Chantal Gibson Writer-Artist-Educator

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    • Contact
  • Books
  • Art
    • Altered Books
    • Visual Poetry
    • Installations
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    • The Other James Baldwin

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Where Visual and Literary Art Meet

un/titled. Portraits Chantal Gibson Sep. 24 -Nov. 26th 2022 WAAP 1129 E. Hastings

In un/titled, Chantal Gibson continues her work with black souvenir spoons, creating a series of portraits that speak to themes of gendered and generational (dis)connection, (dis)placement and re(dis)covery. Playing with size, scale and perspective, Gibson transforms a small, vintage spoon into large photographs, revealing a sailing vessel big enough to wonder who’s inside? Each blackened ornament is a holder of memory, each body a portrait of a time, a place, a transaction.

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Nostalgia Interrupted. Doris McCarthy Gallery UofT Scarborough Sep.15 - Dec. 10 2022

Presented as a gallery and online exhibition, Nostalgia Interrupted highlights the reminiscence and perseverance of BIPOC communities through lens-based media, text, and installation. Eschewing whitewashed notions of sanguine sentimentalism as portrayed by a dominant hierarchy, this exhibition explores the aspirations, resistance, and heartbreak of marginalized communities within the context of systemic racism, xenophobia, and oppression.

Nostalgia Interrupted offers space for marginalized communities to share the memories, heritage, and experiences which shape their reality. This is vital not for explanation or debate — for the marginalized need not justify their presence — but for reclamation and resistance.


Works in the DMG by Chantal Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Howardena Pindell, Dima Srouji, and Shellie Zhang


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Human Capital  Calgary Contemporary  13 October 2022 – 16 April 2023

Curated by Tak Pham, Associate Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery.


Artists: Nura Ali, Aleesa Cohene, Darija Radakovic, Chantal Gibson, Jeannie Mah, Esmaa Mohamoud, Nurgul Rodriguez, Marigold Santos, Farihah Shah, Florence Yee, Jin-me Yoon and Shellie Zhang.

The exhibition is presented in partnership with the MacKenzie Art Gallery.


Human Capital presents work that offers insight into the impact of Canada’s immigration policies and history: how it treats humans as capital, and the role it plays in shaping the complex and contested formation of a “Canadian identity.”

Canada, like most Western nations, has a long history of immigration campaigns that promise economic prosperity to both the state and immigrants. As a result, Canadian immigration policies have historically focused on maximizing economic contributions while minimizing disruption to the “fundamental character of the Canadian population,” as remarked by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1947.  

Canada’s current, points-based immigration system, in place since 1967, attempts to provide a non-discriminatory framework for assessing individuals and collectives and directing them to strategic economic and geographic sectors. Once inside Canada, new immigrants are expected to boost the country’s economy by producing more for less. The system has little regard for existing marginalized communities, as it continues to reinforce “Canadian values” with an ever-growing intake of immigrants, whose admittance is driven primarily by the economic demands of the country. For all these reasons, the exhibition asks: What else is lost when human potential is measured as units of capital? 


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un/settled at SFU Downtown Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2021

Written by: Linda Kanyamuna, SFU Student


Since November of 2020, Vancouverites have been consuming the resilience, energy, and beauty of Black womanhood through visual art in the form of a 240 foot photo-poetic art installation un/settled. The piece, which resides at the intersection of West Hastings and Richards Street occupying SFU Belzberg Library’s large windows, embodies Blackness and everything that celebrates Black creativity. 


The artwork features stunning poetry written by writer and academic Dr. Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, and portrait imagery of artist-educator Chantal Gibson. On February 10, both Black creatives, along with SFU Belzberg head librarian Ebony Magnus, shared dialogue for upholding Black voices through art in an enticing panel that aimed to unpack the presence of Black bodies in urban public spaces...

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Events 2022 -2023

Symposium Keynote Address

Symposium Keynote Address

Symposium Keynote Address

Historical In(ter)ventions

Unsettling the Great White North

University of Toronto 

Thursday February 2nd, 10am

Antler Poetry London

Symposium Keynote Address

Symposium Keynote Address

Poetry Reading and Artist Talk 

Antler Poetry and Western University 

London Ontario

Wednesday October 19th.

Poetry Workshop

The Chorus is Speaking

The Chorus is Speaking

Afterwords Literary Festival

Online Exploring Graphic Poetry Workshop

   Saturday October 1st 

The Chorus is Speaking

The Chorus is Speaking

The Chorus is Speaking

The Chorus is Speaking

Campbell River Art Gallery

June 4 -August 20, 2022 

SFU Keynote

Altered Book Workshop

Poetry Workshop

Designing for Difference

2022 Symposium of Teaching and Learning at SFU: (Re)connecting Through Conversation

Thursday May 19th 10:30am.

Poetry Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Poetry Workshop

BC Writers Summit

Online Exploring Graphic Poetry Workshop

   Tuesday May 17th at 7pm. 

Altered Book Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Kid's Take Over 

Youth altered book workshop

Vancouver Art Gallery

Thursday May 5th at 4pm. 

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Kid's Take Over 

Group Exhibition

Vancouver Art Gallery

April 15 to September 11, 2022

Open Space Victoria

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Chantal Gibson discusses "The Art of with/holding" from her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday April 30 at 7:00pm.

Poetry Workshop

Vancouver Art Gallery

Poetry Workshop

Planet Earth Poetry Victoria

Graphic Poetry Workshop

   Saturday April 30 10:30am. 

Poetry Reading

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

Planet Earth Poetry Victoria

Poetry Reading & Open Mic

   Friday April 29 at 7pm. 

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

Online Poetry Reading and conversation.  

Sunday March 12 at 2pm. 

MOA Artist Talk

In/Verse Vancouver

MOA Artist Talk

Award-winning Vancouver poet Chantal Gibson joins Chase Keetley to discuss her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday January 22 at 1:00pm.

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

In Conversation, 2021 Massey Lecturer Esi Edugyan speaks about her latest non-fiction work with artist, poet and author Chantal Gibson. 

Tuesday October 19th at 7:30pm. 

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Poetry Bash. Hosted by poet and award-winning author Aislinn Hunter, the lineup includes some of the most talked-about poets in Canada today.

Friday October 22nd at 8pm.

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Award-winning Vancouver poet Chantal Gibson joins Lawrence Hill to discuss her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday October 23 at 10:30am.

CBC Spark Interview

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Social media platforms benefit from  the intersection of race and capitalism.

Conversation and poetry reading 

 CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 01, 2021 

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Online Reading from with/holding 

On Edge Reading Series for FALL 2021.
Tuesday, OCT 26, 2021 at 6PM PT


Thresholds: Map20

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Thresholds: Map20

20th Anniversary of Dionne Brand's 

A Map to the Door of No Return


Digital gathering November 3-6, 2021 

www.maptothedoorat20.com 


un/settled SFU Downtown

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

un/settled Photography and poetry installation with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek & Ebony Magnus. SFU Belzberg Library Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2021 

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

TYRANNY brings together a group of contemporary artists who in unique ways confront dominant cultural narratives in the work they make.

July 15, 2021 - ongoing

Vancouver Art Gallery

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

Where do we go from here?

Group exhibition Vancouver Art Gallery

Dec, 2020 - June 2021

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

Stolen Identities, by Winnipeg painter Yisa Akinbolaji, and Who’s Who in Canada 1927 by Chantal Gibson 

Sept 2020 - June 2021

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Human Capital... offers insight into the impact of Canada’s immigration policies and history: how it treats humans as capital, and the role it plays in shaping the complex and contested formation of a “Canadian identity.”

Grammar of Loss, Victoria

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Grammar of Loss, Studies in Erasure  Solo exhibition at Open Space, Victoria January 2020.

2020 Online Exhibition 

Canadian Art June 2020

Thoughts on Liberation, CanadianArt June 17, 2020. 

Black scholars, activists and artists respond to the present moment—Christina Battle, Dionne Brand, Denise Ferreira da Silva, El Jones, Robyn Maynard, Charmaine Nelson and Christina Sharpe.                                   Redacted Text, 2019 in Canadian Art.


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