Born Dundee, Scotland
Lives Ontario, Canada
Education
1985 - 1987 The Slade School of Fine Art London, England
1981 - 1985 Grays School of Art Aberdeen, Scotland
Awards
2016 Ontario Arts Council Established Grant
2015 Canada Council for the Arts Mid Career Grant
2014 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career Grant
2013 Canada Council for the Arts ISCP New York Residency
2009 Canada Council for the Arts Mid Career Grant
Ontario Arts Council Mid Career Grant
2007 Canada Council for the Arts Mid Career Grant
2002 University of Dundee, Scotland Travel/Research Grant
1999 Scottish Arts Council Major Visual Arts Award
1997 Scottish Arts Council Assistance Grant
1995 The British Academy The Rome Scholarship in Painting
1992 Scottish Arts Council Assistance Grant
1985 George Davidson Scholarship Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
1983 Chalmers Bursary Royal Scottish Academy
Solo Exhibitions
2019 an empty name
R.I.C.A, Guelph, Ontario
2017 Raised Ranch
Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
2011 Paintings 2004 - 2009
Gorecki Gallery, Benedicta Arts Center, Saint Johns University, Minnesota, USA
(curated by Tracy Dietzel)
Another After One
KWT Contemporary, Toronto
2009 Breached
List, Toronto
2007 Upland Gain
Cambridge Galleries, Ontario, Canada
(curated by Ivan Jurakic)
2000 Licker
Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts,Scotland
1999 Distilled
Khyber Institute of Contemporary Arts, Halifax, Canada
1998 Mouthpiece
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (video)
1997 Dignan/ Guild
Tribes Gallery New York, USA
1996 Focus
Paton Gallery, London, England
1995 Vallejo Paintings
Paul Smith Showroom, London, England
Serial Paintings
Bradshaw Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Scotland
(curated by Deidre Mckenna)
Project Room
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh,Scotland
Wacht Kamer Schilderijen
Kunstcentrum Haagweg, Leiden, The Netherlands
1994 Untitled
Collective Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
1993 Tiranti Series
Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
(curated by Bob McGillvary)
1992 Olive Grove
Site specific sculptures at Barrocal de Apra, Portugal
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Windsor Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art
The Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
(Curated by Ray Cronin in collaboration with Lucas Cabral)
2018 Wells Art Contemporary Art Awards
Bishop's Palace, Somerset, England
2017 Passage + Obstacle
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
(Curated by Ivan Jurakic)
2016 Fixations and Saccades
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
(Curated by Ivan Jurakic)
2014 Chasing Light : Abstraction
Paul Dignan, Jacques Hurtubise, Gershon Iskowitz, Chris Klein,
Claude Tousignant, David Urban,
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada
Systematic
R.I.C.A, Guelph, Ontario
2013 Spring Open Studios
International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2011 Systems Check
Lowell Bradshaw, Mathew Bushell, Ingrid Calame, Paul Dignan and Angela Leach
Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
(curated by Jordan Broadworth)
Group
KWT Contemporary, Toronto
TIAF
KWT Contemporary, Toronto
2010 Audiovision
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
(curated by Michelle Jacques)
2007 Illuminating the Source
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada
(curated by Alan Harding McKay)
2005 Sampler
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada
(curated by Andrew Hunter)
2002 TTT
Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Scottish Amicable, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001 Call Me Sarajevo
Museum of Assassination, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2000 Level
Centre for Contemporary Art, Leiden, The Netherlands
(curated by Hester Kaiser)
After a Few Drinks
Site-specific video project - various Belfast venues in collaboration with Catalyst Arts
(curated by Laurie Halsey Brown)
Infusion/Fix 2000
Millennium Revue of Live Arts, Real Art Projects, Limerick, Republic of Ireland
and Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Tik Tak Tok
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, FYR Macedonia
(Curated by Melentie Pandilovski and Lei Cox)
1998 Ground
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Reverend Todds Full House
College Green, Belfast,Northern Ireland
(curated by Susan Phillipz)
Hardline
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1997 Recent Acquisitions
Unilever Collection, Unilever House, London
The Last Minute
Cooper Gallery
DJCA, University of Dundee, Scotland
(curated by Kevin Henderson)
Points of Contact
Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York
(curated by Michael Chisolm and Karen Wilkin)
New Abstraction
Paton Gallery, London
Art 97
Paton Gallery , Business Design Centre, London
1996 Exchange
Dick Institute Kilmarnock, Scotland
(curated by Collective Gallery, Edinburgh)
Showroom
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lufthansa
London ( Jason Brookes, Paul Dignan and Cecelia Vargas)
Art 96
Paton Gallery , Business Design Centre, London
F.T.Y.C.A.K.A.S.G.
Tribes Gallery, New York
Satellite
Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Jeffrey Dennis, Paul Dignan, Victoria Morton and Julie Roberts
(curated by Alison Chisholm)
1995 Aspects of Abstraction
Paton Gallery, London
New Art in Scotland
Aberdeen Art Gallery
(curated by Nicola White)
In Vino Veritas
The British School at Rome, Italy
1994 New Art in Scotland
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
(curated by Douglas Gordon, Jane Lee and Nicola White)
1993 Equipe de Arte
Casa de Cultura do Butanta, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Joint Performance
Dalby Forest Sculpture Project, Yorkshire, England
1992 Vallejo Wall
Fuente Studios, Malaga, Spain
1991 Shave
Chesil Gallery, Dorset, England
Collections
The Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada Council for the Arts, Art Bank, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
Unilever Art Collection, Brown and Storey Collection, The Scottish Arts Council,
The Alan Woods Bequest, University of Dundee
Private Collections in Canada, US, UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands,
Denmark.
Residencies
2016 TAG Residency Chatham, Canada
2013 International Studio & Curatorial Program
(Canada Council for the Arts) New York, USA
2002 Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts International Residency Toronto, Canada
1997 Triangle International Artists Residency Program New York, USA
1995 The Rome Scholarship in Painting The British School at Rome, Italy
Kunstcentrum Haagweg Residency Leiden, The Netherlands
1992 Shave International Artists’ Residency Program Somerset, UK
Barrocal de Apra Loule, Portugal
PAUL DIGNAN