Charmian Johnson – CV

Charmian Johnson
b. 1939, Pouce Coupe, British Columbia, Canada
d. 2020, Vancouver, Canada

Education

  • 1966 Bachelor of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021 Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2002 Charmian Johnson and Ron David, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1989 Flora: Drawings by Charmian Johnson, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1987 The Gargoyle Factory Does Not Often Appear, Terra Cotta Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1985 An Exhibition of 99 Bowls by Charmian Johnson, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2023 The Willful Plot, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2018 Nature, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2004 Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2003 Genius Loci, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Canada
  • 2002 Tenmoku: Iron Rich Glazes in Canadian Use, Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo, Canada
  • 2001 The Chosen Ones, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Canada
  • 1999 All About Blue: The Colour that Changed the World, Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada
    Exhibition of Botanical Art, American Association of Horticulturalists and Botanical Gardeners, Hotel Vancouver Ballroom, Vancouver, Canada
    Efflorescence I, Clay and Glass, The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1998 Made by Hand Silver Edition 1998, Craft Association of British Columbia, The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1997 The Canadian Collection, A.P.E.C. Conference, Government of Canada, Vancouver, BC
  • 1995 World Tea Party, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
  • 1994 The Grass Menagerie, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
    The Taste of Several Times, The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
    Botanical Art ’94, University of British Columbia Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, Canada
    Go Figure, The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1993 Jugs, Pitchers, Dippers, and Metaphors, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1991 Contemporary BC Pottery, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
    Choosing Clay, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
    Botanical Art ’91, University of British Columbia Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1989 Johnson, Sivet, Grant, Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Montreal, Canada
  • 1988 Working Through the Grey Scale, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
    Tea Anyone, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, Canada
  • 1983 Sensibilities: Unexpected Multicultural Harmonies, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1979 Planate Occidentalis: 200 Years of Botanical Art in British Columbia, University of British Columbia Botanical Society, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada; Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada; BC Provincial Museum, Victoria, Canada

Books and Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2011 Scott Watson, ed., Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprenctices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2002 Glenn Allison, ‘With Regard to Charmian Johnson and her Bowls’, in Craft, Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse, Volume 1, ed. Paula Gustafson, Ronsdale Press, Artichoke Publishing, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1998 Carol E. Mayer, Made of Clay, Ceramics of British Columbia, Potters’ Guild of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Made by Hand Silver Edition, 1998, Craft Association of British Columbia, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1997 Eber Rice, ed., The Canadian Collection at A.P.E.C. ’97, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1996 Melanie Gold and Rob Kruyt, Great Work! An Overview of Contemporary British Columbia Artists, Melanie Gold Artadvisory, Vancouver, Canada
  • 1979 Maria Newberry House and Susan Munro, Plantae Occidentalis: 200 years of Botanical Art in British Columbia, Botanical Garden, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Magazines and Periodicals

  • 2023 Jay Pahre, ‘Works from the Collection: Charmian Johnson’, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 8 February
  • 2021 Amy Gogarty, ‘Charmian Johnson’, Galleries West, 9 June
  • 2020 Amy Gogarty, ‘Charmian Johnson, 1939–2020’, Potter’s Guild of BC, 6 August
  • 2018 Lucien Durey, ‘Vancouver Report: Crafting a Way Out’, Canadian Art, 27 February
    Andrew Witt, ‘Nature’, Artforum, 19 February
  • 2012 Maria Tippett, ‘Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries’, BC Studies, no. 175, Autumn
  • 2011 Adele Weder, ‘Thrown: Respect for the Ordinary Pot’, The Tyee, 11 August
  • 2004 Sarah Milroy, ‘A licence to kiln’, The Globe and Mail, 15 March
    Robin Laurence, ‘Ceramic Art Holds More Than Water’, The Georgia Straight, 19 February
  • 2001 Jim Weaver, ‘Charmian Johnson’, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, April
  • 1992 Devon Hanley, ‘Our Great Ancestors’, The Vancouver Step Magazine, February