We are pleased to announce that Andrew Wright is now represented by Studio Sixty Six Contemporary.
Multidisciplinary artist Andrew Wright creates conceptually informed works in many media. He has also been preoccupied with using photography in traditional and decidedly non-traditional ways for over 25 years.
Wright has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad with shows in the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Korea, China, and others. He has exhibited at such venues as the London Gallery West, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the University of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, and the Today Art Museum, Beijing.
His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the X'ian Art Museum, China, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, KWAG, the University of Toronto, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada House Canada’s High Commission in London, and private collections around the world.
He is the recipient of the 2019 Karsh Award for an “outstanding body of work and significant contribution to the artistic discipline in a photo/lens-based medium”. A multiple nominee for the Sobey Art Award, Wright was a semi-finalist in 2007. In 2011 Wright won the inaugural Gattuso Prize at Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto. His work was also included in the the Milan-based magazine, Mould, curated by Joan Fontcuberta and he has shown alongside artists such as Michael Snow, Iain Baxter&, Wanda Koop, Ed Burtynsky, Rebecca Belmore, Robert Youds, Isabelle Hayeur.
Following Penumbra, a primary exhibition at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto and a mid-career survey, Selected Diptychs & Multiples at the Thames Art Gallery, and Pretty Lofty and Heavy All At Once at the Ottawa Art Gallery, a comprehensive catalog of Wright's work, with essays by scholars Carol Payne, Randy Innes, and curator Michelle Gewurtz, was published.
As an artist-in-residence, he has worked at the Banff Centre and Braziers International Artists Workshop (UK), and as a war artist, with the Canadian Forces Artists Program aboard Canadian frigate HMCS Toronto. He is the founding Artistic Director for Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA). He was the winner of the Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition (2001), and the recipient of grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, and the Waterloo Regional Arts Fund. He has received critical acclaim for his work in publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings, The Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, and Maclean's Magazine.
While photography feverishly promises to capture more, to remember more, and to substitute for more, it also continually points out its own failures. Wright exploits this contradiction by creating both conventional and idea-based works that seek to broaden ways of seeing, and to flexibly perceive the world around us.
Andrew Wright is a Full Professor of Visual Art in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.
