Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

Artists: Michael Chambers

Name: Michael Chambers
Gender: M
Website: http://www.banns.ca/bspacegallery/blackbody/MichaelChambers/MichaelChambers.htm
Artist Bio: Jamaican born, Toronto based Chambers studied at York University where he received a BFA in 1983. Exhibiting internationally to critical acclaim, he has shown in the US, Japan, South Africa, the UK, Canada and the Caribbean. In 1998, he presented a 10-year retrospective called And Spectators Are No More: A Retrospective at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario. His work is featured in Black Beauty, an international survey of photography published by Janssen. He was the recipient of the 2000 Mosaic Image Award and has been immortalized in Anton Wagner's biographical documentary The Photographer: An Artist's Journey (National Film Board of Canada) and as the subject of jazz recording Michael the Photographer by Neil Braithwaite and David Williams. He is represented by the O'Connor Gallery in Toronto.

This database record last modified: Thu, Apr 16, 2009