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Artist, curator, teacher, and art dealer, Christian Bernard Singer was born in 1962 in Paris into a family of artists and raised in New York City where he began as a company dancer with Laura Foreman’s Composers' and Choreographers' Theater, performing in Spaces and Foreman’s seminal work, Signals II. These were performed over several years in such venues as Judson Memorial Church, the Cubiculo Theater, and The New School, until the work was eventually performed at the Museum of Modern Art.

Curator of over 50 exhibitions including three major retrospectives, Singer has always sought to champion artists who push boundaries, materially and conceptually, while opening pathways to meaningful and resonant experiences for viewers. For over five years, he served as the Curator of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Before this, he was Director of the 2005 Contemporary Art Forum – Kitchener & Area (CAFKA), Curator and Associate Director of Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art until he co-founded Rouge Contemporary Art Projects where he remained as Director and Curator until 2009, bringing Judy Chicago: A Survey of Important Works (curated by Virginia Eichhorn) – the first large-scale survey exhibition for Chicago ever to come to Canada. He is currently Senior Curator of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario.

Singer has managed grant application programs for both The Canada Council for the Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Communications (Ontario), Singer has served on the boards of several arts organizations, sat on numerous arts juries and, for several years, taught sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD University) and the Toronto School of Art. He holds an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design (including multiple awards for painting and sculpture) and an MFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

In his own work Christian Bernard Singer is best known for incorporating living plant life with glass, clay, bronze, found objects, and video into installation-environments and land art works that turn on notions of place, memory and time-passing. His work has been included in numerous museum and land art invitational exhibitions across the country. His work is represented by Headbones Gallery in Vernon, BC.