Accident | Robin Collyer
2006
12 x 15.75 inches (22 x 25.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Robin Collyer’s artworks analyze architectural forms, the urban landscape, and issues of representation. Typical of his idiosyncratic style, Accident is “high in information but low on resolution. It has juxtaposition, irony, humour, history, and social commentary.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1949 in London, England
Lives and works in Toronto
Robin Collyer immigrated to Canada in 1957. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, in the late 1960s, and presented his first solo exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in 1971. His early black-and-white photographs looked critically at the limits of the photographic image and its claims to authenticity. He has also been active as a sculptor, though his work in that medium was always influenced by photography. Collyer represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and his artwork has been exhibited across North America and Europe.
Selected solo exhibitions: Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg, France (2012); “Photographs,” Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (1999); “Idioms of Resistance,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1993); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France (1991);
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; FNAC, Paris; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2006
12 x 15.75 inches (22 x 25.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Robin Collyer’s artworks analyze architectural forms, the urban landscape, and issues of representation. Typical of his idiosyncratic style, Accident is “high in information but low on resolution. It has juxtaposition, irony, humour, history, and social commentary.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1949 in London, England
Lives and works in Toronto
Robin Collyer immigrated to Canada in 1957. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, in the late 1960s, and presented his first solo exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in 1971. His early black-and-white photographs looked critically at the limits of the photographic image and its claims to authenticity. He has also been active as a sculptor, though his work in that medium was always influenced by photography. Collyer represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and his artwork has been exhibited across North America and Europe.
Selected solo exhibitions: Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg, France (2012); “Photographs,” Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (1999); “Idioms of Resistance,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1993); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France (1991);
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; FNAC, Paris; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2006
12 x 15.75 inches (22 x 25.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Robin Collyer’s artworks analyze architectural forms, the urban landscape, and issues of representation. Typical of his idiosyncratic style, Accident is “high in information but low on resolution. It has juxtaposition, irony, humour, history, and social commentary.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1949 in London, England
Lives and works in Toronto
Robin Collyer immigrated to Canada in 1957. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, in the late 1960s, and presented his first solo exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in 1971. His early black-and-white photographs looked critically at the limits of the photographic image and its claims to authenticity. He has also been active as a sculptor, though his work in that medium was always influenced by photography. Collyer represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and his artwork has been exhibited across North America and Europe.
Selected solo exhibitions: Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg, France (2012); “Photographs,” Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (1999); “Idioms of Resistance,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1993); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France (1991);
Selected public collections: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; FNAC, Paris; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver