DATE OF BIRTH

1953, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

EDUCATION

MFA: University of Calgary
Alberta College of Art, Calgary

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007   Skew Gallery, Queen Street Desperados, Calgary, AB
Spin Gallery, 21 st Century Drawings

2006   Skew Gallery, LOATHSOME COWBOYS, Calgary

2005   Solo Survey Exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
SNAP Gallery, DIGITAL DISTILLERY, Edmonton, AB

2000 - 01   Spin Gallery (December), NEW WORK, Toronto, ON

1997   TPW Gallery, THE SOMNILOQUIST,Toronto, ON

1991   Truck Gallery, DIAGNOSIS/PANDEMIC, Calgary, AB

1990   Wanton Optics, APHASIA, Toronto, ON
Rosemont Art Gallery, DIAGNOSIS, Regina, SK
MacIntosh Gallery, RECENT WORK, London, ON

1989   Artists' Co-op, TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF, St. Catharines ON
Gallery 101, TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF, Ottawa, ON
Forest City Gallery, WESTERN FLESH & BLOOD, London, ON

1985   P.S. 1, RECENT WORK, NYC, NY

1980   The Funnel, SELF-PORTRAITS OF AN ALLEGED KEEPER OF A COMMON BAWDY HOUSE, Toronto, ON
Solo exhibitions at Garnet Press Gallery in 1986, 87,89,91, 93,95

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005   PHANTOM LIMB, Spin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2003   IMPERFECT PROPORTIONS, Oboro, Montréal, PQ ( with Michael Balser)

2002   LE CORPS GAY, Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme, PQ

2001   THE MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER, Sir W.Grenfell Gallery, Cornerbrook, NFLD. (Fabo & Balser)
ST. SEBASTIAN, Hart House, U. of T. Toronto, ON
AN ART ODYSSEY, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB   

2000    JOCELYN, CHROMAZONE, MacDonald Stewart, Guelph ON
LOADED, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON
REAL MEN, Paul Petro, Toronto, ON
Blue Convergence (Fabo & Balser), Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

1999    YOUR PLACE OR MINE? Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON
STAMINA, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
REMEMBER, Paul Petro, Toronto, ON

1997   Refigured Histories/ Remebered Past (curated , R.. Lee), Saidye Bronfman Center, Montréal, PQ
TELLING STORIES, MacDonald Stewart, Guelph, ON

1995   ART/AIDS LINK (an Internet project), Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK

1994    ROB-O-RAMA;(Rob Flack Tribute), YYZ, Toronto, ON
STONEWALL, White Columns, N.Y.C., NY
LANGUAGE OF CULTURE, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON
ANDY FABO & MICHAEL BALSER, Hallwalls, Buffalo NY

1993    SECOND DECADE, Glenbow Gallery, Calgary, AB

1992   GATHERING: THE MEMORIAL PROJECT, A Space, Toronto, ON
ANDY FABO & MICAH LEXIER, Canada House, London, U.K. (curated by Michael Regan, brochure, catalogue)
ANDY FABO & MICAH LEXIER, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales
ANDY FABO & MICAH LEXIER, J.Hansard Gallery, Southampton,UK
FROM THE INTIMACY OF THE PAGE, Power Plant, (w/ Shelagh Keeley; curated by Louise Dompierre) Toronto, ON
Bound By Contradiction, Kamloops Art Gallery, (w/ S. Keeley   curated by Jann Bailey, artists' book), Kamloops B.C.

1991   LEARN TO READ ART, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
Singing the Body Ephemeral, The Canadian Cultural Centre, (w/ Stephen Andrews; curated by Annette Hurtig), Paris, France

1989    AIDS: CRISIS IN REPRESENTATION, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
HOMOGENIUS, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON

1988   THE BODY AND SOCIETY, London Embassy House, London ON

1985   FIRE & ICE, Walcheturm/Binz 39, Zurich, CHE
STUDIO ARTISTS, Clocktower, NYC, NY
COLLABORATIONS, Grunwald Gallery, Toronto, ON

1984   VESTIGES OF EMPIRE, Camden Arts Centre, London, U.K.
TORONTO PAINTING 84, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
THE FIGURE: A SELECTION OF CANADIAN PAINTING, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON

1983   CHROMAZONE/CHROMATIQUE, Norman Mackenzie Gallery, Regina, SK
TROIS ARTISTES DE TORONTO, Articule, Montréal, QC

1982    O KROMAZONE, Das Institut Unzeit, Berlin, DEU (cat.)
YYZ MONUMENTA, YYZ, Toronto, ON
COLLABORATIONS: MYTHOLOGIES, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON

1981   MONDO CHROMA, ChromaZone, Toronto, ON

SELLECTED VIDEO SCREENINGS

(TAPES MADE WITH MICHAEL BALSER)
Beyond the Helms of the Sensors, June, 1993 (24 minute videotape)
Diagnosis, March 1993 (Public Service Announcement-30 second and 1 minute versions)

Blood Risk, December 1989, (22 minute videotape)
Video Festival, 1989 (a short sample of screenings to indicate where the others might have screened)

Survival of the Delirious, September 1988 (15 minute videotape, also part of the VIDEO AGAINST AIDS
compilation tape produced by John Greyson and Bill Horrigan for Video Data Bank and V Tape; a 3 tape 6 hr.
collection that has shown extensively world wide), won the Best new Narrative award at the Atlanta Film & Video Festival

1998   National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
ART ABOUT AIDS (cat.), New York City, NY
Musée d'Art Contemporaine, Montréal, QC
Art Gallery of   Ontario, Toronto

1992   The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
Chapter, Cardiff, Wales
Goethe Institute, Montréal, QC
Video In Vancouver, Vancouver, BC

1990   National Gallery of Canada (cat), Ottawa, ON
Cuban Film & Video Festival, Havana, Cuba

1989   Semaine Internationale de Video III, (cat.), Geneva, CHE
DCTV Cable Broadcasting, NYC, NY
World Video Festival, Kuykhuis, (cat.), The Hague, Holland
Atlanta Independent Film & Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
The World Health Organization Conference on AIDS, Montréal, QC
The Collective for a Living Cinema, NYC, NY
Centre for Art & Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Kitchen, NYC, NY
The LA Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival (cat.), Los Angeles, CA

COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Canada Council Art Bank
Hart House, U. of Toronto
The MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario
Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia
University of Ottawa, The Woodstock Art Gallery, Ontario
The Art Gallery, U. of T.
The McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Montbeliard Centre for Electronic Arts, France
National Gallery of Canada (video collection)
Art Gallery of Ontario (video collection)
Pacific Film Archives, California
Museum of Modern Art, NYC (video collection), NYC
Trinity Square Video, Toronto

PUBLICATIONS

Remembering Postmodernism, Mark Cheetham, 1991, Oxford University Press, Toronto pages 13-18 ,117, bookplate page 118
Visions; Contemporary Art in Canada, edited by Robert Bringhurst, Geoffrey

Fluid Exchanges: Artist & Critics in the AIDS Crisis , edited by James Miller,1990, University of Toronto Press,
"The Soul is the Prison of the Body": Fabo on Foucault   by David White, pages 65-88, bookplates # 25-37

James, Russel Keziere, and Doris Shadbolt, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 1983;
The Snakes in the Garden; The Self and the City in Contemporary Canadian Art
by John Bentley Mays, pages 157-189, bookplate page 188

SELECTED CATALOGUES