Bonnie Sheckter Drawings
About the Artist
Bonnie Sheckter, CPSA, SCA, is an award-winning Canadian artist who has been creating drawings in coloured pencil for close to 25 years. A former printmaker, Bonnie switched to coloured pencil because of health issues and fell in love with this medium's wonderful capabilities for capturing subtle nuances, luminous build-up of color, and liberating sense of spontaneity. Portraiture holds a world of fascination for her as she strives to capture unique and candid moments that give voice to our humanity and emotional complexity.
Bonnie received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1973, and her Master of Visual Arts in Printmaking in 1976 from the the University of Alberta. She went on to teach at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta for several years, and then became the Director of Lithography at Open Studio in 1982 after moving to Toronto. During this time she exhibited widely in various juried and invitational shows, nationally and internationally, and received a number of awards for her work.
Bonnie lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her husband, musician Russell Hartenberger.
***Bonnie is represented in the Southwest by the Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
130 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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INTERNATIONAL JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Coloured Pencil Drawing
2024 SCA Elected Member Juried Exhibition, online and Galerie Viva Vida, QC, 2024
CPSA DC108 Showcase 2024, Award Winner
Light Space &Time 14th Open No Theme Exhibition 2024, Award Winners
Art Gallery of Mississauga's Fourth Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts, 2024
Richeson75 Figure/Portrait Online Exhibition, Finalist, 2024
Society of Canadian Artists, 56th Juried Online Show for Elected Members, 2024, Award Winner
Northern Art Explosion, Ausable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI, 2024, Award Winner
United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society Open Annual Online Exhibition, 2024, Award Winner
International Guild of Realism, Online Fall Salon, 2024
Society of Artists' 150th Open Juried Exhibition, 150 King St. West, Toronto 2024
Impact 2024 Juried Exhibition, Neilson Park Creative Centre Gallery, 2024 Award Winner
Paint Ontario 2024, Grand Bend, Ontario Award Winners
Camelback Gallery Figurative 2024 Award Winner
Society of Canadian Artists 2024 International Exhibition
Art Fluent "Face to Face" 2024
Light Space & Time online 14th Figurative Art Exhibition, 2024 Award Winner
Arts North 29 International Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN, 2024 Award Winner
Camelback Gallery Artist Invitational VIII Exhibition, 2024 Award Winner
Federation of Canadian Artists, 2024 Annual International Representatinal Exhibition, 2024
Richeson75 Small Works 2024, Finalist, 2024
Federation of Canadian Artists 2024 Artists' Choice Online Exhibition 2024
Camelback Gallery, My Best Work of 2023, Award Winner, 2024
UKCPS Inside the Lines Exhibition, 2023, Award Winner
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Autumn Palette, juried online exhibtion, 2023
Richeson75 Figure/Portrait 2023 International online exhibit, Finalist
International Guild of Realism, Fall Salon, 2023
Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, Michigan, 2023 Award Winner
UKCPS Annual Exhibition 2023, Award Winner
55th Open Society of Canadian Artists Exhibition, Neilson Park Creative Centre, ON 2023 Award Winner
IMPACT 2023, Neilson Park Creative Centre, ON 2023
Camelback Faces 2023 Exhibiton, Award Winner
Society of Canadian Artists Open International Juried Online Exhibition, 2023, Award Winner
Camelback Gallery Black and White X Exhibition, 2023, Award Winner
International Guild of Realsim, 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM, 2023 Award Winner
CPSA Explore This! 19 Exhibition, 2023
2022 Artwork of the Year Award, Camelback Gallery, 2023
Color Pencil Magazine 2022 Art Competition, Best In Show
Biafaran Awards International Online Group Exhibition, 2022/23
Camelback Gallery Portraits Competition 2022, Best in Show Platinum Award
Figureworks 2022, Wallack's Galleries, Ottawa, 2022 Finalist
Art Fluent, "MOOD", themed online exhibition, 2022
Federation of Canadian Artists Annual International Representational Exhibition, 2022 Third Place Award
Martha's Vineyard Drawing Prize 2022 Finalist, Juror's Prize
Southwest Art Magazine 2022 Artistic Excellence Competition, Finalist, 2022
54th Open International Exhibition, Papermill Gallery, Toronto 2022 $2000 Best in Show
Paint Ontario, Lambton Heritage Museum, Grand Bend, 2022 $750 First Place Award Portrait Category
International Guild of Realism Fall Salon, 2022
Human Form & Figure, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, 2022
Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI 2022 $500 Kirtland Merit Award, Humanity Category
30th Annual CPSA International Exhition, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Ormond Beach Art Museum, 2022 $1000 Award for Exceptional Merit
Ann Kullberg Color Magazine's 23rd Annual Member Show, 2022 $200 First Place Professional Category
2022 Annual International Representational Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, BC 2022
Strokes of Genius 14, Best of Drawing Special Edition, Artists Magazine, 2022
Art Fluent "Motion" juried exhibition, 2022
International Guild of Realism 16th Annual International Juried Exhibition, McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD, 2022
Marin Society of Artists "Expressions 2022" Exhbition, Honorable Mention Award
Art Fluent Humanity Exhibition, 2022
SCA Open International Juried Exhibition, 2022
Colored Pencil Magazine 2021 Art Competition, Best In Show
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, themed exhibition "A Perfect Moment", 2021
2021 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait Exhibition Finalist, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly, WI, Honorable Mention Award
Annual International Representational Exhibition "AIRE 2021", Federation Gallery, Granville Island, BC
International Guild of Realism 2021 Fall Salon Exhibition Finalist
Camelback Gallery Invitational 2021 Exhibition, Silver Award
Camelback Gallery Figurative 2021 Exhibition, Silver Award
29th Annual CPSA International Exhibition, 2021
53rd International Open Juried Exhibition, Society of Canadian Artists, 2021, $500 SCA Award of Excellence
Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Black and White Exhibition, 2021
Federation of Canadian Artists LIMITLESS 2021 International Online Exhibition, Honorable Mention Award
Cultural Center of Cape Cod Black and White International Exhibition, 2021
Biafarin Awards 2021, Online Group Exhibiton 2021
Camelback Shades of Blue 2021 International Painting Exhibition, Silver Award
LightSpaceTime 11th Annual Figurative Online Art Competition, 2021, Special Merit Award
Camelback Faces 2021 International Painting Competition, Bronze Award
Camelback Black and White 2021 International Painting and Photography Competition, Gold Award of Excellence in Painting
Camelback Portraits 2020 Exhibition, Merit Award
Martha's Vineyard Drawing Prize Competition, Fortitude, 2020, Finalist
HUMANITY, Cultural Centre of Cape Cod, 2020 , 3rd Place Award
2020 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait Competition, Meritorious Selection 2020
52nd International Open Juried Exhibition, SCA, 2020, First Award for Excellence
28th Annual CPSA International Exhibiton, 2020
Figureworks 2019, Ottawa, ON, 2019
27th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Brea, California, 2019
51st Internatioanl Open Juried Exhibition, SCA, Toronto, 2019
50th International Open Juried Exhibition, SCA, Toronto, 2018, First Prize, Mary Pratt Crystal Award
2nd International PAS Juried Exhibition, Ottawa, ON, 2016, President's Award, People's Choice Award
23rd Annual CPSA Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015, Award for Distinction
21st Annual CPSA Exhibition, Brea, California, 2013
19th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Dallas, TX, 2011
17th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
13th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 2005
11th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Brea, California, 2003
10th Annual CPSA Exhibition, Dallas, TX, 2002
Prints
Print Triennial '94 Consumenta '95, Nuremberg, Germany, 1995
International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto, Japan, 1984
British Biennale, 1983
World Print IV, San Francisco, 1983
Korean Biennale, 1981, Grand Prize Award, 1983
Norwegian Invitational, 1982
Ljublijana Biennale, 1981, 1980
Intergraphia (Poland), 1978, 1980
Cracow Biennale, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980
AWARDS:
Colour Pencil Drawings:
BEST IN SHOW, CPSA DC108 Showcase Exhibition, 2024
Honorable Mention, Special Merit Award, Light Space &Time 14th Open No Theme Exhibition 2024
$1000 People's Choice Award of Excellence, Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI 2024
$750 Honourable Mention, SCA 56th Juried Online Exhibition, 2024
Best in Show, United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society Open Annual Online Exhibition, 2024
Second Prize Award, Impact 2024, Neilson Park Creative Centre, 2024
First Place Portrait Award, and Sponsor Choice Award, Paint Ontario Art Competition, Exhibition and Sale, 2024
Silver Award, Camelback Gallery, Figurative 2024
Special Merit Award and Special Recognition Award, 14th Figurative Art Exhibition, LightSpaceTime , 2024
Sterling Award II, Arts North 29 International Exhibition, 2024
Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery, Artists Invitational VIII, 2024
Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery, My Best Work of 2023, 2024
Best Picture Award, UKCPS "Inside the Lines" Online exhibition, 2023
Best in People/Figure Juror's Choice, Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI 2023
Award of Merit, SCA , 55th Open International Exhibition, 2023
Best Pure Colour Pencil, UKCPS Annual Open Exhibition 2023
Director's Choice Award, IGOR, Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, 2023
Silver Award, Camelback Gallery, FACES 2023
2nd Place Award fo Excellence, SCA 2023 Open International, 2023
Silver and Bronze Awards, Camelback Black and White X Exhibition, 2023
2022 Artwork of the Year Award, Camelback Gallery, 2023
Home And Garden Awards, Commissioned Artist of the Year 2023
Best in Show, Color Pencil Magazine 2022 Art Competition
Best In Show Platinum Award, Camelback Gallery Portraits, 2022
Third Place Award, Federation of Canadian Artists Annual International Representational Exhibition, 2022
Juror's Prize, Martha's Vinyard Drawing Prize, 2022
$500 Kirtland Merit Award, Humanity Category, Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI 2022
$750 First Place Portrait Category, 2022 Paint Ontario Art Competition, Exhibition and Sale, 2022
$2000 Best In Show, Society of Canadian Artists, 54th Open International Juried Exhibition, 2022
$200 First Place, Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Members Shwo, Professioanl Category, 2022
$1000 Lyra/Strathmore Award for Exceptional Merit, CPSA 30th Annual Exhibition, 2022
Honorable Mention Award, Marin Society of Artists, 2022
Best in Show, Colored Pencil Magazine 2021 Art Competition
Honorable Mention Award, 2021 Richeson75 Figure/Portrait Exhibition
Silver Award, Camelback Gallery Invitational 2021 Exhibition
$500 SCA Award of Excellence, SAC 53rd Open International Juried Exhibition, 2021
Silver Award, Camelback Gallery Figurative 2021 Exhibition
Honorable Mention Award, Federation of Canadian Artists, LIMITLESS 2021 Exhibition
Silver Award, Camelback Shades of Blue International Painting Competition, 2021
Special Merit Award, LightSpaceTime 11th Annual Figurative Online Art Competition 2021
Bronze Award, Faces 2021, Camelback International Painting Competition, 2021
Gold Award of Excellence, Camelback Black and White 2021 International Painting and Photography Competition
Merit Award, Camelback Portraits 2020 Exhibition, 2020
Finalist, Martha's Vineyard, Drawing Prize Competition, 2020
3rd Place Award, HUMANITY International Show, Cultural Centre of Cape Cod, 2020
Best of Show, 21st Annual Member show, Ann Kullberg Color Magazine, 2020
1st Award for Excellence, SCA 52nd International Open Juried Exhibition, 2020
3rd Place Award, 20th Annual Member show, Ann Kullberg Color Magazine, 2019
People's Choice Award, CPCAU “Drawn Together” Members Show, 2019
1st Prize, Mary Pratt Crystal Award, SCA 50th International Open Juried Exhibition, 2018
President's Award and People's Choice Award, PAS 2nd International Juried Exhibition, 2016
1st Place Award, 17th Annual Members Show, Ann Kullberg Color Magazine, 2016
Award for Distinction, CPSA 23rd Annual International Exhibition, 2015
4th Place Prize Award, 12th Annual Members Show, Ann Kullberg Magazine, 2011
Finalist (Award Certificate), Canadian Brushstroke Magazine, 2011
Prints:
Grand Prize Award, Korean Biennale, 1981
Purchase Award, Canadian Biennale, 1980; Graphex, 1975, 1979; Imprint, 1976
Special Merit Award, Graphex, 1979
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
Coloured Pencil Drawings:
21st Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Members Show, 2020, Best of Show Award
Drawn Together, Coloured Pencil Community of Australasia Member Show, 2019 People's Choice Award
20th Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Members Show, 2019, 2nd Place Award
18th, 19th Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Member show, 2017, 2018
17th Anne Kullberg Color Magazine Members Show, 2016, 1st Place Award
Drawing Featured in July 2015 Issue, Ann Kullberg Color Magazine
16th Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Members Show, 2015
14th Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Theme Show 2013
12th Ann Kullberg Color Magazine Members Show, 2011 4th Place Award
NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Coloured Pencil Drawings
Canadian Brushstroke Magazine, Portraits and Figurative, 2011 Finalist (Award Certificate)
Prints
Canadian Exhibition, World Print Council, 1980
Canadian Biennale, 1978, 1980, Purchase Award, 1983
Graphex, 1975 Purchase Award, 1976, 1978, 1979 Purchase Award, 1980, 1981
Burnaby Biennale, 1977
CURATED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Prints
Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates, Sept. 2015 - January 2016
Medium X Process = Perception, Original Prints, Art Gallery of Brant, 2007
Master Class, Sightlines Symposium, FAB, U of Alberta, 1997
FACE, Harbourfront Exhibition, 1995
Canadian Impressions, Osaka, Japan, 1984
Contemporary Canadian Printmakers, Brisbane, Australia, 1984
Canadian Contemporary Printmakers, The Bronx Museum, NY, 1982
Canadian Prints and Watercolours, U. of Michigan, 1982
Printmakers '82, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982
Midwest Museum of American Art, Indiana, 1980
Canadian Embassy Boston, Mass., 1978/79
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Prints
Gallery Pascal, Toronto, 1982
Gallery Moos, Calgary, Alberta, 1980
University of Calgary, 1977
University of Alberta, Graduate Exhibition, 1976
GROUP EXHIBITONS
Coloured Pencil Drawings
Portrait Show, VITA Brevis Studio Gallery, Toronto, 2005
Prints
3 Artist Exhibition, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1979
Graphics, 5-artist exhibition, Aggregation Gallery, Toronto, 1979
3 Artist Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 1979
PUBLICATIONS, PODCASTS AND ARTICLES:
Colour Pencil Drawings:
CP Magic! Special Invitational Issue, "Your Best Colored Pencil Work of 2023, Feb. 2024
CPSA To The Point magazine, November Issue, 2023
CP Treasures, Vol. 9, 2023 Grand Master Section
CP Magic! Special Invitational Issue, "Your Best Colored Pencil Work of 2022", Feb. 2023
CP Treasures, Vol. 8, 2020
CP Magic! Featured Artist with mini-tutorial 2022
Sharpened Artist Podcast, interview with John Middick, https://sharpenedartist.com/podcast/
CP Treasures, Vol. 7, 2020
Best of Show, Members Show, Color Magazine, October 2020
Showcase, Color Magazine, June 2020
CP Treasures, Vol 6, 2019
CP Treasures, Vol. 5, 2017
CP Treasures, Vol. 4, 2016
From Toxic to Green, Profile Article, Color Magazine, November 2016
Brushstroke Magazine, 2011
Featured Artist of the Month, on-line Artist's Magazine, February, 2005
Prints:
Medium X Process = Perception, Original Prints, 2007
Printmaking in Three Continents: A Question of Horizons, by Lawrence Smith, 1999
Sightlines, by Walter Jule, 1997
Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, 1989
Vanguard, by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1984
Artists of Alberta, by Suzanne Devonshire Baker, 1980
GRAPHIC DESIGN
CD Design, Arlington, Russell Hartenberger, 2024
Book Cover, The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm, Cambridge University Press, 2020
CD and Booklet Design, Requeim, Russell Hartenberger, 2019
Book Cover, Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich, Cambridge University Press, 2016
Book Cover, The Cambridge Companion to Percussion, Cambridge University Press, 2016
NEXUS CD and Booklet Design, The City Wears a Slouch Hat, 2016
NEXUS CD and Booklet Design, Persian Songs, 2015
NEXUS CD Cover and Booklet Design, Wings, 2007
CD and Booklet Design Theme and Evolutions, Nicholas Coulter and Graham Hargrove, 2005
NEXUS CD cover and Booklet Design, Drumtalker, 2003
NEXUS Drumtalker Poster, 2003
Cover Design of Score Invisible Proverb by composer Russell Hartenberger, 2003
Cover Design of Score, Carla's Poems by composer Chan Ka Nin, 1999
COLLECTIONS: (selected)
Michael and Christie Sugarman
University of Toronto, Faculty of Music
University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work
Sandra and Ron Dowhaniuk
Ryan Scott and Sanya Eng
Heather and Brian Girvitz
Art Gallery of Brant
Alberta Art Foundation
Canada Council Art Bank
Coopers-Lybrand
Gulf Oil
Homme Baker, Calgary
The Market Gallery
The National Museum, Poznan, Poland
Toronto Dominion Bank
University of Alberta
Visual Arts Branch, Culture, Youth and Recreation
The Wroclaw Museum, Breslau, Poland
Robin and Eleanor Engelman
Toni Stevens
Q Media Solutions
Bryce and Jill Engelman
Takeo Nagabuchi, Nishimatsu Corp.
Mika Yoshida
Mayor of Hondo, Kumamoto Prefecture, Mr. Yasuda
Doctor Junji Nagano
Garry and Diane Kvistad
David and Marcia Beach
Scott and Wendy Rawls
Midori Koga and Jun Nogami
Gage Averill and Giovanna Perot-Averill
Bruce and Liza Smith
Sandra and Gabriel Eckenstein
Roanne and Jaap Kalkman
Shira and Jeff Sheckter
