Taiga Chiba
Taiga Chiba immigrated to Canada in 1981 after studying drawing and colour composition at the Atelier Furan Art School (Japan) and earning a Bachelor of Arts from the Plastic Arts Program at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. In 1986, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the Studio Arts Program at Concordia University in Montreal, where he began exhibiting in 1982. The protective shrines that surrounded his childhood home have precipitated themes in his work of ancestry, evolution, the origin of life, impermanence, and traces. He explores these themes with traditional Japanese and contemporary North American drawing, painting, and printmaking techniques and materials.
Chiba has exhibited consistently in solo and group shows, and in juried biennials and triennials, throughout Canada, the U.S., and Europe, as well as in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, and India. He has received awards from Silpakorn University’s International Print and Drawing Exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand), the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition (Hilo, Hawaii), and the Great Canadian Print Competition. His creation and travel has been supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts, where Chiba has served as a Juror of Creation and Production Grants to Professional Artists (2000, 2002). His work can be found in corporate and public collections including the Ernst & Young Collection, J.R. Hokkaido Railway Company, Silpakorn University, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council Art Bank. Chiba lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
Chiba has exhibited consistently in solo and group shows, and in juried biennials and triennials, throughout Canada, the U.S., and Europe, as well as in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, and India. He has received awards from Silpakorn University’s International Print and Drawing Exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand), the Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition (Hilo, Hawaii), and the Great Canadian Print Competition. His creation and travel has been supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts, where Chiba has served as a Juror of Creation and Production Grants to Professional Artists (2000, 2002). His work can be found in corporate and public collections including the Ernst & Young Collection, J.R. Hokkaido Railway Company, Silpakorn University, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council Art Bank. Chiba lives and works in Vancouver, BC.