Short Biography

Catherine Young Bates paints what’s missing in landscape paintings: the wind and the weather. As the wind blows and the sky darkens or brightens, there is an exhilarating feeling of recognition: I’ve been here before. Because we not only see but feel the familiar, to look at her landscapes is to stand right in them. We are not looking. We are there. Her aim with still lifes is similar, to convince the viewer of the vitality of the images.

Bates uses tube paints and pigment sticks and vibrant colours. Bates has had painting residencies in Newfoundland and Taos, New Mexico, and has worked across Canada and the United States, England and France. She received her honours B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Toronto, and her M. Ed. from McGill. She is a member of the RCA (Royal Canadian Academy) and PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists). She wrote as art critic for The Montreal Star and several magazines. Counterpane: Poems and Drawings was published by Ken Hertz. She was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Victoria University, Toronto in 2006. She is an invited guest speaker and taught in the Fine Arts Department of Dawson College, Montreal for many years. Her work is found in international private and public collections.

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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
1995 Hugh O’Donnell Workshop, Connecticut, USA
1992 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1972-88 Allan Harrison, mentor
1986 McGill University, Canada, Master of Education (Art)
1960-63 Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, USA (painting, Keith Martin), Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Md. USA (graphics), Doon School of Fine Arts, Doon, ON (painting), Beal Technical School, London, ON (painting, Herb Ariss)
1957 Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto, Canada
1956 Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada, Honours B.A., Art & Archaeology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Centre d’art E.K. Voland, Montreal Nov. 2-8, curator Jean-Michel Correia
2015 Uplands, Sherbrooke, QC, Variations, June 28- Sept. 6
2015 Galerie du Theatre, Magog, QC. Horizons (drawings, paintings) 21 mai -21 juin
2014 Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, QC, Oct.-Nov., curator Victoria LeBlanc
2014 Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead, QC, April & May, Intersections, curator Chloe Southam
2013 Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Centre, Valcourt, QC Sept. 29-Dec. 15, curator Monique Nadeau-Saumier
2012 Galerie d’Avignon, Montreal, November
2009 Retrospective, Stewart hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, QC, curator Joyce Millar (catalogue)
2009 McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Monochromes, curator Victoria Leblanc (catalogue)
2008 Galerie d’Avignon, Montreal, December
2007 Le Musée de Charlevoix, La Malbaie, QC, Oct.12-Dec. 2, curator Brigitte Lavoix
2006 Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, VT, U.S.A., Drawing Into Paint, Sept. 14-Oct. 9
2006 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, QUAI SERIES, Sept. 28-Oct. 14
2005 Two Graces Gallery, Taos, NM, Dec. 2-Jan. 7, 2006
2005 Galerie Gillygooly, North Hatley, QC, Throughways, July 3-30
2004 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Islands and Outports, Nov. 10-27
2004 Centre Culturel de Union-Ville, Drummondville, QC, June-Sept.
2004 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, VISTAS XI: Georgian Bay, May 7-29
2004 Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Dawson College, Montréal, ICARUS, Feb. (catalogue)
2003 Galerie d’Avignon, Montréal, QC, VISTAS X: Soaring, Oct. 22-Nov. 15
2002 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, VISTAS IX, Oct. 3 -26 (catalogue)
2001 Galerie d’Avignon, Montréal, QC, Nov., VISTAS VIII
2001 Centre culturel Azur, Magog, QC, Mar. 4-25, organized by Creatio
2000 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Nov. 4-22, VISTAS VII: Lands and Skies
2000 Galerie d’Avignon, Montréal, QC, Mar. 28-April 16, VISTAS VI
1999 Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, ON, VISTAS V
1998 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, VISTAS IV: Lands and Lilies
1998 Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, QC VISTAS III: Owl’s Head Mountain
1997 Galerie l’autre équivoque (St. Laurent + Hill), Ottawa, ON, VISTAS II
1996 Café Galerie, Montréal, QC. VISTAS: This Land
1993 Galerie Dan Delaney, Montréal, QC, Cliff Series
1989 Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC, Ecology Series II / Série Ecologique II
1988 Galerie Timothy Roberts, Montréal, QC, Ecology Series/Série Ecologique
1985 McGill University, Montréal, QC, Still Life in the Landscape
1982 Galerie Artlenders, Montréal, QC, Quilt Series
1981, 82, 85 Westmount Library, Montréal, QC, Oxford Series, Etta Series, Drawings and Poems
1980 Oxford Regional Library Art Gallery, Oxford, England, Drawings and Watercolours Done in England, 1979-80
1980 Lansdowne Studio, Montréal, QC, Ecology Series/Série écologique-Trees/Arbres
1974 Galerie Jeanne Newman, Montréal, QC, Portraits of the Family
1974 Sir George Williams University, Gallery II, Montréal, QC, Stencils and Small Sculptures
1973 Gallery Pascal, Toronto, ON, Paintings and Small Sculptures
1971 Gallery 1640, Montréal, QC, Mixed Media on Paper and Sculptures
1965 College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Recent Paintings
1960 Regional Library, London, ON, Recent Work

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 – 2000 Roberts Gallery, Toronto-Artists Choice, Sketches, and other group exhibits. Toronto Art Fair.
2015 Galerie du Theatre, Magog, QC, Black and White, Feb. 5-Mar, 8.
2014 Galerie du Theatre, Magog, QC, group exhibition
2011 Visions, Painters of the Landscape of the Eastern Townships, Musée Colby-Curtis,
Stanstead, QC, June 17-Oct. 16 2011, Curator Pierre Rastoul
2010 Haut en couleur, Villa Bagatelle, Sainte-Foy, QC, Mar. 24-Aug. 22
2008 Le Collège comme lieu de creation, NDG Maison de la culture, Montreal, Feb.-Mar.
2008 Galerie d’Avignon, 10th Anniversary Exhibit, April
2006 John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Quebec Artists of R.C.A., Works on Paper
2006 Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, ON, Artist Odyssey: The Arctic, catalogue
2005 Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, QC, EAST WEST Oriental/Occidental LANDSCAPES, July 3-Aug. 28, curator Joyce Millar
2003 Bombardier Cultural Center, Valcourt, QC, Perspectives: Women Townships Artists curators Annie Boudin, Monique Nadeau-Saumier
2003 Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Vues du paysage, Sept. 4-27, curator Hedwidge Asselin
2003 Roberts Gallery, Toronto, Waterways of Canada (July), Sketches (August)
2003 Musée des Beaux Arts, Sherbrooke, QC, Salon du printemps, curator Suzanne Pressé
2000 ARTS 2000, R.C.A., national juried exhibit, Stratford & Toronto, ON
2006– Les Femmeuses, Pratt & Whitney, also other years back to 1989
1999 Space and Place: Landscapes of the Eastern Townships / Espace et lieux, paysages des Cantons de l’Est, with Kreighoff, Fraser, Edson & Goodrige Roberts, etc., curated by Monique Nadeau-Saumier
1999 The Park: An Artist’s Eye, Visual Arts Centre, Westmount, QC, curator: Victoria LeBlanc
1999-98-97 Artists Choice, & other group exhibits, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON
03-99-96-94-92 Faculty Bienniale, Dawson College, Montréal, QC
1993 Around & About Drawing, Dawson College, Montréal, 4-person exhibit
1991-92 Artists of Quebec, Gallery 78, Fredericton, Florenceville & St. John, NB
1990 The Nude, Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC
1988 115th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, ON
1987 Conseil des Artistes et Peintres du Québec, Montréal, QC
1987 Thomas More Institute, Montréal, QC
1986 Salon, la société canadienne de l’aquarelle, Prize 1988
1986 Three-person exhibit, Galerie Alliance, Montréal, QC
1984 Canvassing – McGill Women Artists, McGill University, Montréal, QC
1983 Actuelles I, 23 Québec Women Artists, Place Ville-Marie, Montréal, QC
1982 Annual Juried Group Exhibition, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
1981 Galerie d’art français, Montréal, QC
1981 West End Gallery, Montréal, QC
1976 Galerie Artlenders, Montréal, QC
1975 Galerie de l’esprit, Montréal, QC
1974-75 Sir George Williams Alumni Collectors Show, Montréal, QC
1974 Commonwealth Art Gallery, London, England
1974 SCAN, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1974 Exhibit ’74, Beth Sion Synagogue, Montréal, QC
1973 Sir George Williams University, Montréal, QC
1973 CNE Print Show, Toronto, ON
1973 Véhicule Art Inc., Women’s Art Show, Montréal, QC
1973 Southwest 33, Art Gallery of Windsor, ON
1973 Exhibit ’73, Beth Sion Synangogue, Montréal, QC
1972 56th Annual Exhibition, Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, London, ON
1972 Exhibit ’72, Beth Sion Synagogue, Purchase Award
1972 Galerie 1640, Montréal, QC
1964-5 National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Brockton, MA
1964 One Charles Centre, Baltimore, MD
1964 Maryland National Bank, MD
1963 Maryland Regional, Maryland, Delaware & Washington, DC
1963 Three person show, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1962 Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
1960 Ontario Traveling Show, curator Clare Bice, London, ON
1959 Regional Juried Exhibit, Art Gallery of Windsor, ON

AWARDS
2009 Visual Arts Centre Canada Council grant for catalogue for Hors limites/Out of Line, double
catalogue with Stewart Hall Retrospective. Curators Joyce Millar, Victoria LeBlanc
2007 Frank Waters Foundation Residency, Arroyo Seco, NM
2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, Victoria College, University of Toronto
2006 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM, Sept. 1-Dec. 15, 2006
2005-06 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM, Sept. 1, 2005-Jan.15,2006,
2004 Residency Grant, Pouch Cove Foundation, Corner Brook, NL
2001 Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA/arc)
1992 Grant & Award for research “Explorations of the Self: Drawing & Writing.”
The Canadian Give the Gift of Literacy Foundation and the Lydia Burton Award, with Linda Shohet, The Centre for Literacy, Montréal
1992 Release time grant from Dawson College, Resource-Teacher Project, The Centre for Literacy , Montréal, QC
1984 Elected member of PEN International, The Canadian Centre
1978 Canada Council Travel Grant, participant, 23rd Congress of INSEA (International Society for Education through Art). Adelaide, Australia
1974 Grant, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Aide aux expositions
1974 Purchase Award, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, QC
1972 Exhibit ’72, Beth Sion Synagogue, Purchase Award
1971 Purchase Award, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, QC
1952 J. Ernest Creed Memorial Medal (for most outstanding graduating female student), Walkerville Collegiate, Windsor, ON

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007 Poetry Reading, The Yellow Door, Montreal, QC, organizer Ilona Martonfi
2005 Lecture, “Air at the End of the Brush”, Taos, NM, December
2005 Sketching Trip to Change Islands, Newfoundland
2004 Sketching trip to Baffin Island (Iqaluit and Pangnirtung), July
2004 Painting in Newfoundland, Corner Brook, June (Pouch Cove Foundation)
2003 Sketching trip, Georgian Bay, ON area, research for exhibit at Michael Gibson Gallery
1971-03 Professor, Fine Arts Department, Dawson College, Montréal, QC
2002 Sketching Trip to Baffin Island
2001 Visiting artist/teacher, TASIS: The American School in Lugano, Switzerland
Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (R.C.A.)
1997 The Leighton Foundation, Alberta, invited artist
1992-97 Member, Board of Directors, Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC.
1995 Six-month sabbatical, Dawson College to study in Connecticut, England & Greece
1994 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of the Artist, Eighth Annual Conference of the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY participant and presenter of paper, “Putting Visual and Verbal Languages Together”
1993 Drawing: A Link to Literacy, Catherine Bates and Linda Shohet, eds., acknowledgements to The Canadian Give the Gift of Literacy Foundation and The Lydia Burton Award
1993 INSEA (International Society for Education through Art), participant, 28th World Congress
1992 Grant & Award for research ‘Explorations of the Self: Drawing & Writing’
Grant, Resource Teacher project, The Centre for Literacy, Montréal, QC
1987-92 Chargée de cours, St. Irénée, Charlevoix, QC
1991 Lecture on “Evolution of Images in the art of Catherine Bates” for Women’s Art Group Art Society of Montréal, Arts Club of Montréal.
1990-91 Professional leave from Dawson College, Montréal, QC
1985,87,89 Poetry readings, Word Bookshop, Montréal; W.A.R.M., Montréal; Canadian Author’s Association, Montréal
1988 Designed logo for 1988 International Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
1986,87,88 Organized exhibitions for Arts Westmount
1984 Elected member of P.E.N. International, The Canadian Centre
1981 First painting trip to Mexico (San Miguel de Allende)
1979-80 Professional leave from Dawson College to paint in England
1978-79 Chairperson, Dept. of Fine Arts, Dawson College, Montréal, QC
1977-78 Research on painter Goodridge Roberts
1974 Executive of SAPQ (Société des Artistes Professionels du Québec)
Founding member, Le Front des Artistes
1973-74 Québec Representative for Canadian Artists Representation (CAR/FAC)
1969-74 Art Critic, The Montreal Star
1969-74 Freelance writer on art for Artscanada, Art Magazine, Art News
1971 Painting teacher, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, QC

PUBLICATION
Counterpane: Poems and Drawings. Montreal, Lansdowne House, publisher Ken Hertz, 1984. Reviewed in four newspapers and magazines, 1985-86.

SELECTED ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES ABOUT HER WORK
André Seleanu, Énergie et Lumière, Vie des Arts, No. 217, p.80, 2009
Joyce Millar, Interweaving the Line, in catalogue Hors limites / Out of Line, 2009
Victoria LeBlanc, Sounding the Surround, in catalogue Hors limites / Out of Line, 2009
Carmen de Cima Suarez, Icaro: Iconografia de un vuelo, Fundation Aena (Spain), p.168-169, Dec. 2008
Juliana Joos/Anna Maria Carlevaris, Le Collége comme lieu de creation, catalogue, Feb. 2008
Brigitte Lacroix, Port-au-Persil Série Quai, Musée de Charlevoix, La Malbaie, QC, catalogue, Nov. 2007
Vanderstay, Marilyn, “Bates’s Exhibition is Bright, Bold and Convincing,” Westmount Examiner, Nov. 22, 2001
The Editor, The World and I, Washington, D.C. March, 2001, pp. 90-95
John K. Grande, Vistas VI (article) Vie Des Arts No.179, 2000, French and English , Montréal , QC.
Space and Place: Landscapes of the Eastern Townships, a Celebration of Two Centuries of Eastern
Townships Landscapes,” presented at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, June 2-20,1999, in
conjunction with the 1999 Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. Curated by Monique
Nadeau-Saumier, catalogue in the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, no.14, Spring 1999
Shepherd, Mathew, “Landscapes make their Townships’ debut,” The Record (Sherbrooke, QC), Thursday June 10, 1999 (review)
Larsen,Wayne, “Westmount Park celebrated in major VAC show,” (review) The Westmount Examiner, Westmount, QC, Thursday, June 10, 1999
Lehmann, Henry, “A Misfit and Proud of It,” (review) The Gazette, Montréal, QC., Mar 21, 1998
Westmount Examiner, Westmount QC (review), March 1998
Meyer, John, “Picking Up Speed as She Forges Ahead.” Magazin‘Art, edition internationale. English and French, Montréal, QC. Winter 1995/96
Reader’s Digest colour cover, March 1993, reproduction of Cliffs: Thin Crust
“Two local artists show at Delaney”, The Westmount Examiner, Mar. 11, 1993
Lehmann, Henry, “Offbeat exuberant works fill galleries,” (review), The Gazette, Montréal, QC, Sept. 26, 1992
Ramsey, Alison, “England’s meadows brought to Montréal awash with colour,” The Westmount
Examiner, Sept 10, 1992
Sabat, Christina, “Quebec Art Takes Spotlight at Gallery 78”, The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB,
Nov. 23, 1991
Sabat, Christina, (review), The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB, Saturday, Nov 30, 1991
Pringle, Allan, Catherine Bates, Ecology Series – Série écologique, Catalogue, 20 pages, Montréal,
Oct., 1988
1985 review of Counterpane: Poems and Drawings by Catherine Bates, publisher Ken Hertz
Robert, Guy, Art Actuel au Québec depuis 1970, Iconia, 1983, pp. 83, 153, 224
Ross, Christine, Au-delå et par la diversité, Exposition Actuelles I, Catalogue, 101 pages, Oct. 1983
Sabbath, Lawrence, “Catherine Bates”, The Gazette, Sept 18, 1982
Sabbath, Lawrence, review, The Gazette, Feb 28, 1981
F.W.D., Catherine Bates, Oxford Times, June 13, 1980
Blundin, Judith. Art Science, Oxford Mail, June 7, 1980
Gosselin, Claude, “Bates”, Le Devoir, Nov. 30, 1974
Nixon, Virginia, “Langstadt and Bates”, The Gazette, Nov. 23, 1974
Lehmann, Henry and George Borgardi, “Robert Langstadt and Catherine Bates”, The Montréal Star, Nov.
20, 1974
Nixon, Virginia, “Portraits of the Family Mark Artist’s Return to Reality”, The Gazette, Oct. 26, 1974.
Borgardi, George, review The Montréal Star, Oct. 19, 1974
Burdett, Bob (coordinator), “Canadian Artists Exhibition, artistes canadiens: expositions 1972-73”,
Roundstone, Toronto, 1974
Kritzwiser, Kay, “Bates’s likeable aluminum people”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 8, 1973

LANGUAGES English and French

COLLECTIONS Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, QC
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, QC
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Bank of Montréal, CI Mutual Funds, City of Westmount, Coca-Cola Company, Imperial Oil, Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne, David and Henderson, Polar Capital, Reader’s Digest, Royal Bank, Victoria University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Cogeco, Inc. Intervet Canada, Stewart Hall, Ville de Pointe-Claire, QC, University of Toronto, McGill University, Cogeco, Inc. Intervet Canada,
Stewart Hall, Vill de PointeClaire, QC, Pratt & Whitney, QC, Loto-Queubec,
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM
Bishops University, Sherbrooke, QC

REPRESENTED BY Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, charlene@robertsgallery.net
Correia Art Contemporain, Montreal, jeanmichelcoreia1234@gmail.com