| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Jim Logan is an artist of Métis descent. He began to paint as a very young man, inspired by his mother, a hobby painter. At age twenty, Logan travelled to Europe, studying the works of Van Gogh and Edvard Munch. He continued to develop his technique through wildlife and landscape paintings. In 1982 he enrolled in the Graphic Design programme at David Thompson University (Prince George, BC). After his graduation in 1983 Logan took a job as a graphic designer for a Native communications firm in Whitehorse, YT.
His mission is using his art to depict what he calls the “Quiet Condition.” His colourful, illustrative paintings capture an accurate and painfully honest view of First Nations life in Northern Canada with humour and sensitivity. The time he spent as a lay minister in Kwanlun Dunn Village on the outskirts of Whitehorse, YT, inspired his mission to paint social statement pieces based on his experiences. Since 1984 he has exhibited his works in over forty venues. The most important work from this period was the series entitled A Requiem for Our Children that described existence within the Residential School system in Canada.
He has been included in group exhibitions at the Walter Philips Gallery (2007, Banff, AB), the Smithsonian Institute for the American Indian, (2000, New York, NY) and the Royal Museum of Art and History (1999-2000, Brussels, Belgium). He has had solo exhibitions at Bearclaw Gallery (2003, Edmonton, AB); Dalhousie Gallery (1998, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS) and the Yukon Arts Centre (1997, Whitehorse, YT). In 1988, Logan moved to Prince George, BC to devote his time exclusively to his art. |