CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING and pedagogical activities
1988 - 2006
Teaching Faculty Member, Espace VERRE, 3 year college glass program in association with the Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Montréal, Québec
1985 - 1987
Teaching Faculty Member, Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, Glass Studio, Mississauga, Ontario
1990 - 1994
Pedagogical Advisor, Espace VERRE, Montréal, Québec
1989 - 1990
Pedagogical Director, Centre des Métiers du Verre/ Espace VERRE, responsable for the implantation of Quebec's first college level glass program, Montréal, Québec
1990
Invited participant, First International Symposium "Pedagogy in Glass",Barcelona and Segovia, Spain
BOARD INVOLVEMENT
2001 - 2004
Member of the Board of Directors, Glass Art Association of Canada
2000 - 2002
Member of the Board of Directors, Espace VERRE, Montréal, Québec
1998 - 1999
Board Member, Centre d'Exposition d'Art Contemporain Vieux Palais, Exhibition Center of Contemporary Art, Vieux Palais St-Jérôme, Québec
1995 - 1996
Member of the Board of Directors, co-organizer of the Canadian Glass Conference "Pour un objet qui à de l'âme” Montréal, Québec
1993 - 1995
President of the Board of Directors, Espace VERRE, Montréal, Québec
1991 - 1995
Member of the Board of Directors, Espace VERRE, Montréal, Québec
1992 - 1993
Project organizer of FUSION - a transitional hot glass studio program “incubator” inside Espace VERRE. The studio and program allows graduates access and professional development time for up to 2 years, Montréal, Quebec
INVITED SPEAKER
2009 /12 /13
Invited Speaker- Artist Presentation, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
2010
Invited Speaker – Artist Presentation, Glass Art Association of Canada conference
Invited Speaker – Stewart Hall Art Gallery for retrospective exhibition "As seen through glass", Montreal, Quebec
2008
Invited Speaker – SOFA International Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
2007
Invited Speaker – International Creators Series, Harbourfront, Ontario
2000
Invited speaker, GAAC Conference Red Deer and Holsten Galleries, MA
1997
Invited Speaker, SOFA International Exhibition "Glass in Dialogue", Chicago, IL
1992
Invited speaker, Glass Art Association of Canada Conference, Vancouver, BC
1987
Invited Speaker, Glass Art Society International, Conference, Philadelphia USA
HONORARY MEMBER
2003
Elected Honorary Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, RCA
1995
Honorary Lifetime Member of the Board Directors Espace VERRE - Montréal, Quebec
VISITING ARTIST / other professional activities
2006
Finalist – Bombay Sapphire International Glass Prize, London, England
2002 - 2003
Finalist - Saidye Bronfman Award, Canada Council for the Arts
2002
Invited representative, CCF / OCC -Trade Mission, GAS International Conference, Amsterdam
2001 /2002
Invited Artist-Teacher, European Glass, Hot Glass Casting workshops, Niel, Belgium
1997 - 1999
Selection Committee Member, Specialist, Québec Minister of Cultural Affairs, “ Integration of the Arts in Architecture and the Environment, Program 1%.”
1989
Visiting Artist, May-June, New York Experimental Glass Studio, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2010
As seen through glass, career retrospective, Stuart Hall Public Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Québec
2003
…unravel/tangle…tangle/unravel, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
2000
Traverser - Through, Galerie Elena Lee and Galerie Eric Devlin, Montréal, Québec
1998
Seed, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
1994
Seed Sowers, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
1992
Scarecrows, Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1991
The Storyteller Series, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
1990
The Storytellers, Neo Faber Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1988
Scarecrows, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
1986
Dance, Shelley Tadman Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1985
Fleeting Glimpses, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal, Québec
GROUP
1984 - 2016
Participated in over 200 group exhibitions in Canada, USA, England, France, Finland, Germany, South Korea and Hong Kong in both public spaces and private galleries. Participated in international art fairs such as SOFA New York and Chicago and TIAF (complete list available upon request)
COLLECTIONS
Canadian Museum of History (formerly Civilization), Gatineau, Québec
Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, Québec
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and the Mendel Collection, Montréal, Québec
The Claridge Collection, Montréal, Québec
Stephen Bronfman Collection, Montréal, Québec
Canadian Foreign Affairs Collection, Berlin Embassy, Germany
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Collection Loto Québec, Montréal, Québec
Cirque du Soleil - Guy Laliberté Art Collection, Québec
Taillefer & Zakaib Collection, Montréal, Québec
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Speed Museum, Leight Collection, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Newark Museum, Lowenbauch Collection, Newark, New York, USA
University of Miami, Paley Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
CHARBONNEAU, Diane, The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Studio Glass, Anna and Joe Mendel Collection, 2010
EGAN, Melanie, ELDER, Alan, JOHNSON, Jean Editors, Crafting New Traditions, Canadian Innovators and Influences, Mercury Series, Canadian Museum of Civilization, “Emergence” Contemporary Canadian Glass by Carolyn Prowse Fainmel, 2008
LITTLETON, Maurine, 500 Glass Objects, A Celebration of Functional and Sculptural Glass, Lark Books, 2006, p.313, 336 illus.
YISHU, Shijie Xiandai Boli, The Contemporary Glass Art of the World, Bejing, China 2004, illus.
YELLE, Richard Wilfred, International Glass Art, Schiffer Art Book, 2003, p 104-105, illus.
KOHLER, Lucartha, Women Working in Glass, Schiffer Art Book, 2003, p 137-138, illus.
YELLE, Richard, Glass Art from Urban Glass, Schiffer Art Book, 2000, p 62 illus.
STRECKER, Jim, The Cutting Edge in Crafts, The Boston Mill Press, 1999, p 116 -117 illus.
VAUDOUR, Catherine, L’art du verre contemporain, Armand Colin, Paris, 1993, p.131 illus.
KLEIN, Dan, Contemporary Glass, Collins Edition, 1989, USA p 195
SELECTED CATALOGUES
Cahiers métiers d’art – Craft Journal, Volume 8 number 1, Fall 2015, The Establishment of Espace Verre’s Educational program, Essay by Bruno Andrus
Musée de Lachine, LIGNES, 2010 , Curatorial Essay by Pascale Beaudet
Canadian Clay and Glass Galllery, GLASS FACTOR, Luminaries in the Canadian Art Glass Scene, 2010, Curatorial Essay by Christian Bernard Singer
Canadian Craft Federation, UNITY AND DIVERSITY, Crafting a Canadian Narrative, 2009, Curatorial Essay by Sandra Alfoldy
Design House, NOUVEL OBJET VI ( NO catalogue) Artists from around the world, 2001, Seoul, Korea
Galerie Elena Lee, SUSAN EDGERLEY Seed Sowers, 2001 and SUSAN EDGERLEY Scarecrows, 1991
Lowe Art Museum, TAKING FORM IN GLASS, Contemporary Works from the Palley Collection, 2000, University of Miami
Art Gallery of Peterborough, TO THE CORE, Donefer, Edgerley, Frolic, 1999, John Armstrong and Rosalyn Morrison
Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, MOVING THE SPIRIT, Inaugural Exhibition, Alan Elder curator 1993
GRANTS
2014
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant
2013
Canada Council for the Arts, Type A Grant
2000
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bourse de Recherche et de Création
1991
Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec MCCQ
1989
MCCQ, Perfectionnement a l’étranger, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, New York
1985
Ontario Arts Council