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about

Mike Andrew McLean is a photographic artist and educator working and living on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 

within the Traditional Territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən People.

 

 

Education:

2008 University of Victoria

MFA Visual Art (Photography)

 

2004 NSCAD University

BFA Photography

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Crummy Gallery, University of Victoria

Sketches from Below the Ghost Forest

 

2018 Chernoff Fine Arts; Vancouver, BC

JR (Capture Photography Festival)

 

2015 Deluge Contemporary Arts; Victoria, BC

Latent Image

 

2013 Kootenay Gallery of Art; Castelgar, BC

Range

 

2012 Harbourfront Centre; Toronto, ON

Range

 

2011 Open Space; Victoria, BC

Thirty-Five Thousand Forty

 

2011 Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Lethbridge, AB

Range

 

2011 Republic Gallery; Vancouver, BC

Range

 

2011 Deluge Contemporary Art; Victoria, BC

The Whites

 

2011 Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube); Kamloops, BC

Range

 

2010 Chernoff Fine Art; Vancouver, BC

The Whites

 

2010 Ministry of Casual Living; Victoria, BC

Great Blue Heron

 

2009 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (The Lab 9.1)

Range (Part 1)

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

2023 Victoria Arts Council; Victoria, BC

This Image That

 

2023 Little Fernwood Art Gallery; Victoria, BC

Dog

 

2022 Legacy Art Gallery; Victoria, BC

Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures

 

2021 Fortune Gallery; Victoria, BC

Last Stand: Ancient Forests, Collective Action

 

2018 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Victoria, BC

Supernatural

 

2016 FERAL Collective Pop-Up

Things Fall Apart

 

2015 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Victoria, BC

In Another Place, And Here 

 

2013 Contemporary Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC

25th Annual Gala and Auction

 

2013 Richmond Art Gallery; Richmond, BC

Andante

 

2011 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Victoria, BC

Recent Acquisitions

 

2011  Gallery 44; Toronto, ON

Proof 18

 

2011 Harbourfront Centre; Toronto, ON

I Witness

 

2010 Luz Gallery; Victoria, BC

The Rangefinder Chronicles

 

2009 Contemporary Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC

Let’s Keep Dancing; annual auction

 

2009 Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

Sentimental Journey

 

2008 University of Victoria, Victoria BC

Doubles; MFA thesis exhibition

 

2008 Ministry of Casual Living; Victoria, BC

Rough House

 

2008 Open Space; Victoria, BC

Sally McKay Residency

 

2008 MacKenzie Art Gallery; Regina, Saskatchewan

Collaboration with Vikky Alexander

Let Me Be Your Mirror

 

2007 Contemporary Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC

Rapt; annual auction

 

2007 Production Studios Exhibition; Vancouver, BC

UVic Biennial, Part 7

Residencies:

 

2021-2022 Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program

 

Awards:

2021, 2011 Project Grant, Canada Arts Council

 

2017, 2014, 2013 Project Grant, BC Arts Council

 

2015 Professional Development Grant, BC Arts Council

 

2007 Jessie Allen Forsythe Award, University Of Victoria

 

Public Collections:

2009 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

 

2001 Alberta Foundation for the Arts

 

Selected Publications:

2015 In Another Place, And Here

Michelle Jacques, Toby Lawrence, Gabrielle Moser

 

2011 Above the Sea of Fog 

Peter Gazendam. Thirty-Five Thousand Forty  promotional essay.  

 

2011 Project Puts Life into Perspective 

Amy Smart.  Times Colonist. November 10, 2011

 

2011 Agenda: British Columbia

Canadian Art.  Fall 2011

 

2011 Mike Andrew McLean: Peak Experiences

Leah Sandals.  Canadian Art online. Fall 2011

 

2011 Agenda: Alberta

Canadian Art.  Summer 2011

 

2011 Portrait of an Artist: Mike Andrew McLean

Stephen Thomson.  Georgia Straight.  April 11, 2011

 

2011 Isolation Exposed

Tom Hawthorn.  Globe and Mail.  January 10, 2011

 

2010 Mail Order

Blackflash Magazine. Winter 2010 Issue 27.2 

 

2009 Landscape and I (In Landscape; CAG Publication)

Michael Turner

 

2009 Sentimental Journey (In Landscape; CAG Publication)

Jenifer Papararo, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery

 

2008 Time Indefinite

Michelle Jacques, Assistant Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario

 

Recent Related Work Experience:

2011-present Camosun College, Visual Arts Department

Media Technologist

 

2008-2024 sessional instructor, Uvic department of visual art

2016-present Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Exhibition documentation and contract preparator 

 

2023-present Sooke Fine Arts Show

Exhibition Designer

 

2024-present Little Fernwood Gallery

Selection Committee Member

 

2025-present Victoria Arts Council

Board treasurer

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