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Christian Bernard Singer (born 1962) is a contemporary environmental installation artist born in Paris, France.
He currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Early Life and Artwork
Christian Bernard Singer grew up in New York City where he worked as a company dancer with Laura Foreman's Composers and Choreographers Theater until 1974.
In the mid 1980s he moved to Toronto where he made a transition from performance and choreography to painting and eventually to sculpture.
Starting around 2000 Singer’s work began to incorporate natural elements and primarily consisted of living-art installations in a natural setting or in a gallery.
Solo Exhibits
2005 Tessellated Anamnesis - Patterns for Unforgetting: Christian Bernard Singer,
2005 The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
2003 Recent Sculptures and Paintings , Upstairs Gallery, This Ain't The Rosedale Library, Toronto
2003 Chronicles of Being (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Art Site, Wellsville, NY
2003 Sarabande/Contre Pointe (collaboration with Linda Sormin), Robert Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
2002 Initiation/Spring , Robert Turner Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2000 The Hidden Phallus , Art System Gallery, Toronto
Collective Exhibitions
2007 Mobile Structures: Dialogues between Ceramics and Architecture in Canadian Art, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
2006 Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project, Kiwi Gardens (Perth) / Edward Day Gallery (Toronto), ON
2005 Shore/Lines: Responding to Place, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2005 Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project, Kiwi Gardens (Perth) / Edward Day Gallery (Toronto), ON
2004 Second Nature, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY
Grants, Awards and Scholarships
2006 Visual Artist Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2004 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Recommender: Visual Arts Ontario)
2002 Full Tuition Scholarship and Fellowship, NYSCC at Alfred University, NY
2001 Full Tuition Scholarship and Fellowship, NYSCC at Alfred University, NY
2000 Louis Odette Sculpture Award, Toronto, Canada
2000 Dorothy Hoover Award for Visual Work and Written Research, Toronto, Canada
2000 Canada Millennium Scholarship Grant
1999 International Exchange Study Grant to ’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
1999 Ontario College of Art and Design Tuition Bursary, Toronto, Canada
1998 Dora Wechler Memorial Fund Award for Ceramics, Toronto, Canada
1998 Charles Magee Memorial Tuition Scholarship for Drawing and Painting, Toronto, Canada
1996 Artist in Residence, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada
Young, Kathryn.
Art in the Garden: Adding artistic flourishes to greenery goes back to Roman times.
The Ottawa Citizen, Sat., 3 September, 2005, p.
J7.
Chun, Belinda.
Installation meets earth-works in New York native’s secret gardens.
ThisWay, Issue No.
1, 2006
Messadié, Janine.
Interview: Les arts et les autres.
Radio-Canada, 27 June, 2005.
MacDonnell Eichhorn, Virginia.
New Work: Christian Bernard Singer.
Samplesize.ca, May, 2005.
Hall, Lauren.
Layered Meanings.
Echo Weekly, 31 March 6 April, 2005.
Demers, Véronique.
Christian Singer allie l’art à l’environnement.
Le Régional, 30 March – 5 April, 2005.
DeGroot, Martin.
Art co-operative invites us to brush winter blues away.
The Record, 8 March, 2005.
Haber, John.
Art Reviews from Around New York: 7.12.04.
Haberarts, 12 July, 2004.
Evidence.
CIUT FM, 2 November, 2003.
Paquette, Daniel.
Say Cheese.
XTRA!
Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Biweekly, 30 October, 2003, p.
35.
Frost, Steve.
Show Beats Winter.
The Art Species May, 2003, p.
2.
Hardman, Elaine.
Moss Inspires Alfred Artist.
Patriot and Free Press, 16 April, 2003, p.
10.
Hardman, Elaine.
A ‘Mossed See’ Exhibition in Wellsville.
Alfred Sun, 10 April, 2003, p.
1.
Carlton, Bridget.
Moss Featured in Art Show.
Fiat Lux, 15 April, 2003, p.
6.
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