Artists & Galleries
Chiguer Art Contemporain
Amélie Proulx
Amélie Proulx lives and works in Lévis. Her work has been displayed in myriad solo and collective exhibitions, including “Angles de derive” at CIRCA art actuel (Montréal), “Glissements” at Centre MATERIA (Québec City), “Hot Mud: A National Survey of Contemporary Canadian Emerging Ceramists” at the Art Gallery of Burlington, and “True North: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics” at the Northern Clay Center (Minnesota).
She has received numerous awards, including the Videre Creation Award in visual arts (2021) and the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics (2016).
Amélie’s work is included in numerous public and private collections in Canada and the United States, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Art Gallery of Burlington.
Image: Amélie Proulx, Les herbes de passage (Lièvre), 2020 (Click to enlarge)
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
FASTWÜRMS
Formed in 1979, FASTWÜRMS is a joint authorship, a they/them artist and a creative witch-queer polity.
FASTWÜRMS’ praxis is poly-disciplinary mutualism, imagining new ways of making and being in the world.
FASTWÜRMS has exhibited art installations, textile and ceramics, video and film projects, across Canada and in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, Brazil, Cuba, Korea, Iceland, and Japan.
FASTWÜRMS received the Governor General’s Award in 2023.
Image: FASTWÜRMS, Witch Ball, Rose Blush, 2022 (Click to enlarge)
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Donté K. Hayes
Donté Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University, Georgia with a BFA (art history minor). He received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa. Donté’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Newark Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others, and he was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant. Donté Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.
Image: Donté K. Hayes, Appreciate, 2022 (Click to enlarge)
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Futamura Yoshimi
Futamara Yoshimi was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1959. She studied ceramics at the School of Ceramic Art in Seto, Japan from 1979 to 1981 and graduated from the Center artisanal de ceramique at the Duperré school in Paris in 1994. Two years later, Futamura opened her workshop in Paris, where she continues to live and work.
Futamara creates vibrant, evocative sculptural forms and counts nature as a main form of inspiration.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide in both solo and group shows and can be found in prominent public and private collections.
Image: Futamura Yoshimi, Rebirth, 2021 (Click to enlarge)
Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections
Halima Cassell
Born in 1975 in Pakistan, brought up in Lancashire and now living in Shropshire, Halima Cassell’s varied, multi-cultural background is tangibly present in her work.
Recognised as one of the most distinguished, dynamic sculptural ceramicists in the UK, Halima won the Brookfield and Crafts Council award at Collect, 2024, in recognition of her significant contribution to the national story of contemporary craft. She was also awarded an MBE in 2022 for her outstanding achievement in services to the arts. Her recent publication, “Halima Cassell 25”, documents her twenty-five-year journey and development as an artist up to the present time.
Halima has been represented at Collect and in the USA by Joanna Bird for twelve years, during which time her work has been acquired by numerous national museums.
Image: Halima Cassell, Momento, 2023 (Click to enlarge)
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Imai Hyōe
Although Imai Hyōe was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, the artist has pursued his career far from the historic, ceramic center of Mino, in the distant area of Gero Onsen. His original focus was on vessels for daily use, but, for the past two decades, Imai has explored the world of non-functional, sculptural work.
Imai has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his work can be found in prestigious public and private collections worldwide.
Image: Imai Hyōe, Kokutō; "Black Work”, 2015 (Click to enlarge)
Ferrin Contemporary
Jacqueline Bishop
Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions having taken place in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, USA, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow in France; 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Morocco; and 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Jacqueline has received several awards, including the OCM Bocas Award for her book “The Gymnast & Other Position”, The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short story writing, The Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities from New York University, A James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as several awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.
Image: Jacqueline Bishop, The Keeper of All the Secrets (Tea Service) (detail), 2023 (Click to enlarge)
Chiguer Art Contemporain
Laurent Craste
Laurent Craste has been living and working in Montréal since the early 1990s.
His work has been shown in over seventy group shows and twenty solo exhibitions worldwide. Laurent has exhibited at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Burlington (ON), the Museum of Moving Image (N.Y., U.S.), and the Cité de la mode et du design (Paris), among others.
During his career, the artist has received several awards, including the Jean-Marie Gauvreau Award (2016) and the prestigious Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics (2003).
Laurent’s work is included in prominent collections throughout North America and Europe.
Image: Marissa Y Alexander, Garden Portrait, 2023 (Click to enlarge)
Ferrin Contemporary
Linda Sikora
Canadian-born ceramic artist Linda Sikora is noted for her wood and salt-fired functional ware, particularly covered jars, boxes, and tea pots.
Linda has exhibited widely, and her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, (Halifax, Canada), Racine Art Museum, (Racine, WI), Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, (Alfred, NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (Los Angeles, CA), Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, (Minneapolis, MN), Everson Museum, (Syracuse, NY), Huntington Museum of Art, (Huntington, WV), and Fuller Craft Museum, (Brockton, MA).
The artist is the recipient of the prestigious 2020 USA Artists Fellowship. She has also participated in various artist-in-residence programs.
Image: Linda Sikora, Ground II, 2022 (Click to enlarge)
Independent Artist
Marie Côté
Since 1986, Marie Côté has had solo, group, and multidisciplinary exhibitions across Canada. Through clay, she has explored and articulated the North and its territories during two residencies in Nunavik and the Yukon. Her works are represented in the public collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Québec), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Québec), Institut culturel Avataq (Westmount, Québec), Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, British Columbia), and the Raphael Yu Centre of Canadian Ceramics at the Gardiner Museum (Toronto, Ontario). Marie lives in Montréal, Québec.
Image: Marie Côté, Dawson, la géographie d’un territoire, 2016-2018 (Click to enlarge)
Independent Artist
Marissa Y Alexander
Marissa Y Alexander is a ceramic artist based in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds a BA in Sociology from McMaster University and an Advanced Diploma in Craft and Design (Ceramics) from Sheridan College. Marissa completed her MFA in Ceramic Art at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and has previously served as a full-time Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre. Marissa has gained recognition for her ceramics, receiving various awards while exhibiting both nationally and internationally.
Image: Laurent Craste, Iconocraste au bat VI, 2016 (Click to enlarge)
Paul Petro Contemporary
Michel Dumont
Michel Dumont is a queer, Ojibway and French, Two-Spirit, disabled artist and
trauma survivor based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Michel specializes in breathing new life into discarded vintage tile in striking mosaic pieces. He also creates wearable art using packing
tape, cellophane, and LED lights, and has additionally explored installation art. As a survivor of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian Day School, Michel’s work often explores emerging themes in anti-colonial, urban, Indigenous, and queer identities.
Image: Michel Dumont, Gitigan mukwa / Garden Bear, 2017 (Click to enlarge)
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Nakashima Harumi
Nakashima Harumi was born in 1950 in Gifu, Japan, and graduated in 1973 at the Osaka University of Arts Design, majoring in ceramics. Besides being a ceramic artist, he was also a professor at the Aichi University of Education, Japan from 2003 to 2014, and he is currently the director of Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center.
Nakashima has an extensive exhibition history. Furthermore, his work is represented in a variety of institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; among others.
Image: Stephen Andrews, Moon Jar 5, 2020. Box by Daniel Gruetter. (Click to enlarge)
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Natalia Arbelaez
Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her B.F.A. from Florida International University and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, with an Enrichment Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum, MAD Museum, Fuller Museum, and The ICA Miami. She lives and works in the Mid-Hudson Valley region in NY.
Image: Natalia Arbelaez, La Malinche, 2023 (Click to enlarge)
Ferrin Contemporary
Peter Pincus
Represented by Ferrin Contemporary since 2015, Peter Pincus has participated in multiple exhibitions, including two solo exhibitions, “PETER PINCUS: Channeling Josiah Wedgwood” (2018) and “ART IN THE AGE OF INFLUENCE: Peter Pincus | Sol LeWitt” (2020). Peter has exhibited widely at galleries, art fairs, and museums throughout the US. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX) and Schien-Joseph International Museum (Alfred, NY).
Peter received both his BFA (2005) and MFA (2011) from Alfred University, Alfred, NY. In 2014, the artist joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Art at the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Image: Peter Pincus, Grey Contrasting Gradient Vessels, 2018 (Click to enlarge)
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Stephen Andrews
Stephen Andrews was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. His work deals with memory, identity, technology, and their representations in various media, including photography, drawing, animation, painting, and ceramics. Over the last twenty-five years, he has exhibited his work across Canada, the USA, Brazil, Scotland, France, Italy, and Japan, including “POV”, a fifteen-year survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2015). He is represented in such collections as the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as corporate art collections. Stephen is a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019).
Image: Nakashima Harumi, Absurdity, 2018 (Click to enlarge)
Galleries
Chiguer Art Contemporain
(Québec, Canada)
Chiguer Art Contemporain is dedicated to the forefront of contemporary art across a diverse range of mediums, encompassing painting, ceramics, installation, and more. The gallery represents approximately twenty mid-career and established Canadian artists, each of whom has earned recognition within Canada and for many also on the international stage.
The unwavering commitment to supporting artists of this caliber is a testament to the gallery’s mission: to solidify their artistic legacies within the global art landscape. Rooted in principles of openness and collaboration, the gallery strives to amplify the influence of art and artists in our society.
Chiguer Art Contemporain, recently rebranded as such, operates from two distinguished locations - one established in Québec City in 2015 and the other inaugurated in Montréal in 2022. The founder and gallery director, Abdelilah Chiguer, previously co-managed Galerie 3 with the same dedication singularly focused on the promotion of contemporary Canadian art.
Ferrin Contemporary
(Massachusetts, USA)
For more than 40 years, Ferrin Contemporary has been a leading source for contemporary and modern ceramic art. Ferrin Contemporary serves as both a project incubator and traditional commercial gallery program.
Curated exhibitions are presented by the gallery and in partnership with galleries, museums, and educational institutions throughout the country.
In addition to creating opportunities for artists whose primary medium is clay, the gallery works with private collectors, estates, and archives to offer secondary market works for sale and gift to public collections.
Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections (London, UK)
Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections was founded in 1994. This London-based gallery exhibits outstanding work from international artists specialising in studio ceramics, studio glass, objects d’art and conceptual art.
Joanna trained as a ceramicist with Michael Cardew. Now, as a curator, her particular expertise is in juxtaposing avant-garde work with outstanding examples of twentieth-century art.
Joanna has a distinguished reputation as an expert in her field and lectures internationally. Private collectors and curators from museums world-wide regularly consult her on important acquisitions.
Joan B Mirviss LTD (New York, USA)
With more than forty-five years of experience, Joan B. Mirviss is a pillar in the field of Japanese art. As a dealer, scholar, curator, and advisor, she has been the driving force championing the top Japanese clay artists, who she represents exclusively, and whose works she has placed in major museums around the globe. Widely published as a highly respected expert, Mirviss has built many institutional and private collections of Japanese art. JOAN B MIRVISS LTD exhibits modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, ukiyo-e, and Japanese paintings from its exclusive Madison Avenue location in New York City.
Mindy Solomon Gallery
(Miami, USA)
Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. The gallery represents artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, and video in both narrative and non-objective styles. The gallery program explores the intersection of art and design through an ongoing dialogue between two and three-dimensional objects, while embracing diasporic voices. Utilizing the gallery space as a platform for inventive exhibitions, museum visitations, and public lectures, Mindy Solomon invites a sense of community and aesthetic enrichment. The gallery serves as an incubator for dynamic artists establishing their creative voices and exploring a broad range of exhibition possibilities.
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
(Toronto, Canada)
Paul Petro Contemporary Art gallery, located on Toronto's vibrant Queen Street West, has been a prominent fixture in the city's art scene for decades. With a strong emphasis on contemporary Canadian and international artists, the gallery's invitation-based approach has consistently presented a diverse range of artworks that are impactful, engaging, and thought-provoking.
Through its long history, and celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, the gallery has hosted a remarkable number of exhibitions and has actively participated in numerous art fairs, both locally and around the world.
While placing a focus on Canadian artists, the gallery also showcases talent from the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond. This international perspective adds depth and diversity to the gallery's roster, fostering cross-cultural exchange and broadening the horizons of visitors and art enthusiasts.