Robert Youds

Selected group shows include: 2019 Garden in the Machine, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 2015 The Transformation of Landscape Art in Canada: The Inside and Outside of Being, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2013 Rewilding Modernity, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2000 spilled edge soft corners, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal, curated by Barbara Fischer 1999 Five Continents and One City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico 1999 Les Peintures, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, QC 1999 Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 1999 twistfoldlayerflake, Oliver Art Center, CCAC Institute, Oakland, CA 1997 L.A. International, Biennial Art Invitational, Post Gallery, CA 1996 Topographies, aspects of recent B.C. art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

For Everyone A Fountain, E-Catalogue, 2018 It Is What It Is, National Gallery of Canada, 2010 Abstract Painting in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008 Beautifulbeautiful artifical field, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2007, Link to gallery site... spilled edge soft corners, Blackwood Gallery, Erindale College, ON, 2000, Read article... Five Continents and One City, Mexico City Museum, Mexico, 1999 Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 1999 twistfoldlayerflake, Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland, CA, 1999 L.A. International, Biennial Art Invitational, Los Angeles, CA, 1987 Topographies, Aspects of Recent B.C. Art, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1996 Forse Che Si, Forse Che No, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, B.C, 1994

Youds' solo exhibitions include: 2017 For Everyone a Fountain, Open Space, Victoria, BC, 2015 Say nothing, twice, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON, 2014 - 2015 For Everyone a Sunset, Vancouver Art Gallery OffSite, Vancouver, BC 2002 Chicago International Art Fair, Feature exhibit, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1995 Forse Che Si, Forse Che No, The Power Plant, curated by Greg Bellerby, catalogue essay by Willard Holmes

Robert Youds (born 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Victoria, British Columbia.

Robert Youds was born in 1954 in Burnaby, British Columbia.With Light: Robert Youds "Since the 1980s, Robert Youds has conducted a singular investigation of the material conditions of the pictorial—a path that has led him from paintings with cut-out apertures through stretched lines of colour made of strands of latex and velvet cushions bound with ropes through to his recent constructions incorporating fluorescent, neon and LED lights".Barry Schwabsky. He holds an MFA from York University and a BFA from the University of Victoria.