SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Still – Playing, Reading Room, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018 Still Moving, CONTACT Photography Festival, East Harbour Unilever Soap Factory, Toronto
Still-Framed, Art Toronto, Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
2017 As Yet Untitled, Ryerson University, Toronto
Photo Windows, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2016 Still, in/future, Ontario Place, West Island, Toronto
I’m Late, I’m Late, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
Inventions of Light Conference, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
2014 I’m Late, I’m Late, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2012 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Album, Waiting Room, FotoBug, Album: A Public Project, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2009 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2004 Snap, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2002 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Mist, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2000 Any Moment, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1996 As Yet Untitled, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1992 Skins, Georgian College, Barrie
1991 Storefront Installation, 31 Maple Avenue, Barrie
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Line - That Moment, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2016 Still - The installation. In/Future. Art Spin at Ontario Place, Toronto
Still - The Photographs. In/Future. Art Spin at Ontario Place, Toronto, Toronto-Montreal-Lille.
The Inventions of Light. School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto
2015 The Poetics of Space. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
2014 Collecting Our Thoughts. Ajagemo Gallery, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa
2013 Drone. Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal. Vox Gallery, Montreal
Overcome. Pat’s Parade. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2012 Builders. National Gallery of Canada
2011 Traffic - Conceptual Art in Canada. Hart House, Toronto (touring)
2008 Caught in the Act, National Gallery of Canada. (Exhibition touring)
2007 Runaway Bunny, nichola feldman-kiss + Max Dean, Projex Mtl, Montreal
2006 Heteropias, Ottawa Art Gallery
Unlimited ID: le portrait comme concept, Dazibao, Montreal
Crowds/Conversations/Confessions, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Alterazioni, Museo Fotographiia Contemporanea, Cinsello Balsamo, Italy
2005 Damage Done: Materializing the Photographic Image, Prefiix, Toronto
2004 Facing History, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Point and Shoot: Performance and Photography, Dazibao, Montreal
2003 The Bigger Picture, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Future Cinema, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
Future Cinema, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Future Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art, Gallery TPW, Toronto
Iconoclash, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 Facing History, Presentation House, Vancouver
Platea dell'umanita, La Biennale di Venezia 49a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
Quality Control, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
2000 Canadian Stories, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Voici, 100 years of contemporary art, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Umedalen Skulptur, Umeå, Sweden
The Fifth Element, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999 Still Life, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
d'APERTutto, La Biennale di Venezia 48a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
1996 Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1994 Three Small Rooms, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
1992 Masks and Metaphor, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
Localmotive, Toronto
1989 Luminous Sites, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Gardens, Artscourt, Ottawa
1987 Memory/Souvenir, The Festival of the Arts, Ottawa
1986 Artists-in-Residence, The National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa
1983 The Berlin Project, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1982 O'Kanada, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1980 Compass/Winnipeg, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Form and Performance, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
1978 Obsessions, Rituals, Controls, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1976 The Mid-Western, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Mosaicart, Cultural Olympics, Montreal
Sculpture on the Prairies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Artists' Prints and Multiples, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
True Confections, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
1975 Royal Horse's Mouth Piece, The Dandelion Gallery, Calgary
1974 SCAN (Survey of Canadian Art Now), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1973 Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
ROBOTIC CHAIR EXHIBITION
2016 Young Presidents Organization, Toronto
2013 Aurora Festival, Dallas, Texas
2012 La Nuit Blanche, The Gardiner Museum, Toronto
2010 Stick Chairs, Red Deer Museum And Art Gallery
One Part Human, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Sonar, Barcelona
2009 Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland London Art Fair, London, England
2008 Gala, Ottawa Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Domestic Appliances, Flowers East, London, England
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Elektra, Montreal
Mois Multi 9, Quebec City
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Spaces (With Nicholas Metivier), Toronto International Art
Children’s Museum (with Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery), Kitchener
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Luminto, Toronto
CMA Conference (with PacArt), Ottawa
ARCO (With Nicholas Metivier Gallery), Madrid
Private Viewing, New York City
2006 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Ideacity, Toronto
FILM SCREENINGS ‘A SHORT FILM ABOUT FALLING’
2006 Grand River Film Festival, Kitchener
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto
EVENTS
1982 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1981 Pass It On, An installation for Performance organized by Parachute, Drummond Medical
Building, Montreal
1980 A, B, ou C, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
11e Biennale de la ville de Paris, Paris
1979 Untitled, The Living Art Performance Festival, Vancouver
Thirty Minute Sketch, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1978 Room 321: A Collective Work with the Students of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Performance Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1977 Two Hands for CAR, CAR Miniature Show, Fleet Gallery, Winnipeg
Drawing Event, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Max Dean: A Work, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
1975 ART (A Snow Sculpture), The Ottawa River Parkway, Ottawa
To Be Read As It Is (Billboard), Georgia & Denman Intersection, Vancouver
1973 Large Yellow Duck, Stanley Park, Vancouver
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
Project Award Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts
Gershorn Isowitz Award
Joan Chalmers Award
Grants from:
Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council
Manitoba Arts Council
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS
Baert, Renee, Max Dean: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Essays by Renee
Baert and Michelle Hirschhorn, 2005, 80 pages.
Atkins, Gillian Yates. Max Dean: Enacting [Art]ificial Life. Parachute, 112, Fall 2003, p.74-80;
Bradley, Jessica and Johnstone, Lesley, editors. Sightlines: Reading Contemporary Canadian Art.
Montreal: Artexte Editions, 1994;
Bradley, Jessica and Johnstone, Lesley, editors. On James Carl and Building a Public Collection.
Canadian Art, vol.18, no.4, Winter 2001;
Carr-Harris, Ian. Max Dean and Cate Elwes. contemporary, January 2002, p.92;
Dault, Gary Michael. Mixed Media. Canadian Art, vol.13, no.2, Summer 1996, p.77;
Froelich, Peter. Blurbs: Performance Festival - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Parachute, no.12,
Autumn 1978;
Fry, Philip. Max Dean. Parachute, no.14, Spring 1979;
Greyson, John. Sound Sculpture. Vancouver: A.R.C. Press, 1975;
Jordan, Betty Ann. Max Dean at Susan Hobbs Gallery. Toronto Life, July 2000;
Love, Karen, editor. Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002;
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle. Max Dean at Susan Hobbs Gallery. Artforum, November 2000;
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle. Button Pusher. Canadian Art, vol.18, no.1, Spring 2001, p.54-59;
Mason, Joyce. Selection Necessary. C Magazine, #51, October- December 1996, p.20-25;
Miller, Earl. Max Dean. Parachute, Spring 1997, p.86;
Nemeczek, Alfred. Und Noch Immer Erwweitert Sich der Kunstbegriff. Art das Kunstmagazin, 6/1997,
P.48-50;
Racine, Rober. Festival de Performances du M.B.A. . Parachute, no.13, Winter 1978;
Spring, Justin. Photo Finish. Art & Text, no.54, 1996, p.74-75;
Storr, Robert. Prince of Tides … ArtForum, May 1999, p.160-165;
Storr, Robert. Harry’s Last Call. ArtForum, September 2001, p.159;
Triscott, Nicola. The Plateau: View from the high plains of art. Leonardo digital reviews, September
2001;
NEWSPAPERS
Borràs, Maria Lluisa. La Bienal de Venecia refleja la vision del mundo actual que tienen los artistas. La
Vanguardia, 10 June 2001;
Dault, Gary Michael. Max Dean’s robots raise human questions. The Globe and Mail, 1 July 2000;
Dault, Gary Michael. Max Dean at the Susan Hobbs Gallery. The Globe and Mail, 2 March 2002;
Gopnik, Blake. Sacrificial Icons Led to the Shredder. The Globe and Mail, 27 July 1996;
Gopnik, Blake. Moments of truth, traces of fiction. The Globe and Mail, 21 November 2000;
Gordon, Daphne. Group of 5 reach world audience. The Toronto Star, 1 July 2001;
Herholzier, Michael. Fotographie Als Hohe Kunst Der Inszenierung. Frankfurter Allgemeine, 10 March
1996;
Hirschmann, Thomas. Susan Hobbs Gallery – Max Dean. The National Post, 8 July 2000;
Hume, Christopher. Will photos live or die? It’s up to viewer. The Toronto Star, 22 May 1999;
Kimmelman, Michael. The Art of the Moment. The New York Times, 1 August 1999;
Levin, Kim. Navigating the Venice Biennale’s Sprawling Interzone Panic Attack. The Village Voice, 25
June 2001;
Milroy, Sarah. What’s happened to Venice? The Globe and Mail, 26 June 2001;
Milroy, Sarah. We need artists to soldier on. The Globe and Mail, 2 October 2001, p.R1;
Milroy, Sarah. Strokes of genius. The Globe and Mail, 27 December 2001;
Milroy, Sarah. Human nature's lab tech. The Globe and Mail, 14 November 2002;
Robinson, Walter. Venice Divertimondo. Artnet Magazine, 7 June 2001;
Temin, Christine. At the Biennale, the art’s all over the map. The Boston Globe, 1 July 2001;
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Andersson, Stefan. Umedalen Skulptur 2000. Umeå, Sweden: Galleri Stefan Andersson, 2000;
Augaitis, Daina and Henry, Karen. Luminous Sites. Vancouver: Video Inn/The Western Front, 1986;
Harten, Jürgen. The Fifth Element. Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2000;
Holmes, Willard. Pluralities. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1980;
Latour, Bruno and Weibel, Peter. Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art.
Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2003;
McKibbon, Millie. Form and Performance. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979;
Pontbriand, Chantal, editor. Performance Text(e)s & Documents. Montreal: Parachute, 1981;
Théberge, Pierre. O'Kanada. Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1982;
Shaw, Jeffrey and Weibel, Peter. Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. Karlsruhe: ZKM,
2002;
Szeemann, Harald. 48. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, la Biennale di Venezia. Venice: Electa, 1999;
Szeemann, Harald. 49. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, la Biennale di Venezia. Venice: Electa, 2001;
Weiermair, Peter. Prospect 96. Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1996.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada
McMaster University Gallery
Ottawa Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery