Global Perspectives: Art That Transcends Borders (catalogue), Saatchi Art, Los Angeles, March 2023

What 6 Artists Wish They Knew At The Start of Their Careers, Partial Gallery, August 2022

Art Competition Featuring Sarnia Teacher Airing on CBC, by Paul Morden, September 26, 2020

Sarnia Art Teacher To Make Reality TV Debut, by Colin Gowdy, February 23, 2020

Cruel Aspirations: Some Thoughts On 'Elusive Utopia', by John Kissick, July 2018

"Elusive Utopia" (catalogue), Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, July 2018

Mosaic Unveiled: Eight Years and 200 students later, January 2018

Painter mixes suburbia and nature, by Neil Bowen, The Sarnia Observer, February 3, 2017

Elusive Utopia, by Lisa Daniels, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, February 2017

"Ian McLean: New Works", CFA Gallery, Toronto (catalogue), 2016

Ian McLean: A walk on the wild side at CFA Gallery, by Tom Maunder, December 2016

Sarnia Artist finds commercial and critical success, The Sarnia journal, Oct 24, 2016

"City of Art" at Gallery 1313, by Dave LeBlanc, The Globe and Mail, November 2015

Dwell Magazine, November 2015 (image)

artist a day: Ian McLean, 2014

"Weird" at Harbourfront Centre, by Patrick Macaulay, September 2013

"Ian McLean at Loop Gallery", Toronto Life magazine, August 2013

Exciting Artists You Haven't Heard Of But Probably Should Have, Graphic Art News, Athens, June 2013

Emerging Talent From Russia to Canada Saatchi Magazine, Los Angeles, January 2013

New St. Thomas Exhibition Pictures the World Around Us  by Eric Bunnell, St. Thomas Times-Journal, Jan. 8, 2013

The Promise of Painting At Glenhyrst by Arlene Laskey, The Brantford Expositor,  February 2, 2012

Brantford Rocks the Art Talks Pecha Kucha Style, by Darren White, Makebright, February 26, 2012

Simplicity, nostalgia & the art of memory, by James Downe, November 8, 2011

Ian McLean: Yards & Muscle Cars, by Andrea Rabinovitch, Hamilton Arts & Letters, 2010

Saatchi Art: From the Studio of  . . . Ian McLean, Saatchi Art Magazine, November 28, 2012

The Exhibitionist: Ian McLean at Loop Gallery, by R.M. Vaughan, The Globe and Mail, August 2011

Living Arrangements: Sublimation, Decor, and The Pursuit of Happiness in the Paintings of Ian McLean, by Eliza Griffiths, 2005

Art With Afterglow, by Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, July 30, 2005

Ian McLean at Transit Gallery, by Ola Wlusek, The Hamilton Spectator, July 2005

Different Views of the Past, by Regina Haggo, the Hamilton Spectator, September 18, 2003