Josh Thorpe My e-mail address is my initials at joshthorpe.com. Bio Josh Thorpe is an artist, writer, and musician living in Toronto. He has a Master’s in Visual Studies from University of Toronto and he works at OCADU and U of T. His work has been shown in Canada, the US, and Europe. In 2009 Art Metropole published Thorpe's first book, Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide. CV Education 2009 Master’s of Visual Studies, University of Toronto 2008 MA in Music Composition, York University, Toronto 1998 BFA in Interdisciplinary Art, focus on music, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 2007 “Master Class with Harry Mathews,” The New School, New York Solo Exhibitions and Special Projects 2011 TBA, Campbell House, Toronto On Printed Matter (w/David Court), New York Around YYZ, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto 2010 The Garden, Toronto Sculpture Garden (w/David Court), Toronto Heavy Ambivalent Flag, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto 2009 Gradient Room, venue tba, Toronto On Convenience (w/David Court), Convenience Gallery, Toronto 2008 Experiments on Five Walls, Experimental Exhibition Lab, UofT Thread and Paper II, Experimental Exhibition Lab, UofT Thread and Paper, Rm. 111, One Spadina Crescent, UofT Group Exhibitions 2011 Like-Minded, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg 2010 Untitled, G Gallery, Toronto You Tube It, Peak Gallery, Toronto Empire of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto In the Basement, 1277 Bloor St. W., Toronto Call Home, Fluxfactory, New York Sticks (adjacent to Twelve of One, Micah Lexier), Art Metropole, Toronto 2009 The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK Fall Through, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada Titles, Art Metropole (w/David Court, curated by Yam Lau), Toronto Stick for Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole, Basel, Switzerland Master’s Thesis Show, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto 2008 Almost Nothing, Akau, Toronto Vehicle, Nuit Blanche, Toronto House Lights Left Bright, home of Stacey Sproule, Toronto Situationen, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin-Mitte, Germany 2007 Staring Therapy, Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US 2006 Toronto Still Camera Video Festival II, Gallery 1313, Toronto Toronto Still Camera Video Festival, Gallery 1313, Toronto 2005 Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto 2004 High-quality signaling devices (w/Sam Higgs), ting, Toronto 2002 Fundraiser, Mercer Union, Toronto Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto 2001 Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto Public Commissions 2010 Timber Piles, Art Metronome, an Art Metropole 7” LP 2009 60/60. Music for dance, Dancemakers, Enwave Theatre, Toronto 2008 Home Recording 2 (sound for Ed Pien), Musée des arts de Joliette, Québec 2007 Home Recording (sound for Ed Pien), Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington State Publishing and Published Writing As writer: 2011 “Prologue” to Gordon Lebredt Nonworks 1975-2008, 2010 Interview with Ian Wallace, Power Plant catalogue, The Economy of the Image “Architecture as Language,” One Hour Empire, n3 2009 “Dan Graham Pavilions,” Canadian Art, v27 n1 Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, an Art Metropole book 2007 “Marla Hlady,” Border Crossings n101 2001 “Uttered Nonsense: Jaap Blonk.” Musicworks Magazine #79 2000 “No Ulterior Motives: Wrist Error.” Musicworks Magazine #77 As editor/publisher: 2004 Jokes of Toronto by Ryan Driver, an Off Cut Press book 2003 Very Short Stories, various authors, an Off Cut Press book Bibliography Rhodes, Richard. “Josh Thorpe and Mathew McWilliams: Friends in Art.” Canadian Art Online, March 7, 2011. Rhodes, Richard, ed. Review of Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide. Canadian Art, fall 2009. Dault, Gary Michael. “Words in a window, mystery in a bottle,” Globe and Mail, 29 Aug. 2009, sec R10. Carr-Harris, Ian. Catalogue text for Master’s of Visual Studies graduating exhibition, 2009. Ajji, Tejpal S. “Consumer Craft.” Exhibition essay, "What It Really Is" Red Bull Projects, Toronto, 2009. Ho, Stacey. “Almost Nothing.” Things of Desire, v.1 n.16, 2008. Boon, Marcus. “The Uniquely Canadian Sound of Ontario's Rat-drifting.” The Wire n. 263, 2006, 16. Lake, Larry. Interview on “Two New Hours.” CBC Two, July 2000. Various stories and reviews in CBC Radio, the Globe and Mail, Broken Pencil, CBCRadio3, popmatters.com, Eye Weekly, the Toronto Star, and Word: A Literary Calendar. Recent Professional Activity 2010 Head of Educational Development and Classroom-based Support, Writing and Learning Centre, Ontario College of Art and Design 2009 Teacher/Tutor, Writing and Learning Centre, OCAD Instructor; Visual Studies, University of Toronto ’07-8 Teaching Assistant, various courses, University of Toronto

Josh Thorpe

My e-mail address is my initials at joshthorpe.com.

Bio

Josh Thorpe is an artist, writer, and musician living in Toronto. He has a Master’s in Visual Studies from University of Toronto and he works at OCADU and U of T. His work has been shown in Canada, the US, and Europe. In 2009 Art Metropole published Thorpe's first book, Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide.

Education

2009 Master’s of Visual Studies, University of Toronto

2008 MA in Music Composition, York University, Toronto

1998 BFA in Interdisciplinary Art, focus on music, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

2007 “Master Class with Harry Mathews,” The New School, New York

Solo Exhibitions and Special Projects

2011 TBA, Campbell House, Toronto

On Printed Matter (w/David Court), New York

Around YYZ, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto

2010 The Garden, Toronto Sculpture Garden (w/David Court), Toronto

Heavy Ambivalent Flag, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto

2009 Gradient Room, venue tba, Toronto

On Convenience (w/David Court), Convenience Gallery, Toronto

2008 Experiments on Five Walls, Experimental Exhibition Lab, UofT

Thread and Paper II, Experimental Exhibition Lab, UofT

Thread and Paper, Rm. 111, One Spadina Crescent, UofT

Group Exhibitions

2011 Like-Minded, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg

2010 Untitled, G Gallery, Toronto

You Tube It, Peak Gallery, Toronto

Empire of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

In the Basement, 1277 Bloor St. W., Toronto

Call Home, Fluxfactory, New York

Sticks (adjacent to Twelve of One, Micah Lexier), Art Metropole, Toronto

2009 The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

Fall Through, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada

Titles, Art Metropole (w/David Court, curated by Yam Lau), Toronto

Stick for Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole, Basel, Switzerland

Master’s Thesis Show, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto

2008 Almost Nothing, Akau, Toronto

Vehicle, Nuit Blanche, Toronto

House Lights Left Bright, home of Stacey Sproule, Toronto

Situationen, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin-Mitte, Germany

2007 Staring Therapy, Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

2006 Toronto Still Camera Video Festival II, Gallery 1313, Toronto

Toronto Still Camera Video Festival, Gallery 1313, Toronto

2005 Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto

2004 High-quality signaling devices (w/Sam Higgs), ting, Toronto

2002 Fundraiser, Mercer Union, Toronto

Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto

2001 Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto

Public Commissions

2010 Timber Piles, Art Metronome, an Art Metropole 7” LP

2009 60/60. Music for dance, Dancemakers, Enwave Theatre, Toronto

2008 Home Recording 2 (sound for Ed Pien), Musée des arts de Joliette, Québec

2007 Home Recording (sound for Ed Pien), Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington State

Publishing and Published Writing

As writer:

2011 “Prologue” to Gordon Lebredt Nonworks 1975-2008,

2010 Interview with Ian Wallace, Power Plant catalogue, The Economy of the Image

“Architecture as Language,” One Hour Empire, n3

2009 “Dan Graham Pavilions,” Canadian Art, v27 n1

Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, an Art Metropole book

2007 “Marla Hlady,” Border Crossings n101

2001 “Uttered Nonsense: Jaap Blonk.” Musicworks Magazine #79

2000 “No Ulterior Motives: Wrist Error.” Musicworks Magazine #77

As editor/publisher:

2004 Jokes of Toronto by Ryan Driver, an Off Cut Press book

2003 Very Short Stories, various authors, an Off Cut Press book

Bibliography

Rhodes, Richard. “Josh Thorpe and Mathew McWilliams: Friends in Art.” Canadian Art Online,

March 7, 2011.

Rhodes, Richard, ed. Review of Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide. Canadian Art, fall 2009.

Dault, Gary Michael. “Words in a window, mystery in a bottle,” Globe and Mail, 29 Aug. 2009, sec R10.

Carr-Harris, Ian. Catalogue text for Master’s of Visual Studies graduating exhibition, 2009.

Ajji, Tejpal S. “Consumer Craft.” Exhibition essay, "What It Really Is" Red Bull Projects, Toronto, 2009.

Ho, Stacey. “Almost Nothing.” Things of Desire, v.1 n.16, 2008.

Boon, Marcus. “The Uniquely Canadian Sound of Ontario's Rat-drifting.” The Wire n. 263, 2006, 16.

Lake, Larry. Interview on “Two New Hours.” CBC Two, July 2000.

Various stories and reviews in CBC Radio, the Globe and Mail, Broken Pencil, CBCRadio3, popmatters.com, Eye Weekly, the Toronto Star, and Word: A Literary Calendar.

Recent Professional Activity

2010 Head of Educational Development and Classroom-based Support, Writing and Learning Centre, Ontario College of Art and Design

2009 Teacher/Tutor, Writing and Learning Centre, OCAD Instructor; Visual Studies, University of Toronto

’07-8 Teaching Assistant, various courses, University of Toronto