John Glendinning
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*John Glendinning will be inducted into the Royal Canadian
Academy of Arts this June 2008.
EDUCATION
1995 Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design (SOCAD),
Oakville, Ontario.
Furniture Major, Three Year Diploma
1992 Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario. Woodworking Technician
Program,
Two Year Certificate
1990 Grand River Collegiate Institute, Kitchener, Ontario, OAC/OSSD
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2006 Canada Council for the Arts: “Fine Craft: Research
Grant”
2004 Prix Francois-Houdé: Honourable Mention
2003 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : “B”
Grant for Research
Canada
Council for the Arts: “Fine Craft: Creation/Production
Grant”
2002 Canada Council for the Arts: “Fine Craft: Creation/Production
Grant”
“Travel
Grant” Durham Wood Show: “First Place” furniture
category
1999 Ontario Crafts Council (OCC): “OCC Scholarship”
“Hildreth
G. Holden Scholarship”
1996 Upper Canada Woodworking Competition: “First Place”
furniture category
1995 Ontario Crafts Council: “Ontario Woodworkers Assoc.
Award”
“A&M
Wood Specialty Supply Grant” “Lee Valley Tools Supply
Grant”
Sheridan
College (SOCAD): “Alumni Assoc. Award” for excellence
“Silent Night
Auction Award” for excellence
1994 Art Gallery Of Mississauga’s Juried Craft Exhibition:
“OCC Design Award”
Sheridan College (SOCAD): “Understanding Wood Award”
for outstanding work
COLLECTIONS
2005 The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Fine Woodworking Magazine, No. 197, pg.84, Taunton Press,
Newton, CT
House Beautiful,
“The Best”, pg.24, Hearst Comm. Inc, NY, NY
“Steven and
Chris” CBC Television, Feb 28.
2007 The Globe and Mail, “Surrounded” by Alex Bozikovic,
Aug. 10, Life, L2
The New
York Times, “Inviting the Animals In” May 31, 2007
Chairmaking
&Design, by Jeff Miller, pg.23
2006 Canadian Woodworking (online newsletter), “Featured
Link”, May, #23
Decormag: Focus
Sur.. by Myriam Gagnon, January/ February
2005 “Reflections On Furniture: The Body Double”
edited by Peter Fleming, pg.30,31
Ontario Crafts Council
“50 Ans De Création En Métiers D’Art
Au Québec” Agenda 2006, Éditions Fides et
le Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Wood is Turning heads in town
this month”
by Edward J. Sozanski, Sept. 16, pg.W33
Intérieurs: #34, September-October pg.33
Ontario Craft Magazine: In Review; “Studio North at the
interior design Show”
by Elaine Bergen, Summer, pg.16
Parade; pg.20
The Globe and Mail: “Cool Canadiana” by Rachel Gotlieb,
June 25, Style, L7
“d,” TV5 , episode#260
Le Devoir, “Verre de contact” by Lio Kiefer, April,
2
La Presse, “plier le bois, fleurir le verre” by
Andree-Anne Guenette, March 19,
Woodwork magazine April, 2005, pg.45
2003 Ontario Craft Magazine: In Review; by Peter Fleming, Winter
2003/2004, pg.15
Craft Arts International: No. 58, pg.2
2000 Ontario Craft Magazine: Winter 2000/2001, pg.3
1999 Ontario Craft Magazine: Parade; Winter 1999/2000, pg.20
1997 Home Furniture Magazine: January 1997, pg.3, The Taunton
Press, Newton, Ct.
1996 Fine Woodworking Magazine’s Design Book Seven: pg.
106, Taunton Press
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Gallerie Elena Lee, Montréal, PQ
2003 Gallery Xylos, Calgary, AB
Distill Gallery, Toronto, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 “It’s A Beauty”, Lester B. Pearson Airport,
Toronto
“Celebrate
Craft”, juried, Craft Council Gallery, St. John’s,
NL
2006 “Fragments”, Tom Thomson Memorial Art gallery,
Owen Sound, ON
SOFA
Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
30th
Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal,
PQ
“Fragments”,
Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
SOFA
New York, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
2005 “Hide and Reveal”, juried, Cheongju City, Republic
of Korea
Snyderman
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SOFA
New York, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
Palm
Beach 3 SOFA, Palm Beach, FL
2004 SOFA New York, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York,
NY
Prix
Francois-Houde, Galerie de Conseil des Métiers d’art
du Québec, Montréal,
PQ “Against the Grain”, invitational, The Guild
Shop, Toronto,
ON
2003 “Box and Container Show”, Northwest gallery
of Fine Woodwork, Seattle,
WA
SOFA
Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
“Turning
Traditions”, invitational, The Guild Shop, Toronto, ON
Group
Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
“The
Chair”, juried, Worcestor Center for Craft, Worcestor,
MA
“A
Turned Tale”, invitational, The Guild Shop, Toronto, ON
2001 “Functional Boxes”, juried, Artisans Center
of Virginia, VA
“Revelations
In Wood”, invitational, The Guild Shop, Toronto, ON
2000
Ontario Craft Council’s “Looking Forward Exhibition”,
juried, toured
regionally
Canadian
Furniture Exhibition, juried, toured nationally
Durham
Wood Show, juried, Durham, ON
1999 Durham Wood Show, juried, Durham, ON
1996 Upper Canada Woodworking Competion, juried, Woodstock,
ON
Durham
Wood Show, juried, Durham, ON
Art
Gallery of Mississauga’s Juried Craft Exhibition, juried,
Mississauga,
ON
1995 “Objectives”, graduate exhibition, Sheridan
College, Oakville, ON
“Thirteen”,
graduate exhibition, Arts On King, Toronto, ON
1994 Designer Crafts 1994, juried, The Carnegie Gallery,
Dundas, ON
Art
Gallery Of Mississauga’s Juried Craft Exhibition, juried,
Mississauga,
ON
RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Present Furniture Designer/Maker
1996 Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, ON
Technician for Interior Design Program (winter semester)
1995 Sheridan College (SOCAD), Oakville, ON
Technician for Summer School in the Furniture Program
1994 Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Technician for First Year Furniture Design Class
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec
The Furniture Society
The Ontario Crafts Council
