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 and installation to examine issues of identity and race.[2]

Biography

Chan was born in Georgetown, Guyana and later moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.[3] She has said she doesn't feel attached to any one culture, as she lived in Guyana then Canada, and is part Chinese, Black, East Indian and Portuguese.[4] Chan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design and a Masters 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 in Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[6]

Awards

She was a nominee for the Sobey Art Award in 2010.[7]

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
  • 2018 How to Be 57 (Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario)
  • 2001 Mek Back Shaky Baby Mek Back (Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
  • 2002 Something to Carry (Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
  • 2006 tears, and in Between (Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec)
  • 2007 Lucie Chan: Between, and in tears, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.[8]

Group exhibitions

Lucie Chan work was exhibited in a 3 person exhibition Drawn Positions: Geographies and Communities at the National Gallery of Canada in 2008.[9]

Chan and Marigold Santos collaborated to create the artist exhibition Attachments, which was shown at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2014.[4][10] Her works were part of Assemble in Art Gallery of Sudbury in 2016.[11]

Curatorship

Lucie Chan was one of the curators of 2017 Nocturne Festival, held annually in Nova Scotia.[12]

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. Jenkner, Ingrid (2001). Lucie Chan. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. ISBN 1894518098.
  4. "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. "25 contemporary artists vie for Sobey Art Award".
  8. "Lucie Chan: Between, and in tears'". Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  9. "Drawn Positions: Geographies and Communities". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  10. "Art This Week: The surreal, the monochromatic and the Painted Past". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  11. "Art Gallery of Sudbury presents Assemble". Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  12. Coulter, Ava. "Holding space for BIPOC artists in the Halifax art world". Retrieved 2018-03-20.
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