Biography
Born Winnipeg, Canada 1952
Visual Arts Program (Creative Electronics), Fanshawe College, London, Canada
President, VideoRing, Toronto (1977-79) A Canada Council funded artists’ organization
Canada Council Project Grant (1977)
Ontario Arts Council Grant (1978, 1982)
Sculpture Instructor, UCLA (Extension 1985)
Sculpture Instructor, Oakwood School, North Hollywood (1981 to 1998)
Fine Arts Department Chair, Oakwood School (1993 to 1998)
Sculpture Instructor, Craig Tandy’s Art Studios, Traverse City, Michigan (1998 to present)
Lives and works in Traverse City
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
Craig Tandy has displayed his work in more than fifty solo and group exhibitions
in the USA, Canada, Europe and Latin America.
2009 The May Show, Art Works Alliance, The Art of Framing Gallery, Traverse City, MI
2008 One Man Show, Belstone Gallery, The Art Walk in May, Traverse City, Michigan
2007 Art Works Alliance Invitational Exhibit, Art of Framing Gallery, Traverse City, MI
The May Show, Art Works Alliance, Building 50, Traverse City, Michigan
2003 Islendingadagurinn, Icelandic Festival Art Exhibition, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
2002 Group Exhibition, Gallery 544, Traverse City, Michigan
2001 Oakwood Alumni Art Exhibition, North Hollywood, California
2000 All Male Show, Gallerie Medici, Traverse City, Michigan
Luminous Birdseye, permanent installation, Coburn Construction, Traverse City, MI
1997 Silent Auction, North Hollywood, California
1992 Group Exhibition, FORM Gallery, Venice, California
1991 Pan II, permanent installation, The Tiffany Theatre, Hollywood
1990 Cloud Bank II , permanent installation, Dr. James Astman, Van Nuys
1989 Diagonal Roll II , permanent installation Dr. Leroy Clark, Tarzana
1988 The Venice Art Walk, Tony Bill Studio, Venice, California
Tri-Wind , permanent installation, Wm. Tooley Co.,Los Angeles
Oakwood Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, Gallery K , Los Angeles
1987 One to One , permanent installation, Arthur Young Accounting Inc., Fresno
1986 Chance , permanent installation, Joe Kool’s Restaurant, London, Canada
1985 Imagine Future Peace, Attack Gallery, Los Angeles
Degrees, permanent installation, Canadian Embassy, Mexico City
1984 Dimension and Light, Gensler and Associates Architects, Ruth Bachofner, Los Angeles
Canadian Embassy Collection Tour : Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, Brasilia, Brazil
1983 Craig Tandy/Projections, Canada House Gallery, London, England
Oakwood Artists Downtown, Lee Waisler Gallery, Los Angeles
Canadian Embassy Collection Tour : Caracas, Venezuela, Bogota, Colombia, Lima, Peru
1981 LAICA Group Exhibition, Los Angeles
As Far as Siam, Gold album jacket design for Tom Cochrane and Red Rider
1979 Craig Tandy 74/79, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Sculpture Today S/10 : Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
The Art Gallery of Birmingham, Alabama
Action/Reaction, Norman Mackenzie Gallery, University of Regina
Pulse Plus Process, Fine Arts Gallery on Markham, Toronto
Light 4 Play, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
1978 Kinetics/Tandy, University of Ottawa (included 200′ polyethylene installation, Fine Line)
Three Man Show, The Electric Gallery, Toronto
Performance, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
The Electric Gallery Group Exhibition, Cambridge Art Gallery
17th Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto City Hall
(included polyethylene installations : It’s A Vinyl Village and Air Graph)
Five Canadians, The Electric Gallery, Toronto
Sculpture Today S/10, Ontario Place, Toronto
1977 Video Tapes/Tandy, Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal
Rehearsal, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
Off The Wall, A Space Gallery, Toronto
Video Tapes/Tandy, Dundas School of Art
16th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto City Hall
1976 The Last Art Show, McIntosh Art Gallery, UWO, London, Canada
(Xerographic installation of Regenerate/Degenerate)
Festival of Light, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
Video Tapes/Tandy, London Regional Art Gallery, Canada
15th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto City Hall
1974 Digital Circus, London Regional Art Gallery, Canada
1973 Creative Garbage, London City Hall, Canada
1972 Geodesics, Dawson College, Montreal (outdoor 30′ polyethylene installation of
Great Stellated Dodecahedron for Buckminster Fuller Week)