Emily Vey Duke

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Emily Vey Duke
Born1972
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Website http://dukeandbattersby.com/wp/

Emily Vey Duke (born 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian-born visual artist who has worked collaboratively with Cooper Battersby since 1994. She is an associate professor in the Department of Transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. [1]

Career

Duke completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After graduating, Duke worked briefly as the artistic director at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax. She went on to complete her Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. [2]

Duke and Battersby were featured artists at the Images Festival in 2016 [3] and were nominated for the Sobey Art Award in 2005 and 2010. [4]

Duke has exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Additionally, Duke and Battersby participated in the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. [5] Her video work is distributed by V-Tape in Toronto, Video Out in Vancouver, Argos in Brussels, and Video Data Bank in Chicago. [6]

Duke also works as a writer and has been published in Border Crossings, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Fuse Magazine, and Mix Magazine. [5]

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References

  1. Arts, Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing. "Emily Vey Duke | Faculty & Staff | Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts". Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  2. "Emily Vey Duke | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. "IMAGES FESTIVAL". www.imagesfestival.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. "Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby - Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  5. 1 2 "Emily Vey Duke, Author at Momus". Momus. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  6. "Daring Enchantments: The Moving Images of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby - Canadian Film Institute - Institut canadien du film". www.cfi-icf.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-03-11.