Chantal Gibson

Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator.[1] Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award,[2] the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes,[3] and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist.[4] Gibson's art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.[5]

Early life and education

Born in Quebec,[6] Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.[7]

Career

Gibson is a writer-artist-educator based on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a lecturer in written and visual communication at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).[8] Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.[9]

Awards and honours

Literary

Exhibitions

  • 2014 - TOME. SFU Surrey Library (2014)[5]
  • 2014 - Between Friends: Crossings, Myths and Border Stories. Defiance College Women's Gallery, Defiance Ohio[5]
  • 2015 - TOME. Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC[5]
  • 2018 - Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. ROM Toronto and Musee des Beaux Arts Montreal[13]
  • 2018 - MORPH: Changing the Past. (Inaugural group exhibit) Vancouver Public Library, Main Branch[8]
  • 2019 - How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire. (Solo exhibit) Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC[7]
  • 2019 - TOME. McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC[7]
  • 2019 - Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax[14]
  • 2020 - Who's Who. Senate of Canada chamber foyer, Ottawa, ON[15]
  • 2020 - Where do we go from here? (Group exhibit) Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC[16]
  • 2021 - Human Capital. (Group exhibit) MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK[17]
  • 2021 - un/settled. In collaboration with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. SFU Belzberg Library, Vancouver BC[18]
  • 2021 - Tyranny. (Group exhibition) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax[19]

Artist-in-residence

  • 2017 - Visiting artist, OCAD University Writing & Learning Centre, Toronto, ON[20]

Bibliography

  • —— (2019). How She Read: Poems. Caitlin Press.[21]
  • —— (2021). with/holding: Poems. Caitlin Press.[21]

References

  1. ^ Fiona Tinwei Lam, "‘How She Read’: Chantal Gibson’s Anthem for Black Sisterhood". The Tyee, February 3, 2020.
  2. ^ Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "BC and Yukon Book Prizes – Mission: To recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs". Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ^ "Canadians Doyali Islam, Chantal Gibson and Kaie Kellough shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize". CBC Books, April 7, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Gibson, Chantal. "Where Visual and literary art meet". Chantal Gibson Artist. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  6. ^ Debates of the Senate (Hansard) Senate of Canada
  7. ^ a b c "Chantal Gibson rewrites Canada's whites-only historical narrative | Nexus newspaper". 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  8. ^ a b c "Chantal Gibson - School of Interactive Arts & Technology - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  9. ^ "365 - Chantal Gibson". Penticton Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  10. ^ "2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson – League of Canadian Poets". Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  11. ^ "Griffin Poetry Prize: 2020 Shortlist". Griffin Poetry Prize. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  12. ^ "Introducing the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award Winners". Maclean's. April 12, 2021. Retrieved 20 Aug 2021.
  13. ^ "Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art". Royal Ontario Museum. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  14. ^ "Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia". www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  15. ^ "Senate of Canada - The Senate is honouring Canada's Black artists". Senate of Canada. 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  16. ^ "VAG's Where do we go from here? starts a conversation about gallery representation". vancouversun. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  17. ^ "Human Capital". MacKenzie Art Gallery. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  18. ^ "Visit un/settled, an exhibit at Belzberg Library | SFU Library". www.lib.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  19. ^ "Tyranny". www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  20. ^ "Visiting Artist: Chantal Gibson". OCAD University. 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  21. ^ a b "Gibson, Chantal". Caitlin Press. Retrieved 2021-08-20.


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