Charles Stankievech

Charles Stankievech
Born	1978 (age 46–47)
Known for	artist, writer, educator and curator
Movement	Conceptual art

Charles Stankievech (born 1978) is a Canadian artist, writer, publisher and curator.

Early life and education

Stankievech was born in 1978 in Okotoks, Alberta. He graduated with an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, later moving to Dawson City in 2007 where he was a founding member of the Yukon School of Visual Art. He stayed in Yukon for five years, moving to Berlin in 2012. ^[1]

Career

External videos
The 2016 Sobey Art Award - Charles Stankievech (2:10 min), National Gallery of Canada, retrieved 27 April 2025 – via YouTube

Stankievech participated in the Canadian Forces Artists Program twice, in 2011 and 2015. His 2012 35mm film installation The Soniferous Æther of the Land Beyond the Land Beyond was shot over the course of two weeks at CFS Alert, and is part of a series of fieldworks he made that look at remote outpost architecture, military infrastructure, and the embedded landscape. ^[2]

In 2014, Stankievech's exhibition Counterintelligence premiered at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto. Murray Whyte of the Toronto Star described it as "a dizzying array of material, some of it absurd, much of it shocking". ^[3] The exhibition was awarded Thematic Exhibition of the Year for 2014 by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. ^[4] In 2016, Stankievech was a nominee for the Sobey Art Award. ^[5]

Stankievech's exhibition Desert Turned To Glass premiered in Ontario in 2024, ^[6] and has also been exhibited in Calgary, ^[7] and the KIN Gallery in Brussels. ^[8] Stankievech's exhibition Monuments as Ruin was awarded an Ontario Association of Art Galleries 2015 Exhibition of the Year Award. ^[9] Many of his works are influenced by military architecture and surveillance. ^[10]

References

Citations

1. Enright (2013); CBC Radio-Canada (2016).
2. Woods (2013).
3. Whyte (2014).
4. Ontario Association of Art Galleries (2014).
5. CBC Radio-Canada 2016.
6. Hampton (2024); Robinson (2023).
7. Volmers (2023); Art Gallery of Ontario (2023).
8. KIN Brussels (2023).
9. Queen's University (2015).
10. Loncar-Bartolini (2015); Glessing (2015).

Sources

• Enright, Robert (June 2013). "Outposting, Edgings Towards Art and Science: An Interview with Charles Stankievech". Border Crossings Magazine. Winnipeg, MB. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Charles Stankievech" . Edmonton Journal . Edmonton, AB: Postmedia Network. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• Woods, Michael (8 November 2013). "Sketching a glimpse of military life" . The Ottawa Citizen . Ottawa, ON. Retrieved 26 April 2025– via Newspapers.com.

• Hampton, Chris (4 December 2024). "At a small art gallery in Oakville, Ont., a meteor is about to strike". CBC News . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 22 January 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

• Robinson, Lissa (27 March 2023). "Charles Stankievech: Artist probes fringes of perception and depths of metaphysics". Galleries West. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

• Volmers, Eric (4 March 2023). "Epic Contemporary Calgary exhibit explores elemental questions about the origins of life". Calgary Herald . Calgary, AB. Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Behind The Desert Turned to Glass". AGOInsider. Art Gallery of Ontario. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Charles Stankievech - KIN". KIN Brussels. 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Charles Stankievech: Monument as Ruin". Agnes. Kingston, ON: Queen's University. 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• Loncar-Bartolini, Olivia (16 January 2015). "Panelists discuss architecture and surveillance". The Queen's University Journal. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• Glessing, Jill (22 January 2015). "Charles Stankievech and the Art of Surveillance". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 9 February 2025. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Ontario - Charles Stankievech". CBC Radio-Canada. 7 November 2016. Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

• Whyte, Murray (30 January 2014). "Exhibit deliberately muddy and sensational" . The Toronto Star . Toronto, ON. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

• "Awards: 2014". Ontario Association of Art Galleries. 2014. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2025.

Further reading

• Brandon, Laura (2021). War Art in Canada: A Critical History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN   978-1-4871-0271-5.
• Potolsky, Matthew (2019). The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-0-4295-5898-6.
• Brook, Pete (13 June 2013). "Declassified Spy Outpost Lurks on the Dark Side of the Earth". Wired . Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Stankievech – via Desperado Philosophy
• Interview with Stankievech in Interventions, Columbia University Journal – via Archive.org