Tristram Lansdowne
Tristram Lansdowne’s practice explores the historical and cultural representations of organized space, considering the ways in which architecture is used to express desire and control. His recent work examines the psycho-spatial content of the contemporary modernist home, paying particular attention to the effects of globalized design culture and digital rendering technologies. Detailed watercolours, drawings, sculptures and printmaking explore the construction of the home as an image, tugging at the artifice of surface by re-coding digital processes through the handmade. Reversals of two- and three-dimensional forms coupled with shifts in perspective destabilize the viewer’s position, reinscribing the aesthetics of domestic space and asking for whom, if anyone, this ideal home is intended.
Born in Victoria (BC), Tristram Lansdowne lives and works in Toronto (ON). He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and a BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design (2007). His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries across North America and in the UK, including at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Bonington Gallery - Nottingham Trent University, and the Mendel Art Gallery. His work is in numerous public and corporate collections in Canada and the US, including the National Gallery of Canada, the TD Bank Collection, the Royal Bank of Canada Collection, the Bank of Montreal Collection, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center.
Recent exhibitions
Art Toronto 2023
From October 27-29, 2023
Tristram Lansdowne - Sympathies
From May 12 to June 11, 2022
Tristram Lansdowne - I swear you never slep at night
From October 29 to November 23, 2019
Tristram Lansdowne - Eyewitness
From May 26 to July 3, 2021
Tristram Lansdowne - Modal Home
From September 8 to October 7, 2017
Selected Artworks
+ CV
EDUCATION
2016 - MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2007 - BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto (ON)
RESIDENCIES
2017
- Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Research in Culture: Year 2067.
2016
- Salem Art Works, Salem, NY, USA
- Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, USA
2013
- Banff Centre for the Arts, Another World in The Studio
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
Royal Bank of Canada
TD Bank of Canada
Microsoft Corporation
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
Collection BMO
Drake Hotel
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
GRANTS AND DISTINCTIONS
2015
- Graduate Studies project grant, Rhode Island School of Design
2014
- Canada Council for the Arts project grant
2013
- Toronto Arts Council project grant
- Ontario Arts Council project grant
- Canada Council for the Arts project grant
2011
- Ontario Arts Council project grant
2007
- Julius Griffith Award
+ Solo Exhibitions
2021
- (Upcoming) Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
2019
- Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (ON)
- Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
2017
- Modal Home, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
2016
- The Living Room, Wil Kucey Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2014
- Contractions, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
- Provisional Futures, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener (ON)
2012
- Fata Morgana, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2010
- Refuge, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Archimancy, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2009
- Entropical Paradise, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2008
- Structural Integrity, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2007
- Beautiful Decay, Winchester Galleries, Victoria (BC)
+ Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
- Personal Space, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto (ON)
2018
- Rooms, Angell Gallery, curator: Bill Clark, Toronto (ON)
2017
- HORIZONS, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (QC)
- Psychonautics, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016
- Terraformers, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, England
- Imagined Futures, Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire (QC)
- RISD MFA Painting, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Graduate Selections, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2015
- Half Master, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- UFO Hunters, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
- Fever Dream, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2014
- Order of Operations, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
- Contemporary Drawings From the Drawing from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (SK)
2012-14
- Ecotopia, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Southern Alberta Art Gallery
2012
- Space/Form, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
- Death and the City, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
- 60 Painters, Humber College School of Arts and Media, Etobicoke (ON)
2011
- RBC Painting Competition Finalist Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta; Art Gallery of Hamilton; The Power Plant
- Hanged & Drawn, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
- Contained, Boston Centre for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA
2010
- Empire of Dreams: Phenomenology of The Built Environment, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (ON)
2009
- Who’s Got the Paper’s, LE Gallery, Toronto (ON)
- Summer Group Show, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
- Young Romantics, Gallery 1313, Toronto (ON)
+ Art Fairs
2020
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
- Papier 20, Montréal (QC)
2019
- UNTITLED, art Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL, USA
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
- Papier,Montréal (QC)
2018
- UNTITLED, art Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL, USA
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
- Papier ,Montréal (QC)
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017
- Art Toronto, Toronto (ON)
+ Press and publications
2017
- WEITZ, Julie (2017). «Moving Minds», Artsy, published in April 17.
- GERWIN, Daniel (2017). «Landscape art that depicts more than nature», Hyperallergic, published April 5, https://bit.ly/2IDsrSr.
2014
- **J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Pomegranate Press, 2014. Ed. Tristram Lansdowne
- HAMPTON, Chris (2014). «Mixing the urban and the utopian: The otherworldly art of Tristram Lansdowne», The Globe & Mail, [En ligne], paru le 24 mars, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/mixing-the-urban-and-the-utopian-the-otherworldly-art-of-tristram-lansdowne/article17634207/**.
- STOUFFER, Hannah (2014). «Tristram Lansdowne», Juxtapoz Magazine, [Online] published in November, https://bit.ly/2Dgdims.
2013
- MIERINS, Krystina (2013). «Tristram Lansdowne, Review», Magenta Foundation Magazine, [Online], published April 3, https://bit.ly/2VRq9CM.
2012
- (2012). «Death and the City», Pilot Magazine, no X.
2011
- BOON, Trish (2011). “Like Milk and Blood.” Square2, no. 4, published in April.
2010
- LECHNER, Alysa (2010). « Beauty in the Breakdown », Ion Magazine, [Papier/En ligne], no 64, published in April, https://bit.ly/2ZkMGdE.
- SANDALS, Leah (2010). «At the galleries», National Post, published December 2nd.
2009
- DAULT, Gary Michael (2009). «A convincing replication of reality and its layers», The Globe and Mail, [Online], published December 12, https://tgam.ca/2Xi6AE1.
2007
- GRISON, Brian (2007). «The Next Generation», Focus Magazine, fall.