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, alongside 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
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
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
Solo Exhibition, Newzones Gallery, Calgary
Scratches and Dots, Gallery Taksu, Malaysia
2008
Chaotic Construction, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2007
Beauty Queens and Cowboys, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
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
Frolic, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
Pleasures, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sweet Tooth, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002
Fondle, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001
Mapping Time, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
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
2023
Art Miami Dec. 5 - 10 Booth 130, General Hardware, Miami, Florida Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada 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
Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
2019
Fast Forward, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada 2018
Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre Auction, Alberta 2017
Art Toronto, General Hardware, Toronto, Canada
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
TAKSU Gallery, Material Witnesses, Singapore
Canadian Art Foundation, auction and exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Art Toronto, international art fair, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2014
Art Stage Singapore, international art fair, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
Propellers to Palms, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Casey House, Art With Heart Auction, Toronto, Canada, October
Art Spin, Fifth Annual Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
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
Eight of Sixty, General Hardware Contemporary, Canada
60 Painters Exhibition Toronto, Canada
Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2011
Summer Views, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver BC
Group Show, Gallery Taksu, Bali, Indonesia
2010
Taking Shape, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Inaugural Exhibition, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008
Magenta Publishing, book launch/exhibition MOCCA Toronto, November, Canada
Singapore Art Fair, courtesy Gallery Taksu
Wayne Gretzky Rocks, New Zones Gallery, Calgary
Look Four, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2007
Canadian Painters, Gallery Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nuite Blanche, Reality, Toronto, Canada
2006
The Gladstone Hotel, courtesy of Kmart Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Artists, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2005
4 Canadians, Gallery Taksu, Singapore/ KL
Arte Cologne, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Germany
Scope International Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, New York
FIAC, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Paris
TAAFI (Toronto alternative art fair international), courtesy Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Group Show, Gallery Taksu, Singapore
Microloft, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Blender 2, Mix Magazine, Toronto, Canada
Salon du Printemps, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Keep Expanding, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Southbeach International Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Florida
2003
FIAC, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Paris, France
New Abstractions, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
Artcore Gallery, Grand Opening
Gallery Taksu, Jakarta Indonesia
Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2002
Basel Miami Art Fair, courtesy Artcore Gallery, Miami, Florida
Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Singapore International Art Fair, courtesy Gallery Taksu, Singapore
2001
Surprise, Archive Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Plum Blossom Gallery, Singapore
2000
Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
The Toronto International Art Fair, courtesy Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Joe Fleming / Denise Carsen Wilde, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Artists, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
Miami International Art Fair, courtesy of Lonsdale Gallery, Miami, Florida
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
Surplus, The Air Canada Center, Toronto, Canada
1998
Art With Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Commonwealth Games, Gallery Taksu KL, Malaysia
Stuff, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Summer Collection, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997
Words That Break Your Heart, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
A Great Gathering, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
From Near and Far, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
94/95
Frankfurt Ambiente Show, Frankfurt, Germany
Art Expo, New York, USA
New Trends, Hong Kong, China
Miami International Art Fair, Miami, USA
Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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
Fugitive Pigment by Earl Miller
2017
Joseph Hartman, Arist Studio Project
Imago Mundi, Canada / Venice, FrancescaValente, Curator and Peggy Gale text
2014
Joe Fleming’s SUCKERPUNCH at Mike Weiss Gallery, The Artblog, June 13
Buhmann on Art, Joe Fleming: SUCKERPUNCH, Chelsea Now, June 4
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 23
2008
Swerve, “The Great Ones”, Calgary, July
Visual Arts Calgary, “Wayne Gretsky Rocks at Newzones”, Travis Murphy, July
2007
Juice Magazine, Singapore, Spring issue
Art Fair Catalogue - Art Singapore
Radio interview - Singapore 93.8 LIVE Mediacorp station
The New Straits Times, Singapore, June 20
Eye Magazine, Nuite Blanche, cover and story, September 27
Azure magazine online article, Nuite Blanche, January
Design Lines Magazine, Nuite Blanche, fall issue
Now Magazine, September 27
2005
Canadian Art Online review
The Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, December 31
Now Magazine, Hajal De Sarkar, October 20
Sun TV, Nov. 2
The Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, May 24
Cubes Magazine, Singapore, September
Canadian House and Home, March
2004
Mix Magazine, August
Elle Magazine. Singapore. September
2001
After Hours. The Edge. Malaysia. November
2000
Dault, Gary Michael. The End of the Earth. Canadian Art.
Fall Issue After Hours. The Edge. Malaysia. May 1-7
KL Culture. May
1999
Smith, Craig. The Drawing Urge. Pasatiempo. The New Mexican. December 17-23
Pull-out section. Canadian Art. Fall
Fast Forward. Canadian Art. Summer
Dault, Gary Michael. Gallery Walk About. The Globe and Mail. July 3
Where Magazine. April/May
Dault, Gary Michael. Gallery Walk About. The Globe and Mail. March 27
Jones, Charlotte. Joe Fleming: New Paintings. Arts Atlantic. Winter
1998
MacKay, Gillian. Gallery Walk About. Globe and Mail. February 13
Television Interview. City TV evening news. February 7
Rosen, Taffe. Television Interview. Bravo. February
Etcetera. The Evening Telegram. St. John’s Nfld. April 24
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’.
Now Magazine. January 1
Works of Joe Fleming Showing at Gallery Taksu. The Malay Mail. April 7
Northcott, John. CBC Television Interview.
Fischer, Nathalie-Roze. Joe Fleming’s southwestern icons wax ironic.
Now Magazine September 20
Television Interview. City TV evening news. September 3
CBC Evening News. September 3
Television Interview. Rogers Cable. October 15
Fauntleroy, Gussie. Fleming paints things we keep to ourselves.
New Mexican SF September 28
1995
Tobin, Richard. Reviews. The Magazine. Sante Fe. November
Hanna, Deirdre. Art Highlights. Now Magazine. June 22-28
Northcott, John. Television Interview. CBC Evening News. September 21