The Live Auction Collection: Curated by Zachari Logan

My curatorial collection reveals my interest in figuration as well as the politics of identity. Each selected artist has a strong practice within the realms of contemporary painting and drawing. Each explores their own individual ideas relating to a number of issues; gender, race, sexuality and selfhood, to name only a few. I chose artists whose work I admire. Several I have curated into past projects and have exhibited alongside. Each of these artworks I myself would feel privileged to live with.

—Zachari Logan

Canadian artist Zachari Logan (b.1980, Saskatoon) 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. 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, Peabody Essex Museum,nand Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (NMOCA). Logan’s work has been featured in many publications worldwide, including BBC Culture, Huffington Post, Canadian Art and Hyperallergic. 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, Canada and Remembrance, (2022-23) at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts.