Education
He received a Bachelor of Arts in design from Ryerson University in 1984, a Master of Fine Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1989, and a degree from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1990. He is currently teaches at the University of Waterloo.
Career
In 1986 he was part of the Hybrid Cultures exhibit at Oboro gallery that showed the affinities between the art movements of Mexico City and Montreal. His first solo exhibition was in Montréal in 1988, and he has since been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including solo at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Taichung in Taiwan, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, and as part of group exhibitions at galleries including Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Metamorphose et Clônage, Musée d"art contemporain de Montréal, Power Plant in Toronto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Musée du Québec. His paintings and video installations brought him national attention in the late 1990s, and in 2002 his work was included in Biennale de Montreal.
Blatherwick has been the subject of numerous reviews and publications.
He has been guest speaker at Mattress Factory, University of Lethbridge, Concordia University, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, University of Western Ontario, Musée Du Québec, and Guelph University. His work, through private sales or charity auctions, is held in numerous public and private collections, including Art Bank of Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada, and Musée d"art contemporain de Montréal, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the University of Windsor, and has published and contributed to several critical essays, and publications. Vanguard by Vancouver Art Gallery C Magazine by Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts Raw vision by Outsider Archive The New York Times: Traveler"s Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2004 by Alan Riding, Susan Mermelstein, Roberta Smith.
Membership
In 2002 he became a member of Arte y Desarrollo, a group of development and experimental artists whose activities are centralized in rural Dominican Republic.