Paul Litherland
Art Photography
February 7 - March 6, 2008

Paul Litherland is a visual artist/performer living in Montréal. Recent exhibitions include being part of the Faking Death exhibition
at the Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, in January 2006, as well as at the Galeria del FONCA in Mexico City, also in January, 2006, and
a photography exhibition Absolutely Fabulous at Galerie Therese Dion, Montreal, QC in August, 2006. In 2007, his work from
the exhibition Absolutely Fabulous was featured on the cover and in depth in CV magazine, a magazine devoted to contemporary
photographic practice, produced in Montreal. His exhibitions in national and international venues have been reviewed in the Globe
and Mail, Artnews, the New Yorker, the Montreal Gazette, The Hindu (India), Diario Monitor (Mexico) and Excelsior (Mexico). His
wide-ranging practice incorporates themes of masquerade, vulnerability and machismo, explored through photography and multimedia
performances. His work can be found in private and public collections such as the Canada Council Art Bank and the Musée
du Québec. He studied photography and fine art at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver (now the Emily Carr
Institute of Art and Design) and graduated from the MFA program in photography from Concordia in 1994.


Paul Litherland BIO
The works in the series Art Photography were produced during an artist residency in Mexico City, where Litherland
first produced a series of paintings, and then photographed them in various situations and locations. By
employing the relationship between painting and photography, Litherland explores the coexistence of the conscious
and unconscious. Influenced by the work of Francis Alÿs and Carolee Schneeman, Litherland’s interest in
transforming an objects’ meaning through appropriation is intended to generate a poetic dialogue between an
artwork and a location.



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