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BIOGRAPHY

1975 Yale University, B.A.
1974 Tyler School of Art in Rome, Temple University. Junior year abroad.


American born artist Catherine Widgery graduated from Yale University cum laude, with special distinction in art and the Walker prize for outstanding artistic achievement. She lived in Italy and England before returning to North America where she currently divides her time between Montreal, Cambridge and Antigua, Guatemala. She has built more than 30 site-specific public art projects across Canada and the United States. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, her award winning projects have been featured on the covers of Sculpture, Landscape Architecture, Espace and World Sculpture News magazines.

She works with communities and teams to create environmental sculptural experiences that respond to the unique spirit and shape of a place. The use of wind, light and water communicate energy and animate the space within her environmental works. Her experience of other cultures, including the recent three month fellowship in India, has been a source of inspiration for unconventional approaches to art making.

SELCTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2008 Tidal Song, Commissioned by the City of New Rochelle, New York. 120' x 14' x 10', blown glass, programmable lights, speakers and sound system with sensors.
  Shadow Play, Commissioned by the City of Temple and Valley Metro Rail at the Light Rail Station at the 3rd and Mill in Tempe, Arizona. 20' x 40' x 120', etched glass and silk screened images.
2007 Head in the Clouds, Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India. 34' x 16' x 20' Painted chiffon, steel. Cubes of translucent sky painting were first worn for a performance and then installed in the tall atrium of the main campus building.
2005 Light Storm, Commissioned by Mesa Arts Centre in Mesa, Arizona. Work covers an area of 27,000 square feet, stainless steel. In this enviromental work over 30,000 stainless discs are set into the stone paving as if they had fallen from the metal shade screens and a desert wind sent them swirling throughout the complex.
2004 Light Lines, Commissioned by The Tree Museum, a sculpture park north of Toronto, Canada funded the Canada Council for the Arts. 18' x 14' x 10' stainles steel, nylon netting.
2003 Les Marches Du Temps, Commissioned by the Town of Mont Tremblant, Quebec. 8' x 18' x 54'. Les Marches du Temps is a hybrid: part mountain landscape, part building. It echoes the long narrow site and sits like a building upon it. Yet when one enters this work, it also is a passage through the landscape.
2002 Trail of Dreams, Trail of Ghosts, New Mexico Commission for the Arts for the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Frenchy's Park. Two works are placed in parks along the route of the old Camino Real. In Frenchy's Park, two intertwining stone walls 44 feet in diameter represent the Native American and Spanish cultures that become intertwined as a result of the Camino Real.
2001-2002 Pass Through The Land, Metropolitan Stadium District, Denver, Colorado. 300' d., and five 28' tall towers, stone and steel respectively. Winner of a international competition, this enviromental work brings the textures, colors and forms of the Colorado mountains to a 300' diameter park in the form of a modified labyrinth.
1999 River Arch, Commissioned by The City of Winnipeg. Main Street and Norwood Bridges. Stones of Mountainscape are 36" x 300' x 300', Aspen Towers are 28' x 11' x 11', stainless steel.
  By Her Own Radiant Light, private commission for Grace Church on the Hill, Toronto, Ontario. 9' x 5' x 3", platinum leaf, oxidized copper. Memorial wall sculpture.
  La Pluie Douce, Commissioned by Ministere des affaires culturelles du Québec for Le centre hospitalier Charles Lemonye, Brossard, Québec. 14' x 8' x 49' etched glass, steel.
  Light Vibration, The Glenn Gould Award, Commisioned by the Woodlawn Foundation for the Collection of the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto. 96 x 18 x 15" aluminium and marble with alcohol lamp.
  Luiquid Echo, H and R Developments, The Penrose Condominium Complex, 750 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada. 20 x 33 x 100' stone, stainless steel, aluminium and concrete. Enviromental work with wind driven "waterfall" element.
1997-1998 Swift Current, Ministere des affaires culturelles du Québec. Centre d'acceuil Monseigneur Coderre, Longueuil, Canada. Two elements: One of river 12 x 67' and the one of the city map 12 x 18'.
  Attendre Le Ciel, Lotto, Québec. 18" high x 4 x 4". Commemorative edition of 15 works in bronze and fabricated brass elements.
1996 Le Vent Se Leve, Ministere des affairs culturelle du Québec, 1% Program. Hautes Etudes Commercials (the Business School of the University de Montreal), Québec. 20' x 15 x 15' bronze, aluminum and gold leaf.
1995 Le Temps Passe, Ministere des affaires culturelles du Québec. 1% Program, Centre d'acceuil de l'Assomption, Québec. 16' x 100 x 100' gazebo. Copper, ceramic mosaic, concrete.
1994 Nos Jours Sont Comme L'Ombre Qui Passe, Ministere des affairs culturelle du Québec, 1% Program, École Chambly, Québec. 3 x 21 x 21' outdoor, bas-relief 24' x 14' indoor, concrete.
  Cycles, Ministere des affairs culturelle du Québec, 1% Program, École Ste. Julie, Québec. 45' x 14 x 14' interior cast aluminum and 7 x 24 x 60' outdoor, bronze, carved granite.
1993 Objective Memory, The City of Ottawa National Competition, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Canada, designed by Moishe Safdie. 12 x 60 x 60' bronze, aluminum, water.
1992-1993 Parade, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, Integration of Art and Architecture Program, École Emilie Gamlin, La Prairie, Québec. 8 sculptures approx. 12'h ea., bronze.
1992 Passing Song, Commissioned for the International Symposium of Outdoor Sculpture, Lachine, Montreal, Canada. Dome 15' x 18' x 18', steel and concrete
  Point De Depart, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, Integration of Art and Architecture Program, L'lle de Terrebonne, historic site, Québec. Outdoor sculpture that moves in the wind, 15 feet high., galvanized steel, wood.
1991 Murmurs De L'Infinit, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, courtyard in an elementary school on Ile des Soeurs in Montreal. Steel and concrete.
1990 Wind Bower, Commissioned by the Oakville Galleries national competition, Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario. 17' h outdoor sculpture that responds to the wind with delicate wind chimes, steel.
  Wind Boat, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec Ville des Lasalle, Québec. 25' high outdoor kinetic sculpture, aluminum and steel.
  Enfance En Sequence, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, Integration of Art and Architecture Program, Elementary School, Aylmer, Québec. Outdoor 9 elements 10' high, perforated steel.
1989 City People. Commissioned by The Royal Bank f Canada head office, Toronto, Canada. Outdoor, 15' x 100' x 32'.
1988 Le Bon Vent, External Affairs Department of Canada, Canadian Embassy, Geneva, Switzerland. 15' etched brass wall sculpture.
1987 Jardin Des Oiseaux, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, Integration of Art and Architecture Program, Douglas Hospital, Montreal, Québec. 52' enviromental piece with fountain.
1985 Waiting For The Train, Ministere des affairs culturelles du Québec, CLSC St. Henri (Medical and Social Services Centre), Montreal, Québec. 22' steel mural.
1983 Icarus, McGill University, Montreal, Québec. Mobile, 30' x 10' x 12', steel and wood.