Bio

Scott Conarroe's large-format photos evoke romantic pictorial traditions and locate the present within a sweep of history...

Education

MFA - Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax CA (2005)

BFA - Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver CA (2001)

Solo & 2-Person* Shows

2017 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto CA
2016 - Photographica * (with Vittorio Sella), Lugano CH
2015 - Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto CA
2014 - Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Morello ES
2014 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto CA
2013 - McIntosh Gallery, London CA
2013 - Pearson International Airport, Toronto CA
2013 - Biblioteca Vila-Real, Vila-Real ES
2011 - VU, Quebec City CA
2011 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto CA
2011 - Varley Art Gallery, Markham CA
2010 - MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax CA
2009 - Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor CA
2009 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto CA
2008 - K/WAG* (with C Cluett), Kitchener CA
2008 - Ace Art Inc.*, Winnipeg CA
2007 - Gallery Stratford, Stratford CA
2007 - Michael Gibson Gallery, London CA
2005 - Photo Passage, Toronto CA
2005 - Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax CA
2002 - STATE Gallery, Vancouver CA

Selected Group Shows

2021 - Resolution, Museum London, London CA
2020 - Meltdown (curated by Klaus Thyman) Horniman Museum, London UK
2020 - Warning Signs (curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer), Fotofest Lenzburg, Lenzburg CH
2020 - The Hockey Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London CA
2019 - Warning Signs, Alt+1000, La Brévine CH
2019 - Meltdown (curated by Klaus Thyman) Naturehistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna AT
2019 - Power Play: Hockey in Canadian Contemporary Art (curated by Jaclyn Meloche), AGW, Windsor CA
2018 - Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, Hong Kong CN
2016 - Matèria, Rome IT
2016 - Project-Pressure, Lotseninsel DE
2016 - Whyte Museum, Banff CA
2016 - Art Museum at U of T, Toronto CA
2015 - Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles US
2013 - Somerset House, London UK
2012 - New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe US
2010 - Clark / Oshin Gallery, Los Angeles US
2010 - Canadian World Expo Pavilion, Shanghai CN
2010 - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto CA
2009 - Museum London, London CA
2009 - Lishui Photographic Culture Festival, Lishui CN
2008 - Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton CA
2008 - Open Space, Victoria CA
2008 - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halfax CA
2007 - La ESQUINA, Kansas City US
2007 - White Flag Projects, St Louis US
2007 - Proyectos Monclava, Mexico City MX

Selected Awards

Selected Presentations

2018 - Artist Talk, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2015 - Landmark (panel discussion), Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne CH
2015 - Artist Talk, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto CA
2014 - Scott Conarroe: Landscape Studies (workshop), ArtBellwald, Bellwald CH
2013 - Reflexiva (panel discussion), Vila-Real ES
2012 - Scott Conarroe: Landscape Studies (workshop), MAD-Fac, Genk BE
2011 - Artist Talk, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto CA
2010 - Artist Talk, F + F Schule fur Kunst und Mediandesign, Zurich CH
2010 - Artist Talk, Villa Strauli, Winterthur CH
2010 - Artist Talk, ZHDK, Zurich CH
2010 - Artist Talk, Photo Alliance, San Francisco US
2008 - Artist Talk, University of Texas, Austin US
2008 - Artist Talk, Aceart Inc, Winnipeg CA
2008 - Artist Talk, San Jose State University, San Jose US
2007 - Artist Talk, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago US
2006 - Artist Talk, Sheridan Institute of Technology , Oakville CA
2005 - Artist Talk, New School University, New York US
2004 - Panel Discussion on Atlantic Canadian Photography, SMU, Halifax CA

Professional Positions

2017 - Visiting Artist, ECUAD, Vancouver BC
2016 - Phd Advisor, LUCA School of Arts in Flanders BE (ongoing)
2014 - Artist-In-Residence at ArtBellwald, Bellwald CH
2014 - Sessional Faculty, ECUAD, Vancouver CA
2013 - Sessional Faculty, ECUAD, Vancouver CA
2012 - Sessional Faculty, ECUAD, Vancouver CA
2011 - Canadian Forces Civilian Artist, Arctic Ocean
2011 - Artist-In-Residence, FLACC, Genk BE
2010 - Artist-In-Residence, Villa Strauli, Winterthur CH
2008 - Artist-In-Residence, Cerbex Corporation, Beijing CN
2008 - Artist-In-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse US
2007 - Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago US

Selected Collections

Art Gallery of Windsor
Bank of Montreal
Canada Council Art Bank
Carnegie Museum of Art
Stadt Zürich
Credit Suisse
Heenan Blaikie LLP
Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery
Light Work
Lishui Museum of Photography
Museum London
Mount Saint Vincent’s University Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada
Ryerson Image Centre
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
TD Bank Group
The Cleveland Clinic

Selected Readings

- Scott Conarroe: The Great Eastern by Loring Knoblauch Collector Daily, Maz 2020
- Scott Conarroe captures China’s transformative high-speed rail expansion in his book The Great Eastern by Dave McGinn, The Globe & Mail, Nov 2019
- Vanishing Glaciers by Project-Pressure: The Guardian, March, 2018
- Vanishing Glaciers Traces...: Sam Wainright; SCMP, March, 2018
- Scott Conarroe: By Sea: Ceve M Scott; PhotoEd, 2017
- Interview withScott Conarroe; photogrvphy, 2017
- Spotlight on Scott Conarroe: Craig D'Arville; FFotoimage, 2016
- The Walking Mountina CALAMITA/À: Gianpaolo Arena & Marina Caneve; 2016
- Photographer Captures Changing Landscape of North America: Colm O'Molloy; BBC, 2015
- Scott Conarroe: By Rail and By Sea: Jon Davies, Ciel Variable, 2015
- Climate Change in a New Light: Margaret Foster; The American Scholar, 2015
- Book of the Week: A Pick by Mary Goodwin; Photo-Eye, 2015
- Scott Conarroe. Frontière, Frontiera, Grenze: interview with David Pollock; Urbanautica, 2015
- An Artist's Epic Journey Across North America... :interview with Anika Burgess; Atlas Obscura, 2015
- Scott Conarroe: By Rail and By Sea: David Pollock; Urbanautica, 2015
- By Rail and By Sea: Scott Conarroe; Black Dog Publishing, 2015
- Interview with Emily Beauchamp and Adele Ruhdorfer; SOI Publications #2, 2015
- Verbindung von Moderne und Romantic; Regionalzeitung Aletsch-Goms, 2014
- China By Rail: Scott Conarroe Documents An Epic Public Works Project by Krystal Grow; TIME LightBox, 2014
- Laying Tracks and Tracking Change: An Interrogation of Nostalgia, National Identity and the Railway in Contemporary Photography by Reilly Bishop-Stall; Canadian Review of American Studies #44, 2014
- The United States (2003-2013) by Romke Hoogwaerts; MOSSLESS, 2013

readings continued
- Iron Rooster Redux: Scott Conarroe in China by Gary Michael Dault; Canadian Art, 2013
- On the Edge of North America by Julien Russel Brunet; The Walrus, 2013
- Scott Conarroe - By Rail by Darren Campion; The Incoherent Light, 2013
- Tracing Rail Lines with Scott Conarroe by Vince Cherniak; The London Yodeller, 2013
- More Than Meets the Eye: Recent Work by Scott Conarroe by Robert Bean; Prefix #25, 2012
- 10 Preguntas Para Scott Conarroe interview with Juande Jimenez; 400, 2011
- Phototalks: Scott Conarroe interview with David Pollock, Urbanautica, 2011
- Event Cities, Arquitetura Como Performance E A Obra De Scott Conarroe; Diego Fagundes, nimbu.com, 2011
- Scott Conarroe: By Rail (exhibition catalog). Art Gallery of Windsor, 2010
- James Patten's introduction for Scott Conarroe: By Rail (exhibition catalog). Art Gallery of Windsor, 2010
- The Iron Horse and the Silver Image; Robert Bean, AGW catalog for By Rail, 2010
- Scott Conarroe: Tracking the Parallel Universe of North American Rails; Lee Rodney, AGW catalog for By Rail, 2010
- Scott Conarroe Gets Railroaded; Laura Kenins, The Coast, 2010
- Place, Image, Journey: Scott Connaroe; Stephen Horne, Blackflash, 2009
- A Tapestry Of Landscapes: Gary Michael Dault; The Globe & Mail, Toronto CA, July 25, 2009
- Scott Conarroe: Photographing By Rail; Interview with Justin Min, Canadian Art Online, 2009
- Waiting for the Past; Robert Bean, catalog essay for Apertura: Cora Cluett & Scott Conarroe, KW/AG 2008
- In a Different Light: Harbour Photographs by Scott Conarroe; Ingrid Jenkner, MSVU Press, 2005