- J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action, (Evolver Editions, 2015)
The work on this site is organized into sequences - like movies with a few frozen actors and an obscure plot. Captions and explanatory text are footnotes, not part of the story. The viewer is the director, the cast, and the audience.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, CANADA in 1948
Lives and works in Mission, British Columbia, and Tadoussac, Quebec, CANADA
B. A. Loyola College 1971 - major in Communication Arts
2018 S'eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery – University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford. B.C.
2017 Galeria Mała Scena – University of Arts in Poznań, Poland
2014 Café Bohème, Tadoussac, Québec
2006 Galleon’s Lap Photography, Saltspring Island, BC
2003 Peripheries with David Burdeny, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, B.C.
2001 Café Bohème, Tadoussac, Québec
1999 University College of the Fraser Valley Theatre
1997 Galerie Maison Cid, Tadoussac, Québec
1983 Yajima/Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
1977 Yajima/Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
1969 Vanier Library, Loyola College, Montreal, Quebec
2021 Fraser Valley Biennial, Abbotsford, BC
2019 Fraser Valley Biennial, Abbotsford, BC
2015 Reach Gallery Museum Biennale, Abbotsford, BC
2014 Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta
2013 Reach Gallery Museum Biennale, Abbotsford, BC
2011 Reach Gallery Museum Biennale, Abbotsford, BC
2002 Haunted Water, with Louise Wheeler, North Vancouver, BC
2002 Painters in a Potters Garden, Mission, BC
1996 University of Seattle
1992 University College of the Fraser Valley, Mission, BC
1990 University College of the Fraser Valley, Mission, BC
1989 Articule, Montreal, Quebec
1984 Yajima/Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
1982 Westmount Square, Westmount, Quebec
1981 Optica Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
1977 Hieroglifica, Milan, Italy
1976 Yajima/Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
1974 The Workshop, Loyola College, Montreal, Quebec
1973 Bibliothèque Nationale, Montreal, Quebec
1971 National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1970 National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1970 Ecology Pavilion, Man and his World, Montreal, Quebec
Tadoussac 2012 - Limited Edition (20), of which 4 are produced.
Beyond the Mountains 1998, Folio Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (ISBN 0-9680175-3-3)
Book review of Displaced by Lauren Henkin for Parenthesis Magazine
Book review of An American Gallery published by by Lumière Press, for Parenthesis Magazine
Book review of Dave Heath:Korea published by by Lumière Press, for Parenthesis Magazine
Hoi Barbarii Barbarian Press, Mission, B.C.
Founts & Circumstance Barbarian Press, Mission, B.C.
OP Magazine
Time Magazine
OVO Photo - Montréal
Image Nation
Parachute Magazine
Vanguard Magazine
1974 Canada Council Arts Award
1973 Canada Council Arts Award
1971 Canada Council Travel Grant
1969 Student Grant, National Film Board - Stills Division
National Gallery of Canada
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Private collections
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