Lauren Chipeur

About

Lauren Chipeur (b. 1989 Edmonton, AB)

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:

2018 – perhaps, a shift with Destiny Grimm, Pushmi Pullyu, Toronto, ON 2017 – Chipeur and Auger with Black in mind, MMUDA MMAAL, Montréal, QC
2016 – Staring at the sun with your eyes closed, curated by Zoë Wonfor, Untitled Contemporary Art – Calgary, AB
2015 – April Martin and Lauren Chipeur: Next to Each Other, curated by Zoë Wonfor, Wanusay – Montréal, QC
2015 – For product freshness do not throw away, Stride +15 Gallery – Calgary, AB
2013 – No Working on Saturdays, Zwitschermaschine Gallery – Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Shows:

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 Apparent Position of an Hour, Emergency Art Space – Vevey Switzerland (w/ April Martin & Zoë Wonfor)
2017 – The way that light travels through water, Chromatic Festival – Montreal, QC (w/ April Martin & Zoë Wonfor) 2016 – Staring at the sun with your eyes closed, Untitled Art Society – Calgary, AB (w/ April Martin & Zoë Wonfor)
2016 – 5 Sculptors and a Painter, Galerie Laroche/Joncas – Montréal, QC
2016 – Pleasure at a close distance (with April Martin, Lara Schoorl + Zoë Wonfor), 2351 N Milwaukee Avenue – Chicago, IL
2016 – Maureen, Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal – Montréal, QC
2016 – The furniture we are forever rearranging II, ArtHelix – Brooklyn, NY
2016 – The furniture we are forever rearranging, Grey Nuns, Concordia University – Montréal,
2016 - “ABJECT / AB-JETTE”, Vitriol: Art and its Discontents, AHGSA Conference, Concordia, Montreal, QC
2014 – Knock Knock: Open Studios, Untitled Art Society – Calgary, AB
2014 – Klapaucius:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;, curated by Sally Sears-Black, Embassy Gallery – Edinburgh, UK
2014 – Sculpture Space Works-in-Progress, Sculpture Space – Utica, NY
2014 – Bring Your Own Pedestal, Upstate Flux – Utica, NY
2013 – Plastik, Bauchhund Salonlabor – Berlin, Germany
2013 – GlogauAIR: Open Studios, GlogauAIR – Berlin, Germany
2013 – Art Swap Auction, GlogauAIR – Berlin, Germany
2012 – Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art – Edinburgh, UK
2012 – ECA x RCA Gone Courting, collaboration with Royal College of Art sculpture students, Edinburgh, UK
2012 – Salon Neu: Embassy Members Show, Embassy Gallery – Edinburgh, UK
2011 – Socks and Sandals, artist and curator, Sculpture Court (at Edinburgh College of Art) – Edinburgh, UK
2010 – Q1, Quartermile – Edinburgh, UK
2010 – Ad Hoc, Glasgow School of Art – Glasgow, UK
2009 – Student Residency Show, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop – Edinburgh, UK

Public Projects:

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

Residencies:

2017 – Emergency Artist Residency (with April Martin + Zoë Wonfor) – Vevey, Switzerland
2014 – VSVSVS summer artist in residence – Toronto, ON (funded residency)
2014 – Sculpture Space – Utica, NY (funded residency)
2013 – GlogauAIR – Berlin, Germany (funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts)

Education:

2015-18 – Masters of Fine Art (candidate) – Sculpture, Concordia University
2008-12 – Bachelor of Arts, First Class (Hons) – Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art

Grants and Awards:

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
2012 – Andrew Grant Prize

Publications:

2017 – It's not just to say there is a _____ there, poetry book made with Elliott Elliott, Annie Descôteaux
2016 – The End of May, Co-author (with April Martin, Lara Schoorl + Zoë Wonfor, a book of poetry funded by Untitled Contemporary Art and published by ArtBooks
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
2012 – Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show Catalogue, included artist

The Valley is a project space curated by Zoë Wonfor and Lauren Chipeur and located in their basement. The Valley functions to offer artists a space where they can take chances in their work and the opportunity to respond to the unusual site of the gallery.

Past shows:

Zoe Koke

Edwin Isford

Lauren Chipeur is a Tio'tia:ke/Montréal based artist and current MFA student at Concordia University. Her practice engages with material temperaments and biographies; how materials behave, what they are made of and where they come from. Corporate interests seek to distort our relationship with the surfaces, substances and stuff of our everyday. Her practice works towards building systems that untangle or distill new ways to know these things. In this attempt to know the systems that constitute us, her activities offer one way to understand our place on the consumption end of current systems of production.

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contact: lchipeur@gmail.com