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Provenance:

Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON

Note:

GREG MURDOCK (1953 - )

Vancouver-based Greg Murdock is best known for his fresco-like mixed media works that elegantly explore surface, space and form with references to both external and internal worlds.
Greg Murdock was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1954. He was encouraged to develop his artistic skill by his mother, who was an amateur artist. Murdock received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977 from the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in ceramics, sculpture, and drawing; through his studies he was influenced by such artists as David Gilhooly, Marilyn Levine, David Thauberger, Otto Rogers and Ernest Lindner. He went on to study bronze working at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1978, and graduated with Honours in 1981 from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver under Ray Arnatt.
Murdock had his first solo exhibition at the Shoestring Gallery in Saskatoon in 1979, and has been exhibiting his prints in Canada and the United States for over three decades. His work is represented in numerous collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal, and the Art Institute of Chicago.


Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Abols & Posthumous, Toronto
Air Canada, Montreal, Quebec
Art Gallery of North York, North York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Blackburn Group, London
B.C. Gas, Vancouver
Camosun College, Victoria
Campney & Murphy, Vancouver
Canaccord Capital, Vancouver, BC
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Canadian Airlines, Vancouver
Canadian Embassy, Washington
Claridge Collection, Montreal
Colliers MacAulay Nicolls, Vancouver
Creative Fusion Corp., Toronto
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Disney Film Corp., Los Angeles
Donovan Collection, Toronto
Farris, Vaughan, Williams & Murphy, Vancouver, BC
First City Trust, Vancouver
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton
Guaranty Trust, Toronto
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO
Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd.
Maison Alcan Inc., Montreal
McMillan, Binch, Toronto
Microsoft, Seattle
Midland, Doherty, Toronto
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Molnar Construction Ltd., Vancouver
Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
Nesbitt Burns, Vancouver
Norcen Energy, Calgary
Osler, Hoskin, Toronto
Phillips, Farevaag, Smallenberg Landscape Architects, Vancouver, BC
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland
Ring House Gallery, Edmonton
Roberts & Stahl, Vancouver, BC
Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Royal Bank of Canada
Stantec Architects, Vancouver, BC
Sun Life Assurance Co. Ltd., Toronto
Telus, Toronto, ON
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto
Tory, Tory, Deslauriers, Toronto
Trans Mountain Pipe Line, Vancouver
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
University of Toronto Art Collection, Toronto
United States Embassy, Ottawa, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 Greg Murdock: Confluence, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Measured Spaces, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Confluence, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2003 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2000 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1999 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1998 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1997 L.A. Invitational Biennial, Gail Harvey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Greg Murdock: Drawings, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1995 Greg Murdock: On Paper, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Greg Murdock - A Survey 1981-1995, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1993 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
199 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Works on Paper, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1990 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1989 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1988 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1987 Tableaux, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985 Objects and Environments, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, NY
1984 Contemporary Art Gallery, Selected Works, Vancouver, BC
1982 Templo Mound Series, Capilano College Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
1981 Emily Carr Concourse Gallery, Selected Works, Vancouver, BC
1979 Shoestring Gallery, Selected Guest Artist, Saskatoon, SK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 Burda + Murdock: FACETS, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Snow, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 Nexus-Histories and Communities, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2006: New Edition Greg Murdock, Artists for Kids Gallery, Leo Marshall Centre, North Vancouver, BC
Views of the Coast, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1997 Views of the Coast, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1996 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1996 - 1997 Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1994 64-'94 Contemporary Decades, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Hidden Values: Western Corporations Collect, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1993 A Taste of the Claridge Collection, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
1992 Legal Perspective: Selected Works from the Collection of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
Saidye Bronfman Centre - 25th Anniversary Exhibition - Just a taste of the Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC
1991 Inaugural Exhibition, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Art in B.C., Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1990 North of the Border, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Material Essence: Greg Murdock, John Clair Watts, Lylian Klimek, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
Structures - Claude Luneau, Greg Murdock, The Gallery/ Stratford, Stratford, ON
1987 Tables Turned: Aspects of Furniture as Visual Art, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB
1986-1987 Insertion, The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta; Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec; London Regional Art Gallery, London, ONAn Exhibition Sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the U.S. Department of Cultural Affairs, City Gallery, New York, NY
l0 Plus l, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1985 Interiors/Tableaux, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario and Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, ON
1984 The Boat Show, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Drawings & Sculpture: Lynda Gammon, Greg Murdock, Colette Urban, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1983 Intersections, Eight Contemporary Vancouver Artists, Frans Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, BC
The October Show, A Survey of Contemporary Art in Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Equinox Gallery, Selected Group Shows, Vancouver, BC
1981 Graduate Show, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
Helen Pitt Awards Exhibition, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, BC
1980 Sculpture Expo, Hyatt Hotel, Vancouver, BC
1977 Saskatchewan Contemporary Show, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

Selected Links

Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting (SNAC)