Born Ottawa, Ontario
Education
1977 York University, B.F.A. Honours

Visiting Artist
1996 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1995 London Regional Art Historical Museum, London, Ontario.
1994 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario.
1993 Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario.
1992 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
1992 Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario.
1992 St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario.
1992 Georgian College, Owen Sound, Ontario.
1991 Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario.
1991 York University, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
1990 Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
1990 Dundas Valley School, Dundas, Ontario.
1990 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario.
1989 Visual Arts Ontario, Colour Xerox Program, Toronto, Ontario.

Solo Exhibitions

1998 Landscapes with Monuments, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Trans-Canada Exit 113, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Homer Watson Blvd., Homer Watson House, Kitchener, Ontario.
1995 The 401 Towards London, London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, Ontario.
1995 Homer Watson Blvd., Linda Genereux Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1993 The 401 Towards London, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1992 Personal Gardens, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
1992 Personal Gardens, The Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario.
1992 Personal Gardens, St. Lawrence College Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario.
1991 Personal Gardens, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario.
1990 Verge, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
1989 Living on the Edge, Galerie Powerhouse, Montr?al, Qu?bec.
1988 Still Life, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
1986 Hang Fire, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
1984 Sensible Passage, A.R.C., Toronto, Ontario

Group Exhibitions

1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1998 Point of View, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario.
1998 Informal Ideas 98.2 (Degrees of Abstraction), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario,
1997 Informal Ideas 97.5 (Colour and the Square), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1997 Informal Ideas 97.3, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Towards London, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Informal Ideas 96.4 (A Place), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1995 30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 Textiles, that is to say, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario.
1993 Visual Evidence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
1992 Erin O’Brien/Sheila Ayearst, Artspeak, Vancouver, British Colombia.
1992 Harbourfront Artist’s Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 A Reverence That Endures, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.
1991 Heaven Waits, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario.
1991 Sheila Ayearst/Oliver Girling, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art, London Regional Art Gallery,
London, Ontario; travelling to Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta and Mississauga Civic
Centre, Mississauga, Ontario.
1990 Connected Voices, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
1990 Cold City Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 Fault Lines, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario.
1989 Beyond the Document: Extended Photography, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario.
1987 Medium Photography, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montr?al, Qu?bec.
1987 Buffalo/Toronto Exchange, Hallways, Buffalo, New York.
1986 The Interpretation of Architecture, curated by alan Tregbov, Janice Gurney & Andy Patton,
YYZ, Mercer Union, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Ydessa Gallery, Gallery 76, The School of
Architecture at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
1986 YYZ World Tour, Embassy House, London, Ontario
1986 Medium Photography, curated by Greg Muhlek, various locations in Germany.
1986 Electrographics, curated by Visual Arts Ontario, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario.
1985 Photographic Memory, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia.
1985 Project: Colour Xerox, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1982 Representation as a Kind of Absence, Open Studio,. Victoria, British Colombia.
1979 Juried Alumni Show, Markham South of Bloor Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1978 Landsdown Artists Collective Studio Show, sponsored by A Space, Toronto, Ontario
1977 Glendon College Gallery, Glendon College, Toronto, Ontario.
1977 I.D.A. Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliography

1998 Roo Borson, Towards the 401, Brick, no. 59 Spring, pp 40- 44.
1995 Andy Patton, Cathy Orfold’s Cat, Sheila Ayearst: The 401 Towards London, London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, Ontario.
1995 Mark Cheetham, The Sublime is Now, Sheila Ayearst: The 401 Towards London, London
Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, Ontario.
1995 The Sublime is Now, C Magazine, Winter, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 John Armstrong & Sarah Quinton, Textiles, that is to say, The Museum for Textile, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 Greg Beatty, Visual Experience, Parachute, No. 74.
1994 Kate Taylor, Trying to Separate Art From Craft; Textiles that is to say, The Globe and Mail
April 8, 1994.
1993 Ingrid Jenker, Visual Experience, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
1993 Kate Taylor, Landscapes From the Road Revisited, The Globe and Mail, February 23, 1993.
1991 Lorenzo Buj, Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art, Parachute, Spring
1991, no. 62.
1991 Mark Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art, Oxford University Press, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 Jeanne Randolph, Mincemeat – A Recipe for Disaster, catalogue essay from Verge, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario. Reprinted in Jeanne Randolph, Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming, Toronto, Ontario, YYZ Publishing, 1991.
1990 Gordon Lebredt, Dire Traits, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
1989 Monique Brunet-Weinmann, La vraie guerre du faux n’aura pas lieu, Vie des Arts, Spring,
1989.
1988 Linda Genereux, Still Life, interview published by Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
1988 Liz Wylie, Failing World Inspires…, Now , January,14.
1988 Lisa Rochon, On Show, The Globe and Mail, January 14.
1987 Monique Brunet-Weinmann, Medium – Photography, catalogue essay, Goethe Institute,
Montr?al, Qu?bec.
1986 Gary Michael Dault, Architectural Digest, C Magazine, Toronto, Ontario.
1986 The Interpretation of Architecture, catalogue essay, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario.
1986 Carole Corbiel, On Show, The Globe and Mail, April10.
1985 Elizabeth McKenzie, Project: Colour Xerox, Artviews, Winter 1984/5.
1983 Katherine Knight, Representation as a Kind of Absence, Vangaurd, February 1983.

Affiliations

1986-1994 Board Member of YYZ, Toronto, Ontario.

Collections

Air Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Concordia University Art Gallery, Montr?al, Qu?bec
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Sun Life of Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Sheila Ayearst is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.