Ben Woolfitt

ARTWORK EXHIBITS NEWS/PRESS PUBLICATIONS CV/BIO

Biography:

Ben Woolfitt, Modernist and Post-Modernist Painter born in Saskatchewan, Canada, 1946. Since 1965 Woolfitt has lived in Toronto when he enrolled at Founders College, York University. In 1972 founded Woolfitt’s School of Contemporary Painting, where he taught until 1979. He established Woolfitt’s Fine Art Supplies in 1978, an international distributor of artist materials which he managed until it was sold in 2014. The modern.toronto , a museum dedicated to the exhibition of non-objective painting was founded by Woolfitt in 2017. Since the 1960’s Woolfitt was influenced by Color Field painting, especially the works of Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, Hans Hofmann and Jules Olitski and later by Antonio Tapies. Woolfitt has had 25 solo exhibitions and 15 group exhibitions in Canada, Japan, Thailand and the USA. Most recently at major solo exhibition of abstract drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario. His paintings are in numerous museums and corporate and private collections internationally, including Canadian collections at The MacLaren Art Centre, Hart House at the University of Toronto, The Remai Modern and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Ben Woolfitt is now represented by the David Richard Galleries in Chelsea, NYC.

Résumé:

SOLO EXHIBITS

2025 David Richard Galleries, NYC

2023 David Richard Galleries, NYC

2021 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2019 modern.toronto, Toronto

2018 Oeno Gallery, Toronto

2017 Richard Rhodes Gallery, Toronto

2014 DeLuca Fine Art Gallery, Toronto

2011 P rince Takamado Gallery, Japan (Canadian Embassy)

2009 Moore Gallery, Toronto

2009 Oeno Gallery, Toronto

2007 Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok

2005 Moore gallery, Toronto

2004 Gallery One, Toronto

2002 Carlo Alessi Unpublished, New York (October)

2002 Prince Arthur Gallery, Toronto (November 9-16)

2001 Prince Arthur Gallery, Toronto

1995 B aird Gallery, St. Johns

1987 Bowen Gallery, Toronto

1982 Private Exhibition, Toronto

1981 Vivaxis, Toronto

1980 Wingfield, Toronto

1978 Vivaxis,Toronto

1977 Gallery O (Olga Korper), Toronto

1976 Gallery O (Olga Korper), Toronto

1976 Phoenix Theatre, Toronto

1975 The New York Gallery, Rochester

1974 Gallery O (Olga Korper), Toronto

1973 Toronto Center of the Arts

1971 Hart House, University of Toronto.

1969 Founders College, York University, Toronto

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, On.

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Barrie, On.

Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan

MacLaren Art Gallery, Barrie, Ontario

BOOKS

Ben Woolfitt: Rhythms and Series (AGO & Goose Lane Editions, 2021)

Ben Woolfitt: Drawings by Donald Kuspit (modern.toronto, 2019)

Ben Woolfitt: Paintings by Donald Kuspit (Epiphany Editions, 2018)

Musings by Ben Woolfitt (Prince Takamado Gallery, 2011)

Ben Woolfitt as Intimist by Ken Carpenter (Gallery One Editions, 2003)