Christopher ​Régimbal

Christopher ​Régimbal

"A Fire at the Embassy Hotel," Fuse Magazine 33, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 12–15.

Christopher Regimbal is an art historian and curator who lives in Ottawa. He has published and curated on the history of artist-run culture in London, including essays “Institutions of Regionalism: Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960–1990” in Institutions by Artists, volume 2, and “A Fire at the Embassy Hotel” in Fuse Magazine, and the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Audio/Video Piece for London, Ontario at the Forest City Gallery. He is a specialist in post-war art and has written about Agnes Martin, Eleanor Mackey, General Idea, Sol LeWitt, and Michael Fernandes. He is a Senior Exhibitions Manager at the National Gallery of Canada. He met Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan in 2002 when he was a student at  Western University.

Selected publications:

• “Institutions of Regionalism: Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960–1990,” in Institutions by Artists, vol. 2, ed. Jeff Khonsary and Antonia Pinter (Vancouver: Fillip Editions, 2021). Originally published in Fillip 19 (Spring 2014). 
• “Agnes Martin: Beauty is in your mind, not in the rose,” National Gallery of Canada Magazine, June 19, 2020.
• Agnes Martin: Life & Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2019).
• “Dive-In: Eleanor Mackey and Formalism in Toronto,” in Edges of Abstraction: The Art of Eleanor Mackey (1932–2014), ed. Dermot Wilson (North Bay: Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective, 2017), 7­–23.
• “It’s Just One God Damned Thing After Another, Kelly Mark,” in Kelly Mark: Everything is Interesting, ed. Barbara Fischer (Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 2014).
• “General Idea: Haute Culture,” Camera Austria, no. 116 (2011): 79­–80.
• “Restaging LeWitt: Sol LeWitt: A Mercer Union Legacy Project,” interview with Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Magenta Magazine: An International Journal of Visual Art 1, no. 4 (Fall 2010).
• "A Fire at the Embassy Hotel," Fuse Magazine 33, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 12–15.
• “Michelle Allard and The Parker Branch,” Magenta Magazine: An International Journal of Visual Art 1, no. 3 (Spring 2010).
• “The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,” Art Papers (March/April 2010): 40–41.
• “Art Where the Nights are Cold,” in The Ice Follies 2008, ed. Dermot Wilson (North Bay, ON: W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 2009).
• “Whose life are we talking about anyway? One potato, two potato…it’s your life…, Michael Fernandes” Fuse Magazine 31, no. 1 (January 2008): 44–46.
• “Conversations in Colour: Two generations of colour field painting in Canada, Eleanor Mackey & Sara McIntosh,” in Conversations in Colour (North Bay, ON: W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 2006).

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