Wanda Koop | |
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 Koop at the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival in 2012 | |
| Born | November 5, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Awards | Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2002 Order of Canada 2006 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2016 |
| Elected | Royal Canadian Academy of Art 2005 |
| Website | www |
Wanda Koop CM OM DFA DLitt RCA is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Koop was born on November 5, 1951, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Russian Mennonite parents who had escaped the Russian Revolution. [1] Koop graduated from the Lemoine FitzGerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1973. [2]
In 2002 Koop was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, in 2005 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in 2006 she was appointed a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2016 she received the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Koop and her mother were the subjects of the 2007 documentary Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes about their visit to the Ukraine, where Koop's mother was born. [7] [8]
While still studying at the University of Manitoba School of Art, in 1972, Koop's work was included in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. [9] Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Koop was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including the 1985 travelling exhibition Airplanes and the Wall; the 1991 travelling exhibition Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings; [10] and the 1998 exhibit See Everything, See Nothing at The New Gallery. [11] From February 18 to May 15, 2011, her solo exhibition entitled On The Edge Of Experience was shown at the National Gallery of Canada [3] in Ottawa, Ontario.
Koop's work often combines aspects of video, performance, or photography. As Robin Laurence describes in the Spring 2000 issue of Canadian Art, Koop "is interested in expanding the languages of paint and video, integrating them into the complex terms of loss and grief and reclamation." [12]
Her “Barcode Face” series created a new Canadian landscape. Koop revisited the series in 2021, as it was included in the group exhibition, A Thought Sublime at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City. [13] In 2022, her exhibition View From Here was one of the shows which accompanied the opening of the new Inuit art building at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. [14] Also in 2022, her exhibition Wanda Koop: Lightworks was shown at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. [15]
In addition to her art, Koop is an ardent community activist. In 1998 she founded Art City, a community art centre in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood as a way to bring together contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth. [4] [16]
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