Walter Scott
Contemporary questions of representation, cultural production, popular culture and narrative construction are central to Walter Scott's practice. Through auto-biographical elements, Walter’s work navigates the slippery states between the fiction and reality of the “artist,” of aesthetic representation, and of the self.
Moving through drawing, film, sculpture and installation, Walter uses each medium self-referentially, to highlight the anxiety of presentation, both in the conventions of the art world, and of the artwork itself. His comic series, Wendy, chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical version of the contemporary art world.
Walter Scott's studio is sponsored by the generous support of Lillian & Billy Mauer in 2023-2024.
Biography
Kahnawake-born Walter Scott works in drawing, sculpture and video. The artist has exhibited his work in Canada, Europe and the United States, including solo shows at the Naughton Gallery in Belfast (NIR), Remain Modern in Saskatoon and the Agnes Etherington Art Center in Kingston. In 2021, the artist was a finalist for the Sobey Award, representing Quebec, and is represented by Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto. His comic strip series Wendy has been published in Canadian Art, Art in America and The New Yorker. Walter Scott holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Guelph.
Recent exhibitions
| 2023 | Open Ended / Painted Shut, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, CA |
| 2022 | Reframed Into Oblivion, solo exhibition, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, IE |
| 2021 | Greater Toronto Art, group exhibition, MOCA, Toronto, CA |
| 2020 | The Scrawled Heel of the Real, solo exhibition, Ashley, Berlin, DE Happy Medium, solo Exhibition, Centre Clark, Montreal, CA Tolerance of Ambiguity, solo Exhibition, Latitude 53, Edmonton, CA Extension of Doubt, solo Exhibition, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA The Pathos of Mandy, solo Exhibition, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, CA The Pathos of Mandy, solo Exhibition, I.S.C.P, Brooklyn, New York, US Slipping On the Missing X, solo Exhibition, Macaulay Fine Art, Vancouver, CA |