Philip Coman
      - Biography

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Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada L2A 3Z8
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Phil Coman

  • Specialty Studio
  • Born Toronto, Ontario, 1960
  • Resides in Fort Erie, Ontario
  • Artworks Represented by The Laurier Gallery,
           Toronto (416-232-0217 Maurice
           Amar, Director)

    • Phil with the 8x10 field camera he built in 1990.
       

      Series Portfolios

      Ontario:Vanishing Farmland    
      Small Towns of the American Northeast    
      Erie Beach Grove    
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      Exhibitions

      • Group Exhibition, Jordan Gallery Niagara, February 2007
      • June 21- Sept. 23, 2007; Permanent Collection Gallery, Art Gallery of Peel
        'Combining art and artefacts from the collections of the Art Gallery of Peel and the Region of Peel Museum, this exhibition examines the concepts of the missing, the vanishing and the obsolete with works by Cheryl Simon, Philip Coman, Harley Parker'
      • Juror, Mississauga Arts Awards, June 2006
      • Group Exhibit of Paintings & Photographs, Nov-Dec 2004, Art Gallery of Peel
        Installation picture
      • 31st Juried Show, Art Gallery of Peel, April, 2004
      • Supporting material: The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept 9 - Dec 16, 2003
      • *Juror's Choice- the Cutruzzola Award, 30th Juried Show, Art Gallery of Peel April-May, 2003
      • 28th Juried Show, Art Gallery of Peel April-May, 2001
      • Retrospective at the Whitney Gallery, Brampton July-August 2001
      • 26th Juried Show, Art Gallery of Peel, May, 1999
      • Brampton Millenium Book, contributing photographer, 1999
      • Group Exhibition, Gamsby Gallery, Hamilton, Nov 1998
      • Aspects of the Collection, Art Gallery of Peel, Aug 12 -Sept 13, 1998
      • 1999 Calendar published by The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (Zurich of Canada, Sponsor) theme: "End of the Twentieth Century"
      • *1st Prize, Photography, 25th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Peel, May 6 - June 16, 1998
      • Solo exhibition, Fox Talbot Museum, England, March 1 -May 1, 1998
      • Broadway Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, March 15 - April 16, 1998 Bill Warren/Phil Coman
      • *Visual Arts-Travel Grant Award, Canada Council for the Arts, 1998
      • Group exhibition, 'Photography in Peel', Art Gallery of Peel, 1998
      • Group exhibition, 24th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Peel, May 1 -June 15, 1997
      • Group exhibition, Art Gallery of Peel, 1996
      • Solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Nov-Dec, 1995
      • *Exhibition Assistance Grant, Visual Arts Ontario, Nov, 1995
      • Guest speaker at the Brampton Print Club, Nov, 1995
      • Workshop instructor, Peel Board of Education, Dec, 1995
      • *Juror's Choice Award, Mystic Art Association Photographic Exhibition, Mystic, Connecticut, July, 1995
      • Solo exhibition Laurier Gallery, Toronto, 1995
      • Group exhibition, Mystic Art Association Gallery, 1994
      • Solo exhibition at the Laurier Gallery, Toronto, 1994 Installation photo
      • Prints exhibited at Longhouse Bookstore, Toronto, 1993
      • Group exhibition, Toronto Image Works Gallery, Toronto, 1988
      • Portfolio published, Camera Canada, 1987
      • Group exhibition, University of Toronto, 1987
      • Group exhibition, University of Toronto, 1986

      Collections

      • Art Gallery of Peel
      • Laurier Gallery
      • Yale University
      • Region of Peel
      • Caber Productions
      • Fox Talbot Museum, UK
      • Cynthia Watson & Associates
      • Private Collections

           Commercial clients include IBM, Bank of Nova Scotia, MacCleans Magazine, Canadian Curling Association, Acme Strapping, Netron Inc, Equion Group, Day & Ross Air Freight, Ziggurat, Jovlan, Colgate-Palmolive, among others.

           Phil is also a fine pianist, earning a Grade 9 Honours Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 1979, and participating in a master class with Eugene List while studying there. He is currently pianist/organist at Ridgeway Community Methodist Church in Ridgeway Ontario