Barbara Stutman


Born:

1945 Montreal, Canada

Training / Education:

  • 1988-94 Art History and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1979-89 Workshops in metalworking with Bob Ebendorf, Mary Lee Hu, Robert Lee Morris, Susan Kingsley, Lois Betteridge, Heikki Seppa, Pat Flynn, David Tisdale, Madeleine Dansereau, Enid Kaplan, Wendy Ramshaw
  • 1969-77 Fine Arts and Jewellery at the Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1963-1964 Fine Arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.

Work Experience:

  • 2004 Instructor: Textile Techniques in Metal, Ecole de Joaillerie de Montreal, Montreal
  • 2003 Juror for Le Prix Francois Houdé, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2002 Juror for le Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2002 Juror for Le Prix Francois Houdé, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2001 Guest Speaker, Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada.
  • 1998-2004,96,92 Instructor:Textile Techniques in Metal, Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1997 Guest Speaker, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1995 Instructor:Textile Techniques in Metal, Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Canada.

Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):

  • 2004 "Excessity", solo exhibition, Gallery Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada.
  • SOFA NY, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.
  • "PalmBeachContemporary", Charon Kransen Arts, West Palm Beach, USA.
  • "Sculptures portables", Gallery du Conseil des metiers d'art du Quebec with the Embassy of
  • Denmark, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Manifesta - Vision and Mastery in Contemporary Craft", Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Canada.
  • SOFA Chicago, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.
  • 2003 ARTFORMS, Charon Kransen Arts, Palm Beach, USA.
  • SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, USA.
  • SOFA NY, Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.
  • 2002 "Textile Techniques in Metal", Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, USA.
  • "Material and Colour", Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada. Travelling to
  • OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, Sculpture-to-Wear, Los Angeles, USA and Prime Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
  • SOFA NY, Gallery Elena Lee, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2000-1 "Wearable Sculpture", The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada. In-house and travelling.
  • 2000-2 "Behind Glass", Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada. Travelling within Canada.
  • 2000 "Attitude & Action! North American Figurative Jewelry", Atrium Gallery of the University of Central England, Birmingham, England and The Jewellery Gallery at DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland. Gail M. Brown, curator.
  • "Drawing the Lines: Selections from Artists Sketchbooks",Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston,USA.
  • "Consumed: Fine Craft Inspired by Popular & Media Culture", Craft Alliance,St. Louis, USA.
  • "Women's World: A Work in Progress, Brookfield Craft Center", Brookfield, USA.
  • SOFA Chicago, Gallery Elena Lee, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1999 "Underpinnings", solo exhibition, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, USA.
  • SOFA NY with Charon Kransen Arts, New York,USA.
  • "Figuratively Speaking", L.A. International, Biennial Art Invitational 99 at Sculpture-to-Wear,
  • Santa Monica, USA. Charon Kransen, curator.
  • "Personal Memory Bytes", Facèré Jewelry Art, Seattle, USA. Gail M. Brown, curator.
  • "Candelsticks", Galerie Elena Lee, Montreal, Canada.
  • SOFA Chicago with Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.
  • 1998 "Jewellery Moves", Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Amanda Game, curator.
  • "Schmuckes sur letzte Gelegenheiten /Famous last jewellery", Gallery Friends of Carlotta,
  • Zurich, Switzerland.
  • "Gendered Memory: Adornment Uncontained", Cardinal Stritch University Art Gallery, Milwaukee, USA. Michal Ann Carley, curator.
  • "Wired", OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, USA.
  • "Identity, Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada. Travelling in Canada .
  • "Roots", le Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec, Montreal, Canada.
  • SOFA NY with Gallery Suk Kwan, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Le corps habité", Gallery Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1997 "Impaired Visions", solo exhibition, Gallery Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Negotiating Identity", solo exhibition, The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, USA.
  • "Textile Techniques in Jewelry", Gallery Hipotesi, Barcelona, Spain.
  • "Bijoux du Canada, 2 edition", Gallery Aurus, Paris, France.
  • "Once Upon A Time", Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, USA. Gail M. Brown, curator.
  • -SOFA Chicago, Chicago, USA with Gallery Suk Kwan.
  • 1996 "The Art of Taking Risks", Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, USA.
  • "Issues and Intent: Contemporary American Metalwork", Susan Cummins Gallery,Mill Valley,
  • USA.
  • "Interpretations de la Bague d'Union", Gallery Aurus, Paris, France.
  • "Celebration", Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada. Travelling in Canada and to The National
  • Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, USA.
  • "Eloge de la joaillerie d'art au Quebec", Chateau de Ramezay Museum, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1995 "Bijoux Contemporains Canadiens", Gallery Aurus, Paris, France.
  • SOFA Chicago with Gallery Suk Kwan Montreal, Canada.
  • 1994 "Pushing the Insides Out ", solo exhibition, Lynda Greenberg Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
  • 1993 "Plotting our Progress/L'etat de la femme", solo exhibition, Gallery Elena Lee, Montreal,Canada.
  • "Selected Treasures: A Treasury of Canadian Craft". Exhibition travelling to the Taipei Fine Museum, Taiwan, the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, to the USA and to Canada.
  • 1992 "A Treasury of Canadian Craft", The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Inaugural exhibition. Sam Carter, curator.
  • "Inauguration", Gallery Elena Lee, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1991 "4th Annual Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition", Lynda Greenberg Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
  • "The Medium is Metal: The Focus is Resources, Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada.
  • 1990 "Festive Adornment", Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Amphoria", Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.
  • "L'Entree libre a l'art contemporain", Contemporary Art Gallery Association,
  • Montreal, Canada.
  • 1989 "International Ring Exhibition", Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Personal Geography', Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada. Travelling in Canada.
  • "Contemporary Fetishes", Lynda Greenberg Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
  • 1988 "Provocation", solo exhibition, Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.
  • "New Jewellery', Prime Canadian Crafts, Toronto, Canada.
  • "All that Glitters", Lynda Greenberg Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
  • "Fusion", Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.Collaboration with Micheline Beauchemin.
  • "New Works", Shelley Tadman Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
  • 1987 "Jewellery as an Art Form", Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada.
  • Grand Opening, Art Gallery of the Cote St. Luc Public Library, Cote St. Luc, Canada.
  • Grand Opening, Gallery de Centre Infodesign Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada.
  • "Unexpected Arrangements", Harhay & McKay, Toronto, Canada.
  • "Jewellery '86", Shelley Tadman Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
  • "New Works", Coutu/Michaud, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1985 "Wearable Art", Gallery Barbara Silverberg, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1984 "Breastplates & Headresses", Harhay & McKay, Toronto, Canada.
  • "Small Metal Objects", Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1983 "Bijoux '83", Gallery l'Art Francais, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1982 "Precious Metal Objects", Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Canada.

Collections:

  • Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design, New York, USA. 1999.
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada. 1998.
  • Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Canada. 1999.
  • The Alice and Louis Koch Ring Collection, Switzerland. 1999.
  • Collection of the Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, Ottawa, Canada. 2003.
  • Collection of Noel Guyomarc'h, owner, Gallery Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada. 2002.
  • Collection of Lisa M. Berman, owner, Sculpture-to-Wear, Los Angeles, USA. 2000.
  • Collection of Anna Mendel, Montreal, Canada. 1996.

Publications:

  • 1000 RINGS: Inspiring Adornments for the Hand. 2004
  • Metalsmith , Review of Art Jewelry Today, Summer 2004.
  • Metalsmith "Obituary: A tribute to Enid Kaplan", Summer 2003.
  • Art Jewelry Today. 2003.
  • California Homes, "Events & Affairs". July/August 2003.
  • The New Canadian Magazine,"The Daring Art of Jewellery". July/August 2003.
  • MAGazine, "Materials and Colour". Fall 2002.
  • Textile Techniques in Metal. 2001.
  • Plaisirs de Vivre/Living in Style, "Des sculptures qu'on porte/Pret-a-Porter Art". May 2001.
  • Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery. 2000.
  • New York Times,"Sometimes the Darkness Just Creeps In", September 10, 2000.
  • The Advocate/Greenwich Time: "A Woman's place...". August 27, 2000.
  • The Montreal Gazette, "Creative Blues". September 5, 2000.
  • "Wearable Sculpture: Contemporary Studio Jewellery from the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts 2000
  • Metalsmith, "Gendered Memories: Adornment Uncontained". Spring 1999.
  • Metalsmith, "View from the Bench: Re-forming Identity", Winter 1999.
  • The Montreal Gazette, "Artists say it with jewelry". December 24, 1999.
  • Jewellery Moves: Ornament for the 21st Century. 1998
  • Metalsmith, "Barbara Stutman: Impaired Visions". Summer 1998.
  • A Tribute to Art Jewellery in Quebec from 1930 onwards. 1998.
  • Identity. September 1998.
  • The Gazette trends, "Wearable Art". Winter 1998.
  • Ornament and Object: Canadian Jewellery and Metal Art: 1946 -1996. 1997.
  • Metalsmith, "The Pleasures of Excess". Summer 1997.
  • Ornament, "News: Autumn 1997". Autumn 1997.
  • SOFA Exposition Chicago 1997. 1997.
  • Vie des Arts, "Pleins Feux: L'art de la joaillerie au Québec". Fall 1997.
  • Philadelphia Citypaper.net , "Once upon a Time...". 1997.
  • Le magazine des Métiers d'Art. March 1997.
  • Celebration : 50th Anniversary of the Metal Arts Guild, 1946-1996. 1996.
  • Le Soleil , "Ces obscurs objets du désir". November 16,1996.
  • Voir Québec, "J'aime, gemme pas". December 1,1996.
  • Revue Galerie, "Hors-D'Oeuvre: Éloge du bijou d'art québecois. Winter 1996-97.
  • Gazette Drouot: La Gazette des Arts Plastiques et Decoratifs, "Bagues d'Union". February 2, 1996.
  • Metalsmith 1995 Exhibition in Print , "Risk and Reverence". 1995.
  • SOFA ART CHICAGO Exposition 1995. 1995.
  • The Montreal Gazette, "More ART than CRAFT: Jewelry-makers show the creative side of their work".
  • October 8, 1995.
  • The Westmount Examiner, "All wired up". May 11, 1995.
  • The Ottawa Citizen, "At The Galleries". April 25, 1994.
  • Metalsmith, "Barbara Stutman: Plotting Our Progress". Fall 1993.
  • The Montreal Gazette, "Jewelry with a point of view". April 26,1993.
  • Selected Treasures from A Treasury of Canadian Craft. 1993.
  • A Treasury of Canadian Craft. 1992.
  • Elle Quebec, "Afro Design". December 1991.
  • Le Collectioneur , "Des Sculptures en Guise de Parures". Winter 1990-91.
  • MTL, "Gallery Jocelyne Gobeil: Unusual bijou". Feb/Mar 1991.
  • Elle Quebec, "Barbara Stutman". December 1990.
  • The Ottawa Citizen, "Accent on avant-garde Jewelry". July 1989.
  • Vie des Arts, "Joaillerie provocante". March 1989.
  • Canadian Jeweller, "Materials Mixed at Art Shows". February 1989.
  • Vie des Arts, "Les Nouveaux Createurs de la Joaillerie Contemporaine". June 1988.
  • Le Devoir , "Des bijoux pour ceux qui osent'". November 21, 1988.
  • The Montreal Gazette, "Designers' different styles produce unusual hand-crafted jewelry". December 30, 1986.
  • Hors Serie, "L'Inimitable Eclat du Vrai". Automne/hiver 1986.
  • Toronto Life Fashion,"Who's The Jewellery Designer That Fashion People Are Talking About Now?". Spring 1984.
  • The McGill Daily, "At least you can look at it". March 4, 1982.