N Gruver Van Wagoner

Class of 2017

Nancy Gruver Van Wagoner has lived and worked internationally and is currently based in western Canada where she has lived since 2006. Her work explores the 4.5 billion-year coevolution of Earth and life, and the impacts and future of humanity within this context, intertwining social, political and humanitarian concerns. Projects are research-based, and interdisciplinary, drawing critical connections between objects and events separated by time, space and scale, as a way of making the seemingly remote or unimaginable more immediate and tangible. Works comprise a variety of media and formats.

Gruver Van Wagoner holds a BA and BSc from California State University, a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and PhD in Geology from Dalhousie University in Canada. She is currently a professor of geology in British Columbia, engaged in a professional practice that melds art and science.

Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Gujrat University, Pakistan. She participates in, and presents workshops internationally, and was a visiting professor with the universities of Gujrat (School of Art, Design and Architecture), and Chiang Mai University (teaching traditional ceramics, glaze chemistry and sculpture for the department of Silicate Science and Technology).