Margaret Rodgers | Canada | [email protected]
ART EXHIBITIONS

2021 at Women’s Art Association of Canada
​Small Gems Nov 17 - Jan 11 21/22
CROSSWORDS October 28-Nov 16 2021
HER CENTURY AT LAST: 21st Century Artists Celebrate Mary Heister Reid October  
​Summertime June -September

2020 John B. Aird Gallery's PAINTING 2020 online exhibition/art book juried by Niki Dracos, the principle of General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto 
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2018 
Jane's Gate, Oshawa City Hall Jan - June
Solar Prints, Women's Art Association of Canada, Toronto April
Doc Kearney, Fort St. John North Peace Museum, B.C. June - August

2017 CWSE Gallery, OISE/University of Toronto. 

2016
IRIS at 20  Gallery A, RMG Oshawa March 2 - 27

2015    
What is Slow? Wasted Space, Oshawa September - December
CLOSEUPS at the Lake Oshawa Community Museum July - August
FILMIC  Station Gallery Whitby May 23 - July 5
Closeups The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa January 23 - May 7

2014    
WhiteOut TAC Art/Work Gallery Toronto October 4 - 30
Oshawa Space Invaders September 19-27 
No Man's Land  Erring on the Mount festival, Peterborough, May 30 - June 1
Rediscovering Identity: The power of photography Clarington Museums Bowmanville ON February - September
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2013
"The Tree Museum: Easy Come Easy Go"  Art Gallery of Peterborough, Sept 7 - Oct 27
oshawaspaceinvaders, with IRIS September 13- 28
Summer Rerun, THE VAULT, Oshawa, July
In Tune, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake NY, March 8 - 31
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2012 Out of Time, Oshawa City Hall, February 1 – July 31

2011
IRIS at BOLA, Oshawa Ontario, August 5-31
Money etc, The Vault, BOLA, Oshawa Ontario May 1 – 31
RED, Clarington Gallery, Bowmanville Ontario March 2 – 30
New York Story, Clarington Public Library, May - June
IWD Celebration with Iris Group Whitby Public Library, March  
liminal spaces: new century of the city Hamilton Artists Inc., February 11 - March 12

2010
Iris in the Adirondacks Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake NY, June/July

2009
Fluid Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden Ontario, September/October
Goddess Book Image and text series, Clarington Public Library, April
Deviant Detours Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, February/March
EDGE Red Head Gallery, Toronto, March


2008 Recipe for 12 Paintings, Isabella’s, Oshawa 

2007 
Fluid The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville
the forest for the trees THE LONSDALE GALLERY FOREST HILL VILLAGE, Galleria di Arte Contemporanea Il Gabbiano La Spezia Italy Gallerie di Arte Contemporanea Il Gabbiano La Spezia

2006
RENEWAL at Red Head Gallery Toronto
(site/cite/cité/city) SPECIFIC: “The Shwa” a downtown Oshawa project

2005
Big Girls (Doors Open Oshawa) 

2004, 2005 Baghdad Museum Clarington, Stouffville, and Toronto 

2002
FREE ART: the Grocery Tape Project (A&P store and Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa)

COLLECTIONS:                 
Kunsthaus  Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico                 
Beijing  World Art Museum                 
Oshawa YWCA                 
Lakeridge Health                  
Alzheimer Society of Durham Region                 
Private collections

FOUNDER
the IRIS Group, a collective of women artists

EDUCATOR
Visual Art, Durham College
ARTS ADMINISTRATOR
Director/Curator at VAC Clarington 1989-2004

AUTHOR
Locating Alexandra (Toronto: ECW, 1995) about Painters Eleven artist Alexandra Luke
Numerous articles and reviews about art for publications including Canadian Art, ESPACE, Sculpture, Urban Glass and the Journal of Canadian Studies, OshaWhat

Editor, Women in . . . (Oshawa: The IRIS Group, 2008) CLICK FOR DETAIL

AWARDED

2022     Oshawa Culture Counts Professional Artist Award recipient
         Access Copyright Foundation grant for mentorship
​2012     Naming prize for "The Core" a creativity site in downtown Oshawa
         Executive Director’s Award for a professional artist, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
2013, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2002       OAC Exhibition Assistance Program
1994      Subvention for publication by ECW Press of manuscript Locating Alexandra from Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, Social Science Federation of Canada/Canadian Federation for the Humanities
1991      Ontario Graduate Scholarship1988        
1987      OAC Artist in the Schools (CAIS) grant
               OAC Material Assistance Grant

MEDIA
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2014   Rogers DAYTIME
2015   Canadian Art "Must Sees"
           RMG Blog
           CHEX Channel 10 News January 30
           "Bringing the Background into the Foreground" Joel Wittnebel, The Oshawa Express Feb 11 2015 p.9



AUTHOR 

BOOKS·         Locating Alexandra, Toronto: ECW, 1995  on Alexandra Luke ·        
                       Women in . . . Editor, The IRIS Group  Volumes 13: ISBN 9780980979602, 9780980979619 200510·        
                       Mapping the (UN)Familiar, Coauthored with Pam Patterson, VAC ISBN 0969877102 1994
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PROSE/POETRY
            
  • “Leaving Maple Park” Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL. February 202   
  • "Wonder" The Sunshine Review September 2021
  • "Elective Surgery and the Woman Artist" Contemporary Verse 15.3 (Winnipeg)  1992
  • "Hard Currency" Canadian Woman Studies (York University) 1990
  • "O Canada Poems" Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Spring 1990 15.2 (Halifax)
Pending
“The Women” Quagmire Magazine.
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Selected ESSAYS  
Selected ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
  • Xiaojing Yan Sculpture September 2016, and Canadian Art online 2017
  • Canadian sculptor Marianne Lovink Public Art and Ecology Magazine  Shanghai, PRC June 2011 
  • Nina Levitt: RePresenting Enigmatic Women, Sculpture October 2009 Vol.28 No. 8 (46 9) 1998
  • Timmins Landscape: A Personal Journey Back into The Northland, Highgrader Magazine January/February 1998 Vol.4 no. 1   photographs and story
  • Finding Camp X: Contemporary Considerations of an Enigma, Canadian Art Spring 2003 Vol.20, no. 1 (99)
  • Halifax Review: Timeless Forms. Dawn MacNutt at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Artfocus Fall 1997 Vol.5, no. 3 
  • Exploring the Quintessential: A Review of The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, Journal of Canadian Studies, Summer 1996 Vol, 31 no.2 (174-78)
  •  Review of The Female Imaginary: Symposium on Feminist Practice in the  Visual Arts, Journal of Canadian Studies Winter 1996.
  • Studio Visits Defining the Site: a Collective History Project, Hamilton Artists' Inc. 19751995  (503)
  • Interview with Joyce Wieland Gallerie Women's Art/ Gallerie Women Artists Winter 1988  
  •  Andrea Carvalho ESPACE Fall 2013 105     
  • Gerald Beaulieu Sculpture July/August 2013 Vol. 32 No. 6 (77)            
  • Philip Beesley,  Sculpture March 2012 Vol. 31 No. 2 (72-73)
  •  Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill Sculpture  May 2011 Vol 30 No. 4 (70)           
  • Vera Jacyk: Chysto, Chysto, Chysto, ESPACE Sculpture Summer 2009 (45-6)
  • Penelope Stewart at Edward Day, Toronto, GLASS Quarterly Spring 2009 Issue 114 (58)
  •  Lyndal Osborne: Delectable Decay,http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/01/08/lyndal osborne/ Canadian Art  Winter 2009
  • Tim Whiten at Olga Korper, Urban Glass Quarterly Fall 2008 Issue 112 (86)
  •  Is this Not a Renaissance Garden? ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2008 (412)              
  • The Private World of Viktor Tinkl, ESPACE  Sculpture 82 HIVER/WINTER 2007 2008 Vol. 82 (345)
  •  Judy Chicago: Chicago in Glass, The Urban Glass Art Quarterly Winter 2007 08 Issue 109 (59)
  •  Beside / Under / Within: Penelope STEWART's Canopy Series, ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2007 Vol. 79 (39-40)
  • Brian JUNGEN : Contemporary Mythologies, ESPACE Fall 2006 Vol. 77(36-7)
  •  Jane Buyers: Inscriptions, ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2006 Vol. 75 (41)
  • Ed Pien: In A Realm of Others, ESPACE Winter 2005 2006 Vol.74 (412)
 

CURATOR/ORGANIZER
2017-18LEGACIES: Alexandra Luke, Isabel McLaughlin, Teri Donovan and Gwen MacGregor The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) OshawaGuest Curator And Writer
 
2015 2016   Crossing Borders i and ii, an exchange project with the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) Bowmanville and BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake NY. Canadian artists Chai Duncan, Liz Parkinson, Janice TaylorPrebble, Sally Thurlow, Todd Tremeer, The youmeusproject and six NY artists. Guest curator and writer
 
2014 Created and developed exhibition and catalogue for WhiteOut a Scotiabank Nuit Blanche participant.
 
1996- 8 creation and implementation of Curatorial Mentoring program at VAC with Carolyn Bell Farrell. Participant learners included among others, Linda Jansma, Rhona Wenger, Maralynn Cherry.
  1. with Professor Michèle Lacombe, INTER/SECTIONS: Parameters of Avantgarde Collaborative Projects, three day symposium
2004 2005  Speakers Series a Durham
College Innovation Fund project in cooperation with Trent U included writers and artists including D'bi Young, Edward Burtynsky, Joanne Findon.
 
CURATED VAC CLARINGTON EXHIBITIONS and CATALOGUES 1989 – 2004 
FOUNDER of IRIS, a collective of women artists
GRANTS 
2022       Access Copyright
2021-23 Writers’ Union of Canada
Writers in the Schools Virtual Presentations (2)
National Public Readings Program (3)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants and Artist in the Schools Grant
2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2002, 1988, 1987 
Oshawa Partnership Grants for IRIS projects (Bola residency and YWCA Secret Garden)
1994  Social Science Federation of Canada/Canadian Federation for the Humanities
1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
 
EDUCATION
1992       - M.A. Canadian Studies, Frost Centre, Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
1993       - Introduction to Museum Studies, Canadian Museum Association, Ottawa.
B.A. (Honours) English/Cultural Studies, Trent
1985       - University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, Fine Art Studio (drawing)
 
AWARDS
2022     Oshawa Culture Counts Professional Artist Award recipient
​2012     Executive Director’s Award for a professional artist, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
 
MEDIA  
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