Janice Wright Cheney
About the Artist
Janice Wright Cheney’s textile-based sculptures and installations consider the fragility of our present state. Examining delicate interspecies relationships, her work laments loss of wilderness and imagines ecological life in the future.
With a career spanning several decades, her works are included in public collections across Canada and beyond. Wright Cheney has exhibited nationally and internationally, with presentations at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), the Anchorage Museum (Alaska), and most recently at Museo de Cabañas (Guadalajara, Mexico), among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and prizes, including the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in Visual Arts, the David Suzuki Rewilding Arts Prize, the Strathbutler Award for Excellence, and in 2010, was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Wright Cheney lives and works on unceded, ancestral Wolastoqey land in Fredericton NB, where she teaches at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design.
