b. 1980, Saskatoon SK, Canada.
Zachari Logan is a Canadian artist working mainly in drawing, ceramics and installation practices. His work has been exhibited widely, in group and solo exhibitions throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Logan has attended residencies in Paris in conjunction with Galerie Jean Roch Dard, in rural Tennessee at Sassafras ARC/Liberty, in Calgary through Alberta College of Art + Design: Visiting Artist Program, in Vienna through both the Museum Quartier’s quartier21: Artist in Residence Program and project space Schliefmuhlgasse 12-14, and in London at Angus-Hughes Gallery. In the spring of 2015 Logan attended the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), and returned to NYC during the winter of 2016 as artist in residence at Wave Hill Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. During the summer of 2017, Logan was Artist in Residence in the Tom Thomson Shack on the site of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection; part of a special commission to create a work in responses to the centenary of Thomson's death. In 2019 Logan was in residence at Venice's Spazio Thetis for 'Esta Selva Selvaggia', a collateral project of the 2019 Venice Bienalle- a joint installation in conjunction with th exhibition FRIENDS, presented by Isolo17 Gallery. Logan was the 2021 Korener Artist in Residence at Queens University. In the fall of 2021 and spring of 2023, Logan attended Little Bird Place Artist Residency in Leshten Bulgaria- resulting in exhibitions in the Little Bird Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. In May of 2023, Logan was artist in residence at MOCA London to develop 'Unkraut Vergeht Nicht', a site-specific drawing installation.
Logan has worked collaboratively with several celebrated artists, including Ross Bleckner and Sophie Calle.
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).
Works by Zachari Logan are found in private and public collections worldwide: including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Peabody Essex Museum, Remai Modern, Gardiner Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (NMOCA), McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Mackenzie Art Gallery, 21cMuseums Hotel Collection, Louisville KY, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery: University of British Columbia, Toronto Dominion (TD Trust), Royal Bank of Canada, Cadillac Fairview, Schulich School of Buisness, York University, Kenderdine/College Galleries, Canada Council Art Bank, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Global Affairs Canada & Thetis Foundazione (Venice) among others.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices, Zachari Logan evolves a visual language that explores the intersections between masculinity, identity, memory and place. In previous work related to his current practice, Logan investigated his own body as exclusive site of exploration. In recent work, Logan’s body remains a catalyst, but no longer the sole focus. Employing a strategy of visual quotation, mined from place and experience, Logan re-wilds his body as a queer embodiment of nature. This narrative shift engages ideas of beauty, mortality, empirical explorations of landscape, and overlapping art-historic motifs.