Louise Noguchi

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Louise Noguchi
Born
Louise Mitsuko Noguchi

1958 (age 6667)
EducationMFA, University of Windsor; AOCA from Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Website www.louisenoguchi.com

Louise Noguchi (born 1958) [1] is a multidisciplinary visual artist in Toronto who for five decades has used video, photography, sculpture, and installation to examine notions of identity, perception and reality. [2]

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Early career

Louise Noguchi was born in Toronto, and received her MFA from the University of Windsor and AOCA from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. [3] She has been active in the Toronto art community since 1981. [4]

Work

Her sculptural installation work in the 1980s dealt with the theme of the hunter. In 1999, she co-authored Compilation Portraits - Louise Noguchi with Kym Pruesse and Suzanne Luke (Robert Langen Gallery). In the 1990s, she explored the language of violence which is concealed in the Wild West mythology of rodeo cowboys, trick roping, sharp shooting, gun spinning and knife throwing. [5] [6] In her video Crack (2000), for instance, a cowboy's bull whip beheads a white flower, with one crack. [7] (Crack and her other videos have been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario). [8]

More recently, she has looked to contemporary culture as a source for material, including her background as a Japanese descendant. [6] In a series in 2013, Noguchi has taken archival digital prints of the Royal Ontario Museum's collection of Buddha heads that were broken or sawed off by thieves and vandals, but had been part of rock walls at various religious sites in China. [9]

Selected exhibitions

Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She has had solo exhibitions starting at Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto (1982), and other shows such as Louise Noguchi: Selected Work 1982-85 were held at the Power Plant, Toronto (1989), [4] at Oakville Galleries, [5] and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (1999); at Birch Contemporary Gallery, Toronto (2005); [10] and at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and the Thames Art Gallery (2008).

In 2024, the two-person show Louise Lawler Louise Noguchi was shown at the Beauty Supply Room in Toronto, curated by Kate Whiteway. [11] In 2024 as well, the exhibition Louise Noguchi: Selected Works 1986-2000 opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario. [12] It included three works from her career: Crack, a video showing flowers demolished by a whip; Fruits of Belief: The Grand Landscape, an installation that merged sculpture and photography; and Eden, a sculpture made using a mirror. [13]

She has participated in group shows since 1978 and been in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery and the Canadian Embassy Gallery, Vancouver (1996); the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (1996); [4] Oakville Galleries, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (1997–1999); Deutsches Museum, Munich (2002); [10] the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002 and 2016) (the Art Gallery of Ontario received a large-scale installation from the Canada Council Art Bank in the late 1990s and also put it on exhibition in 2005), [14] with Stan Douglas in the Space of Making, Berlin (2005), [2] [15] and in the United States (2009). [16] In 2020, she was in a group show titled Next Year's Country, linked with artists as seemingly distant as William Kurelek at Remai Modern, Saskatoon. [17]

Selected solo exhibitions prior to 2000

Source: [18] [19]

Selected group exhibitions

Source: [18] [19]

Public collections

Noguchi's work is in the public collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, [14] Oakville Galleries; [25] the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; [26] the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; [27] and elsewhere. She is represented by Birch Contemporary Gallery in Toronto. [6]

Teaching

She was a professor in the Art and Art History Program, a collaborative joint program between Sheridan Institute and the University of Toronto Mississauga where she taught photography and performance-based art from 1971 on. [3]

Further reading

References

  1. "Louise Noguchi". app.pch.gc.ca. Government of Canada. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Japanese Canadian Artists". japanesecanadianartists.com. Japanese Canadian Artists. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Louise Noguchi". centrevox.ca. VOX. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 "Louise Noguchi". www.utm.utoronto.ca. University of Toronto. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Louise Noguchi: The Language of the Rope, 1999". www.oakvillegalleries.com. Oakville Galleries. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 "Louise Noguchi". /www.sheridancollege.ca. Sheridan College. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  7. Fujino, David. "An Interview with Louise Noguchi, 2014". jccabulletin-geppo.ca. Japanese Canadian Bulletin. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  8. "Searching and finding the videos of Louise Noguchi". mano-ramo.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  9. "Louise Noguchi". The Rusty Toque, Portfolios (5). 15 November 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Louise Noguchi". photography-now.com. photography-now.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  11. "Exhibitions". beautysupplyroom.com. Beauty Supply Room, Toronto. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  12. "Exhibitions". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  13. "Article". torontolife.com. Toronto Life. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  14. 1 2 "Building the collection: new and future acquisitions, October 9 - January 9, 2005". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  15. "The Space of Making". centrevox.ca. VOX. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  16. "Louise Noguchi". wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/archive/2009-10. Western Michigan University. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  17. "Next Year's Country". remaimodern.org. Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  18. 1 2 Glasser, Penelope (1991). Louise Noguchi. Louise Noguchi, Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery. ISBN   0-921613-27-X. OCLC   30851592.
  19. 1 2 Noguchi, Louise (1989). Louise Noguchi : selected works 1982-1985. Louise Dompierre, Power Plant. Toronto: Power Plant. ISBN   0-921047-38-X. OCLC   32548614.
  20. "Catalogues". Louise Noguchi. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  21. "Exhibitions". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  22. "Article". www.theglobeandmail.com. Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  23. "Events". nowtoronto.com. nowtoronto. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  24. "Exhibitions". beautysupplyroom.com. Beauty Supply, To. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  25. "Collection". www.oakvillegalleries.com. Oakville Galleries. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  26. "Collection". agnes.queensu.ca. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  27. Noguchi, Louise. "Collection". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Retrieved 21 April 2021.