, “Neil Wedman Makes Old Media New Again”, Canadian Art Online

Caitlin Chassion, “Classified Headlines: Neil Wedman @ Charles H. Scott”, Decoy Magazine Online

Robin Lawrence, “Of Non-Newspapers and Nuclear Meltdowns”, The Georgia Straight,  24 January

Sarah Milroy, “Neil Wedman’s Images of the Unseeable”, The Globe and Mail,  9 February

2012
Aaron Carpenter, “Gray Pride”, Art Slant Worldwide, 24 January

2008
Ben Reeves, “Neil Wedman”, Canadian Art,  Fall Issue

2007
Jessie Caryl, A Field in Uncertain Light, CSA Space

2006
Neil Wedman (illustrator), Scott Watson, Jack Jeffrey, Margaret Pethick, Jerry Pethick’s Time Top Project, Contemporary Art Gallery, commissioned by Concord Pacific Group Inc.

Neil Wedman, Walking for Years: The History of Vancouver Sidewalks. Unpublished lecture/tour notes delivered by the author during official tours conducted in conjunction with the TERRITORY project, Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery

Robin Lawrence, “Adventures in Unhappiness”, The Georgia Straight , 9 March

2004
Monika Szewczyk, “What’s Physical?!”, Electric Ladyland, the Belkin Satellite Gallery

Neil Wedman, “Pastime”, H.G. Cox: British Columbia Pictorialist, Presentation House Gallery

Ben Portis, The Dirt on Earth,  Art Gallery of Ontario

2001
Christopher Brayshaw, “Neil Wedman’s Secret World”, The Georgia Straight, 28 June

1999
Neil Wedman, Burlesck: A Novel, Advance Editions/Arsenal Pulp Press

Christopher Brayshaw, Chem Lang/Race Track, Two Essays on Neil Wedman, Anodyne Editions

1997
Patrik Andersson, Every Bus Stop from My Place to the Race Track,  Or Gallery

1995
Scott Watson, “Neil Wedman”, Canadian Art,  Fall Issue

1991
Mark A. Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism, Oxford University Press

1990
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, “Box Watchers”, Vancouver Magazine, April Issue

1987
Lorna Farrell-Ward, Neil Wedman: Death Ray, Vancouver Art Gallery

1984
Mark Harris, “Neil Wedman at the Contemporary Art Gallery”, Vanguard, December/January 84-85 Issue