Zachari Logan
Blue Forest with Purple Light (from Enigmas Series)

b. Saskatoon, 1980.

Canadian artist Zachari Logan works mainly with large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices, evolving a visual language that explores the intersections between identity, memory and place. Employing a strategy of visual quotation, mined from place and experience, Logan re-wilds his body as a queer embodiment of nature, engaging ideas of beauty, mortality, empirical explorations of landscape, and overlapping art-historic motifs that underline a fundamental interconnection of the human as nature.  Logan has exhibited widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is found in private and public collections worldwide, including; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Remai Modern, McMichael Canadian Art Collection,  Gardiner Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 21cMuseums Hotel Collection and Fondazione Thetis, among others. 

 As an extension of his studio practice, Logan has attended many residencies; including Vienna's Museums Quartier MQ21 Program, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, Wave Hill Botanical Gardens Winter Workspace Program in the Bronx and Little Bird Artist Residency in rural Bulgaria. Logan was artist in residence at the Tom Thomson Shack at the McMichael Gallery in 2017, a commission of the Ontario Government to commemorate the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. In 2021 Logan was the Koerner Artist in Residence at Queens University. Logan has worked collaboratively with several celebrated artists, including Ross Bleckner and Sophie Calle and his work has been featured in many publications worldwide, including BBC Culture, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Border Crossings, and Hyperallergic to name a few. 

 Logan’s recent projects include the 2-person exhibition, Shadow Of The Sun: Ross Bleckner & Zachari Logan, (2021) at Wave Hill Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, Wildflower (2021) a solo exhibition at the Canadian High Commission in London UK, Ghost Meadows, (2021-22) at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Remembrance, (2022-23)at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Ma., and The Flourishing Edge concluded in June of 2024 at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, a special commission for the Joan Courtios Galleries. In September 2025 Logan will open Human Landscapes at Fondazione Marchesani in Venice, Italty. Fall of 2025 Logan will be in residence at the Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop in Kinggait Nunavut on an invitational artist residency organized by the West Baffin Cooperative, and in November his exhibtion, The Moon Swept Down opens at Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto. Logan’s second book, Green was  released through Radiant Press in June 2025.

Artwork courtesy of the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art