Lucie Chan


Lucie Chan (born 1975) is a visual artist born in Guyana, who is now based in Canada.[1] Her artwork employs various techniques including large-scale drawings-based installation and animation focusing on such themes as cultural confusion, the transient nature of human connections, and shape-shifting identity.[2]

Biography

Chan was born in Georgetown, Guyana and later moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.[3] Chan believes that she doesn't feel attached to any one culture, as she lived in Guyana then Canada, and is part of Chinese, Black, East Indian and Portuguese cultures.[4] Chan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2001.[3][5] She lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is an associate professor of drawing at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[6]

Awards

Chan received the VIVA Award as one of the three distinguished individuals working in the field of visual arts in 2020.[7]

She was a nominee for the Sobey Art Award in 2010.[8]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2022 - To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear (The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia)[9]
  • 2022 – How to be 57 (Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC)[10][11]
  • 2020 – To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear (Centre A, Vancouver, BC)
  • 2018 – How to Be 57 (Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario)
  • 2007 – Lucie Chan: Between, and in tears, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.[12]
  • 2006 – tears, and in Between (Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec)
  • 2002 – Something to Carry (Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
  • 2001 – Mek Back Shaky Baby Mek Back (Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Group exhibitions

From July 2023 to January 2024, Chan created a large-scale sketchbook project The Library of Continuous Image-Making in collaboration local community members of all ages. The project was located in the BMO Learning Centre. It invites visitors to co-developed the assorted handmade sketchbooks with mixed media art supplies which transformed images into multi-layered hybrid visuals.[13]

Chan was one of the eight artists presented by The Blue Building Gallery at Art Toronto 2023.[14]

Chan and Marigold Santos collaborated to create the artist exhibition Attachments, which was shown at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2014.[4][15] Her works were part of Assemble in Art Gallery of Sudbury in 2016.[16]

Lucie Chan work was exhibited in a 3-person exhibition Drawn Positions: Geographies and Communities at the National Gallery of Canada in 2008.[17]

Curatorship

Lucie Chan was one of the curators of 2017 Nocturne Festival, held annually in Nova Scotia.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Artists in Canada - Lucie Chan". Artists in Canada. Canadian Heritage Information Network, Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  2. ^ Chevalier, Geneviève (2007). Lucie Chan. Halifax, Sherbrooke: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops University. pp. 25–27. ISBN 1554571642.
  3. ^ a b Jenkner, Ingrid (2001). Lucie Chan. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. ISBN 1894518098.
  4. ^ a b "Artists explore the idea of culture and attachment". The Source. 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  5. ^ "Richmond News Arts Listings: Lucie Chan and Marigold Santos: Attachments". Richmond News. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  6. ^ "Lucie Chan". Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  7. ^ "VIVA Award Recipients 1988-2017". The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  8. ^ "25 contemporary artists vie for Sobey Art Award".
  9. ^ "To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear". The Blue Building. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  10. ^ Community (2022-07-28). "Artist Lucie Chan residency and exhibit at Oxygen in Nelson - Nelson Star". www.nelsonstar.com. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  11. ^ "Lucie Chan's exhibition opens at Oxygen Art Centre on Sept. 3 | The Nelson Daily". thenelsondaily.com. 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  12. ^ "Lucie Chan: Between, and in tears'". Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  13. ^ "Lucie Chan: Artist in Residence". MacKenzie Art Gallery. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  14. ^ "Art Toronto 2023". The Blue Building. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  15. ^ "Art This Week: The surreal, the monochromatic and the Painted Past". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  16. ^ "Art Gallery of Sudbury presents Assemble". Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  17. ^ "Drawn Positions: Geographies and Communities". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  18. ^ Coulter, Ava. "Holding space for BIPOC artists in the Halifax art world". Retrieved 2018-03-20.