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Low-Beer, Susan

Associations
Techniques

Poterie, céramique

Sculpture

Apprentissage et enseignement
Formation académique
  • Mount Allison University, BFA
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA
Expositions
Groupe
  • 2021 - Touch, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2019 - The Body Has Reasons Which Reason Knows Not Of, Craft Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2018 - The Diana Reitberger Collection, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Onatario, (catalogue)
  • 2017 - Ecliypse, Sivarulrasa Gallery, Almonte, Ontario
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  • 2016 - And ++, David Kaye Gallery Two Person Show. Toronto. Ontario
  • 2015 - Still Life Landscape, from the AGB collection, The Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario (catalogue)
  • 2014-2017 - Sculpture Garden: Oeno Gallery, Huff Estates, Prince Edward County
  • 2013 - Face to Face: Meryl McMaster, Susan Low-Beer, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario
  • 2012 - The 9th Annual Print Show,  John B Aird Gallery, Toronto Ontario (first prize)
  • 2012 - The Earth is a Jewel, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal, Quebec
  • 2011 - Making Sense John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario,
  • 2009 - Unity and Diversity, Canadian Crafts Federation, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea. (catalogue)
  • 2007 - A Vital Mix, Celebrating 30 Years, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto Ontario
  • 2007 - Ontario Craft ’07, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2006 - From the North: Canadian Ceramics, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania        -  
  • 2006 - The Japanese Paper Place (25 Years), The Visual Arts Center of Clarington. Bowmanville, Ontario.
  • 2005 - in the margins: Canadian Women in Clay, Mary E. Black Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 2005 - Studio Ceramics in Canada, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2002 - Mentors of the LAC Studios, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
  • 2001 - Excellence, Saidye Bronfman Award Recipients 1997-2001 Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec              -
  • 2001 - The Next Generation , John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2001 - From the Model John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2001 - Carnival, The Spirit and The Soul, Columbus Centre, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2001 - Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, (catalogue)
  • 2000 - International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario (catalogue)
  • 2000 - Looking Forward, New Views of the Craft Object, Ontario Craft Council, traveling exhibition, Toronto, Ontario. (catalogue)
  • 2000 - 2000 - SOFA, Chicago-Sculpture Objects+ Functional Art, Chicago, Mich. U.S. (catalogue)
  • 2000 - 2000 - Drawing on the Figure: 10 contemporary ceramicists approach the human form,
  • 2000 - 2000 - Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario. (catalogue)
  • 2000 - 2000 - SOFA, New York- Sculpture Objects+ Functional Art, New York City (catalogue)
  • 2000 - 2000 - Not Just Moose- Garden Sculpture for Every Space, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2000 - 2000 - Facets of Woman- Perspectives 2000, Pratt + Whitney Canada, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
  • 1999 - Looking in the Mirror - Aspects of Figurative Ceramics, Riley Hawk Galleries, Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1999 - Faculty and Alumni Show, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario
  • 1999 - 1999 - oronto Collects, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1998 - Re-membering, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1998 - Espace Terre, 8th National Biennial of Ceramics, invitational, Trois-Rivières, Québec touring exhibition, (catalogue)
  • 1998 - Member Show, Canadian Sculpture Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1998 - Clay in Common: the Czech Republic/Canada Exchanges, galerie de la ville, Dollard Recreart, Montréal, Québec
  • 1998 - Fire & Earth, exhibiton from the collection of the Burlington Art Gallery, Itabashi City, Japan (catalogue)
  • 1997 - Terre en Transit, Seventh National Biennial of Ceramics, juried traveling exhibition, Trois-Rivières, Québec (catalogue)
  • 1997 - Exchange 1997, Gallerie McClure, Montréal, Québec
  • 1996 - Interchange '96, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 1996 - Cup as a Metaphor, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
  • 1996Terre en Transit, Biennale Nationale de Céramique, invitational, Galerie d’art du Parc, Trois-Rivièrse, Québec
  • 1995 - The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, Sybaris Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
  • 1995 - Survivors, In Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. touring exhibition through Canada and The United States, invitational (catalogue)
  • 1993 - Canadian Art in Mexico City, 1993, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 1993 - Moving the Sprit: Canadian Sculpture in Clay and Glass, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario - inaugural exhibition, invitational (catalogue)
  • 1993 - Ontario Crafts '93, The Craft Gallery, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, Ontario, juried exhibition (catalogue)
  • 1993 - The Clay Figure, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • 1992 - Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Prime Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1992 - Fifth National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois -Rivières, Québec –Juried, touring exhibition (catalogue)
  • 1991 - Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Prime Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1991 - Sculptural Ceramics: Two Views, Valdosta State College, Valdosta, Georgia - 2 persons exhibition
  • 1989 - Different Realities, Martha Schneider Gallery, 4 person exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1988 - Person Award Exhibition, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, catalogue
  • Third National Biennial Of Ceramics, Trois-Rivières, Québec- juried touring exhibition (catalogue)   
  • 1986 - Canadian National Clay Invitational, Paris Gibson Square, Center of Contemporary Arts, Great Falls, Montana.
  • 1981 - Fires and Fibres, Man and His World, Montréal, Québec - touring exhibition (catalogue)
  • 1980 - Eighth Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Art, Chunichi, Japan, invitational (catalogue)
  • 1977 - First Biennale for Québec Artists, Saidye Bronfmann Centre, Montréal, Québec
  • 1972 - The Sensible Cup International Exhibition, Sea of Japan Exhibition, Japan, invitational, Catalogue
  • 1971 - Contemporary Ceramic Art of Canada, U.S.A., Mexico and Japan, National Gallery of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan - invitational, catalogue
Solo
  • 2023 - Specimen, Sculptures by Susan Low-Beer, Espace Pierre-Debain, Ville de Gatineau, Quebec
  • 2023 - Specimen,  Sculptures by Susan Low-Beer, Riverbrink Art Museum, Queenston, Ontario
  • 2021 - Passages, Sivarulrasa Gallery, Almonte, Ontario
  • 2018 - Embodiment, 30 Years of Sculpture by Susan Low-Beer, Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
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  • 2017 - Embodiment, 30 Years of Sculpture by Susan Low-Beer, Norfolk Art Centre, Simcoe, Ontario (catalogue)
  • 2016 - Embodiment, 30 Years of Sculpture by Susan Low-Beer, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
  • 2013 - Fragments of Self, within Transformation by Fire, Gardiner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2012 - Evidence of Breath, Minarovich Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, Ontario
  • 2012 - About Face, David Kaye Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
  • 2011 - State of Grace, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
  • 2010 - State of Grace, Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario.
  • 2010 - State of Grace, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, N.Y. USA
  • 2009 - SOFA Chicago, featured artist with solo booth, Option Art, Chicago. Illinois,
  • 2009 - Selves, The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario
  • 2008 - State of Grace; recent sculpture, David Kaye Gallery. Toronto. Ontario
  • 2006 - Tools for Daily Living, The Japan Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2005 - The Force of the Moon, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2005 - Tools for Daily Living, Materia, Quebec, Quebec
  • 2004 - Mixed Media Drawings, Rebecca Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2003 - Tools for Daily Living, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (brochure)
  • 2003 - Susan Low-Beer: Recent Work, Lafreniere & Pai Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario  
  • 2003 - Tools for Daily Living, Galerie McClure, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Quebec
  • 2002 - Rocksbreath, An Improvisation, Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
  • 2001 - New Paintings by Susan Low-Beer, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
  • 2001 - Rocksbreath, Garden Installation, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario (cataloque)
  • 1997 - Mutible Selves, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario travels(catalogue)
  • 1997 - Susan Low-Beer Recent Works, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario travels (catalogue)
  • 1996 - Susan Low-Beer, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, travels (catalogue)
  • 1996 - Recent Sculpture, Prime Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1995 - Susan Low-Beer, Sculptor's Society of Canada Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, invited artist
  • 1995 - Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Harbinger Gallery Inc., Waterloo, Ontario
  • 1994 - Ceramic Sculpture, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
  • 1994 - Susan Low-Beer, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  • 1993 - Alliances, The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario
  • 1992 - New Work by Susan Low-Beer, Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montréal, Québec
  • 1992 - Still Dances: Recent Ceramic Sculptures, The Craft Gallery, Crafts Council, Toronto, Ontario (catalogue)
  • 1991 - Susan Low-Beer, Galerie Barbara Silverberg Contemporary Ceramics, Montréal, Québec
  • 1990 - Recent Sculpture, Prime Canadian Crafts, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1989 - Susan Low-Beer Sculptures The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Actions, performances et événements
  • 2019-2021 - Mentor for Missassauga Pottery Guild Mentorship Program
  • 2018-2019 - Mentor for Fusion Mentorship Program
  • 2018 - Ceramic Residency program at the ICS Internation Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary, May 1-May 29, 2018
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  • 2017 - etchosin 2003-11      Expressive Project for Women Trauma Survivors, Gardner Museum – Instructor
  • 2002-2007 - Ontario College of Art and Design- Instructor
  • 2003 - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba - Visiting Artist
  • 2000-2001 - heridan College of Art and Design- 3rd year Instructor
  • 2000-2001 - Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, “Creativity in Clay”- Visiting Artist
  • 2000-2003 - Continuing Studies, Ontario College of Art and Design - Instructor
  • 2000-2003 - nternational Summer School of the Arts-Instructor
Musées et collections
  • Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  • Art Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
  • Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
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  • Canadrel Collection, Montréal, Québec
  • Chasanoff Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC.
  • Canadiana Fund Collection, Ottawa, Ontarion
  • M. Joan Chalmers, C.M.B. Amesbury, Toronto, Ontario
  • Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario
  • Haliburton Sculpture Forest, Haliburton, Ontario
  • Indusmin Collection, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
  • Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina
  • Musée de la civilisation, Ottawa
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
  • National Museum Of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  • Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
  • Private Collections
Distinctions et prix
  • 2012 - First Prize, 9th Annual Print Show, Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1999 - Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts

Bourses

  • 2011 - Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 2010 - Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 2009 - Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 2009 - Canada Council Travel Grant
  • 2008 - Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 2002 - Canada Council Grant

Résidences

  • 2018 - Residency International Ceramic Studio, Kecshemet, Hungary
Bibliographie
Revues et articles de journaux
  • McMath, Sheila, “Specimen Series: New Work by Susan Low-Beer”, Fusion, Vol 42, 2019
  • Lark Ceramics, “500 figures in clay, volume 2”, New York, N.Y. 2014
  • MacKenzie, Heidi, “Susan Low-Beer” profile. New Ceramics, The European Ceramics Magazine, 3/2013
  • MacKenzie, Heidi, “Susan lLow-Beer”, Ceramic Art and Perception, 2013
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  • Eichhorn, Virginia. “State of Grace”, Fusion, Vol 32 No.2 Spring, 2008
  • “Art at Work” Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts., edited by Victoria Henry, 2007
  • Reid, Stuart. “A Vital Mix”. Studio Spring /Summer 2007
  • Dault, Gary Michael. Review. “Susan Low-Beer at the Japan Foundation.” Globe and Mail. 29 April, 2006.
  • “Craft, Perception and Practice, Volume II a Canadian Discourse” edited by Paula Gustafson, 2005
  • Bois, Michel. “Susan Low-Beer, Terre humaine” Review Le Soleil 26 Novembre 2005, Quebec City
  • Crawford, Gail “Studio Ceramics in Canada, 2005, The Goose Lane Editions, Canada
  • Allison, Glen. “Susan Low-Beer, Rocksbreath II”, Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 57, 2004
  • Liou, Ming-whe. The Canadian Ceramic Sculptor Susan Low-Beer, Ceramic Art, Wushinh Books Publication, 2004
  • Lark Books ,”500 Figures in Clay, Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form” 2004
  • Stoffman, Judy. The Toronto Star, Art by Numbers, 24 November 2001
  • Haggo, Regina. “Rocksbreath, An Installation in Clay”, Fusion Magazine, Fall 2001
  • Waller, Jane. “The Human Form in Clay”, 2001, The Crowood press, England
  • Haggo, Regina. The Burlington News, Review, 27 June, 2001
  • Osborne, Catherine. "Complexity in Clay." Ontario Craft, Winter 1999/2000
  • Globe and Mail. Artist Low-Beer wins Bronfman award, 6 November 1999
  • 'NO' Nouvel Object IV Design House, Artists in the World. 1999.