Anthea Black
Studio / Artist Publishing / Writing + Books / Curating / Teaching
Biography
Anthea Black (b. 1981) is a Canadian artist, art publisher, and curator based in San Francisco and Toronto. Her studio work takes the form of prints, limited edition publications, artist-books, drawing, and textiles, to address feminist and queer histories, materiality, and archives. Black has exhibited in Canada, the US, Korea, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Norway, and her artist publishing work is represented in over 60 libraries and galleries.
Black’s curatorial projects include The Embodied Press: Queer Abstraction and the Artist’s Book, No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen, PLEASURE CRAFT, and SUPER STRING and she has held roles at Stride Gallery, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, and Art Gallery of Alberta. She writes on contemporary art, craft, and performance and is co-editor of two books, The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design and HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education. Her third book, The Embodied Press focuses on artist’s books by queer and transgender artists from the 1950s to today.
Black has been awarded research and creation grants from Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Centre for Craft, and residencies from Banff Centre, Canada; Small Projects, Norway; Anima Casa, Mexico; Van Abbe Museum, Netherlands; and In Cahoots, California.
Black is an Associate Professor of Printmedia, Craft, and Graduate Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, and the Yozo Hamaguchi endowed Curator of Printmedia.
Black’s curatorial projects include The Embodied Press: Queer Abstraction and the Artist’s Book, No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen, PLEASURE CRAFT, and SUPER STRING and she has held roles at Stride Gallery, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, and Art Gallery of Alberta. She writes on contemporary art, craft, and performance and is co-editor of two books, The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design and HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education. Her third book, The Embodied Press focuses on artist’s books by queer and transgender artists from the 1950s to today.
Black has been awarded research and creation grants from Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Centre for Craft, and residencies from Banff Centre, Canada; Small Projects, Norway; Anima Casa, Mexico; Van Abbe Museum, Netherlands; and In Cahoots, California.
Black is an Associate Professor of Printmedia, Craft, and Graduate Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, and the Yozo Hamaguchi endowed Curator of Printmedia.