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EDUCATION
B.Ed. in Visual Arts Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1983.
Diploma, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Urbania, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Fire and Rain: A Journey to Extremes, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Station to Station, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Metropolis: Variations on a Theme, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Urban Rhapsody, B.C. Supreme Courthouse, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Urban Rhythms, Parker Street Studios, Vancouver, Canada
2012 The Japan Series, Parker Street Studios, Vancouver, Canada
2011 The Vital Gesture, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 The Vital Gesture, Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2008 The River Series, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007 The Black Tusk Series, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Recent Works, GBR Foundation, Manila, Philippines
1998 Elements II, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1998 Elements II, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1996 Elements, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Rainshadow, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Primordial, City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
1994 Earth and Sky, Patrick Doheny Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1993 The Archetype Series, Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
ART FAIRS
2017 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, New York, USA
2015 Art Vancouver, Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada
PUBLIC ART
2014 Paint the City Project - Paintings illuminated on 22 giant digital
billboards in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Essential Travel, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Invitational Exhibition, Vancouver Visual Art Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
The Poetry Project, Gallery George, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Selected Artists, Gallery George, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Displacement, Arts Factory Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2018 South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2016 South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2015 South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Sense of Place, Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2014 Bezanson Art, Vancouver, Canada
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2013 Bezanson Art, Vancouver, Canada
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2012 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2011 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A, Seattle, USA
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Masters Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 U-8, Sopa Fine Art, Kelowna, Canada
Vistas and Visions, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Tribute to Rotonde, Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels, Belgium
2005 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2004 Group Painting, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2003 Abstracte Elegant, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Group Painting, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2002 The Night Eclectic, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2001 Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2000 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1998 La Galerie du Projet, Geneva, Switzerland
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1997 The Atrium, Hong Kong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, Canada
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Space, Time, Spirit, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1994 Galerie Woltzen, Edmonton, Canada
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
Shepard Gallery, Whistler, Canada
Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1993 Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992 Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1991 Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
COLLECTIONS
City of Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Roda Packaging Inc., Montreal, Canada
Standish Associates Lawyers, Bristol, England
Rosenberg Law, Vancouver, Canada
Allvision Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada
Dynamic Outdoor Inc., Montreal, Canada
Maersk Broker Shipping, Tokyo, Japan
GBR Foundation, Manila, Philippines
Gateway Property Holdings Inc., Manila, Philippines
HSL Automation Ltd., Victoria, Canada
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby, Canada
YMCA, Vancouver, Canada
Kaplan International College, Vancouver and Toronto, Canada
Stikeman Elliott Lawyers, Vancouver, Canada
Ronald McDonald House, Vancouver, Canada
...in addition to numerous private collections in Canada,
U.S.A., Germany, France, Switzerland, U.K., Belgium,
Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines.
PRESS
"Arts Rational", Co-op Radio, interviewed by James Mainguy, Vancouver, Nov. 9, 2020
"Faces and Figures of David Tycho", by Denis Taylor, TAG magazine, UK, June, 2020
"Expressionist Painter David Tycho", interviewed by Zin Zannnie, The Crazy Mind, Singapore, May, 2020
"The Artist's Voice" podcast, interviewed by Jerry Hardesty, Salt Lake City, USA, Feb. 6, 2020
"Discovering the Art of David Tycho" by Denis Taylor, Painters Tubes Magazine, UK and Sweden,
October, 2018
"Two Artists Walk into a Bar" podcast, interviewed by Carol McQuaid, Vancouver, March 29, 2018
“North by Northwest” CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, March 25, 2018
"Fire and Rain: A Journey to Extremes" exhibition catalogue, Vancouver, March, 2018
"End of Empire" Artist First Radio, interviewed by Chris Bromage, Vancouver, June 1, 2016
“Choses à savoir Art” French podcast, interviewed by Louis Guillaume, Paris, March 1, 2016
“Gallery Surf: David Tycho, Pat Valade, Glenn Lewis”, by Amanda Siebert, Georgia Straight,
Vancouver, Febuary 19, 2016
"A Sense of Place", 98.3 FM Roundhouse Radio, interviewed by Carol Thorbes, Vancouver,
January 26, 2016
"Vancouver's David Tycho" by Dan Tidsbury, Fresh Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver,
May-June issue, 2015
"Artist Profile: David Tycho" by Portia Priegert, Galleries West Magazine, Calgary,
summer issue, 2015
"Making the Complex Simple" by Omid Yaghoobi, Farheekhtegan Newspaper, Tehran,
March 4, 2015
“Seattle by Design", by Michael Webb, Interiors Magazine, Sept-Oct. issue, 2014
“David Tycho: Painter”, a short film by Eric Peterson, November 2012
“North by Northwest”, CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, November 10, 2012
“The Fine Art of Independence” by David Tycho, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, November 10, 2012
“Urban Rush”, Shaw T.V. Channel 4, interviewed by Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford,
Vancouver, February 15, 2011
“North by Northwest”, CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, February 13, 2011
“David Tycho Sees Art in all Facets of Life” video by Glen Baglo, Montreal Gazette, Montreal,
February 10, 2011
"David Tycho’s Abstracts Need to be Experienced” by Jennifer Moss, National Post, Toronto,
February 10, 2011
“David Tycho’s Beckoning Gestures” by Jennifer Moss, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver,
February 10, 2011
“Live From Studio 430” at the Eastside Culture Crawl, CJSF Radio, interviewed by Jay Peachy,
Vancouver, November 27, 2010
“Urban Rush”, Shaw T.V. Channel 4, interviewed by Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford,
Vancouver, September 29, 2008
“North by Northwest”, CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, November 18, 2007
“David Tycho”, by Mia Johnson, Preview Magazine, Vancouver, November, 2007
“An Artful Stroll on Gallery Row” by Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, October 26, 2007
“Abstract Elegante” Don O’Melveny Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles, March, 2003
“Between the Covers” CBC Radio, interviewed by Peter Tiefenbach, national broadcast,
April, 2002
“North by Northwest” CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, February 3, 2002
“This Morning”, CBC Radio, interviewed by Bill Cameron, national broadcast, January 30, 2002
“When Art Gets the Rational Treatment” by David Tycho, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver,
February 22, 1997
“Communications Come through Paint” by Robert Amos, Victoria Times Colonist, Victoria,
November 9, 1996
TEACHING and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Juror, "Painting on the Edge", Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, June - August 2017
Lecturer, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, Canada, March 26, 2013
Instructor, Kaplan International College, Vancouver, Canada, 2010 - 2014
Instructor, Pacific Language Institute, Vancouver, Canada, 1991 - 2010
Lecturer, “The Role of the Artist”, Mensa Conference, Richmond, Canada, November 2002
Lecturer, “Reading the Land”, Meadowlark Festival, Pentiction, Canada, May 2002
Lecturer, “Roads to Abstraction”, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada, February, 1995
Instructor, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, Canada, 1990 - 1991
Instructor, Dorset College, Vancouver, Canada, 1988 - 1990
OTHER
A writer with numerous book contributions, published articles and a Canadian Literary Award
to his credit; also an avid hiker, cyclist and karate student.