BIOGRAPHY:

Born in London, England,1946.

EDUCATION

1969 B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art, Reading University, Berkshire, England
1970 Post-Graduate Teaching Certificate, Whitelands College London, England
1974 M.A. Fine Art, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1999 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
1991 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
1987-88 Dance with Minutiae: The Paintings of Dulcie Foo Fat, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; The McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON; Art Gallery Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, NFLD; McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON; UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, BC; The Nickle Arts Museum, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1986 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
1982 Aggregation Gallery, Toronto, ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 SEE: three decades of realist painting at the University, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Calgary
2004-5 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2004 Informal Ideas, 04-03 (Landscape: Field Study/Studio Time), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003 Faculty Show, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
2002 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Perspectives, The McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON
2001 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2000 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1999 High Realism: Paintings from the Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, AB
1998 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1997 Moving Through Ecosystems, Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
Homecoming: a Juried Exhibition Celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Department of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts Alberta, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1996 A Visual Interlude, The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB
A Musician's Nomenclature, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, AB
1996 Faculty Show, Fine Art Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Faculty Show, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christ, TX; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
1995-98 Faculty Show, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
1994 Gallery Artists 2, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB
Hidden Values: Western Corporations Collect, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Reflecting Paradise, Home Oil Tower, Calgary, AB
1993 Distinctly Canadian, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON
1990 Recent Paintings, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting, Hokaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokaido, Japan
1989 Painting Representing Landscape, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1988 Close-ups, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
From the Landscape, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1987 Contemporary Realism, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
The Contemporary Landscape, Oakville Gallery, Oakville, ON
1986-7 Spaces and Places: Landscapes from the Alberta Art Foundation, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
1984 Faculty Show, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB
1983 Choices: From the First Decade of the Alberta Art Foundation, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
1982 Calgary Corporations Collect Realism, Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB
1981 Gallery Artists, Aggregation Gallery (now Wynick/Tuck Gallery), Toronto, ON
1980 Alberta Now, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1979 Alberta Society of Artists, Shell Center Gallery, Calgary, AB
Late 70's Accessions from the Alberta Art Foundation, Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton Gallery; Red Deer Gallery, AB
1978 Subway Gallery, Calgary, AB
1977 Realism in Canada, Traditional and New, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Regina, SK
Alberta Society of Artists, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Albertawork, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
1976 Three Painters, Southern Alberta Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
1974-5 Rose Museum, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB; Burnaby Art Museum, B.C.
1974 Fourteen from Calgary, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Young Contemporary Calgary Artists, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
Prairie '74, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

1990 Visiting Artist, Department of Art, University of Waterloo, Ontario
1989-90 Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism Project Grant (used for expedition to Northern Yukon National Park in the Western Arctic)
1985 Resident Artist, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California
1977-78 Canada Council B Grant

COLLECTIONS

Many private and public collections in Canada and other countries including:

Alberta Art Foundation, Alberta Culture, Edmonton Bank of Montreal, Calgary
Branalta Investments, Calgary C.I.L. Toronto
City of Calgary, Calgary Credit Suisse, Toronto
Czar Resources , Calgary. Foothills Hospital , Calgary
Glenbow Museum , Calgary. Guaranty Trust , Toronto
McMichael Canadian Collection , Kleinburg Mendel Art Gallery , Saskatoon
Norcen Energy Resources Limited , Calgary Nova Corporation , Calgary
Oakwood Petroleum, Calgary Ocelot Industries , Calgary
Omni Drilling, Calgary Petro Canada , Calgary
Shaw Communications Inc., Calgary Shell Canada , Calgary
University of Calgary, Calgary University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Whyte Museum , Banff

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

2002 - 2003 Fine Art Department, University of Calgary . Sessional Instructor, Art Fundamentals.
1989 - 2003 Department of Continuing Education, Alberta College of Art. Instructor in credit and non-credit courses in Introductory Drawing, 2 Dimensional Art Fundamentals, Introductory Painting, Colour and Landscape Painting.
1990 - 1993 Red Deer College, Series '90, '91, '93 . Instructor in Intermediate and Advanced Painting, Landscape and Still Life Painting .
1989 - 2003 Alberta College of Art . Sessional Instructor in Introductory Painting.
1988 - 1993 Faculty of Continuing Education, University of Calgary . Instructor in 'Landscape and Still Life, Real and Imagined' and 'Painting from the Photo'.
1984 - 1989 The Banff Centre, Alberta . Resident Artist in 'Artist in the School' Program (Lethbridge, Calgary and Medicine Hat) .
1983 - 1984 Alberta College of Art . Sessional Instructor, 3rd year Drawing, and Introductory Painting .
1974 - 1975 Fine Art Department, University of Calgary . Sessional Instructor, Drawing and Design .
1971 - 1974 University of Calgary. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Drawing

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ainslie , Patricia . "The Norcen Gift. " Glenbow . September/October, 1986
Ainslie, Patricia . "New Art Acquisitions ." Glenbow, July/August , 1984.
Hogg, Carol. "Here's a Painter who Freely Uses the Camera as a Tool . " The Calgary Herald , October 19 , 1974.
Hume, Christopher. " Calgary Artist Closes in on the Details of a Vast Land." Toronto Star , April 11, 1982.
Kope, Gordon. Beauty Under Siege: Paradise Found. Avenue Magazine. Published by the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation. September, 1996.
Mays, John Bentley . "Traditional Form, Novel Approach . " The Globe and Mail, April 10, 1982 .
McGregor, Ron . "This Art Show Offers Variety of Interests, Styles . " Edmonton Journal , February 9 , 1974 .
Richards, Jean . "Gallery Summer Show is Best Yet. " Edmonton Journal , July 13, 1974 .
Stocking, John . " A Fine Feeling for Light ." Visual Arts Newsletter, October, 1984 .
Tousley , Nancy . "Artist Explores Detail with Methodical Zeal ." The Calgary Herald , September, 1986
Tousley, Nancy . "Interview with Dulcie Foo Fat. " Artscanada , December/ January 1978-79.
Westra, Monique . Dance with Minutiae: The Paintings of Dulcie Foofat, exhibition Banff: The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockie,1988 .
Woods, Kay . "Toronto - Showcase of East and West. " Arts West, April 1982.
Twenty/Twenty, Contemporary Canadian Art, selected by Marci and Louise Lipman, Lester and Orphen Dennys Publishers, Toronto.
Unpublished Thesis. Foofat , Dulcie . An Examination of the Relationship between the Style New Realism in Painting and Modern Art and between New Realism and Traditional Realism . University of Calgary, 1974 .

Dulcie Foo Fat is represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery.