Chantal Gibson

Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator. Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award, the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist. Gibson's art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.

Early life and education Born in Quebec, Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.

Career Gibson is a writer-artist-educator based on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a lecturer in written and visual communication at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.

Awards and honours

Literary 2016 - SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, Simon Fraser University 2020 - Griffin Poetry Prize, Canadian Shortlist 2020 - Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, shortlist 2021 - 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)

Exhibitions

2014 - TOME. SFU Surrey Library (2014) 2018 - MORPH: Changing the Past. (Inaugural group exhibit) Vancouver Public Library, Main Branch 2020 - Who's Who. Senate of Canada chamber foyer, Ottawa, ON 2020 - Where do we go from here? (Group exhibit) Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2021 - Human Capital. (Group exhibit) MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK 2021 - un/settled. In collaboration with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. SFU Belzberg Library, Vancouver BC 2021 - Tyranny. (Group exhibition) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Artist-in-residence

2017 - Visiting artist, OCAD University Writing & Learning Centre, Toronto, ON