CURRICULUM VITAE
Barbara Safran de Niverville

EDUCATION
2014 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Lesley University College of
Art and Design, Boston, MA (formerly the Art Institute of Boston)
1980 – 85 Éducation permanente, Université de Moncton (French language
studies)
1978 Bachelor of Education, University of Toronto (Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education) Toronto, ON
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB

HONORS
2016 Exchange program, Province of New Brunswick and Province of
Manitoba
2015 - 16 NBArts Creation Grant, Rencontre Primordial / Primordial
Encounter
2015 NBArts Grant – Career Development, Artist in Residence, Sculpté par l’eau / Sculpted by Water, SÍM Residency, Korpúlsstađir, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Alumni Award, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Lesley University
College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2011 Sheila Hugh Mackay Master of Fine Arts Scholarship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Galerie 12, “Rencontre primordiale,” April 7 to May 3, Centre
Culturel Aberdeen, Moncton, NB
2016 Centre culturel franco-manitobain, “Émergence d’intrusion,”
March 03 to May 12, Winnipeg, MA
2015 Galerie 12, “Eau sombre, matière sombre,” Centre culturel
Aberdeen, Moncton, NB
2014 Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Center, “Bouquet,” Sackville,
NB
2013 CBC Georges Goguen Gallery, “An Imagined Garden,” Moncton, NB
2012 Galerie Moncton Gallery, “New Horizons,” Moncton, NB
2011-12 Le Conseil provincial des Sociétés culturelles du Nouveau
Brunswick,“Regard Parallèle – Les Richesses des Terres
Humides,” Salon Irène Grant-Guerette, St-John, NB
Galerie d’art du Père-Maurice-LeBlanc, CCNB, Bathurst, NB
Galerie d’art Service New Brunswick, Grand Falls, NB
Galerie Léon Léger, Église historique de Barachois, Barachois,
NB
2011 Capitol Gallery, “Petitcodiac Resurgo!” Moncton, NB
2010 Moncton Public Library, “Petitcodiac Voyage,” Moncton, NB
2006 McKenzie Art Gallery, “Around the Wide Sky,” Moncton, NB
2002 Pilar Shephard Gallery, “Tidelands,” Charlottetown, PE
1996 Capitol Gallery, Moncton, NB
1989 Ring Gallery, “Summer Promenade,” Saint John, NB
1986 Ring Gallery, “Scenes of the River Country,” Saint John, NB
1985 CBC Mini-Gallery, Radio Canada, Moncton, NB

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 SÍM Gallery, “Too Much View,” Association of Icelandic Visual
artists, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014-15 NB Acquisitions Exhibition/Exposition des acquisitions du Nouveau-Brunswick 2013-14 Florenceville, NB; Dieppe, NB; Edmunston, NB; Caraquet, NB; Pointe-de-l’Église, NS; Saint John, NB; Fredericton, NB
2014 Maison Tait with Suzanne Dallaire and Linda Corbin, Shediac, NB
2014 Mount Allison University, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts,
“Inaugural Art Installation, Alumni Exhibition 2014”
2014 Boston University, “Boston Young Contemporaries” Boston, MA
2014 MFA Graduate Exhibition, Lesley University College of Art and
Design, Boston, MA
2013 Galerie 12, “Deux Regards,” with Gisèle L. Ouellette, Centre
culturel Aberdeen, Moncton, NB

RESIDENCIES
2016 Centre culturel franco-manitobain, in conjunction with “Émergence d’intrusion” February 19 to March 18, sponsored by the provincial governments of Manitoba and New Brunswick.
2015 SÍM Résidence, Korpúlsstađir, Reykjavik, Iceland, Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, July 02 – 31.

JURIES
2017 Canada Council for the Arts, peer assessment committee for Project Grants to Visual Artists, Ottawa, ON
2016 BDC Drawing and Painting Symposium, jury member for participating artists, Dalhousie, NB
2014 -15 Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Center, review committee, Sackville, NB

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017 Buhman,Stephanie. Billie : Undercurrents in Atlantic Visual Culture, “New Brunswick Studio Conversations” vol 2 issu 2.
2016 "Editor's Pick, Environmental Impact" - Émergeance d'intrusion, Where Winnipeg, March-April 2016.
2015 Barbara Safran de Niverville. “The Language of Landscape:
Interview with Herménégilde Chiasson,” Billie: Undercurrents in
Atlantic Canadian Visual Culture. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2015.
2015 Margaret Patricia Eaton. “Barbara Safran de Niverville and Allison
Green’s exhibitions share common themes.” Moncton Times and
Transcript. June 13, 2015, Metro p. E4.
2013 Sylvie Mousseau. “Deux regards croisés sur la nature.” Acadie
Nouvelle, 12 juillet, 2013, Arts et spectacles, p. 40.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
New Brunswick Art Bank
Galerie Louise et Reuben Cohen, Université de Moncton
Town of Riverview, NB
The Moncton Hospital

PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
2017 Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB
2015 ArtsLink NB (ongoing)
2014 Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Center, (ongoing), Sackville,
NB
2012 Galerie 12 (ongoing), Centre culturel
Aberdeen, Moncton, NB
2009 CARFAC (ongoing) Canadian Artists’ Representation/ Le Front
des artistes canadiens
2009 AAAPNB (ongoing) Association acadienne des artistes
professionel.les.s du NB

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2017 Chargée de cours (sessional professor) 1305 – Dessin – corps
humain (life drawing), Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB
2016 Chargée de cours (sessional professor) 1304 – Dessin –
introduction (introduction to drawing), 2306 Dessin –
multidisciplinarité (mixed media drawing), Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB Canada
2014 Chargée de cours (sessional professor) 1304 – Dessin – introduction (introduction to drawing), Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB Canada
2010 - 14 Drawing and Acrylic Painting Instructor, Continuing Education, New Brunswick Community College, 1234 rue Mountain, Moncton, NB
2009 – 10 Alliance Française, Moncton, NB
1979 – 2009 Art Specialist /French Immersion Teacher in Moncton District
15/02 schools


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