Zachari Logan (born 1980 Saskatoon) is a Canadian visual artist working in drawing, ceramics and related installation practices. Logan is known for his monumentally-scaled pastel drawings and intimate blue and red pencil drawings on Mylar depicting flora, wildlife and figures. His work intersects themes of selfhood, sexuality, queerness and memory with a focus on human relationships with the natural world. He often makes historical art references to artists and particular works of art, most notably the 18th century artist

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, 16th century Italian painter

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, and 15th century Unicorn Tapestries. Logan attended the

University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Universities in Canada, Canadian public university, public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatch ...

. In 2014 Logan received the Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award for "emerging artist". In 2021 his

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, ''A Natural History of Unnatural Things'', was published by the Radiant Press.

Artist in residence

Logan was an artist in Residence at the

Tom Thomson Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career, he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and approximately 50 larger works on canvas. His wo ...

Shack on commission by the

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. From June 26 to July 8, 2017, Logan worked on-site to create a site-specific installation for permanent display. In addition, he was also commissioned to create a drawing inspired by Thomson that would remain in McMichael's permanent collection. The result, titled, ''Witness, the Near Shore from Eunuch Tapestries (for Tom)'', was included in a subsequent exhibition at MCAC titled, ''Passion Over Reason:

and

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''.

Public collections

Logan's work is included in the collections of the

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, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

and the

Personal

Logan lives with his husband in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Logan, Zachari 1980 births Living people Artists from Regina, Saskatchewan Artists from Saskatoon Canadian ceramists Canadian installation artists Canadian male artists Canadian LGBTQ artists 21st-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people