Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
Confluence Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK 2022
Shedding (collaboration with Lezli Rubin-Kunda), AKA Artist Run Centre, Saskatoon, SK 2019
Currents Esplanade Art Gallery (Duggan House), Medicine Hat, AB 2019
creatures in translation Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB 2015
in the darkest part of the forest (with Beata Batorowicz), Art Gallery of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 2014
creatures in translation Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB 2014
creatures in translation Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2013
creatures in translation Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK 2012
chamber Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK 2011
canopy Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2006
technologies of tenderness Art Gallery of Prince Albert, SK 2006
technologies of tenderness Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, AB 2003
e(ate)n Expression, Ste. Hyacinthe, PQ 2003
technologies of tenderness Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Jose, CA 2001
puzzle (multiples) Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK. 2000
;rapt (collaboration with Kathleen Sellars) Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC 2000
,rapt (collaboration with Kathleen Sellars) Ace Art, Winnipeg, MB 1999
deluge Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON 1999
Satiate MacKenzie Gallery, Regina, SK 1998
Satiate Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB1998
in her nature Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON 1997
rapt (collaboration with Kathleen Sellars) AKA Artist’s Centre, Saskatoon, SK 1996
engorge Articule Artist’s Centre, Montreal, PQ. 1995
hibernaculum Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. 1994
generated spontaneously generated UNB Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB 1993
generated spontaneously generated Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB 1993
generated spontaneously generated AKA Artist’s Centre, Saskatoon, SK 1992
re(dis)covering (with Kim Pittman) Eastern Edge, St. John’s, NF 1992
Lake Superior: Winter Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON 1991
Lake Superior: Winter Journal Ace Art, Winnipeg, MB. 1991
Mrs. John E. Brubacher (with Jane Buyers) Cycle Gallery, University of Waterloo, ON 1989
this darkness, this light Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, NY 1989
this darkness, this light I.D.A. Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON 1989
Household Icons Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, ON 1989
Inanna’s Descent, Household Icons, Recent Work Nancy Poole Studio, Toronto, ON 1988, 1987, 1986
Selected Group Exhibitions
As Long as the River Flows Mann Gallery, Prince Albert, SK 2021
As Long as the River Flows Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK 2019
Pop Luck (collective) Pump House at River Landing, Saskatoon, SK 2019
Tethered Artworx Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 2019
Dark Rituals, Magical Relics Academy Gallery, Tasmania, Australia 2019
Dark Rituals, Magical Relics University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2018
Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet Art Gallery of Swift Current, SK 2015
creatures in translation (in Art-O-Matic) Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON 2012
Currents: New Work by Faculty Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2010
Cascade in Hard Twist-New Twist, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON 2009
Forest for the Trees (travelling), Lonsdale AG, Toronto; Galleria di Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy; Studio Gennia, Pisa, St. Francis University AG, Antigonish, NS 2006-08
Feast: Food in Art Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON 2005
Size Matters Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 2002
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things Charles H. Scott Gallery, ECIAD, Vancouver, BC 2002
Satiate (in The Fact of the Matter), Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC 2000
Saskatchewan Perspective MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK 1998
International Sculpture Exhibition Manoa Art Gallery, University of Hawaii, USA 1997
Nature Redux Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB 1997
Imagining Eden Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 1996
Natured Mercer Union, Toronto, ON 1995
Anima/Materia Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 1993
Gathering Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, ON 1991
Artists of Mennonite Heritage Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 1990
Newcomb, Moon, Shantz Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, ON 1990
Celebration of the Human Spirit MacIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON 1988
Quilts: Tradition/Transition (travelling), Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON 1988
A Personal Vision in Landscape Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, ON 1987
Artists of Mennonite Heritage Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 1986
The Language of Paradise London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON 1985
Exchanges (travelling), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON 1982
Awards
Placemaker Public Art Grant City of Saskatoon, SK 2017
Independent Artists Visual Arts Creative Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, SK 2011, 2008
Project Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, SK 2008
President’s SSHRC Grant University of Saskatchewan Research Services, 2007
Creative A Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, SK 2005
Visual Arts Grant B.C. Arts Council, BC 2001
Creative B Grant Canada Council, 1999
Creative B Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1998, 1996, 1995
Travel Grant Canada Council, 1995
Travel Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1994
Travel Grant (China), External Affairs Canada, 1994
Creative B Grant Saskatchewan Arts Board, 1993
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ON 1989, 1988, 1984, 1983
Materials Assistance Grant Ontario Arts Council, ON 1987
Projects Grant Canada Council, 1986
Materials Assistance Grant Ontario Arts Council, ON 1984
Juror’s Award Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON 1982
Exhibition Catalogues, Reviews, Essays, Films
Dark Rituals, Magical Relics USC Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia (Louise Martin-Chew & Ginna Bock; catalogue, 2018)
Invention, Error and Evolution in creatures in translation, Kenderdine Art Gallery, SK in partnership with Esplanade Art Centre and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, AB (Joanne Marion, catalogue, 2014)
Susan Shantz: Polytypes in creatures in translation, Kenderdine Art Gallery, SK in partnership with Esplanade Arts Centre and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, AB (Bruce Russell, catalogue, 2014)
A Third Space: X-Y-Z in creatures in translation, Kenderdine Art Gallery, SK in partnership with Esplanade Arts Centre and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, AB (Diana Sherlock, catalogue, 2014)
Shantz’s Who’s Who in creatures in translation, Dunlop Art Gallery (DAG Volumes No. 1: Carle Steel, catalogue, 2012)
chamber Art Gallery of Regina, Regina (Bruce Russell, catalogue, 2011)
canopy Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (John Grande, catalogue, 2007)
Landscape as Muse: Susan Shantz 291 FilmCo, Regina, SK. 30-minute feature film, 2005
acute vulnerability Medicine Hat Art Gallery (Sigrid Dahle, catalogue for Technologies of Tenderness, 2004)
;rapt: an installation by Kathleen Sellars and Susan Shantz Artichoke (Yvonne Owens, review, 2001)
Mail-Order Art Victoria Times Colonist (Diane Dickers, review of ;rapt, 2000)
;rapt Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, (Lisa Baldissera, catalogue and audiotour)
Choice and Surprise Vancouver Sun, (Michael Scott, review, 2000)
Performing Interconnectedness n.paradoxa, 3:24-29 (Joan Borsa, essay, 1999)
Salvages in Satiate, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (Renee Baert, catalogue, 1998)
Insight at Hand in Satiate, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (Lucy Lippard, catalogue, 1998)
Satiate Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (Timothy Long, catalogue, 1998)
Susan Shantz: Southern Alberta Art Gallery in C, 58:44, May-August (Leslie Dawn, review, 1998)
Satiate: Susan Shantz in Espace, 45: 32-33, Fall. (Greg Beatty, review, 1998)
Susan Shantz: Satiate The Regina Leader-Post, May 7: D3. (Jack Anderson, review, 1998)
The Painted Body Stares Back In Conrad Grebel Review, 16:3, Fall, Magdelene Redekop, 1998)
in her nature Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, ON (Barbara Fisher, catalogue, 1997)
Nature Redux Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB (David Garneau & Nancy Tousley, catalogue, 1997)
Imagining Eden Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (Tim Nowlin, catalogue, 1996)
Natured Mercer Union , Toronto, ON (Clare Christie & Sandra Gregson, catalogue, 1995)
Susan Shantz: hibernaculum in Canadian Art, 12:1, Spring. (Ann Newdigate, review, 1995)
hibernaculum Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (Joan Borsa, catalogue, 1994)
Myths of Art and Science Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, AB (Franklin Heisler, catalogue, 1993)
Newcomb/Moon/Shantz Burlington Cultural Centre, ON (catalogue, 1990)
Artists of Mennonite Heritage Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (catalogue, 1990)
Quilts: Tradition/Transition Windsor Art Gallery, ON (catalogue, 1988)
Celebration of the Human Spirit MacIntosh Gallery, UWO, London, ON (catalogue, 1988)
A Personal Vision in Landscape Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, ON (catalogue, 1987)
The Language of Paradise London Regional Art Gallery, ON (Nancy-Lou Patterson, catalogue, 1985)
Professional Practice
Anima Casa Rurale Art Residency Jalisco, Mexico (residency co-leader) 2019
Duggan House Art Residency Medicine Hat, AB 2018
Stegner House Art Residency Eastend, SK 2017
Medalta International Artists Residency Medicine Hat, AB 2013
Visual Arts Juror Saskatchewan Arts Board, SK 2016
Guest Lecturer Goodenough College, London, UK 2015
Guest Lecturer Medicine Hat College, Medicine Hat, AB 2015
Guest Lecturer St. Edwards College, Austin, TX 2015
Guest Lecturer Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia 2014
Guest Lecturer Dept of Visual Art, University of Regina, SK 2013
Guest Lecturer Alberta College of Art and Design, AB 2011
Committee Member City of Saskatoon, Visual Arts Placement Jury (6-year term, 2007-13)
Juror River Landing Placemaker, National Sculpture Competition, City of Saskatoon, SK 2006
Guest Lecturer University of Calgary, AB; University of Lethbridge, AB 2005
Guest Lecturer Louisiana University at Lafayette, LA, USA; University of Regina, SK 2004
Boreal Art/Nature (3-week art residency), La Minerve, QC 2003
Centre For Contemporary Canadian Art Website Database Project, Montreal, PQ 2002
Sculpture Competition Finalist RIM Park, Waterloo, ON 2001
Guest Lecturer School of Art and Design, San Jose State University, CA, USA 2001
Guest Lecturer Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC 2000
Guest Lecturer University of Lethbridge; Medicine Hat College; AB 1999
Juror, Experimental Film and Video SaskFilm, SK 1998
Guest Lecturer University of Waterloo, ON 1998
Guest Lecturer MacKenzie Art Gallery, SK 1998
Guest Lecturer Southern Alberta Art Gallery, AB 1998
Art Residency Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA, USA 1997
Art Residence Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY, USA 1996
Juror, Canada Council Visual Arts Creative B Grants 1996
Guest Lecturer University of Regina, SK 1995
Guest Lecturer University of Guelph, ON 1995
Guest Lecturer Art et Architecture Conference, Articule, Montreal, PQ 1995
Guest Lecturer College Art Association Conference, Texas, USA 1995
Guest Lecturer Beijing Academy of Art & Harbin University & Shanghai University, China 1994
Art Residency Leighton Colony, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB 1994
Guest Lecturer Eastern Edge, St. John’s, NF 1992
Guest Lecturer CARFAC Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK 1992
Guest Lecturer Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, AB 1992
Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Dunlop Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Museum London, Burlington Cultural Centre, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, University of New Brunswick, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Saskatchewan, Private collections
Education
M.F.A. Sculpture and Interdisciplinary York University, Toronto, ON 1989
M.A. with distinction, Religion and Culture Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON 1985
Dept. of Visual Art, University of Waterloo, ON (post-degree studies, 1981-83)
B.A. English, Goshen College, IN, USA 1980
Employment
Professor Dept. of Art and Art History, Studio Art, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK 1990ff
Associate Professor MFA - Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont 2000-02
Instructor Foundation/Critical Studies, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC 2001-02/05