Lauren Chipeur

Overview

Lauren Chipeur is an artist based in Calgary on Treaty 7 Territory. She has exhibited at galleries and artist-run spaces that most recently include the Art Gallery of St. Albert, Art Gallery of Alberta, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Centre Clark (Montréal), and Forest City Gallery (London, ON).

I make sculpture and installations that explore the connections between humans, waste, industry and the environment. My practice investigates the chemistry and complexity of matter as a way to untangle or distill new ways to know things. The minerals our bodies absorb from the food we eat are the same minerals that make up a ceramic glaze. By tracing material lineages and biographies I try to understand a world that is concealed from view, from the interior of the body or smartphone to industrial resource extraction and production.

In the past ten years my practice has included a variety of activities: digging up 25 clays in Alberta and Saskatchewan; producing a ream of 8.5” x 11” documents fired in porcelain; formulating a glaze recipe based on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of minerals we eat everyday; firing food waste on ceramics; photographing elemental sulphur at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Facility in northern Alberta; casting every layer of a single onion in elemental sulphur fertilizer; developing a self-glazing clay body with a carbon trapping effect on the surface and creating a kiln firing schedule that follows the path of oxygen from present day to 4.5 billion years ago. The kiln acts like a time machine and the objects inside passengers.

contact: lchipeur@gmail.com

I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Solo, Two Person* + Collaborative** Exhibitions

2028 – (forthcoming) what on Earth is holding the loop up, Artcite, Windsor, ON
2027 – (forthcoming) what on Earth is holding the loop up, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
2026 – what on Earth is holding the loop up, Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, AB
2023 – what on Earth is holding the loop up, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2022 – paperwork / paperasse, Centre Clark, Montréal, QC
2021 – the weight of being held, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK*
2020 – s e e p a g e / s u i n t e m e n t, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2019 – ream-ing, VA Building, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2018 – perhaps, a shift with Destiny Grimm, Pushmi Pullyu, Toronto, ON*
2017 – The Apparent Position of an Hour, Emergency Art Space - Vevey, Switzerland**
2017 – Chipeur and Auger with Black in mind, MMUDA MMAAL, Montréal, QC*
2016 – Staring at the sun with your eyes closed, Untitled Art Society - Calgary, AB**
2016 – Pleasure at a close distance, 2351 N Milwaukee Avenue - Chicago, IL**
2015 – Next to Each Other, Wanusay – Montréal, QC*
2015 – For product freshness do not throw away, Stride +15 Gallery – Calgary, AB

Selected Group Shows:

2027 – (forthcoming) Cycles of Ceramics, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
2026 – (forthcoming) recent acquisitions, AFA Art House, Calgary, AB
2025 – Thunderstorm, Summer Residency Exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2025 – what we leave, what we take, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2024 – Worried Earth:Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief, Art Gallery of Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, AB
2024 – Here & Now, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB
2024 – Catalog of Ruins, Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montéal, QC
2023 – the mystery of things that increase as they perish, Shed Shows, Austin, TX
2022 – The Chisel and the Oak Beam, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2021 – Kitsch, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
2021 – This Moment of Rupture, Survey of Contemporary Ceramics, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2020 – fofa at casa, Projet Casa, Montréal, QC
2019 – unscheduled arrivals, Bunker 2, Toronto, ON
2019 – Peripheral Hours, 8947 St Urbain, Montréal, QC
2018 – Seed Bomb, Canadian Pavilion in Parc Jean Drapeau –Montréal, QC (w/ Elliott Elliott)
2018 – I was uncategorical, and so, defiant, AKA Artist-Run Centre – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2018 – In attendance, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2018 – Maureen III, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC
2017 – The way that light travels through water, Chromatic Festival - Montreal, QC (w/ April Martin & Zoë Wonfor)
2016 – 5 Sculptors and a Painter, Galerie Laroche/Joncas – Montréal, QC
2016 – Maureen, Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal – Montréal, QC
2016 –The furniture we are forever rearranging, ArtHelix – Brooklyn, NY
2016 – “ABJECT / AB-JETTE”, Vitriol: Art and its Discontents, AHGSA Conference, Concordia, Montreal, QC
2014 – Klapaucius:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;, Embassy Gallery – Edinburgh, UK
2013 – Plastik, Bauchhund Salonlabor – Berlin, Germany

Public Projects:

2017 – Jensen Formal Garden Public Art Installation, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL

Residencies:

2026 – Artist in Residence, Workshop Studios, Calgary, AB
2025/2026 – Alberta University of the Arts Summer Residency, Calgary, AB
2022 – Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
2022 – Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin, Germany
2022 – Spring Artist in Residence, Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2019/2020/2021 – Flux Residency, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB
2017 – Emergency Art Space, Vevey Switzerland (w/ April Martin & Zoë Wonfor)\
2014 – VSVSVS summer artist in residence – Toronto, ON
2014 – Sculpture Space – Utica, NY
2013 – GlogauAIR – Berlin, Germany

Education:

2015-19 – Masters of Fine Art (candidate) – Sculpture, Concordia University
2008-12 – Bachelor of Arts, First Class (Hons) – Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art

Grants and Awards:

2026 – Artistic Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2026 – Visual Arts & New Media Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2025 – Explore and Create: Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2025 – Artist Development Microgrant, Calgary Arts Development
2024 – Explore and Create: Concept to Realization, Canada Council for the Arts
2024 – Visual Arts & New Media Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2023 – Arts Across Canada: Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 – Explore and Create: Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2022 – Explore and Create: Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 – Visual Arts & New Media Project Grant - Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2021 – Project Grant - Individuals and Collectives, Calgary Arts Development
2021 – Explore and Create: Concept to Realization, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 – Explore and Create: Professional Development Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 – Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 – Project Grant - Individuals and Collectives, Calgary Arts Development
2020 – Explore and Create: Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 – Explore and Create: Concept to Realization, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 – Research, Creation and Exploration Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2019 – Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship (short-list), Concordia University
2018 – Fine Art Travel Award, Concordia University
2017 – Concordia Graduate Student Mobility Award
2016 – SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier: Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's (CGS M)
2016 – Concordia Council on Student Life Special Projects Grant
2015 – Clara Strozyk FOFA Graduate Scholarship
2013 – Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Artist Project Grant

Collections:

Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Private Collections

Talks and Workshops:

2026 – what is it like to be an onion, natural dye workshop, Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, AB
2024 – what is it like to be an onion, natural dye workshop, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, AB
2024 – Artist Talk, Northwestern Polytechnic, Grande Prairie, AB
2023 – what is it like to be an onion, natural dye workshop, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2023 – Artist Talk, Art Now, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
2022 – on holding, local clay workshop, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB
2022 – Artist Talk, Centre Clark, Montréal, QC
2022 – Artist Talk, Art Now, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
2022 – on holding, NCECA Project Space, March 15-18, 2022, Sacramento, CA
2021 – on holding, local clay workshop, Land to Travel Through, Artist Run Centres and Collectives Gathering, Calgary, AB
2021 – on holding, clay workshop at Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
2020 – Quartz Inversion, artist, https://www.quartzinversion.com/
2020 – Artist Talk, Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB
2019 – Artist Talk, Visiting Artist in Ceramics, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2018 – Artist Talk, CERA 398A: MATTEReality, Professor Linda Swanson, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2018 – Panelist, In Conversation: Lauren Chipeur, Ivana Dizdar, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2018 – Presentations on Colour, presenter, Symposium conducted at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2016/2017 – Co-founder of curatorial project, The Valley, with Zoë Wonfor http://valleyvalleyvalley.tumblr.com/ - Montreal, QC
2014 – Artist Talk, Mohawk Valley Community College – Utica, NY

Teaching:

2018/19 – Part-time Instructor, Sculpture, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2018/19 – Tutorial Leader for FFAR 250: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines at Concordia University
2018 – Professional Development Certificate in University Teaching, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2015-2017 – Teaching Assistant: Sculpture Department, Concordia University - Montréal, QC
2010-2012 – Art Teacher, Afterschool Art Program, Bruntsfield Primary School – Edinburgh UK
2011 – Art Teacher for Summer Program, Canada's National Ballet School – Toronto, ON

Publications:

2023 – SUM #2, contributor, produced by Brennan Kelly for If velocity is the soul of wit, then gravity is the voice of reason,
Hunt Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 – in a fathom, published by Successful Press for the exhibition unscheduled arrivals at Bunker 2, Toronto, ON
2019 – paperweight, text in fulfillment of thesis project, ream-ing. Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2017 – The Apparent Position of an Hour - accompaniment to exhibition at Emergency Art Space, Vevey, Switzerland
2017 – It's not just to say there is a ____ there, book of poetry made with Annie Descôteaux and Elliott Elliott
2016 – The End of May, a book of poetry funded by Untitled Art Society, with Zoë Wonfor, April Martin and Lara Schoorl, printed by BookArt 2016 – Art-Rendezvous Architecture Journal vol.3, Contributor, edited by Alexander Pilis
2014 – A Catalogue of Labour vol. 1: a collaborative artist book project with Rosa Nussbaum

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