Charles Stankievech

Charles Stankievech (born 1978) is a Canadian artist, writer, publisher and curator.

Charles Stankievech
Born	1978 (age 46–47)
Known for	artist, writer, educator and curator
Movement	Conceptual art

Early life and education

Stankievech was born in 1978 in Okotoks, Alberta. He graduated with an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, later moving to Dawson City in 2007 where he was a founding member of the Yukon School of Visual Art. He stayed in Yukon for five years, moving to Berlin in 2012.^[1]

Career

External videos
The 2016 Sobey Art Award - Charles Stankievech (2:10 min), National Gallery of Canada, retrieved 27 April 2025 – via YouTube

Stankievech participated in the Canadian Forces Artists Program twice, in 2011 and 2015. His 2012 35mm film installation The Soniferous Æther of the Land Beyond the Land Beyond was shot over the course of two weeks at CFS Alert, and is part of a series of fieldworks he made that look at remote outpost architecture, military infrastructure, and the embedded landscape.^[2]

In 2014, Stankievech's exhibition Counterintelligence premiered at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto. Murray Whyte of the Toronto Star described it as "a dizzying array of material, some of it absurd, much of it shocking".^[3] The exhibition was awarded Thematic Exhibition of the Year for 2014 by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.^[4] In 2016, Stankievech was a nominee for the Sobey Art Award.^[5]

Stankievech's exhibition Desert Turned To Glass premiered in Ontario in 2024,^[6] and has also been exhibited in Calgary,^[7] and the KIN Gallery in Brussels.^[8] Stankievech's exhibition Monuments as Ruin was awarded an Ontario Association of Art Galleries 2015 Exhibition of the Year Award.^[9] Many of his works are influenced by military architecture and surveillance.^[10]