Bio | Statement
I am a self-taught interdisciplinary artist residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in Vancouver, BC. With roots in a prairie farming community, my work is informed by the interplay between rural origins and my current environment.
My practice centres on the investigation, experimentation, and reworking of diverse materials across sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography. Through a deliberate and studied approach to combining materials in unfamiliar ways, I seek to dismantle the past to create the present.
"Wiebeʼs compositions bear traces of small incremental actions and intuitive leaps, which push the constituent elements beyond their common usage and form. Consequently her work is both familiar and strange. The resulting tension is reflective of Wiebeʼs acuity in balancing proportion and scale, texture and sensory relationships. However, what remains incalculable and most intriguing about Wiebeʼs work hinges upon the artist’s fidelity to the materials she employs. Rather than engineer a transformation or conceit, Wiebeʼs work pursues something inherently mysterious in the objects and materials, which comprise her installations. Wiebe considers and shapes each component of her work, without obscuring a link its origin, contributing to a singular experience of otherwise ubiquitous elements. The work asks us to consider what new relationship we have to these objects or materials once they have been pushed beyond their intended use or capacity? What do we re-cognize? What is our relationship to this new thing?"
Songwriting
I create melodies by ear and play acoustic guitar as accompaniment. Many of my compositions draw inspiration from prairie landscapes and narratives such as ‘Some Drive Right Through’ and '(Won't You) Bring Me Back'.
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Member of SOCAN
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b. Saskatoon SK, Canada
Lives and works on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ(Tsleil-Waututh) nations (Vancouver, BC)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Dreamscapes, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC
(Upcoming) THIS Gallery, Vancouver BC
2025
Indelible Impressions DORIS, Beaverlodge AB
2024
Wandering in the Shades of Night Dal Schindell Gallery, Vancouver BC
2023
Follow a Path to the River The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC
2021
Rhapsody AMP Window Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017
Traces Diary Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver BC (Capture Photography Program)
2015
Indelible Imprints WINDOW Gallery, Yaletown Roundhouse, Vancouver BC
2012Passing Strange and Wonderful pop-up installation, Trench Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010HOST a social sculpture ArtProjectRoom, G.A.S-station, Berlin DE
2006(are you talking to me?) Kwantlen Gallery, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC
2005Lebenswelt Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon BC
2001
Surrounding Campbell River Public Art Gallery, Campbell River BC
TWO + THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Incidental Archive Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC (with Daniel Laskarin)
2022
Ladies in the House Outsiders and Others, Vancouver BC
[with Nancy Drewitt and Michelle Vulama]
2018
DOUBLE VISION Art Rental & Sales, VAG, Vancouver BC [with Barbara Strigel]
Capture Photo Festival2015
Concert: Part 2 of CONDUIT Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Public Park, Vancouver, BC
[collaboration with Fae Logie and Tiki Mulvihill]2013
The Borrowers Britannia Art Gallery, Vitrine Exhibition, Vancouver BC
2013Reflexion Imperial Rice Milling Co Studio, Vancouver BC [Installation with Fae Logie]
2009Within Spaces/Spaces Within Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton AB
[with Sarah Alford and Jennifer Bowes]
2005The Natural and the Manufactured Dawson City YK [with Peter Von Tiesenhausen]
2005Topophilia Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw SK [with Rory Mahony]
2002Trace Elements: Fugitive Terrain Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George BC
[with Rory Mahony]
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Opening Exhibit, Circle Center Art Gardens, Del Dios, Escondido, CA
2024
GREEN Eastside Culture Crawl Preview Exhibition, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC
2024
SIXBYSIX, THIS GALLERY Vancouver BC
2023
Out of Control Eastside Crawl Preview Exhibition, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC
2022
Stories I Tell Myself Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn NY, virtual exhibition curated by
Pennylane Shen
2021
Seeking the Periphery Paul H. Cocker Gallery, Ryerson University
Department of Architectural Science, Toronto ON, virtual exhibition
2020
Houses and Hedges and Mothers and Children virtual exhibition
curated by Pennylane Shen for I Like Your Work
What Are U Working On Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019
DISPLACEMENT Eastside Culture Crawl, The Arts Factory, Vancouver BC
2018
F I C T I O N Art is Land Network, Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
SPACES, PLACES AND TRACES C, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver BC
2017Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition, Vancouver BC
2014
Engagemeant Art is Land Network, Capilano University Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012Destination Berlin 1a Space, Hong Kong
2011art(is)land Art is Land Network, Granville Island, Vancouver BC
Monomania Trench Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010Overgrowth & Understory Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) and King County Parks,
Cougar Mt. Regional Wildlands Park, Seattle WA
2010
deerBLNproject Part 04 Strychnin Gallery, Berlin Germany
2008Art Outside (participation 2000 on) Port Angeles Fine Arts Centre, Port Angeles WA
Art as Environment Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA2004
Biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue Arts Commission, Bellevue WA
2003Art in the Meadow: Whispered Conversations With The Land, Bainbridge Island
Arts & Humanities Council, Bainbridge Island WA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2025
Tidal Art Centre, Art Residency, Lund BC
2024
SBID Regional Award for Best Office Design for McKinley Studios, Serein Headquarters,
site of installation 'Rain From a Cloudless Sky'
2024
INTERIOR DESIGN Magazine, Best of Year award for McKinley Studios, Serein HQ
Presenter, Big Pictures Conference, Wilson School of Design at KPU, Richmond BC
2023
Commissioned Collage Shortlist, Contemporary Collage Magazine, UK
2020
Artist in Residence, hcma Architecture + Design, Vancouver | Victoria | Edmonton CAN
Top 10 artist, 2nd Biannual International Art Exchange, There Is No Planet B, Eco-Friendly edition #82, Precious Magazine HK
2015BC Arts Council grant for CONDUIT project, City of Vancouver Community Art Grant
2010TAKT Kunstprojektraum Art Residency, Berlin DE
2008Stanley Park Environmental Art Project, one year long, Vancouver BC
2007International Invitational Environmental Art Residency, I-Park, East Haddam CT USA
2006Project for Social Transformation, Bursa International Art Residency, Istanbul Turkey
2005Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture (KIAC), Thematic Art Residency, Dawson City YK
2004City of Vancouver, Public Art grant to expand Solar Patterns II project
2003UBC Farm in conjunction with the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Vancouver BC
2003Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture (KIAC), Art Residency,. Dawson City YK
PUBLIC PROJECTS + COMMISSIONS
2024
Rain From a Cloudless Sky, suspended installation, Serein Properties, Vancouver BC
2021
Topographies of Care, hcma Architecture + Design, Vancouver BC
2015
CONDUIT Art is Land Network, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Public Park, Vancouver BC
2011art(is)land Art is Land Network, Granville Island, Vancouver BC
2009Immersed Ravishing Beasts, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver BC
2008
Vapour Residential Commission for a suspended sculpture, Vancouver BC
2007Light Waves Corporate Permanent Public Art Project, Bentall V Building, Vancouver BC
2006Cedars Student Lounge, Forestry Sciences Centre, UBC with architect Lillian Mah
Interstitial Space collaborative site-specific for the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF),RBC Lounge, Toronto ON [with Michael Bjornson Architect]
2004
Solar Patterns I & II Public Art Projects, City of Vancouver, Vancouver BC
EDUCATION
Self-taught artist, select courses at Langara College and Emily Carr University, Vancouver BC
Diploma of Applied Arts in Social Services, Conestoga College, Kitchener ON
PUBLICATION + MEDIA
2024
Video Interview, Unveiling Elegance: Serein Properties and Shirley Wiebe's Collaborative Art
2020
Operation Environment, Vol 45, Issue 3/4, p 79, Alternatives Journal, Canada's Environmental Voice, Alternatives Media inc., Kitchener ON
2020
Top 10 artist, 2nd Biannual International Art Exchange, There Is No Planet B, Eco-Friendly edition #82, Images and interview, p 51 &52, Precious Magazine HK
2009
2008
“Ephemeral Art Appears in Stanley Park”, Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, page 51, October 2
2008
“Appearances”, Romy Petrick, INMYX Favorites, Ciba XYMARA online art + design newsletter, Switzerland, June
2006
“Landscape as Muse”, Season II, Episode 6, documentary series for Bravo Network,
Film 291 Company, Regina SK
“In tune with art and nature in Port Angeles”, Kathryn True, The Seattle Times,
Travel/Outdoors, p.25, March 30
2005
“A new kind of farmhand”, Sarah Efron, The Globe and Mail, July 15, 7, p. R6
CBC Radio, Interview “Underpinnings”, Paul Tukker, Dawson City, July 12
2004
“Bellevue, Washington 2004 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition,” Sylvia Platt, Sculpture Magazine, November, Volume 23, No. 9, Web Special
2003
“Art Outside 2003,” Port Angeles Fine Arts Centre, 52-minute video documentary,
100 Moons Circle, Seattle WA