The Royal Art Lodge was an art collective from 1996-2008.
The Royal Art Lodge was founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama,
Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams in Winnipeg, Canada. Hollie Dzama and Myles Langlois have also been members.

Exhibitions

2008
Learned helplessness, Pippy Houldsworth, London
Garbage Day 2007-08, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Women and Children, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padua, Italy

2007
In the Mourning, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada

2006
Peer Pleasure 1, Yerba Buena center for the arts, San Francisco
Preoccupation, aliceday, Brussels

2005
The Royal Art Lodge at Venice, Caffé Florian, Venice, Italy
Serpentine musings, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Art Brussels, aliceday, Belgium
The Royal Art Lodge: pensieri dei serpenti, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
Bologna Art Fair, Italy
Future quake, aliceday, FIAC, Paris, France
Preview, aliceday, Berlin

2004
Ask the dust, MOCA, LA
The Royal Art Lodge: Hypothermia, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
The Royal Art Lodge: Pride in Workmanship, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Bande Annonce, aliceday, Brussels
Ask the Dust , Dictionary of Received Ideas, The Royal Art Lodge, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Arte Termita Contra Elefante Blanco, foundacion Ico, Madrid
Rendez vous, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Strips and characters, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
So Sweet, Leisure Club Mogidishni, Copenhagen, denmark
Chaim Soutine, Happy Sailor, London, UK
Future Quake, aliceday, FIAC, Paris, France
New entries, Artissima, aliceday, Turin, Italy
Flash Art Fair, Milan, italy
Happy Go Lucky, Foundation VHDG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Paperwork, Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
Art Brussels, aliceday, Belgium
Beautiful Losers / beaver College, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Occur(blur), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB

2003
Artissima art fair, Torino, Italy
The gothic Unconscious, Gallery One One One, Winnipeg, MB
Art Fair Bologna, Italy
Mele Kalikimaka, Group Show, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Ask the Dust, Dictionary of Received Ideas, The Royal Art Lodge, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL,
Power Plant, Toronto, ON, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

2002
Drue’s Birthday, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Group Show, I 20 Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
The Drawing Show, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Art 33 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Miart Milan Art Fair, Milano, Italy
Art Fair, Torino, Italy
The Royal Art Lodge, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
Colonial Brookwood ART 2002 Invitational, Birmingham, AL
The Armory Show, New York

2001
Royal Art Lodge, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy
Artpile, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Paperview, Galeria Espacio Minima, Madrid, Spain
Art Santa Fe 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Amounts of Blood, Artcore, Toronto

2000
Idiots, Artcore, Toronto, ON
Lodge Drawings, Royal Art Lodge, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
The Royal Art Lodge Presents, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Royal Art Lodge, Winnipeg, MB

1999
Greetings from Winnipeg, College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
A Relatively Small Collection (audio art), Ace Art, Winnipeg, MB
Floating Gallery Celebrity Camera Auction, Winnipeg, MB
Laughing, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, MB

1998
Royal Art Lodge (Doll) and Puppet Show, Royal Art Lodge, Winnipeg, MB

1997
Fresh Popped, Plug In Gallery, Anti-Chamber, Winnipeg, MB
The Royal Art Lodge, Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, TX

1996
Fite Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Bibliography

2006
Return Of The Crazy Gang, Enright Robert, ArtReview (March/April 2006) pp. 64-69
City Report: Winnipeg, Enright Robert, Frieze Issue 96 (March 2006) pp. 149-151
The Royal We, Juxtapoz Issue 62 (March 2006) pp. 114-115
King Of Art: Neil Farber, Miller Ken, Tokion No. 51 (February/March 2006) pp. 34, 36

2005
The Royal Art Lodge, Neelon Caleb, Swindle No. 3 (2005), pp. 54-59
The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings, Clancy Luke, Modern Painters (May 2005) p. 113
Royal Art Lodge, Zebellin Gaia, Scrioppo 1 (2005), p. 23
The Royal Art Lodge, Siviero Viviana, Espoarte 33, p.74

2004
From Winter Springs An Art Collaboration, Emerling Susan, LA Times (December 25, 2004)
Canadian Club, Nelson Arty, LA Weekly (December 3-9, 2004)
Life in a Box, Part 2: Contributor’s Interview, Cream (December 2004) insert
The Royal Art Lodge, Rapkin Mickey, Details Volume 23, Issue 2 (November 2004) p. 44
Exquisite Corpus, Geddes Stuart, Monument Number 62 (August/September 2004) pp. 94-95
Artful Play, Robinson Phaedra, Detroit Metro Times (March 3, 2004)

2003
The New Visionaries, Pollock Barbara, ARTnews Volume 102, Number 11 (December 2003) pp. 92-97
The Royal Art Lodge at the Drawing Center, Pollock Barbara, Art In America Number 10 (October 2003) pp. 128-129
Winnipeg on the Hudson, Trainor James, Border Crossings Volume 22, Number 3, (August 2003) pp. 36-47
The Royal Art Lodge: The Drawing Center, Kuntz Melissa and Randy Gladman, NY Canadian Art Volume 20 Number 2 (Summer 2003) pp. 88-90
Art Throbs: The Royal Art Lodge, Balaban Liane, Strut Issue 1 (Summer 2003) pp. 156-157
Wild Crop, Knelman Joshua, Toro (June-July 2003) pp. 68-72
The Royal Art Lodge: The Drawing Center, NY, Trainor James, Tema Celeste 97 (May/June 2003) p. 77
The Royal Art Lodge: The Drawing Center, NY, Wilson Michael, Frieze Issue 75 (May 2003) p. 104
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask The Dust, The Drawing Center, NY, Dunn Melissa and Charles Gute, Flash Art Volume 36, Number 229 (March-April 2003) p. 55
The Power of the Playful, Milroy Sarah, The Globe and Mail (Thursday, March 27, 2003) p. R8
Art: A Happy Talented Collective, Cameron Amy, Maclean’s Volume 116, Number 12 (March 24, 2003) p. 62
A Night at the Lodge, Seymou Lori, Elm Street Volume 7, Number 5 (April 2003) p. 24
The Imaginative Faculty, Stern Steven, Time Out (February 13-20, 2003)
The Royal Art Lodge, The New Yorker (February 10, 2003) p. 20
Misaki Kawai and The Royal Art Lodge, Mar Alex, The New York Sun (February 6, 2003)
Paper Trail: A Survey of Drawing on the Rise, Saltz Jerry, The Village Voice (January 29-February 4, 2003) p. 56
Art Group Leaves New York in the Dust, Lazarovic Sarah, National Post (Wednesday, January 29, 2003)
Making Art Around the Hearth…, White Murray, The New York Times (January 19, 2003) p. 36
Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together, Cotter Holland, The New York Times (January 19, 2003) p. 36
Wanted: ‘Anonymous’ Canadian Art, Whyte Murray, The Toronto Star (January 19, 2003)
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask The Dust, The Arts Newspaper Number 132 (January 2003)

2002
Manitoba: Prairie Renaissance, Wilson Jill, Winnipeg, Utne (November 15, 2002) pp. 40-41
Collective Simplicity and Global Mass Artput, Harrison Flick, Broken Pencil Issue 19 (2002) pp. 13-17, cover
The Royal Art Lodge: Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Laurence Robin, Canadian Art Volume 19 Number 1 (Spring 2002) pp. 92, 96
The Royal Art Lodge: Perugi, Sigolo Alfredo, Flash Art (Italy) Anno 31, Numero 232 (February-March 2002) pp. 123-124
The Royal Art Lodge, Lotta Daniela, Arte Critica Anno 8, Numero 29 (January-March 2002)
New Canadian Folk, Borins Daniel, C Issue 72 (Winter 2001-2002) pp. 12-16

2001
Laurence Robin, The Royal Art Lodge: Sagging Sock Puppets Mingle with Death Masks, The Georgia Straight (December 6-13, 2001) p. 70
Dzama Marcel, Top Ten, ARTFORUM (October 2001) p. 59

2000
Royal Visions of Childhood, Laurence Robin, The Georgia Straight (December 7-14, 2000) p. 80
Art Club The Vancouver Sun, Scott Michael, (Saturday, December 2, 2000) p. E15
The Royal Art Lodge, Moore Jake, Stylus Volume 11, Number 8 (September-October 2000) p. 16
Brain Trust, Gilmour Allison, Western Living Volume 30, Number 8 (October 2000) pp. 18-26
July 22, Winnipeg, MB, 7:30PM-12:00AM by The Royal Art Lodge, Saturday Night (August 19, 2000) p. 50
Program To Destroy, Latourelle Rodney, Border Crossings Volume 19, Number 3, Issue 75 (August 2000) pp. 91-94
The Royal Art Lodge, Search Number 3 (2000)

1998
The Art Lodge, Enright Robert, The Globe and Mail (November 7, 1998)

1997
Royal Lodging, Enright Robert, Border Crossings Volume 16, Number 3 (August 1997) pp. 5-6
Fresh Popped, Baerwaldt Wayne, Plug In Harold (May, 1997) pp 7-8
Childhood Art Raises Punk Images, Buchholz Garth, The Winnipeg Free Press (April 12, 1997) p. B10

Catalogues & Publications

Pensieri dei serpenti, The Royal Art Lodge, Petra & Perugi artecotemporanea, Italy, text by Guido Bartorelli, 2005
Lavori Veneziani al Caffe Florian, The Royal Art Lodge, Venice, Italy. Caffe Florian. Text by Daniela Vedaldi and Stefano Stipitivich, 2005
Serpentine Musings, The Royal Art Lodge, Dublin, Ireland. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Text by Ali Davey, 2005
Strips and characters, Wolfsburg, Germany, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, 2004
Semaine N°24 : rendez-vous 2004, Lyon, Musée d’art contemporain, France, 2004
Arte Termita Contra Elefante Blanco, foundacion ICO, Madrid, text by Pablo llorca, 2004
For The Record: Drawing Contemporary Life,Text by Daina Augaitis, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2003
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask The Dust Dictionary of Received Ideas, 2003. Text by Wayne Baerwaldt, Joseph R. Wolin and Lytle Shaw,
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Not So Cute and Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art, text by Elizabeth Dunbar, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, 2003
The Royal Art Lodge, text by Guido Bartorelli and Daniela Lotta, Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy, 2001
Search For Art, text by Search For Art Committee, Bologna, Italy, 2000
Greetings From Winnipeg, text by Robert Enright and Brian Szott, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2000

Publications, Special Projects and Reproductions of Artworks

Royal Art Lodge Untitled 2004, FFWD Magazine number 2, 2004, pp 37-39
The Royal Art Lodge, Zingmagazine issue 18, Winterspring 2003, pp 146-159
The Royal Art Lodge : project for Juliet, Juliet Art Magazine, number 107 (April-May 2002), pp 40-41
Royal Art Lodge : Reflections of Christmas, Zingmagazine, volume 3, Issue 11, Winter 2000