Solo Exhibitions

2022, Within and Without, (one show in 2 locations), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto
2018, Still, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto ON
2018, Whatever Form This Moment Takes, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2017, A Certain Silence, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto ON
2016, Impermanent Horizon, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2014, Afterimage, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2013, Untitled (Weights and Measures, from the ongoing series...), solo exhibition, Artspace, Peterborough ON
2012, Untitled Installation ((I see your point, and I understand your perspective...) solo exhibition, Convenience Gallery, Toronto ON
2012, Still, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal QC
2011, One and Two, solo exhibition curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs, Galerie B-312, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal QC
2010, Portrait Study, Video Installations by Jim Verburg, Nova Scena, Prague National Theatre, Mezipatra Festival, Prague
2009, For a Relationship, solo installation, widmertheodoridis, Zurich Switzerland

Art Fairs (solo and group exhibitions)

2022, Art Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Toronto
2018, Untitled Miami, Jim Verburg with Laura Moore (Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Miami
2018, Expo Chicago, Jim Verburg with Lili Huston-Herterich (Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Chicago
2017, Art Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Toronto
2016, Untitled Miami (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Miami FL Art Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Miami
2015, Texas Contemporary Art Fair , solo booth/exhibition Light Becomes Form, The Horizon Rests into View, (Galerie Nicolas Robert), Houston
2015, VOLTA NY, solo booth/exhibition What is missing / What is seen, (widmertheodoridis, Zurich), New York City
2015, Feature (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Toronto ON
2014, Papier (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Montreal
2013, Art Basel Miami (Art Metropole, Toronto), Miami FL
2009, Hot Art Fair Basel (widmertheodoridis, Zurich), Basel Switzerland

Special Projects / Commissions

2019, The shape this takes to get to that, Public Art Installation, Ottawa ON
2016, Shape and Light #1 (from the ongoing series reflected/repeated), a commissioned choreographed work for the Toronto Dance Theatre, part of the program Singular Bodies, Performed by Justin de Luna, Toronto ON
2015, A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides, book launch and signing, MoMA Ps1, New York City
2013, 0/ Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures, and Emotional Geometry, book launch and exhibition, Art Metropole, Toronto ON
2012, Similtudes/Similarities, (influences of Jim Verburg) featured screening curated by Karl-Gilbert Murray, International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal QC

Collections

Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank Art Collection (Toronto), Hudson’s Bay Art Collection (New York City), Hydro Quebec Art Collection (Montreal), Various private and corporate collections in New York City, Austin, Houston, Zurich, Toronto and Montreal.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
A Present Abstract, curated by Alex Bowron, Cydonia Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
Obsolescence, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary AB

2016
For you / And me, curated by Ashleigh Bartlett, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary AB
Sans Titre, Battat Contemporary, Montreal QC
Forme / Édition / Expérimentation, Colectif Blanc, Montreal, Gatineau and Toronto

2015
Chroma, Inman Gallery, Houston TX
The Extent of What’s Already There, visiting artists exhibition: Sasha Pierce and Jim Verburg, Open Studio, Toronto ON

2014
Far Away So Close, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Access Gallery, Vancouver BC
Primeiro Estudo: Sobre Amor curated by Bernardo Mosqueira, Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro Brazil

2013
More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), curated by Micah Lexier, The Power Plant, Toronto ON

2012
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, curated by Jon Davies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON
Scenes from Here, with Eamon Mac Mahon, curated by Claire Sykes. Feature Exhibition, Contact Festival, Toronto ON

2011
So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up curated by JJ Kegan McFadden, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg MB
Domestic Queens, curated by Evergon, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA). Concordia University, Montreal QC

2010
Long Live McLaren: Contemporary Canadian Queer Animation, curated by Blaine Allan, Grand Theatre, Kingston ON
That’s So Gay, curated by Sholem Krishtalka, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON
Four Hikes, curated by Silke Otto Knapp, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB
Works on Paper, with Mark Clintberg, Jeff Kulak, and Ryan Crouchman, Papeterie Nota Bene, Montreal QC STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1:
Variations on the Home Movie, Metro Cinema, Edmonton AB IM/POSSIBLE WORLDS, curated by Jason St-Laurent, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton NB

2009
PROOF 16, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto ON
11th Annual FairyTales International Queer Diversity Film Festival, Calgary AB
Mixed Up in Philly, The Flickering Light Film Series, Philadelphia PA, USA
Reel 2 Real International Film Festival, Vancouver BC
Soup and Screen, Articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal QC

2008
Mein schwules Auge 5, Werkstattgalerie, Berlin Germany
MIX 21 NYC, New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York NY
Queersicht Film Festival, Bern Switzerland
Mix Brasil, 14th Festival da Diversidade Sexual, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels Belgium
South by Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico, USA
LGBT Short Film Festival, Univeristy of Wilwaukee Film Department, Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA
International Competition, Queer Lisboa 12 Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal
Recovering Agnostic, curated by Mark Clintberg, Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, Montreal QC
Make Out, curated by Malin Arnell, Studio 44, Stockholm Sweden
Shout Out, curated by Erik Martinson, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
Outfest, Los Angeles International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Los Angeles CA
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco CA
Fully Flared Films, International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Vtape Screening, Oberhausen, 54th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
All The Reel Boys, NewFest 2008, New York LGBT Film Festival, New York NY
Montreal mon amour, curated by Jason St Laurent, Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON
Verzaubert 17, Interationales Queer Filmfestival, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin, Germany
Voice Over, Da Sodoma a Hollywood 23, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino, Italy

Residencies

2014, Visiting Artist Residency, Open Studio, Toronto ON
2010, Figure in a Mountain Landscape (Reprise), Residency with Silke Otto-Knapp, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB
2009, Visiting Artist Residency, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto ON
2008, Hothouse 5, Production Residency, National Film Board of Canada (NFB/ONF), Montreal QC

Grants and Awards

2017, Chalmers Fellowship Research Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2015, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2014, National / International Residency Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2012, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2011, Dazibao Award, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011, Montreal QC
2010, Research and Creation Grant to Media Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2009, Best Short Film, Audience Award, 11th Annual FairyTales International Queer Diversity Film Festival, Calgary AB
2008, Short listed for the Iris Prize for Short Film, Cardiff, Wales UK
2008, Colin Campbell Award, Best Canadian Short Film, Jury Prize, Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON

Formal Education

2008, Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Distinction), Major in Photography, Concordia University, Montreal QC
1999, Independent Studies, Sociology/Religious Studies, Queens University, Kingston ON

Publications, Reviews, and Articles

2017
Review, A Certain Silence, Jim Verburg at Zalucky Contemporary. Alex Bowron, Esse Magazine, May 2017

2016
Quand la peinture se donne des allures de photo, Les oeuvres monochromes de Jim Verburg évoquent les anciens procédés photographiques. (Painting in the guise of photography: Jim Verburg’s monochrome works evoke old photographic processes), Nicolas Mavrikakis, 17 septembre 2016, Le Devoir, Montreal

Singular Bodies, Pairing visual artists and dancers delivers mixed results in Toronto Dance Theatre’s Singular Bodies, Kathleen Smith, NOW Toronto, April 20, 2016

Singular Bodies beautifully exploits the overlap between dance and visual effect, Martha Schabas. The Globe and Mail, April 15, 2016

2015
A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides, Jim Verburg, 2015, Sternthal Books, Montreal, ISBN 978-0-9921337-5-7 including the text Light Becomes Form: The Work of Jim Verburg by Alex Bowron

Canadian Highlights at New York’s Art Fairs, Bill Clarke, Canadian Art Magazine online, March 12, 2015
2014 Far Away So Close Part 1, 2014, Exhibition Catalogue, Access Gallery Vancouver, 71 pages, Edition of 75, ISBN 978-0-9866688-5-2

2014
Hidden Image: A Panel Discussion on Photography and Abstraction, with Jim Verburg, Sheree Hovsepian, Jerome Nadeau, moderated by Bill Clarke and organized by G44 for CONTACT 2014, The Drake, Toronto ON

Jim Verburg at Galerie Nicolas Robert, review by Susannah Wesley on Akimblog. April 22, 2014, Montreal QC http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=852 2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), Micah Lexier, The Power Plant, 2013, Toronto ON ISBN: 978-1-894212-38-0

2013
O/ Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures and Emotional Geometry, Jim Verburg, 2013, Dazibao, Montreal QC, 102 pages, colour offset, hard cover, ISBN 978-2-922135-41-1

A Numbers Game, Pamala Meredith, IN Toronto Magazine, p 30-31, September 2013

Overlaps and Meeting Places:The Work of Jim Verburg, Hilton Bertalan, p51-57 Hello Mr. Issue One, 2013, New York City, ISSN 2201- 8220. 2012 Five Notes: CONTACT Photography Festival Favourites, Jim Verburg at Circuit Gallery/Gallery 345, Magenta Magazine Online

2012
Review, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Various Locations, Tess Edmonson, Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2012, p 134

So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up, JJ Kegan McFadden, chapter in Haven’t We Been Here Before, p 45-48, 56, 2011/2012 Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, ISBN:978-0-9697675-7-2

2011
Haven’t We Been Here Before? Mary Reid, Review, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, June 9- July 23, 2011,

C Magazine 112, International Contemporary Art, Winter 201, p 54-55, ISSN 1480-5472

The Domestic Queens Project, Erin Silver, Review, C Magazine III, International Contemporary Art, Autumn 2011, p 39-41, ISSN 1480-5472

Wanting to See, Anne-Marie Ninacs, chapter in Lucidity. Inward Views, Edited by Anne-Marie Ninacs, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011, Pages 64-71, 199, 269 and 331, ISBN 978-2-9808020-3-4

The Domestic Queens Project , Mark Clintberg, Catalogue, Pages 20-23, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal QC, ISBN 978-0-9868715-0-4

2010
That’s So Gay! The Review by Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City, JULY 13, 2010, http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/07/13/thats-so-gay-the-review/

Frottage: Love affairs in Photography (Part 2), Mark Clintberg, Blackflash Magazine, Art Photography New Media, Summer 2010, p 14-15, ISSN 0826-3922

Relevant Work Experience

2007-08 Co Director Visual Arts (VAV) Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2006-07 Co Producer and Artistic Director, Art Matters Festival, Concorida University, Montreal QC
2001–03 Director of Programming, Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston ON
2005–10 Graphic Designer, Freelance, Montreal QC, Toronto ON
2003–10 Photographer, Freelance, Montreal QC, Toronto ON
2003 Community Art Facilitator, Circulation, Art in the Streets Project, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston ON