Eldon Garnet is a photo based artist, public sculptor and writer based in Toronto. He is the artist of the major public sculpture,
The Memorial to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada. He has exhibited his photographic and sculptural work extensively in North America and Europe. A participant at the Venice Biennale in 1985. Garnet's 1997 work,
NO was included in the exhibition Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (2000) and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001). In 1997, the National Gallery of Canada (CMCP) hosted his mid career survey entitled:
The Fallen Body. Garnet has had major surveys of his photographs, at the Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (2002) and Dust at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2002). His most recent novel is Lost Between the Edges published by Semiotext(e), New York. For fifteen years he was the editor of IMPULSE, an international magazine of art, fashion and ideas in the 80's. He is the editor of Impulse Archaeology published by the University of Toronto Press and recently he curated an exhibition by the same title at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and White Box in New York.
