Lindgren, Charlotte, 1931- : Charlotte Lindgren was born in Toronto, in 1931. She studied at the University of Michigan and taught intermittently at the University of Manitoba from 1957-1963, In 1964, she received a scholarship to study at Haystack School under the influential fibre artist Jack Lenor Larsen. Her first exhibitions of fibre works commenced in 1964. From that time on, Lindgren exhibited frequently, both nationally and internationally. She was represented in a travelling exhibition entitled Threads of History (1966-1969) which was organized by the American Federation of the Arts and was shown at major galleries in the United States. She received a commission for a piece shown at the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka Japan. Her work was shown in 1975 at the Year of the Woman Exhibit in Kingston, Jamaica, and at Canada House, London, England, in 1976. Other international venues included the opening exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London, England (1982) and the Pierre Pauli Collection exhibition (1983) at Lausanne, Switzerland. National exhibitions were frequent as well. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia gave her a one-person retrospective entitled Fibre Structures in 1980 which was also shown at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1981.
Lindgren also worked as an arts consultant on various advisory panels for such cultural agencies as the Canada Council. In 1978, she worked closely with artists in the Northwest Territories to establish the Pangnirtung weaving studio. Her teaching skills were employed at several institutions including the Nova Scotial College of Art & Design in Halifax, the Royal College of Art in London, the University of Guelph, the Ontario College of Art and the Philadelphia College of Art.
Several of her exhibitions in the 1990s relate to landscape and gardening. In 1989 and 1991, she exhibited photographs for her solo exhibition entitled "Winter Wraps which was shown at the McLaughlin Art Gallery, Carleton University, Mount Saint Vincent University, and the University of Manitoba. Lindgren was artist in residence at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton and created a garden installation to accompany the Winter Wraps exhibition. She curated a show entitled Knots, based on a cross-cultural examination of the history of knotting, at the Mary Black Gallery in Halifax in 1997. In 1999, she showed photographs from Winter Gardens at Mount Saint Vincent University. In 2002, she created an outdoor installation for the Ottawa Tulip Festival. A photo-montage work, Swinging Silence, was exhibited at Pier 21 in 2002. The Museum of Civilization featured her weaving in their Cool Sixties exhibition in 2005.
Lindgren's work is part of many corporate and cultural collections, both national and international. These include York University, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Royal College of Art, Memorial University, the Nova Scotia Art Gallery, I.B.M. (Toronto), the Esso Collection, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Montreal), and the Canada Council Art Bank.
