Detailed CV
Born:
December 23, 1954 in Toronto Ontario
Education: Diploma of Fine Art, Fanshawe College, 1980
Solo Exhibitions:
2007-2009 McIntosh Gallery, Chatham Cultural Centre, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, "Organizing the Search for Tom Thomson"
2005 Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario, "Local Project"
2003 Thielsen Galleries, London Ontario, "Arcticalachia"
2001 Gallery Gevik, Toronto Ontario, "Curious Landscape"
2001 Theilsen Galleries, London Ontario, "Recent Works ~
Jeff Willmore"
2000 St. Thomas-Elgin Art Gallery, St. Thomas Ont., "Vessels in a Landscape"
1999 Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock Ontario, "Performative
Utterances and Other Oaths"
1997 Thielsen Galleries, London Ontario, "Erie to the Abitibi"
1995 Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, "A Forest the
Size of France"
1994 Museum London, London Ontario, "A Forest the Size of France"
1993 McIntosh Gallery, London Ontario, "Acknowledging Presence"
1991 Gibson Gallery, London Ontario, "Standing and Place"
1987 Museum London, London Ontario, "Talbot Street Exhibition"
1986 Museum London, London Ontario, "Second Hand Information in a One Horse
Town" 1986 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto Ontario, "Jeff Willmore: recent
paintings"
1983 Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, "Collages"
1983, 1981 Trajectory Gallery, London Ontario
1981 Forest City Gallery, London Ontario
Group Exhibitions:
1993 Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound Ontario, "Personal
Journals" (three person show)
1989 Roth Art Gallery, London Ontario, "Roland, Beryl and the Bear Attack"
1987 Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns
Newfoundland, "Paintings of People"
1985 Museum London, London Ontario, "Research and Discovery"
1984 College Park, Toronto Ontario, "Eight Artists"
Performances:
1995 Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie Ontario "Halloween Story"
1994 Museum London, London Ontario, "Halloween Story" and "Sylvan
Valley"
1993 Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, 8th Annual Spring
Performance Festival, "Buick Surfing"
1990 Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, 5th Annual Spring
Performance Festival, "Alison Automatic"
1989 Forest City Gallery, London Ontario, 4th Annual Spring
Performance Festival, "Sylvan Valley"
Selected
Collections:
The University of Western Ontario - McIntosh Gallery, June 2001
Connor Clark, Canadian Art Collection, 1999
Museum London, November 1997 and April 1984
Canada Council Art Bank, July 1992 and November 1985
Blackburn Group, London Free Press Collection, November 1989
Matthew Teitelbaum, personal collection
Awards:
The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize, sponsored by Connor Clark Private Trust and
the Canadian Art Foundation - Second Prize, 1999
Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grants, 2001, 1999, 1997,
1995,1994, 1993, 1991, 1989, 1986, 1985, 1984
Bibliography:
"Jeff Willmore" profile by Sylvia Curtis-Norcross, Lifestyle magazine,
2001
"Performative Utterances and Other Oaths" essay by Rick Nixon,
Curator/Director of the Woodstock Art Gallery, November 1999
"Londoner Places Second in National Arts Contest" staff writer, The
London
Free Press
"Vessels in a Landscape" essay by Avril Flanagan, MA, June 1999
"A Beautiful Body of Work" review by Sylvia Curtis-Norcross, Scene Magazine,
October 1997
"A Forest the Size of France" essay by James Patten, curator of
contemporary art, Museum London, October 1997
"Jeff Willmore: Acknowledging Presence" Art World review by Mickey Meads and
Holly Curtis, Scene magazine, August 1993
"Neo-Expressionist Continues climb" article by Kate Taylor, The London Free
Press, June 1986
"Novel Show and exciting hodgepodge of humorous art" article by Kate Taylor,
The London Free Press, 1985
"Canadian Artists as they see themselves" James Stewart
Reaney, The London
Free Press, 1983
