SHELLY LOW (1960 - ) LOUNGING LADY stoneware, 11.25" x 15" x 7.5" -- 28.6 x 38.1 x 19.1 cm., signed and dated '87 in black pen Exhibited: Galerie Pink, Montreal, QC Note: SHELLY LOW (1960 - ) Born and raised in Montréal, Quebec, Shelly Low received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, majoring in Studio Arts in 1995 and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2000 from Concordia University. She has worked with mixed media, including photography, video and installation; her recent production centers around the ubiquitous Chinese restaurant. Low has worked as a technician and taught ceramics, fibre structures, paper making and visual arts at Concordia from 1984 and, since 2006, has been teaching in the Creative Arts program at Champlain College in St. Lambert, Quebec. Low has been exhibiting in artist-run centres, museums and galleries across Canada and in the States for over twenty year, with recent solo exhibitions in Québec, Ontario, and Manitoba. Throughout her career she has been the recipient of many awards, prizes and grants, and her works are part of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Musée du Québec Prêt d'Oeuvres, and the Claridge Collection. Shelly Low lives in Montreal, Quebec. Selected Corporate, Public and Private Collections Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC Musée du Québec, QC Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010 Buffet Toi & Moi Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS 2007 Self-Serve at La Pagode Royale Axéneo7, Gatineau, QC Self-Serve Kwantlen University College Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2006 Self-Serve at La Pagode Royale AceArt Inc., Winnipeg, MB Self-Serve FOFA Gallery (Vitrine), Concordia University, Montrèal, QC 2005 Self-Serve Niagara Artists' Company, St. Catherines, ON Stain Eglise Gésu, Montréal Asian Heritage Festival, Montréal, QC 2004 La Pagode Royale Centre des Arts Contemporains du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC 2001 Télégraphe Le Lieu, Québec City, QC 2000 WaterWork and Lousy Job Room Articule, Montréal, QC (accompanied by publication) WaterWork MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bourget Gallery, Montréal, QC 1998 Ties that Bind Shelly Low and Carson McKee, Helen Pitt Gallery, Van. BC 1996 Compact Abundance Shelly Low and Kelly Mark, Articule, Montréal, QC Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 Curators (raising humans) Buzzer Thirty, Long Island City, NY. 2009 Il Nostro Gusto Orange: l'événement d'art actuel de Saint Hyacinthe, St. Hyacinthe, QC 2007 Science in Art, A virtual exhibition dedicated to Canadan contemporary art produced by Galerie de l'UQAM www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Science Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art Centre A, Vancouver, BC. (accompanied by catalogue) 2006 Make Visible/Invisible Work ArtCite Inc., Windsor, Ontario 2005 The Feast: Food in Art Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario 2001 Hôpital 20 Artist residency/exhibition in a decommissioned hospital, Hôpital Bellechasse, Montréal, QC Rushes: Girls in Transit Curated by Penelope Kokkinos, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, ON 25 Artists, 25 Years: Celebrating the Faculty of Fine Arts Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC 1999 48 Hours, 48 Rooms, Rooming house project organized by Ingrid Bachmann, Montréal, QC Uhmmm ahh humm, Montréal Télégraph, Montréal, QC 1998 Contemporary Québec Ceramicists, Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, QC 1997 De Fougue et de Passion Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, QC 1996 Fibreworks: The Biennial Juried Exhibition of Canadian Contemporary Fibre Art, The Library & Gallery, Cambridge, ON Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Artifice 96 curated by David Liss and Marie-Josée Cron, various sites in downtown Montréal, QC Invited guest artist at The 7th National Biennial of Ceramics Trois Rivières, QC; Richmond, BC; Waterloo, ON 1995 Art at Terminal 3, Sixth Show, Toronto Pearson Airport, ON Biennale du Dessin, de l'Estampe et du Papier du Québec Centre National d'Exposition, Jonquière QC, Québec QC, Trois-Rivières QC 1994 Le Lieu de L'Etre Musée du Québec, QC Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois 6th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivières, QC, Montréal, QC, Québec, QC, Toronto, Ont, and Waterloo, ON Toucher Terre Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Sainte-Foy, QC 1993 Chicago International Art Exposition Chicago, Illinois. A Taste of the Claridge Collection, Canadian Clay & Glass Museum, Waterloo, ON Biennale du Dessin, du l'Estampe et du Papier du Québec Alma, QC, Montreal, QC, Grimsby, ON 1992 7th Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, Texas 5th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivières, QC Selected Awards and Scholarships 2007 Concordia University, CUPFA Development Grant Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Programme de bourses aux artistes professionals - Travel 2006 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Programme de bourses aux artistes professionals - Recherche et creation, Type A Concordia University, CUPFA Development Grant 2004 Concordia University, CUPFA Development Grant 2001 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Programme de bourses aux artistes professionels - Recherche et creation, Type B 1999 FCAR Master's Research Scholarship, fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche Canada Council Emerging -Short-Term Grant 1998 Canada Council Travel Grant 1997 J.W. McConnell Graduate Fellowship Award, Concordia University 1996 Long-Term B Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec 1994 Canada Council Project Grant "Prix de la Relève", 6th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivières, QC 1993 "Prix du Papier", Biennale du Dessin, de L'estampe et du Papier, Alma, QC Canada Council Project Grant
