Lila Lewis Irving Biography 

EDUCATION

• BA English, Brooklyn College, NYC

• MFA Theatre Arts, State University of Iowa

• MA The University of Wisconsin

• MFA The University of Wisconsin

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) Toronto, ON

• Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC)

SOLO AND TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

• 2005 Leonardo Gallery, Toronto, ON

• 2004 “Counterpoint in Grey”, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON

• 2003 ‘Abstractions’, Westdale Gallery, Hamilton, ON

• 2002 “Lila Lewis Irving with Emma Kokai”, Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery, Scarborough, ON

• 2001 “Black Magic”, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville

• 2000 “The Bronze Series”, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville  Avenue Studios, Toronto, ON

• 1999 “Collaboration”, simultaneous exhibition with Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville and Trias Gallery, Toronto

• 1998 “Appassionata”, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
  Elephant Barn Gallery, Georgeville, QC

• 1997 “Lila Lewis Irving and Vivian Felsen”, Wallace Avenue Studios, Toronto,
  “Lila Lewis Irving and Vivian Felsen Art Exhibition”, Wallace Avenue Studios, Toronto

• 1994 The Forge Studio Gallery, Terra Cotta, ON
  Gallery Gabor, Toronto

• 1991 Gallery Gabor, Toronto

• 1989 Boedeker Gallery, Toronto

• Benefit for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, QC

• 1987 Watercolour Show at Scrimshaw Gallery, Oakville

• 1986 Scrimshaw Gallery, Oakville

• 1985 Springbank Visual Arts Centre, Solo Show, Mississauga

• 1984 Milton Fine Arts Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Milton, ON

• 1983 Goethe Institute, Show with Almuth Lutkenhaus (sculptor), Ottawa, ON
  The Fairways Gallery, Show with Alan Kingsland (painter), Mississauga
  Yukon Gallery Show, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

• 1982 Centennial Gallery, Solo Exhibit, Oakville

• 1981 Woodblock Prints, Peel Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton, ON
  ‘Shape and Substance’, The Little Gallery, Oakville

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2005 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON
  “Unlimited Potential”, 150th Birthday Celebration, CSPWC, Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, ON
  “Made in Mississauga”, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
  Gallery Streetsville, Streetsville, ON
  Galeria Carrion Vivar, Bogota, Columbia
  “Portrait! Who and What You Are”, OSA Exhibition, Varley Gallery, Unionville, ON
  CSPWC, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON

• 2004 “Celebrating 10 Years of Excellence”, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga

• 2003 “10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville
  “Profile 4: Mississauga Artists”, (with Patience Morrisey and Eileen Oswald), Art Gallery of Mississauga July 24 to September 7
  “Water”, exhibition for the Water Project, organized by the Ontario Society of Artists, July 5 - 20, at Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville
  An exhibition on the theme of ‘water’, Delta Meadowvale Hotel, (with Heather Grindley and Margaret Squire), Mississauga
  “Go Figure”, Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville
  “About Portraiture”, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  ‘On the Move’, Continuum.og, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, Toronto
  ‘Mostly Miniatures’, Gallery House Sol, Brampton

• 2002 Colour and Form Society, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga

• 2001 “Art Toronto 2001”, Toronto International Art Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
  “Evidence of Things Unseen”, 3rd Annual National Exhibition, Tyndale College and Seminary, Toronto
  “Continuum o.g.” Exhibition, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Toronto
  Colour and Form Society Members Exhibition, Living Arts Gallery, Mississauga,

• 2000 “About Face”, Exhibition of Portraiture, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Perspectives, 2000”, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
  “Millennium International Art Exhibition”, The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
  “Florart 2000”, The Millennium in Japan, Awaji Island, Japan
  75th Annual Juried Exhibition of the CSPWC, The Roberts Gallery, Toronto
  The Society of Canadian Artists 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, The John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto
  Arts Etobicoke Juried Show
  “A Brush with History”, CSPWC 75th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga
  “Drawing 2000’, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Into Body”, Members Juried Art Exhibition, OSA, The Frederick Horsman Varley Gallery, Unionville, ON
  Visual Arts Mississauga, 23rd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Mississauga

• 1999 “Artventure”, Selected Works of the Colour and Form Society, Laidlaw Hall, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
  “Breaking Ground: Contemporary Abstraction Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery of Mississauga”, Laidlaw Hall, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
  “Sacred Earth”, Ontario Society of Artists 125th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, OSA, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Countdown to the Millennium”, Society of Canadian Artists 32nd Annual Exhibition, SCA, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Portrait Artists”, Exhibition, Gallery in the Garden, Sherway Gardens Shopping Centre, Toronto
  “Perspectives 99”, Juried Art Exhibition of Female Artists sponsored by Pratt and Whitney Canada, for Interim Place, Mississauga and Women’s Habitat, Etobicoke
  47th Annual Open Juried Show of the CFS, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery

• 1998 31st Annual Juried Show, SCA, John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “A Statement of Self”, Selected Works of the SCA, The Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, Unionville
  “Borderlines”: Contemporary Drawings from Mississauga, Kariya Art Museum, Kariya, Japan
  “Perspectives 98”, Juried Art Exhibition of Female Artists sponsored by Pratt and Whitney Canada, for Interim Place, Mississauga and Women’s Habitat, Etobicoke
  “continuum o.g.”, John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto

• 1997 “Pearl”, 30th Annual Exhibition, SCA, John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Image 97”, Open Juried Exhibition, OSA, Art Gallery Mississauga
  125th Anniversary Juried Members Exhibition, OSA (Travelling Exhibition) opening at John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Perspectives 97”, Juried Art Exhibition of Female Artists sponsored by Pratt and Whitney Canada, for Interim Place, Mississauga and Women’s Habitat, Etobicoke
  Arts Etobicoke 7th Annual Juried Art Show, Etobicoke City Hall, Toronto
  47th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, CFS Etobicoke City Hall, Toronto

• 1996 Juried Exhibition of Mississauga Artists, Kariya, Japan
  23rd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
  “Quintessence”, Five Person Show, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “Ten Years – Ten Works”, Joint Art Societies Show, OSA, Tenth Anniversary Retrospective, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  29th Annual Open Juried Show, SCA John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  44th Annual Open Juried Show, CFS, Etobicoke City Hall, Toronto
  Visual Arts Mississauga 19th Annual Juried Show of Fine Art, Art Gallery of Mississauga
  Etobicoke Art Group Annual Juried Show, Etobicoke Art Gallery, Toronto

• 1995 “Origins”, juried Members Show, CFS, Art Gallery of Mississauga
  43rd Annual Open Juried Show, CFS, Toronto
  “Encore”, The Gallery at Fairways, Mississauga
  22nd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
  “Celebration”, 123rd Annual Members Exhibition, OSA, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  “A Global Concept”, OSA Exhibition, Toronto

• 1994 42nd Annual Juried Show, CFS, Toronto
  Toronto Arts and Letters Club Maritime Painting Juried Exhibition

• 1993 Alumni Show, Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  41st Annual Juried Show, CFS, Toronto
  26th Annual Juried Show, SCA, Toronto
  Oakville Group Show, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto
  Arts and Letters Club Exhibit, in conjunction with the National Ballet of Canada, O’Keefe Centre, Toronto

• 1992 Alumni Show, Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  40th Annual Juried Show, CFS, Toronto

• 1991 “International Waters”, Juried Watercolour Joint Show of the American Watercolor Society, British Watercolour Society and CSPWC. Toured Canada, USA and Britain 1991-1993
  39th Annual Juried Show, CFS, Toronto
  Oakville Group Exhibit, The Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton

• 1990 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, SCA, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  38th Annual Juried show, CFS, Toronto
  “Figure in the Landscape”, Members Juried Exhibition, OSA, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
  Toronto Watercolour Society, Toronto
  The Whitman Gallery, Five Person Show, Toronto

• 1989 Annual Spring Juried Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  37th Annual Open Juried Show, CFS, Toronto
  Members Juried Exhibition, CFS, Mississauga Civic Centre Art Gallery
  Campbell House Galley, CFS, Georgetown
  16th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Regional Municipality of Peel Art Gallery, Brampton
  19th Annual Juried Art Show, Arts Etobicoke, Etobicoke City Hall
  21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Burlington Fine Arts Association, Burlington Cultural Centre
  Oakville-Neyagawa Art Exchange, Neyagawa, Japan
  37th Annual Aviva Art Show, Toronto

• 1975-1988 Numerous Group Shows: CSPWC, OSA, Toronto Watercolour Society, Visual Arts Mississauga, Colour and Form Society, Peel Museum and Art Gallery, Burlington Cultural Centre

SELECTED AWARDS

• 1999 SCA, “Countdown to the Millennium”, Honourable Mention

• 1998 Mississauga Visual Artist of the Year Award, Mississauga Arts Council Juried Award
  SCA, Jurors Award, 31sth Annual Juried Show

• 1996 SCA, Jurors Award
  Colour and Form Society Juried Show, Honourable Mention

• 1995 Etobicoke Art Group Juried Show, Jurors Award

• 1990 Best Personal Expression, Toronto Watercolour Society 6th Annual Fall Exhibition
  Honourable Mention, Arts Etobicoke, 10th Annual Juried Art Show

• 1989 Honourable Mention, Annual Spring Juried Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Honourable Mention, 19th Annual Juried Arts Show, Arts Etobicoke
  Best Landscape, 5th Annual Fall Juried Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Woolfitt’s Art Enterprises Award, 37th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Colour and Form Society
  Prize Winner, 16th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Brampton

• 1988 Honourable Mention, Spring Juried Art Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Best Mixed Media, 8th Annual Juried Art Show, Arts Etobicoke
  Merit Award, 63rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, CSPWC
  Best Maritime painting, 4th Annual Juried Fall Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Honourable Mention, 11th Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Mississauga

• 1987 2nd Award, Credit Valley Hospital Juried Art Show, Mississauga
  Award Winner, Peel Art Gallery, Brampton

• 1986 Best in Show, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Award for Excellence in Watercolour, Toronto Watercolour Society
  Honourable Mention, Toronto Watercolour Society

• 1985 2nd Award in Watercolour, Visual Arts Mississauga

PUBLICATIONS

• 2005 Stir Media Magazine, “Art Appreciation: Looking at Paintings”, Article by Birgit Moenke and Ken Forsyth, Ninth Edition
  2004 Stir Media Magazine, “Lila Lewis Irving: Catacylsmic”, Interview by Birgit Moenke, Sixth Edition
  1997 OSA Catalogue, 125th Anniversary Traveling Juried Exhibition (1997)
  Colour and Form Society, 50th Anniversary Catalogue

• “Discovery Through Design, An Introduction to Art and Design”, Sixth Edition by Marjorie Elliott Bevlin. Harcourt Brace (1994), Plate 1, page 207

• OSA Catalogue, 125th Anniversary Travelling Juried Exhibition (1997)

• Colour and Form Society, 50th Anniversary Catalogue

TEACHING

• Abbozzo Gallery Lecture Series, Demonstration and Slide Lecture

• Central Ontario Art Association, Geneva Park

• Clarkson Society of Artists, Mississauga

• Georgian Bay School of Arts

• Haliburton School of Fine Art

• Koffler Gallery, School of Visual Art, Toronto

• Loyalist College Summer Arts Program

• Mississauga Artists’ Workshop, Mississauga

• Rivercrest Gallery, Mississauga

• The Chalet School of Fine Arts

• The Elephant Barn School, Georgeville, PQ

• Toronto Watercolour Society, Toronto

• Willowdale – Edithvale Group, Toronto

OF SPECIAL NOTE

• 2005 Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute: Painting Performance on stage to accompany premier Performance of “The Pull”, a trio by Abigail Richardson, Willis Hall at Appleby College, Oakville, ON

• A collection of Woodcut prints on the subject of the land and people of Old Crow is held in the Archives of Old Crow, Yukon

• 2001 Professional Development Lecture Series Demo accompanied by a String Quartet at the Royal Canadian Music School, Toronto

• 2000 Painting selected for the cover of the Annual Report of the Mississauga Arts Council

• 1996 Visual Arts Ontario, Materials Assistance Grant

• 1991 Selected as one of twelve artists from the USA and Canada to participate in a workshop with Helen Frankenthaler in Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 1982 Visual Arts Ontario Materials Assistance Grant

COLLECTIONS

• Alex Chapman Design Ltd., Toronto

• Art Gallery of Mississauga

• Arthur Andersen Consulting, Toronto

• AT&T, Toronto

• AT&T Capital Canada

• Blue Top Developments, Toronto

• British Bank Note, Toronto

• Canaccord Capital Corporation

• Canada Customs and Revenue, Toronto

• Chubb Insurance, Toronto

• Congress Financial, Toronto

• Commerzbank, Toronto

• Cook Gourmet, Mississauga

• Farnham Seaton Accountants, Mississauga

• Gren Weis Architect and Associates

• Holland Dried Flowers Ltd.

• Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. (Weisbaden, Germany and Luxembourg)

• IBM, Toronto

• Keanall Industries, Mississauga

• Marathon Realty, Toronto

• McCarney, Greenwood, and Vottero, Accountants, Toronto

• McKenna Gale Capital Management, Toronto

• Midland Walwyn Capital Inc., Toronto

• Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

• Nesbitt Burns, Toronto

• Newton & Blair Design Associates

• Nippondenso Canada Ltd., Toronto

• Nissan Canada, Toronto

• Noranda Art Continuous Lease Project (1996-1997)

• North America Life, Toronto

• Northern Regions Centre, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

• Office of the Mayor, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores

• Peel Board of Education, Mississauga

• Pharmacia, Mississauga

• Prime Computer of Canada, Toronto

• Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto

• Public Accountants Council of Ontario, Toronto

• Public Works and Government Services Canada

• Ryder Trucks

• Schawk Canada

• Scotia Bank Oakville

• Standard Trust, Toronto

• The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida (State University of Florida)

• The Diploma Collection of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Peel Art Gallery, Brampton

• Torstar Corporation

• Turkey Marketing Board

• Valenart, Fine Art Consulting, Toronto

• Zurich Insurance, Toronto

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