Christian Singer

Christian Bernard Singer is an artist and independent curator. Formerly Senior Curator of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and Chief Curator of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Singer has curated nearly 100 exhibitions of national and international artists, including three major retrospectives. Before this, he was Director of the 2005 Contemporary Art Forum – Kitchener & Area (CAFKA), Curator and Associate Director of Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art until he co-founded Rouge Contemporary Art Projects where he remained as Director and Curator until 2009, bringing Judy Chicago: A Survey of Important Works (curated by Virginia Eichhorn) – the first large-scale survey exhibition for Chicago ever to come to Canada.

His writings about art have been published internationally and he has lectured throughout Canada and the United States. Singer taught sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) and the Toronto School of Art. He is currently Chair of Galeries-Ontario-Galleries (GOG).

In his own work, Singer incorporates mosses, pine needles and other organic materials with glass, clay, bronze, found objects, and video to create eco-installation-environments, land art works and sculptures that explore consciousness, place, and time-passing. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Canada, the United States, and elsewhere. His work has been published in 20 catalogues and books.