Artist Name: Chris Glabb
Residency Dates: August – November 2025
Born: 2000
From: Canada
Lives & Works: Between Ottawa and New York City
URL: chrisglabb.com
Education:
2024 – BFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Ottawa
Bio/Statement:
Chris Glabb aims to make the themes of Fine Art accessible through lowbrow referentiality, irony, a dry sense of humour, and the explicit appropriation of existing images. His practice is grounded in the philosophy that images and references function as social currency – tools that provide access to spaces, experiences, and opportunities that would otherwise be inaccessible. Engaging with questions of hierarchy, intersectional Queerness, and Indigenous identities, Glabb employs a Post-Pop Art sensibility to redefine relationships between moments in culture through processes of image manipulation and printmaking. Video games, fashion, and non-objective painting provide recurring points of reference in his practice, shaping his ongoing examination of how popular imagery functions as a site of connection, critique, and cultural negotiation.
Chris Glabb’s solo exhibition – Roadkill Paintings (Found Series) – took place in 2025 at the Lalande + Doyle Exhibition Space at Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has participated in group exhibitions, including North Star, de Montigny Contemporary, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2025); At a Glance, The Ottawa Art Gallery (Galerie Annexe), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2025), XL, AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (2023). His work was also featured in Zine 0007 Building Bridges, Ottawa Design Club (2024).
Support: Chris Glabb’s residency is made possible with support from Métis Nation of Ontario.
