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Selected Exhibitions

2009 - Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2007 - Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton ( ten year survey exhibition )
2006 - Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
2001 - Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville
1996 - Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville
1994 - Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery ( retrospective exhibition )
1990 - Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto ( ten year survey exhibition )
1988 - Gallery Moos, New York City
1986 - Gallery Moos, Toronto
1984 - Gallery Moos, Toronto
1983 - Art Gallery of Hamilton
1982 - Gallery Moos. Toronto
1981 - Gallery Moos, Toronto
1979 - University of New Brunswick Art Centre
1979 - Mena’Sen Gallery, Sherbrooke
1979 - Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1978 - Gerard Gorce Fine Art, Montreal
1978 - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1978 - Sir George Williams Galleries, Montreal

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Art Gallery of Algoma
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Peel
Art Gallery of St. Thomas-Elgin
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
City of North Bay
Concordia University Art Gallery
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
Gallery Lambton
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
London Museum
McMaster Museum of Art
Memorial University Art Gallery
Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal
New Brunswick Museum
Plattsburgh State Art Museum, NY
Sarnia Art Gallery
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
University of Sherbrooke Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
Banque Nationale du Canada
Cineplex Odeon Corporation
CIT
Counsel Trust Company
Davies Ward & Beck
Dorset Partners
Ernst & Young
Exco Technologies
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
Garth H. Drabinsky Collection
Gluskin Sheff and Associates
Greenshields Foundation
Guaranty Trust Company
Newcourt Credit Group
Ontario College of Teachers
Scotiabank
SunLife Assurance Company of Canada
Sylvia and Irving Ungerman Collection
Vivian and David M. Campbell Collection

Selected Publications

Holubizky, Ihor. "All this Takes Time." Michael Thompson: Paintings & Drawings. Catalogue essay.
Art Gallery of Peel. Brampton. 2007

McAffee, Dionne. "Anima: Between Memory and Perception."
Michael Thompson: Paintings & Drawings. Catalogue essay.
Art Gallery of Peel. Brampton. 2007

Hujer, Elaine, “A Year in the Life of an Artist”,
The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Oct. 19, 2001, pp. N4, ill.

Duval, Paul catalogue essay, “Passion over Reason”
Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1994

Reid, Robert, “Michael Thompson Clearly One of Canada’s Best Young Realist Artists”
The Record, Kitchener, Nov. 10, 1994 pp. 12 - 13, ill.

Burnett, David, catalogue essay, “Michael Thompson : A Ten Year Survey”
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, 1990

Moos, David, catalogue essay, “Crisis and Triumph of the Real : The Paintings of Michael Thompson”
Moos Publishing Ltd. New York City, 1988

Duval, Paul, catalogue essay, “Michael Thompson Recent Works”
Moos Publishing Ltd., Toronto, 1984

Burnett, David, and Schiff, Marilyn, “Contemporary Canadian Art”,
Hurtig Publishers Ltd., Toronto 1993, pp. 170 - 171, ill.

Inglis, Grace, “Gallery Show Depicts Man - Nature Alienation”,
The Spectator, Hamilton, June 11, 1983
 
Hume, Christopher, “Is Yorkville Ready for Leather Realism ?”,
The Toronto Star, December 18, 1982, pp. 5, ill.
 
Webb, Marshall, “Michael Thompson”,
Vanguard, February 1982, pp. 47, ill.
 
O’Brien, Paddy, catalogue forward, “Young Contemporaries ‘ 78”,
London Regional Art Gallery, 1978, pp. 69 - 70, ill.
 
“Dictionary of International Biography”,
International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England
 
“The Canadian Who’s Who”,
University of Toronto Press, Toronto