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 Studio, Traverse City, Michigan (1998 to 2015)
Lives and works in London, Canada

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

Craig Tandy has displayed his work in more than sixty solo and group exhibitions
in Canada, the USA, Latin America and Europe

2017-18  Solo exhibition, Lines of Light, The Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI

2014       Permanent Collection Exhibit, The Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI

2009      The May Show, Art Works Alliance, The Art of Framing Gallery, Traverse City, MI

2008      Solo exhibition,  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      Solo exhibition  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      Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art  Group Exhibition, Los Angeles
As Far as Siam, Gold album jacket design for Tom Cochrane and Red Rider

1979      Solo exhibition  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 (including 30′ outdoor polyethylene installation of
Great Stellated Dodecahedron for Buckminster Fuller Week)