Michael McGlennon’s art feels like something you might discover posthumously in your friend’s garage as you dig through a trunk packed with rotting encyclopedias, star maps, a disassembled mechanical model of our solar system, and foraging guides for mushrooms in Canada. Wondering at this strangely assembled collection you begin sorting through all of his sketchbooks, stacks of poetry, confessionals, short stories and cassette recordings, finding a carefully documented expanse of folklore. You begin to look through and listen to these creations all at once, curiously poking your head through windows into another world. A kaleidoscope of things reflected: beautiful, tragic, and sickly hilarious, like a dream you can't forget - awake to the porous membrane between our experiential universe and its limitless parallels.
conservationist of imaginings
everything has its parallel so it must go on forever...
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Publications
2023 Pus IX: The Pus Bestiary II cover artist
2022 Dreams From Hairy Hill with Tasha Turner
2021 WHYVALE vol.4 fun with vehicles
2021 EPHEMERIS: A Cosmic Compendium
2020 Notion Magazine issue 85: illustrations
2020 WHYVALE vol.3 YOU MUST BE DREAMEING
2019 Dark Matter 3 comics anthology
2019 Call Out Comics 4 newspaper
2019 WHYVALE vol.2
2018 Queen
2018 WHYVALE
2016 The Path to Nowhere Companion
2015 Michael McGlennon Colouring Book
2015 Vault 003. with the Toronto Printmaking Coalition
2014 Insomnibator
2014 Vault 002. with the Toronto Printmaking Coalition
2014 Vault 001. With the Toronto Printmaking Coalition
2014 Why Print Now. J.P. King Paper Pusher & A.G.Y.U.
Shows
2023 Surreal Salon 15. Boton Rouge Gallery, Louisiana
2022 Anonymous Drawings. Galerie im Körnerpark, Schierker Straße 8, 12051 Berlin
2022 The 8th NBC MESHTEC Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial. Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Japan
2021 Chop Chop, Lollipop. The Plumb, Toronto
2019 Off Brand. Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2018 Members Ink. Open Studio, Toronto
2018 Future. PDX Art Market, Portland
2018 Yearbook. PDX Art Market, Portland
2017 The 6th NBC MESHTECH Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial. Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Japan
2017 All Day Breakfast. Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2017 Contain/Collect. Alto presentation center, Toronto
2016 Editions. Open Studio, Toronto
2016 Team up: with the Toronto Print Coalition. Graven Feather, Toronto
2015 Prêt-à-emporter X, Expo-vente Atelier Circulaire, Montreal
2015 Dead Machines: with the Toronto Print Coalition. Redhead Gallery, Toronto
2015 45th Anniversary Show. Open Studio, Toronto
2015 Deck the Wall. Project Gallery, Toronto
2015 Artist Proof. Open Studio, Toronto
2015 Cat Art Show. Project Gallery, Toronto
2014 Everything and Nothing. Creatures Collective Gallery, Toronto
2014 Edition and Multiplication: Print Media Area Show. Gales Gallery, Toronto
2014 First Proof: with the Toronto Print Coalition. Oz Studio, Toronto
2014 Paramanu: Solo Show. Samuel J. Zack’s Gallery, Stong College, Toronto
2013 Oscillutions: Solo Show. Gales Gallery, Toronto
2013 Under the Hermitage Arches. Hermitage Youth Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Transference: Print Media Area Show. Gales Gallery, Toronto
2012 Emerging Artist Series. The Smiling Buddha, Toronto
2012 Year End Show. Samuel J. Zack’s Galley, Stong College, Toronto
2012 Easterween: Installation. Lower Ossington Theatre, Toronto
2011 Parallax: Group Installation. Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity House, Toronto
2009 Dirt ! Interdisciplinary Show. CineCycle, Toronto
Fairs & Exhibitions
2023 33 RPM Music & Art Market. Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
2023 Art Mart. See Scape, Toronto
2022 Canzine. Reference Library, Toronto
2022 Art Mart. Toronto
2022 Kazoo Fest. Guelph
2019 Canzine. A.G.O. Toronto
2019 Kazoo Fest. Guelph
2019 4th Annual Books arts Fair. Peterborough
2018 Canzine. A.G.O., Toronto
2018 Supercrawl. Absinthe, Hamilton
2018 P.R.F.M. Guelph
2018 P.R.F.M. London
2017 Kazoo Fest. Guelph
2017 Print Expo. Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2016 Winter Magic. Elephant in the Attic, Toronto
2016 Zine Dream 9. The Great Hall, Toronto
2015 Vendor Queens. Markham House, Toronto
2015 City of Craft: with the Toronto Printmaking Coalition. The Theatre Center, Toronto
2014 Xpace Annual Zine Fair. Xspace Cultural Center, Toronto
2014 City of Craft: with the Toronto Printmaking Coalition. The Theatre Center, Toronto
Education, Residencies and Awards
2022 Selected to show at The 6th NBC MESHTECH Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial
2018 Broken Pencil Literary Zine Award Shortlist
2018 Honourable Mention at The 6th NBC MESHTECH Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial
2017 Open Studio Artist Exchange, Atelier Circulaire , Montreal
2014 BMO 1st Art Student Competition nominee
2014 Open Studio Award
2013 Hermitage Residency, St. Petersburg Russia
2013 Dean’s Purchase Prize
2013 Senior Print Media Award
2009-2014 York University Faculty of Fine Arts, B.F.A., Spec. Hons Visual Arts
