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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]

Biography

Chantal 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).[6] Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.[7]

Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, BC. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.[8]

Career

Bibliography

• 2019 - Gibson, Chantal N. How She Read : Poems. Caitlin Press[9]
• 2021 - Gibson, Chantal N. with/holding : Poems. Caitlin Press[9]

Awards

• 2016 - SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, Simon Fraser University[6]
• 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

• 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[6]
• 2019 - How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire. (Solo exhibit) Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC[8]
• 2019 - TOME. McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC[8]
• 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

• 2017 - Visiting artist, OCAD University Writing & Learning Centre, Toronto, ON[20]

References

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