{{Short description|Cree artist}} '''Judy Chartrand''' (born 1959) is a Manitoba Cree artist, born in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Judy Chartrand|url=https://mfineart.ca/macaulay-co-fine-art/artists/judy-chartrand/|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> She is an artist who grew up in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. Her works frequently confront issues of postcolonialism, Indigenous feminism, socio-economic inequity, and Indigenous knowledge expressed through the mediums of ceramics, found objects, archival photography, and traditional Indigenous techniques of beadwork, moose hair tufting and quillwork.
==Life and work== Chartrand is a self-taught ceramicist. She was initially inspired by the Pueblo San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, whose instructional videos she initially learned from. Her early works were autobiographical, focussing on the tension between Indigenous and European culture in Vancouver.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mayer|first=Carol E.|date=2020|title=Playing With Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary|publisher=UBC Museum of Anthropology|isbn=9780888653437}}</ref> In her formative years, she was influenced by trips to the Vancouver Museum located at the Carnegie Community Centre in downtown Vancouver where she developed an awareness of the design and painting of ceramics.
An early motif utilized in her work was referencing Mimbres bowl forms and surface decoration,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Laurence|first=Robin|date=November 7, 2016|title=Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World uses everything from ceramic soup cans to cereal boxes to take on racism and colonialism|work=The Georgia Straight|url=https://www.straight.com/arts/823361/judy-chartrand-what-wonderful-world-uses-everything-ceramic-soup-cans-cereal-boxes-take|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> which is a design language she has referenced back to frequently in her work from renditions of historical Mimbres pots,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mathieu|first=Paul|date=2003|title=Sex Pots|publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813532936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Q6oP8nM5EoC&q=mimbres+judy+chartrand&pg=PA43|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> to public art installation like the one done for the Olivia Skye Public Housing Building<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chan|first=Kenneth|date=March 13, 2018|title=New DTES building with social housing and market rental homes complete (PHOTOS|work=Daily Hive|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/41-east-hastings-vancouver-olivia-skye|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> which featured illustrations of women in the style of Mimbres surface decoration.
Her series "If This is What You Call, 'Being Civilized', I'd rather go back to Being a 'Savage'" is an evolution of the Mimbres pots, keeping the same bowl form but adding more personalized surface decoration from the artist. It currently exists in the private collection of contemporary art collector Bob Rennie<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lederman |first1=Marsha |title=Why we love the art we love |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/why-we-love-the-art-we-love-prolific-art-collector-bob-rennie-talks-buying-selling-and-holding-out-for-inspiration/article29029421/ |website=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> and the permanent collection of the Surrey Art Gallery.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Amy|first1=Gogarty|title=Judy Chartrand |url=https://www.surrey.ca/files/Chartrand.pdf}}</ref>
Works have also been collected by the Glenbow Museum, the AMOCA in Pomona, California, the Gardiner Museum, the Museum of Anthropology, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Her work has been included in anthologies on arts and crafts, including Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=Ruth |title=Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramic Practice |date=2007 |publisher=Ronsdale Press |isbn=978-1-55380-051-4}}</ref>
===Education=== Chartrand studied for her Diploma in the Fine Arts Program at Langara College before being accepted to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she graduated with her BFA in 1998. She continued on to finish her master's degree in Fine Arts in Ceramics at the University of Regina (2003).
===Exhibitions=== * Hot Clay: Sixteen West Coast Ceramic Artists, Vancouver, British Columbia: Surrey Art Gallery, 18 January – 28 March, 2004 * Playing With Fire, Vancouver, British Columbia: Museum of Anthropology, 2019<ref>{{Cite news|last=Robin|first=Laurence|date=November 27, 2019|title=MOA show Playing With Fire blows away ceramic stereotypes|work=The Georgia Straight|url=https://www.straight.com/arts/1330391/moa-show-playing-fire-blows-away-ceramic-stereotypes|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> * the poets have always preceded, North Vancouver, British Columbia: Griffin Art Projects, 2019<ref>{{Cite news|last=Spitale-Leisk|first=Maria|date=Feb 22, 2019|title=Griffin Art Projects explores connections between art and poetry in Vancouver since 1960|work=North Shore News|url=https://www.nsnews.com/local-arts/griffin-art-projects-explores-connections-between-art-and-poetry-in-vancouver-since-1960-3094202|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> * Bad Stitch: Audie Murray, Judy Chartrand, and Jeneen Frei Njootli Vancouver, British Columbia: Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, 2018<ref>{{Cite web|title=Agenda / May 19–June 30, 2018 Editors' Pick Bad Stitch|url=https://canadianart.ca/agenda/bad-stitch/|access-date=March 20, 2021 |website=Canadian Art}}</ref> * What a Wonderful World, Vancouver, British Columbia: Bill Reid Gallery 2016–2017<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shen|first=Wenjie|date=November 22, 2016|title=Artist explores race relations through ceramic|work=The Source|url=http://thelasource.com/en/2016/11/21/artist-explores-race-relations-through-ceramic/|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> * Métis Soup, Vancouver, British Columbia: Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, 2016 <ref>{{cite web|title=Métis Soup|url=http://mfineart.ca/home/exhibitions/judy-chartrand-metis-soup/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317221439/http://mfineart.ca/home/exhibitions/judy-chartrand-metis-soup/|archive-date=March 17, 2016}}</</ref> * Judy Chartrand 1999–2013, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: AKA Artist Run, 2013 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://akaartistrun.com/portfolio-item/judy-chartrand-1999-2013/# |title=Judy Chartrand 1999-2013 }}</ref> * Malaysia-Canada Indigenous Communities Applied Arts Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia: Pendulum Gallery, 2012<ref>{{Cite news|last=Abdel-Haq |first=Dina |date=February 7, 2012|url=https://thelasource.com/en/2012/02/07/canada-malaysian-art-exhibition-uses-art-to-explore-similarities-and-difference/ |title=Exhibition uses art to explore similarities and difference|publisher=The Source |work=Malaysia-Canada Indigenous Communities Applied Arts Exhibition|access-date=January 9, 2023}}</ref> * Lost & Found: Haruko Okano, Judy Chartrand, and Wayde Compton Vancouver, British Columbia: Access Gallery, 2006<ref>{{cite web|title=Haruko Okano, Judy Chartrand, and Wayde Compton: Lost & Found|url=https://www.straight.com/haruko-okano-judy-chartrand-and-wayde-compton-lost-amp-found|website=Georgia Straight|date=August 17, 2006}}</ref>
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