FCCS Visiting Artist Series: John Hall

Join us on Monday, November 3rd, 2025, from 3:00 PM for an artist talk with John Hall.

This talk will be held in the University Theatre (ADM 026) as part of the CCS 250 Creative and Critical Art Theory class.

John Hall received his formal training in the 1960s at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary and the Instituto Allende in Mexico. Since completing his studies in 1966, he has lived and worked in Calgary, Alberta; Delaware, Ohio; New York, New York; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and, most recently, West Kelowna, British Columbia.

Hall taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, the Alberta College of Art and Design, and the University of Calgary, where he retired in 1998 as Professor of Painting and Drawing. He is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. In 1975, he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and in 1979/80, he completed a residency at P.S.1 in New York.

His work is represented in major public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Glenbow Museum, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, among others. His paintings are also held in numerous corporate and private collections, with commissions from Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, the Royal Bank, and Cineplex Odeon.

Exhibition highlights include a 1979–80 solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, a 1994 retrospective at Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Moderno, and Travelling Light, a career survey organized by the Kelowna Art Gallery in 2016. He has also exhibited widely in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and Japan. Hall is represented by the Loch Gallery in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary.

Gary Michael Dault, former art critic for The Globe and Mail, once remarked: “All styles can come down to noise, wrote poet and critic William Empson, and I think John Hall’s pictures are getting to that. Which is the source of their galloping power.”