////exposure
Articulated Mass, Oil on Paper, The Drey, Toronto, (Canada) 2024
Apophenia Zephyr, The Drey, Berlin, (Germany) 2020
Unlimited Hangout, The Drey, Toronto, (Canada) 2020
recipient of Acker Award, Toronto, (Canada) 2018
Nagy Oktoberi Szofosas, Magyar Muhely Galeria MMG, Budapest, (Hungary) 2017
Writing Abstracts, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto, (Canada) 2014
Clean Salvage, Acadia Fine Art, Toronto (Canada) 2012
Art Toronto int. Art Fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto, (Canada)
Clean Salvage, The Focus Gallery, Hamilton (Canada)
New Works on Paper, The Focus Gallery, Hamilton (Canada) 2010
Christmas At Poulsen, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Art Toronto int. Art Fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (Canada) 2009
50/50, Hunter and Cook, Toronto (Canada)
Poulsen on Paper, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Art Toronto int. Art fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (Canada) 2008
Scope New York, Galeria Begona Malone, NY (USA) 2007
TBA, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid (Spain)
Scope Miami, Galeria Begona Malone, Miami (USA)
Outside the Ordinary, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada)
Locus Horribilis, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada)
Art Toronto int. Art fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (Canada)
Locus Horribilis, Art Metropole, Toronto (Canada)
Summer Splash, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
Efficiency, Mind Control, Toronto (Canada) 2004
Le Salon de Printemps, Spin Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
Drawing Attention, Spin Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
Illdoll, Spin Gallery, Toronto (Canada)
Manifestations, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada) 2002
The New Romantics, Revolver A-Level, Toronto (Canada)
Dark Movement, Art System, Toronto (Canada) 2001
Aesthetic Evil, Art System, Toronto (Canada)
////collections
Leo Kuelbs, NY(usa )/ Berlin(Germany)
Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto (canada)
Gerard Gorce Beaux-Arts, Montreal (canada)
Pierre-Francois Ouellette, Montreal (canada)
Ron Martin, Toronto (canada)
Collette Tougas, Montreal (canada)
Jerome Fortin, Montreal (canada)
Ed Pien, Toronto (canad)
Donal Loque, LA (usa)
Fernanda Faria Toronto (canada)
////background
OCADU University of Art and Design
SHERIDAN Institute of Applied Art
////grants
OAC Film/Video Creation Production
////video
FAULT, 38min. Animated Film, DIGI-BETA 2007
ILLDOLL, 14min. Animated Film DVD 2003
video
////statement
Extensive time working with charcoal on paper has groomed my current approach to oil
The works labour accords me autocratic tactile necessity, an articulated mass.
Stress scrubbed landscapes islanding ruins ill caked in cure.
Impotent in placation and language unless thriving selfishly, obliquely, as an occult fetish.
Relief, transparency, permeation of sensual memory embossed in saturating ground.
A scribes longing toil text and totem the object status of legitimation and credulity.
Residual once erotic by my lips and hands restructured through a lens of art historical colouring and worse, the mob.
////forward / Samantha Crowhurst 2012
Through a variety of approaches to the mythological landscape, delving into fervent and psychosomatic territories with fear,
desire and intimacy: producing ”clean” uncensored pictorial landscapes filed with tension.
With intense manufactured and aesthetically original mythologies, Christopher Lori exposes the veracity of his own account,
sculpting hidden and intimate pressures to be clean in nature - persuading himself of the worth and states of daily, emotional needs continually nailed to the wall.
////bio
Born in Ontario (canada) 1970 of Irish and Italian decent Christopher Lori has developed his art-making since childhood, with supplemental studies at both OCADU and Sheridan Institute Of Applied Arts.
currently active in Toronto (ca)