Artist Info
Kim Dorland
Kim Dorland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (1998) and a Master of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto (2003). His paintings push the boundaries of representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity, and place. The geographic, social, and psychological portraits he paints of the Canadian suburbs, the wilderness that surrounds them, and the people he knows best, recall his own upbringing in a small community bordered on all sides by Alberta forest and prairie.
Since the completion of his graduate work, Dorland has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows nationally and internationally, headlining exhibitions in Toronto, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Milan. In 2013, his paintings were shown at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection alongside works from the permanent collection by iconic Canadian landscape painters including Tom Thomson and members of the Group of Seven. In 2017, he participated in O Canada!, an 11-person exhibition hosted by BEERS London to invite consideration of Canadian land, identity, culture, and politics on the occasion of Canada’s 150th birthday. He was a semi-finalist in the 2006 and 2007 RBC National Painting Competition for Young Canadian Painters. His work is held in numerous museum, public and corporate collections internationally, including Contemporary Art Foundation Japan, Art Gallery of Alberta, Glenbow Museum, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Blanton Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Eileen S. Kamin¬sky Fam¬ily Foun¬da¬tion, The Richard Massey Foun¬da¬tion, Taschen, and Royal Bank of Canada. Dorland lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
