Karen Hibbard    Images | Bio

Education

2000 - M.F.A. (studio arts) Concordia University, Montréal,QC
1997 - Diploma in arts media, Digital Media Studios ,Toronto, ON
1987 - Diploma  in Commercial art, George Brown College, Toronto,ON
1984 - B.F.A., Guelph University, Guelph,ON


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Harcourt House (Edmonton, Alberta)
2007 Centre d’exposition de Val David (Val David, Québec)     
2006 Wilder & Davis (Montréal, QC)
2006 Galerie Luz (Montréal, QC)
2002 The Other Space (Banff, AB)
2002 Est-nord-est (St. Jean-nord-Est)


Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Gallery One One One-Revolver Uptown- University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)
2008 Galerie Ste. Ambroise Le Mois de l’art imprimé (Montreal,QC)
2006/2007 A.R.P.R.I.M. (Montréal, QC-2006)
2006 Galerie d’art Jean-Claude Bergeron Ottawa, ON - prix d’excellence Biennial
2006 Galerie Graff (Montréal ,QC)
2006 Stewart Hall (Pointe Claire,QC)
2005 Maison de la Culture Parc-X (Montréal ,QC)
2005 Studio XX (Montréal,QC)
2002 Mercer Union (Toronto, ON
2002 Eyesaw Gallery (Tokyo, JAPAN)
2000 Show World (New York, USA)
1992 John B. Aird Gallery (Toronto, ON)
1991 Cold City Gallery  (Toronto, ON)
1990 Power Plant (Toronto, ON)


Collections

Atelier Circulaire
National Bank of Canada
Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec
Loto Québec 
Paul Fleck Library
Museum of Modern Art  (artist book collection)
National Library of Canada (National  Library Collection - artist book)
Blackwood Gallery Permanent Collection (University of Toronto)
Open Studio
Atelier Graff 
St. Michael’s Print shop


Grants/Awards

2006 Prix d’excellence Biennial, Galerie d’art Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, ON
2005/2001 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec 
2002/2001 Canada Council
1996/1995 Conseil des arts d’Ontario


Teaching

University of Manitoba (Drawing Fundamentals, Drawing 1 Advanced, Drawing 2)
2007/2009 Advanced, New Media Design, Basic Design
2002-2006 Dawson College (Printmaking)
2000-2001 Visual Arts Centre (sculpture, printmaking, painting)


Artist Statement

Karen Hibbard obtained her Masters in Print media at the University of Concordia (2000) and is teaching art at the University of Manitoba. She was an artist member member at Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg). In addition, she was on the Board of Directors at Studio XX (Québec), a feminist cooperative of media artists from 2004-2006.

She completed an artist residency in Iceland (December 2007) and made large-scale drawings/paintings for “The Bold and the Baffling”. It is a look at emotional addiction- it’s cyclic and insatiable nature.

This series continues an engagement with psychological states using absurdity to ight the underlying mechanics.

Karen Hibbard’s work comments upon and reinterprets society’s views. She has an interest in issues of aging, gender roles and community. Looking for discrepancies within the work is a key to understanding its meaning.

She often combines printmaking,painting and drawing with media arts to create installations.