Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Louise Noguchi
louisenoguchi [at] hotmail.com


EDUCATION

University of Windsor, MFA, 2000; Ontario College of Art, AOCA, 1981

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005        Louise Noguchi: Wild, Wild West, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Canada
              document, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada WARC, Toronto Canada
2004        document, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
              New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
              luvgunrung, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (In Light, video series)
1999        The Language of the Rope Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
1997        CEPA Underground (inaugural exhibition), Buffalo, USA
1996        Modus Operandi (2 person exhibition with Ginette Legaré)
              Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
              Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1995        Compilation Portraits Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1993        Cold City, Toronto, Canada
              Optica, Montreal, Canada
1992        Forest City, London, Canada
1990        Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
              Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
1989        Louise Noguchi: Selected Works 1982 - 1985        
              The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
1989        /87/86/85/84/82 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005        Robert Birch Gallery at Kesslau Temporaire, Berlin, Germany
              Expo 2005, VIP Lounge, Canadian Pavilion, Aichi Japan
              CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ART IN CANADA: THE SPACE OF MAKING
              Neuer Berliner Kuntsverein, Berlin, Germany
              Städtisches Museum Zwickau, Germany
              Kuntsmuseum Heideinheim, Germany
              Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Munich, Germany
2003        Courtisane Short Film and Video Festival (installation)
              Ghent, Belgium
2002        Das zweite Gesicht Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
              Crack Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
              Media City Film and Video Festival, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
1999-2001   Crime and Punishment Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
              Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
              The Mendel, Saskatoon, Canada
              Robert Birch Gallery at the Toronto International Art Fair Toronto, Canada
2000        Recollection Project Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999        Silenced Voices: An Affirmation of Human Rights Spaces, Cleveland, USA
1998        La Face/The Face Dazibao, Montréal, Canada
1997-99   Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography
              Oakville Galleries, Oakville
              Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
              Presentation House and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
              The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
              Centre culturel Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
              MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
              Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg
1997        Here's Looking at Me Kid, Artists Look at Themselves Art Gallery of North York, Canada
              Rococo Tattoo Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
              For Lack of Evidence Château de La Roche-Guyon, France
              TEN Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              Tigers & Other Titles Millie Chen, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Louise Noguchi
              Paul Petro Contemporary Art at 21 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Canada
1995        Group Exhibition Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              Encore: The Station Gallery Revisited
              The Station Gallery, Whitby, Canada
              Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1994        Group Exhibition Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              Textiles, that is to say Museum For Textiles, Toronto, Canada
              Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1993        For Lack of Evidence Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
              Group Exhibition Cold City, Toronto, Canada
              Louise Noguchi/ John Scott/ Francesca Vivenza Birganart, Toronto, Canada
1992        (C)OVERT Station Gallery, Whitby, Canada
              Two Row Wampum Project Niagara Artists Centre
              Themes of Immanence Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Canada
              Dialogue: A Collection of Works From the Canada Council Art Bank,CIAC, Galleries du Parc, Montreal, Canada
1991        Visions of Power York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada and Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
              Quest for Understanding Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Canada
1989        Shikata Ga Nai Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
              Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1988        The Today Show Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Don Mills, Canada
              Shikata Ga Nai Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Canada; Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Canada
1987        Shikata Ga Nai Hamilton Artists' Inc., Hamilton, Canada; Forest City, London, Canada; Ha'Ku Gallery,
              St. Catharines, Canada
              Drawing Out the Form: Sculpture Touched by Drawing The Nickle Museum, Calgary, Canada
1986        Carmen Lamanna Gallery at Art Cologne, 20 Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
              Mapping the Surface The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
              Patio Lawn Slope University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Canada
              How We See - What We Say Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
              Echo (collaboration with dancer Louise Parent) Pavlychenko Studio, Toronto, Canada
1985        Territories Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Canada
1984        The New City of Sculpture Studio 620, Toronto, Canada
1983        Attitude Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
1982        Women in Art Art Rental, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1981        First Purchase Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
              Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1980        Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
              A.C.T., Toronto, Canada
1980        The Funnel (film screening), Toronto, Canada
              Artventure Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, Canada
              Gallery 76, Toronto, Canada.
1979        The Viewing Rooms, New York, USA

COLLECTIONS

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Agnes Etherington, Kingston, Canada
The American Bank ,Chris Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City , USA
The Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Robert McLauglin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Private Collections

SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES

New Gallery, Calgary, 2004
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2002
Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, 2002
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 2002
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, 2001
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, 1999
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, 1999
The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 1998
CEPA Underground, Buffalo, USA, 1997
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1996
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1995
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, 1991
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1991
University of Guelph, Guelph, 1990
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 1990
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, 1990
University of Toronto, Sheridan Campus, Oakville, 1990
Power Plant, Toronto, 1989
Nickle Museum, Calgary, 1987
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1986
Queen's University, Kingston 1985

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Catalogues and Books
Anderson, Shannon. Revealing the Subject. Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 2003.
Armstrong, John and Quinton, Sarah. Textiles, that is to say. Toronto: The Museum for Textiles, 19 February - 7 May, 1994.
Bracken Sparks, Amy. Giving Voice to the Voiceless. Cleveland: Spaces Gallery, 25 June - 30 July 1999.
Carr-Harris, Ian. How We See-What We Say. Toronto: The Art Gallery of Harbourfront, 4 April - 18 May 1986.
Choinière, France and O'Reilly, Yves. With essays by Sylvie Parent, Jean Dumont, Luce Des Aulniers, Luc Bureau, Chantal Boulanger, Marie Fraser, Sylvain Campeau, Michaël La Chance. Translation by Donald McGrath. The Face/La Face, Montréal: Dazibao, 1998.
Dompierre, Louise. Louise Noguchi, Selected Works 1982-1985. Toronto: The Power Plant, 10 March - 23 April 1989.
Elliot Shaw, Catherine (forward). Panel discussion with Reinhard Reitzenstein, Brian Scott, Patrick Thibert And Louise Noguchi. Measuring the Gap: Locating the Artist and Viewer in Public Art, London:McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, 1992.
Fischer, Barbara. For Lack of Evidence, Toronto, Canada: Mercer Union, 1993; Herblay, France: Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Herblay 1996.
Fleming, Marnie. With essays by Su Ditta, Marnie Fleming, Tom Fleming, Lynne Kirby, David Tomas, Karen White. Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography, Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 1997.
Fung, Richard and Kanbara, Bryce. Recollection Project, Toronto: Gendai Gallery, 2000.
Glasser, Penelope. Activities of Consciousness. Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 20 October - 28 November 1990.
Grenville, Bruce. Mapping the Surface: The Process of Recent Toronto Sculpture. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 24 October-30 November 1986.
Grenville, Bruce. Territories. Toronto: YYZ, November 1985.
Grenville, Bruce. "The New City of Sculpture" C Magazine, Fall 1984, no. 3, pp. 76ff.
Jean, Marie-Josée. Contemporary Art In Canada:The Space of Making, Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2005.
Kemp, Cornelia. With essays by:Wolfgang Bruckle, Ludger Derenthal, Patricia Druck, Rudolf Frieling, Sander L. Gilman, Cornelia Kemp, Barbara Knappmeyer, Claudia Gabriele Philipp, Klaus Pollmeier, Susanne Regener and Susanne Witzgall. .Das zweite Gesicht: Metamorphosen des fotografischen Portråts.Munich: The Deutsches Museum, 2002.
Kanbara, Bryce, Shikata Ga Nai, circulating exhibit 1987-88.
McAlear, Donna. Drawing Out the Form: Sculpture Touched By Drawing, Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum, 1986.
Michie, Jennifer. (C)overt, Whitby: The Station Gallery, 1992.
Monk, Philip. Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, Toronto: The Power Plant, 1997.
Nezirevic, Admira. Encore: The Station Gallery Revisited, Whitby: The Station Gallery, 1995.
Pruesse, Kym. Compilation Portraits, Waterloo: Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfred Laurier University, 1999.
Rudder, Jennifer. Crime and Punishment, Agnes Etherington Art Centre 1999.
Rudder, Jennifer. (ed. Bernie Miller and Melanie Ward.) (2002) “Invisible Danger: The Criminal Aura in Recent Artworks by Sheila Ayaerst and Louise Noguchi.” Crime and Ornament. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2002.
Schelle, Susan and Carney, Lora. Notes on the Exhibition, Scarborough: The Gallery of U. of T. Scarborough Campus 1986.
Tamplin, Illi-Maria. Quest for Understanding, Peterborough: The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1991.
Thériault, Michèle. The Measure of an Interspace, Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery, 1996.
West, Anne. Themes of Immanence, Burlington: Burlington Cultural Centre 1992.
White, Karen.Louise Noguchi, Recent Work, Oakville: Oakville Galleries 2001.

Selected Internet Sites
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/soarchiv/gesicht.htm
http://www.robertbirchgallery.combr> http://www249.pair.com/smckay/lola/L13_bigpicture.html
http://www.ago.net/info/ago_exhibitions/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=820
http://www.uwrf.edu/history/asian-amer-artists.html
http://www.uturn.org/Prisissue/intro.htm
http://www.uturn.org/Prisissue/noguchi.htm
http://cepa.buffnet.net/exhibits/EXHIBIT.19971998/relocatingasia/AS02.site/AS02.06.noguchi.html
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-09-05/art_reviews.php
http://www.gallery44.org/exhibitions/crime.htm
http://www.expo2005canada.gc.ca/en/cultural_program/visual_arts.html
http://www.voxphoto.com/en/exhibitions/space_of_making_en.html
http://www.dazibao-photo.org/en/prog_2004_2005_noguchi.html