Michael Adamson

b. 1971 Toronto, Canada"Adamson is a terrific colourist and knows extraordinarily well how to get paint onto a canvas" Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, July 1999"Not the least of his accomplishments is to make paintings that hover so tantalizingly between abstraction and landscape that you end up unwilling to settle for any single reading." Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, December 2000"Adamson has integrated the study of art history into his work, not as a cerebral academic exercise, but as something authentically animated, determined to elaborate a completely visual language." Joan Murray, Exhibition Statement, December 2000"Adamson traces a gorgeous line between abstraction and landscape Robert Enright, Border Crossings, Autumn 2001"Part of the appeal of Adamsons paintings, for me, lies in their open, grateful acknowledgement of the achievements of European modernism- and of the European painters who emigrated to New York in the 1930's and 40's, like Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and especially Hans Hofmann." Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, December 2001"These paintings are satisfying traces of effort, his oil wake an attestation of devotion to the study of vast colour and epic form, the very building blocks of all that ...

Michael AdamsonCurriculum VitaeBorn 1971, Toronto, CanadaEducation1992-1997Emily Carr Institute of Art And Design, Interdisciplines, Vancouver, Canada1996 Gesamkunst Hochschule, Painting and Photography, Kassel, Germany1991 Ryerson, Video and Photography, Toronto, CanadaSolo Exhibitions2008 Open Country, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario On The Road, Moore Gallery, Toronto , Ontario2007 The Bridge, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada Hill Works, Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2006 Before and After Words, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Canada Made Up Paintings Part 3 ,Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom Moonlit Canopies, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada Made Up Paintings Part 2, Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom London Express, Coningsby Gallery, London, United Kingdom Passageways, Cobden Club, London Club2005 HelioStatic, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Canada Eight Paintings, NYAAF/Gibson, New York, United States of America The Last Revolver, Revolver Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada Fort Sunshine, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada2004 Sunrise Life, Moore Gallery, To...

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Inscapes, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Canada
2017 Out of the Bush Garden, Benetton Foundation, Venice, Italy
Concrete Contemporary Art Auction (Autumn), Waddington’s, Canada
London Art Fair, Thompson’s Gallery, London, UK
Concrete Contemporary Art Auction (Spring), Waddington’s, Canada
2016 TIAF 2016, Robertson Galleries, Toronto Canada
Chromatic Nomadic, Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto Canada
London Art Fair, Thompson’s Gallery, London, UK
2015 12 Trees, Gardiner Museum, Toronto Canada
Passions of The Eye, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
Concrete Contemporary Art Auction (Spring), Waddington’s, Canada
Art London 2015, Thompson Contemporary London, UK
Exchange, PAMA, Peel Regional Museum and Archives, Canada
2014 Two Person, Thompson Contemporary London, UK
Art London 2014,Thompson Contemporary London, UK
Canadian Contemporary Auction (Spring), Waddington’s, Canada
2013 Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Peel, Museum Peel
Excavations, Varley Gallery, Museum Markham
Canadian Contemporary Auction (Autumn), Waddington’s, Canada
Canadian Contemporary Auction (Spring), Waddington’s, Canada
2012 Goop, Guck, And...