Curriculum Vitae - Bettina Matzkuhn
Education
2005 MA Graduate Liberal Studies, Simon Fraser University.
2000 BFA Visual Arts, Simon Fraser University.
Selected Solo Shows
2025 Gear Mississippi Valley Textile Museum curated
2023 Carrying Water Craft Council of BC Gallery
Meteo-Botany Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC, curated
2022 Gear Orleans Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, Orléans ON.
On Foot Qathet Art Gallery, Powell River, BC
Gear Langham Centre, Kaslo, BC curated
2020 Two Coasts Newfoundland Craft Council Gallery, St John’s NL curated
2018 An Extended Outlook ACT Gallery, Maple Ridge BC, curated
2013 Sail Grand Forks Art Gallery, BC curated
2011 Mappa Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, curated
2007 Navigating, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver.
2006 Arboreal Eros, Crafthouse Gallery
2004 Inundation Campbell River Art Gallery
Inundation Kootenay Gallery of Art, History and Science
2003 Inundation Richmond Art Gallery, Curated
2001 The Sewing Machine Story Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse curated
Selected Group Shows
2025 Dawn Le Biennale du Lin, Portneuf, QC, invitational.
Solastalgia The Muse: Douglas Family Art Centre, Kenora ON curated
Walking Alongside Trauma, Craft Council BC/McGill University project – first exhibition Douglas College, New Westminster, BC curated
Habitar el Norte Museo Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara; Museo de arte contemporáneo, Quérétaro;
Early 2026: Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City. Curated by Occurrence espace d'art et d'essai contemporains (Montréal)
Langages Textile; Les Pensées Tissée La Guilde, Montreal.
Exploring Stitch The Silk Weaving Studio, Vancouver, BC
2024 The Grand National: An Exhibition of Canadian Quilt and Fibre Art, travelling
“An Evolving Aesthetics of Interruption” Vancouver Iranian Visual Arts Alliance, Roundhouse, curated
2023 Passing Through (3-person) Gallery 501 Sherwood Park, AB curated
2022 The Drawn and Crafted Object Craft Council of BC Gallery, Vancouver curated
Mercy Mercy Me, Pendulum Gallery, curated
2021 A Practice in Gestures Richmond Art Gallery, curated
The Tip of the Iceberg 2 Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC curated
2020 Personal and Material Geographies, Italian Cultural Centre Vancouver, curated
Mass Wasting Craft Ontario Gallery curated
Fibreworks 2020 Cambridge Art Gallery national exhibition
2018 Lost Thread Touchstones Gallery Nelson BC curated
Connecting Threads Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC curated
Memory Landscape Art Gallery of Grande Prairie AB curated
Women’s Work Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver BC curated
2017 Connections Craft Council of BC Gallery
Can Craft? Craft Can! Canadian Craft Biennial, Burlington Art Gallery ON
Weatherwise/Otherwise Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA curated
2016 The Inhabited Landscape – 2 person – Alberta Craft Council Gallery, Edmonton
2014 cARTography Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn N.Y.
2013 Boxed In! The Rooms, St John’s NFLD, curated
Invested 40 Craft Council of BC. Pendulum Gallery Vancouver curated
2010 Mappings: Departure Points Nanaimo Art Gallery 2-person show curated
2009 Contenant/Contenu Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, PQ
2007 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
Selected Bibliography
Charlie Smith “Bettina Matzkuhn Embroiders” Pancouver, Jan 28/24 online.
Jane Audas “Meteobotany” Embroidery (UK) January/February 2024
M. Spaans “De Gewonde Gletsjers van Bettina Matzkuhn” Textiel Plus, Holland 2023.
Nastassja Noel “Lichen Artists and Artistic Lichenologists: Becoming What We Attend To” Evansia, October 2023.
Jenny Penberthy “On A Practice in Gestures” Capilano Review Feb 2022
Amy Gogarty “A Practice of Gesture” Galleries West, Sept 2021
Anne Kelly, Textile Travels, Batsford Publishing, 2020
Abi Hayward, “Eye of the Needle”, The Walrus, September/October 2020
Angela Clarke, “Women’s Work” Reflections on the History of Women in Textile” exhibition essay, 2018
Portia Pregert “A Stitch in Time” Galleries West Summer 2016
Leanne Prain “Strange Material: Storytelling Through Textile,” 2014
Catalogue Essays
2017 Contemporary Craft and the Ethic of Sustainability Canadian Craft Biennial, Art Gallery of Burlington, ON, Amy Gogarty
2013 Invested 40 Craft Council of BC. Pendulum Gallery Vancouver, Dr S. Alfoldy
2010 Mappings: Departure Points Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC, Gregory Ball
2008 Bettina Matzkuhn: The Magic Quilt Surrey Art Gallery Open Book, Amy Gogarty
Selected Published Writing
“Carry the Land” Sharp Notions: Essays on the Stitching Life Nancy Lee and Marita Dachsel eds., Arsenal Pulp Press 2023
“The Drawn and Crafted Object” Craft Council of BC blog. 2022
“Amy Gogarty - Ceramic sculptures examine consumption, waste and global trade” Galleries West July 11,2022
“Nature’s Clothesline” Galleries West, January 14, 2021
“Glaciers Give Us So Much More Than Fresh Water” Discover Magazine Volume 47, Nature Vancouver, 2019
“Glaciers Give Us So Much More Than Fresh Water” Toronto Globe and Mail May 2019
“Embroidered Meteorology” Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal, 2017 http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol2/iss2/11
“Curious” (Jane Kidd exhibition review) Cahiers métiers d’art/Craft Journal, Volume 8, No 2, Fall 2016
Collections
UBC Rare Books/Special Collections
Western University, Weldon Library Map and Data Centre, London ON (multiple works)
Burnaby Public Library, Tommy Douglas Branch, Burnaby BC
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C (multiple works).
Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON
private collections.
Grants
2024 Travel Grant, Canada Council
2022 Project Assistance Grant, B.C. Arts Council
2020 Research and Creation grant, Canada Council
2019 Travel Grant, Canada Council
2018 Project Assistance Grant, B.C. Arts Council
2017 Travel Grant, Canada Council
2015 Project Assistance Grant, B.C. Arts Council,
2010 Professional Development Grant, B.C. Arts Council
2006 Level II visual arts grant, B.C. Arts Council
Teaching
2006-2014 - Sessional instructor, Pattern: Textile and Beyond (third-year Humanities),
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
I have taught workshops across Canada.
Selected Professional Activities
2024 Artist in residence at Kluane National Park: residency partners Yukon Arts Centre, Arctic Institute of North America, Kluane Research Station
Presenter Femeeting, Women in Art, Science and Technology, Windsor ON
2023 Cameo on CBC’s Planet Wonder episode 7, Season 1.
Invited to Canadian delegation to visit studios in Taiwan. ACSEA
2020-25 Chair, Awards Committee, Craft Council of BC
2021-25 Board member Canadian Craft Federation, Awards and Advocacy Cmts
2019 Canadian Wilderness Artist Residency, Yukon
2010-2020 Board member, president 2016-19, Craft Council of BC
2018 Steering Committee, Textile Society of America Symposium
2015 Artist in residence at Gros Morne National Park, NL
2013 Public Salon http://globalcivic.org/public-salons/past-public-salons/
2010 – 2016 Regional Editorial Committee, Studio Magazine
2006, 2012, 2016 Presenter at The Textile Society of America symposia