Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 The Canadiana Martrydom Series. Galerie ArtMur, Montreal, Quebec

2004-05 The Doll Mouth Series. Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.; Rodman Hall, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont.; 7th Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany; Gallery Connexion, Frederiction, N.B.;
Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Martyrs Murder. Definately Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

2003 Martyrs Murder. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NFLD

2002 Still-life: stilled lives. LEE Ka-sing Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2000-2002 Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, its lesson and camouflage. Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta; Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, Ontario; Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, Japan; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba

2001 Re/Monstrance. St. Norbert Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

2000 Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable. The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, B.C.

1999 Monstrance. St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Patient/Prisoner. Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1998-96 On the Skin of a Doll. The Small Gallery, Harvard University, Boston; Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1997 slytod. Gallery 1.1.1., Winnipeg, Manitoba,

1994-96 a slow remembering. Rosizo, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, State Museum and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, Russia; The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario; The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1991-93 TOUCHING: THE SELF. Vu, Centre D'Animation et de Diffusion de la Photographie, Quebec City, Quebec; Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta; Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan; The Photographers' Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto Photographers' Workshop, Toronto

1987 Still Life: Recent Work. Thomas Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba


Selected Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2002-3 Foul Play (with Michael Boss). Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia;
Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1996 On the Skin (with Michael Boss). Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1995-94 The Tearing of Angels (with Richard Purdy and Liliana Berezowsky). Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Musee Regional de la Cote-Nord, Sept-Iles, Quebec


Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Summerpeg, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON

Illegal Art. Art and Cutlure Center of Hollywood, Floriday

Hand in Hand. Minnesota Center for Photograph, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Faking Death. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Folio Revisited. The Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta

2004 Latitudes. The Atget Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade

That Obscure Object of Desire. Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario

2003 Not So Cute & Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas

llegal Art. SFMOMA. San Fransisco, California

2002 Korper - SEXUALITÄT. Fotogalerie Wiens, Vienna, Austria

llegal Art, Gallery 313, New York, N.Y.

2000 The Liminal Body. Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia

Curator’s Choice. The Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1998 The Ugly Show. The Bracknell Gallery, Bracknell, England

1997 Here’s Looking at Me Kid. Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Ontario

Corps et empreinte. Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec

Dolls Reclaimed. Ontario Crafts Council Gallery, Toronto, Ontario,

1993-96 Search, Image and Identity: Voicing our West. Finnish Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland; Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; STRUTS Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia; The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba,

1995 The Female Imaginary. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

1993 Contemporary Canadian Art. Galerie Pallas, Prague, Czech Republic

1992 Beau , Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, Ontario

1991 The Body in Question. Burden Gallery-Aperture Foundation, New York, N.Y.


Selected Reviews
2004 Garth Buchholz. “This dance show shouldn’t be avoided”, The Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 22

2003 David Balzer. “Eye Candy”, Eye Weekly, November 20

Chris Shull. “Not So Cute & Cuddly, a new exhibit at the Ulrich, showcases dolls and stuffed animals in contemporary art”, The Wichita Eagle, Oct. 26

Chris Gaither. “Art Attack”, The Boston Globe, July 14

Matthew Hollett. “Martyr’s Murder, Diana Thorneycroft”, Arts Atlantic, Issue 75, Winter 2003

Chris Nelson. “An Exhibition borrows brazenly”, The New York Times, January 11

2002 Randal King. “Foul Play artists hope you laugh”, The Winnipeg Free Press, August 1

Valerie Fortney. “Glorious decay & disarray”, Calgary Herald, Jan. 11

2001 Alan Kellogg. “Rabbit revisited and the artist’s eye”, The Edmonton Journal, Feb.10

2000 Martha Langford. “Fantastic Trauma”, Afterimage, September/October

Robert Everett-Green. “Portrait of art as ticking bomb”, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 17

1999 Robert Enright. “Pulling questions out of a rabbit”,The Globe and Mail, Sept. 22

Sheila Robertson. “Neither nice nor ordinary”,The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), Oct. 2


Selected Awards
Manitoba Arts Council “A” Grant, 2005,1996, 1990, 1982

Established Artist Grant, Canada Council, 2003

Most Outstanding Teacher Award, School of Art, University of Manitoba, 2002

Nomination, Roloff Beny Award, 2002

Fleck Fellowship, Banff Centre for the Arts, 2001

Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Grant, 2001,1997, 1991

Canada Council "B" Grant, Photography, 1999,1992

City of Winnipeg Visual Arts Grant to Individuals, 2003,1999,1996, 1990

Canada Council Explorations Grant and Interdisciplinary/Collaboration, 1995, 1993

Video Pool First Video Fund, 1994


Documentaries
2004 ZIGZAG, CBC-TV, Aired November 2004

2000 On the Arts, CBC -TV Newsworld, Ross Porter, Host (aired Feb. 11, 12, 13)

1997 Adrienne Clarkson Presents, ‘Diana Thorneycroft: More Than Skin Deep’, CBC- TV, Terrance McCartney-Filgate, Producer (premiere October 15)

1996 Sunday Morning, CBC Radio, Karen Wells, Producer (aired November 10)

Heartland and Midday, CBC-TV, Richard Hunka , Producer (aired October 10 and October 29)

1995 Usual Suspects, BBC Radio Scotland, Peter Easton, Host; Della Matheson, Producer (aired October 11)


Selected Reviews
Allen, Jan. The Female Imaginary (exhibition catalogue). Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Gallery,1994.

Boss, Michael. The Bloody Theatre: Giving Death Its Due and Angela PLohman, At a distance:

Investigating sensorial response (exhibition brochure). St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre,1999.

Brunner, Astrid. “Diana Thorneycroft: Touching: the Self”. Blackflash vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 7-12.

Carver, Antonio, ed. Blink. Phaidon Press, 2002.

Cousineau-Levine, Penny. Faking Death. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.

Dunbar, Elizabeth. Not so Cute & Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art, (exhibition catalogue), Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, 2003.

Enright, Robert. “Rituals of Outrage”. Border Crossings Issue No. 72, pp. 5-6.

------------. “Memory Feeder: Subjects and Objects in the Art of Diana Thorneycroft”. Border Crossings vol.15, no. 3 (Summer 1996), pp. 22-33.

-------------. “Touching the Self: Diana Thorneycroft Pura: Recent Photographs”. Border Crossings vol. 9, no, 4 (Fall 1990), pp. 68-75

Fulton, Keith Louise. Opening the Body to Questions, and Shirley Madill. Staging the Self (exhibition brochure). Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Spring 1991

Gustafson, Paula and Carol Williams. Search, Image and Identity: Voicing Our West (exhibition catalogue). Saskatoon: The Photographers Gallery, 1994

Keshavjee, Serena, ed. Slytod, School of Art Gallery 1.1.1 and The University of Manitoba Press, 1998

Langford, Martha. “In the Playground of Allusion”, Exposure, 1998, Volume 31 3/4

Lipsett, Katherine. “Place of Meaning”, Blackflash, vol. 11, no. 4, (Winter 1993), pp. 4-8

Lovatt, Tom. “On the Skin: Notes Towards a Definition”, Critical Distance, Winnipeg: Ace Art,Vol. 1#19 (1996)

Madill, Shirley. “Aioria (Dancing with the Spirits in the Pale Moonlight)” , IN VERSIONS, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1990)

-------------. New Art From Manitoba, exhibition catalogue,Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983

Mark, Lisa and Buchanan, Hamish. The Pressing of Flesh, exhibition catalogue, Winnipeg: The Floating Gallery,1993

Meskimmon, Dr. Marsha. “The Monstrous and the Grotesque”, Make, no. 72 (October-November 1996), pp. 6-11

------------. The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, London: Scarlet Press, 1996

Tamplin, Illi-Maria. Winnipeg Works on Paper, exhibition catalogue, Peterborough: The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1988

Townsend, Chris. Vile Bodies: The Crises of Looking, Munich: Prestel-Verlag,1998

Walsh, Meeka, ed., The Body, its lesson and camouflage , Winnipeg: Bain and Cox, 2000

------------. “Snare”, Light Year, A Festival of Photography, Winnipeg: The Floating Gallery, 1997