Claire Milbrath
Claire Milbrath (b. 1989 Victoria, Canada) is a self-taught artist working with painting, sewing, and drawing. Adopting an artistic style reminiscent of naive painters, Milbrath incorporates large swaths of lush color to construct her compositional space, renewing the coloristic tradition with vignettes relating to unrequited love, sexual fantasies and childhood innocence. She has been actively exhibiting her work in recent years in both solo and group exhibitions. Milbrath has had two solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, as well as a solo booth at Artissima Fair, Turin in 2018. She is the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Editorial Magazine, a print journal on contemporary art.
Born 1989, Victoria, British Columbia
Lives and works in Victoria
Education
2012
BA Concordia University, Montréal
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Bathroom Scenes, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2018
Artissima (with Steve Turner), Torino, Italy
2017
Crome Yellow, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Poor Gray: Domestic Scenes, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Still Lives, Groovy Dog Gallery, Milwaukee
2015
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Éphémère, Montréal
Group Exhibitions
2020
The Thicker the Woods, the Vaster the Vista, Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Swan Song / Chant du cygne, Projet Pangée, Montreal
Flickering Dreams, Projet Pangée, Mexico City
2019
Enter Art Fair (with Steve Turner), Copenhagen
Fantasia, curated by Claire Milbrath, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Imagined Realities, Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels
Paperview, The Hole, New York
Material Art Fair (with Projet Pangée), Mexico City
Power of Ten, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Zona Maco (with Steve Turner), Mexico City
Hypnagogia, Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg
2018
Code Art Fair (with Steve Turner), Copenhagen
Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
BioPix, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2017
Vendu-Solde, Esse, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
We Live in a Fantasy, NeverApart, Montreal
Domestic Tranquility, 0-0 LA, Los Angeles
Papier, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal
Material Art Fair (with Project Pangée), Mexico City
This Must Be The Place, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg
2016
As the Morning Lengthened, Whole Parties Appeared Over The Sandhills,
AC Repair Co., Toronto
The Garden, Project Pangée, Montréal
Velvet Ropes, Charlie Roberts, Chris Rexroad, and Love Watts, New York
Body Talk, Project Gallery, Toronto
2015
Comforter, curated by Petra Collins, SFAQ, San Francisco
2014
Pussy Pat, curated by Petra Collins, New York
Kind of Wild and Sort of Free, Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art, Montréal
My Female Eye, Galerie MooiMan, Gronigen, Netherlands
Bibliography
2020
Bermeitinger, Uwe. “Magazine Masters – Claire Milbrath of Editorial Magazine,” TISSUE Magazine, April 7
2019
Zeiba, Drew. “The Rabbit Hole Effect,” Office Magazine, October 14
2018
Harrison, Anya. “Artissima 2018: Both Cerebral and Risky,” BLOUIN ARTINFO, November 12
Abrahams, Megan. “Steve Turner Contemporary – Claire Milbrath: Crome Yellow,” FABRIK, April 25
“Between the Sheets | Claire Milbrath” NOX JOURNAL, January 3
Artist Focus, Christie’s Magazine
2017
Jones, Lucy. “Meet The Artist: Claire Milbrath,” Oyster Magazine, April 29
Larigakis, Sophia. “5 Artists Making Erotic Art in the 21st Century,” slutever, April 10
Bourton, Lucy. “The wonky but lovely perspective of Editorial Mag editor Claire Milbrath’s paintings,” It’s Nice That, April 5
Collins, Leah. “Fed up with how women are portrayed, this Montreal artist started painting…men?” CBC Arts, March 30
Loiseau, Benoit. “Borders and identities at Mexico City art week,” i-D, February 17
Abrams, Loney. “10 Best Artworks From Mexico City’s Material Art Fair 2017,” Artspace, February 10
“Feminisms,” esse Issue 90
“Permanent Collection: Live Televised Painting and Interview,” VICE
“Claire Milbrath’s paintings exude naivety and charm,” Never Apart
2016
Gabert-Doyon. “The magazine for outsiders, built from nothing but ideas: The Editorial,” huck, August 30
Weinstock, Tish. “Up the garden path with artists Claire and Darby Milbrath,” i-D, June 21
Interview, Mincho Issue 10
Underwood, Katie. “Sixty under 30,” FLARE
Frakt, Austin. “Savings? Yes. But Narrow Health Networks Also Show Troubling Signs,” The New York Times, (illustration)
2015
Crum, Maddie. “Meet The Young Feminist Photographer Who Uses Selfies As Her Weapon,” HuffPost, June 23
Tudoran, Oana. “The idle life,” METAL, May 27
Westin, Monica. “Critic’s Picks: ‘Comforter,’ Ever Gold (Projects),” ARTFORUM, March
Fantasia
Ram Han, Maren Karlson, Chris Lux, Claire Milbrath, Alake Shilling, Alix Vernet, Curated by Claire Milbrath
July 20–August 24, 2019
Power of Ten
Mariel Capanna, Dominic Dispirito, Nick Doyle, Hannah Epstein, Stephen W. Evans, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Claire Milbrath, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Jennifer Nocon, Jesse Pollock, Pablo Rasgado, Joshua Saunders and Maccabee Shelley
May 11 – June 8, 2019
BioPix
Laylah Ali, Nicanor Aráoz, Diedrick Brackens, Marcin Dudek, Hannah Epstein, Cristián Fernández Ocampo, Ann Hirsch, Erdal Inci, Jacqueline Laurita Cortese, Thomas Lawson, Carlos Martiel, Jerry B. Martin, Claire Milbrath, Pablo Rasgado, Camilo Restrepo, Julian Rogers and Yung Jake
February 17 – March 24, 2018
Claire Milbrath
Wall Street International
November 9, 2017
“Crome Yellow 11 Nov — 16 Dec 2017 at Steve Turner in Los Angeles, United States”
Claire Milbrath
CBC Arts
March, 2017
Leah Collins
“Fed up with how women are portrayed, this Montreal artist started painting…men?”
Enter Art Fair
Mariel Capanna, Dominic Dispirito, Hannah Epstein, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Claire Milbrath, Paige Jiyoung Moon
August 29–September 1, 2019
Code Art Fair
Ekta Aggarwal, Laylah Ali, Hannah Epstein, Claire Milbrath, Paige Jiyoung Moon & Altoon Sultan
August 30 – September 2, 2018