Charles Rea charlesrea@telus.net EXHIBITIONS: 2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006 2005 2001 2000 1998 1995 1992 1990 1989 1988 1987 Parataxis, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] October, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Vancouver Vancouver, Gallery 1965, Vancouver BC Monomania, Trench Gallery, Vancouver BC July, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Drawing, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Charles Rea, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario Charles Rea, Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Crystal Lab/Mirror Maze, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK [solo] Crystal Lab/Mirror Maze, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK [solo] Crystal Lab/Mirror Maze, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver BC [solo] Vancouver International, Pari Nadimi Gallery,Toronto ON These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Questions, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Painting, Painting, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC Charles Rea, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Artropolis, Vancouver BC UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver BC Charles Rea,Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Vancouver/Hamburg, Galerie Kamnagel, Hamburg, W. Germany Art Cologne 87(Diane Faris Gallery), Cologne, W. Germany
1985 1984 1983 1981 1979 Toyama Now '87: New Art Around the Pacific, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON [solo] Charles Rea / Attila Richard Lukacs, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON Charles Rea, Diane Farris, Vancouver BC [solo] Beyond the Line, Galerie J Yahouda Meir, Montreal PQ Vancouver Now, Walter Phillips Art Gallery, Banff AB London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec Young Romantics, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Five Young Artists, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC Western Front Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] Warehouse Show, Vancouver BC October Show, Vancouver BC Artist's Gallery, Vancouver BC Charles Rea / Walter Gulesko, Reflections Gallery, Vancouver BC 12 West Gallery, Vancouver BC Inform Gallery, Vancouver BC Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC [solo] EDUCATION: 1976-79 Vancouver School of Art INSTRUCTOR: 1984-present Art Instructor at Shadbolt Center for the Arts, Burnaby BC 1991 University of British Columbia, Instructed 3rd year studio arts course, Fine Arts 391 1989-93 Culture Talks organized by E. Brewer-White: art presentations and workshops for elementary and secondary schools in the Lower Mainland BC
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2008 Vancouver Sun, October, review by Lloyd Dykk of solo show Charles Rea at the Winsor Art Gallery, Vancouver BC. 2006 The Star Phoenix, May, review by Colleen McPherson of solo show Crystal Lab at the Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK Prairie Dog, January, review by Gregory Beatty of solo show Crystal Lab at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK Fillip, Winter, review by Andrew Power of solo show Crystal Lab/Mirror Maze at the Belkin Satellite 2005 reviews of solo show Crystal Lab/Mirror Maze at the Belkin Satellite: - Vancouver Sun, October, review by Clint Burnham - Georgia Straight, October, review by Christopher Brayshaw - Vancouver Sun, December, review by Michael Scott 2001 reviews of These Days at the Vancouver Art Gallery: - Max, Fall, review by Michael Turner - Globe & Mail, August, review by Sarah Milroy - The Georgia Straight, May, review by Robin Laurence - Last Call, May, review by Marina Roy - Vancouver Sun, May, review by Michael Scott 1999 The Georgia Straight, September, artist profile by James-Jason Lee 1998 Vancouver Magazine, December, artist profile by Michael Turner 1992 The Georgia Straight, February, review by Robin Laurence of solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Gallery 1989 The Vancouver Sun, September, review by Ann Rosenberg of group show at UBC Fine Arts Gallery The Vancouver Sun, June, review by Elizabeth Godley of the solo exhibition at Diane Farris Gallery reviews of Charles Rea / Attila Lucaks at Mercer Union, Toronto, ON: - C Magazine, Winter, review by Deirdre Hanna - The Globe & Mail, September, review by John Bentley Mays - The Toronto Star, September, review by Christopher Hume reviews of Vancouver Now, Banff, Montreal, Winnipeg, London :
1985 - The Banff Craight Canyon, June, review by Nancy Tousley - Le Devoir Culturel, August, review by Gilles Daigneault - Vie des Art, review by Jean Tourangeau - Vie des Arts, Aux confins de la Tradition et de l Ouverture by Manon Blanchette reviews of Young Romantics at the Vancouver Art Gallery: - The Globe and Mail, August, review by Stephen Godfrey - Vancouver Magazine, March, City Scene - Vancouver magazine, July, review by Anne Templeman Kluit - The West Ender, June, review by Liz Gilbert - Western Living, October, review by Helga Pakasaar - The Vancouver Sun, review by Eve Johnson - Vanguard, review Roy Arden 1984 Vanguard, May, review of solo exhibition Western Front Gallery by Scott Watson COLLECTIONS: Canada Council Art Bank Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Opera House, Calgary AB Galerie bet Svetlana, Munich, W. Germany Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Rick Erickson, Vancouver BC Bombast, Vancouver BC GRANTS: 87/92/94/96/01 Canada Council, Arts Grant "B" 1987 Travel Grant (Toyama Now 87) Short Term Project 1995/98/99/00 Cultural Services, BC ART JURY: P 88/94 Visual Arts Juror (Project)