Susan Warner Keene EDUCATION 1979    Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario: AOCA Honours, Design (Textiles) 1970    Mackinac College, Michigan: B.A., English Literature AWARDS 2005    Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1991    Prix Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts COLLECTIONS (Selected) Public Department of Foreign Affairs & Int'l Trade Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau QC Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa ON Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto ON Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON Ontario Municipal Retirement Systems, Toronto Corporate Canada Standard Life Insurance Co., Toronto ON Fujitsu Canada, North York ON Claridge Investments, Montreal QC Imperial Oil of Canada Ltd., Toronto ON Rio Tinto Alcan, Montreal QC AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Mississauga ON COMMISSIONS (Selected) St. Laurent Paperboard, Montreal QC 1997 Young & Rubicam, Toronto ON 1995 Credit Suisse, Toronto ON 1993 Constitution Square, Ottawa ON 1987 EXHIBITIONS (Selected) Solo 2007 ReVisions, David Kaye Gallery, Toronto ON 2006 Verso, Durham Art Gallery, Durham ON 2004 Verso, Prime Gallery, Toronto ON A Gathering, Canada Quay, Harbourfront, Toronto ON 2001 Mimesis, Prime Gallery, Toronto ON 1995 Out of Nature: A Survey of Fibre Work from 1982 to 1995, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington ON (catalogue) 1991 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau QC. Four works acquired by the museum. 1988 Out of Nature, Prime Gallery Toronto ON 1985 Prime Gallery, Toronto ON Group 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, guest country exhibition, Korea (c) 2008-10 Art of the Book 08, national travelling exhibition. (c) 2008 The Embedded Image, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri. (c) 2007 Hard & Soft: Metal & Fibre Sculpture Now, Lafreniére & Pai Gallery, Ottawa ON Susan Warner Keene and Jean-Pierre Larocque, Galerie Elena Lee, Montréal QC 2006-07 Unique! , 30 Years of Outstanding Crafts, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau QC 2006 Fibreworks 06, juried biennial, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON A Book Arts Mosaic, travelling exhibition. (c) 2004-05 Manifesta: Vision and Mastery in Contemporary Craft, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON and Gallery Stratford, Stratford ON 2003 Patterned, Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON What's New? , new gallery, The Distillery, Toronto ON 2001 Looking Forward, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound; McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton ON (c) Paper Stories, Uncommon Objects, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto ON 2000 Language and Symbol in Contemporary Craft, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver BC (c) 1996-99 Transformation: Prix Saidye Bronfman Award, Musée de Beaux Arts, Montréal; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg SK; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC.; Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver BC; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax NS; American Craft Museum, New York, NY (c) 1996 Peter Fleming and Susan Warner Keene, Prime Gallery, Toronto ON 1995 Contemporary Canadian Bookworks, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, Japan (c) 1994 Felt Exotic, West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre, Castlegar BC 1993 Selected Treasures (organized by the Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver BC); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago IL; Koffler Gallery, North York ON (c) In Our Hands, international miniature textile exhibition, Nagoya and Kyoto, Japan (c) 1992 Triennial of International Tapestry, Central Textile Museum, Lodz, Poland (c) 1988 Restless Legacies: Contemporary Craft Practice in Canada, Olympic Arts Festival, Calgary AB (c) 1987 Paper Present, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (c) 1986 Feltmaking: Four Major Installations, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington ON (c) 1985 Papiers Transformés, Salles d'exposition des Écuries de l'Hôtel de Chazerat, Clermont-Ferrand, France (c) 1982-85 Canada Mikrokosma: Contemporary Canadian Tapestry. Travelling exhibition organized by the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Ontario, for the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Barbican Centre, London, England. European and Canadian tour (c) 1983 Paperworks: Canada/USA, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary AB (c) PUBLICATIONS Art Textiles of the World: Canada, ed. Matthew Koumis, Telos Art Publishing, Brighton, UK, 2009 Crafting New Traditions: Canadian Innovators and Influences, ed. Melanie Egan, Alan C. Elder, Jean Johnson, Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series, 2008 Filt: Kunst, Teknik, Historie, by Annette Damgaard, Forlaget Hovedland, Denmark, 1994 The Story of Linen, by Linda Heinrich, Interweave Press, Colorado, 1993 Fiberarts Design Book 1, 1980, Fiberarts Design Book 2, 1983, Lark Publications, USA Selected Paper Artists 2004: 62 images of contemporary artwork by 19 paper artists (slide and CD ROM) juried from the Hand Papermaking Magazine Artist Registry Video: Susan Warner Keene (1991), and Susan Warner Keene (2006), Canadian Museum of Civilization RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY (Selected) Teaching 2001- 03:    Co-head of Textiles Studio, Sheridan College, Faculty of Arts, Animation, and Design 1993-2005:   Sheridan College, Oakville, part-time faculty, School of Craft & Design Visiting artist 2007:    Ontario College of Art & Design, Material Art & Design Program, Toronto ON 2000:    Kootenay School of the Arts, Nelson BC             Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB 1996:    Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Sudbury ON 1995:    McMaster University, Hamilton ON 1995:    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle ME 1992:    Arctic College, Iqaluit, Nunavut 1988:    Saskatchewan School of the Arts, Fort Qu'Appelle SK 1986:    Montclair State College, Montclair NJ 1985:    New Brunswick Craft School, Fredericton NB 1983:    Banff School of Fine Arts, Fibre Studio, Banff AB Lectures 2007:     "Craft in an Industrial Age", Sheridan College, Craft & Design Program, Oakville ON 2006:     "Imagined Books: Case Studies", paper presented to the Textile Society of America symposium,              Textile Narratives and Conversations, Toronto ON 2001:     Paper + Finland + Art Symposium, Harbourfront, Toronto ON 1999:     "Making it New: Contemporary Craft in Canada", Canadian Society of Decorative Arts 1994:     Keynote speaker, Felt in Transition, symposium, Castlegar BC 1991:     Ontario College of Art and Design Women at the Edge Lecture Series Board Member Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto ON, 2000-06 Surfacing, Textile Artists and Designers Association, president, 1992-93 Public Art Policy Advisory Committee, Metropolitan Toronto ON, 1995-98 Guest Curator Pictorial Space: New Textile Images, 1990, The Museum for Textiles, Toronto ON. Three-person show by Nancy Edell, Marna Goldstein Brauner, Marcel Marois. (catalogue) Project Consultant Making and Metaphor: A Discussion of Meaning in Contemporary Canadian Craft, a symposium held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau QC, October 1993. Papers published by the CMC as part of the Mercury Series. Common Ground: Contemporary Craft, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts, a symposium held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal QC, March 1997, by the Institute for Contemporary Canadian Craft. Papers published by the CMC as part of the Mercury Series.