Marina Roy

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Marina Roy
Born
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Known forArtist, Educator Writer
AwardsVIVA
Website http://www.marinaroy.ca/

Marina Roy is a visual artist, educator and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Life

Roy was born in Quebec City, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in her youth. She obtained a B.A. in French Literature at Université Laval, a B.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. She has shown nationally and internationally, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Centre A, Malaspina, and Or Gallery. She is an Associate Professor [1] at the University of British Columbia, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.

Artistic practice

Roy's practice is cross disciplinary, with a focus on drawing, painting and animation. Her work investigates material intelligence in a post-humanist perspective. The evolution of her practice draws upon Freud and Bataille, demonstrating modes of fantasy, eroticism, and compulsion by way of changed symbols and recognized icons. The Canadian artist's use of cartoons also aligns her with the domain of the death drive: According to Žižek, characters like Wile E. Coyote occupy a libidinal space where one can live through any catastrophe. [2]

Collaborations

Roy has collaborated with artist Natasha McHardy as the group "Roy & McHardy", in video performance productions of a DIY ethos. Roy has also collaborated on a web-site project with David Clark and Graham Meiser, creating an online extension of her book Sign After the X. [3] She has also collaborated with artist Abbas Akhavan [4] in artworks, such as the video installation Victoria Day (Bombay Sapphire), wherein they update Manet, with a performance titled "liquid luncheon on the grass", as well as duo exhibitions such as Neighbours [5] and Fire/Fire. [6]

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Bibliography

Reviews

Writing

Marina Roy's art practice and writing inform and intersect in their investigation of material, language, history and ideology. She published Sign after the x (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp Press) in 2001. She contributes reviews and critical essays, for artists such as Lyse Lemieux and Abbas Akhavan, in various magazines and catalogues.

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Honours

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References

  1. ↑ University of British Columbia, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. "Marina Roy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Tomic, Milena (2006). "Everyday Every Other Day". Border Crossings. 25 (4): 107–08.
  3. ↑ Roy, Marina. "Sign After the x" . Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Akhavan, Abbas. "Abbas Akhavan".
  5. ↑ Ritter, Kathleen (2009). "Marina Roy-Abbas Akhavan". Esse (65): 70.
  6. ↑ Muir, Justin (2012). Fire/Fire. Vancouver, BC: Malaspina Printmakers Society. ISBN   9780969299868.
  7. ↑ Vancouver, 520 East 1st Avenue; Canada, BC V5T 0H2 (2018-01-10). "Leaning Out of Windows | Step One". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Retrieved 2019-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ "LANDFALL AND DEPARTURE: PROLOGUE". nanaimogallery.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  9. ↑ Gallery, Kamloops Art. "Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape: From the Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery". Kamloops Art Gallery. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  10. ↑ "Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape and Joan Balzar: Two exhibitions from the collection". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  11. ↑ "Your Kingdom to Command, Vancouver Art Gallery".
  12. ↑ ARC, Connexion (2015-06-12). "The Floating Archipelago, an exhibition by Marina Roy". Connexion Artist-Run Centre for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  13. ↑ "Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image". Open Studio. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  14. ↑ Artspeak Gallery. "Once things are reduced to nothing".
  15. ↑ Centre A. "Fire Fire".
  16. ↑ La Centrale. "What's pushed out the door comes back through the window".
  17. ↑ Contemporary Art Gallery. "CAG - Marina Roy".
  18. ↑ Vancouver Art Gallery. "Unreal".
  19. ↑ Vancouver Art Gallery. "How Soon is Now". Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  20. ↑ J. Kegan McFadden. "When the Mood Strikes Us..." (PDF). Platform Gallery.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 "BROOMBERG & CHANARIN, CHRISTINE D'ONOFRIO, EVAN MCGRAW, MARINA ROY" (PDF). Wil Aballe Art Projects. 2020.
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