Louise Noguchi (born 1958) is a Canadian multidisciplinary
visual artist who uses video, photography, sculpture, and installation to examine notion of identity, perception and reality.
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.
She has been active in the Toronto art community since 1981.
Work
Her sculptural installation work in the 1980s dealt with the theme of the hunter. In 1999, she co-authored ''Compilation Portraits''
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.
In her video ''Crack'' (2000), for instance, a cowboy's bull whip beheads a white flower, with one crack. (''Crack'' and her other videos have been shown at the
Art Gallery of Ontario).
More recently, she has looked to contemporary culture as a source for material, including her background as a Japanese descendant.
In a series in 2013, Noguchi has taken archival digital prints of the
Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...
'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.
Selected exhibitions
Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She has had a solo exhibitions titled ''Louise Noguchi: Selected Work 1982-85'' at the Power Plant, Toronto (1989),
at Oakville Galleries,
and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (1999); at Birch Contemporary Gallery, Toronto (2005);
at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and the Thames Art Gallery (2008), and participated in group shows at the Contemporary Art Gallery and the Canadian Embassy Gallery, Vancouver (1996); the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (1996);
Oakville Galleries, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (1997-1999);
Deutsches Museum, Munich (2002);
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),
with
Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining t ...
in the ''Space of Making'', Berlin (2005),
and in the United States (2009). In 2020, she was in a group show titled ''Next Year's Country'', linked with artists as seemingly distant as
William Kurelek
William Kurelek, (March 3, 1927 – November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer. His work was influenced by his childhood on the prairies, his Ukrainian-Canadian roots, his struggles with mental illness, and his conversion to Roman Catho ...
at
Remai Modern
Remai Modern is a public art museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The art museum is situated along the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River, at the River Landing development in Saskatoon's Central Business District. The museum's build ...
, Saskatoon.
Selected solo exhibitions
''CEPA Underground'' (1997) (inaugural exhibition), Buffalo, USA
''Modus Operandi'' (2 person exhibition with Ginette Legaré) (1999)
Compilation Portraits, Cold City Gallery, Toronto (1995)
I.A. (Industrial Arts) (1993)
Cold City, Toronto (1993)
Optica, Montréal (1993)
Forest City, London (1992)
Stride Gallery, Calgary (1990)
South Albert Art Gallery (1990), Lethbridge, Canada
''Louise Noguchi: Selected Work 1982-1985'' (1989), The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
''Out of the Garden...Into the Forest'' (1989), Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery (1987), Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery (1986), Toronto, Canada
''We Draw to Kill the Beasts'' (1985)'','' Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
''Extensions of the Heart'' (1984), Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery(1982), Toronto, Canada
Selected group exhibitions
Louise Lawler, Louise Noguchi(2023),'
Beauty Supply Toronto, ON
''The Return'' (2023)
Shorts In Conversation – Curated by the8fest Ace Hotel Toronto, Toronto, ON
Next Year's Country' (2020), rRemai Modern, Saskatoon, SK
Toronto: Tributes and Tributaries 1971-1989' (2016-2017), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Louise Noguchi & June Pak: somewhere between (2012)
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''Crime and Punishment'' (1999), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
''La Face/The Face'' (1999) - Daizbao, Montreal
(Travelling Exhibition) ''Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography'' (1997-1999), Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Presentation House and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Centre culturel Université de Sherbrooke, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
''Rococo Tattoo'' (1997), Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
''For Lack of Evidence'' (1996), Chateau de La Roche-Guyon, France
''Textiles, That is to Say'' (1994), Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Or Gallery, Vancouver
''The Today Show'' (1988), The Japanese Cultural Centre, Toronto
''Drawing Out the Form: Sculpture Touched by Drawing'' (1987), The Nickle Art Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
''Shikata Ga Nai'' (1987), Hamilton Artist Inc., Hamilton, Ontario (touring)
''How We See'' (1986) - What We Say, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
''Mapping the Surface'' (1986), Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
''Patio Lawn Slope'' (1986), University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Toronto
''Art Cologne'' (1986), Rheinhallen of the Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, West Germany
''Territories'' (1985), Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The New City of Sculpture (1984), Studio 620, Toronto
Attitude (1983), Canada National Exhibition, Toronto
Women in Art (1982), Art Rental, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Carmen Lamanna Gallery (1981), Toronto
First Purchase (1981), The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto
Gallery 76 (1981), Toronto
Artventure (1980), Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto
The Funnel (film screening) (1980), Toronto
The Viewing Rooms (1979), New York, New York
Photoworks Gallery (1978), Toronto
Public collections
Noguchi's work is in the public collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario,
Teaching
Since 2001, she has been a professor in the Art and Art History Program, a collaborative joint program between Sheridan Institute and the University of Toronto Mississauga where she teaches photography and performance-based art.
Publications
''Louise Noguchi: Recent Work'', 1999, Oakville Galleries ISBN 0-921027-86-9
''Louise Noguchi'', 2008, Centre A Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art ISBN 978-0-9810100-2-1
Compilation Portraits - Louise Noguchi,1999, curated by Suzanne Luke, text by Kym Pruesse, Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University ISBN 0-9685349-0-2
Louise Noguchi: Selected Works 1982–1985, 1989, Louis Dompierre, The Power Plant Gallery, ISBN 0-921047-38-X
Continuum Contemporary Canadian Sculpture Series - Louise Noguchi, 1991, Southern Alberta Art Gallery ISBN 0-921613-27-X
References
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1958 births
Living people
Canadian video artists
Canadian sculptors
Canadian photographers
Canadian installation artists
Canadian women artists
OCAD University alumni
Canadian people of Japanese descent
Academic staff of the University of Toronto