Michael Campbell

When not teaching in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Lethbridge, Toronto born Michael Campbell spends his time on Hornby Island in British Columbia. His seaside studio offers inspirational views and superb access to materials, including rock, metal, wood and assorted debris that Michael uses in his work. Through visual and auditory elements, Michael’s installations and sculpture often explore the force of erosion over time, the perseverance of the seemingly old and battered, the juxtaposition of old and new, and the extra-ordinary in the ordinary.

Michael completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto in 1990 and his Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal in 1993. He has taught in Montreal; Cape Dorset, Nunavut; Inuvik, N.W.T; Dickinson, North Dakota; Poitiers and Sauvé, France; and has been teaching at the University of Lethbridge since 1998.

Michael’s work has been exhibited throughout Canada and in Paris, the South of France, Switzerland, the United States, Japan and Kathmandu. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the University of Toronto, the Dickinson State University Gallery, The Canadian Mint, the Centre for Art Tapes, the Halifax Art Gallery of Ontario, Concordia University and the Alberta Foundation of the Arts.