Short Bio
Laura Millard has exhibited in artist-run, commercial and public galleries across Canada and internationally; including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Angell Gallery in Toronto, Art Gallery of Windsor, Whyte Museum, Banff, Where Where Exhibition Space, Beijing, China, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Glenbow Museum Calgary, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea and St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, New York. An artist, writer and educator, Laura Millard is currently an Associate Professor at OCAD University. She received a BFA from NSCAD University in 1983 and her MFA from Concordia University in 1992. Millard has done several artists residencies including the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, the Banff Centre, NSCAD University, Brucebo Studio in Sweden and Red Gate in Beijing, China.
Long Bio
Laura Millard received a BFA from NSCAD University in 1983 and her MFA from Concordia University in 1992. In addition, Millard has done several artists residencies including The Banff Centre, NSCAD University, Brucebo Studio in Sweden and Red Gate in Beijing, China.
Millard is the recipient of numerous awards. She was been awarded several grants including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Alberta Arts Foundation. She has received critical acclaim for her work in publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings, The Globe & Mail, and C Magazine.
Laura Millard has been exhibited in artist-run, commercial and public galleries across Canada including the Glenbow Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Windsor, La Centrale, the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Kenderdine Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan, Where Where Exhibition Space, Beijing, China, Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea and St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, New York.
An artist, writer and educator, Laura Millard is is currently an Associate Professor at OCAD University and has taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Concordia University, Georgian College and NSCAD University.
Millard has published essays on both contemporary and historical artists and has lectured on her work at numerous galleries and schools across the country including the Banff Centre, the University of Waterloo, the University of Victoria, the University of Western Ontario, NSCAD University, the Mendel Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS, Selected
Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Catalogue, AGO, 2017
John Pohl, Montreal Gazette, Strange Shapes at Galerie 175B, December 16, 2016 Leah Collins, CBC Arts, This Drone Footage Will Blow Your Mind But Not For The Reasons You Think, Feb. 17, 2016
Space Channel, Inner Space program on Once is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition
Laura Beeston, Sky is the limit at the New York Drone Film Festival, The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2016
Alice Pelot, review of Once is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition, artoronto.ca
Bill Clarke, Doris McCarthy and Her New Contemporaries, C Magazine, Summer 2014 Alexander Irving and Jennifer Rudder, Glam North: Doris McCarthy and Her New Contemporaries, publication, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, 2014 Lori Starr, Artsync Interview, aired Dec. 3 2010
Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going, January, The Globe and Mail, 2007 Martha Langford, Catalogue essay for Mois de la Photo, Oil and Water, 2005 Betty Ann Jordan, Artist File, Canadian House and Home, Dec. 2005
Catharine Mastin, The Bow: Living With a River, catalogue, Glenbow Museum, 2005. Christian Giroux, Canadian Art, Winter, 2004
Patrick Mahon, Laura Millard, Crossovers, Border Crossings, Fall 2002.
ARTIST TALKS AND PANELS, Selected
2020 Artist Talk, McCure Visual Arts Centre, Exhibiting Artist presentation
2016 Panel Discussion, Inter / Access, Once is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition 2014 Artist Talk, Sheridan College, ON
2014 Panel Discussion, A Sense of Place, with David Clarkson, Angela Leach and
2012 Laura Millard, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, ON
Artist Talk, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON
2010 Artist Talk, NSCAD University, NS
2009 Artist Talks, University of Waterloo, ON, Georgian College, ON
2005 Artist Talk, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
2002 Artist Talks, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Carlton University, ON
2001 Artist Talk, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
2000 ArtistTalk, The Banff Centre, Media and Visual Arts Program, Banff
2000 Artist Talk with Janet Anderson, The University of Waterloo, ON
Artist Talk, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
COLLECTIONS
Alberta Art Foundation
BMO Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Boxotel, Montreal, Quebec
Canada Council Art Bank
Department of Foreign Affairs
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
Enbridge, Calgary, Alberta , Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
Fornsal Museum, Visby, Sweden
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
MacLaren Arts Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Museum London, London, Ontario
Northern Transportation Company Limited, Edmonton, Alberta
RBC Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Lenczer Slaght, Toronto, Ontario
TD Collection, Toronto, Ontario