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John Armstrong is a Canadian artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He holds a Masters of Arts degree from Chelsea School of Art in London and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.John Armstrong is a Canadian artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He holds a Masters of Arts degree from Chelsea School of Art in London and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. In 2000, he began a collaboration with Paris-based artist Paul Collins. In 2002, Armstrong and Collins created a collaborative bookwork titled Jim →, co-published by Coach House Books and the Art Gallery of Sudbury. A parallel exhibition of photographs, also titled Jim →, was presented first in 2002 at the Robert Birch Gallery in Toronto. Armstrong has exhibited his solo work in Toronto galleries such as YYZ, Cold City and Birganart. In 2003-04, his solo work was included in the Kunsthalle Erfurt's touring exhibition The Ironic Turn. A 1998, a survey exhibition of his artwork from the 1990s, titled Sanguine, was organized by Cambridge Galleries. Armstrong has instructed in the studio division of the joint Sheridan and University of Toronto Art and Art History Program since 1982. Additionally, he has taught on the Cultural Studies Program, Trent University (1982-87), and has served as an external assessor for the École régionale des beaux-arts Caen la mer (1996, 1989, 2008) and for the École régionale des beaux-arts de Rouen (1991).Show more
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