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Provenance:

Robertson Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Note:

WALTER BACHINSKI (1935 - )

Walter Bachinski was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from the Ontario College of Art, being mentored by Frederick Hagan, and, upon graduating, travelled for several months throughout Germany, France, Spain, England and Holland. He went on to complete his Master's Degree in 1967 at the University of Iowa, under the direction of Mauricio Lasansky. Shortly thereafter, he began teaching drawing and printmaking at the University of Guelph, gaining tenure in 1970 and progressing through the ranks to Full Professor in 1984. Bachinski eventually left the university in 1984.

The early works of Bachinski feature primarily monochromatic prints and drawings. In the early 1970’s, he began working on sculpture in the round and relief; and then explored the themes of “Mother and Child” and “Artist and Model”. His work became more classical in style and in 1978-79 he spent one year in France where he started to work seriously in colour with pastels, focussing on the concept of Still Life.

Since 1994, Bachinski has devoted himself exclusively to his art in his studio and small press publishing, establishing Shanty Bay Press in 1996 with Janis Butler. He has had more than twenty solo exhibitions, including five major surveys mounted by public galleries in Canada. Bachinski was the subject of Bachinski: Still Life - Ten Years at the MacLaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, in 1992. His works feature in prominent corporate and private collections throughout Canada. Bachinski lives and works in Shanty Bay, Ontario.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario
Art Gallery of North York, Ontario
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Windsor
Athabasca University, Alberta
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
Cad VISION, Calgary
Cambridge Shopping Centres Ltd., Toronto
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Canadian Pacific Railways
Cineplex Odeon Limited, Toronto
Civic Museum, Lugano, Switzerland
Claridge Collection, Montréal
Department of External Affairs, Canada
Drabinsky Collection, Toronto
Erindale College, University of Toronto
Esso Resources Ltd., Calgary
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
General Foods of Canada, Toronto
Georgian College , Barrie, Ontario
Government of Ontario
Guaranty Trust, Toronto
Hammerson Canada Inc., Toronto
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
A.E. Lepage Ltd., Toronto
Los Angeles Printmaking Society
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo
MacLaren Art Collection, Barrie
McMaster University, Hamilton
Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Robert McLauglin Art Centre, Oshawa
Norcen Energy, Calgary
OMERS, Toronto
Rothmans of Canada Collection, Toronto
Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catharine
Royal Bank of Canada
Shell Canada Collection
Sun Life Insurance of Canada
The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound
The Toronto Star
The Toronto Stock Exchange
University of Guelph
University of Lethbridge
University of Iowa


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 Approaching Classicism, HAN ART, Montreal, QC
2009 Variations on the Theme of the Birth of Venus, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Walter Bachinski Recent Work, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC
1996 Walter Bachinski, Recent Work, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC
Walter Bachinski: A Fifteen Year Survey of Prints, Erindale College, University of Toronto, ON
1995 Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, ON
1993 Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC
1992 Bachinski: Still Life - Ten Years, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON
1991 Approaching Classicism, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1990 Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
1989 Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, ON
Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1987 Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
1986 Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, ON
Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
1985 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
1984 Galerie l'Art Français, Montréal, QC
Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
1982 Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
1981 Walter Bachinski Sculpture and Drawing Retrospective, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
ON
West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Keenlyside Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Recent Works, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
1980 Gallery Moos, Calgary, AB
1979 Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
1977 Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
Bachinski: Work from 1966 to 1976, Regional Tour: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON;Stratford Art Gallery, ON; Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Rodman Hall,
St. Catharine's, ON; University of Guelph, ON
1975 Gallery 1640, Montréal, QC
1974 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, ON
Peter Hess Gallery, Hamilton, ON
1972-73 Bachinski: 1967 to 1972; Regional Tour: Acadia University, Wolfville, NS;
Mount St. Vincent University, Halilfax, NS; New Brunswick Museum, Saint John,
NB; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, NFL
1971 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, ON
1967 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Building a Legacy, Curating a Collection, Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph,
ON
2007 Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, ON
2002 Art 2002, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC
2001 Contemporary Still Life, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC
2000 TWO NATIONS: Works on Paper, Travelling Exhibition, Canada and Cuba, 2000-2002*
Art Expo, John Szoke Editions, New York, NY
1999 Sculptures, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC
The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC
Art Expo, John Szoke Editions, New York, NY
Naked Emotion, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
1998 Museologic, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
Three Master Printmakers, Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB
New Etchings and Pastels, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY
Great Canadian Art for a Great Canadian Cause, Ron Moore Gallery, Toronto, ON
1997 Here's Looking at Me Kid: Artists Look at Themselves, Art Gallery of North York, ON
1995 Printmakers at Riverside, Travelling exhibition, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON
1993 Practice and Pedagogy, London Regional Art Museum, London, ON
A Show of CATS: The Feline in Art, Prior Editions, Vancouver, BC
1992 The Print Defined, The Blyth Art Gallery, Blyth, ON
1990 Red, Durham Art Gallery, ON
1989 Blue, Durham Art Gallery, ON
1988 Yellow, Durham Art Gallery, ON
The Object is the Object, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
1986 V Bienal americana de artes graficas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia
1985 Celebrating 20 Years: 1965-1985, University of Guelph Faculty of Fine Arts,
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
1983-84 The Hand Holding the Brush: Self-portraits by Canadian Artists, London
Regional Art Gallery, ON; National Tour.
1982 Variations: Bachinski, Chu, Green, Urquhart, Wellington County Museum, Elora,
ON
1981 Viewpoints: 29 by 9, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Regional Tour.
Art For Architiecture, The Macdonald Gallery, Toronto, ON
1980 Sculpture from Public Collections in Ontario: 1950-1980, Burlington Cultural
Centre, ON
1977 Visitors, Exiles and Residents: Artists since 1827*, University of Guelph, Ontario.
1976 Spectrum Canada, Travelling exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy
Portraits on Paper, Morris Gallery, Toronto, ON
Four Canadian Printmakers, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg,
Washington
Ontario Now, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON
International Sculptures, Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
Of Human Bondage; Travelling exhibition. The Robert McLaughlin, Oshawa, ON
1974 5e Biennale internationale de la gravure, Kracow, Poland.
Group Exhibition (CPE), Commonwealth Art Gallery, London, UK
Bachinski, Urquhart, Weinstein, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON
Contemporary Canadian Prints & Drawings, McMaster University Art Gallery,
Hamilton, ON
IV International Biennial of Graphic Art, Florence, Italy
Graphics Canadian, Travelling exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1973 Canadian Printmakers, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
1972 Three Canadian Printmakers, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, ON
XI Bienniale of Prints & Drawings, Lugano, Switzerland
1971 Exposition internationale des arts graphiques, Musée des Beaux-Arts de
Montréal, QC
1970 Canadian Graphics, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Toronto, ON
Adams and Yves Gallery, Toronto, ON
1969 Young American Printmakers, Southern Methodist University, Texas
1968-69 Three Printmakers; Travelling exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
ON
1968 35th Annual Exhibition, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, London, ON
1967 38th Northwest Printmakers International Exhibition, Seattle, WA

Selected Public Commissions

1992 Mines & Minerals Research Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
1988 Cineplex Odeon Theatre, Kitchener, ON
1985 Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
1984 Maclean Hunter Building, College Park, Toronto, ON
1980 Mohawk College, Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, ON
1977 Kitchener, Court House, ON
1975 University of Waterloo, ON

Selected Honours, Grants and Awards

1982 Canada Council Short-Term Grant to study in France
1978,79 Canada Council Materials Grant
1978,79 Arts Council of Ontario Grant.
1974 Premio dell'instituto Bancario S. Paolo di Tuono, (Prize), V Biennale (Graphic
Arts), Florence, Italy
1973 University of Guelph Research Advisory Board Grant
Merit Prize, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, International Exhibition
1971 University of Guelph Research Advisory Board Grant

Selected Links

walterbachinski.com