Justin Ogilvie is a Vancouver based artist. His practice examines various rifts between traditional and contemporary modes of painting, weaving together pictorial explorations that hover between figuration & abstraction.

EDUCATION

2013 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Alberta

2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Hyper-Portraits, Cowichan Art Gallery, Vancouver Island

2025 Spectral Bodies in Three Acts, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver

2022 New Work, Pandora Studio, Vancouver

2018 Drifting Parade, Northern Studio, Vancouver

2017 Painting the Absurd, Northern Studio, Vancouver

2015 Figures & Grounds, Northern Studio, Vancouver

2013 Before and Again, MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Alberta, Edmonton

2013 B-Sides, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton

2010 Untitled Portraits, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton

2008 Continuum, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

2006 Radiance, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

2005 Dissolve, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

2003 The Fine Line, (two-person show with John Dennison), Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Oh Canada!, Beers Contemporary, London, UK

2017 Westcoast Figurative, Gibsons Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC

2016 Faculty Show, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

2015 Westcoast Figurative, Gibsons Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC

2015 Public Myths Private Dreams, curated by Pennylane Shen, Meccanica, Vancouver

2014 The Fantasy of Representation, curated by Andrew Salgado, Beers Contemporary, London, UK

2013 Faculty Show, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

2010 Drawn, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver

2010 Gallery Fundraiser, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver

2008 What Use Art History, curated by Anne Rosenberg, Municipal Galleries in Comox, Coquitlam and Penticton, BC

2007 The Kingston Portrait Prize, Kingston, ON (juried)

2006 Portrayal, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver

2005 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto,

2004 Artists Abroad, Egyptian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy

2003 The Hive: Urban Implications, Dynamo Gallery, Vancouver

TEACHING

2019–Present Co-Founder/ Instructor, Canvas Method Atelier, Vancouver

2013–2017 Sessional Instructor, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

2012–2013 Sessional Instructor, University of Alberta, Edmonton

2010–2013 Private Instructor, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton

2003–2005 Sessional Instructor, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver

RESIDENCIES

2016 Burton Foundry Residency, Salt Spring Island, BC

2016 Wai Residency, Hornby Island, BC

2015 Manuel Antonio Studio, Quepos, Costa Rica

ARTIST TALKS

2017 Picturing the Unpicturable, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC

2015 Figures & Grounds, Northern Studio, Vancouver

2013 Before and Again, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton

2013 B-Sides, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton

2012 Contemporary Figurative Painting, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton

MEDIA

2017 Degrass, Jan. ‘Westcoast Figurative: Human Form On Show’. Coast Reporter, January 25

2013 Matejko, Agnieszka. ‘Before and Again’. Vue Weekly, June 26

2006 Cramp, Beverly. ‘The Business of Art ’. The Vancouver Courier, March 8

2005 The Arts Report, CBC Radio, March

2003 Morning Show, Global News, Vancouver, April

COLLECTIONS

Alumni Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton

B & R Racquet Club, Vancouver, Canada

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2010 Arts and Culture Room, Richmond Olympic Oval, Vancouver

VOLUNTEER & DONATIONS

2002-2013 Donating Artist, Art for Life, United Way and Shooting Stars, Vancouver

2010 Adjudicator, Painting Competition, Canadian Federation of Artists

2009 Donating Artist, Access Public Art Gallery, Vancouver

2004-2006 Adjudicator, Scholarship Panel, St. George’s S.S., Vancouver

AWARDS

2013 Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Alberta

2010 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Scholarship, University of Alberta

2010 BC Arts Council Tuition Scholarship

2007 Finalist in the Kingston Prize Finalist

1998 Academic Undergraduate Scholarship, Emily Carr University

1997 BC Arts Council Tuition Scholarship