Vancouver, BC, Canada b. 1975
Education
University of British Columbia, 1997
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 — Shattered Glass, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne
2019 — Five Pictures, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2018 — Scott McFarland, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — Sky Leaks, Fort Gansevoort, New York
2017 — Thinking About a Picture, Division Gallery, Montreal QC
2016 — Duration Photographs, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — Scott McFarland: Shacks, Snow, Streets, Shrubs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
2014 — Simultaneous Contrasts, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2012 — Winter Retreating Spring Offence, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 — Sans Souci, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — Scott McFarland, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2009 — Sugar Shack, Union Gallery, London
2009 — Scott McFarland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 — Scott McFarland, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2009 — A Cultivated View, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2008 — New Works, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2007 — Works on Paper, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC and Toronto ON
2007 — Works on Paper, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2007 — Works on Paper, Union Gallery, London
2005 — Another Photography, Regan Projects, Los Angeles
2005 — Analyzing Trapping Inspecting, Union Gallery, London
2004 — Gardens, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC and Toronto ON
2003 — Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2003 — Boathouse, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2002 — Scott McFarland, Sharon Essor Gallery, London
2002 — Photonomena, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2002 — A Weird Science, Evan Lee and Scott McFarland, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 — Cabin, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2000 — Scott McFarland and Owen Kydd, Anodyne Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 — Cabin, Torstrasse 102, Berlin
1998 — Scott McFarland, OR Gallery, Vancouver BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 — A Handful of Dust: from the Cosmic to the Domestic, National Center of Photography and Images, Taiwan
2021 — Ecologies: A Song For Our Planet, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
2020 — A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto ON
2019 — A Handful of Dust, curated by David Campany, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2016 — Trove: A View of Toronto in 50 of its Treasures, Luminato Festival, Hearn Generating Station, Toronto ON
2016 — About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
2016 — Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto ON
2015 — Eye to Eye, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — Cindy Sherman Meets Dzunuk’wa: From the Michael and Inna O’Brian Collection, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
2014 — You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON
2013 — Installation alongside The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim, 1910-1918, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
2013 — Transitions, presented by No. 9 Contemporary Art and the Environment, Toronto International Airport, Toronto ON
2012 — Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2012 — 20 YEARS, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 — Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON
2011 — Capture, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2011 — Our Origins, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2011 — The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2011 — Down the Garden Path, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2011 — SALON, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2010 — Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 — Clark & Faria Presents, Toronto ON
2008 — Garden of Eden, Statdtische Galerie, Bietighem-Bissingen, Germany
2007 — Garden of Eden, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2007 — Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2007 — Re-Envisioning Habitat, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON
2007 — New Photography 2007, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 — The Constructed Image: Photographic Culture, Museum or Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON
2007 — Hybrid, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto ON
2007 — Crack the Sky, Biennale de Montreal 2007, Montreal QC
2007 — Sound and Vision, Centre culturel canadien, Paris
2006 — Grid Matrix, Midred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
2006 — Landscape Photographs Recent Acquisitions, Musuem of Modern Art, New York
2006 — A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2006 — Sound and Vision, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal QC
2006 — Boys with Flowers, Western Bridge, Seattle
2006 — Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2006 — Clickdoubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany / Bozar, Brussels catalogue
2005 — Real Pictures, Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2005 — Buccolica, Wallspace Gallery, New York
2005 — Intertidal, Art from Vancouver, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2005 — The Space of Making, Neuer Berliner Kunstverien, Berlin / Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Kunstsammlungen der Stadtischen Museen Zwickau, Stadtiche Galerie Waldraiburg, Germany
2005 — Variations on the Picturesque, Kicthener Waterloo Art Gallery
2004 — Fabulation, curated by Marie Fraser, VOX, Montreal QC
2004 — Everything Gone Green, Photography and the Garden., National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England
2004 — Important Canadian Art, Zeihersmith Gallery, New York
2003 — Various Properties, Recent Acquisitions, morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2003 — A Proposal for an Exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2002 — elsewhere, WBD, Berlin
2002 — Imago Exhibition, Salamanca, Spain
2001 — Roy Arden, Scott McFarland, Howard Ursuliak, Stephen Waddell, Jeff Wall, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2001 — These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 — Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 — After Photography, curated by Roy Arden, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
1998 — Edgecity, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
Selected Bibliography
2018 — Scott McFarland, ArtForum, May 2018 by Ara Osterweil
2016 — Luminato’s Trove Shines Light on Toronto’s Little Known Treasures, Globe and Mail, June 3, 2016, by James Adams
2014 — Toronto Photographer McFarland Focuses on the Medium, Toronto Star, May 5 2014, by Murray Whyte
2014 — Variations on a Scene: photographer Scott McFarland’s new AGO show, Globe and Mail, May 2014, by James Adams
2006 — Grid Matrix (catalogue), Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, St Louis
2006 — Clickdoubleclick (catalogue), Haus der Kunst, Munich
2005 — Real Pictures, Photographs from the collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft
2005 — Intertidal (catalgoue), MuHKA, Belgium
2005 — Scott McFarland, ArtReview, April 2005, by Sarah Harrison
2005 — The Empire Grows Back, Broder Crossings no. 94, Summer 2005, by Lee Henderson
2005 — The Space of Making, Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Aus Kanada, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, by Marie-Josee Jean
2005 — Doubtful Realisms and Paradisiacal Gains, Image and Imagination, Montreal, by Martha Langford
2005 — Artist’s Project, Image and Inscription, an Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography, YYZ Books, edited by Robert Bean
2005 — Garden Designs, Source 42, Spring 2005, by Neil Shirreff
2004 — Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Aus Kanada (catalogue), NBK, Berlin
2004 — Artist’s Project, Canadian Art, Summer 2004
2004 — Ten Artists who Rock, Maclean’s Magazine January 12, 2004 by Sharon Doyle Driedger
2004 — Important Canadian Art (catalogue), ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, by Lee Henderson
2004 — Nothing is Perfect in Shangri-La, the Globe and Mail, November 19 2004, by Sarah Milroy
2004 — Nocturnes, Contemporary no. 62, 2004, by Sarah Thornton
2004 — More Plant Matters, Source 39, Summer 2004, by Rae Ines
2004 — Everything’s Gone Green: Photography and the Garden, Archive, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Archive Publication, by Penny Skerrett
2003 — Coastal Cabin (catalogue), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2003 — Photographs have a Cape Fear quality, The Globe and Mail, September 20 2003, by Gary Michael Dault
2003 — Photographic Shows Work in Remembrance of Things Past, The Toronto Star, February 27, 2003 , by Peter Goddard
2003 — A Proposal for an Exhibition, Canadian Art, Spring 2003, by Lorissa Sengara
2003 — Wall and Void, Modern Painters Magazine, Summer 2003, by Michael Turner
2002 — Imago 2002 (catalogue), Salamanca, Spain
2002 — A Proposal for an Exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, by Claudia Beck
2001 — Onward and Upward, the Globe and Mil, August 13, 2001 by Sarah Milroy
2001 — Art of Global Importance, the Vancouver Sun, May 5 2001, by Michael Scott
2001 — Garden Optics, CV Photo, no 54. Montreal, by Christopher Brayshaw
2001 — Cabin, C Magazine, Winter 2001, by Christopher Brayshaw
2000 — Artist’s Project, Adbusters no. 29
2000 — After Photography, Canadian Art, December 2000, by Roy Arden
1999 — Late Light, Canadian Art, Fall 1999, by Michael Scott
1999 — After Photography (catalgoue), Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver BC, by Roy Arden
1999 — Reticence in Photography is Good, interview with Jeff Wall, The Globe and Mail, November 6, 1999, by Blake Gopnik
1999 — Artist’s Project, National Post, January 13 1999
1998 — Edgecity (catalogue), Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC, by Christopher Brayshaw
Catalogues and Publications
2015 — Baker, George, Ann Goldstein, Matzan Michael, and Shaun Caley Regen, Regen Projects 25. New York: Prestel
2014 — Scott, Kitty, Urs Stahel and James Welling Scott McFarland: Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs, Toronto : The Art Gallery of Ontario & Koenig Books
2012 — Anderson, Heather, Andrea Kunard, Christine Lalonde, Jonathan Shaughnessy and Ann Thomas, Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, published by National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 — Wolf, Sylvia, The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2010, pg. 128
2009 — Kunard, Andrea, Scott McFarland: A Cultivated View, Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
2009 — Grant Arnold; Picture Work, pg 9-35, Martin Barnes; The Sky in Sympathy, pg 77-89, Vincent Honore; Time Surfacing, pg 60-61, Eva Respini; New Hybrids, pg 46-51, Shep Steiner; The Responsibility of Photography, pg 93-105, Scott McFarland The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2007 — Baerwald, Wayne, Crack the Sky: La Biennale de Montreal, Montreal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2006 — Weski, Thomas, ed. Click Doubleclick: The Documentary Factor, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walter König
2006 — Eckmann, Sabine and Koepnick, Lutz, Grid <> Matrix, St. Louis, MO: Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, Washington University
2006 — Demos, TJ, Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography, London: Phaidon Press Limited
2006 — Aquin, Stéphanie, David Moos, and Kitty Scott, Sound and Vision: Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art, Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art
2005 — Bogusky, Alf, Karen Henry, and Kare Love, Varations on the Picturesque, Kitchner-Waterloo, ON: Kitchehner-Waterloo Art Gallery
2005 — Jean, Marie-Josée, The Space of Making, ZeitgenossischeFotokunstAusKanada, Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
2005 — Roelstraete, Dieter and Scott Watson, eds. Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Antwerp:
MuHKA, Belgium
2005 — Langford, Martha ed. Doubtful Realisms and Paradisiacal Gains, Image & Imagination, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
2005 — Bean, Robert ed. Image and Inscription, An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography, Toronto: YYZ Books
2005 — Grant, Arnold. Real Pictures, Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery
2004 — Henderson, Lee, Important Canadian Art, New York: Ziehersmith Gallery
2003 — Shier, Reid, Kydd, Owen, Woods, Bill, Coastal Cabin, Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery
2002 — Imago 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2002 — Beck, Claudia, A Proposal for an Exhibition, Vancouver: Monte Clark Gallery
1999 — Arden, Roy, After Photography, Vancouver: Monte Clark Gallery
Collections
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
Canadian Museum of Photography, Ottawa ON
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Glenbow Museum, Calgary AB
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
JM Barnicke Gallery, Harthouse, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mendal Art Gallery, Saskatoon SK
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal QC
Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal QC
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
National Museum of Photography & Film, Bradford, England
Oakville Gallery, Ontario, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN