John Monteith
John Monteith graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Parsons, the New School for Design (2008) and his BFA from The Ontario College of Art and Design University (1997).
While prioritizing a practice that considers conceptual, material, and aesthetic concerns equally, Monteith consistently works across mediums, pushing and expanding rigid disciplinary boundaries whether through photography, painting, drawing, textile-making, or curation and collaborative initiatives. Informed by cities that bear a diverse history of the built form in their articulation of spatial dynamics and representational politics Monteith’s practice draws on issues of identity, memory, and history.
He has exhibited internationally at the Tate Modern, London, the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, X Initiative, New York, the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, the DUMBO Art Center, New York, 7th Beijing Biennale, Beijing, and Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City.
Across the Border, Tapestry Woven Cotton, 124 cm x 101cm , 2023
Monteith has held residencies at CAT Cologne, Germany (2011), Kunsthalle Roveredo, Switzerland (2014), I Project Space, Beijing (2018) along with an upcoming residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai in fall 2024.
Reviews and essays dedicated to his work have been included in Mousse Magazine, Canadian Art, Art in America (print and online), Charley, C Magazine, October, The Huffington Post, K-48, Petit Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, the New Yorker and others.
Monteith has been awarded grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Toronto Arts Council. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada where he is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
His work can be found in the following collections of note, the Canadian Embassy, Ankara, Tricon Residential, San Francisco, Majudia, Montreal, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, The New School, Manhattan, New York, Torys LLP, Toronto, TD Bank, Toronto, BNY Melon, New York, Morris and Associates, London.
Reviews and essays dedicated to his work have been included in Mousse Magazine, Canadian Art, Art in America (print and online), Charley, C Magazine, October, The Huffington Post, K-48, Petit Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, the New Yorker and others.
Monteith has been awarded grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and The Toronto Arts Council. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada where he is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
His work can be found in the following collections of note, the Canadian Embassy, Ankara, Tricon Residential, San Francisco, Majudia, Montreal, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, The New School, Manhattan, New York, Torys LLP, Toronto, TD Bank, Toronto, BNY Melon, New York, Morris and Associates, London.