Arnaud Maggs was a Canadian artist and photographer.
15 Facts About Arnaud Maggs
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At the age of 47, Arnaud Maggs decided to become a visual artist concentrating on photography and conceptualism and focusing on such things as death notices and tags documenting child labour in French textile factories.
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Arnaud Maggs replaced the human head with number- and letterforms in his photography and paintings, although he displayed an ongoing fascination with shape, scale, and classification.
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Arnaud Maggs photographed more than 300 vertical hotel signs in Paris, from which he compiled a selection of 165 signs to be published in a book designed by graphic designer and typographer Ed Cleary and published by Art Metropole and Presentation House in 1993.
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Arnaud Maggs arranged the photographs in the book by lettering style so that each page contains five similar hotel signs.
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Since the late 1970s, Arnaud Maggs has been the subject of numerous retrospectives, solo exhibitions and group shows across the country and world-wide.
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In 2006, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa; Gallery One One One, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton organized Arnaud Maggs: Nomenclature, curated by Linda Jansma.
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Arnaud Maggs's work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Alberta, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, McMaster Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.
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Arnaud Maggs is represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto.
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In 1984, Arnaud Maggs was given the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award.
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Arnaud Maggs received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 1991 and in 1992, the Toronto Arts Award.
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In 2006, Arnaud Maggs was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
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Arnuld Arnaud Maggs died of cancer in Toronto on November 17,2012.
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In 2013, an exhibition titled the Scotiabank Photography Award: Arnaud Maggs was held at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto.
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Arnaud Maggs's fonds is at the City of Toronto Archives number 1598.