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