PAUL CHESTER, OCAD, SCA(Life)

2024

EDUCATION AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2020 SCA Life member

1990/92 OCAD (Advanced Standing)Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1982 Academy St. Roch, Paris, France.

1981/82 Arts Sake, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2001 Member of the Society of Canadian Artists.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Wallack Galleries, Shades of Seasons, Ottawa ON

2021 The Art Shop, The Palette of Fall, Lakefield, ON

2018 Art Gallery of Bancroft, Landscape Reflections, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada

2016 Wallack Galleries, Landscape Poetry – Between the Real and the Imagined,  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2011  Wallack Galleries, The Luminous Landscape,  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010 Newbury Fine Arts, The Ephemeral Realm, Boston, MA

The Russell Gallery, Rural Paths, Peterborough, ON

2009 Gallery Gevik, Miles Away, Toronto, Canada.

2008 The Russell Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Galerie le Royer, Montreal, Canada

2006 The Russell Gallery Of Fine Art, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2005 Gallery Gevik, ‘Return’, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2004 The Russell Gallery,’Rural Impressions’, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

West End Gallery, ‘Corina’s Garden’,Victoria, BC

Galerie Le Royer, Montreal, Quebec

2003 West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta…’Seasons’

The Art Gallery Of Peterborough, ‘Beyond The Natural Landscape’ Peterborough, Ontario,        Canada.

Teodora Art Gallery, ‘Landscape Passages’ , Toronto, Ontario, Canada…

2002 The Russell Gallery Of Fine Art, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Art & Soul Gallery, Pickering, Ontario, Canada

2001 Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

West End Gallery, Victoria, B.C., Canada

2000The Russell Gallery Of Fine Art, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1999 Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

1998 Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

West End Gallery, Victoria B.C., Canada

The Russell Gallery Of Fine Art, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

1997 Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1996 West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

1994 The Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

1991 Toronto International Art Exhibition (Art Expo), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1987 Gallery St. Luke, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1985 Here and Now Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1983 David Jean Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SELECTED JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Gallery Gevik, Highlands and Lowlands, Toronto.

            Petroff Gallery, Expressive Landscapes, Toronto.

2022 Colborne Street Gallery, Year of the Garden, Fenelon Falls, ON

2022/2009 Meta 4 Gallery, Port Perry, On

2021 Petroff Gallery, Small painting group show, Toronto, ON

2020, Colborne Street Gallery, Close and Far, Fenelon Falls, ON

2020/2018 The Art Shop, Lakefield, ON

Colborne Street Gallery, Fenelon Falls, ON

2019 Arts On Queen, Toronto, ON

2010/2011  Beacon Fine Arts Gallery, New Jersey

2009/02 Chameleon Nation, Kingston, On. Canada

Wallack Galleries, Ottawa

Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA

Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Canada

Wynne/Falconer Gallery, Chatham, MA USA

The Whistler Art Galleries, Whistler, B.C. Canada

Galerie Le Royer, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Rendez-vous Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

2001 Opening Night Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

2000 Trinity Galleries, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

1998 The Railings Gallery, London, England, U.K.

1997 Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

1996 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

The Edward Day Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

1995 Cygnet Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

1994 James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada

1992 Marble Arch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1991 Kitchener/Waterloo Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

1990 The Cure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Galerie Beaux Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1989 Art Dialogue Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Del Bello Gallery (Int. Miniature Exhibition) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Grace Gallery of Fine Art, Whitby, Ontario, Canada

1988 The Station Gallery, (The Human Element) Whitby, Ontario, Canada

1987 The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada

1986 Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts, Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada

1984 Art Alive Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario, Canada

1981 The Latchman Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario, Canada

CATALOGUES/REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS

2024 Shades of Seasons, Wallace Galleries, Ottawa, ON

2019 The Artists of Kawartha

2017 The Link, The Human Relationship With Nature, Janet Jarrell

2010 The Ephemeral Realm, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2005 Return, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Canada.

2003 Beyond The Natural Landscape, The Art Gallery Of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

2002 Parcours, L’Informateur des arts, Autumn Issue, Vol. 8, # 3

Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 12/02

2001/02 Recent Paintings (Catalogue Brochure)

1998 Luminous Skies: Recent Paintings by Paul Chester (Catalogue)

Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, August/98

1996 Magazin’ Art, Fall Issue

Charting the Land:Recent Paintings by Paul Chester(Catalogue)

AWARDS

2017 Leadership in Arts and Culture in Peterborough County

1991 Best Sculpture: The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario.

1990 Loomis & Toles Award: Best Sculpture, Scarborough, Ontario.

1989 Best Sculpture: The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario.