Wildflowers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Short film by David Hartman.
b. 1980, Saskatoon SK, Canada.
Zachari Logan is a Canadian artist working between drawing, ceramics, painting and related installation practices, evolving a visual language that intersects memory and observation to explore figuration and
selfhood. Employing strategies of visual quotation, mined from place and experience Logan rewilds his
body as a queer embodiment of nature and a site of excavation. His work underlines a fundamental
interconnection of the human as nature through methodologies of exploration that merge observation of landscape and overlapping art-historic motifs, engaging ideas of beauty, mortality and integration.
As an extension of his studio practice, Logan has attended many residencies; including Vienna's Museums Quartier MQ21 Program, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, Wave Hill Botanical Gardens Winter Workspace Program in the Bronx and Little Bird Artist Residency in rural Bulgaria. Logan was artist in residence at the Tom Thomson Shack at the McMichael Gallery in 2017, a commission of the Ontario Government to commemorate the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. In 2021 Logan was the Koerner Artist in Residence at Queens University. This past year Logan was the West Baffin Cooperative’s 2025 Artist in Residence in Kinggait, Nunavut and recently completed a 3 month residency at Cite Internationale des arts in Paris, France.
Logan has worked collaboratively with several celebrated artists, including Ross Bleckner and Sophie Calle and his work has been featured in many publications worldwide, including BBC Culture, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Border Crossings, Huffington Post, Canadian Art and Hyperallergic to name a few. In 2014 Logan received the Lieutenant Governors Award for emerging artist, in 2015 an Alumni of Influence Award from the University of Saskatchewan, and in 2016 Logan was long-listed for the Sobey Award. Logan has received numerous grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Creative Saskatchewan and Canada Council for the Arts and in 2016, received a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (NY).