bio & contact info

tony

Tony Makepeace is a Toronto based photographer, writer, and teacher. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and his works are displayed in a number of private and corporate collections.

He has also contributed portfolios and essays to View Camera, PhotoLife, PhotoEd, LensWork, Outpost, and Utne Reader. He is a volunteer director of the Toronto-based Nepal Community Development Foundation, which funds and manages a series of development projects in a rural village district in eastern Nepal, and of FogQuest, a Canadian organization devoted to providing innovative fresh water solutions to developing communities internationally.

He holds a B.A.A. degree in Photographic Arts from Ryerson University and has recently completed a Master’s degree in Education at Central Michigan University.

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tony@tonymakepeace.net


Solo Exhibitions
May/June 2003
May 2001
December 2000
August 1998
December 1997
July 1997
April 1996
November 1995
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto.
Elevator Gallery, Toronto
Radio House Gallery, New York City
Toronto Image Works, Toronto
Premiere Dance Theatre, Toronto
Nepalese Consulate General, Toronto
Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto
Canadian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Group Exhibitions
April 2008
April 2007
November 2005
November 2004
November 2003
May 2002
July 1999
May 1999
July 1998
May 1998
January 1998
Art of Nature : Green Living Show, Toronto
Art of Nature : Green Living Show, Toronto
Art with Heart – Casey House Fundraiser (participant/donor)
Art with Heart – Casey House Fundraiser (participant/donor)
Art with Heart – Casey House Fundraiser (participant/donor)
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Elevator Gallery, Toronto
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
Edward Day Gallery, Kingston
Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York City

Clients
Douglas & McIntyre / Groundwood Books
Marcom Productions
MGT Communications
Report on Business Magazine
Spin Productions
Strategic Coach
The Globe & Mail
Triangle Studios

Lectures

Hart House - University of Toronto,
“Portrait of Nepal” Exhibition Lecture - May 26, 2003

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Featured Speaker, “Photo Witness : Photographic Lecture Series” - October 10, 2002

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Featured Speaker, “Rhythms of the World” festival - July 21, 2001

University of Western Ontario, London. Ontario
“Pinhole and Early Photographic Processes”


Publications

“Making Pictures” PhotoEd Magazine - November, 2005

“Two and Three part Harmony” in PhotoLife Magazine - March, 2003

“Triptych Vision” in View Camera - November/December, 2000

“Harvesting the Wind” in Outpost Magazine - February, 2000
Reprinted in Utne Reader - July/August, 2000

“Portraits from Nepal” in LensWork # 32 - November/December, 2000

“Global Warming” in Family Practice - May, 1995

Interview with John Ralston Saul - B&A Literary magazine - Fall 1993


 
 
     

related links

Nepal Community Development Foundation

FogQuest