Marina Roy Explained

Marina Roy
Birth Place:Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Known For:Artist, Educator Writer
Awards:VIVA
Website:http://www.marinaroy.ca/

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

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: University of British Columbia. Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Marina Roy. 2015-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402162949/http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/facultyIntroDisplay.cfm?InstrID=15&FacultyID=2#. 2015-04-02. dead.
  2. Tomic. Milena. Everyday Every Other Day. Border Crossings. 2006. 25. 4. 107–08.
  3. Web site: Roy. Marina. Sign After the x. 7 March 2015.
  4. Web site: Akhavan. Abbas. Abbas Akhavan.
  5. Ritter. Kathleen. Marina Roy-Abbas Akhavan. Esse. 2009. 65. 70.
  6. Book: Muir. Justin. Fire/Fire. 2012. Malaspina Printmakers Society. Vancouver, BC. 9780969299868.
  7. Web site: Leaning Out of Windows Step One. Vancouver. 520 East 1st Avenue. Canada. BC V5T 0H2. 2018-01-10. Emily Carr University of Art + Design. en. 2019-03-09.
  8. Web site: LANDFALL AND DEPARTURE: PROLOGUE. nanaimogallery.ca. 2019-03-09.
  9. Web site: Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape: From the Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Gallery. Kamloops Art. Kamloops Art Gallery. en. 2019-03-09.
  10. Web site: Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape and Joan Balzar: Two exhibitions from the collection. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. en-CA. 2019-03-09.
  11. Web site: Your Kingdom to Command, Vancouver Art Gallery.
  12. Web site: The Floating Archipelago, an exhibition by Marina Roy. ARC. Connexion. 2015-06-12. Connexion Artist-Run Centre for Contemporary Art. en. 2019-03-09.
  13. Web site: Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image. Open Studio. en-US. 2019-03-09.
  14. Web site: Once things are reduced to nothing. Artspeak Gallery.
  15. Web site: Fire Fire. Centre A.
  16. Web site: What's pushed out the door comes back through the window. La Centrale.
  17. Web site: CAG - Marina Roy. Contemporary Art Gallery.
  18. Web site: Unreal. Vancouver Art Gallery.
  19. Web site: How Soon is Now. Vancouver Art Gallery. 2015-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20180802071451/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html. 2018-08-02. dead.
  20. News: When the Mood Strikes Us.... J. Kegan McFadden. Platform Gallery.
  21. News: BROOMBERG & CHANARIN, CHRISTINE D'ONOFRIO, EVAN MCGRAW, MARINA ROY. 2020. Wil Aballe Art Projects.
  22. News: Faculty Display Beauty and the Beast in Art show . 19 June 2024 . Penticton Western News . Black Press Group Ltd. . 13 September 2006 . A22 . en . ProQuest Central.
  23. Claer. José. Menage a trois: entre l'humain, l'animal et l'art. Revue Liaison. Summer 2009. 137. 40–41.
  24. Dahle. Sigrid. When the Mood Strikes Us…. 2009. 108. 121–122.
  25. News: 14 February 2009 . Sarah . Milroy . Globe & Mail .
  26. Web site: Witt. Andrew. Contemporary Public Art at Vancouver Library. White Hot Magazine. 8 March 2015.
  27. Tomic. Milena. Everyday Every Other Day. Border Crossings. 2006. 25. 4. 107–108.
  28. Web site: Marina . Roy . Sign after the x . Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002 . 2002.
  29. Web site: Queuejumping . May 8, 2024 . Information Office Publishing.
  30. Book: Dahl. Sigrid. in there's something I want to show you. 2011. Lives of Dogs. Winnipeg.
  31. Roy. Marina. Holy Shit. C Magazine. December 2010.
  32. Web site: Shadbolt . Jack & Doris . VIVA Award Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072929/http://www.shadboltfoundation.org/award_winners.html . 2016-03-04 .

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