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Education
Master of Fine Art, University of Regina, Saskatchewan 1994
University of Guelph, Art History undergraduate courses 1990
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Special Student, Graduate Studies, Ceramics 1985
AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON, General Studies Program, Honours 1983
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of Visual Art, University of Regina 2009- present
Acting Associate Dean, Undergrad, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance 2016 01-06
Acting Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, SK 2009 04-06
Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, SK 2004/09 – 2009/06
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art, U of Regina 2000-2007
Head, Department of Visual Arts, U of R (1/01- 6/01 Acting) 2001-06/2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, U of Regina 1994/07-2000
Red Deer College, Alberta, Instructor; Ceramics and Visual Communication 1994 01-06
Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions (2 person noted)
Tend, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2021
Conservatory, Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK, 2010
Tokoname Kiln Installation, Koyegama Gallery, Tokoname, Japan, 2010
Temporary Adornment, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo ON, 2008
Through the Skin, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, 2006
Giardino Segreto, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estevan, SK, 2002
Breathing Room The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, (Two person with Karilee Fulgem) 2001
Beneath the Skin, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 2001
Pneuma, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, 2000
Pneuma, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1998
Interior Material, Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo, Ontario, 1997
Interior Material, ArtSpace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, 1997
FirePlay/Pause, Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario, 1995
Another Science Experiment, Gallery 111, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1995
What are people going to do when they get here? The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, AB, 1994
Inside Outside, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1994
FirePlay, Indoor installation, The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta,1994
Seventy-Five Circles, Latitude 53 Gallery, with Fireworks "94, Edmonton International Ceramics Seminar, indoor lobby installation, Alberta 1994
FirePlay, indoor Installation, Red Deer College, Alberta, 1994
20 Vessels, 179 Circles, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1992
Selected Group Exhibitions
About Blooming Time: The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff Alberta, spring 2022
The Ceramics Congress Canada Exhibition: The Ceramics Congress, online international conference 05/27/2021 to12/31/2021
Considered Intent: Intent 1 (3 person), Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 2021
Various Gallery Artists Exhibitions, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2014 to present
“… And Victory Goes to the Flowers” one of 3 featured artists, part of the Banff Gallery Hop – Easter, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2019
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Art Gallery of Thunder Bay, 2016
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, University of Manitoba, 2015
The Cup, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2014
Big Clay, Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2013/14
The Makings IV, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2013One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Alberta College of Art and Design, 2013
The Synthetic Age: Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2012
Critical Faculties, First Nations University Art Gallery, Regina, 2012
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, 5th Parallel Gallery, Uof R, 2012
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Gallery 111, Uof Manitoba, 2011
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Red Deer College, 2010
Mobile Structures: Dialogues between Ceramic and Architecture in Canadian Art Surrey Art Gallery, BC and MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2007
Historica Florisima, Prince Albert Art Gallery and Estevan Art Gallery (4 person), 2006
Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 2006
Fire and Earth: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, Virtual Museum of Canada: www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Fire_Earth/en/main.html, 2003/04
Changing Times, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2000
Fire and Earth: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, (touring) Burlington Art Centre, ON, 1997; Itabushi Art Museum, Tokyo, 1998; Mackenzie Art Gallery, SK, 2001; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2002
Canadian Clay Currents, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, New York, during NCECA, 1996
Res Ipsa Loquitur, the act speaks for itself, 5th Parallel Gallery, U. of Regina, 1995
International Artists in Residence Red Deer College, The Works Festival, Edmonton Alberta
Recent Acquisitions, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON, 1994
Metal-Urges, CMS Metal Yard Project,sponsored by Neutral Ground, Regina, 1993
Professor's Choice, Galerie Barbara Silverberg Contemp. Ceramics, Montreal, 1993
National Biennale of Ceramics, Galerie d'art du Parc, Trois Rivieres, PQ, touring, 1992
Ontario Craft 91, Chalmers Gallery, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, 1991
National Biennale of Ceramics, Gallery d'art du Parc, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, 1990
Fireworks 1990, Ontario Clay and Glass Association traveling exhibition, 1990
Selected Writings
Meeting the Moment: Fertile Disruptions, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Journal (NCECA) 2022
Re-Negotiating Materiality: Craft Knowledge and Contemporary Art (co-editor with Mireille Perron) in RACAR Vol. 42 No. 1 (2017)
Ceramics Installation: Towards a Self-Definition in The Ceramics Reader, eds. Kevin Petrie and Andrew Livingstone (Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2017) 227-232.
Messing with Making and Meaning in Current Craft Media in Cahiers métiers d'art ::: Craft Journal 2015
Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice. (co-editor with Gogarty, Amy and Perron, Mirielle) Ronsdale Press 2007.
Ceramics Installation: Towards a Self-Definition. Ceramics Art and Perception. 65 (Sept-Nov 2006): 81-87
Approaching Zero: artist's bookwork/exhibition catalogue, co-editor and contributor, 2006
Review of Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making edited by Timothy Long, Galleries West, 2006
Review of The Garden of Art: Victor Cicansky Sculptor by Don Kerr, Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 1 (winter 2006)
Giardino Segreto in anthology Craft Perception and Practice II Ronsdale Press, 11-14, 2005.
Collecting Ceramics: four Regina practices (catalogue essay) Cumberland Gallery Regina, 2005.
Therese Chabot: Odyssee exhibition catalogue essay for Estevan Art Gallery, 2004.
Artist's statement: Giardino Segreto, Estevan Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2003.
Interior Material, Contact, No. ll0 Autumn 97, p. 23-25.
Women Artists Working in Ceramics in Saskatchewan, CARFAC SK Newsletter, Oct 93
Conferences, Lectures, Workshops, and Artist’s Talks
2022 Panel Chair, Meeting the Moments: Fertile Disruptions, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Sacramento, remote
2021 Artist’s Workshop, Silt Studio, Regina
2021 Panelist, Absence, Presence and the New Normal, remote panel, Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City) and the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina. Paper delivered: Absence and Presence in “Tend”
2021 Art Gallery Of Regina, on-line workshop, for Tend exhibition
2020 Panel Co-Chair Making Assertions through Craft Practice, University Art Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, (remote)
2019 Panel Co-Chair Domestic Encodings, University Art Association Conference, Quebec, PQ
2018 Artist’s Talk, Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
2018 Artist’s Talk, Art for Lunch, University of Regina
2017 Panel Chair, The Openness of Craft, Complexity in Current Practices, Canadian Craft Biennial, Toronto and Burlington, ON
2017 Panel Co-Chair, Performative Craft, University Art Association Conference, Banff, AB
2016 Panel Co-chair, Making Knowledge: Craft and the Digital, University Art Association Conference, Montreal
2015 Lecture, Messing with Making and Meaning in Current Craft Media Based Practices, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts Lecture Series
2014 Panel Co-chair, Transitional Craft: Reinvention and Mutation, University Art Association Conference, Toronto, ON
2013 Panelist, Making Meaning in Current Craft Media Based Practices, for session The Question of Making, University Art Association Conference, Banff, AB
2011 Panelist, Tactile Desires: The Work of Jack Sures, Lasting Impacts, Mackenzie Art Gallery
2011 Lecture, Tokoname Ceramics: The Phenomenon of the Pottery Path, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts Lecture Series
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits as guest artist, Brandon University
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture University of Manitoba
2006 Panelist, Inner Imensities: Ceramics and Place, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Portland Oregon
Visiting Artist Lecture, Mackenzie Art Gallery
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Public Lecture: Utopic Imulses, North West Ceramics Foundation, Vancouver
2003 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits as guest artist, Concordia University
Talk and workshop on Art and Science Little Gallery, Prince Albert, SK
2002 Session Co-chair Craft in the Expanded Field University Art Association Conference, University of Calgary and Alberta College of Art and Design
Paper delivered Ceramic Installation: Approaching an Uneasy Hybrid University Art Association Conference, University of Calgary and ACAD
Artist’s Talk, Estevan Exhibition Centre, Giardino Segreto
2001 Artist’s Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery Beneath the Skin
Panel member, Neutral Ground Artist’s Centre, Zero is Something
2000 Panelist, Hybrids, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Artist’s Talk, The Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
Panelist, Petri's Quadrille CARFAC Partners Symposium, Regina
Panelist, Changing Times Open Forum, organized by the Mackenzie Art Gallery at the U of Regina, Department of Visual Arts
Workshop and artist’s talk, Mackenzie Art Gallery, “Sundays at the Gallery”
Artist’s Talk, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Volunteer program
1998 Artist’s Talk, Pneuma, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1997 Artist’s Talk, Interior Material, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Moderator Intertextual Strategies and the Material Object, Dunlop Art Gallery.
1997 Artist’s Talk, Interior Material, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts
1997 “Interior Material”, Art Space, Peterborough, Ontario
1996 Symposium Guest Speaker, CARFAC, Living Well is the Best Revenge
1995 Artist’s Talk, Ace Art Artist Run Centre
1995 Artist’s Talk, Another Science Experiment, University of Winnipeg, School of the Arts
1995 Artist’s Talk, FirePlay/Pause, The Koffler Art Gallery, North York Ontario
1995 Artist's Talk, University of Regina, Visual Art Department
1995 Chair of Panel, Arriere-garde Criticality in Contemporary Ceramics and Fibre Practice, University Art Association Conference, University of Guelph, ON
Artists’ Residencies
2018 Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
2013/14 The Banff Centre, BAIR Extended (Banff Artist in Residence), Banff, AB
2010 Artist in Residence, Koyegama Studios, Tokoname, Japan, April/May
2009 The Banff Centre, Visual Artist in Residence, Banff, AB
1997 Peterborough Art Gallery, with Art Space Gallery and Trent University, ON
1995 Visiting Artist, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN
1995&94 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Thematic Visual Art Residencies, Banff, AB
1994 Red Deer College International Artists in Residence, Red Deer, AB
1984/83 Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho
1983/84 Harbourfront Craft Studio, Toronto, ON
Selected Grants and Awards
Saskatchewan Arts Board Creative Grant, 2014
Canada Council Project Grants, Fine Craft, 2010 + 06
Saskatchewan Arts Board travel grant, 2005
Canada Council Project Grant (for anthology on contemporary ceramics) 2004
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Regina, 2004
Saskatchewan Arts Board (for publication catalogue Collecting Ceramics) 2004
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (anthology on contemporary ceramics) 2003
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Regina, 2002
University of Regina, SSRCH General Research Grant, 2002
Canada Council Grant for Artist's Collectives (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 2000
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (Petri’s Quadrille Artist’s Collective) 2000
University of Regina: Faculty of Fine Arts Dean’s Special Project Fund, Faculty of Science, Office of the VP Research, and Transdisciplinary Fund, (for Petri's Quadrille) 2000
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 1998
Canada Council Grant for Artist's Collectives (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 1997
The Banff Centre for the Arts, (Visual Art Residency) 1995
The Banff Centre for the Arts, (Visual Art Residency) 1994
University of Regina, General Research SSHRC Grant 1994
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Visual Arts, B Grant 1994
Selected Bibliography
The Ceramics Congress Canada Exhibition, Online Group Exhibition catalogue, 2021 https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/6232291/catalog
Tend, Online Solo Exhibition catalogue with essay by Julia Krueger, 2021 https://8fd0663e-541f-46d2-970d-3a33d1a01bf7.filesusr.com/ugd/d8079a_7039e10f4bc145e290435eed016c8e8f.pdf
MacPherson, Jera. Ruth Chambers, Botanical portraits in porcelain made stem by stem. Galleries West, March 12, 2021, https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/ruth-chambers/
Martin, Ashley. Ruth Chambers' porcelain plants a reminder that nothing lasts forever. Regina Leader-Post, Feb 25, 2021, https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/local-arts/ruth-chambers-porcelain-plants-a-reminder-that-nothing-lasts-forever
dovell, brayden. Artist profile: Ruth Chambers. The Carillon, Regina, Feb 25, 2021, https://www.carillonregina.com/artist-profile-ruth-chambers/
Beatty, Greg. Petals in Winter. The Prairie Dog, Regina, March 11, 2021, https://prairiedogmag.com/2021-03-11/petals-in-winter/
Long, Timothy and King, Stephen. The Vaults. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013. 74-75.
Alfoldy, Sandra. The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada. Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s University Press, 2012. 126-129.
Eichhorn, Virginia, “Ruth Chambers: ‘esprit alchimique/Ruth Chambers: the Alchemicla Mind.” Cahiers Metiers d’art: Craft Journal. Vol 3 No.1(Fall 2009): 24 -50.
Approaching Zero, Petri’s Quadrille Artist’s Collective bookwork and catalogue, 2006
Barry Byrne, Brenda. Mapping Paradise. Craft Perception and Practice II Ronsdale Press, 2005
Kokinos, Penelope. “Radiant: Installations by Ruth Chambers.” Fusion. 28.1 (winter 2004): 18-19
Breathing Room The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Giardino Segreto, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Gogary, Amy, “Ruth Chambers: Beneath the Skin.’ The Craft Factor. 26.2 (Winter 02): 9-11.
Mary-Beth Laviolette. “What’s in Cat Litter Box May Get Under Your Skin” in Calgary Herald, June 30, 2001: 8.
Anderson, Jack. “Works go beyond fixed walls of gallery” in Leader Post, October 19, 2001: A10.
Beatty, Greg. “Nada, Zip, Zilch, Diddly-Squat” in Prairie Dog, November 1, 2001: 20, 24.
“Pertri’s Quadrille: Searching for the answer to 1-1=?” in U of R Report. November 9, 01
Peterson, Susan. Contemporary Ceramics. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. 25,165.
Shinhat, Molly, “Organic Materials and Forbidden Territory” in Ottawa x Press, Mar 2, 2000:13.
Warland, Betsy. Coming to Light. Catalogue essay for Pneuma (Mendel Art Gallery) 1999.
Legris, Silvia. "Suspended Memory, Suspended Breath." Border Crossings. Spring 1999.
Anderson, Jack. "Where Science Meets Art." The Leader-Post, Regina. March 4, 1998.
Anderson, Jack. The Blue Show. (Regina: Rosemont Art Gallery, 1998).
"Interior Material." Mix. Vol 22.4. (Spring 97) 24.
Fukuda, Saori: Ozaki, Masato; Sasaki, Eriko. Fire and Earth: Contemporary Ceramics, catalogue Tokyo: Itabushi Art Museum, 1998: 27, 79.
Dahle, Sigrid. "Boundry Breaker." Border Crossings. 15.1 (Winter 96): 52-54.
Sullivan, Diane. "NCECA; Canadian Clay Currents." Contact. (Summer 96) 36-37.
Beatty, Greg. "Inside Outside." Espace. (Spring 1995): 25-28.
Miller, Earl. FirePlay/Pause. Catalogue (North York: Koffler Art Gallery, 1995).
Gudrin, Kliz. "Residency in Red Deer." Ceramics: Art and Perception. 20, (1995).
Beatty, Greg "Installing Difference." The Craft Factor. 17.3 (Winter 1992):18-20.
Public Collections
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Nickle Arts Museum/Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario
Online Video Documentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeliFdi3xbI
Video tour guided by the artist in conversation with Art Gallery of Regina curator Sandee Moore of solo exhibition "Tend" exhibited at the Art Gallery of Regina from February 5 to April 11, 2021
Selected Artist Collective Activities and Collaborations
The Manufacture of Zero, Petri's Quadrille Artist Collective, Regina, 2002
Untitled, Non-fiction, in Zero is Something, Petri's Quadrille, Buzzword Bks, Regina, SK, 2001
Math is a Garden, part of Doorway Zero, Petri's Quadrille, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK, 2001
Doorway Zero, Petri's Quadrille Artist Collective, AKA, Saskatoon, SK, 2000
Co-curating and co-producing, Petri's Quadrille; Superposition: the Art and Science Fair, 1997/98
Additional Professional Experience
2004 Curated Exhibition. Collecting Ceramics: four Regina practices Cumberland Gallery, Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina, SK
2002-2003 CARFAC mentor for visual artist Judy McNaughton
1997-2002 Founding and active member, Petrie's Quadrille Artists Collective
1993-1997 Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Chair, Board of Directors (95-97)
Education
Master of Fine Art, University of Regina, Saskatchewan 1994
University of Guelph, Art History undergraduate courses 1990
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Special Student, Graduate Studies, Ceramics 1985
AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON, General Studies Program, Honours 1983
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of Visual Art, University of Regina 2009- present
Acting Associate Dean, Undergrad, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance 2016 01-06
Acting Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, SK 2009 04-06
Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, SK 2004/09 – 2009/06
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art, U of Regina 2000-2007
Head, Department of Visual Arts, U of R (1/01- 6/01 Acting) 2001-06/2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, U of Regina 1994/07-2000
Red Deer College, Alberta, Instructor; Ceramics and Visual Communication 1994 01-06
Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions (2 person noted)
Tend, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2021
Conservatory, Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK, 2010
Tokoname Kiln Installation, Koyegama Gallery, Tokoname, Japan, 2010
Temporary Adornment, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo ON, 2008
Through the Skin, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, 2006
Giardino Segreto, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estevan, SK, 2002
Breathing Room The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, (Two person with Karilee Fulgem) 2001
Beneath the Skin, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 2001
Pneuma, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, 2000
Pneuma, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1998
Interior Material, Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo, Ontario, 1997
Interior Material, ArtSpace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, 1997
FirePlay/Pause, Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario, 1995
Another Science Experiment, Gallery 111, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1995
What are people going to do when they get here? The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, AB, 1994
Inside Outside, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1994
FirePlay, Indoor installation, The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta,1994
Seventy-Five Circles, Latitude 53 Gallery, with Fireworks "94, Edmonton International Ceramics Seminar, indoor lobby installation, Alberta 1994
FirePlay, indoor Installation, Red Deer College, Alberta, 1994
20 Vessels, 179 Circles, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1992
Selected Group Exhibitions
About Blooming Time: The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff Alberta, spring 2022
The Ceramics Congress Canada Exhibition: The Ceramics Congress, online international conference 05/27/2021 to12/31/2021
Considered Intent: Intent 1 (3 person), Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 2021
Various Gallery Artists Exhibitions, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2014 to present
“… And Victory Goes to the Flowers” one of 3 featured artists, part of the Banff Gallery Hop – Easter, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2019
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Art Gallery of Thunder Bay, 2016
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, University of Manitoba, 2015
The Cup, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2014
Big Clay, Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2013/14
The Makings IV, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB, 2013One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Alberta College of Art and Design, 2013
The Synthetic Age: Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2012
Critical Faculties, First Nations University Art Gallery, Regina, 2012
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, 5th Parallel Gallery, Uof R, 2012
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Gallery 111, Uof Manitoba, 2011
One Thousand Miles Apart, conference exhibition, Red Deer College, 2010
Mobile Structures: Dialogues between Ceramic and Architecture in Canadian Art Surrey Art Gallery, BC and MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2007
Historica Florisima, Prince Albert Art Gallery and Estevan Art Gallery (4 person), 2006
Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 2006
Fire and Earth: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, Virtual Museum of Canada: www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Fire_Earth/en/main.html, 2003/04
Changing Times, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 2000
Fire and Earth: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, (touring) Burlington Art Centre, ON, 1997; Itabushi Art Museum, Tokyo, 1998; Mackenzie Art Gallery, SK, 2001; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2002
Canadian Clay Currents, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, New York, during NCECA, 1996
Res Ipsa Loquitur, the act speaks for itself, 5th Parallel Gallery, U. of Regina, 1995
International Artists in Residence Red Deer College, The Works Festival, Edmonton Alberta
Recent Acquisitions, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON, 1994
Metal-Urges, CMS Metal Yard Project,sponsored by Neutral Ground, Regina, 1993
Professor's Choice, Galerie Barbara Silverberg Contemp. Ceramics, Montreal, 1993
National Biennale of Ceramics, Galerie d'art du Parc, Trois Rivieres, PQ, touring, 1992
Ontario Craft 91, Chalmers Gallery, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, 1991
National Biennale of Ceramics, Gallery d'art du Parc, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, 1990
Fireworks 1990, Ontario Clay and Glass Association traveling exhibition, 1990
Selected Writings
Meeting the Moment: Fertile Disruptions, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Journal (NCECA) 2022
Re-Negotiating Materiality: Craft Knowledge and Contemporary Art (co-editor with Mireille Perron) in RACAR Vol. 42 No. 1 (2017)
Ceramics Installation: Towards a Self-Definition in The Ceramics Reader, eds. Kevin Petrie and Andrew Livingstone (Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2017) 227-232.
Messing with Making and Meaning in Current Craft Media in Cahiers métiers d'art ::: Craft Journal 2015
Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice. (co-editor with Gogarty, Amy and Perron, Mirielle) Ronsdale Press 2007.
Ceramics Installation: Towards a Self-Definition. Ceramics Art and Perception. 65 (Sept-Nov 2006): 81-87
Approaching Zero: artist's bookwork/exhibition catalogue, co-editor and contributor, 2006
Review of Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making edited by Timothy Long, Galleries West, 2006
Review of The Garden of Art: Victor Cicansky Sculptor by Don Kerr, Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 26 No. 1 (winter 2006)
Giardino Segreto in anthology Craft Perception and Practice II Ronsdale Press, 11-14, 2005.
Collecting Ceramics: four Regina practices (catalogue essay) Cumberland Gallery Regina, 2005.
Therese Chabot: Odyssee exhibition catalogue essay for Estevan Art Gallery, 2004.
Artist's statement: Giardino Segreto, Estevan Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2003.
Interior Material, Contact, No. ll0 Autumn 97, p. 23-25.
Women Artists Working in Ceramics in Saskatchewan, CARFAC SK Newsletter, Oct 93
Conferences, Lectures, Workshops, and Artist’s Talks
2022 Panel Chair, Meeting the Moments: Fertile Disruptions, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Sacramento, remote
2021 Artist’s Workshop, Silt Studio, Regina
2021 Panelist, Absence, Presence and the New Normal, remote panel, Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City) and the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina. Paper delivered: Absence and Presence in “Tend”
2021 Art Gallery Of Regina, on-line workshop, for Tend exhibition
2020 Panel Co-Chair Making Assertions through Craft Practice, University Art Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, (remote)
2019 Panel Co-Chair Domestic Encodings, University Art Association Conference, Quebec, PQ
2018 Artist’s Talk, Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
2018 Artist’s Talk, Art for Lunch, University of Regina
2017 Panel Chair, The Openness of Craft, Complexity in Current Practices, Canadian Craft Biennial, Toronto and Burlington, ON
2017 Panel Co-Chair, Performative Craft, University Art Association Conference, Banff, AB
2016 Panel Co-chair, Making Knowledge: Craft and the Digital, University Art Association Conference, Montreal
2015 Lecture, Messing with Making and Meaning in Current Craft Media Based Practices, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts Lecture Series
2014 Panel Co-chair, Transitional Craft: Reinvention and Mutation, University Art Association Conference, Toronto, ON
2013 Panelist, Making Meaning in Current Craft Media Based Practices, for session The Question of Making, University Art Association Conference, Banff, AB
2011 Panelist, Tactile Desires: The Work of Jack Sures, Lasting Impacts, Mackenzie Art Gallery
2011 Lecture, Tokoname Ceramics: The Phenomenon of the Pottery Path, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts Lecture Series
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits as guest artist, Brandon University
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture University of Manitoba
2006 Panelist, Inner Imensities: Ceramics and Place, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Portland Oregon
Visiting Artist Lecture, Mackenzie Art Gallery
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Public Lecture: Utopic Imulses, North West Ceramics Foundation, Vancouver
2003 Visiting Artist Lecture and studio visits as guest artist, Concordia University
Talk and workshop on Art and Science Little Gallery, Prince Albert, SK
2002 Session Co-chair Craft in the Expanded Field University Art Association Conference, University of Calgary and Alberta College of Art and Design
Paper delivered Ceramic Installation: Approaching an Uneasy Hybrid University Art Association Conference, University of Calgary and ACAD
Artist’s Talk, Estevan Exhibition Centre, Giardino Segreto
2001 Artist’s Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery Beneath the Skin
Panel member, Neutral Ground Artist’s Centre, Zero is Something
2000 Panelist, Hybrids, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Artist’s Talk, The Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
Panelist, Petri's Quadrille CARFAC Partners Symposium, Regina
Panelist, Changing Times Open Forum, organized by the Mackenzie Art Gallery at the U of Regina, Department of Visual Arts
Workshop and artist’s talk, Mackenzie Art Gallery, “Sundays at the Gallery”
Artist’s Talk, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Volunteer program
1998 Artist’s Talk, Pneuma, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1997 Artist’s Talk, Interior Material, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Moderator Intertextual Strategies and the Material Object, Dunlop Art Gallery.
1997 Artist’s Talk, Interior Material, University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts
1997 “Interior Material”, Art Space, Peterborough, Ontario
1996 Symposium Guest Speaker, CARFAC, Living Well is the Best Revenge
1995 Artist’s Talk, Ace Art Artist Run Centre
1995 Artist’s Talk, Another Science Experiment, University of Winnipeg, School of the Arts
1995 Artist’s Talk, FirePlay/Pause, The Koffler Art Gallery, North York Ontario
1995 Artist's Talk, University of Regina, Visual Art Department
1995 Chair of Panel, Arriere-garde Criticality in Contemporary Ceramics and Fibre Practice, University Art Association Conference, University of Guelph, ON
Artists’ Residencies
2018 Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
2013/14 The Banff Centre, BAIR Extended (Banff Artist in Residence), Banff, AB
2010 Artist in Residence, Koyegama Studios, Tokoname, Japan, April/May
2009 The Banff Centre, Visual Artist in Residence, Banff, AB
1997 Peterborough Art Gallery, with Art Space Gallery and Trent University, ON
1995 Visiting Artist, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN
1995&94 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Thematic Visual Art Residencies, Banff, AB
1994 Red Deer College International Artists in Residence, Red Deer, AB
1984/83 Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho
1983/84 Harbourfront Craft Studio, Toronto, ON
Selected Grants and Awards
Saskatchewan Arts Board Creative Grant, 2014
Canada Council Project Grants, Fine Craft, 2010 + 06
Saskatchewan Arts Board travel grant, 2005
Canada Council Project Grant (for anthology on contemporary ceramics) 2004
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Regina, 2004
Saskatchewan Arts Board (for publication catalogue Collecting Ceramics) 2004
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (anthology on contemporary ceramics) 2003
Faculty of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Regina, 2002
University of Regina, SSRCH General Research Grant, 2002
Canada Council Grant for Artist's Collectives (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 2000
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (Petri’s Quadrille Artist’s Collective) 2000
University of Regina: Faculty of Fine Arts Dean’s Special Project Fund, Faculty of Science, Office of the VP Research, and Transdisciplinary Fund, (for Petri's Quadrille) 2000
Saskatchewan Arts Board project grant (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 1998
Canada Council Grant for Artist's Collectives (Petri's Quadrille Artist's Collective) 1997
The Banff Centre for the Arts, (Visual Art Residency) 1995
The Banff Centre for the Arts, (Visual Art Residency) 1994
University of Regina, General Research SSHRC Grant 1994
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Visual Arts, B Grant 1994
Selected Bibliography
The Ceramics Congress Canada Exhibition, Online Group Exhibition catalogue, 2021 https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/6232291/catalog
Tend, Online Solo Exhibition catalogue with essay by Julia Krueger, 2021 https://8fd0663e-541f-46d2-970d-3a33d1a01bf7.filesusr.com/ugd/d8079a_7039e10f4bc145e290435eed016c8e8f.pdf
MacPherson, Jera. Ruth Chambers, Botanical portraits in porcelain made stem by stem. Galleries West, March 12, 2021, https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/ruth-chambers/
Martin, Ashley. Ruth Chambers' porcelain plants a reminder that nothing lasts forever. Regina Leader-Post, Feb 25, 2021, https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/local-arts/ruth-chambers-porcelain-plants-a-reminder-that-nothing-lasts-forever
dovell, brayden. Artist profile: Ruth Chambers. The Carillon, Regina, Feb 25, 2021, https://www.carillonregina.com/artist-profile-ruth-chambers/
Beatty, Greg. Petals in Winter. The Prairie Dog, Regina, March 11, 2021, https://prairiedogmag.com/2021-03-11/petals-in-winter/
Long, Timothy and King, Stephen. The Vaults. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013. 74-75.
Alfoldy, Sandra. The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada. Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s University Press, 2012. 126-129.
Eichhorn, Virginia, “Ruth Chambers: ‘esprit alchimique/Ruth Chambers: the Alchemicla Mind.” Cahiers Metiers d’art: Craft Journal. Vol 3 No.1(Fall 2009): 24 -50.
Approaching Zero, Petri’s Quadrille Artist’s Collective bookwork and catalogue, 2006
Barry Byrne, Brenda. Mapping Paradise. Craft Perception and Practice II Ronsdale Press, 2005
Kokinos, Penelope. “Radiant: Installations by Ruth Chambers.” Fusion. 28.1 (winter 2004): 18-19
Breathing Room The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Giardino Segreto, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Gogary, Amy, “Ruth Chambers: Beneath the Skin.’ The Craft Factor. 26.2 (Winter 02): 9-11.
Mary-Beth Laviolette. “What’s in Cat Litter Box May Get Under Your Skin” in Calgary Herald, June 30, 2001: 8.
Anderson, Jack. “Works go beyond fixed walls of gallery” in Leader Post, October 19, 2001: A10.
Beatty, Greg. “Nada, Zip, Zilch, Diddly-Squat” in Prairie Dog, November 1, 2001: 20, 24.
“Pertri’s Quadrille: Searching for the answer to 1-1=?” in U of R Report. November 9, 01
Peterson, Susan. Contemporary Ceramics. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. 25,165.
Shinhat, Molly, “Organic Materials and Forbidden Territory” in Ottawa x Press, Mar 2, 2000:13.
Warland, Betsy. Coming to Light. Catalogue essay for Pneuma (Mendel Art Gallery) 1999.
Legris, Silvia. "Suspended Memory, Suspended Breath." Border Crossings. Spring 1999.
Anderson, Jack. "Where Science Meets Art." The Leader-Post, Regina. March 4, 1998.
Anderson, Jack. The Blue Show. (Regina: Rosemont Art Gallery, 1998).
"Interior Material." Mix. Vol 22.4. (Spring 97) 24.
Fukuda, Saori: Ozaki, Masato; Sasaki, Eriko. Fire and Earth: Contemporary Ceramics, catalogue Tokyo: Itabushi Art Museum, 1998: 27, 79.
Dahle, Sigrid. "Boundry Breaker." Border Crossings. 15.1 (Winter 96): 52-54.
Sullivan, Diane. "NCECA; Canadian Clay Currents." Contact. (Summer 96) 36-37.
Beatty, Greg. "Inside Outside." Espace. (Spring 1995): 25-28.
Miller, Earl. FirePlay/Pause. Catalogue (North York: Koffler Art Gallery, 1995).
Gudrin, Kliz. "Residency in Red Deer." Ceramics: Art and Perception. 20, (1995).
Beatty, Greg "Installing Difference." The Craft Factor. 17.3 (Winter 1992):18-20.
Public Collections
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Nickle Arts Museum/Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario
Online Video Documentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeliFdi3xbI
Video tour guided by the artist in conversation with Art Gallery of Regina curator Sandee Moore of solo exhibition "Tend" exhibited at the Art Gallery of Regina from February 5 to April 11, 2021
Selected Artist Collective Activities and Collaborations
The Manufacture of Zero, Petri's Quadrille Artist Collective, Regina, 2002
Untitled, Non-fiction, in Zero is Something, Petri's Quadrille, Buzzword Bks, Regina, SK, 2001
Math is a Garden, part of Doorway Zero, Petri's Quadrille, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK, 2001
Doorway Zero, Petri's Quadrille Artist Collective, AKA, Saskatoon, SK, 2000
Co-curating and co-producing, Petri's Quadrille; Superposition: the Art and Science Fair, 1997/98
Additional Professional Experience
2004 Curated Exhibition. Collecting Ceramics: four Regina practices Cumberland Gallery, Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina, SK
2002-2003 CARFAC mentor for visual artist Judy McNaughton
1997-2002 Founding and active member, Petrie's Quadrille Artists Collective
1993-1997 Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan, Chair, Board of Directors (95-97)
