Colin Campbell
"Born in Reston, Manitoba, 1942, Colin Campbell studied at the University of Manitoba (BFA) and Claremont Graduate School in California (MFA), then taught at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick in the late 1960's and early 1970's, where he made his first video works. He moved to Toronto in 1973 and taught first at the Ontario College of Art, now the Ontario College of Art and Design, and then, beginning in 1980, in the Department of Fine Art at University of Toronto. Campbell died of cancer in October 2001 and is greatly mourned by friends and colleagues.
"Canada’s premier video artist and author of over fifty titles, Campbell was active in the artist-run centre movement in Canada, a founding member (and for many years president) of Vtape independent video distribution. He curated video and performance programs in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Rio de Janeiro, and published texts in FILE and Fuse magazines, as well as the artist’s books The Woman from Malibu (1978) and Modern Love (1979), commissioned by Art Metropole, Toronto. A retrospective exhibition, Colin Campbell: Media Works 1972–1990, was mounted by curator Bruce W. Ferguson for the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1990, and toured nationally the following year. Campbell received the Bell Canada Award in Video Art in 1996.
"Colin Campbell represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and at biennial exhibitions in Sao Paulo in 1977 and Istanbul in 1992, as well as at OKanada in Berlin (Akademie der Künste, 1982) and Documenta in Kassel, Germany in 1977. He exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris), the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and at museums and galleries elsewhere in Europe and throughout Canada and the United States. His video and film were included in the television series Ghosts in the Machine (Channel Four Television, London) and Video Art Vidéo (TVOntario) and aired on Vision Television (Toronto). His work has been screened at the Melbourne Film Festival, British Film Institute Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Festival of Festivals (the precursor to the Toronto International Film Festival), the Chicago International Film Festival, and elsewhere."
- Peggy Gale, excerpted from her text "About Colin Campbell" on the Video Art in Canada Website (Vtape/Virtual Museum of Canada, 2006)
Artist Code: 020
Videography
Dangling By Their Mouths: The Collected Works of Colin Campbell
2008, 766:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English
2001, 18:00 minutes, colour, English
2000, 29:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English
1999, 18:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English
1997, 12:55 minutes, English
1990, 18:00 minutes, colour, English
1988, 26:00 minutes, colour, English
1987, 53:00 minutes, colour, English
1986, 27:00 minutes, colour, English
1986, 25:00 minutes, colour, English
1984, 10:00 minutes, colour, English
1983, 21:00 minutes, English
1983, 08:00 minutes, colour, English, Spanish
1981, 30:00 minutes, colour, English
1981, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
1981, 60:00 minutes, colour, English
He's A Growing Boy - She's Turning Forty
1980, 40:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 20:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 65:00 minutes, colour, English
1978, 90:00 minutes, B&W, English
1978, 12:00 minutes, B&W, English
1977, 41:30 minutes, B&W, English
1977, 18:30 minutes, B&W, English
1977, 24:00 minutes, B&W, English
1977, 09:00 minutes, B&W, English
1976, 10:00 minutes, B&W, English
1976, 12:00 minutes, B&W, English
1975, 22:00 minutes, B&W, English
1974, 16:50 minutes, B & W, English
1974, 30:00 minutes, B&W, English
1974, 15:20 minutes, B&W, English
1973, 18:00 minutes, B&W, silent
1972, 12:00 minutes, B&W
1972, 14:40 minutes, B&W, English
1972, 09:00 minutes, B&W, English
Critical Writing
by . Toronto: Public Books, 2024.
by . Toronto: Art Museum, 2020.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2019.
by . V tape, 2015.
by . Canadian Film Institute, 2013.
by . Toronto: Images Festival, 2013.
by and . Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2012.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2007.
by . The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, 2006. Toronto: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication, 2006.
by . Analogue, 2006. Preston: Electronic and Digital Art Unit, 2006.
by . agYU, 2005. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2005.
by . Take One, Mar. 2002, v. 10, no. 36.
by and . Lola, Summer 2002, no. 12.
by . Video Primer, 2002. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2002.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
by . Capital Xtra!, Feb. 16, 2001.
Colin Campbell: Video Fictions, 2001. Ottawa: Available Light Screening Collective, 2001.
by . The Globe and Mail, Nov. 17, 2001.
by . Program - Video Pool Inc., Winnipeg, Nov. Fall 2000.
Toronto: Vtape, 1999.
by . C Magazine, Sept. 1998, no. 59. Toronto: C International, 1998.
by . YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
by . Parallelogramme, 1994, v. 20, no. 3.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by . The Globe and Mail, Apr. 7 Spring, 1993. Toronto: The Globe and Mail, 1993.
by . The National Art Gallery, 1991. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1991.
Colin Campbell Media Works 1972-1990, 1991. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1991.
by . C Magazine, Fall 1991, no. 31.
by . From A Reservoir of Predictions, 1990. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1990.
by and . Trade initiatives; 3 programmes of Canadian video, 1988. Vancouver: Satelite Video Exchange Society, 1988.
by and . Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d'histoire), 1987. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987.
by and . Fuse, Fall 1987, v. 11, no. 3.
by . Vintage Video: Early Canadian Video Art to 1974, 1986. Toronto: Artculture Resource Centre, 1986.
by . From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986.
by . Videoseries 86/87, 1986. New York: 49th Parallel Centre for Contemporary Art, 1986.
by . Videotapes from Brazil and Chili, 1985. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1985.
by . Canadian Video Art, 1985. S.N, 1985.
Bandes video du Bresil et Chili, 1985. Toronto: Video au musee des beaux-arts du Canada, 1985.
by . Video '84, - Recontres Vidéo Internationales de Montreal, 1984, v. sept.
by . The Globe and Mail, Sept. 1, 1984.
by and . British/Canadian Video Exchange '84, 1984. London: Canada House Cultural Centre, 1984.
by . Toronto: Litho Offset, 1984.
by . Mannersm A Theory of Culture; Mannerism: A Theory of Culture, 1982. Vancouver: The Vancouver Art Gallery, 1982.
by . The Toronto Sun, Sept. 9, 1982.
by . Fuse, Nov. 1981, v. 5, no. 8 & 9.
by . artscanada, Mar. 1981, no. 240.
by . Performance Text(e)s & Documents, 1980. Montreal: Parachute, 1980.
by and . Body Politic, June 1980, no. 64.
by . Toronto, New York: Art Metropole, The Foundation for Art Resources, 1979.
by . Autobiography: Film/Video/Photography, 1978. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978.
by . The Globe and Mail, Apr. 19, 1978.
by . City on a Hill Press, Oct. 12, 1978.
by . Toronto: Art Metropole, 1978.
by . vie des arts, Spring 1977, v. 21, no. 86.
by . Video Art: An Anthology, 1976. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
by . vie des arts, Spring 1975, v. 20, no. 78.