Barbara Zeigler

Biography

Barbara Zeigler is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. With a main focus in printmedia, she has also worked extensively in drawing, installation and collaborative public art, and combined these media with her work in print. Hidden Sites, one of her most recent solo exhibition (Richmond Art Gallery, BC, summer 2009), incorporated a large display of digital prints with a video installation. Confronting issues of ecological degradation in British Columbia marine habitats, this work built on her interest of almost four decades in the evolving relationship between human culture and the ecosphere, and the ways in which individual and collective identity become evident through land usage.

Zeigler's artworks have been widely exhibited internationally and also featured in publications such as the British Journal for Canadian Studies (22.1, 2009, article by Christopher Rolfe); Printmaking at the Edge, Richard Noyce (2006); The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection, Lynn Allen and Phyllis McGibbon (1997); and included in Print Voice: Precarious Balance, Walter Jule, ed. (1990).

Barbara received her BFA and MFA from the University of Illinois; studied in Munich, Germany at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and the Universität München. She has also taught at the University of Alberta, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Queen's University (Kingston, ON), and at the University of Illinois (C-U) in the USA.