Barbara Zeigler-Sunger
(1949–)
Barbara Zeigler-Sunger
1949–
Barbara Zeigler-Sunger (1949– ) is a Canadian artist focused on printmaking. Her work extends the boundaries of printmaking through the incorporation of drawing, photography, installation, digital practices, and collaborative public art into her printmaking practice. Her experiments have deeply influenced approaches to multi-disciplinary printmaking in Canada. Zeigler-Sunger’s work is research-based and considers the evolving relationship between human culture and the ecosphere. Focusing on environmental degradation, she gives special consideration to the ways in which individual and collective identity become evident through land usage. In the 1990s, her work became increasingly collaborative as she began working closely with scientists and the general public.
Born in London, Ontario, Zeigler-Sunger attended the University of Illinois where she obtained a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Printmaking. She also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. Now a professor, she has taught at the University of Alberta, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Queen’s University, and the University of Illinois. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the supervisor of the UBC Print Media Research Centre.
Zeigler-Sunger’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in Canada and abroad. Her work can be found in many museum collections, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, the Washington State Art Consortium, Seattle, and the Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, among others.