Friday, July 11, 2025

FELLOWSHIP BLOUIN DIVISION MONTREAL

 "FELLOWSHIP" in collaboration with Macaulay + Co.

June 26 - August 23, 2025

At the invitation of Blouin Division, Macaulay + Co co-presents the work of five important Vancouver-based artists. The pieces selected are a meaningful communication between those whose works share a keen interest in form, experience, and materials. Artists: #danaclaxton #laurencrazybullart #michellesoundart  #charlenevickers #lawrencepaulyuxweluptun #blouindivision #macaulayandco #montrealcontemporaryart #vancouverindigenousart 



















Thursday, May 8, 2025

CHARLENE VICKERS BIO 2025

 

Encompassing a wide range of media — including painting, sculpture, performance and installation — the practice of Charlene Vickers operates as a visionary expression of what the artist terms embodied territory. Giving vital form to the lands, histories and relations of her birthplace in Wauzhushk Onigum as they are felt, imagined and carried across distance, Vickers’ works lucidly manifest ancestral connections, cultural reclamations and her territorial presence as Anishinaabe Kwe, while responding formally to the Coast Salish land she has resided upon for the past thirty years.


Recent exhibitions and accolades include 2025 Sobey Award Long List, Indian Theatre, curated by Candice Hopkins at CCS BARD Hessel Museum in Hudson, NY (2023), Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics at the Seattle Art Museum (2023), Good Foot Forward, curated by Kitty Scott, Toronto (2023), Big Blue Smudge, The University of Saskatchewan (2022), Ancestral Gesture, a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (September 2021), Rain Shadow at the Nanaimo Art Gallery (2021), Where Do We Go From Here? at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2020), the Biennale national de sculpture Contemporaine 2020 in Quebec, An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, I continue to shape, Art Museum, U of T, Toronto, and Speaking From Hands and Earth, SFU Galleries, Burnaby and Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,(2016). International group exhibitions include the map is not the territory at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2019), Connective Tissue: New Approaches in Contemporary Fibre Art at MoCNA in Santa Fe, NM (2017), From The Belly of The Beast at Grace Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. (2017), If We Never Met, Pataka Art Museum, Porirua, New Zealand (2016). Charlene Vickers graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (94) and Simon Fraser University in Critical Studies of the Arts (98), MFA (2013).- From Macaulay and Co Website

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 On Now: Jan 8- June 20, 2025
Ascending Horizons at McMaster Museum of Art. Curated by Alex Jacobs-Blum and Kim Anderson. Group show with Carrie Allison, KC Adams, Judy Anderson, Hannah Claus, Elizabeth Doxtater, and Marie Watt.


                                  Ancestor Sound Performance gear and Ovoid works

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Sobey Long-List 2025

 

Super thrilled to be a chosen long-listed artist for the Sobey Art Award 2025. Very happy and honored to be recognized in Canada as a contemporary artist and Indigenous Anishinaabe Kwe.  Congratulations to all the artists! We are headed into challenging times and must keep our heads up high. 

Miigwetch folks!  

What is a Big Blue Smudge? BIG TIME MEDICINE!!!

Big Love,

Char Vicky

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

New Haunt Cookbook Mixed Media 2024


                                     Photo Credit: Paul Wong


A video flip-through of my book/scrapbook/cookbook.  Mixed media, paper, drawings, seasonal cards. As part of "She Listens For Her Voices" for the group exhibition Prop House A Collection of One Million Objects was curated by Paul Wong and hosted by Griffin Art Projects.  May-August 2024. Group exhibition with Cathy Busby, Germaine Koh, Parvin Peivandi, Jason Payne, Jay Senetchko, Bagua Bagua Arts Collective, Lisa Baldissera.