Patrick Mahon
Patrick Mahon is an artist, a writer/curator, and a Professor of Visual Arts at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. Currently, he is Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities at Western. Mahon’s artwork has been exhibited widely: in Canada at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Museum London, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; internationally in exhibitions in China, France, Norway, and Switzerland; and in numerous print biennales since the early 1990’s. Patrick’s collaborative project, Immersion Emergencies and Possible Worlds, resulted in a ten-artist group exhibition, The Source: Rethinking Water through Contemporary Art, presented at Rodman Hall, Brock University, Canada, in 2014, with a second iteration, The Living River Project, at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 2019. Other recent Canadian exhibitions include McMaster Museum of Art (2013); Wilfred Laurier University (2013); and Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg (2014).
Among Mahon’s curatorial projects are the exhibitions, “Lines Painted in Early Spring: Ferguson, Reeves, Ruschiensky, Savard,” (2003-04, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and circulating); “Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here is what I mean,”(2004, Museum London and Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto); “Hinterlands: Fastwurms, Glabush, Thornycroft, Urban,” (2008-09, McIntosh Gallery, Western, and Harbourfront Centre, Toronto); and “Barroco Nova,” (2012, Museum London, McIntosh Gallery, and ArtLab, Western).
Threshold Flags: Caledonia Occupation Site – from Photograph by Jeff Thomas (2008), 2021
Threshold Flags: Caledonia Occupation Site – from Photograph by Jeff Thomas (2008), 2021
Nonsuch Garden Installation with collages and sculpture produced with Dickson Bou 2015
Design for a Dissemunization Station (UNAIDS, Geneva) Installation with printed tent structures, medical equipment, sound 2017
Messagers’ Forum (draft presentation view) Installation with wall structures and pavilion frame, furniture 2018-20