Artist, Writer/Curator and Professor of Visual Arts at Western University, London, ON
Patrick Mahon is an artist, a writer/curator, and a Professor of Visual Arts at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. Mahon’s artwork has been exhibited in Canada at Museum London, The Hamilton Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; and internationally in recent exhibitions in Ecuador, China, and France; and at numerous print biennales since the early 1990’s. Patrick’s collaborative project, Immersion Emergencies and Possible Worlds, resulted in a ten-artist group exhibition, The Source: Rethinking Water through Contemporary Art, presented at Rodman Hall, Brock University, Canada, in 2014. Other recent Canadian exhibitions venues include McMaster Museum of Art (2013); Wilfred Laurier University (2013); Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg (2014) and Katzman Contemporary (2015). Patrick Mahon’s work will be presented n the forthcoming collaborative exhibition, Immunize Nations, in Trondheim, Norway, and at UNAIDS in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2017.
Among Patrick Mahon’s curatorial projects, the exhibition, “Lines Painted in Early Spring: Ferguson, Reeves, Ruschiensky, Savard,” (2003-04) was circulated to four venues in Canada by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. “Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here is what I mean,”(2004) originated at Museum London, and travelled to the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough. The exhibition “Hinterlands: Fastwurms, Glabush, Thornycroft, Urban,” (2008) premiered at the McIntosh Gallery, Western, and traveled to Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, in 2009. Mahon’s recent curatorial projects include “A Gust of Wind: Caulfield, Fuglem, Linge, Mahon, Merritt, Savard, and Moore, with Artifacts from the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel, Western University,” DNA Artspace, London ON, (2015).