SELECTED BIOGRAPHY:

Lil Chrzan has called B.C. home for 26 years. She has exhibited in over 60 shows since graduating with Honors from Emily Carr College of Art including such shows as ARTROPOLIS,and B.C.'s Images and Objects etc.

Lil has launched a website to showcase her paintings, primarily Still Lifes' and Figures. Lil's paintings demonstrate a keen color sense and attention to detail. Strong diagonal composition sensabilities and a triad of color harmonies. Lil strives for interesting  and often unusual Still Life studies.

FINE ARTS BACKGROUND

Honours Graduate
Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Painting major, 1987

BFA through Open University

Vancouver Art Academy
Studies with Michael Britton, Paul Chizak and Thomas Anfield

Seattle Realism Academy
Studies with Tony Ryder, 2000

AWARDS

Winner of the Don S. Willams FANS award, 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007

"To Sleep Perchance to Dream", Seymour Art Gallery, BC.

"Moustache Cafe, North Vancouver, BC"

2006

2005

"North Shore Art in the Garden Tour"

2004

"Art For Life Silent Auction" , October 2004
Vancouver, B.C."

"Panne from Heaven" Solo Display, Vancouver, B.C.

"ArtBeat, Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver

2003
"Essential Oils", Group Show; Ferry Building Gallery

Harmony Arts Festival Juried Group Show, Ferry
Building Gallery, West Vancouver

2002
"Final Curtain", Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver

5th Avenue Cinema: Feature Artist Slide Presentation, Vancouver

2001
"Artwork", BC Festival of the Arts, Fort St. John BC

2000
Harmony Arts Festival; ArtBeat & Artists' Open Studio Tour

1999
ArtBeat; Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver

1998
"Body and Soul"; Two-Person Show: Ferry
Building Gallery, West Vancouver

1997
Two Person Show: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver

1996
"Attempting Disclosures"; Two-Person Show:
Amelia Douglas Gallery, New Westminster

"Images of the Feminine", Three-Person Show:
Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver

1995
"Images and Objects X111": Kamloops BC

PUBLICATIONS

2006
"Life on Canvas" North Shore News, Feb 2006 issue
North Vancouver, BC

1989
"Lil Chrzan", GALLERIE: Spring Issue
North Vancouver, BC

1990
"The Politics of Power": An Interview with Lil Chrzan
by Morgan McGuigan, grunt Gallery

"We Would Never Do This To You", by Kirsten Evenden
THE UBTSSEY, March 15 1990, issue.

1993
"Images and Objects Finalists", ARTS ACCESS
March/April 1993 Issue
Cover Featuring a Slide of the Work "XX DIALOGUE"

"Public Issues Abound at ARTROPOLIS '93
By Ann Macklem, ARTS ACCESS Sept/Oct Issue

"Artist is Visually Plotting Life's Course"
By Patricia Heintzman, "SQUAMISH CHIEF", Oct. 12 1993

WEB PUBLICATIONS

"Curry's Featured Artist"

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

1984
PC Cultural Fund for Artistic Achievement

1986
BC Cultural Fund Grant, Senior Award
BC Provincial Award, Academic Achievement

1987
BC Provincial Award, Academic Achievement