Ixchel Suarez
Birthdate: 1966
Birthplace: Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Based location: Warkworth, Northumberland, Ontario
Social profiles
Ixchel Suarez Biography, Sur Gallery, 2024
Ixchel Suarez Biography, Oak Heights Gallery
Ixchel Suarez non-profit educational organization Canadian Tapestry and Texture Centre
Ixchel Suarez Blog (2007-2013)
Biography
Ixchel Suarez (born 1966, Mexico)
Ixchel Suarez is a Mexican textile fabric artist based in Warkworth, Northumberland, Ontario. Ixchel holds a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies (Iberoamericana University, Mexico City), a BA in Graphic Design & Art History (Anahuac University, Mexico City), and Post-Graduate Studies in Contemporary Textiles in Łódź, Poland. She is the Founder and Director of the Oakville Arts Studio and the not-for-profit Canadian Tapestry and Texture Centre, and has given lectures, workshops and artist talks in centres such as the Textile Museum of Canada, the Textile Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, and at several handweavers and spinners guilds across Ontario. Her work has been contemplated by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She is also the recipient of awards such as the 2021 Award of Excellence from Lausanne to Beijing Fibre Art Biennale and the 2010 Visual Arts Category of the Oakville Arts Council.
Influenced by her Mexican cultural identity and her experience as an immigrant in Canada, Suarez’s practice within textile art integrates Abstract Expressionism with the traditional craft of tapestry. She explores themes related to nature’s transitions, climate change, and the transient nature of existence. Ixchel’s work has been showcased in solo exhibitions such as Tempus Fugit (Art Gallery of Northumberland, Sep-Nov 2024); she has also been part of several collective exhibitions, such as Rooted Knots/Blended Threads (Sur Gallery, Spring 2024), Woven By Hand: Contemporary Canadian Tapestries (Almonte Textile Museum, 2024), and the Triennial of Contemporary Textile Art in Łódź (Textile Museum of Kamienna Gora, Poland, 2013). Ixchel also exhibited in the World of Threads festival, a biennial showcase of local, national and international contemporary fibre and textile art based in Oakville, Ontario, on several occasions.
Man Of a Thousand Faces
1995
Haute lisse tapestry, 2m x 1.60 m
Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist
Solo exhibitions
Ixchel Suarez press release solo exhibition Tempus Fugit , Art Gallery of Northumberland, ON. September 7-November 4, 2024
Collective exhibitions
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Rooted Knots/Blended Threads, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2024
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Woven by Hand: Contemporary Canadian Tapestries, curated by Michael Rikley-Lancaster, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, 2024
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition brochure World of Threads, curated by Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman, Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 2023-24
Ixchel Suarez collective online exhibition press release From Lausanne to Beijing, International Fiber Art Biennale, China, 2021
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition blog post La Magie des Fils (in French), Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, QC, 2019
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition blog post First International Tapestry Exhibition (in French), Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, ON, 2019
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge, organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan and Guest Curator Geary Jones. Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, 2015-16
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition brochure World of Threads Festival 2014, Oakville & Mississauga, Ontario, 2014
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Triennial of Contemporary Textile Art in Łódź (in Polish), Textile Museum of Kamienna Gora, Poland, 2013
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Quiet Zone–The Common Thread International exhibition, World of Threads Festival. Curated by Dawne Rudman, The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, 2012
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition blog post De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) – 2012 World of Threads Festival, curated by Gareth Bate, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville, Ontario, 2012
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Memento mori – 2012 World of Threads Festival, curated by Gareth Bate, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, 2012
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Newcomers Art Exhibition, Oakville Town Hall, Ontario, 2011
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition documentation Salon of the Common Thread, O’Connor MacLeod Hanna, Oakville, Ontario, 2009
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition documentation Common Thread, Towne Square Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, 2009
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition documentation Nine Lives, Timothy’s World Coffee, Toronto, Ontario, 2009
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition documentation Threads That Bind, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, 2009
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release Guilded Threads – Common Thread National Juried Exhibition, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, 2007
Interviews
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Multiple Arts and Artisans, 2024 (YouTube)
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Dimitri Papatheodorou, Art Gallery of Northumberland, 2022 (YouTube)
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Donna Wootton, 2022 (YouTube)
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Rebecca Robins, 2022 (YouTube)
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Kerr Village House, 2015 (YouTube)
Ixchel Suarez Interview by Gareth Bate & Dawne Rudman, World of Threads Festival webpage
Presentations
Ixchel Suarez artist talk with Ruth Mora Izturriaga, Sur Gallery, 2024
Published work by Ixchel Suarez
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Published work about Ixchel Suarez
Ixchel Suarez artist profile “Behind a Weaver’s Line” by Esteban Powell (2019)
Ixchel Suarez article “The Cure is in the Canvas” by Anna Wdowczyk (2021)
Ixchel Suarez article by Ellen Ramsey, 2018
Ixchel Suarez tapestry workshop review, Line Dufour, 2013
Ixchel Suarez artist profile, Strand News, 2011
Press release
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition blog post World of Threads, curated by Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman, 2023-24
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition press release World of Threads, curated by Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman, Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 2023-24
Ixchel Suarez press release for Program Night Meeting – Pre-Columbian Natural Dyes, Weavers & Spinners Society of Austin, 2023
Ixchel Suarez blog post for Our Loom in the Lobby Weaves its Way to the Finish Line!, Art Gallery of Northumberland, 2023
Ixchel Suarez brochure for Northumberland Hills Studio Tour, 2023
Ixchel Suarez press release Northumberland Art Lovers, Festival of Hearts, 2022
Ixchel Suarez press release for Oakville Arts Studio, Inside Halton, 2021
Ixchel Suarez workshop press release for The Art of Being Present: Weaving our Common Thread through Movement and Sound, Culture Days, 2020
Ixchel Suarez press release for A Day In the Life of a Tapestry Weaver, Culture Days, 2020
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition blog post Memento mori – 2012 World of Threads Festival, curated by Gareth Bate, The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, 2012
Ixchel Suarez collective exhibition article World of Threads Festival 2009: A Lasting Impression, Fibre Focus Magazine, 2009
Ixchel Suarez collective artwork press release World of Threads Festival 2007 Presents “The Sixteen by 18”, SNAP Oakville, February 2007
Ixchel Suarez collective artwork press release Today's Life and Culture: World of Threads Comes Together, Oakville Today, February 2007
Ixchel Suarez collective artwork press release Even fibre artists impressed by their team effort, Oakville Beaver Artscene, January 26, 2007
List of Grants, Awards and Projects
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