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Colette Urban (Constance Joyce Urban) was born on 29 January, 1952 in Denver, Colorado, is a Canadian/American artist. Discover Colette Urban's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
| Popular As |
Constance Joyce Urban |
| Occupation |
N/A |
| Age |
61 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
| Born |
29 January, 1952 |
| Birthday |
29 January |
| Birthplace |
Denver, Colorado |
| Date of death |
16 June, 2013 |
| Died Place |
McIvers, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Nationality |
United States
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Colette Urban Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Colette Urban Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Colette Urban worth at the age of 61 years old? Colette Urban’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. She is from United States. We have estimated Colette Urban's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
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Under Review |
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Constance "Colette" Joyce Urban (January 29, 1952 – June 16, 2013) was a Canadian/American artist known for performance art, sculpture and installation.
Her work questioned social conventions, gender roles, and the relationship between spectator and performer, as well as consumer culture and the everyday with a disarming and humorous tone.
Constance "Colette" Joyce Urban was born in Denver, Colorado in 1952.
She grew up in Michigan and North Carolina.
After her mother recognized Urban's strong potential for art she enrolled both Colette and her sister into art classes at the art museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
After receiving her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1980) she went on to earn her MFA from the University of Victoria (1982).
She then went on to teach in several universities across Canada.
Gambler is an interactive performance and installation created in 1986.
The piece consists of an 6'" industrial work table on which is placed thousands of puzzles pieces, viewers are invited to sort and construct puzzles. A recording of a bingo hall also accompanies the table.
Pin-Up was an exhibition presented by the grunt gallery that featured Urban's digital and performance skills, specifically her performance Limited Possession and HOOT which was documented at Full Tilt Creative Centre for the purposes of the installation.
Urban was a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, until 2006, when she relocated to the Bay of Islands, in Western Newfoundland and based herself in the communities of Meadows and McIvers, Newfoundland, to develop Full Tilt Creative Centre, an artist residency, organic farm and exhibition venue.
In 2007 she moved to the town of Meadows in Newfoundland and established the Full Tilt Creative Centre in the nearby town of McIvers.
A documentary of her life and work in Western Newfoundland, Pretend Not To See Me, was released in 2010.
Urban's has an extensive exhibition and performance record, including the following solo exhibitions: Pin Up at Grunt Gallery in 2011 featuring Urban's calendar project Limited Possession; Recalling Belvedere produced by UK gallery Art Gene in 2004; This is not a hat at Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam, in 2003; and Gambler at Or Gallery Vancouver in 1986.
In November 2012, after a lengthy period of mysterious pain, Urban was diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer.
Urban was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2012.
She died at her home in McIvers in 2013.
After her death in 2013, the town of McIvers, Newfoundland named a walking trail in her honor, now known as the Colette Urban Memorial Trail.
After receiving her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Victoria Urban went on to teach at several universities across Canada, including the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, the University of Toronto, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College at Memorial University in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and Western University, London, Ontario, where she lived for eleven years.
Museum London held a retrospective exhibition and published a catalogue raisonné of Urban's work, both titled "Incognito", in October 2013.
The first posthumous retrospective of Urban's body of work created in McIvers was exhibited at The Rooms in St. John's, titled At Full Tilt: Colette Urban in Western Newfoundland.
The exhibit was curated by Matthew Hills of the Grenfell Art Gallery, and included documentation of her performances, sculpture, and photography.
Before her death in June 2013, Urban was involved in planning a retrospective exhibition of her work to be held at Museum London.
The exhibition, entitled "Incognito", would ultimately open in October 2013.
In 2013, just prior to her death, she was awarded the Excellence in Visual Arts Long Haul Award from the VANL-CARFAC, Newfoundland and Labrador's visual artists' association, recognizing Urban's contributions to visual arts in the province.
