ABOUT CHANTAL MALTAIS OEI
Chantal Maltais Oei uses found objects, photography, and mixed media sculptural components as a means of integrating nature into her work. She studies life; she observes, internalizes and documents, weaving experiential elements through her artwork. Creating a shrine for her crystalized experiences, she passionately erects environments for the objects she makes, transforming them, and offering them a new life. Currently, the artist resides in both California, USA and Corfu, Greece.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
*denotes solo and museum exhibitions
09/2009 *Chantal Maltais Oei, Solo Exhibition, Longview Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, US
05/2009 *Group Exhibition, Red River Valley Museum of Art, Vernon, Texas, US – Juror: Hollis Howard
04/2009 Working in Wax, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, US
09/2008 Buddha, Group Exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
08/2008 *50th Anniversary Fundraising Event: Casino Royale, Longview Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, US
04/2008 *A National Juried Art Competition, Group Exhibition, Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico, US
04/2008 2008 Spring Invitational Art Show, Harrison Art League, Harrison, Arkansas, US
03/2008 Collect, Group Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
03/2008 Beaux Arts Ball, Donation for Silent Auction, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
03/2008 *2008 MAA Spring Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, US
01/2008 *Chantal Maltais Oei, Solo Exhibition, Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
01/2008 *2x2: A Cultural Ark, Group Exhibition, Centro Cultural San Angel, Mexico City, Mexico
11/2007 *The Erotic & The Esoteric, Group Exhibition, Gallery Zipp, Glorieta, New Mexico, US
11/2007 *2x2: A Cultural Ark, Group Exhibition, Galeria Vertice, Guadalajara, Mexico
11/2007 *2x2: A Cultural Ark, Group Exhibition, Museo Regional de Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico
11/2007 *Countdown for Peace, Group Exhibition, Jenkins Fine Art Center, Greenville, North Carolina, US
10/2007 Rojo, Group Exhibition, Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
09/2007 *A Sense of Place, Juried Exhibition, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia, US
12/2006 Chantal Maltais Oei and Mary Bennett: Short Stories, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
07/2006 Group Exhibition, A Toast of Santa Fe, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
07/2006 *44th Annual Mixed Media Exhibition, Invitational Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, US
11/2005 *It’s in the Bag, Group Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
11/2005 Collecting Under $2000, Group Exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
07/2005 Salon Series, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
05/2005 *Chantal Maltais Oei: Origins and Transformations, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
12/2004 Salon Series: Metals in Contemporary Art, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
12/2000 Santa Fe Artist Emergency Medical Fund Annual Exhibition, Ventana Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
06/2000 *Chantal Maltais Oei, Gallery Martine Archambault, Magog, Quebec Canada
01/1999 *La forêt, un an après la tempête (The Forest, a year after the storm), Chantal Maltais Oei: sculptural installation and performance by Jocelyne Sarrazin, A presentation of l’Art qui fait Boom at l’Espace Comme 1Montreal, Quebec Canada
04/1997 Juried Exhibition (Ceramics), Belgo Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
01/1997 Metamorphoses, Dual Exhibition, Visual Art’s Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
06-07/1996 Juried Group Exhibition, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
02/1996 Sculpture, Annual Students’ Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
01/1996 Dual Exhibition, Café X, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
07/1993 One-year Exhibition Contract, Public Art Placement at Hydro-Quebec and Bell Canada, Eco-Habitation Project, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
06/1993 International Design Show of Montreal, Juried Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
06/1993 Nouvel Atelier d’Art Visuel de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada