Robert Marchessault

Grants & Scholarships

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2000, Canada Council, Travel Grant

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1999, Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Individual $5K Grant

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1999, Artist in residence - Joshua Tree Ntl. Park, CA

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1997, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant

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1995. Ontario Arts Council $5000 Visual Arts Grant

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1995, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant

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1994, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant

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1993, Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant

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1993, Swedish Institute, Exhibition Assistance Grant with Åsa Kedja Ardin

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1992, Brucebo Foundation, Sweden, Exhibition Funding

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1990, Canadian Scandinavian Foundation, Brucebo Scholarship

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1981, 87, 90, Ontario Arts Council, Materials Assistance Grants

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1978, Elizabeth T. Greenshields, Painting Grant

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Cinema & TV

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Selected list.  Marchessault paintings are in many movies and TV shows, including the following :

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Always Be My Maybe, (2019). Production company‎: ‎Good Universe. American romantic comedy film, written by Ali Wong, Randall Park and Michael Golamco and directed by Nahnatchka Khan.

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NBC TV series Hannibal.
Gendel Bay 20x60", oil/panel, was featured in Hannibal season 3.

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LOVE HAPPENS, staring Jenifer Aniston and Aron Eckhart. Without spoiling the story; about mid-way through the movie the male lead character is looking behind paintings to find something.  It ends up behind a Marchessault painting.

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It – Chapter Two.  an American supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2017 film It. Both parts were adapted from the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film is produced by New Line Cinema, Vertigo Entertainment, and Rideback, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.  The Marchessault painting titled "Floating", 48x48" is part of the set design.

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Nov. 2009. A Marchessault painting appears in  hit TV sci fi series V The Visitors. The 2008 oil on panel titled "Nuncio" (24 x 68 inches) is shown in episode two in the the living room of Morris Chestnut played by Ryan Nichols.

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A Marchessault painting titled "Kalkasa" is part of the set design for some of the opening scenes in the movie "The Big Year", 2011, starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black

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Catalogues for sale

Marchessault exhibition catalogues may be purchased as print on demand from BLURB.

http://www.blurb.ca/search/site_search?search=marchessault

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In Print

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• curatedtastes.art  Two South Granville Exhibitions to Check Out ASAP! July 2020,  https://www.curatedtastes.art/blog/two-south-granville-gallery-exhibitions-to-see

• "Sometimes the architecture is built to accent the artwork",By CAROLA VYHNAK, Special to the Toronto Star,Thu., Oct. 18, 2018, Life & Homes section

• SADA, Feb 2020, Foster White Group Show, page 4 

• Spotlight: Robert Marchessault, Banter Magazine online , Available Nov 29, 2018 at https://bantermagazine.com/spotlight-robert-marchessault/

•2018, The Lorax Dreams, Carmen Victor, Blurb, ISBN 978-0-46-494661-8

•2017, The MockingBird, Ed 10, Charlottesville VA, pg. 4.

•2017, Roberta on the Arts, In The Galleries - West Chelsea, NY, http://www.robertaonthearts.com/InTheGalleries/idG45.html available August 3 2017
•2016, The Brain Project, Commemorative Catalogue, pg. 61, The Baycrest Foundation publications
•2014, Green Art: Trees Leaves and Roots, by E. Ashley Rooney and Margery Goldberg, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 232 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0764345487
•2014, El Palacio, Winter 2013, Vol. 118/No.4, pg. 5, Hunter Kirkland Contemporary.
•2012, Galleries West Magazine, Spring 2012 Issue, pg. 52, A Passion For Trees, By Janet Nichols. 

•2012, Creative Wonder: International Art Blog, Judy Felker, http://jfelker.blogspot.com/ available June 11
•2011, Tree Time, by Ann Corr, available Feb. 19, 2013 at http://amonikabyanyuvva.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/tree-time/
•2011, Globe & Mail, Focus Section, Aug. 13, (Marchessault's art is described on pg. 3), Into the woods: The enduring power of trees, By Sarah Hampson.  
• 2011, Unite With Art, Catalogue for www.uiniteforchildren.ca, Robert Marchessault, page 33.
•2010, My World: A Visit With Kent Lovelace. By Bonnie Gangelhoff, Southwest Art Magazine, April 2010, pg. 65 (in reference to artists admired by Lovelace).
•2009, Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Studio and Plein Air Practice. By Mitchell Albala, Watson Guptill / Random House, 196 pages, ISBN 978-8230-3220-4
•2008, Harvest of Light, Robert Marchessault: Paintings 2007-2008, Bau-Xi Galleries, Foster/White Galleries, 80 pages, Ontario, ISBN 978-0-9811517-0-0 
•2008, Unite With Art, Catalogue for www.uiniteforchildren.ca, Robert Marchessault, page 55.
•2008, Hozho, Marchessault Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 978-2-922173-84-0 
•2006, Luminoso, Marchessault Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 2-922173-49-6
•2006, Canadian House & Home Magazine, May 2006, pgs. 92-94, Artist File: Ontario Painter Robert Marchessault's Stark, Seductive Landscapes, by Betty Anne Jordan. 
•2005, Art With Heart, Auction Catalogue, pg. 75. Casey House Foundation, Toronto.
•2005, Edmonton Journal, May 27, 2005, What's On section, Old Trees may be steeped in symbolism, but they exist only in artist's imagination, by Gilbert A. Bouchard.
•2004, Robert Marchessault - New Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. ISBN 2-922173-26-7
•2003, Ephemeros, Paintings by Robert Marchessault, 16 pages, colour.
•2003, Edmonton Journal, July 18, 2003, page E6, The Visual Arts, Marchessault lets viewer fill in details, by Gilbert A. Bouchard
•2003, Elizabeth Greenshields Grantees News, Volume 8, Issue 2, Oct. 9, 2003, pg.4 & 8.
•2003, Scene Magazine, April 17, 2003, pg. 24, Stillness prevails at Michael Gibson Gallery, by Tess Parkinson
•2002, Social Consciousness in Canadian Art, 2002, Milena Placentile, Assistant Curator Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, available online Dec. 14, 2006 www.shintai-z.com/statements/scCS.pdf 
•2002, Focus Santa Fe (magazine), Aug/Sept 2002, The Arts: A Skyward Gaze, pgs. 44-47, by Gusie Fontleroy (illustrated article about the work of Robert Marchessault)
•2001, Desert Sun (Palm Springs), August 29, 2001 - Section: Desert Today, Painting With PASTA, Adam Graham
•2001, International Artist, Dec/Jan 2001, issue 16, pg.120, Master Painters of the World, Canada Showcase, Jeane Duffy.
•2001, Brentwood (Magazine) (California), Feb., 2001, What's Hanging - pg 87. "Robert Marchessault - Visions From The Fast Lane"
•2000, Toronto Star, Jan. 6, p. G5, "Gallery exposes 2000 bugs".
•2000, Globe & Mail, Jan. 8'00, p. R10, "Gallery Going - 2000 Bugs at the Bau-Xi", Gary Michael Dault
•2000, Public, No. 18, ISSN 0845-4450 published by Public Access, University of Toronto
•1999, London Free Press, April 18, 1999, Sec. D, pg. 1, Lost in Landscapes, by Sandra Coulson.
•1998, Now Magazine, August 7, 1998, Working drawings produce finished works, by Deirdre Hanna.
•1997, The Illusion of Silence, by Brian Meeham, for a solo exhibition at Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto. 
•1995, Configurations, by Rhona Wenger, exhibitions currator, published by Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.
•1995, Art Bulletin, Feb/Mar '95, No. 61 Vol.12, ISSN 0790-5858, pg.26
•1993, Gotlands Allenda, Sept. 18, '93, Kultur, pg. 10, "Dandka keramiker, kanadensiska målare och ryska fotografer" by Helene Körner.
•1993, Toronto Star, May 13, 1993, "What's On", pg. W08, reproduction of painting "Duckweed & Beaverpond".
•1992, Kanadensiskt, Brucebo Stipendiater från Kanada 1972-92 by Hanne Ödin, published by Gotland's Konstmuseum, Sweden
•1992, Gotlands Tidningar, Sept. 23, '92, Kultur, pg. 12, "Klintar - i Kanada och på Gotland" by Stina L. Nilsson.
•1992, Two Escarpments, by R. Marchessault, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
•1992, Sun Times, (Owen Sound) Sept. 12, '92, "Exhibition Combines Two Worlds" by Mary Baxter.
•1992, Gotlands Tidningar, Aug. 1, '92, "Ett nöte som fortsätter att bära frukt".
•Gotlands Allehanda, Aug. 1, '92, Kultur, pg. 11, "Brucebo stipendiat 20 - årsjubilerar".
•A History Of Interventions, monograph by Stephen Hogbin,pg. 17, 1991, The Ginger Press ISBN 0-921773-14-5
•1991, Political Landscapes No. 2, Sacred And Secular Sites by Stephen Hogbin & Blake Debassige, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-9290021-10-X
•1991, The Globe & Mail, April 12, '91, Arts Section, "Art About", by Kate Taylor.
•1991, Red White & Black, by R. Marchessault, published by the Tom Tomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-92902-09-6
•1991, Sun Times, (Owen Sound), Feb. 2, '91, "Video Art Offers Link", by Jim Algie.
•1991, Imprint Magazine, Jan. 11, '91, "Visions and Inventions", by Shanon Reynolds.
•1990, Notes From Eden, by Janice Andreae, published by The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery ISBN 0-929021-06-1
•1991, The Durham Chronicle, (Durham), May 8, '91, pg. A3, "Works Represent Diverse Origins Of Artists" by James Gillespie.
•1991, Sun Times, (Owen Sound), Feb. 2, '91, "Artist Expresses Language Of The Land" by Jim Algie
•1991, London Magazine, Oct. '91, pg. 86, Gallery Section, "Robert Marchessault , Back Road"

•1990, Art Gallery Exhibitions Catalogue, University of Waterloo
•1990, Now Magazine,(Toronto), June 7, '90, pg. 142, Arts Section,"Winds Of Change" by Deirdre Hanna
•1990, Sun Times, June 7, '90, "Chatsworth Artist..." by Jim Algie.
•1990, Sun Times, April 20, '90, "Exhibition Touches On Contemporary Life" by Jim Algie.
•1989, Political Landscapes No. 1, by Stephen Hogbin, published by The Saugeen Press ISBN 0-929021-45-5
•1981, Robert Marchessault, Landscapes 1978 - 1981, by Allen Elder, published by the Burlington Cultural Centre
•1979, Concordia University Magazine, Sept. '79, "Toronto's Easle Belt" by Eric Johnson
 

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