Eleanor Bond
Eleanor Bond (born March 25, 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist and art educator based in Winnipeg. She is known for reimagining the Canadian landscape with ecological awareness. Bond studied at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, graduating in 1976, after earlier studies in English, comparative religion and interior design.
In the 1980s she created aerial views of natural sites to show ecological disruption. Her works Work Station (1989) and Social Centres (1992) explored how technology and urban design affect people, using large, staged, imaginary landscapes painted on big, unstretched canvases with long titles.
In 2010 she began the Mountain of Shame series—paintings and sculptures that focus on personal feelings like doubt, aging and loss, using different media.
Bond has shown widely in Canada and abroad. Notable solo exhibitions include Witte de With in Rotterdam (1988, 1995), Clocktower in New York (1990), Winnipeg Art Gallery (1992), Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (1995), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (1998) and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2001). Group shows include the National Gallery of Canada (1989), Vancouver Art Gallery (1991), the Museum of Contemporary Art in São Paulo (1987) and the Barbican Centre in London (1991).
She has lectured, held residencies abroad, and helped start Plug In ICA in Winnipeg. Her Mountain of Shame solo show opened Plug In ICA in 2010 and later traveled to ACAD in Calgary in 2011. Bond is an Associate Professor of painting and drawing at Concordia University and maintains an active studio in Winnipeg.
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