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Garnet throughout his career has been a participant in both the Canadian and the international cultural world. From the very beginning, his photographic works were included in exhibitions in the United States and then Europe. He has maintained an international presence throughout his career. Still as a young artist, his work was presented at La Memelle in San Francisco 1978. A participant at the Venice Biennale in 1985. Garnet's 1997 work, NO was included in the exhibition Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (2000) and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001). In 1997, the National Gallery (CMCP) hosted his mid career survey entitled: the Fallen Body. Other new photographic works, Fissure (1997), Fracture (1999), and Lament (2000), among them have recently been the subject of exhibitions in the Netherlands, at the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen (2001). Garnet has had major surveys of his photographs, at the Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (2002) and Dust at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2002).

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2007	IMPULSE ARCHAEOLOGY, White Box, New York
	MONEY DREAMS and Other New Work,Christopher Cutts, Toronto
2005	IMPULSE ARCHAEOLOGY, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
	FORGIVE, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid
2004	Project Space, Chicago Art Fair
	IMITATIVE HARMONY, Christopher Cutts, Toronto
2002	ELDON GARNET, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie
	Geographically Based and Other Small Sculptural Statements, Torch, Amsterdam
	The Melodious Child, Christopher Cutts, Toronto
	Dust, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2001	Geographically Based, Fly Gallery, Toronto
2000	Christopher Cutts, Toronto
	The Fallen Body, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1999	Ricco/Maresca, New York
1998	The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1997	Fissure, Wave, Toronto
	The Narrative Body, Meg, Toronto
	NO, Torch, Amsterdam
1996	Aliyah, Tableau Vivant, Toronto
1995	Promise, Stichting de Bank, Enschede Holland
	Four Sites, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
1994	Promise, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
1993	When?, The Power Plant, Toronto
1992	Vanitas, Cold City, Toronto
	The Narrative Body, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
1990	Emblems of Circumstance + The First Edition, Torch Gallery Amsterdam
	Trembling + The First Edition, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt
	Trembling, Cold City, Toronto
1989	The First Edition Bronze Sculptures, Cold City, Toronto
1987	Heavy Industry, Cold City, Toronto
1985	Emblems of Circumstance, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto
1984	Caves, PS1, New York
	Caves, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto
1983	Caves, Zona, Florence
	Cultural Connections, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
	In Trouble
	+ Caves, CEPA, Buffalo
1982	Privacy, Cameron Public House, Toronto
1981	Cultural Connections, Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto
1980	Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
1977	Blurrs, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
	La Mamelle, San Francisco
1975	All Dulled Out in Tartarus, A Space, Toronto
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007	THE BOOK OF LOVE, Spin Gallery, Toronto
	Pulse, New York, with Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
	Contact Tickler, Christopher Cutts, Toronto
	Splash, Christopher Cutts, Toronto
	CONTEMPORARY CURIOSITIES, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops
	VIC'S CRANE, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
	COLLECTED, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto
2006	20TH ANNIVERSARY, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
	20TH ANNIVERSARY, Sculpture, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
	Pulse, NY, with Torch Gallery Amsterdam,
	Scope, NY, with Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
	DIVA, NY, with Galerie Begona Malone, Spain
	THE CONSTANT POSSIBILITY OF ERASURE, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York
2004	The Armory Show, with Torch Gallery
	Scope New York, with Chrisopher Cutts Gallery
2005	DUST, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
	THE SLAYED LAND, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid, Spain
	BUG CITY, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
	THE COLD CITY YEARS, The Power Plant, Toronto
2003	PLAQUES AND ANGELS, Alliance Francaise, Toronto
	LE SALON DU PRINTEMPS, Montreal
	Scope NY., Scope L.A., Scope Miami with Christopher Cutts Gallery
	Berlin Forum, with Christopher Cutts Gallery
	PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington
	PARIS PHOTO, Paris, with Torch Gallery
2002	Bio-Mech, Archive Inc., Toronto
	The Claustrophobic Forest, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
	National Gallery of Canada, permanent collection
2001	The Admittance of Photography, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
	Bedroom Gallery 2.0, Milk Gallery, Toronto
	Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
	Pool, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
	Droomoord, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
	Exploring the Collection: Prevalent Concerns, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C.
	Bigshots, Art System, Toronto
	La Vie, La Mort, Le Ceremonial, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montreal
2000	Glo, Archive Inc., Toronto
	2000 Words, Toronto Photographes Workshop, Toronto
	Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1998	Lewd, Archive Inc., Toronto
	Picturing the Toronto Art Community: The Queen Street Years, The Power Plant, Toronto
	Ashkenaz: A Festival of Yiddish Culture, Toronto
	Truth, Lies and Photographs, Art Gallery of Peel
1997	NO, Archive, Toronto
	NO, Ricco/Maresca, New York
	Figuratively Speaking, Wave, Toronto
	NO, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1996	Happy End, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
	10 Years, Cold City, Toronto
1995	Vanitas, Nature Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994	The Body: Le Corps, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
	The Body: Le Corps, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1992	Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1990	The Zone of Conventional Practice, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, TWP, Toronto
	Today Tonight Tomorrow, National Library, Ottawa
1989	The Zone of Conventional Practice, Heavy Industry, Optica, Montreal, Presentation House
	American Fine Art, New York
	A Space, Toronto
	Prospect Photography, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
	150 Ans Apres La Photographie, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec
1988	Images in Time and Space, Ottawa + San Jose + Toronto
	Luntic of One Idea, Imprison Polluters, Public Access, Toronto
	Active Process, I Shot Mussolini, touring exhibition of bookwork.
	Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1986	Art Technology Informatics, I Shot Mussolini, Venice Biennale
	Lumieres, Light Industrial, Central International D'Art Contemporain de Montreal
	I Shot Mussolini Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1985	Canadian Holography Now, tour, England.
	Double/Doppleganger, Amsterdam
	Interior Rites, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto
1984	303 Park South, N.Y.
	Canadian Holography Now, Museum of Holography, Brussels
1983	New Canadian Photography, In Trouble, The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto
	New Holography, Advice, A Space, Toronto
	Caves, Centre International D'Art Contemporain, Paris
	Advice, Part of touring holography exhibition in 10 locations in Europe
	Chromaliving, You Can Lead A Horse to Water But You Can't Make It Drink, Chromazone, Toronto
1979	JFM 232, CEPA, Buffalo
	Learning a Perceptual Motor Skill, A Space, Toronto
1978	Studies in Time and Motion, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto
1974	The Poet Machine, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
PUBLICATIONS (books)
2007	LOST BETWEEN THE EDGES, Semiotext(e), New York
2005	IMPULSE ARCHAEOLOGY, University of Toronto Press, Toronto
2004	MIMESIS ANTIMIMESIS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Blank Slate, Toronto
2002	ELDON GARNET, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, CD catalogue
	The Melodious Child/Dust, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art/Christopher Cutts Gallery, CD catalogue, Toronto
1998	The Fallen Body, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1995	The Garden of Failure: Reading Brooke Shields, Semiotexte, New York
1993	When?,The Power Plant, Toronto
1992	The Narrative Body, Autonomedia, New York
1975-1990	Impulse magazine, Toronto
1989	Today Tonight Tomorrow, Limited Edition, Toronto
	I Shot Mussolini, Summerhill Press, Toronto
1987	I Shot Mussolini, Limited Edition, Toronto
1984	Caves, ArtCulture Resource Centre, Toronto
1982	Cultural Connections, Image Nation, Toronto
1979	Spiraling/JFM 232, 1W1 Communications, Toronto
1978	Einstein's Joke, Impulse (microfiche), Toronto
1977	Brebeuf, A Martydrom of Jean de, Press Porcepic, Toronto
1974	W)Here? Other Canadian Poetry (ed.), Press Porcepic, Toronto
1973	Asparagus, Missinglink Press, Toronto
	The Last Adventure Oberon, Ottawa
1971	Angel, Press Porcepic, Toronto
FILM . AUDIO . VIDEO
2007	If Only for a Moment Parts 1 to 3, 2-5 minutes each
2005	New Kapital, video, 23 minutes
1986-1990	Today Tonight Tomorrow, video, 180 minutes
1986-1989	$300, Maclean Hunter Cable Television, half hour monthly
1977-1987	Portraits, super-8, colour, 60 minutes
1984	The Political Error, 16mm, black and white, 12 minutes
1980	VideoZine, video, black and white, 30 minutes, La Mamelle San Francisco
1979	Eldon Garnet Live, audio casette, Art Contemporary Editions, San Francisco
	Winning, super-8, colour, 55 minutes
1977	Einstein's Joke, super-8, colour, English sub-titles, 15 minutes
1976	Airswim, super-8, colour, 5 minutes
1975	Enclosure, super-8, colour, 15 minute loop
1974	L'Heure D'Oeuf, 16mm, black and white, 5 minutes
1967	Pictures, 16mm, black and white, 17 minutes
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2007	HEALING, Oshawa
2004	TURNING, Toronto
2000	GIFT, Toronto
1996	TIME: AND A CLOCK, Toronto
1988/89	MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE THE CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS IN CANADA, Toronto
1987/89	THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS, Toronto