Chantal Gibson
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Chantal Gibson | |
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| Born | Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, artist, educator |
| Notable awards | Pat Lowther Award (2020) Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2020) |
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Literary
[edit | edit source]- 2016 - SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, Simon Fraser University[8]
- 2020 - Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes[3]
- 2020 - Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian woman, League of Canadian Poets[10]
- 2020 - Griffin Poetry Prize, Canadian Shortlist[11]
- 2021 - 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)[12]
Exhibitions
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Fiona Tinwei Lam, "‘How She Read’: Chantal Gibson’s Anthem for Black Sisterhood". The Tyee, February 3, 2020.
- ^ Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020.
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- ^ "Canadians Doyali Islam, Chantal Gibson and Kaie Kellough shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize". CBC Books, April 7, 2020.
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