506 Dovercourt Road, Toronto
Ontario Canada M6H2W4.
(t) 416-532-5973 (e) evesham@sympatico.ca http://www3.sympatico.ca/evesham
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
POD Gallery (New York). Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York). SoundVision
(Portland).
ON-LINE REPRESENTATION: Digital Mutations (Berlin). Raven Gallery (Fort
Lauderdale). Gay Art Gallery (Fort Lauderdale). Guild.com (Madison). James Baird
Gallery (St. Johns). Burdett-Coutts International Online (Toronto).
EXHIBITIONS (Solo): 2002 MY IDEA OF FUN, Digital Mutations (Berlin) 1/1-2/24.
2001 http://www.gayartgallery.com (Washington); ongoing. 2000 Lenin Tireworks
Media Salon (New York). 10/5-21. 1994 THEORETICAL PEOPLE, A Space Members Wall
(Toronto) 7/15-31.1993 INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM (a site-specific installation),
Artist's Space (New York); 4/13-5/30. MY LIFE AS A NERD, The Bar (New York,
NY); 3/5-29. 1992 THE SEX PICTURES, Dick's Bar (New York, NY); 7/17-8/27. ANTI-CENSORSHIP
WINDOW (with Ron Giii) Pages Bookstore (Toronto); 7/14-8/8. THE BLACK PHOTOS
OF SNOW WHITE (Two-person show with Ron Giii) La Hacienda (Toronto); 2/22-3/31.
WORKS ON-LINE: http://zed.cbc.ca
(Visual Art: Eros Goes Sideways).
http://www.digitalmutations.de (Past Exhibitions). http://www.artgroup-nyc.com
(Members Page) http://www.arturge.com. http://www.gayart-gallery.net.
http://artistsownregistry.com. http://www.eroticmaleart.com. http://www.the-artists.org/exh/artprints/guild.e.html.
http://www.absolute-arts.com/portfolios. http://www.geocities.com/~info-true/memday2.html.
http://www.jamesbaird-gallery.com. http://www.studio211.com. http://www.stylusart.com
(Solidarity Originals.) http://www.artistsspace.org/afonline/afonline_bottom.html
EXHIBITIONS (Group): 2003
MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIESLAND. Fries Museum
(Leeuwarden); 9/29-10/15. 100 x 100. SoundVision (Portland); 1/24-2/6. RENCONTRES
INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN,various locations (dates and venues TBA) 2002 NIGHT
OF 1000 DRAWINGS. Artists Space (New York), 12/11. BEAR ICONS AND BEYOND IV.
National Hall, Washington Plaza Hotel (Washington D.C.) 11/8-10. EVOLUTIONÄRE
ZELLEN. Neue Gesselschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin) 11/2-12/1. (curated
by Arbeitsgruppe finger). DISEM-BODIED.RECONFIGURED. SoundVision (Portland);
11/1-23. SOLIDARITY ORIGINALS. Casa Amatller (Barcelona); 9/19-10/10. SOLIDARITY
ORIGINALS. Casa Amatller (Barcelona); 9/19- . MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIES-LAND.
Museum Smallingerland (Drachten); 8/29-9/14. SELF-PORTRAITS. Gay Art Gallery
(Fort Lauderdale) http://www.gayart-gallery.net (ongoing.) WHATS THE PLAN
THAT LOUISE BOURGEOIS HAS IN MIND? An ongoing e-mail project, Vortice Argentina
(Buenos Aires). SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS. Erotic Male Art Gallery (Vermont) http://www.erotic-maleart.com
(ongoing.) SELL OR DIE. Art Systems (Toronto); 4/11-13. 2001 BODY LANGUAGE:
EXPLICIT/IMPLICIT. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 11/7-12/21.
4TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF SOUND AND VISUAL POETRY. Espacio Giesso (Buenos
Aires); 10/26. EURO-ART 2001. Sala Marqués de Comillas (Barcelona); 10/5-8.
OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION. Cambridge Art Galleries (Cambridge); 9/8-10/7. MEDIA
ART FESTIVAL FRIESLAND. Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); 9/6-22. FAMILY: ITS
PERSONAL. I Gallery (New York); 6/15-3/31. A LOVE STORY. Mercer Union (Toronto);
2/8-10. 2000 ALTARS AND OTHER SACRED SITES. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
(New York); 11/1-12/9. UNIV-ERSAL DIVERSITY 8. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural
Center (New York); 9/13-31. ARTEXPO 2000. http://art-channel.net (Hanover);
ongoing. WORLD ART ON COLLECTION. Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and
the Environment (The Hague); 11/13-24. EROTIC ART SHOW. Pegasus (New York);
9/9-10/10. WORLD FESTIVAL OF ART ON PAPER. Kranj Commune (Kranj, Slovenia);
9/1-15. 9th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
(New York); 5/16-6/25. REFLECTIONS OF MYSELF. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
(New York); 5/3-20. 1999 STUDIO 211 WEBSITE. http://www.studio-211.com (ongoing).
THE ARTGROUP FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ARTISTS WEBSITE. http://www.art-groupnyc.com
(ongoing). EROTIC SHOW. Sacred Body Art (New York); 11/4-28. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY
7. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 10/6-31. THE MILLENNIUM ART
COLLECTION: 2000 REASONS TO LOVE THE EARTH. The Art Open, Essen; 7/10-8/8. HONING
THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/6-30.
1998 http://info-true.com Click on International Association of Lesbian and
Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors; click on Memorials (ongoing). UNIVERSAL
DIVERSITY 6. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 7/14-8/15. PRIDE '98.
Vincent Louis Gallery (New York); June16-7/4. BODY PRIMITIVE. O'Connor Gallery
(Toronto); 6/18-7/18. SEXUALITY/OBJECT: THE BACKROOM. New Century Artists Gallery
(New York); 6/3-28. 7th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art
Foundation (New York); 5/12-6/27. OUT ON THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural
Center (New York); 5/6-17. 1997 THE LIGHTBOX. Williamsburg Art & Historical
Center (New York); 10/18-11/24. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 5. LaMama LaGalleria (New
York); 7/24-8/16. GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 7/3-9/2. STRENGTH
IN UNITY. 24 Hours For Life (New York); 6/11-8/2. HARTFORD PRIDE. Pumphouse
Gallery (Hartford, CN); 6/4-29. 1996 SEXUAL PRIMER. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto);
6/6-7/14. 1995 GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 12/12-1/9. REVIEWS
(EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) Mercer Union (Toronto); 11/9-12/23. PRIDE '95.
O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/15-7/7. 1993 SOUVENIRS OF THE REAGAN/BUSH YEARS.
Puchong Gallery (New York, NY); 1/20-2/17. 1992 MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL
CONTEMPORARY SELF-PORTRAITS. Richmond International Airport (Richmond
VA) organized by the Richmond Council on the Arts; 10/15-12/18. QUEER BODIES.
Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College (Olympia WA); 4/3-30. 1991 ALL
GROWN UP. CUNY Graduate Center Library (New York); 10/4-11/1. AIDS: FEAR, RAGE,
HOPE. Traveling exhibition, various locations in San Diego; 9/27-10/20. 1990
POSITIVE ACTIONS. The Clocktower (New York); 11/29-1/20. STYLES AND AESTHETICS.
La Mama LaGalleria (New York); 11/15-12/2. QUEER: OUT IN ART. Wessel/O'Connor
Ltd. (New York); 9/5-29. GAY ALL THE WAY 2. The Tunnel (New York); 3/18. 1989
GAY ALL THE WAY. The Tunnel (New York); 11/19. 1977 De Appel (Amsterdam) 1976
Center for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC, Toronto). 1975 CEAC (Toronto)
1973 Gallery Z (Toronto). University of Alberta Law Centre, curated by the Edmonton
Art Gallery. 1972 GREAT CANADIAN ART SHOW. Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton);
CHRISTMAS SHOW. Isaacs Gallery (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto).
PERFORMANCE WORKS (site-specific): 1998 Out on the Edge Festival. Clemente
Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York). 1978 Studio 16/e (Turin); Museo di Arte
Moderna, Bologna (with Arturo Schwartz); Students' Cultural Centre (Zagreb);
Podroom (Zagreb); Ghen (Lecce); Alternative Space (Detroit). 1977 London Art
Gallery (Ontario); Franklin Furnace (New York); Pier 52 (New York); Joseph Beuys'
Free International University at Documenta VI (Kassel); Palazzo Diamante (Ferrara);
Arte Fiera (Bologna); Remont Gallery (Warsaw); Karoly Gallery (Lublin); DeAppel
(Amsterdam); Gallerie Monnae (Brussels). 1975 CEAC (Toronto). 1972 Gallery 76
(Toronto).
RECORDINGS/BOOK DESIGN:
1985 CRUISING THE MOVIES by Boyd McDonald,
Gay Presses of New York. 1977 RAW/WAR, 45 rpm, Crash and Burn Records (Toronto)
RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/AWARDS:
2000 Photography Roundtable, Leslie/Lohman
Gay Art Foundation (New York), 6/2. Studio 211 Artist in Residency Program (Denver),
3/15-6/15. 1985 Over All Design Award for Christopher Street magazine (Gay and
Lesbian Press Association). 1977 Travel grant for European tour (Canada Council
for the Arts, Ottawa). 1976 Project grant (Ontario Arts Council, Toronto). 1973
Project grant (Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa).
ARTICLES/CATALOGUES/REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS: 2002 BODIES IN WORK: An-
other First Thursday, Another Gallery Hop by Richard Speer, Willamette Week
On-line (Portland) 11/13. REVIEW: DISEMBODIED.RECONFIGURED by Chas Bowie, Portland
Mercury (Portland) 11/7-13 issue. THE STUDIO, an Interview by the
Editors, StylusArt (Barcelona) August issue. FREE SPEAK by Mark Brodsky: Voice
Strangled, Xtra (Toronto) 6/27-7/10 issue. The Controversy That
Remains: Gay Art, an interview by Geoffrey Young, The Voice (Kitchener)
May/June issue. SEX CITY: A Live Interview by Louise Bak and Coman Poon for
the University of Toronto Radio station (CIUT, 86.5 FM); 2/27. 2001 AIDS Council
of South Australia (work used for brochures and advertisements) 2000 WORLD ART
ONE COLLECTION; 2000 Foundation, Netherlands. 1999 5000 ARTISTS RETURN TO ARTISTS
SPACE: 25 YEARS edited by Claudia Gould and Valerie Smith. 1998 BECOMING VISIBLE:
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LESBIAN AND GAY LIFE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA
by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman; Penguin/Putnam, New York. 1995 REVIEWS
(EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) catalogue with an essay by curator Tom Follard.
MEN'S STYLE (commissioned photograph and works on paper to illustrate "Risky
Business" by David Thomas) 5/6/issue. 1994 INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM (photograph
of installation used to illustrate "Acts of Memory" by Simon Watney)
OUT magazine (New York), 9/issue. 1993 "Art With Ideas", interview/review
of INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM and MY LIFE AS A NERD by David Hirsh, New York
Native, 5/24 issue. WPIX, "A New York Minute". 1992 "The Chill
Factor" (News story by Lloyd Wong) PARALLELO-GRAMME magazine, (Toronto)
Winter issue. "Obscenity Chill, Artists in a Post-Butler Era" by Elaine
Carol, Fuse magazine (Toronto), Winter issue. "The Body As Target",
interview/review of THE SEX PICTURES by David Hirsh, New York Native, 8/2 issue.
QUEER BODIES catalogue with forward by curator Huey Lentz. FUSE magazine, Toronto
(a commissioned portfolio) Summer issue. "Choices", inter-viewed by
David Hirsh, New York Native, 3/12 issue. "Restaurant Obscenity Raid Bodes
Ill For Artists Creating Sexual Imagery" (news story by Glenn Cooly) NOW
magazine (Toronto), 3/2 issue. "Police Warn Restaurant Photos May Be Obscene"
(news story) Globe and Mail, Toronto, 2/28. 1991 PERFORMANCE IN/AU CANADA,
1970-1994 by Alain-Martin Richard and Clive Robertson (Coach House Press/Editions
Intervention; Toronto, Montreal). REPORTS FROM THE FRONT (a portfolio of recent
work), Christopher Street magazine (New York), Issue 164. "Exhibit Shows
Many Types of Victims" (review of AIDS: FEAR, RAGE, HOPE) by Chris Jenkins,
Los Angeles Times, 9/21. 1990 "New York Adventure", review of STYLES
AND AESTHETICS by David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/3 issue. "Tribal Art",
(photograph accompanying interview with William O'Connor about the exhibition
QUEER: OUT IN ART, by David Hirsh) New York Native, 9/24 issue. "An Original
Chaos", review of GAY ALL THE WAY 2 by David Hirsh, New York Native, 4/16
issue. 1989 "The Warmth and the Heat", review of GAY ALL THE WAY by
David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/4 issue. 1987 "The CEAC Was Banned in
Canada", (historical overview by Dot Tuer) C magazine (Toronto), 9/issue.
1977 An interview with the publisher of FUORI! (Bologna), published in The Body
Politic (Toronto) 1975 An interview with Coco Rico, published in TOIKE (University
of Toronto).
CURATORIAL/PEER REVIEW: 1999 Curator: Universal Diversity 7; Soto
Clemente Velez Cultural Center (New York) 1995 Brooklyn Arts Council peer-review
panelist. 1984 Co-founder and curator (1979-88) of International Gay History
Archive, now a part of the Research Collections, Rare Book and Manuscripts division
of the New York Public Library. 1987 Historical consultant: Before Stonewall,
a film by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, and Greta Schiller. Historical
consultant: The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo (Harper & Row).
1976 Curator: Bound Bent and Determined: A Look At Sado-Masochism; CEAC (Toronto).
ARTS-RELATED EMPLOYMENT:
1997-98 Photo Editor, In Theater Magazine
(weekly), New York. 1981-96 Art Director of Publications for That New Magazine
Inc., publisher of New York Native (weekly), Christopher Street magazine (monthly),
TheaterWeek magazine (weekly), New York. 1981-84 On-call Night Art Director
for The Village Voice (weekly), New York. 1976-78 Assistant Programming Director,
Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (Toronto)
COLLECTIONS: Public Collections: Franklin Furnace Collection at the Museum of
Modern Art, (New York); Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); New York Public Library,
Rare Books & Manuscript division; York University, (Toronto); Canadian Gay
Archive, (Toronto); Edmonton Art Gallery; AIDS Committee of Cape Breton, The
Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles).
Private Collections: Berlin, Denver, La Jolla, New York, Toronto.
EDUCATION: 1970-74 Ontario
College of Art, graduated with honors (AOCA).