Artists

Christian McLeod

Artist Profile

Christian McLeod is the particle physicist of Canadian art.

McLeod’s paintings produce new matter from the kinetic energy of oil-based pigments colliding across his canvases. He daubs and scrapes, pushing and pulling mounds of oil-based colours until he has seized a sliver of time, a snapshot of change. In vibrant abstract works, McLeod interprets the beauty and destruction of the contemporary landscape, capturing the shift between a perceived image and the particles that comprise the whole picture.

After graduating from the Toronto School of Art in 1992 McLeod moved to Spain, where he exhibited locally on the island of Ibiza. He’s also lived and worked in Mexico and Germany. Currently, his art practice is based in Toronto, Canada.

McLeod’s work is showcased in corporate and public collections, including MHPM in Halifax and Calgary and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and in private collections across Canada, the U.S., Spain, the Netherlands and New Zealand. His paintings have also been chosen to represent charitable organizations (such as Casey House’s Art with Heart fundraiser) and for book covers for the University of Oxford Press. For two years in a row, McLeod’s paintings have been selected for “Ideas and Visions for a New Concept of Architecture,” a project with the School of Architecture, University of Valencia in Spain. His work has also been featured in recent articles in Chatelaine, Ottawa Magazine, and 1969. Christian McLeod’s painting ‘Perhaps the terrace of this garden overlooks only the lake of our minds’ will be published by Oxford Press on the cover of Philip Goff book – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2014 The Al Green Gallery, 64 Merton Street Toronto, ON
  • 2013 La Parete Gallery, 1086 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON
  • 2012 Gallery Page and Strange, 1869 Granville Street, Halifax, ON
  • 2011 La Parete Gallery, 1086 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON
  • 2010 Gallery Page and Strange, 1869 Granville Street, Halifax, ON
  • 2008 Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto, ON
  • 2007 Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto, ON
  • 2006 Engine Gallery 1112 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON
  • 2004 Coop Gallery, 112 Scollard Ave. Toronto, ON

Group Exhibitions

  • 2016 Gallery 133, 1260 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON
  • 2015 Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph, ON
  • 2014 Gallery 133, 1260 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON
  • 2013 Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph, ON
  • 2012 Expanding Horizons – Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC
  • 2012 Artoronto Anniversary Exhibition – Fran Hill Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • 2012 Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, Red Dot – Guelph, ON
  • 2011 Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • 2011 Art/Not Art Seattle Washington, USA.
  • 2011 Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, NOIR – Guelph, ON
  • 2011 Gallery Page and Strange, 1869 Granville Street, Halifax, NS
  • 2011 La Parete Gallery – Canadian Painters 1950’s to 2010. Toronto, ON
  • 2010 Creative Art Gems – Creative Works Studio. Judy Scolnik – Heffel Auction Canada Toronto, ON
  • 2010 ReCall – The Corridor Gallery – Centennial College Toronto, ON
  • 2009 Creative Art Gems – Judy Scolnik – Heffel Auction Canada Toronto, ON
  • 2008 Nuit Blanche Toronto – Studio Exhibition, # 89 Ossington Ave. Toronto, ON
  • 2008 AWOL Gallery – Square Foot Exhibition, 100A Ossington Ave Toronto, ON
  • 2008 The Forest for the Trees – St. FX University Art Gallery Antigonish, Nova Scotia, NS
  • 2008 Creative Art Gems – Creative Works Studio . Judy Scolnik – Heffel Auction Canada