EDUCATION
1983-86 Sheridan University Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 Burgers to Birkins, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2022 On the back of a cartoon coaster, Herringer Kiss Gallery, with Shelley Adler, Calgary, Canada 2021 Traffic Jam in the Forest, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2019 Silver Harley, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2017 The Escape Club, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2017 Signs of the Times, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2016 Superior Customer Service, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2015 Stockyard Rumble, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014 Suckerpunch, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York
2014 Art Stage Singapore, International Art Fair, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2013 Thinking of Bush, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2012 Tales of Tomorrow, Joe Fleming and Celia Neubauer, TAKSU Singapore, Canada
Supported by the Ontario Arts Council
2011 Extra Parts, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2009 Singapore Art Fair, courtesy of Gallery Taksu
2009 Solo Exhibition, Newzones Gallery, Calgary
2009 Scratches and Dots, Gallery Taksu, Malaysia
2008 Chaotic Construction, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2007 Beauty Queens and Cowboys, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2007 COLD COMFORT, hard wood, DeLeon White Gallery, Canada
2005 Shanty Town, offsite exhibition, courtesy Artcore Gallery
2004 Nobody’s Home, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Frolic, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia, November
2003 Frolic, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2003 Pleasures, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Sweet Tooth, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Fondle, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 Mapping Time, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
2001 Scenes from the Executive, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 Urban Dialogue, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
1999 Affect, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 New Paintings, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Canada
1997 Flow, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2024 Art Singapore, TAKSU gallery, Malaysia 2023 Art Miami Dec. 5 - 10 Booth 130, General Hardware, Miami, Florida 2023 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2023 Herringer Kiss Gallery Summer Group exhibition, Calgary, Canada 2022 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2021 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2020 Flatbed Pictures, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
2020 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2019 Fast Forward, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada 2018
2019 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 2019 Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre Auction, Alberta 2017 Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2017 Art Toronto, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 Propellers to Palms, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2015 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Works on Paper, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2015 TAKSU Gallery, Material Witnesses, Singapore
2015 Canadian Art Foundation, auction and exhibition, Toronto, Canada
2015 Art Toronto, international art fair, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014 Art Stage Singapore, international art fair, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2014 Propellers to Palms, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014 Casey House, Art With Heart Auction, Toronto, Canada, October
2014 Art Spin, Fifth Annual Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
2014 Papier 14 Art Fair, Montreal, Quebec
2013 Skipping Stones, Summer Group Show, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2012 Art Toronto, courtesy of General Hardware Contemporary Canada
2012 Eight of Sixty, General Hardware Contemporary, Canada
2012 60 Painters Exhibition Toronto, Canada
2012 Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2011 Summer Views, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 Group Show, Gallery Taksu, Bali, Indonesia
2010 Taking Shape, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2010 Inaugural Exhibition, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008 Magenta Publishing, book launch/exhibition MOCCA Toronto, November, Canada
2008 Singapore Art Fair, courtesy Gallery Taksu
2008 Wayne Gretzky Rocks, New Zones Gallery, Calgary
2008 Look Four, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Canadian Painters, Gallery Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2007 Nuite Blanche, Reality, Toronto, Canada
2006 The Gladstone Hotel, courtesy of Kmart Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 Gallery Artists, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2005 4 Canadians, Gallery Taksu, Singapore/ KL
2005 Arte Cologne, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Germany
2005 Scope International Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, New York
2005 FIAC, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Paris
2005 TAAFI (Toronto alternative art fair international), courtesy Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005 Group Show, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2005 Microloft, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2005 Blender 2, Mix Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2005 Salon du Printemps, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2005 Keep Expanding, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2005 Southbeach International Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Florida
2003 FIAC, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Paris, France
2003 New Abstractions, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
2003 Artcore Gallery, Grand Opening
2003 Gallery Taksu, Jakarta Indonesia
2003 Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2002 Basel Miami Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002 Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 Singapore International Art Fair, courtesy Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2001 Surprise, Archive Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 The Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 Plum Blossom Gallery, Singapore
2000 Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
2000 The Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 Joe Fleming / Denise Carsen Wilde, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 Gallery Artists, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
2000 Miami International Art Fair, courtesy of Lonsdale Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000 Drawn to the Future, Conlon Siegal Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Resistance is Futile, Joe Fleming, Brian Flynn, Yechel Gagnon, Sky Glabush, Bradley Harms and Jay Wilson, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 Surplus, The Air Canada Center, Toronto, Canada
1998 Art With Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 The Commonwealth Games, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
1998 Stuff, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 The Summer Collection, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Words That Break Your Heart, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 A Great Gathering, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 From Near and Far, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
94/95 Frankfurt Ambiente Show, Frankfurt, Germany
94/95 Art Expo, New York, USA
94/95 New Trends, Hong Kong, China
94/95 Miami International Art Fair, Miami, USA
94/95 Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2025 Brush with Culture, Athens, Greece 2024 University of Waterloo, MFA Critiques 2017 Speaker, Conversations with the Toronto Art World, Shari Orenstein, University of Toronto
2015 University of Western Carolina, Lecture and Critiques MFA graduates
2012 60 Painter’s Symposium 2: MATERIALIZE: “How the stuff of painting creates meaning”
2011 Symposium, Illustrationism, Sheridan College
2008 Speaker Series, Toronto School of Art
03-08 Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Canada
2003 Lecture, LaSalle University, Singapore
2002 Instructor, Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Canada
2000 Participant in the ‘Pouch Cove Artist in Residency Program’
Recipient of The James Baird Foundation juried drawing award, In the Presence of Absence
1998 Instructor Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
Participant in the ‘Pouch Cove Artist in Residency Program’
1998 Lecture Series, OCAD
1997 Instructor Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
1996 Instructor, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
1993 Instructor, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Trimark Mutual Funds
BMO Financial Group
Richard Ivey Collection
Scotia Bank
General Electric
Honeywell Bull
American Barrick
AT&T
Magna International
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Nordstrom
Elli Lilly
Midland Walwyn Financial
724 Solutions
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Malaysia
Mckinsey, Malaysia
HSBC Bank, Malaysia
Choo Mei Lin Cathay Organization Singapore, Malaysia
Australian High Commission
Ireka / Westin Kuala Lumpur
Canadian High Commission
Canadian Postal Museum (Museum of Civilization), Canada
Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
Carleton University Art Gallery, A.T. Tolley Collection
GRANTS
Ontario Arts Council, June, 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 On the back of a cartoon coaster, Jane Hope 2019 ARTORONTO.CA by Mikael Sandblom
2019 Fugitive Pigment by Earl Miller
2017 Joseph Hartman, Arist Studio Project
2017 Imago Mundi, Canada / Venice, FrancescaValente, Curator and Peggy Gale text
2014 Joe Fleming’s SUCKERPUNCH at Mike Weiss Gallery, The Artblog, June 13
2014 Buhmann on Art, Joe Fleming: SUCKERPUNCH, Chelsea Now, June 4
2014 Joe Fleming, Suckerpunch, Wall Street International, Evan Paul Laudenslager, May 29
2012 The Globe and Mail, Richard Vaughan, “Eight of Sixty, a Summer Fling with Sexy Strangers” June
2008 Swerve, “The Great Ones”, Calgary, July
2008 Visual Arts Calgary, “Wayne Gretsky Rocks at Newzones”, Travis Murphy, July
2007 Juice Magazine, Singapore, Spring issue
2007 Art Fair Catalogue - Art Singapore
2007 Radio interview - Singapore 93.8 LIVE Mediacorp station
2007 The New Straits Times, Singapore, June 20
2007 Eye Magazine, Nuite Blanche, cover and story, September 27
2007 Azure magazine online article, Nuite Blanche, January
2007 Design Lines Magazine, Nuite Blanche, fall issue
2007 Now Magazine, September 27
2005 Canadian Art Online review
2005 The Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, December 31
2005 Now Magazine, Hajal De Sarkar, October 20
2005 Sun TV, Nov. 2
2005 The Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, May 24
2005 Cubes Magazine, Singapore, September
2005 Canadian House and Home, March
2004 Mix Magazine, August
2004 Elle Magazine. Singapore. September
2001 After Hours. The Edge. Malaysia. November
2000 Dault, Gary Michael. The End of the Earth. Canadian Art.
2000 Fall Issue After Hours. The Edge. Malaysia. May 1-7
2000 KL Culture. May
1999 Smith, Craig. The Drawing Urge. Pasatiempo. The New Mexican. December 17-23
1999 Pull-out section. Canadian Art. Fall
1999 Fast Forward. Canadian Art. Summer
1999 Dault, Gary Michael. Gallery Walk About. The Globe and Mail. July 3
1999 Where Magazine. April/May
1999 Dault, Gary Michael. Gallery Walk About. The Globe and Mail. March 27
1999 Jones, Charlotte. Joe Fleming: New Paintings. Arts Atlantic. Winter
1998 MacKay, Gillian. Gallery Walk About. Globe and Mail. February 13
1998 Television Interview. City TV evening news. February 7
1998 Rosen, Taffe. Television Interview. Bravo. February
1998 Etcetera. The Evening Telegram. St. John’s Nfld. April 24
1998 Weekend in Toronto. The Toronto Star. August 28
1997 Ahmad, Zulkifli. Different People Similar Strokes. New Straits Times, Malaysia. April 18
1996 Fischer, Nathalie-Roze. ‘Top 10 Art Exhibits – 1996’.
1996 Now Magazine. January 1
1996 Works of Joe Fleming Showing at Gallery Taksu. The Malay Mail. April 7
1996 Northcott, John. CBC Television Interview.
1996 Fischer, Nathalie-Roze. Joe Fleming’s southwestern icons wax ironic.
1996 Now Magazine September 20
1996 Television Interview. City TV evening news. September 3
1996 CBC Evening News. September 3
1996 Television Interview. Rogers Cable. October 15
1996 Fauntleroy, Gussie. Fleming paints things we keep to ourselves.
1996 New Mexican SF September 28
1995 Tobin, Richard. Reviews. The Magazine. Sante Fe. November
1995 Hanna, Deirdre. Art Highlights. Now Magazine. June 22-28
1995 Northcott, John. Television Interview. CBC Evening News. September 21
