Corwyn Lund earned an MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University after studying Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and Furniture Design at the University of Alberta. Following a decade of professional practice focused on site-specific installation, he began working with clay at the European Ceramic Work Centre in 2012. Over subsequent residencies in the Netherlands, China, Israel, the United States, and Canada, Corwyn developed a sculptural, architectural, and experimental ceramic practice. Lund’s ceramic art has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Headstone Gallery in Kingston, NY and the New York State College of Ceramics, and is held in the collections of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam and the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum. Works in other media are held in several prominent Canadian private and corporate collections.
Education
MFA (Ceramic Art), Alfred University
MFA (Sculpture), Rhode Island School of Design
B.Des (Furniture Design), University of Alberta
Selected Residencies
Medalta International Ceramic Centre, Medicine Hat, AB
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
European Ceramic Work Center, Oisterwijk, NL
Banff Centre for the Arts, ‘Informal Architecture’ Thematic
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Heatwork Cinema, Yuill Gallery at Medalta, Medicine Hat, AB, 2023
Gridlock, Headstone Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2022
Solastalgia, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, NY, 2022
Incisions & Illusions, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, 2017
Bokeh Mirrors, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, 2011
Selected Public Art Projects
Word Count, commission for Koffler Gallery Off-Site @ 48 Abell St, Toronto, 2013-2016
Parlour of Twilight, collaborative commission for Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2006-2020
Swingsite, off-site intervention as part of Psychotopes at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, 2003-2006
Selected Group Exhibitions
Between Things: Alberta Ceramics, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 2023
Selections: The Archive, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, NY, 2023
Post-Colonialism?, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, IS, 2016
Showroom, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 2016
In Search of Ceramics, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL, 2015
More Than Two (Let it Make Itself), The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013
Do You See What I Mean?, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, 2010
Seducing Down the Door, Mercer Union, Toronto, 2007
Storefront, National Gallery of Canada Library & Archives, Ottawa, 2006 (collab.)
Research and Writing
‘The Bowl from Hiroshima.’ In Ceramophile: Alfred Ceramic Art Museum Periodical, edited by Wayne Higby. Fall 2023.
‘Hiroshima Bowl: A Forensic Analysis of a Para-Photographic Artifact.’ Panel Presentation at 2022 College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago.
‘Video Proposal: 48 Abell Street Ice Rink.’ In Scapegoat Journal, No. 08: Weather Issue. Spring 2015.
‘Swingsite’ (artist project). In Public Journal, No. 29, edited by Christine Shaw. Summer 2004.
Selected Biography
Leijen, N. “Keramiek, een queeste”, Klei Keramiek Magazine, No. 6 Nov-Dec 2015.
Clark, G. “Corwyn Lund at the EKWC,” CFile Contemporary Ceramics Online, 06/04/2015.
Goukassian, E. “Commissions”, Sculpture Magazine, October 2013.
White, H. “Corwyn Lund “Word Count”…,” San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, June 2013.
Charron, M. “De Plans, de Lignes et de Reflets,” Le Devoir, 16/06/2012.
Dault, G. “Gallery Going: Visual Arts,” The Globe and Mail, 06/09/2008.
Bloom, B. & Bromberg, A. “Spacemakers,” Journal for Northeast Studies, No 4. 2005.
Milroy, S. “Odes to a City Under Siege,” The Globe & Mail, 09/11/2003.
Selected Awards
Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Research/Creation Grants
Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists, Craft Projects, & Residency Grants
Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grants
Chalmers Arts Fellowships
Fulbright Commission, Canada-US Graduate Fellowship
Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction
Alberta Arts Graduate Scholarships
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Gimme Shelter (after Henry Fox Talbot)
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(The Ecology)
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Red River / Modernist Culture Vultures
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Brick for Ukraine
