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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 a Master’s degree in Education from Central Michigan University.


   
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Solo Exhibitions

May 2003
May 2001
Dec, 2000
Aug. 1998
Dec. 1997
July 1997
April 1996
Nov. 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

July 2011
June 2011
Nov. 2008
April 2008
April 2007
Nov. 2005
Nov. 2004
Nov. 2003
May 2002
July 1999
May 1999
July 1998
May 1998
Jan. 1998

AWAS Gallery, Penang, Malaysia
Faculty Show, Sheridan Institue
Faculty Show, Sheridan Institute
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


Selected Client List
  • Communique Ltd.
  • Douglas & McIntyre / Groundwood Books
  • Marcom Productions
  • MGT Communications
  • Spin Productions
  • Strategic Coach
  • triangle studios

  • Lectures

    Rotary Club of Oakville Centennial
    "Fog Water Collection in Nepal" - January 9, 2007

    Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar
    "Fog Water Collection in Nepal" - August 3 , 2006

    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” - October 1999

    Lectures at Toronto, Mississauga, and London Camera Clubs.


    Publications

    "Quick Time Virtual Reality"  PhotoEd - November 2008

    “Making Pictures”  PhotoEd - November 2005

    “Two and Three part Harmony”  PhotoLife - March 2003

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

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

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

    “Global Warming”  Family Practice - May, 1995

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