Libby Hague
Solo exhibitions

My Story of Sublimation, SNAP, Edmonton, 2023
Every Heart can Grow Bigger: make room, O.D.D. Gallery, KIAC, Dawson City, Yukon, 2020
Every Heart can Grow Bigger, Gallery Stratford, curated by Angela Brayham, 2019
Wider than the sky, Loop Gallery, Toronto, April 2018
Your words and mine, Open Studio Print Sales Gallery, Toronto, 2018
The past is never over: A Libby Hague Retrospective, Art Gallery of Mississauga, curated by Kendra Ainsworth,
Pattern Recognition, Loop Gallery, Toronto 2016-17
Inventing Hope, Idea Exchange, Cambridge Ontaior, 2016 - curated by Iga Janik
We're not out of the woods yet, Martha Street, Winnipeg, 2015
Walk With Me, Centre Clark, Montreal, 2015
Alone Together, Loop Gallery, 2014/15
Family Dynamics, Verso Gallery, Toronto, 2014
Synchromesh, Loop Gallery, Toronto 2013
Be Brave! We are in this together, YYZ, Toronto 2012
Gravity Drawings: more light:less darkness, 2012 Loop Gallery Toronto,
Sympathetic Connections, installation in the Young Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2011
We were young and still believed in heaven, Galerie Circulaire, Montreal 2010
tiens-moi très fort, La Centrale, Montreal 2010
Safety net, Loop, Toronto 2010
being natural, Durham Art Gallery 2010
Double Vision, Loop Toronto, 2009
One step at a time, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2009
Cut/ close to home, Robert Langen Gallery, Waterloo , On. 2008
Rehearsal for everything, Visual Art Centre, Clarington, 2008
Vent du Nord, ARPRIM, Montreal, 2008
Rehearsal for Disaster: The dream of the red room, Windsor Printmaker's Forum, Windsor, 2008
Ice Storm, HAmilton Print Studio, part of a series "Not Etched in Stone" curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer, 2008
Martian Odyssey: I will not be sad in this world* Loop Toronto, 2007
Martian Odyssey: Home away from home Loop Toronto, 2006
Everything needs everything, Engramme, Quebec City, 2006
Everything needs everything, Open Studio, Toronto, 2005
Everything needs everything, Loop, Toronto, 2005
How to forget , Forest City, London, Ont. 2003
children see everything, Snap, Edmonton 2003
mini crisisOpen Studio, Toronto, Ont. 2002
excuses, excuses, Gallery 44, Toronto, 2002
?love? (insomnia(island), a*level, Toronto, 2002
3 Ways into town, Vu, Quebec City 2000
Persistence of dreams, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, 1999
How to make happiness, Articule, Montreal, Quebec 1998
lost + found in slow motion, Gallery 788, Toronto 1997
What difference does John Doe make?, Station Gallery, Whitby 1997
Libby Hague presents the Outrageous Piano Duck, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto 1997
How to make happiness, Gallery 788. Toronto (catalogue) 1996
Close to home, Gallery 788, Toronto, (catalogue) 1995
It isn't enough to be fast Gallery 788, Toronto (catalogue) 1994
Life's Feast: 2 Against 1, Owens Gallery, Sackville, N.B. 1994
Life's Feast: mosaic, Windsor Printmaker's Forum 1993
Life's Feast: beginnings, Gallery 788, Toronto 1993
La Vie Interieure Engramme Galerie, Quebec City 1992
Recurring Patterns, Extension Gallery, Toronto 1992
Recent Work, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto 1989
Garden/Self Portrait, Burnaby Art Gallery, B.C. 1988
A Winding Path, Glenhurst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford 1988
Life Without a Heartbeat, Open Studio, Toronto, 1986
Landscape Paintings, 65 Bellwoods, Toronto, 1985
Recent Landscape Painting, Lacemaker's Gallery, Toronto, 1984
Recent Graphic Work, Sword St. Gallery, Toronto, 1981
Libby Hague: Graphic Work, Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, 1980
Paintings, Yaneff Gallery, Toronto 1977
Paintings, Wells Gallery, Ottawa 1976
Quilts, Boswell's Gallery, Kingston, 1973
Quebec Landscapes, Boswell's Gallery, Kingston 1972
Libby Hague, S.G.W.U., Montreal 1971

Selected group exhibitions
ANTHEM : Expressions of Canadian Identity, International Artist's Book Biennale, curated by Derek Besant, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, 2022, Canadian Language Museum, Toronto 2023 (catalogue), 2024 Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
Translunar Formations, the moon via Artificial Museum
Movement Toronto <>Vienna, curator Madi Piller, Pix Media Collective + The Artificial Museum, Vienna 2021and Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, 08/2022
International Print Triennial Krakow, Proto-Types, curated by Derek Besant 2021
The ART of Staying at Home: Artists in the Time of Corona, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt , 2020
3rd IAPA Printmaking Biennale, curated by Mark Bovey, China 2020
Karachi Biennale, "On this Wondrous Sea", 2019 Pakistan, curated by Muhammad Zeeshan
Heart can Grow Bigger, CMS Projects Artsy, July - August 2019
Intervention: 31 Women Painters, curated by Harold Klunder, McClure Gallery, Montreal 2018
Departures - Masterpieces of Canadian Printing, curated by Walter Jules, Ardell Gallery of Modern Art, Bankok. 2017
IPCNY - New Prints 2017/ summer, juror Katherine Bradford
Kyoto Hanga, Kyoto, 2016 curated by Liz Ingram and April Dean (also U of A Museums 2017, Art Gallery of
Regina, Sept., 2017)Habitat, part of Fabrications, curated by Liz Wylie, Kelowna Art Gallery, 2017 (catalogue)
A Little bit of Infinity: an exhibition of International Print Art, curated by Matthew Hills, 2016 - 17, University of Alberta Museums
Habitat: Our world;our chance in All Right Already, Harbourfront, Toronto, curated by Patrick Macaulay
Before and Beyonfd the Image, Kro Art Gallery, (Tricky Women) Vienna, 2016, curated by Madi Piller
Build...build better, Gifts and Occupations Collective at the Zion Schoolhouse with Yael Brotman, Mathew Brower and Penelope Stewart, September 2015 with publication to follow
RCA New Inductees Exhibition, BEAUX-ARTS DES AM�RIQUES GALLERY, Montreal, 2015
Biennale internationale d'estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivi�res, 2015 and 2013 (touring exhibition selected� by Catherine de Braekeleer)�
A Commitment to Washi, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto and Kochi Okyaku Ginza, Tokyo 2013�
Xylography - Stylistic Matrix, Galati Visual Art Museum, Romania 2012
IPCNY New Prints NYC: January 2016, 2012, NYC. selected by Shahzia Sikander; 2011 and University of Texas, 2012
Access the Arts: redefining Arts Accessiblity, curated by Alisha Linseman, Milton Centre for the Arts, 2012
Collier de macaronis pour maman, curated by Cyb�le Pilon, Studio XX, Montreal 2012
Miner for a Heart, curated by Yael Brotman as part of IMPACT 7, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
International Paper Art Exhibition and Symposium, Chung Shan National Gallery, Taiwan, catalogue, 2011
L�Arte E Il Torchio Invitational International Biennial, 2011, curated by Derek Besant, The Civic Art Museum, Cremona, Italy 2011 (catalogue)
A-Game, Richman Gallery, Park School of Baltimore
Too cool for school, Harbourfront, Toronto, , curated by Sally McKay
Before and After, Whitby Station Gallery, 2010, curated by Olexander Wlasenko
6th Novosibirsk International Graphic Biennial, Russia, Canadian particpation curated by Mark Bovey, fall 2009
Taccuino, Bottega del Tintoretto, Venice, upcoming 2009 (?)
Sense of Place, University of Toronto Art Centre 2009, catalogue , touring
Edmonton Print International, 2008
Hot and Cold Running Water; Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, part of the World Washi Summit, 2008
Flex, Loop part of the World Washi Summit, Toronto, 2008
Voir Grande, organized by Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, 2008, 2006
Where She's at, York Quay Gallery, Nov. 2006
In Cahoots, Ithaca NY, 2006
Yael Brotman: Libby Hague - Open images: open text, MSVU, HAlifax, 2006
Yael Brotman: Libby Hague - Open images: open narrative, Eastern Edge St. John's NFLD 2006
To the rescue, Elora Center for the Arts, Elora, 2005
Cut out, Leonardo Gallery, 2005
Modern Day Myths , Harbourfront, Toronto, 2005
Photosynthesis, *new*, Toronto, April 30, 2005
Printmakers - leaving their mark, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton 2005*
Invocation, Edward Day Gallery,(Great Canadian Printmaking Competition, third prize) Toronto 2004
Open Studio Exhibition , Galeria Juan Pardo Heeren, Lima, Peru 2004
Good Medicine, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, 2003
Les Fleurs du mal, le Jardin Saint-Roch, (organized by Vu ) Quebec City 2003
when I get up in the morning + go to work, Struts Gallery (book) 2003
NorthWest Print Council Exhibition, Portland Oregon 2003
Press, San Antonio, Texas 2002
Threshold, Edward Day Gallery, To., (Great Canadian Print competition) 2002
Songs from the Waterfront, York Quay Gallery at Harborfront, 2002
Rock, Scissors, Paper, Case Studies, Harborfront 2001
Transmedia2000, video billboard installation, Yonge & Eglington, Toronto also seen at www.year01.com/transmedia2000/index.com 2000
Menagerie, Open Studio, Toronto 2000 Search, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto 2000*Multiplicity Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario 2000
Charivari ..Mythologie des lieux,Symposium and exhibition, St. Jerome, Quebec, September 1999
Approach Archive Inc., Toronto, 1999
Intimate Impressions: Art from Pan America Site GALLERY , Winnipeg 1999
some subtle sympathy, Great Canadian Print Competition, (honourable mention) The Edward Day Gallery, Toronto 1999
From Hairbread to Wishing Machines, Women Artists's Books from the AGO Library, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1999
Wood Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound 1998
Sightlines, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1997
Ljubljana Biennial, former Yugoslavia, 1997
ES 97 Tijuana, Salon internacional de estandartes, Mexico 1997
Face (O. S. 25 Anniversary Exhibition), York Quay Gallery, Toronto 1996
Summer Group Show, Gallery 788, Toronto 1995
Think Big, Erindale Gallery, University of Toronto 1995
It Better Be Beautiful, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 1995
A Toronto Decade, Market Gallery, Toronto 1995
CAN:NYC, Viridian Gallery, N.Y.C., N.Y. 1995
Angelic Renaissance, Joseph O Carrier Art Gallery, Toronto 1994
Print Exhibition, University of Western Ontario Art Gallery 1994
Material Voices, Access Art Now, Toronto, 1994
Troisieme Triennale Mondiale d'Estampe, France (catalogue) 1994
Bunch of Printmakers, Workscene Gallery, Toronto 1994
Merging 16, Gallery 788, Toronto, Ontario 1994
Group Show, Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1993
A Show of Cats, Prior Editions, Vancouver, B.C. 1993
New Work, Gallery 788, Toronto, Ontario 1993
The Solander Box Opened, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1993
Graveurs d'Amerique, Alma, Que. (catalogue) 1993
The ink kisses the paper, St. Petersberg, Russia (catalogue) 1993
Toronto Impressions, Historical and Contemporary Prints from the City's
Collection, The Market Gallery, Toronto, 1993
Printing and Process, Extension Gallery, Toronto (catalogue) 1992
Multiples, Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental, Toronto 1992
Carmichael, Glicksman, Hague, Ostoff, West, Wilson, Gallery Moos, To. 1992
Faculty Exhibition, Erindale College Gallery, Mississauga, Ont. 1991
In Red, Fundraising Gala, Extension Gallery, Toronto, Ont. 1991
Open Studio, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Toronto (catalogue) 1991
Eight Toronto Printmakers, Brampton Public Art Gallery, Extension 1991
Eight Toronto Printmakers, Manitoba Printmakers Gallery 1990
Artistes des Ameriques, Jonquières, Que. (catalogue) 1989
Living Impressions, Art Gallery of Hamilton (catalogue) 1989
Chronicle/Symbol, Memorial University, Nfld. (catalogue) 1988
Open Studio, Estonia, Soviet Union 1988
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Three Artist Show 1987
Printshops of Canada, Macdonald Stuart Gallery, (catalogue) 1987
Cardiff, Earle, Hague, Manning Gallery, Toronto, 1986
Interiors/Exteriors, Market Gallery, Toronto, 1985
Private Image, A.R.C. Toronto & Public Image Gallery N.Y., 1985
Four Canadian Landscape Painters, Koffler Gallery, Toronto 1985
Book & Sequence Exhibit, Gallery 44, Toronto, 1982
O.S. Ten Years, Art Gallery of Hamilton, (catalogue) 1982
The Big Print, Art Gallery at Harborfront, 1982
Print Biennale, Art Gallery of Bradford, England, 1981
Gallery Pascal, Toronto 1979
Well's Gallery, Ottawa 1977
RCA Spring Exhibit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1971

Installations

Simple Gifts in Over the Horizon, curated by Rebecca Travis, Open Studio, Toronto 2021
Pink City, Green Branches Revisited, installation with Yael Brotman, Open Studio, 2020
Pink City, Green Branches; installation with Yael Brotman, Impact 10, Santander, Spain, August 2018
Monster child, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche , Toronto 2013
Still life on earth, Mon Ton Window, Toronto with Rochelle Rubinstein, 2010
Too much and too little, IndexG, Toronto, 2009
Cut / close to home, video installation, part of Fly-by-night" curated by Chris Mitchell Nuit Blanche 2007
Paradise Apartments: Waiting for Skylarks, March 2007 @ Ho Tam's window in Victoria
Love Letters from the Paradise Apartments @ Rupen's Natural Light Gallery, Toronto, Feb. 2007
Avalanche! Off the Map, curated by Antonia Landcaster Dec. 2006
how to remember (paradise) , Harborfront, Toronto (upcoming) 2003
q + a, Fly Gallery, Toronto, (upcoming) Ont. 2003
something's missing, Fly Gallery, Toronto, Ont. 2002
my neighbour is crazy Natural Light Window Gallery, Toronto 2002
Whirligig Garden, (Artists garden project) Harborfront, Toronto, Canada 2002
Relax....try Natural Light Window Gallery, Toronto 2001
Whirligig, Natural Light Window Gallery, Toronto 2000
Careful baby Natural Light Window Gallery, Toronto, October, 1999
Dream at Queen's Park artist's window, Pages Bookstore, Toronto, April 1999
Watch Out! Natural Light Window Gallery, Toronto, 1998
An Amazing Group of Artists, A Space vitrines & Open Studio, Member's Gallery & the sidewalk between them, Toronto 1995
Untitled Installation, Red Head Gallery Showcase, Toronto 1995
Nakedness is also a disguise, (installation) Darling Showcases, Toronto, 1991

Bibliography since 2006

Made to Measure, Profile on Libby Hague and Yael Brotman by Derek Besant, Printmaking Today, Spring 2022
Hearts along the shore, Meg Walker, exhibition brochure, ODD Gallery, K.I.A.C., Dawson City, 2020
The Friday Times, Pakistan, Zehra Hamdani Mirza (https://www.thefridaytimes.com/the-price-of-cynicism/)
Thethirdpole.net (https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/2019/11/15/ecology-power-and-art-at-the-karachi-biennale/)
ArtNow, Contemporary Art of Pakistan, (http://www.artnowpakistan.com/highlighting-the-environment-kb19-karachi-zoo-vm-art-gallery/)
Terence Dick, Exhibition Brochure, Libby Hague: Every Heart Can Grow Bigger, Gallery Stratford, 2019 Dreaming While Running: Libby Hague's Human Arcade, Shannon Foskett, https://centred.ca/dreaming-while-running-libby-hagues-human-arcade/
Libby Hague:The Past is Never over, Kendra Ainsworth, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2017
Teamwork...Terry Bridge, https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/teamwork-and-large-ladders-key-to-elaborate-new-exhibit
Intervention 31 Women painters, McClure Gallery, 2018, ABC Art books Canada, 9781926492179Terence Dick, Akimbo, Hit list 2018, http://www.akimbo.ca/hitlist/?id=449
Fabrications, Gary Pearson, Bordercrossings Vol.36 #3, pg.130 - 131
Build...build better, Gifts + Occupations Collective, catalogue ISBN 978-0-9877540-0-4
Anna Jane McIntyre, blog interview http://dontarguewithghosts.blogspot.ca/
"Zion's Class Act", Fran Schechter, Now Magazine, 9/23/2015
"Get lost, kid" by Stephen Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg free Press, May 21, 2015
"Gravity's Rainbow: A visit with Libby Hague" by Gary Michel Dault, Canadian Art, summer 2014
'All that Glows" Kathleen Higgins, Visual Arts News, vol. 36 #2, fall 2014
Elissa Barnard, "Human condition, animated", Chronical Herald, Halifax, May 9, 2014 "Glow, not Gold", 2013,
Conundrum Press Co-publication with The Centre for Art Tapes, ISBN 1-894994-78-7 Terence Dick, "Libby
Hague", (review), Bordercrossings issue #127
Michelle Jacques, "Libby Hague: The Thread That We Follow" http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/2012/07/libbyhague-
the-thread-that-we-follow-by-michelle-jacques/
Terence Dick, Libby Hague at YYZ, July 10th, 2012. http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=555
Sholem Krishtalka , A Zoo of Hues http://www.torontostandard.com/culture/a-zoo-of-hues
Ortansa Moraru, "Libby Hague, Be Brave! We are in this together" Observatorul, Romania, page 11- May 15
Yael Brotman, Miner for a Heart: An Open Studio Curatorial Project IMPRINT, Volume 47 Number 1 (2012),
Print Council of Australia, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Windsor Printmaker Forum interview with Thomas Mayberry, 2012 http://wpfstudio.org/
World of Threads interview http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/044_libby_hague_11.html
RM VAughan, The Exhibitionist, Libby Hague at Loop, Globe and Mail, June 5, 2010
Leah Sandals, National Post, Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubenstein at Loop, June 4, 2010
Gary M. Dault, Globe and Mail, Libby Hague at Loop, July 11, 2009
John Armstrong, Libby Hague: A Step into Darkness, 2009, http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/
2009/06/04/libby-hague/
Sally McKAy, Thinking Animal: an essay to accompany Libby Hague's installation, One Step At A Time http://
www5.mississauga.ca/agm/Exhibitions/PastExh2009.htm
Leah Sandals, Apocalypse, Art & Athleticism, http://torontoist.com/2009/05/apocalypse_art_athleticism.php
Sheila Olley, "Artist takes it one step at a time" Mississauga News , April 1, 2009
Alexia Tala, Installations and Experimental Printmaking, A&C Black, London, 2009
Peter Goddard, Toronto Star, Signs of still-life on Mars, 9/11/ 2006, H11.
Betina Forget, North wind, Belgo Report (web journal) May 7, 2008
Gary M Dault, Globe and Mail, Exhibit A Otherworldly Delights, 15/11/2006,
Alexandre Motulsky-Falardeau, Voir Quebec, A Cheval entre le bien et le Mal, 3/8/2006, pg.20
Audrey Nicoll, Visual Arts News, Vol.28 #2, 2006, Passion Play: Libby Hague and Yael Brotman (cover story)
Nathalie Cote, Le Soleil, La Chute 12/8/06, pg. A16

Video and animation

Amy is looking for Jake Paradise svhs and vhs, 10:10 min.
Distribution : V Tape, 401 Richmond St. W. # 452, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8
tel. (416) 351 1317 fax (416) 351 1509 / www.vtape.org / wandav@vtape.org
Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video, Victoria BC (fall) 1999

Fresh screening at YYZ Gallery, Toronto 2000
CDVDO, Webster U. Film Series, St. Louis, USA 2000

Lily Yung: Alchemy ( Beta SP, mini DV, VHS, 12:12 min.) 2000

Parade: 2 part looped projection for wall or monitor VHS, Beta SP, and split screen projection 2000
installation in the group exhibition Songs of the Waterfront, Harborfront, Toronto 2002

Bang bang(Beta SP, DV 4:36)
2001 Tranz...teck 2001 Toronto

Our town, (Beta SP, DV) 9:10 2001-02

-"All Hers", curated by Sinara Roza as part of Festival International de Cine de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2002

-Images Festival, Toronto, 2002, Marion MacMahon Award and honorable mention for Best International Video

-Mediawave International Festival of Visual Arts, Gyor, Hungary curated by Sinara Roza 2002

-The Lady Show, curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Zoe Stonyk, V Tape, Toronto, June 2002
-Videaste Recherce-e 2002, la Bande Video, curated by Chris Gehman, Kelly Langaard
Mississauga Art Gallery, curated Su- Ying Lee 2007

to be continued..., Mini dv, Pal, 00:15, 2003
-" Picsel+", Cardiff, Wales, 2003

Close to home. 25:29, animation and live action, mini dv, dvd, 2006
Rendezvous With Madness, 2006

Choir of Love, (HD 1920 x 1080, stereo, 19:03), 2014 curated by Mireille Bourgeois of CFAT for AGNS, accompanied by All that Glows published by Conumdrum Press with essays by James MacSwain and Steve Reinke; Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image, Open Studio, Toronto, September 2015

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