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CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Present occupation: Visual artist, Art teacher, owner of Focus on the Figure Art School, Victoria, BC.

E-mail: eva@evacampbell.ca     Tel: (250) 858-0499     Web pages: http://www.evacampbell.ca

EDUCATION

University of Victoria, Canada
Department of Visual Arts
M.F.A. 1994
              
University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Department of African Art
M.A. African Art History, 1992

University of Science and Technology, Ghana
College of Art
B.A. (First Class Honors), 1988

SELECTED ART Exhibitions

• SOLO         

2009       Encounters, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC
2008      The Figure, Morningside Gallery, Barbados, West Indies
2007      People, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC
2006      Private View, private residence, Victoria, BC
2006      Art for Black History Month, Victoria, BC
2005      Eva Campbell: Black Being/Body and Beyond: A Thirteen Year Retrospective,
              Maltwood Gallery and Museum, Victoria, BC
1997      Paintings, Ministry of Health, Victoria, BC
1997      Eva Campbell, Paintings, X-Changes Gallery, Victoria, BC
1996      Artworks, Rogue Gallery, Victoria, BC
1994      Recent Works II, Department of Visual arts, UVic. Victoria, BC
1992      Provoking Thoughts, British Council, Accra, Ghana
1989      The Humanistic Tradition, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana

• GROUP

2009      LOOK Show, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2008      Visual Perspectives, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
2007      Between Memory, Lancaster Great House, Barbados, West Indies
2007      The Mind’s Eye, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
2006      Square: Small Works Art Show, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
2006      Looking In, Looking Out, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
2006      The National Portrait, Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists Exhibition, Red Deer, Alberta
2006      LOOK Show, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2005      Sidney Arts, City of Sidney, BC
1999 - 2009   Moss Street Paint-In, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
2005      New Works, Rage Studios, Victoria, BC
2004      Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists Exhibition, Masters Gallery, Calgary, AB
2000      To Remain at a Distance, Open Space, Victoria, BC
1999       Southern Images, Market Square, Victoria, BC
1997      Latin-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Market Square, Victoria, BC
1996      Reconfiguring Cultural Identity, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1996      The Flesh, Victoria, BC
1994      Royal Overseas League Exhibition, London, England, UK
1994      Royal Overseas League Traveling Exhibition, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1993      ARTROPOLIS, Vancouver, BC
1992      Women in Art, Theatre Inconnu, Victoria, BC
1992      Women Artists, Ceres Gallery, New York, USA
1992      Shell in the Arts, Accra, Ghana
1991      Women Artists of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana

RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

British Columbia Arts Council

• Artists Production Grant for visual arts project “Where is my Beautiful British Columbia?” which investigated the changing  positions of the Black Diaspora in British Columbia 2006-2007

Intercultural Association, Cinevic, Canada Council and the Anti-Racism Commission of the Ministry of the Attorney General, British Columbia

• Film-makers grant for directing, writing and editing short film “Routes” about a Caribbean artist searching for her Caribbean-Canadian roots in British Columbia 2006

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

• Elizabeth Greenshields Award, 1992
• Elizabeth Greenshields Award, 1993

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

• The Peoples’ Choice Award, 2003

WRITING ABOUT THE ARTIST

• Allison Thompson, New Networks: Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, Tate Liverpool Symposium, Liverpool Biennial, October 2007

• Khalil Goodman, “18 art tutors to showcase work in upcoming art show” The Barbados Advocate, November 11, 2007.

• Patrick Blennerhassett, “Films examine racism” Victoria News, March 22 2006.

• Linda Rogers, “Artist Paints the City Red” Focus Magazine, February, 2007.

• Wendy Welch, “Getting Physical: Local artist Eva Campbell challenges our visual perceptions”, Monday Magazine, July 14-20, 2005.

• Robyn Swanson, “Artist’s subjects a reflection of herself on canvas,” Victoria News, Wednesday, July 20, 2005.

• Robert Amos, “Artist revels in the purity of color and form,” Times Colonist, July 14, 2005

• Astri Wright, Eva Campbell: Black Being/Body and Beyond: A thirteen year retrospective, Maltwood Museum and Art Gallery, Victoria, 2005