Chantal Gibson
Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator. Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award, the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist. Gibson's art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.
Chantal Gibson
- Name
- Chantal Gibson
- Birthplace
- Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- Writer, poet, artist, educator
- Awards
- Pat Lowther Award (2020) Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2020)
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Chantal Gibson • Birthplace — Quebec, Canada • Occupation — Writer, poet, artist, educator • Awards — Pat Lowther Award (2020) Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2020)
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Chantal Gibson is recorded as a writer, Anglicist, literary scholar and artist.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Born in Quebec, Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.
Career
Career
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). Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.
Literary
Literary
• 2016 - SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, Simon Fraser University • 2020 - Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes • 2020 - Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian woman, League of Canadian Poets • 2020 - Griffin Poetry Prize, Canadian Shortlist • 2020 - Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, shortlist • 2021 - 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 2014 - TOME. SFU Surrey Library (2014) • 2014 - Between Friends: Crossings, Myths and Border Stories. Defiance College Women's Gallery, Defiance Ohio • 2015 - TOME. Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC • 2018 - Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. ROM Toronto and Musee des Beaux Arts Montreal • 2018 - MORPH: Changing the Past. (Inaugural group exhibit) Vancouver Public Library, Main Branch • 2019 - How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire. (Solo exhibit) Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC • 2019 - TOME. McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC • 2019 - Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax • 2020 - Who's Who. Senate of Canada chamber foyer, Ottawa, ON • 2020 - Where do we go from here? (Group exhibit) Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC • 2021 - Human Capital. (Group exhibit) MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK • 2021 - un/settled. In collaboration with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. SFU Belzberg Library, Vancouver BC • 2021 - Tyranny. (Group exhibition) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence
• 2017 - Visiting artist, OCAD University Writing & Learning Centre, Toronto, ON
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- 1.Fiona Tinwei Lam, "‘How She Read’: Chantal Gibson’s Anthem for Black Sisterhood". The Tyee, February 3, 2020.
- 2.Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020.
- 3.BC and Yukon Book Prizes – Mission: To recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs.
- 4."Canadians Doyali Islam, Chantal Gibson and Kaie Kellough shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize". CBC Books, April 7, 2020.
- 5.Gibson, Chantal. Where Visual and literary art meet. Chantal Gibson Artist.
- 6.Debates of the Senate (Hansard) Senate of Canada
- 7.Chantal Gibson rewrites Canada's whites-only historical narrative Nexus newspaper. 2019-01-23.
- 8.Chantal Gibson - School of Interactive Arts & Technology - Simon Fraser University. www.sfu.ca.
- 9.365 - Chantal Gibson. Penticton Art Gallery.
- 10.2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson – League of Canadian Poets.
- 11.Griffin Poetry Prize: 2020 Shortlist. Griffin Poetry Prize.
- 12.Jane Van Koeverden, "Alix Ohlin, Steven Price, Ivan Coyote, Yasuko Thanh among BC and Yukon Book Prize nominees". CBC Books, March 12, 2020.
- 13.Introducing the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award Winners. Maclean's. April 12, 2021.
- 14.Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. Royal Ontario Museum.
- 15.Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca.
- 16.Senate of Canada - The Senate is honouring Canada's Black artists. Senate of Canada. 2020-09-21.
- 17.VAG's Where do we go from here? starts a conversation about gallery representation. vancouversun.
- 18.Human Capital. MacKenzie Art Gallery.
- 19.Visit un/settled, an exhibit at Belzberg Library SFU Library. www.lib.sfu.ca.
- 20.Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Tyranny. www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca.
- 21.Visiting Artist: Chantal Gibson. OCAD University. 2017-10-23.
- 22.Gibson, Chantal. Caitlin Press.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Gibson, Chantal N. Gibson, Chantal. Caitlin Press. Caitlin Press Cite web. 2019.
- Gibson, Chantal N. with/holding: Poems. Caitlin Press. 2021.
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