EVERGON
Né / Born 1946, Niagara Falls, ON | Vit et travaille / Lives and works in Montreal (Québec)
FORMATION | EDUCATION
1974 Master en Arts Visuels, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
1970 BA en Arts Visuels, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
ENSEIGNEMENT | TEACHING
1974-1993 University of Ottawa, Visual Arts Dept. Ottawa ON
1982 Summer teaching ,Rencontre Internationale de la Photographie, Arles, France
1993-1994 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
1997-1998 Bradford and Ilkley Community College, Bradford, England
1998-2015 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
PRIX ET DISTINCTION | AWARDS AND PRIZES
2023 Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas (Gouvernement du Québec)
Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
1996 Bradford Photography Fellowship, by Nation Museum of Photography
Film &Television and University of Bradford, Bradford England
1990 Petro-Canada Award in New Media, Canada Council for the Arts
1986 The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts
ŒUVRES RÉCENTES (EXPOSITIONS À VENIR 2024-2025) | RECENT WORKS (EXHIBITIONS TO COME 2024-2025)
Two 0ld Men Play in the Sanitorium Sandbox | Kleenex Chronicles (en complicité avec | in complicity with Jean-Jacques Ringuette)
Shadow Legends
Portraits
EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES | SOLO EXHIBITIONS (sélection depuis | selection since 1990)
2025 Art is Hell Gallery, solo exhibition, Welland, Ontario
Margaret and Jessie, Queering the Collection highlight post by Akousua Adasi, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2024 Two-person show with Leslie Reid and Evergon, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
Mango to Rio, Ellephant, Montreal
2022 Rétrospective Evergon : Théâtres de l’intime, Theatres of Intimacy, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Nitty Gritty: Male Toilet Angst, Galerie Ellephant, Montréal (Québec)
2013 Bart & Evergon, David laRiviere, Paved Arts, Saskatoon
2012 Shanghaied : Barking Dogs Boys. Silent Koi, St. Laurent plus Hill, Ottawa
2011 Shanghaied : Barking Dogs Boys. Silent Koi, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
2009 Passion Plays, Galerie Verticale, Laval
A Sailors Lament: Photographs, video and text, Galerie Trois-Points, Montréal
A Sailors Lament: Photographs, video and text, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
2006 XXX/L, St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
XXX/L, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
2004 Il Ponte, Rome, (Italy)
Evergon, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2003 Aires de seduction, Galerie d’art de l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
New Works: Margaret Flying, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
Manscapes, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
Margaret & I, Stride Gallery. Calgary, AB /Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
2002 Love-moi / Glove-moi, SPIN Gallery, Toronto
Margaret & I, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2001 Margaret & I, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Evergon, New Works, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
Virtual Museum of Quebec Photography, Vox, Montréal
1999 Manscape & Artefacts, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Evergon: An Aesthetic of the Perverse, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, (Australia)
Evergon: Ramboy Suite, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
1998 Cowboys and Fairies, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Manscapes and Manscape Men, Waygood Gallery, New Castle, (UK)
Ramboys, Zone Gallery, New Castle, (UK)
Male (a)muses: Evergon Curates, The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, RU
1997 Evergon: Ramboys. Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Fotonoviembre Tenerife, (Spain)
1996 Le Groupe de la Place Royale -The Dancer Portfolio, Centre national des arts, Ottawa
Le Groupe de la Place Royale - The Dancer Portfolio, Galerie L'Autre Équivoque, Ottawa
1995 Ramboys Series, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Ramboys: A Bookless Novel and Other Fictions, Art Court, Ottawa
Evergon: Ramboys: A Bookless Novel, Galerie L'Autre Équivoque, Ottawa
Evergon: Ramboys, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
Ramboys: A Bookless Novel, Photography Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1993 Evergon, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
Ramboys, Le Mois de la photo: Vox Populi & Art 45, Montréal
1992 Evergon, Galerie Verticale, Québec
Evergon, Galerie L'Autre Équivoque, Ottawa
1991 The Trilogy of the River...and Other Mythologies, Art Court, Ottawa
Evergon 1971-1987, Foto Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, (UK)
Evergon 1971-1987, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath (UK)
The Mythologies of the Rivers, Interference Hologram Gallery, Toronto
Evergon, Galerie Verticale, Québec
1990 Evergon, Richard Feign Gallery, Chicago (USA)
Evergon, Art 45, Montréal
Evergon: Recent Polaroids, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Evergon 1971-1988, The Edmonton Gallery, Edmonton (AB)
Evergon 1971-1988, The Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary (AB)
Evergon 1971-1988, Frankfurtur Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Evergon 1971-1988, Canada House Cultural Centre, London (UK)
Le Cirque, Galerie L'Autre Équivoque, Ottawa
EXPOSITIONS DUO | DUO EXHIBITIONS | CHROMOGENIC CURMUDGEONS (EVERGON – RINGUETTE)
2022 Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa (Ontario)
2022 Two Old Friends Play Chess, Espace f, Matane, Québec
2020 Making the Beast by Two, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa (Ontario)
2019 Two Old Friends Play Chess, VU Centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, Québec, Québec
2018 Two Old Friends Play Chess, Volta NY, New York City, USA
2017 Two Old Friends Play Chess, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Alberta
Housebound: Cut, Uncut and Broke, Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, Ontario
Housebound : Portraits from the Winter Garden, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, Québec
2016 Two Old Friends Play Chess, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, Québec
EXPOSITIONS DE GROUPE | GROUP EXHIBITIONS (sélection depuis | selection since 2000)
2026 Grotto, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario
2025 Mondes-images, VOX - Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal, Québec
Facing Photographs, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center, Alberta
L'imagier, group exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the L'Imagier Exhibition Centre, Gatineau, Québec
SPAO: Photographic Arts Centre, group exhibition: analogue process artworks by Canadian artists', Ottawa, Ontario
2024 50th Anniversary of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa Art Glalery, Ottawa
2023 Toronto Art Fair, Ellephant, Toronto
Christmas Spice, Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto
The Look: Levine, Léonard, Evergon, Galerie Ellephant, Montréal (Québec)
No Direction Home – presented by Mes Pants de Queer, curated by Antonie Vogler & Dustin Ariel Segura Suarez
Hochelag Queer et NU.ES, curater: Jonathon Sardelis & the NU.ES Collective la Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
L'atelier comme création. HisToires des ateleliers d'artistes au Québec, curated by Laurier Lacroix, Musée d'art de Joliette
2020 Le tirage unique, La Castiglione, Montréal (Québec) – Chromogenic Curmudgeons | Evergon-Ringuette
2019… Le projet Polaroid – Art et technologie
McCord Museum, Montréal (Québec), Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Singapore and Cambridge (MIT Museum, 2020)
2019 School of the Photographic Arts, Ottawa, Ontario
The 80s Image, Winnipeg Art Gallery, (MB)
2017 The Polaroid Project, WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna, Austria
Les cabinets de curiosités LGBTQ+ / Commissaire Claude Gosselin (CIAC), UQÀM, Montréal (Québec)
Chromogenic Curmudgeons | Evergon-Ringuette
Le temps file, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
La photographie au Canada 1960-2000, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa
2015 Incarnations, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
2014 Cas de figure, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Over the Rainbow: Seduction andd Identity.From the collection of Salah and Jacob Yerex, MOCCA, Toronto, Canada
On The Edge 10x10, James Fowler, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2013 Chacun montre à chacun, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal
Our Families: The impact of Contemporary Family on Art. dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton
Heart of the Moment: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Curated by Ola Wlusek, Curator of Contemporary Art
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Lament, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Art, Winnipeg (MB)
2011 Mens-moi / Please Lie To Me, Art Mûr, Montreal
2010 Art Montréal Contemporary, presentation de l’AGAC, Time Square, Shanghai, China
2009 Vendu/Sold, Insights into Collecting and the Art Market, Les editions Esse, Montréal, QC
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Verticale, Laval (QC)
2008 Collectionner l’art, Maison de la Culture Villeray - Parc Extension, Montréal
St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
The Big Gift, Glenbow Museum, Calgary (AB)
Décoratif! Décoratifs! Quatre questions autour du décoratif dans l’art québécois, Musée régional de la Côte-Nord, Sept-Îles (QC)
Centre d’exposition d’Amos, Amos (QC)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (QC)
2007 Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (QC)
Centre d’expositon de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal
Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme (QC)
Is it Baroque? Investigating The WAG Collection, WAG, Winnipeg (MB)
2006 Exhibiton of Gallery Artists, (International Art Fair) Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
Décoratif! Décoratifs? Quatre questions autour du décoratif dans l’art québecois
Centre culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier, Valcourt, QC / Centre d’exposition de Shawinigan
Historical Retrospective of Canadian Photography, curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine, Jack Shainman Gallery. New York
Polaroid Collection, Alinari Museum, Florence, (Italy)
Heteropia: Works from the Contemporary Collection, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
Cross-Over: Selections from the Canada Council Art Bank Collection, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
Hexagram Inauguration, Concordia University EV Bldg., Montréal
In Dialogue, Lee Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto
Acting the Part, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Le Corps gay, Traveling Tour: Écomusée du fier monde, Montréal
2005 Cynicisme, Gallerie VU, Québec
2004 Local Scene : 2003 Acquisitions, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa
Dislocation, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
That Obscure Object of Desire, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
Le Corps gay, Travelling Tour
2003 Acquisitions, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa
TIAF, Convention Centre, Toronto, ON (Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, QC)
Porcelaine. Carte grise à Evergon, Dazibao, Montréal, QC
Confluence. La photographie canadienne contemporaine, Musée canadien de la photographie, Ottawa
2002 The Affordable Art Fair, Pier 92, New York
TIAF, Convention Centre, Toronto
Le Corps gay, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme (QC)
VéhiculTe, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
Art-Throb - The Culture of Obsession, Galerie Articule, Montréal
2001 TIAF, Convention Centre, Toronto, ON (Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, QC)
Growth & Risk, The Courtyard Gallery, New York, NY
The Power of Reflection, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal
Taking on Colour: Technique in Colour Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
La nature des choses, Musée du Québec, Québec
Argument, S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto, ON / Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme, QC / Centre d'exposition de Val d'Or, QC / Centre national d'exposition, Jonquière / Musée régional de la Côte-Nord, Sept-Iles, QC / Musée minéralogique et minier de Thetford Mines, QC
Typical Men, Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK
2000 TIAF, Convention Centre, Toronto (Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, QC)
Then & Now, Bradford Gallery, Cartwright Hall, Bradford (UK)
Sexmutant, The Nunnery, London (UK)
Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition, Leonard & Bini Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
Passart, Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda (QC)
Début de collection, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
QUELQUES PUBLICATIONS | SOME PUBLICATIONS
2023 Actualité: Expositions, Ellephant, Nitty Gritty: Male Toilet Angst, Karl-Gilbert Murray, Ciel Variable magazine #124
Ainsi Parlait Evergon, Didier Morelli, Spirale magazine #282
A Promise of Heaven : One Genealogy of Porn-Informed Image-Making by Gay Artists, Peter Dubé
Espace art actuel magazine #134
2022 Exhibition catalogue Evergon : Theâtres de l’intime / Theatres of Intimacy
Publisher Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
2018 Hills, Matthew, Two Chromogenic Curmudgeons: Jean-Jacques Ringuette & Evergon, in BlackFlash, Vol. 35 Issue 1, January-April 2018
2017 Murray, Karl-Gilbert, Compte rendu de l’exposition Housebound : Portraits from the Winter Garden, in Ciel Variable, No 107, Automne 2017
Reuter, Rebekka, Curator, The Polaroid Project, WestLicht. Museum for Photography, Vienna
2016 Dietschy Natalie, « Le Christ: Au miroir de la photographie contemporaine », Editions Alohil-Presses Universitaires Suisse. pp 98-101.
2015 Kirby, Bill, Founder, CCCA Canadian Art Database, Evergon
2014 James Fowler, « On The Edge 10x10, 100 Portraits Celebrating Queers in the Arts by 10 Queer Photographers », Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, pp. 45 – 53.
2012 JJ Kwgan McFadden, « Palimpsest », PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, pp. 158 – 183.
2010 Borys, Stephen. «Winnipeg Art Gallery: Guide to the Collection ». Winnipeg Art Gallery. 2010. pp 162
Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky, « The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century ». Oxford University Press. Canada. 2010. pp 293-301-420
AGAC. « Contemporary ART MONTREAL Contemporain »; Time Square, Shanghai. 2010
2009 Vendu/Sold, « Insights into Collecting and the Art Market », Les éditions Esse, Montréal, QC 2009. pp.164-165-213
Murray, Karl Gilbert, « Passion Plays », Galerie Vertical, Laval, QC. 2009. 2 catalogue 2009
2008 Bloom, Glen A. and Falvey, Emily. « Collections: Contemporary Art Collection ». The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 2008. pp. 2 & 30.
2007 Borhan, Pierre. « Hommes pour Hommes: Homoérotisme et homosexualité masculine dans l’histoire de la photographie depuis 1840 ». Edition des 2 Terres, France. 2007. p273
‘ XXX/L: Inkjet by Evergon’. « Zivel: Overground against Monoculture » - #28 Queer Issue. Praha, Czechoslovakia. 2007.
2006 Ralickas, Eduardo. BlackFlash, vol. 24. “The Gospel according to Evergon: Porn, Cynicism and the Aesthetics of Christianity”. Saskatoon, Sask. 2006. pp. 8 – 19 and cover
Camilleri, Maryanni. Carte Blanche: Photography 1. The Magents Foundation, Toronto, Canada 2006, p.47
Pauli, Lori. « La photographie mise en scène: créer l’illusion du réel ». National Gallery of Canada,Ottawa, 2006, p.59
2003 Cousineau-Levine, Penny, Faking Death, Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Mc Gill Queen’s University Press
Weiermar, Peter, D’après. Da Anzinger a Warhol, Gas Art Gallery, Torino, Italy, 2003
Evergon, Porcelaine, «Carte grise à Evergon», Dazibao, Montreal, Qc, 2003
Franklin, David. «Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada», Ottawa, Canada, 2003
Hanna, Martha, Confluences, Contempory Canadian Photography, CMCP, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, On., 2003
2002 Balcaen, Jo-en & Hobbs, Peter. Art Throb, «The culture of Obsession», Articule, Montréal, Qc 2002
1999 Foster, Alasdair. loitering with intent; Evergon. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Murray, Joan. Canadian Art of the Twentieth Century . Dundurn Press. Toronto-Oxford
1989 Hanna, Martha,'Evergon l97l - l987'. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Canada
1997 Evergon & Stapp,Will. Evergon 1987 - 1997. The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England
COLLECTIONS (selection)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, Canada, The Photographers' Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, Carole Tannebaum Collection, Toronto, Canada, International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA, Polaroid American Collection, Cambridge, Massachussets, USA, Polaroid International Collection, Frankfurt, Allemagne, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa Council, Ottawa, Canada, City of Ottawa Collection, Ottawa, Canada, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France, M. Anwar Karmal Collection of Art Modern & Contemporain, Jacksonville, Floride, USA, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada, Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, Jack Shainman Collection, New York, USA, Firestone Collection, Art Court, Ottawa, Canada, Musée du Québec, Québec, Canada, Princeton Collection, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgique, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse, Musée d’art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Angleterre, Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Ville d’Ottawa, Four Seasons Hotel, Montreal, Canada.
03/2025