Kim Moodie

"Any Dream Will Do" Installation at the McIntosh Gallery, London in 2016.

Kim Moodie has been a London based artist since 1978. Born in Parry Sound, he spent his youth in Sault Ste. Marie and on the Manitoulin Island. He received his Honours B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Western Ontario [1974], and his MFA from Concordia [1978]. From 1980 through 2019 he taught in the Department of Visual Arts, UWO, specializing in drawing and painting courses, BFA studio seminars, and MFA special topics seminars. Having retired from teaching and a Professor Emeritus, he now focuses solely on his art practice.

Kim’s practice is primarily studio based, although he has curated or co-curated nine exhibitions. A noted project was the co-curated exhibition [MMB Collective] “Just My Imagination,” which was shown in nine venues across Canada between 2004 and 2007. His current studio practice is drawing and painting focused with occasional forays into digital photos and video. His subject matter discusses and dissects narrative structures, the impact of symbols, assimilation, anthropomorphism and ahistorism. Stylistically many works can be categorized as horror vacui and neo-expressionistic.

He has exhibited extensively across Canada and in Mexico and the USA. His exhibits include “Heads,” 2019, McIntosh Gallery ‘ UWO, “Tribute and Tributaries,” 2017, Art Gallery of Ontario, “Any Dream Will Do,” 2016, McIntosh Gallery, UWO, “All But Not,” 2001, Museum London, “Murder,” 1998, Patricia Forbes Gallery, Santa Monica, California; Threadwaxing Gallery, New York, New York; and The Center Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, and “Pirates,” 1991, Oakville Galleries, Art Gallery of Algoma, and Art Gallery of Windsor.

His work is held by collections of numerous museums, university art galleries, and corporate and private art collections. These include the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museum London, the McIntosh Gallery and the Algoma Art Gallery.

Kim Moodie’s exhibition “Signs and Symbols,” was the inaugural exhibition at the Embassy Cultural House in 1983.

Work by Kim Moodie

"Sparrow With Guns", 2012, red Chinese & India ink on paper

"Hope, War, Love, Peace", 2016; Acrylic, water based oils on canvas, 38" x 54"

"Untitled", 2016; india ink on 4 panels, 18" x 24"

"Hand", 2019; Ink, gouache and watercolour on hand made paper, 74" square

"Time Pile" (detail), 2008; India ink on paper

Review of Kim Moodie's exhibition at the ECH. The first exhibit at the ECH in 1983.

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,   JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

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E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.