Chartrand, Judy
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Chartrand, Judy
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Biography
Judy Chartrand is a member of the Pine Creek First Nations, where she has family, in Camperville, Manitoba. She was born in Kamloops, and raised on the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, BC. She studied art and ceramics in Vancouver at Langara College and Emily Carr Institute; in Santa Fe, NM at the American Institute of Indian Arts; and in Regina, SK, at the University of Regina, where she earned her MFA in 2003. She continued her studies, adding skill sets and deepening her knowledge of Indigenous art and history at various institutions in North America.
Judy’s work has been exhibited and written about extensively across North America, and it is included in numerous private and public collections. Her career has been honoured with numerous awards including several BC Arts Council Scholarships and Grants, a Canada Council Visual Arts Production Grant, a National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Award, and, in 2018, the North-West Ceramics Foundation Award of Excellence, which she shared with Jackie Frioud. In 2024, Judy Chartrand was placed on the short list for the Sobey Arts Award.
A complete listing of her awards in on her website.
Judy’s ceramic work attracts viewers with bright colours and shiny surfaces while making articulate, often humorous, and graphic comments about Indigenous urban life, racism, and social injustice. Her work was featured in two significant exhibitions focusing on sculptural ceramics in BC, Hot Clay, in 2004, curated by Liane Davison. which included 16 contemporary West Coast clay artists, and Playing With Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, in 2019/20. The latter was curated by Carol Mayer at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and featured 11 BC artists with installations and work ranging from the late 1950s to 2019.
Judy was the subject of a major solo retrospective, Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World, in 2016/2017 at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver, BC. The National Council on Education featured her work for the Ceramic Arts panel, NCECA 2022 in Sacramento, and later discussed in the NCECA Journal. 11. The panel, Meeting the Moment: Fertile Disruptions included the talk “Long Shadows: Paul Scott and Judy Chartrand Disrupt the Now” by Amy Gogarty, who presented her work in tandem with UK print and ceramic artist Paul Scott. Also in 2022, her work was also featured in Our America/Whose America at the Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA. In 2023, she was one of ten artists included in Handle Carefully: The Power of Words and Clay, guest-curated by Kirk Delman for the prestigious Scripps College 78th Ceramic Annual Exhibition, held in the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in Claremont, CA. In 2024 , her work has been installed in the new exhibition at the MOA, UBC, From the Land.
Judy's public art should also be noted:
2018 - Olivia Skye Building, , Vancouver , BC
2023 - Rainbow Crow Townline homes, Surrey, BC
2024 -Rainbow Crow Brings Fire to the People. Townline homes, Surrey, BC
Judy’s work has been exhibited and written about extensively across North America, and it is included in numerous private and public collections. Her career has been honoured with numerous awards including several BC Arts Council Scholarships and Grants, a Canada Council Visual Arts Production Grant, a National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Award, and, in 2018, the North-West Ceramics Foundation Award of Excellence, which she shared with Jackie Frioud. In 2024, Judy Chartrand was placed on the short list for the Sobey Arts Award.
A complete listing of her awards in on her website.
Judy’s ceramic work attracts viewers with bright colours and shiny surfaces while making articulate, often humorous, and graphic comments about Indigenous urban life, racism, and social injustice. Her work was featured in two significant exhibitions focusing on sculptural ceramics in BC, Hot Clay, in 2004, curated by Liane Davison. which included 16 contemporary West Coast clay artists, and Playing With Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, in 2019/20. The latter was curated by Carol Mayer at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and featured 11 BC artists with installations and work ranging from the late 1950s to 2019.
Judy was the subject of a major solo retrospective, Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World, in 2016/2017 at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver, BC. The National Council on Education featured her work for the Ceramic Arts panel, NCECA 2022 in Sacramento, and later discussed in the NCECA Journal. 11. The panel, Meeting the Moment: Fertile Disruptions included the talk “Long Shadows: Paul Scott and Judy Chartrand Disrupt the Now” by Amy Gogarty, who presented her work in tandem with UK print and ceramic artist Paul Scott. Also in 2022, her work was also featured in Our America/Whose America at the Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA. In 2023, she was one of ten artists included in Handle Carefully: The Power of Words and Clay, guest-curated by Kirk Delman for the prestigious Scripps College 78th Ceramic Annual Exhibition, held in the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in Claremont, CA. In 2024 , her work has been installed in the new exhibition at the MOA, UBC, From the Land.
Judy's public art should also be noted:
2018 - Olivia Skye Building, , Vancouver , BC
2023 - Rainbow Crow Townline homes, Surrey, BC
2024 -Rainbow Crow Brings Fire to the People. Townline homes, Surrey, BC
First name
Judy
Last name
Chartrand
Career dates (start and end)
1989
Date of Birth
1959
Place of Birth
Kamloops, BC
Studio location
Formal Education
Major Exhibitions
PLEASE SEE WEBSITE, for complete exhibition record.
https://www.judychartrand.com/course-of-life
https://www.judychartrand.com/course-of-life
2022, Our America/Whose America at the Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA.
2019/20 'Playing With Fire, Ceramics of the Extraordinary', UBC Museum of Anthropology, Carol Mayer.
2017 Judy Chartrand, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, 25th Annual Outsider Art Fair, New York City, NY
2016 Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World, Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 'Chaos', The Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, BC
2004 'Hot Clay, Sixteen West Coast Ceramic Artists' Surrey Art Gallery, Liane Davison
Collections
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC
Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver BC
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) Pomona, CA
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
SK Arts, Saskatchewan
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Personal Website
Links to Further Resources
https://mfineart.ca/macaulay-co-fine-art/artists/judy-chartrand/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Chartrand
https://www.billreidgallery.ca/blogs/exhibitions-page/judy-chartrand-what-a-wonderful-world
https://www.nwcf.ca/judy-chartrand/
https://renniemuseum.org/featured-artist-judy-chartrand/
https://ferrincontemporary.com/portfolio/judy-chartrand/
https://issuu.com/jenn-creativityco/docs/78-fullcatalog-sm
https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sobey-art-award/artists-2024/pacific#Chartrand
Source
Debra E. Sloan
Amy Gogarty
Amy Gogarty
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