Miklos Nikolaus Legrady
visual artist, critical writer
Canadian editor for the
New Art Examiner, U.K.
310 Bathurst
Toronto, ON.
M5T2S3
647-292-1846
legrady@me.com
EDUCATION
1985Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Media Studies, Concordia University, Montreal
1978Bachelor of Science in Photography, Visual Studies Workshop / S.U.N.Y., Rochester, N.Y.
PUBLISHED ART WRITING
2026John Cage, New Art Examiner U.K. January-February
2025Grand Hotel, Ydessa Hendeles, The New Art Examiner U.K. September - October
2024University Art Association of Canada Annual Conference
2024Let’s Clean Up Art History Legrady Blog, April
Rhode Island. August
2021Eldon Garnet's Visual Language The Ritz Herald, N.Y., Jan
2020MOCA Toronto + The Trendy Thing New Art Examiner (U.K.), Dec.
2020La lecture visuelle comme expérience de pensée, conference panelist
Scénographie & Technologie #3 by Franck Ancel, Paris, France, May
2020Anatoli Vlassov Dance During COVID-19, New Art Examiner, U.K., April
2020Scouting the Blogs with Miklos Legrady, New Art Examiner, Chicago/UK, Mar-April.
2019Scouting the Blogs with Miklos Legrady, New Art Examiner, Chicago/UK, Sept.-Oct.
Opening lecture for the Art House Café Lecture Series
Grimsby Art Gallery Jan. 19, 2018, Grimsby ON.
Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Montreal Qc.
Hamilton Arts & Letters, ON.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022A Necessary Correction Of Art History, Phunky London Gallery, London U.K.
2010The Effect of Gamma Rays, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB
2009Adding Insult to Imagery, Paul Petro Special Projects, Toronto, ON
2008Fountain of Doom, Centennial College/Centre for Creative Communication,
2008Fountain of Doom, Centennial College/Wallace Studio, Toronto, ON
2008Fountain of Doom, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON
2007Fountain of Doom, White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON
2007No Bad Art, OCAD street interventions, Toronto, ON
2007No Bad Art, street interventions, Toronto, ON
2003Chocolate Covered Fish, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002Chocolate Covered Fish, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001Traumwelt, Cameron Public House, Toronto, ON
1997Traumwelt, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
1996Neither Marx nor Jesus, K.O.A.P., New York, N.Y.
1995No Bad Art, street interventions, Collective Unconscious, New York, N.Y.
1995Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Limelight, New York, N.Y.
1994Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Collective Unconscious, New York, N.Y.
1994Neither Marx nor Jesus, The Gas Station, New York, N.Y.
1993Notes from the Lab, The Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory, New York, N.Y.
1993Visual Language, Educational Alliance, New York, N.Y.
1991Surprised? It’s Art! Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, Qc.
199120th Century Images, Artspace, Peterborough, ON
199120th Century Images, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1987Mythical Creatures With Human Features, Focus Gallery, Montréal, Qc.
1987Catastrophe Theory, Vu Gallery, Québec, Québec.
1986Catastrophe Theory, Photographers’ Union, Hamilton,
1985Catastrophe Theory, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta.
1985Catastrophe Theory, Garnet Press, Toronto ON.
1985I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Center Eye Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1985I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON.
1984I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Optica Gallery, Montreal, Québec.
1984I Want To Bite The Hand That Feeds Me, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026Hamilton Art Circuit, The Revival Gallery, Hamilton ON
2024Landscape POV, Part Crowd Art Gallery, Toronto, ON. Dec.
2021Mistletoe Magic 2021, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON. Dec.
2020Ontario Society of Artists online exhibition, Toronto, ON. Oct.-Dec
2020Dog Days, John B. Aird gallery, Toronto, ON August/Sept.
2019Has the artist been paid? with ARTIFACTS, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2019Hair Stories, Nancy Buchanan, 25 artists publication, Los Angeles, CA
2019FACIO, with ARTIFACTS, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2018The Listening Ground, with ARTIFACTS, Eco Art 2018, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2018Re:animation/ Реанимация, Unrealized Projects, Ksenia Yurkova, Helsinki, Finland
2018Among Questions Raised, with ARTIFACTS,
Ontario Society of Artists, 145th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2016Ted Hiebert - Imaginary Friend, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, B.C.
2015Feminist Architecture, (with ARTIFACTS), OCADU, Toronto, ON
2015WIFF, Wardrobe International Film Festival, Roadside Attractions, Toronto, ON.
2014The In-Tension 2, Seiji Shimoda, Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon (ISBA),
France, epitelesis Performance Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2013The In-Tension, Seiji Shimoda, epitelesis Performance Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2013Darkness at the Edge, curated Thom Sokoloski, Propeller Gallery, Toronto ON
2013Akimbo Neighbourhood Photos Toronto, ON
2013ARTIFACTS performance group, Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, ON
2012ARTIFACTS performance group, Pentimenti, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2012ARTIFACTS performance group, Individual Points of Fiction, A Space, Toronto, ON
2012Timeraiser, Framework Foundation, Edmonton, AB
2012An Artists' Affair, Artists' Health Centre Foundation fundraising gala, Carlu, Toronto, ON
2012Bank On Art, Artworks displayed on ATM machines, curated by Kelly McCray, Toronto, ON
2011Timeless, curator Moses Znaimer, Direct Energy Centre, CNE, + Twist Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011Spin 7, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2011Renewal, Courvoisier Collective, Toronto ON
2011Passages, Art Gallery of Peel, Peel, ON
2011Public Bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
2010Gallery Artists, Moos Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010Colliers, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2010Nuit Blanche, Fountain of Doom, Moos Gallery/Milagio Rest., Toronto, ON
2010(And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales, 2-person, Grimsby Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON
2010Exposed: The Gladstone Hotel
, Toronto, ON
2010SNAP - AIDS committee, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010The Kingston Prize 2009, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Waddington’s Auction
House, Toronto, ON, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Grand Theatre,
Kingston, ON
2009Area Artist Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
2008Evil Ducky, Durham Gallery, Silent Auction, Durham, ON
2008Timeraiser, Framework Foundation, Vancouver, BC
2008Whodunit? Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON
2008Blink, CONTACT Photography Festival, Evil Ducky, Centennial College/Wallace Studios,
Toronto, ON
2007The Artworld Eats Its Own, with Artcrime: Ulysses Castellanos, sheetalina, Aliyyah Fazil,
Miklos Legrady. Alter Toronto, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2007Public Bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
2007Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kingston, ON
2007PROPAGANDA III, (touring) START SOMA gallery, San Francisco, CA
200712 ON 12, CCCA benefit, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2006Photorama, TPW / Toronto Photography Workshop, Toronto, ON
2006Paint Jam, Dyan Marie Projects, Toronto, ON
2006Public Bench Project, Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
2006Toronto Art Expo, Toronto School of Art, Metro Convention Centre - Toronto ON.
2005Ability, Steamwhistle Gallery, Toronto ON.
2005Dexteritas, The Cryptic Canvas, Distillery District, Toronto, ON
2005Queen West Artists MOCCA,
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON.
20055th Anniversary Group Show, Loop Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004Slowtime?........ Cinematheque by Agricola de Cologne,
Le-musée Divisioniste Cologne, Germany
2002L’academie Amiens, Amiens, France.
2003Le Médiathèque du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC.
2001>A Kodak Moment. Publikation Uden Navn. København Denmark
2001Taking On Colour Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
2001Artcrimes, ARCO-EL MUNDO Net-Art, Madrid, Spain.
2001ArtCrimes, Wigged.net. April - May 2001, New York, N.Y
2001Holokaust, Art of / Art Against Torture and Execution
The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad Russia,
2000Holokaust, INFOS 2000 "net.art" Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2000Holokaust, Rhizome Artbase, online documentation and preservation archive for Internet art
2000ArtCrimes, Art on the Net 2000.
art.by.arena, Machida, Japan.
1999Kosovo War, An Internet Project. Postmasters Gallery, New York, N. Y.
1998Internet Kovek, Magyar Kulturahaz, Budapest, Hungary
1998Internet Galaxy, Iparmuveszti Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Fluxus, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1997Theatre of Objects, Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, Yukon
1997Theatre of Objects Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI
1996The Tunnel, New York, N.Y.
1996KOAP Gallery, curated by Michael Alig, New York, N.Y.
1995Pseudo Inc., Prodigy Internet. New York, N.Y.
1993Artists in Residence, Interference Hologram Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
1991Theatre of Objects, Exxon Cntr. Calgary, Alberta.
1991Theatre of Objects, Musée de la Civilisation, touring Québec.
1991-1996Le Réel et ces Simulacres, Centre national d’exposition, Jonquière, Centre d’exposition
Plein Sud, Longueuil, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Centre culturel de l’Université de
Sherbrooke, Palais Montcalm, Québec, Délégation générale du Québec, Paris, France, Halle
au Blé, Normandie, France, Espace Contretype, Bruxelles, Belgique.
1990Optica Gallery, Montreal, Qué.
1989Mirabile Visu (Faire Image), Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, Qué.
1989Power Plays, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1989Power Plays, Canada House, London and tour of England.
1989Foto Fest, Houston, Texas.
1988Foto Fest, Houston, Texas.
1985Garnet Press, Toronto, ON
1983Latitudes & Parallels, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Man.
1978Hansen Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1978Optica Gallery, Montreal, Que.
1978Open Studio, Victoria, B.C.
1977National Film Board, Stills Photography Gallery, Ottawa, ON
1976George Legrady / Miklos Legrady, A Space, Toronto, ON
1975Chair Show, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1975Exposure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2024Festival, La Biennale di Venezia - Miklos Legrady commentaries on Ydessa Hendeles referenced
in the context of the epigraph for Gaetane’s Foreword for Ydessa Hendeles' project,
The Grand Hotel, Collateral Event of the 60th International Art
2022Website design and coding for Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee of ARTIFACTS.
2020Web design and post-production video editing of Fluting Isolation, by Pam Patterson.
Collaboration between Miklos Legrady and Anatoli Vlassov
Online covid-19 project. Paris, France - Toronto, Canada.
Collaboration between Miklos Legrady and Anatoli Vlassov
Fletcher's Field, Angel Statue, Av. du Parc, Montreal, Canada
2019Jury for TD THOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT 2019 ART PRIZE
Olga Korper, Miklos Legrady, Carrie Shibinsky jurors.
2018A view from the easel, Hyperallergic, July,
Opening lecture for the 2018 Art House Café Lecture Series,
Grimsby Art Gallery, Grimsby ON.
2015Photography documentation, ArtNow/Expectations,
curated by TIMEANDDESIRE (Denise St. Marie and Timothy Walker), TOAE, Toronto, ON.
directing the video and photography documentation for the City of Toronto
and creating the event website for the Canadian Art Database, www.ccca.ca, Toronto, ON
2005-2013Digital Art Instructor, Toronto School of Art.
2011Short listed to paint the commissioned portrait of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
2001-2012Art director, web designer, the Canadian Art Database, www.ccca.ca, Toronto, ON
2008OAAG, videography for Art Institutions and the Feminist Dialectic, Toronto, ON
2001Researcher, Sheridan College, Knowledge Transformation Environment, Oakville, ON
1999CD-ROM production, Feature Films History series, Hungarian Film Institute, Budapest
1998Soros Foundation Visiting Professor, Fine Arts Academy, Budapest, Hungary.
1998Narrative in Stalinist Newsreels of the 1950s: an Internet and CD-ROM project
conceived by George Legrady, produced in association with Varga Ballas and
the Hungarian Film Institute, Budapest, and the C3 Soros Foundation, Budapest
1997CD ROM production, George Legrady's From Analog to Digital / Schloss Solitude.
1995Internship, Artists Space, New York
1994Collective Unconscious Spoken Word, Columbia University Poetry, WKCR-FM
1994Bosch Food Chain: performance artist and assistant director in a work by Dan Green,
The Mustard Factory, New York
1993Associate director, Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory. New York
1993Jury for A.I.R., Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON
1992Artist-in-residence, Polaroid Corp. Studio, New York.
1992Artist-in-residence, Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON
1990Administration staff, Optica Gallery, Montreal
1985Computer animation at Colorization, Toronto, ON
1981Researcher, McCord Museum Photographic Archives, Montreal
1977Columnist, Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
1973Photo-documentary project of the James Bay Cree Culture. O.F.Y. grant
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada, 32 works,
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Fringe Research Holographics, Toronto, ON.
Nikon Canada Ltd., Montreal, Qc.
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON.
Polaroid Corp., Boston, Massachusetts
University of Ottawa, ON.
Myra Goddard Research Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Rhizome Artbase, New York, N.Y.
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.
Private collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note: an asterisk [*] after an entry indicates an exhibition catalogue.
D’Arcy Sardone on Miklos Legrady, The Science of Beauty. The Market Herald, Jan. 2022
Walk-Listen-Create, Terminalia 2020: Walking Women February 2020
Jonny Dovercourt (Wavelength), Any Night of the Week: A DIY History of Toronto Music 1957-2001,
Coach House Books. 2019
Rachel Greene, Internet Art, Book published by Thames and Hudson, London U.K. 2018
Cardboard Paintings, Miklos Legrady, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 9.1, 2016
Interview Earth Magazine Toronto, January 2017
Painting cover image, We Have to Watch, Geoff Nilson, Quilliad Press, February 2016
Lisa McMahon and the Death of Painting, Fjords Review, Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. Fall/Winter 2015/2016
Whipping the dead horse of painting, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Montreal, Que. Nov. 2015.
Whipping the dead horse of painting, NuWork magazine, Spring. 2015.
Art Criticism on a Bed of Witticism, LifeAsHuman magazine, Jan. 2015
Fountain of Doom, Agency Magazine, Vancouver, BC. 2007
Fountain of Doom, Grimm Magazine, Kitchener, ON. 2007
Beau. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1992.*
Blackflash (Saskatoon) (1989).
Gosselin, Gaétan. “The question of politics in current Québec photography.”
Latitudes and Parallels. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.*
Miles, Geoff. “Miklos Legrady at Garnet Press.” Vanguard (Vancouver) (1985).
Mirabile Visu. Hull, Quebec: Musée de la Civilisation, 1990.*
“New Works: Artists’ Supplement.” C Magazine (Toronto), no. 7 (1985).
“Obsessive Love.” Cedar Tavern issue. Unbearables Magazine (New York), no. 2 (1995).
Power Plays. Edinburgh: Stills Gallery, 1989.*
Souvenir-Écran. Quebec: Vu Gallery, 1994.*
Chair Show. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.*
Exposure. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.*
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