Grace Channer was born on 1959 and is an African-Canadian painter and multi-media visual artist.
13 Facts About Grace Channer
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Grace Channer has earned a postgraduate diploma in Animation Filmmaking from Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
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Grace Channer's mural, titled "Black Women Working", was located at the Parkdale Library in Toronto.
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Grace Channer is a member of the Diasporic African Women's Art Collective.
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Grace Channer co-curated the travelling exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter with Buseje Bailey in 1989.
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In 1998, Grace Channer participated to Taking It to the Streets, which was a series of public art projects taking place in the Greater Toronto area organized by SAVAC.
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In 2005, Grace Channer participated in the exhibition Tribute: The Art of African Canadians curated by Robert Freeman and David Sommers at the Art Gallery of Peel and the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
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Grace Channer contributed to the exhibition her work Intolerance, which is an oil triptych of a panoramic landscape echoeing the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Peter Bruegel through its exploration of themes and elements of the medieval tradition of fantasy, allegory and biblical proverbs.
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Grace Channer infuses this tradition of the medieval allegorical triptyc with the contemporary theme of hierarchical power.
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In 2009, Grace Channer participated to the 21st International Lesbian Feminist Film Festival of Paris with her short-length film But Some Are Brave where she won the Audience Award.
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In 2012, Grace Channer was one of three artists, along with Sandra Brewster and Jay Stewart, who painted a 100-foot long mural celebrating women in visual and martial arts.
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In 2009, Grace Channer won third place in the short length category for her film But Some Are Brave at the Africa World Documentary Film Festival.
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In 2009, Grace Channer won the Audience Award for But Some Are Brave at the 21st International Lesbian Feminist Film Festival of Paris.