Resumé

RESUMÉ

BORN: 1950, Stettler, Alberta, Resided in Alberta from birth to 1983

Resided in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. from 1983 - 1985

Resided in Vancouver, B.C. from 1985 - present

Have painted under maiden name since 1989 (As Sharon Holmes in 1970's)

RESIDES: West Vancouver, B.C.

STUDIES:

1967 - 68 University of Calgary, Alberta, Fine Arts

1969 - 71 University of Calgary, Alberta, Bachelor of Education degree

1976 - 79 Alberta College of Art, summer and evening programs

EXHIBITIONS:

SOLO:

2006 Monsters in the Garden, a show on the web

2004 May Studio Show and Sale

2003 Studio Show and Sale - May and November

1998 Seewall Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C., Mother Nature’s Pots and Pans

1997 The Leighton Foundation, Alberta, Living Room - Monuments and Pedestals;

Hallway - A Visit to the Museum of Anthropology; Studio - Tribute Series; Gift and Gallery Area - Queen of Scrap;

Upstairs - The Best Dressed Cow Contest, Atrium Green Room - Stray Notes

1996 The Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C., The Queen of Scrap

1995 Pinebrook Golf and Country Club, Calgary, Rock Poets and Prophets

1994 Cultural Centre Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Rock Poets and Prophets

1993 Pinebrook Golf and Country Club, Calgary, Alberta, Feeding the Animals

1992 Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C., Rock Poets and Prophets

1990 Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C., Stanley Park

1990 Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C., Stanley Park and Bird Sanctuary

1989 Humberston Edwards, West Vancouver. B.C., Stanley Park and UBC Video Arcade

1988 North Vancouver City Hall, North Vancouver, B.C., Stanley Park

1986 Gold Design Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta, Power and Grace, a Draft Horse Series

1984 Leighton Center, Alberta, The Long Ride, a Draft Horse Series

TWO AND THREE PERSON SHOWS:

1993 Terminal City Club, Vancouver, B.C., A Visit to the Museum of Anthropology, Monuments and Pedestals, and Stanley Park

1989 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Vancouver People and Places

1983 Horizon Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Bolder Boulder

1982 Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Boulton Creek

1982 Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Chinatown

1980 The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta, Transcience

1979 Centennial Gallery, Feature Artist, Calgary, Alberta

GROUP SHOWS:

2005 Salmon Tales, CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, B.C.

2004 Writing on the Wall, CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, B.C.

2000 Folk, Humour and Whimsy, The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, April 2000

1990 Raccoons and Cattails, Images and Objects, Vancouver

1989 Florescence, Fourth Annual Exhibition and Sale, Edmonton Art Gallery

1985 Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, O’Keefe Centre, Toronto

1984 Green Curtains Hang over Grey Ivy, Alberta Society of Artists, Korea, Chibashi, Sapporo, Japan

1984 As Seen From Above, Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

1984 Water’s Edge, Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta

1984 Alberta Society of Artists, Le Marchand Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

1983 Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Verdun, Quebec

1982 Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, O’Keefe Centre, Toronto

1982 Prairie Haze, Back to the Farm, Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta

1982 Calgary Corporations Collect Realism, Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary

1981 "Canadian Perspectives Canadiennes", National Arts Centre,Ottawa

1981 Young Canadian 1981, Alberta Society of Artists, Beaver House, Edmonton

1979 Snowbound, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta

1976 Implement, Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Glenbow Museum, Calgary

1976 Autumn Sands, Show and fundraiser auction for Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary

COLLECTIONS and AWARDS:

1976 Summer Haze, Alberta Art Foundation

1981 Corner of Center and Third, Calgary Herald

1981 Pausing on 8th Ave Mall, A. E. LePage Realty

1981 The Water is so Shallow, Nu West

1982 Gone Fishing, Husky Oil

1982 Of Boys and Bikes, Crown Life Award

1982 A Time of Festivity, Alberta Art Foundation

1986 Summer Flitting; Sunshine on Our Shoulders; Mother’s Day Flowers, The Last Furrow, and Golden Turning,

Claresholm Auxiliary Hospital, Claresholm, Alberta

1984 Icicles, Popsicles, Dreamsicles too, Calgary Women’s Shelter

1985 We’re Next, Salmon Arm Hospital, Salmon Arm, B.C.

1986 Old Ways; Percherons in the Plowing Contest ; 50 Miles to the Gallon of Oats; Step Lightly My Beauty; Fanciful Fare;

Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Grande Prairie, Alberta

1986 Winter’s Edge; Spring Breakup; and Water’s Edge, Rockyview Hospital, Calgary

1987 Daily Ritual, Amoco

1987 No Building Code, Maple Ridge Centre, Langley, B.C.

1988 Matisse Visits Stanley Park, Painting included in collection and used as corporate Christmas card, Avon, Pointe Claire, Quebec

1989 Irises, Alberta Government Telephones, Calgary, Alberta

1991 Hitching Up Barney and Big Boy, Alberta Art Foundation

1993 Stanley Park Christmas; Fall Feeding at the Deer Farm; and Jennifer; Cross Cancer Clinic, Edmonton, Alberta

1997 Avon Calling, Commissioned painting included in collection and used as corporate Christmas card, Pointe Claire, Quebec

1998 Mother Nature’s Parrot Pot, Van City Savings, Vancouver B.C.

Other paintings are also included in the following collections:
Gulf Canada, Alberta Energy Co., Foster Wedekind, Phoenix Resources, Western Mines, Interprovincial Pipeline,

Bow Valley Industries, Esso, Pan Canadian Petroleum, Brascan Collection, Chevron, Petro Minerals,

Calgary Philharmonic, and Dunhill Personnel.

TEACHING:

1971 - 78 Calgary Public School Board: Grade 7 through Grade 9 Art

1980 - present Workshops and Classes:

1992 Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour Workshop - Calgary

PUBLICATIONS:

1980 Prairie artists display images (including illustration of ‘Prairie Sundering’, by Brooks Joyner, Calgary Herald Sunday Tab, Feb. 10)

1981 Illustrations from the book, Prairie Remedies, included in an article by Kate Scott in the Calgary Herald

1981 New Canadian Artists, A Preview of the Future, (including illustration of ‘Young Canadian’) by Carol Fleming, Arts West Magazine

1982 Back to the Farm, (including illustration of ' Prairie Haze ') by Lori Cohen, Alberta Report, Feb. 15

1982 Show Offers Rare Glimpse of Corporate Art Collection, by Patrick Tivy, Calgary Herald

1983 Paintings of Chinatown included in Landmark's Chinatown story, Edmonton,

1989 Abstract - Realist, Local Artist Creates Own Style, (including illustration 'Good Guys, Bad Guys’)

by Evelyn Jacob, North Shore News, Wed. Sept. 6,

BROADCASTS:

1989 Arts Access, Shaw Cable, Review of Humberston Edwards Show

1990 Arts Access, Shaw Cable, Host Sharman Munro, Review of Ferry Building Show

1992 MUCH WEST, MUCH MUSIC Host Terry D. Mulligan, Review of Ferry Building show, Rock Poets and Prophets, October

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

1998 - 99 Co-owned and operated Seewall Gallery Inc. in West Vancouver, B.C.

1993 Compiled 20 years of writing into a philosophical book on art called "THE THIN WOLF WITHOUT THE COLLAR"/THE FAT DOG"

1980 Illustrated the book Prairie Remedies and the second edition called Pioneer Remedies which collectively sold 10,000 copies

REPRESENTATION:

2001 - 2005 Rendez-vous Art Gallery, Howe Street, Vancouver

2000 - 2002 The Collector’s Gallery, 17the Ave., Calgary, Alberta

1998 - 1999 Seewall Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C.

1987 - 1992 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Alberta

1980 - 1991 The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour

1981 - 1991 The Alberta Society of Artists

1983 - 1989 Horizon Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

1987 - 1989 Humberston Edwards Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C

1983 - 1986 Gold Design Fine Arts Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

1981 - 1982 Lodestone Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

1981 - 1982 Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

Copyright: Sharon Christian, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada