Amy Loewan MFA

contemporary installation artist
rice paper weave
watercolor/paper

Amy Loewan of Chinese origin was born in Hong Kong. She immigrated to Canada in 1978 and became a Canadian citizen in 1981.

     In her first profession as an occupational therapist, Amy began a lifelong investment in working with people. She also had begun to explore art in earnest by the time she moved to Edmonton, Alberta, over 25 years ago.

     Her artistic journey led to the completion of her Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting from the University of Alberta in 1995. Many of her works illustrate the integration of her Chinese heritage with western postmodernist art practices.

    Amy has received numerous grants and awards including The Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal's Award for Excellence in the Arts commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

    Since 1976, Amy has exhibited in major cities in Canada as well as New York, and Melbourne, Australia. Her most recent large rice paper weaving installation A Peace Project was shown in China in 2004 at the Shanghai Doland Modern Art Museum in Shanghai and the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre in Hong Kong.

     Amy presently teaches at the Fine Art Certificate Program of the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Edmonton, Canada.

Amy uses the following languages, with varying degrees, in her Peace Project works:  Arabic, Croatian, Chinese, Cree, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Philippine, Punjabi, Polish, Russian, Sanskrit, Swahili, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu.