Boyle exhibited regularly at Nancy Poole's Studio in Toronto, a commercial gallery. In 2005, he was included in The Sixties in Canada, curated by Denise Leclerc and Pierre Dessureault for the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. His illustration and book design work includes The Port Dalhousie Stories by Dennis Tourbin (1987), as well as several magazine articles and book jackets. Boyle also has published a novel, No Angel Came (Tellem Press, 1995) and has been since 1965 a founding member and principal kazooist of the Nihilist Spasm Band. In 1970, he served as the first president of the Niagara Artist's Cooperative, now the Niagara Artists Centre, then, in 1971, became the founding spokesperson of Canadian Artists' Representation Ontario. Boyle served on the board of the Niagara Artists’ Company, the Canada Council Arts Advisory Panel, and the Canadian Conference of the Arts (shut-down in 2012). He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975–1977. His papers are in The Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, John Boyle Fonds CA OTAG SC093. Public collections Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Museum London, Ontario National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa References Bibliography 1941 births Living people Artists from London, Ontario 20th-century Canadian painters