BIOGRAPHY

Born 1948, Sweden
Canadian Citizen

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1998 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1994 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1993 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1992 Project Room, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1989 49th Parallel, New York
1988 Welch Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1982 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
Torbolton Oaks Gallery, McLaren's Landing, Ontario
1980 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1979 Optica, Montreal, Quebec
1978 Artist's Co-operative, Toronto, Ontario
Glendon Art Gallery, York University, North York, Ontario
1977 Artist's Co-operative, Toronto, Ontario
1974 A Space, Toronto, Ontario


SELECTED TWO_PERSON EXHIBITION

1997 Carroll Moppett and Jaan Poldaas:Painting, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Alberta


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 Wynick/Tuck Gallery,Toronto, Ontario
1998 Informal Ideas 98.2 (Degrees of Abtraction), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1997 Toronto Abstract Painting, James Allen Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Informal Ideas 97.5 (Colour and The Square), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto,
Informal Ideas 97.3, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995 Fire and Ice, Canadian Geometric Abstraction, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
Milieu: of the order of presentation, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1994 Hidden Values, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
1992 Legal Perspective: Selected Works from the Collection of Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt, McMicheal Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)
1991 The Empirical Presence: Caruso, Delavalle, Gaucher, Martin, Poldaas, Saxe, Optica, Montreal.
Gallery Artists, Costin & Klintworth, Toronto, Ontario
Abstract Practices 1, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
Building the Contemporary Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1990 The Art of Colour, Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1989 Selections from the Ann and Marshall Webb Collection, Art Gallery of York University, North York, Ontario
John Heward & Jaan Poldaas, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
1988 Information Systems, YYZ, Toronto
1986 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto
1984 Toronto Painting '84, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredricton; Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherines; Art Gallery of Windsor; The Gallery/Stratford; Edmonton Art Gallery; Winnipeg Art Gallery
80/1/2/3/4, Mercer Union, Toronto
1983 Rational Alternatives, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto
1979 Drei Kunstler Aus Toronto, Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg
1978 Common Factors, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto
1976 Ric Evans, Robert McNealy. Jaan Poldaas, Artist's
Co-operative Toronto
1975 Four Painters: Ric Evans, Robert Jacks, Milt Jewell, Jaan Poldaas, Art Gallery of Ontario, Hune 7 - 29, Toronto


SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Blake, Cassles & Graydon
Counsel Corporation, Toronto
Department of Foreign Affairs
First Marathon Securities, Toronto
Fasken, Cambell, Godfrey
Imperial Oil
IBM Canada
London Life Insurance Co., London, Ontario
McMillian Binch
McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto
National Gallery of Canada
Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
Osler, Hoskin, & Harcourt, Toronto
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Superior Propane, Toronto
Trilon Financial Corporation
University of Lethbridge
University of Toronto
United Westburne Industries
Vancouver Art Gallery
Numerous Private Collections



EDUCATION

1967-1970 School of Architecture, University of Toronto


RELATED EXPERIENCE

1975-1979 Member of Artist's Co-operative Toronto (A.C.T.)
1979 Founding member of Mercer Union
1986-1988 Member of Cold City Gallery


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1998 John Bentley Mays, The Globe & Mail, Thursday, January 15, 1998, D3
1996 On the Birth of Canadian Geometric Abstraction, exhibition catalogue, Fire and Ice: Contemporary Geometric Abstraction, Mississauga Art Gallery, August 1 - September 8, Stuart Reid.
Concrete Examples of Abstract Expressionism, Blake Gopnik, The Globe and Mail, August 8, p. C3. Fire and Ice at the Gallery, Ruth Skillen, Mississauga News, July, 31.
1995 An Ophthalmologist's Eye on Art, University of Toronto Magazine, Winter, p.37.
Anamorphic and Analogical Abstraction: Jaan Poldaas' False Targets, Depth Markers: Selected Art Writings
1985 James D. Campbell, ECW Press, Toronto, p.305 - 315.
1994 Report from Toronto, Canada's Art Capital: The Public Sector" Part 1, p. 34 - 43, July, Report from Toronto: Opening Doors Part 2, p. 38 - 47, November, Roni Feinstein, Art in America
Poldaas rewards time spent, Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail, November 5, p. C11
1993 Jaan Poldaas, Costin & Klintworth, James Cambell, Canadian Art, Fall, p. 90 - 91
Local Colour: Colour and Technique in the work of Joanne Tod, Greg Curnoe, and Jaan Poldaas, Robert Fones, C Magazine, Summer, p. 26-39
Proving Abstraction is a Hearty Plant, Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail, March 12, p. C7
1992 Project Room Series 1: Jaan Poldaas, From the E.G. Series, 1978, Sharon Brooks, exhibition catalogue, Mercer Union, October 1 - 24, Toronto
1991 Past is Present in Timely Exhibit, John Bentley Mays, The Globe & Mail January 19, p. C11
Abstract Practices: Delavalle, Evans, Poldaas, Tousignant, James D. Campbell, exhibition catalogue, The Power Plant, March 15 - June 16, Toronto
Abstracts Need the Hard Sell, John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, March 26, p. C2
Abstract Practices, Robert Labossiere, Parachute, no. 64, October/November/December, p. 56 - 57, Art Review, Kate Taylor. The Globe and Mail, November 8
The Empirical Presence James Campbell and Yvonne Lammerich, exhibition catalogue, Optica 12- November 10, Montreal
1990 The Milestone for Toronto Artist: Poldaas' tall grids work like visual poems" John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail January, 19, p. C11
The Art of Colour, Kirk Marlow, exhibition catalogue, Red Deer Museum, Red Deer
Jaan Poldaas at the 49th Parallel, Walter Thompson, Art in America, January, p. 62 - 63
1989 Selections from the Ann and Marshall Webb Collection, Loretta Yarlow, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of York University.
Working with Physics, Robert Fones, Vanguard, February/March, p. 42-43.
John Heward and Jaan Poldaas, Daniel Sharp, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, March 9 - April 1, Ottawa.
Colour Co-ordinates, Charting the Progress of Colour Painting in Canada, Gary Michael Dault, Canadian Art, Spring, p. 72-75
Jaan Poldaas, Costin and Klintworth, Robert Youds, C Magazine, Spring, p. 66-67.
1989 Artist's minimal creations produce significant effect, John Bently Mays, The Globe and Mail, September 22, p.C8.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (continued)
1989- The Frog who would be Sphinx, Jerry McGrath, Vanguard, December/January.
1988
1988 Though far from dazzling, show of abstract works offers hope for future, John Bentely Mays, The Globe and Mail, October 15, p. C19.
Defiant Paintings, Rewarding Art Tours, Diedre Hanna, Now Magazine, October 13.
The Other Painting, Ihor Holubizky, exhibition catalogue, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Gallery, Toronto.
Toronto: La Pure at la Rischissime, Rene Viau, Beau Arts, June, p. 100 - 104.
Informations Systems, Andy Patton, exhibition essay, YYZ, Toronto.
1987 Conceptualist keeps his cool to pursue geometric elegance, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star, October 30,p. E11.
1984 Toronto Painting '84, David Burnett, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1983 Contemporary Canadian Art, David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Hurtig Publishers, Toronto, p 257 - 258.
Rational Alternatives, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto.
1982 Jaan Poldaas, Mercer Union, Oliver Girling and Harold Klunder, Vanguard, September, p. 26.
1980 Exotic Modernism, Toronto, Donal B. Kuspit, Vanguard, November, p. 19 - 25.
1979 Gallery View, George Bogardi, Montreal Star, April 18.
1979 Art Notes, Jaan Poldaas at Optica, Virginia Nixon, Montreal.
1978 Jaan Poldaas: E.G. Series at ACT, Joan Frick, Artists Review, vol. 2, no. 2, p.2.
1976 Ric Evans, Robert mcNealy, Jaan Poldaas at Artist's Co-operative Toronto, Ross Skoggard, Art in America, November/December, p. 124.
1975 Four Painters, Alvin Balkind, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.


SELECTED AWARDS

1988-1989 Ontario Arts Council Senior Grant
1991-1992 Canada Council Arts "A" Grant
1993-1994 Canada Council Arts "A" Grant
1996-1997 Ontario Arts Council Senior Grant






Jaan Poldaas is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.