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CHARLENE VICKERS

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Biography

Charlene Vickers is an Anishnabe artist based in Vancouver. Her painting, sculpture and performance works explore memory, healing and embodied connections to ancestral lands. She recreates moccasins and blankets with materials that point to current social and cultural conditions in urban First Nations life and combines them with personal artifacts. 

Charlene is the recipient of the VIVA Award in 2018, and most recently exhibitions include the Biennale national de sculpture Contemporaine 2020 in Quebec, Where We Gather at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art(2020) In the Garden, solo booth with Macaulay & Co. Fine Art at Art Toronto (2018) and Coverings (2018) at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, 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), Material Art Fair in Mexico City, Mexico (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 Emily Carr University of Art and Design (94), Simon Fraser University in Critical Studies of the Arts (98), MFA (2013). 

 

Charlene Vickers Blog  

Macaulay and Co. Fine Art 

PEM: The Map is not the Territory