Biography
Born in 1975 in Winnipeg, Craig Love is a visual artist whose primary concerns are painting and text. His paintings aim at being associative springboards or poignant diversions for the everyday problems of being. Of particular interest is the propensity for how painted and written languages find their resting state nestled uncomfortably amongst approximation and abstraction.
He was educated at the University of Manitoba and Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York City. He has shown his work in many places across Canada, New York, Scotland, Turkey, and France.
He sometimes writes on Art, primarily painting. Love now lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada with his partner Janet and their dog Lu.
Selected Works
Craig Love
The Confidence Man, 2025
Craig Love
Algonquin Silver Birch (1-9), 2023-24
Craig Love
Daruma Hume Camus, 2024
Curriculum Vitae
BORN
In 1975 in Winnipeg
EDUCATION
2004 MFA, Fine Arts, Parson’s School of Design, New School University.
1999 BFA Honours Thesis in Painting, University of Manitoba.
1993-1995 Under-graduate studies in English Literature, University of Manitoba.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Dull Roars, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS. 2025
Good Work, 226 Gallery, Winnipeg, 2025.
Third Elbow, SMU Gallery, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS. Curated by Mitchell Wiebe, 2024.
the language is in the drifts, C’CAP curated by Luther Konadu, Winnipeg, 2023-24.
N P B S, Material Print Shop, Louisville, Kentucky, 2019. Curated by Loren Myhre
Musée Imaginaire dans une serre verre, Usine Utopik, Basse Normandie, France, 2016. Accompanied by a catalogue.
O Cuckoo, at Library, Winnipeg, Canada. September 2015. Curated by Wanda Koop. *catalogue*
oloniusPa ezSa haulUa, Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, 2015. Facilitated by Collin Zipp.
And then some at Parlour, Winnipeg, Canada. 2014
Brightview, Project Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2014 Part of Contact Photo Festival.
*Library, Library, Winnipeg, Canada. 2014
CT-International Print Biennale, Galería de Arte Universal, Santiago, Galería Luz y oficios, Havana, Centre 3, Hamilton, and CRAM International, St. Catherines. 2013-14
Library, Library, Winnipeg, Canada. 2013
datumerrata exhibition of a new portfolio of mixed media prints in collaboration with artist William Eakin, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, Canada. 2013
Un Salon de Stimulation de la Qualite. A la fois a Divertir et a Affiner. La Deuxieme Partie. Golden City Fine Art, Winnipeg, Canada. 2011
Days of Rinds and Woe (new older paintings), Semai Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. 2011
ABotM, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada. 2010
FAX, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada. 2010
P.I.S.S. Open House, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada. 2009
Revolver Uptown, with Gallery One-One-One, Winnipeg, Canada. 2008
Under the Influence, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. 2007
Horror Vacui: Love Drawings, G+ Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2007
Mosquitoes, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.. 2006
The Line of Beauty, Kathleen Cullen Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.. 2006
No Future with Cliff Eyland, Gallery 803, Winnipeg, Canada. 2006
The Obsessed & Compulsive Body, G+ Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2006
In Your Dreams, Travelling group exhibition, Canada (2006) then travelling to Germany (2007) and Australia (2008-10).
Life and Limb, Feigen Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.. Curated by David Humphrey. 2005
Threesome, with Cliff Eyland and Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Cream Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. 2005
Newton’s Prism: Layer Painting, Gallery One-One-One, Winnipeg, Canada. 2003
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
*Persevering Peek-a-Boo, Leesa Streifler, Bordercrossings Magazine, Issue 166, January 2025.
Musée Imaginaire. Odile Crespy, exhibition catalogue essay, Usine Utopik, April 2016.
*O Cuckoo Andrew Kear, Bordercrossings Magazine, Issue 137, February 2016.
When Craig Love comes over my dog thinks it’s party time. Cliff Eyland, catalogue for O Cuckoo at Library Gallery, 2015. (catalogue also includes an interview with Cliff Eyland, Wanda Koop, Diane Whitehouse and William Eakin)
The bold and the beautiful. Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, December 31, 2015.
*O Cuckoo. Sarah Swan, Galleries West, 2015.
Stop Making Sense. Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, September 3, 2015.
Stimulating work proves painting alive, well. Sarah Swan, Winnipeg Free Press, April 1, 2014.
Fire in the HOLE. Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, September 5, 2013.
*In Your Dreams. Australian Textile Forum, Issue 3, 2008.
City Report: Winnipeg. Guy Maddin & Robert Enright, Frieze magazine, March 2006.
Love Lettrist. Bordercrossings magazine, November 2005. (Interview and images)
*Life and Limb. Peter Schjeldal, The New Yorker, August 1, 2005.
*Life and Limb. Martha Schwendener, Artforum. (online)
*Between You and Me: Life and Limb at Feigen Contemporary. Ian Green, New York Arts Magazine, July 2005.
*Gallery Going. David Cohen, The New York Sun, June 30, 2005.
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025 Awarded La Napoule Art Foundation Canadian Artist Residency at Château de la Napoule, France.
2025 Awarded the William and Isabel Pope NSCAD Painting Residency
2020 Awarded $15,000 grant from Manitoba Arts Council to continue a painting installation and replenish studio after fire.
2017 Awarded $5000 grant from the Winnipeg Arts Council to make a suite of new paintings.
2016 Awarded the first Manitoba Arts council residency in Normandy, France at Usine Utopik.
2014 Awarded a Manitoba Arts council A grant ($10 000) to attend residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop to fabricate vacuum-formed relief sculptures and collect audio.
2011 Awarded a Winnipeg Arts council grant ($5000) to produce an artist book related to the writings of Paisley weaver/poet Robert Tannahill.
2009 Manitoba Arts Council A Grant ($10,000) Project grant for research and creation of a new body of work related to the paisley pattern, Paisley poet/weaver Robert Tannahill and Paisley, Scotland.
2006 Manitoba Arts Council B Grant ($4,000) Project grant for the production of new paintings.
LECTURES / PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2025 Visiting Artist NSCAD University
2023 Visiting Artist Concordia University (Department of Studio Arts MFA)
2023 Visiting Artist NSCAD (Painting Department)
2019 Panel discussion on Artist Residencies at Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe, moderated by Allison Gilmore.
2014 Public Interview “Painting is (not) Dead” at Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe, with Sarah Swan.
2013 Artist Talk, with William Eakin for our exhibition datumerrata, Martha Street Studio.
2013 Artist Talk, University of Manitoba Art Lab
2013 Mini-Lecture Tours, Winnipeg Art Gallery, concerning works of L.S. Lowry & Morris Louis.
2009 Lecture, University of Manitoba, School of Fine Arts, Thesis seminar.
2008 Lecture, University of Manitoba, School of Fine Arts, painting department.
2007 Lecture, University of Guelph, School of Fine Arts and Music
PUBLISHED WRITING
Paul Pagk, article, Bordercrossings Magazine, issue 162, 2023.
Cliff Eyland, review, Bordercrossings Magazine, issue 159, 2022.
Cliff Eyland, tribute, Canadian Art Magazine, online, 2020.
Suzie Smith, interview, brochure for “One thing, then another”, LKAP, 2016.
Simon Hughes, review, Bordercrossings Magazine, issue 141, 2017.
Karel Funk, review, Bordercrossings Magazine, issue 139, 2016.
Ted Barker, review, Bordercrossings Magazine, issue 138, 2016.
