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Karl Mattson Selected Exhibitions

Karl's works have been exhibited throughout Canada as well as internationally.

Selected Exhibitions

2022: Winner of Artistic merit award - Castlegar SculptureWalk.

2022: Judge - Chetwynd International Chainsaw Carving Competition.

2022: LIFE POD - EXECUTIVE - Castlegar B.C Sculpture exhibition.

2021: LOST 2 - Sculpture Commission - Calgary Alberta.

2021: Awarded  Honorary Associate of Arts degree - Northern Lights College

2021: LOST - Sculpture Installation on cliff over-looking Okanagan Lake, Naramata B.C

2021 : UNCERTAINTY - public art sculpture. University Of British Columbia, Prince George, Botanical Garden.

2020: November. You are not alone. Group exhibit.
Penticton art gallery.


2020 : October. ELEMENT -  public art. Permanent sculpture .
Terrace B.C

2020 : August. Thoughts of Love. Meditations of violence. Artist in residency exhibition.
Dawson Creek Art Gallery.

2020 : May 2020- May 2021. LOST. Public art exhibit.
City of Penticton 

2020 : Distinguished Conceptual Award "LOST" Peace Liard Regional Art Exhibit

2020: March. Voices from the sacrifice zone. mixed media exhibition. UBC Medical Student and Alumni Centre   Vancouver B.C
 
2020: April. Voices from the sacrifice zone. mixed media exhibition. Arts Centre at Cedar Hill    Victoria B.C  (posponed.. Covid-19)

2020: March. Peace Liard Regional arts council. Selected for Artist in Residency program. 2019/2020. Exhibition to follow in Dawson Creek

2018: Together, collaboration sculpture. Minoru Park, Richmond B.C

2018: Selected to attend The Arctic Circle residency, Svalbard, Norway - June

2017: EMERGENCE , August 11 - Sculpture unveiling , Dawson Creek B.C
          collaboration sculpture. Lead artist and manager.

2017: Arts Wells- August 4th-7th ,  Sculpture exhibition

2017: Maps and Dreams - June 21- July 29th,  Group show - Audain Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.  https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/audain-gallery.html
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2016: HINTERLANDS - November 2016 - solo exhibition - Critical Mass pop up Gallery, 100 Mile House B.C

2016: HINTERLANDS - OCTOBER 2016 - solo exhibition - Williams Lake, BC

2016: THE EXPEDITION- MARCH 2016 - Group show by the Mattson family at the Grande Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB

2016: LANTERN GALLERY - January 2016 - solo exhibition - Winnipeg, MB

2014: LOST - October 2014 - Solo exhibition at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery 

2014: LOST - Sculpture exhibition at Arts Wells, Wells, BC

2014: LIFE POD - Exhibition at the Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC,  sculpture court July 2014- July 2015

2014: Life Pod - The Vessel, Peace Gallery North, Fort St. John, BC

2014: Featured Artist, Sweetwater905 arts and music festival, Rolla, BC

2013: Life Pod exhibition at Arts Wells , Wells B.C

2013: Sculpture unveiling at the rose garden, Pioneer Village, Dawson Creek BC

2013: Featured artist, Sweetwater905 arts and music festival, Rolla, BC

2012: Completion of mural at the Ken Borek Aquatic center and climbing wall, Dawson Creek, BC

2012:  Sweetwater905 arts festival. Organizer and featured artist, The Mattson Farm June 15,16,17, 2012. Rolla, BC

2011: Sisters of Karnataka selected for distribution through indieflix.com

2011: Sisters of Karnataka - Winner of the short doc category Home Planet Film Festival ,NYC

2011: Sisters of Karnataka  - Official selection Toronto Independant Film Festival, Toronto, ON

2011: Sisters of Karnataka - Official selection Reel Shorts Film Festival Grande Prairie, AB

2011: Life Pod -  Sculpture unveiling at Scavenger Studio, August 2011. Rolla, BC

2010: Industrial Evolution - Officially selected for Reel Earth film festival, New Zealand - June 5, 2010

2010: Sweetwater to Saltwater - Officially selected for Reel Paddling film festival - Various dates throughout North America

2010: Keeping the Peace - Officially selected for Waterwalker film festival - Various dates throughout North America

2010: Keeping the Peace - Officially selected for Reel Shorts film festival, April 24-26 2010. Grande Prairie, AB

2007 - 2009: Sweetwater to Saltwater - Northern cities tour, various cities and towns throughout northern British Columbia and Alberta including Dawson Creek, Fort St John, Hudson’s Hope, Worsley, Prince George.

2008: Muskwa – Online exhibition in partnership with Athabasca University and Writing on the Ridge

2008: Keepers of the Water IV, Fort Chipewyan Cultural Centre, Fort Chipewyan , AB – Presentation of Keeping the Peace: the future of a northern watershed, August 16th.

2007: Waterwalker Film Festival - North American Tour of Sweetwater to Saltwater – various dates in 2007 (see website Paddling Canada for dates by city)

2007: Sweetwater 905, The Mattson Farm, Rolla, BC – September 7, 8, 9

2007: Muskwa-Kechika, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek, BC and Peace Gallery North, Fort St. John, BC and Northern Lights College, Fort Nelson – February 6-May 31

2007: Guest presenter at Keepers of the Water 2. Presentation of Keeping the Peace.

2006: The Expedition, Dawson Creek Art Gallery , Dawson Creek , BC – September- November

2006:  Arctic Journeys II, Canfor Theatre, Prince George , BC – presentation of Sweetwater to Saltwater with two other arctic canoeing journeys - March 29

2005: Sweetwater 905, The Mattson Farm, Rolla, BC – September 9, 10, 11

2004: Alaska Highway sculpture commission for the City of Dawson Creek – unveiled April 27

2004: Nordic Art Exhibit and Sale , Scandinavian Community Centre, Burnaby , BC – April 3, 4, 5

2004:  Found, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George , BC – March 12- May 6

2003: Workers’ Memorial Sculpture for the City of Dawson Creek – unveiled April 28

2003: Sweetwater, Two Rivers Gallery sculpture court, Prince George, BC

2003: Artropolis, CBC Building , Vancouver, BC

2000: Night of Artists, Grande Prairie Inn, Grande Prairie, AB

1998: Sweetwater Road II , Dawson Creek Art Gallery , Dawson Creek, BC

1996: Images and Objects (BC Festival of the Arts), Penticton, BC

1995: Images and Objects (BC Festival of the Arts), Kamloops, BC - Received Award of Excellence for mixed media sculpture

1994:  Images and Objects (BC Festival of the Arts), Campbell River, BC

1994: The Mattsons, Dawson Creek Art Gallery , Dawson Creek, BC and Peace Gallery North, Fort St. John , BC

1992: Sweetwater Road I, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek, BC and Peace Gallery North, Fort St. John, BC


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