Clint Griffin

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Canadian. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (1973).
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Iconoclast, strongly anchored in the physicality of the medium and carried with great authenticity, the work of Clint Griffin celebrates the grandeur of the banal object. The artist is interested in the immensity of the Canadian space, its broad minimalist landscapes, its wildlife and its people.

In the recent years, Clint Griffin has been working with found materials, rejected by their owners, recycling and giving them a new life. He reuses landscape paintings found in flea markets or rebus. He respectfully preserves the original signatures, considering his work as collaborations with forgotten artists and craftsmen. As he makes different landscapes coexist on the surface to which he adds cut-out characters and traces of painting, Griffin creates beautifully narratives collages. He combines several realities to create an unusual and fascinating universe.

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Griffin has exhibited his work across Canada, including Toronto, Fredericton, St. John’s, and Montreal. In the United States, his works have been featured in numerous galleries including Berenberg Gallery (Boston), Yard Dog (Austin) and Gaurde-Rail (Seattle). He was part of the Canada large Painting Project presented at the UQAM Gallery in 2013.

 

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
Bank of Montreal (Toronto, Canada)
Banque d’œuvres d’art du Conseil des arts du Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
Collection Senvest (Montreal, Canada)
Collection Sun Life (Toronto, Canada)

Curriculum vitae

Video Portrait

Exhibitions

Filigranes en mille temps

Anne-Renée Hotte, Clint Griffin, Jan Johnson Old Master & Modern Prints, Milutin Gubash, Olga Chagaoutdinova
January 14 - March 4, 2017

Not Staying

Clint Griffin
November 23 - December 21, 2013

Éponymies

Alex McLeod, Clint Griffin, Mathieu Lévesque, Max Wyse, Michel Daigneault, Natalie Reis, Nathalie Grimard, Scott Everingham, Sylvain Bouthillette
June 11 - August 20, 2011

Extreme Painting

Cécile Ronc, Clint Griffin, James Olley, Natalie Reis, Nicolas Fleming
June 5 - August 15, 2010

Oeuvres sur papier

Clint Griffin, Elmyna Bouchard, Julie Voyce, Marc Séguin, Nathalie Grimard
September 9 - October 7, 2006

Press

  • 2014. 05. 02. - David Balzer. The Green Team, Canadian Art. web | PDF
  • 2013. 12. 21. - André Seleanu. Clint Griffin: Rythmique du rêve, Vie des Arts. web | PDF
  • 2013. 06. 27. - . Slideshow: The Painting Project, Canadian Art. web | PDF
  • 2013. 05. 01. - . Le Projet Peinture / The Painting Project, Galerie de l'UQAM. PDF
  • 2013. 05. 01. - Jérôme Delgado. La peinture, d’un océan à l’autre, Le Devoir. web | PDF
  • 2011. 07. 11. - Bettina Forget. Virtually Open on Mondays: Éponymies at Galerie Trois Points, The Belgo Report. web | PDF
  • 2008. 07. 05. - Gary Michael Dault. More spectacular than modest, The Globe and Mail. web | PDF
  • 2008. 06. 26. - . Modestly Spectacular: Grated Expectations, Canadian Art. web | PDF
  • 2006. 10. 16. - . La Galerie Trois points présente une expo de Clint Griffin, Cyberpress. PDF
  • 2004. 09. 25. - Gary Michael Dault. The knotty question of perception, The Globe and Mail. web | PDF
  • 2003. 01. 30. - Nicolas Mavrikakis. Laisser de glace, Voir. PDF
  • 2003. 01. 01. - Paul Villeneuve. L’univers télévisuel de Clint Griffin, Journal de Montréal. PDF
  • 2002. 03. 28. - Sheila Heti. Griffin Enlarged, Now Toronto. web | PDF
  • 2001. 02. 11. - Sonia Pelletier. Le réel confondu entre le présent et le passé, Le Devoir. PDF
  • 2001. 02. 03. - Henry Lehmann. Some birthdays are happier than others, The Gazette. PDF
  • 2001. 01. 27. - Jérôme Delgado. Habile massacre de photos, La Presse. web | PDF
  • 2000. 12. 09. - Daphne Gordon. Art by Numbers, Toronto Star. PDF
  • 2000. 12. 01. - . Clint and Scott Griffin at V. MacDonnell, The Globe and Mail. PDF
  • 2000. 06. 01. - Thomas Hirschmann. Menace, sex, concrete, Weekend POST. PDF
  • 2000. 04. 21. - . Spaceships and spaceshipriders, Mix. PDF
  • 2000. 01. 01. - Gary Michael Dault. Clint Griffin at the Katharine Mulherin Gallery, The Globe and Mail. PDF
  • 2000. 01. 01. - Deirdre Hanna. Double dynamic, NOW Magazine. PDF
  • 1999. 12. 21. - Mia Nielson. Instamatic, Lola. PDF
  • 1999. 10. 23. - Gillian Mackay. Teacups the mind can drink from: GALLERY GOING, The Globe and Mail. PDF
  • 1999. 09. 01. - . Nautica, Toronto Life. PDF
  • 1999. 06. 21. - Sally McKay. , Lola. PDF
  • 1999. 06. 21. - Sally McKay. , Lola. PDF
  • 1999. 05. 08. - Bernard Lamarche. Lisa Klapstock shares Clint Griffin’s eye for garbage, National Post. PDF
  • 1999. 02. 27. - Gillian Mackay. Lacquered labels, found photos, terrifying tots, The Globe and Mail. PDF
  • 1999. 02. 18. - Elana Herzog & Dianna Frid. Leaving Room for Movement and Making Room for Movement, Mercer Union. web | PDF
  • 1999. 01. 01. - Catherine Dean. A Day on Earth, Canadian Art. PDF
  • 1998. 10. 08. - . Clint Griffin – BUS Gallery, Toronto, OCAD. PDF