Tony Urquhart

Who is Tony Urquhart?

Anthony Morse Urquhart is a Canadian painter.

He was born in 1934 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. He attended Albright Art School and the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, from 1953 to 1958. He was also elected to study art at the Yale Summer School in 1958.

He began his exhibiting career in 1956 at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto. Over the years his art has been shown in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 1967 his began his series of interactive opening boxes on which he continues to work today. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; the Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis; the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; and numerous other public collections across Canada. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1995 and received a Governor General's award for Visual Arts in 2009. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

He lives with his wife, novelist Jane Urquhart, in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, and occasionally in Ireland.