Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator.Fiona Tinwei Lam, "‘How She Read’: Chantal Gibson’s Anthem for Black Sisterhood". The Tyee, February 3, 2020. Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award,Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020. the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist."Canadians Doyali Islam, Chantal Gibson and Kaie Kellough shortlisted for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize". CBC Books, April 7, 2020. Gibson's art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.
Early life and education Born in Quebec,Debates of the Senate (Hansard) Senate of Canada Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.
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.
Awards and honours
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, shortlistJane Van Koeverden, "Alix Ohlin, Steven Price, Ivan Coyote, Yasuko Thanh among BC and Yukon Book Prize nominees". CBC Books, March 12, 2020. 2021 - 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
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
2017 - Visiting artist, OCAD University Writing & Learning Centre, Toronto, ON
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