Renée Van Halm

Renée Van Halm has been featured in over 30 solo exhibitions including numerous exhibitions at the S.L. Simpson Gallery and Birch Contemporary in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Notable exhibitions include:

• Interior Projections at Mercer Union, Toronto, ON (1980)
• Voor Gerrit/Healing at University of Lethbridge, AB (1982)
• Songs of Experience at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (1983)
• L’ eau à la bouche, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (1987)
• Anonymous Volumes, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (1995)
• Dream Home, at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), BC (2002), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (2002),{{Cite web|url=http://www.saag.ca/art/exhibitions/0407-dream-home|title=Dream Home Renée Van Halm|last=Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914035328/https://www.saag.ca/art/exhibitions/0407-dream-home|url-status=live}} and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (2003){{cite book |url=http://e-artexte.ca/18194/ |title=Renée Van Halm : Dream Home. Vancouver, BC: Contemporary Art Gallery; Kamloops, BC: Kamloops Art Gallery; Lethbridge, Alta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2002. |last1=McKay |first1=Sherry |last2=Robertson |first2=Lisa |date=2002 |website=e-artexte.ca |publisher=Contemporary Art Gallery |isbn=9781551521350 |access-date= |archive-date=2017-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913232636/http://e-artexte.ca/18194/ |url-status=live }}
• Reverse Engineering at the S.L. Simpson Gallery and Birch Contemporary in Toronto, ON (2009){{Cite web|url=http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/renee-van-halm/|title=Reverse Engineering Review|date=November 26, 2009|publisher=Canadian Art Online|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913231217/http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/renee-van-halm/|url-status=live}}
• Cross-Cutting/Inside Out, a 35-year survey exhibition of her works on paper at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC (2012){{cite web|url=http://canadianart.ca/reviews/renee-van-halm-2/|title=Renée Van Halm|author=Robin Laurence|date=2012-07-15|publisher=Canadian Art|accessdate=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913231538/http://canadianart.ca/reviews/renee-van-halm-2/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://aibcenews.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/renee-van-halms-cross-cuttinginside-out-is-charged-with-wonderful-contradictions/|title=Review: Renée Van Halm's Cross-Cutting/Inside Out is Charged With Wonderful Contradictions|last=Laurence|first=Robin|date=February 12, 2012|publisher=Architectural Institute of BC News from Georgia Straight|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913232514/https://aibcenews.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/renee-van-halms-cross-cuttinginside-out-is-charged-with-wonderful-contradictions/|url-status=live}}Brodovitch, Sophie and Rachelle Sawatsky, Renée Van Halm: Cross-Cutting/Inside Out, 2012, Burnaby; Burnaby Art Gallery, {{ISBN|9781927364000}}
• Shape of Things at the West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC (2017){{Cite web|url=https://westvancouvermuseum.ca/exhibitions/renee-van-halm-shape-things|title=Shape of Things|last=Morrison|first=Darrin|date=September 13, 2017|access-date=September 13, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913231741/https://westvancouvermuseum.ca/exhibitions/renee-van-halm-shape-things|url-status=live}}

Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as Aurora Borealis at the Centre international d'art contemporain, Montréal (1985),{{Cite web|url=http://www.centrevox.ca/exposition/aurora-borealis/|title=Aurora Borealis archival listing|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914034318/http://www.centrevox.ca/exposition/aurora-borealis/|url-status=live}} weak thought (1997–98) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Architypes at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2004) and the Embassy of Canada, Tokyo (2005), Cut and Paste at the Equinox Gallery(2012),{{Cite web|url=https://www.straight.com/arts/cut-and-paste-smart-and-visually-engaging-collage-exhibit|title=Cut and Paste Smart and Visually Engaging Collage Exhibit|last=Laurence|first=Robin|date=June 5, 2012|access-date=December 12, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914035433/https://www.straight.com/arts/cut-and-paste-smart-and-visually-engaging-collage-exhibit|url-status=live}} The Poetics of Space at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2015),{{cite web|url=http://www.ngcmagazine.ca/correspondents/exploring-cezanne-and-space-at-the-vancouver-art-gallery|title=Article National Gallery of Canada Newsletter|date=February 14, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-date=February 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208205248/http://www.ngcmagazine.ca/correspondents/exploring-cezanne-and-space-at-the-vancouver-art-gallery|url-status=live}} New Monuments Forget the Future at Birch Contemporary (2015),{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/toronto/things-to-do/new-monuments-forget-the-future|title=Exhibition Review|date=February 14, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914061227/https://www.timeout.com/toronto/things-to-do/new-monuments-forget-the-future|url-status=live}} Return of the Image at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB (2016),{{Cite web|url=http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/en/visit/exhibitions/return-of-the-image/|title=Return of the Image.|date=February 15, 2016|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=September 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922220720/http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/en/visit/exhibitions/return-of-the-image|url-status=live}} Form Follows Fiction at UTAC, Toronto (2016),{{Cite news|url=http://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/form-follows-fiction-art-artists-toronto/|title=Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto – Art Museum at the University of Toronto|newspaper=Art Museum at the University of Toronto|access-date=2017-02-14|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404052344/http://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/form-follows-fiction-art-artists-toronto/|url-status=live}} and Elusive Utopias at the Judith and Norman Alix Gallery, Sarnia, ON (2017).{{cite web|url=http://www.jnaag.ca/featured-articles/item/575-elusive-utopia|title=Gallery listing|date=February 13, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211043319/http://www.jnaag.ca/featured-articles/item/575-elusive-utopia|url-status=live}}

Renée Van Halm has a long-standing interest in the history of painting and the production of hybrid objects that blur the space between painting, sculpture and architecture. She is deeply invested the material processes of painting and the traditional terms of its construction.Bruce Grenville, weak thought, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1999

Of her artistic practice, Van Halm has written: "Cultural history and how we represent and inhabit architecture are fundamental to my work. Over the years I have looked at many subjects that reflect on art and design practices through the genres of still life and landscape as well as decor, abstraction and pattern. I am drawn to the expectations that underscore these preoccupations."{{Cite web|url=http://reneevanhalm.com/about/statement/|title=Statement {{!}} Renée Van Halm|website=reneevanhalm.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-11|archive-date=2017-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911074026/http://reneevanhalm.com/about/statement/|url-status=live}}

Van Halm often incorporates art historical, painterly references, as well as allusions to architectural history. Art critic Robin Laurence writes: "Her art takes on presence and absence, private and public, intimacy and grandeur, modernism, pre-modernism, and postmodernism, all in a manner that is gorgeously painterly and rigorously critical. The sources of Van Halm’s imagery range from early Renaissance paintings (as in Study for Annunciation) to contemporary real-estate ads (9,760 SF., 3590 Osler), and from interior design publications (Bedroom Scene/Marcel) to her own photographs and collages (Pearls)."{{Cite web|title=Review: Renee Van Halm|last=Laurence|first=Robin|date=February 2012|publisher=Georgia Straight}}

Van Halm's work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Art Gallery of Ontario; Bank of Montréal; City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection (Burnaby Art Gallery);{{Cite book|title=The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting|last1=Eijnsbergen|first1=Ellen|last2=Cane|first2=Jennifer|publisher=Burnaby Art Gallery|year=2017|isbn=978-1-927364-23-9|location=Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada|pages=113}} Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB; Canada Council Art Bank; Canadian House and Home magazine; Davies, Ward, NYC; Doris McCarthy Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough;{{Cite web|url=https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/html/collection/index.html|title=Collection list of artists|last=Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501013010/http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~dmg/html/collection/index.html|url-status=live}} Government of Canada Department of Foreign Affairs; Household Financial Corporation; London Regional Art Gallery; London Life Insurance; McCarthy, Tetrault, Toronto; McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON;{{Cite web|url=http://maclarenart.com/permanent-collection/artwork-of-the-month-march-2015|title=Artwork of the month, Maclaren Art Gallery|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102103652/https://maclarenart.com/permanent-collection/artwork-of-the-month-march-2015|url-status=live}} Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC;{{Cite web|url=https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/renee-van-halm-un-moment-dhesitation-et-la-voici-prise-dans-une-relation-fortement-structuree-renee-van-halm-in-pausing-she-is-implicated-in-well-structured-relationship-2|title=Inventory listing|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023174437/https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/renee-van-halm-un-moment-dhesitation-et-la-voici-prise-dans-une-relation-fortement-structuree-renee-van-halm-in-pausing-she-is-implicated-in-well-structured-relationship-2|url-status=live}} National Gallery of Canada;{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=5630|title=Renee Van Halm National Gallery of Canada|access-date=2017-02-14|archive-date=2016-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507184149/http://gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=5630|url-status=live}} Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Price Waterhouse; The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Royal Bank of Canada; Toronto Dominion Bank; Tory and Tory, Toronto;{{Cite web|url=http://torontolife.com/city/business/great-office-spaces-torys/slide/great-office-spaces-torys-intro/|title=Renee Van Halm, Great Office Spaces, Tory and Tory offices|last=McInnis|first=Frances|date=April 1, 2013|publisher=Toronto Life|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023231139/https://torontolife.com/city/business/great-office-spaces-torys/slide/great-office-spaces-torys-intro/|url-status=live}} University of Lethbridge; University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

• 2002 - Taste/100 painting of the 20th century, Keesee Office Building, now Kirkpatrick Bank, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
• 2010 - South Hill (South Fraser) neighbourhood banner and mural project, Vancouver, BC
• 2015 - Awarded Joyce-Collingwood Skytrain Station public art commission, TransLink, Vancouver, BC
• 2016 - Façade Festival (projection), Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC{{cite web|url=http://www.burrardarts.org/facade-festival-2016-artist-interview-renee-van-halm |title=Facade Festival 2016 Artist Interview: Renée Van Halm |publisher=Burrard Arts Foundation |date=2016-08-25 |accessdate=2017-02-15}}

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