NATION
Abenaki

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Carmen Hathaway was born in Germany to an Abenaki father and a German mother. In 1974, she left Quebec and settled in Manitoba to pursue a career in communications and indulge in her newfound passion for drawing. In the early 1980s, she sold her first illustrations to a gallery in Winnipeg. It was in 1986 that her life took a new turn: her first acrylic painting, “Checkmate,” an ode to freedom of expression and spontaneous creativity, confirmed her talent. Her career was launched.

The experience gained from numerous exhibitions and training allowed her to work with several new mediums (oil, glass, video, digital art, multimedia) and add several strings to her bow. Carmen Hathaway has received several grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and has participated in numerous projects and group exhibitions since the late 1990s. In 2011, her solo exhibitions “Carte Blanche” and “Self-Similarity” were respectively presented at the Musée des Abénakis in Odanak and the Portage Arts Centre in Manitoba.

Thanks to the financial support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), her exhibitions Smoke and Cyber Signals were presented in 2017 at the Ashukan Cultural Space, Montreal, Quebec, subsequently touring in 2018 to the Canadian Language Museum at Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council, her virtual/video exhibition, Art of Centricity: COVID:19  debuted on Prairie Fusion Arts & Entertainment Gallery’s (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba) YouTube channel, as their exclusive premiere in 2022.