CONTACT
colin@colinlyons.ca
EDUCATION
2009-2012 Master of Fine Arts (Printmaking), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2003-2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS (*)
2024 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Québec
2023 The Alchemical Valley Geoengineering Seed Vault, Mesaros Gallery, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
2023 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Davie, Florida
2023 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
*2022 Operation Habbakuk, ÖRES, Örö Island, Archipelago National Park, Finland
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
*2021 The Laboratory of Everlasting Solutions, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
Commissioned by Unison Art Center as part of Owning Earth / Supported by New York Foundation for the Arts and Harpur College
*2019 14 Plots (Spill No. 0650898), (Location: 62-64 Scio St., Rochester, NY)
Commissioned by Rochester Contemporary Art Center as part of Current Seen
2018 Prototypes for the Preservation of Degradation, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
*2018 The Deep Cut Restoration Laboratory, (Location: I&M Canal, Lock no. 1, Lockport, Illinois)
Commissioned by The Gaylord Building / The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, Artcite Inc., Windsor, Ontario
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, aceartinc, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, Ontario
*2015 Time Machine for Abandoned Futures, (Location: The Midnight Dome, Dawson City, Yukon)
Commissioned by Klondike Institute of Art & Culture / Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
2015 A Modern Cult of Monuments, CIRCA Art Actuel, Montreal, Québec
2015 Time Machine for Abandoned Futures, Kamloops Art Gallery (The Cube), Kamloops, BC
*2015 Old Monuments / New Foundations, (Location: Six-Mile Mill, Kamloops, British Columbia)
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Automatic Ruins, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
2014 Automatic Ruins, OBORO, Montreal, Québec
2014 Automatic Ruins, ARTSPACE, Peterborough, Ontario
2013 Automatic Ruins, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick
2012 Automatic Ruins, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2011 Automatic Ruins, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario
2010 Industrial Monuments, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 Nautical Monuments, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
2010 Oceanex Avalon, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2010 Monuments Industriels, GRAVE, Victoriaville, Québec
2010 Boom Town, Engramme, Québec, Québec
2010 Fitzgerald Rig, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon
2009 Fitzgerald Rig, Centre des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal, Québec
2009 Boom Town, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2009 Boom Town, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2008 Boom Town, TRUCK, +15 Project Space, Calgary, Alberta
2008 Boom Town, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Boom Town and Ford Motor Co. of Canada: After Karsh, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON
SELECTED DUO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Fourth International Print Biennale Yerevan 2023, KulturDialog Armenien, Aznavour Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia (Juried by Mateusz Otreba, Sona Harutyunyan, Frank-Joachim Grossmann, Alexandra Stäheli, Mehrdad Khataei)
2023 Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia (Juried by Miranda Metcalf)
2023 ÖRES 23 sommarutställning kesänäyttely, Örö Island, Finland (Curated by Mari Kaakkola, Jaakko Karhunen, Katja Niemi)
2023 The 38th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Peoria Art Guild, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois (Juried by Tyanna Buie)
2023 Binghamton University Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, New York
2022 22nd National LAPS Print Exhibition, Mixografia Press, Los Angeles, California (Juried by Kenturah Davis)
2022 MAPC Members’ Exhibition, Kent State University, Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Kent, Ohio
(Juried by Melissa Haviland)
2022 The Fifth International Biennial of Graphics, The Platform for the Promotion of the Art of Multiple Originals, Cacak, Serbia (Juried by Bozidar Zrinski, Natasa Jankovic, Milos Djordjevic)
2022 FootPrint Biennial 2022, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT (Juried by Jeff Bergman)
2022 NEXT 2022 Biennial of Contemporary Print, PrintMatters, Ellio Fine Art, Houston, Texas (Juried by Paola Morsiani)
2022 From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures, Museum London, London, Ontario (Curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith)
2022 The Nature of the Future, Leu Art Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee (Curated by Robin Paris, Christine Rogers, and Tom Williams)
2022 Four Rivers Print Biennial, ArtSpace304, Northern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (Juried by Susanna Crum and Rodolfo Salgado, Jr.)
2021 Print International 2021, Ty Pawb, Wrexham, Wales (Juried by Leonie Bradley, Tracey Hill, and Nigel Morris)
2021 Bituminous Partings, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Curated by Alex Thompson)
2021 Dissonant Futures: International Print Triennial Krakow MTG 2021, Nowa Huta Center, Krakow, Poland
2021 Print Lab, Resonator Institute, Norman, Oklahoma (Curated by Emma Difani)
2021 Bienala Internaționala de Gravura Contemporana N-E, Art Museum of Iași, Iași, Romania
2021 UnEditioned, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY (Curated by Katie Michel)
2020 Give Me Space: New Prints 2020/Summer, IPCNY (International Print Center New York), New York, NY
2020 Power of Print: Resistance & Revolution (MAPC Members Exhibition), Kent State University, Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Kent, Ohio (Juried by Imin Yeh)
2020 Darkest Before Dawn, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, New York (Curated by Raúl Zamudio)
2019 Landscapes & the Unbuilt, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, New York
2019 Binghamton University Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, New York
2018 Going to Ground, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
Touring: Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, Ohio
2018 International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018, Portugal
2018 ClimART: 2018 Climate Action Summit, Academy of Art Cannery Gallery, San Francisco, California
2018 Transference, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2018 rePORT, The Gaylord Building, Lockport, Illinois
2018 The Contemporary Print: PrintAustin 2018, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
2017 3rd Global Print, Côa Museum, Foz Côa, Portugal
2017 Grant Wood Fellowship Exhibition, C.S.P.S., Cedar Rapids, Iowa (with Tameka Norris and Christopher Rasheem-McMillan)
2016 The University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2015 The Haptic & The Optic, IMPACT 9, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Touring: Yanti Modern Gallery, Yanti, Yuquanshan Art Gallery, Beijing, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai
2015 Brain Storms, Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2014 Beyond Street-lit Roads, Platform Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (with Peter von Tiesenhausen and Sarah Anne Johnson)
2014 Art Toronto 2014 (Open Studio booth), Toronto, Ontario
2014 After the Flood: 2014 Faculty Exhibition, TRU Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
2014 Public School #1, Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2014 …Landscape, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Alberta
2014 Blueprints, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, Ontario
2013 Are You My Mother? Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON (with Cal Lane and Clint Neufeld)
2013 Where Water Comes Together With Other Water, Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley, California
2013 R.U.R., The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012 Print Resonance, Musashino University Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 International Triennial PrintArt Katowice, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2012 TRU Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, Thompson Rivers University Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2012 The New Alberta Contemporaries, Esker Foundation Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2012 The Unseen, AMS Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
2012 Unstable Natures, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
2012 Urban Nature, Malton Gallery, Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario
2010 In Between Surfaces, SNAP, Edmonton, Alberta
2009 Illumination (Nuit Blanche à Montréal), Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, Québec
2008 Architectures for Nostalgia, Niagara Artists Co., St. Catharines, ON (with Andrea Kastner)
2008 Le Bruit et le Silence, Galerie Circulaire, Montreal, Québec
AWARDS/ GRANTS/ RESIDENCIES
2023 The Arctic Circle Residency, Summer Solstice Art & Science Expedition, Longyearbyen, Svalbard
2022 Örö Island Residency, ÖRES, Archipelago National Park, Finland
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2022 Canada Council for the Arts: Research and Creation Grant
2022 Frans Masereel Centrum Residency, Kasterlee, Belgium
2022 Honorable Mention, Four Rivers Print Biennial
2021 Special Prize of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow, Krakow Print Triennial
2020 Harpur College Faculty Research Grant, Binghamton University
2020 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA): Keep NYS Creating Project Grant
2019 The Rabbit Island Foundation Residency, Lake Superior, Michigan
2019 The Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award
2017 University of Iowa Office of Outreach and Engagement: Community Impact Grant
2016 Prix de Print, No. 20: Art in Print
2016 Grant Wood Fellowship, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2016 City of Hamilton Arts Awards: Emerging Artist (Visual Arts)
2015 Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, The Natural & The Manufactured Thematic Residency, Dawson City, Yukon
2014 Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grants to Visual Artists
2013 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, Berkeley, California
2013 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant
2011 Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Individual Project Grant, Visual Art & New Media
2011 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2011 Alberta Advanced Education Achievement Scholarship Program
2010 Atelier d'estampe Imago, Artist Residency Program, Moncton, New Brunswick
2010 Third Space Gallery, Passages + Prototypes Series, Saint John, New Brunswick
2010 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Profiling Alberta's Graduate Students Award
2010 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec: Québec – N.B. Artist-in-Residence Program
2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship
2009 University of Alberta Master’s Recruitment Scholarship
2009 Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, University of Alberta
2009 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec: Development Grant, Research and Creation
2008 St. Michael’s Printshop, Visiting Artist Program, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2008 Gallery Lambton, Emerging Artist Residency, Sarnia, Ontario
2008 Atelier Circulaire, Artist Residency Program, Montreal, Québec
2008 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2007 Dr. J.E.A. Crake Performance Award in Fine Arts, Mount Allison University
2007 First Prize, Mount Allison University Annual Printmaking Competition
ARTIST LECTURES / PANELS
2024 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Québec
2023 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Climate Art & Action Incubator, NYU, New York, NY
2023 The Alchemical Valley Geoengineering Seed Vault, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2023 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Broward College, Davie, Florida
2022 The Political Ecology of Printmaking, Mid-America Print Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2021 We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills, Sustainable Communities TAE, Binghamton University
2020 Give Me Space: Environment + Justice, Panel discussion, IPCNY (International Print Center New York), New York, NY (moderator: Megan Duffy)
2020 Material Worlds, Panel discussion, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
2019 Everlasting Solutions, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
2019 Landscapes & The Unbuilt, panel discussion, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2018 Prototypes for the Preservation of Degradation, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2018. Prototypes for the Preservation of Degradation, The Gaylord Building, Lockport, IL
2018 Transference, panel discussion, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 Time Machine for Abandoned Futures, VizCult Lecture Series, Binghamton University
2017 Contingency Plan, CSPS (Ecofest), Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2017 Lithograph City and Other Sacrificial Landscapes, MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, Iowa
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, SNAP, Edmonton, Alberta
2016 Fellowship Lecture, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
2016 A Modern Cult of Monuments, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, Ontario
2015 A Modern Cult of Monuments, CIRCA art actuel, Montreal, Québec
2015 The Natural & The Manufactured, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
2015 Time Machine for Abandoned Futures, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2015 The Visiting Artist Series, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2013 Are You My Mother? Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
2013 Fellowship Program, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2013 Automatic Ruins, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick
2013 Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia
2010 Oceanex Avalon, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland
2010 Nautical Monuments, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
2010 Artist Residency Program, Atelier d'estampe Imago, Moncton, New Brunswick
2010 Monuments Industriels, GRAVE, Victoriaville, Québec
2010 Fitzgerald Rig, ODD Gallery Dawson City, Yukon
2009 Fitzgerald Rig, Centre des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal, Québec
2009 Boom Town, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2008 Artist Residency Program, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Québec
WRITING
2023 “We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills”, SNAPline, Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, Edmonton, Alberta, Vol. 2023.3: Chemistry Issue, p. 10-17. (edited by Charlie Crittenden)
2023 “Art for Environmental Remediation”, Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C., Vol 18. No. 1 (edited by Murali Pai)
2018 “Contingency Plan,” Full Bleed Journal of Art & Design, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Vol. 2 (Crisis Issue), p. 54-61. (edited by Paul Jaskunas)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Anaïs Castro, “Portfolio: Colin Lyons”, Esse Arts + Opinions, Montréal, Québec, Vol. 108 (Resilience).
2023 Sari Toivakka, “Kanadalainen taidegraafikko Colin Lyons yhdistää taidetta ja "tiedettä" Pelle Pelottoman asenteella – näyttely esillä galleria Ratamossa”, Keskisuomalainen, Jyväskylä, Finland, January 21, 2023.
2023 Hannu Karjalainen “Interview with Örö resident Colin Lyons”, FAIRE, Helsinki, Finland.
2023 John Heintzman, “LAPS Highlights of the 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition in 2023”, Los Angeles Printmaking Society”, Los Angeles, CA. June 1, 2023.
2022 Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, “If the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong…”, From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures, Museum London, London, ON, p. 11, 39.
2022 Jennifer Micale, “The Alchemist: Art projects explore the deeper dimensions of climate engineering”, Binghamton University News, Binghamton, NY, April 8, 2022.
2022 Tal Beery, “Owning Earth”, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY, p. 5, 27, 42.
2021 Dorota Dziunikowska, “Sprzeczne Przyszłości na Międzynarodowego Triennale Grafiki” KBF: Kraków Culture, Kraków Poland, Summer 2021.
2021 Louis Bury, “Who Owns the Earth?” Hyperallergic. September 8, 2021.
2021 Marta Anna Raczek-Karcz, “Dissonant Futures”, Kraków International Print Triennial, Kraków, Poland, p. 21, 56-59
2021 Barbora Kundcíková “Bi a Tri: Graphika ve Strední Evrope, ob Rok, ob Dva, po Dekádách”, Grapheion: International Review of Contemporary Prints, Book and Paper Arts, Hollar Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic, p. 24.
2021 Noémie Fortin, “De territoires naturels en paysages manufacturés: portrait d’un art rural critique enraciné au nord du 60e parallèle”, Vie des Arts, Montreal, QC, vol. 262 (Spring 2021), p. 44-49.
2020 Imin Yeh, “Power of Print” Mid-America Print Council, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
2020 Randy Atkins, “Art Framing Climate Issues”, Engineering Innovation, National Academy of Engineering, WTOP, Washington D.C., January 17, 2020.
2019 Eric Coker, “Island Solitude Key for Art Professor’s Latest Project”, Binghamton University News, Binghamton, NY, October 8, 2019.
2019 Kyle Semmel and Gerry Szymanski, “East to West Guide”, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2019 Leah Collins, “8 artist residencies to make you seriously regret your summer plans”,CBC Arts, Toronto, ON, June 20, 2019.
2019 Abi Clark, “14 Plots Memorializes Hidden History of Environmental Contamination at Downtown Rochester Lot” Reclaiming the Narrative, Rochester, NY, October 18, 2019.
2018 Frank Peebles, “Art show looks to preserve degradation”, Prince George Citizen, Prince George, BC, October 17, 2018.
2018 Hannamari Jalovaara. “Transference”, Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
2018 Elvia Perrin, “The Contemporary Print”, PrintAustin, Austin, TX.
2018 Sarita Zaleha. “Contingency Plan”, 2017 Grant Wood Fellowship Exhibition,The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
2017 Amanda Shore, “Looking Back: A national survey of 10 artists whose works reinvent history”, Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, Fall 2017.
2017 Alisdair Wilkins, "How To Make Art Out Of Fighting Climate Change", Vocativ, May 8, 2017.
2017 Claire Dietz, "Art Colony wraps with Geo-Engineering", The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, IA, May 4, 2017.
2016 Chang Yuchen. “Prix de Print, No. 20”, Art in Print, Chicago, IL, Vol.6/No.4, p. 16-17.
2016 Courtney Holmes. “Traces of Industry”, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, YT.
2016 Alexis Kinloch. “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.” Critical Distance, 21:3, Winnipeg, MB.
2016 Dagmara Genda. “Review: Colin Lyons at Ace Art Inc.” Magenta Magazine, Spring 2006.
2016 Steven Leyden Cochrane. “Colin Lyons at aceartinc.”, Akimbo, March 9, 2016.
2016 Tara Bursey. “Right to Ruin”, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON.
2015 Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette. "archéologue du futur", CIRCA art actuel, Montreal, QC.
2015 Susan Edgell. “CFJC Midday”, CFJC-TV Kamloops, BC, April 29, 2015.
2015 Gareth Madoc-Jones. “CFJC News”, CFJC-TV, Kamloops, BC, April 16, 2015.
2014 Josh Usmani. “SPACES Hosts Two Exhibitions That Bring Artist and Process Together”, Scene, Cleveland, OH, November 12, 2014.
2014 Kristen Mott. “Rubble Reborn”, Canvas Magazine, Cleveland, OH, Fall/Winter 2014, p. 20-23.
2014 Jérome Delgado. "Un constat en ruine", Le Devoir, Montreal, QC, April 5, 2014.
2014 Pascal Dufaux. “Vestiges Automatiques”, OBORO, Montreal, QC.
2014 Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh. “Beyond Street-lit Roads”, Platform, Stockholm, Sweden.
2014 David Candler. “…Landscape”, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, AB.
2014 Stephanie Vegh. "Akimblog: Blueprints at Centre3 in Hamilton", Akimbo, February 25, 2014.
2014 Ingrid Mayrhofer. “Blueprints”, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON.
2013 Lisa Daniels. “Are You My Mother?”, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
2013 Gregory Ito. “Interviews with Fellows from Kala Art Institute” SFAQ Online, May 7, 2013.
2013 Victoria Dekker. “Abandoned Dreams of Prosperity”, Here Magazine, Moncton, NB, May 2, p.28.
2013 Heather White. “Road To Ruin” Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, NB, April 27, 2013, S3.
2013 Ben Heywood. “R.U.R.”, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
2013 Eric Asboe. “Process, Here and There: One View of the Twin Cities”, Bad at Sports, March 14.
2012 Dick Averns. “Reviews: The New Alberta Contemporaries”, Galleries West, Fall/ Winter 2012
2012 Caterina Pizanias. “The New Alberta Contemporaries”, Esker Foundation, 2012, p. 22-23.
2012 Dick Averns. “Akimblog: The New Alberta Contemporaries”, Akimbo, June 19, 2012.
2011 Stephanie Vegh. "Akimblog: Hamilton and St. Catharines", Akimbo, May 31, 2011.
2011 Bryce Kanbara." long ago and far away”, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON.
2010 Sue Carter Flinn. "2010 Critic's Picks", Akimbo, December 13, 2010.
2010 Holly Gordon. "Going Industrial", The Coast, Halifax, NS, November 4, 2010.
2010 Nick Laugher. "Forgotten Landscapes", The Dalhousie Gazette, Halifax, NS, November 4, p.12
2010 Joan Sullivan. "Akimblog: St. John's", Akimbo, September 21, 2010.
2010 Chris Lloyd. "Oceanex Avalon", Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, NL.
2010 Mike Landry. "Objects of Obsolescence", Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, NB, July 3, 2010, S3.
2010 Christiane Baillargeon. "La Marque noire du paysage industriel", Vie des Arts, Montreal, QC,
2010 Christine Rousseau. "Post-Boom", Impact Campus, Université Laval, Québec, QC, March 23
2010 Cecil Haire. "The Morning Show", CBC Radio One, St. John's, NL, September 3, 2010.
2010 Jean-Pierre Guay. "L'Aérospatial", Radio Mémoire, Québec, QC, March 10, 2010.
2010 Catherine Lachaussée and Martine Côté. "Ça me dit de prendre le temps - Chroniques", Radio-Canada, Québec, QC, March 6, 2010.
2010 Lance Blomgren. "Monument to a Monument", ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YT.
2009 R.L. Tillman. "Colin Lyons", Printeresting, December 2, 2009.
2009 Geneviève Turcotte. “Colin Lyons chez Skol”, ARPRIM, Montreal, QC, November 2009, p. 9
2009 Julie Morel. "Colin Lyons", Incident, November 1, 2009.
2009 Chris Lloyd. "Fitzgerald Rig", Centre des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal, QC.
2009 Leroux-Nega, Emmanuel. "L'art de l'obsolescence industrielle", Quartier Libre, Montreal, QC
2009 Stacy DeWolf. "Artsweek: Homage to Oil", Mirror, Montreal, QC, October 8, 2009, p. 42.
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2008 Peter Goddard. "Critics’ Choice", Toronto Star, Toronto, ON, October 9, 2008, E2.
2008 Rebecca Diedrichs. "Boom Town Haunting", Open Studio, Toronto, ON.
2008 Kristen De Palma. "Letting it All Hang Out", PULSE Niagara, St. Catharines, ON
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2008 Richard Sasse. "The Source", TV COGECO, Niagara Falls, ON, September 2, 2008.
2008 Matthew Hadley. "NAC hosts Architectures for Nostalgia", The Brock Press, St. Catharines, ON.
2008 Lisa Daniels. "Boom Town and Ford Motor Co.: After Karsh", Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON.
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