Born 1974, Wainwright, Alberta, Canada   
Lives and works in Toronto

Education  
2003 MFA, York University, Toronto

1998 BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver

Solo Exhibitions
 
2008

4 Portraits and a Landscape, Angell Gallery, Toronto

North, Freight + Volume, New York


2007

Somewhere in the Neighborhood, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles

About a Girl, Angell Gallery, Toronto

Over the Fence, Skew Gallery, Calgary

Kim Dorland, Centro Cuturale Cascina Grande, Rozzano, Italy (curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi)


2006

The Edge of Town, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago

Kim Dorland, Angell Gallery Toronto

Into the Woods, Contemporaneamente, Milan, Italy (catalogue)


2005 Kim Dorland, SKEW Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

doubletake, Angell Gallery, Toronto

2004 Paintings of Desire, Angell Gallery, Toronto

Hunting Scene, Fly Gallery, Toronto

2003 Overload, Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto

2002 exquisitenorth, Luft Gallery, Toronto

Sun Of The Golden West, 1080BUS Gallery, Toronto

2001
It Looks Like Art, West Wing Gallery, Toronto


Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2008 People, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York

2007

Rear/View, Freight + Volume, New York, curated by Eric Shiner

Out Behind the Shed, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto; Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Université de Moncton; MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ont.; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Emily Carr Institute Art + Design, Vancouver

Gary Goldstein, Jenny Dubnau, Kim Dorland and Sally Heller, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York

Oil Spill: New Paintings in Ontario, SAW Gallery, Ottawa

Summer Group Show, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles

Notions of Wilderness, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago


2006

RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ont.; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

3 Painters, Howard House, Seattle

The Daily Constitutional, Kim Dorland, Bruce Wilhelm, ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

Impression/Ism: Contemporary Impressions, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California (catalogue)


2005
You don’t want to miss that shit: Contemporary painters at the
Gladstone Hotel (curated by Katharine Mulherin), Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

Blame Canada, Harvey Levine Gallery, Los Angeles

2004
Best of BUS: Volume 1, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto

Little Stabs at Happiness, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto

2003 If I Ruled The World, Red Head Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)

Crossing Borders, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Keep Six, Kitchener, Ontario (catalogue)

Deathfuck, Art System Gallery, Toronto

New Friends, 1080BUS Gallery Toronto


Selected Bibliography
2870 Grams of Art, M19, Paris.
Kim Dorland, NY Arts, May-June 2008
James Kalm, Kim Dorland North, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2008
"Kim Dorland: The Idea of North" (exhibition catalogue), Freight + Volume, New York
Valerie Doucette, "Oil Spill: New Painting in Ontario," Border Crossings, Issue No. 104
Holly Myers, “Trailblazing Chinatown gallery scene keeps up with city's pace,” Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2007.
Gary Michael Dault, “Pigments of the imagination,” The Globe and Mail, November 10, 2007.
Emma Gray, “Emma Gray’s top 10 shows in Los Angeles this month,” Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, November 3, 2007.
Peter Goddard, “Warning: Wet Paint,” Toronto Star, October 18, 2007.
Melissa Berry, 'Where the grass is greener," FFWD, September 20, 2007
Nancy Tousley, "Brush strokes expose angst of everyday suburbia," Calgary Herald, September 14, 2007
Rhiannon Vogl, "Group of Seven," Ottawa XPress, August 9, 2007
David Jager, "Group Hug at Angell," Now, December 7, 2006.
Jennifer McVeigh, "RBC Showcases Canadian Talent," Calgary Herald, November 5, 2006.
Best of Toronto, Now, October 26, 2006.
David Jager, "Dorland's Styles Collide," Now, September 21, 2006.
Gary Michael Dault, "Gallery Going," The Globe and Mail, September 15, 2006.
Regina Hackett, Galleries explore a new world of landscapes, Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 9, 2006.
Manuela Brevi, Into the Woods (exhibition catalogue), Contemporaneamente, Milan, Italy.
Gary Michael Dault, “Gallery Going,” The Globe and Mail, December 31, 2005
Julia Dault, “Our group of seven,” National Post, December 8, 2005
Christopher Willard, “Losers and Winners: Kim Dorland homes in on Generation Y,” Calgary Herald, November 5, 2005.
Gary Michael Dault, “Gallery Going,” The Globe and Mail, February 26, 2005.
Peter Goddard, “Hot fantasies, heroes, a hotel and much more,” The Toronto Star, February 12, 2005.
Julia Dault, “Desire, and a slice of colour,” National Post, March 25, 2004.
Catherine Osborne, “Show buoyed by feverish optimism,” National Post, November 15, 2003.


Grants and Awards
2006 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Visual Artist Grant
2004 Toronto Arts Council Creation Grant
2004 Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Creation/Production Grant
2001 Talent Scholarship, Graduate Programme in Visual Arts, York University

Collections
ALDO Group, Montreal
Bank of Montreal
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary
The Neumann Family Collection, New York
Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
The Sander Collection, Berlin



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