‘Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood’ by Louise Dery, 2011
‘Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood’ by Louise Dery, 2011
Galerie de l’UQAM, 2011.
Mint Condition. 190 pp.
Hardcover. Fine. English & French Edition
Title: Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood (English and French Edition)
Authors: Louise Dery; James Bewley; Michelle Jacques
Format/Binding: HardcoverBook
Condition: Excellent
Publisher: Galerie de l’UQAM / ABC Art Books Canada
Place of Publication: Montreal
Date Published: 2010-12-15
Asking $75.
Shary Boyle is known internationally for her drawing, sculpture and painting and for her audio-visual performances. Informed by the deeply personal and fanciful, her work traverses the terrain from adolescent anxieties and desires to evocative, fairy-tale like realms.
She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1994. She has performed at VonRot GmbH, Berlin (2001), the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, Los Angeles (2002), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2004, 2006), the Olympia Theatre, Paris (2005), the Fonal Festival, Finland (2005), the Sonar Festival, Barcelona (2005), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2006, 2008). In 2006, Boyle formed Dark Hand and Lamplight with Doug Paisley as an opening act for musicia … Displaying 750 of 1813 characters.
Ingenuity, virtuosity and refinement define the fabulous world of multi-disciplinary artist Shary Boyle. With extraordinary versatility, the Toronto artist engages in drawing, painting, sculpture, audio-visual performance and installations to explore human psychological and emotional states through a fictional fantasy. At once feminist, dream-like and poetic, but always charged with disturbing emotion and expressive candour, her works generate daring and original perspectives on the present. This major publication features all new works, many created especially for Boyle’s first solo museum exhibition, touring nationally throughout 2011. Three original essays and dozens of color plates showcase the remarkable talent of this upcoming artist.
BIO
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| Selected Exhibitions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Solo + Collaborations | ||
| 2022 | The Forgetting, Sargent’s Daughters, New York City, NY, US | |
| Outside the Palace of Me, the Gardiner Museum, TO, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CA | ||
| 2021 | The Trampled Devil, Zmuidzinavicius Museum, Kaunas Biennale, LT | |
| Outside the Palace of Me, The Rooms, St Johns, NFLD, CA | ||
| White Elephant, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area, Cambridge, ON, CA | ||
| 2019 | Face of the Deep, with Shuvinai Ashoona and Rajni Perera, PATEL Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA | |
| 2018 | The Illuminations Project, with Emily Vey Duke. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, CA | |
| 2017 | Slipper, with Ambera Wellman. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2015 | Universal Cobra, with Shuvinai Ashoona. PFOAC, Montreal, PQ, CA | |
| 2014 | Illuminations Project, with Emily Vey Duke. Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, CA | |
| 2013 | Music for Silence, Canada Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, ITA | |
| 2012 | Canadian Artist, BMO Project Room, Toronto, ON, CA | |
| 2011 | The Illuminations Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US | |
| 2010 | Flesh and Blood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galerie de l’UQAM. Montreal, PQ (2011); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2011). | |
| 2009 | Moon Hunter, Fumetto Festival, Lucerne, CHE | |
| Noise Ghost, with Shuvinai Ashoona. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA | ||
| 2008 | The History of Light, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, CA | |
| 2007 | The Clearances, Space Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Lace Figures, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, CA | |
| 2004 | Companions, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA | |
| 2003 | Travels to the Realm Between, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA | |
| 2001 | Lit From Within, VonRot GmbH, Berlin, DE | |
| Group | ||
| 2022 | Women’s Work, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY, US | |
| 2021 | The Central Core Part II, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK | |
| Thrown, Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, BC, CA | ||
| 2020 | Abadakone/Continuous Fire. Collaboration with Pierre Aupilardjuk. NGC, Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| 2019 | Dark Spring, Sargent’s Daughters, New York City, NY, US | |
| 2018 | Cedric ter Bals, Shary Boyle, Marjolijn Meij, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL | |
| Reopening, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, FR | ||
| Uprisings, Cinematheque quebecoise and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC, CA | ||
| Earthlings, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC, CA | ||
| 2017 | Making Narratives, Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea | |
| Earthlings, The Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB to Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC, ON, CA | ||
| Canadian Biennale 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA | ||
| 2016 | Ceramix, Ceramics and art from Rodin to Schutte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL, Cite de la ceramique Sevres, FR, to la Maison Rouge, Paris, FR | |
| Facing the Sky, Nuit Blanche, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA | ||
| 2014 | Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| LOUD silence, Grand Central Art Centre, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, US | ||
| 2013 | Locating Ourselves, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA | |
| 2012 | L’Espace des metamorphoses. Organized by L’Observatoire de l’Espace du CNES, Vallauris, FR | |
| Oh Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, US | ||
| 2011 | My Winnipeg, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, FR (traveled to Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, FR and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, CA in 2012) | |
| 2010 | It Is What It Is: Canadian Biennial 2010, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| 2009 | Le sort probable de l’homme qui avait avalé le fantôme, Nouveau Festival, organized by The Centre Pompidou, La Conciergerie, Paris, FR | |
| Selected Performance | ||
| 2016 | Voix de Ville, stage design, projection design and performance. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines, ON | |
| 2015 | Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home with musician Christine Fellows, 10-date national tour | |
| 2014 | Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, with musician Christine Fellows, 5-date tour through Northwest Territories by invitation of Northern Arts and Culture Centre, Yellowknife, NWT | |
| 2012 | Everything Under the Moon, with musician Christine Fellows, World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON | |
| 2011 | Shadow Songs, Writers at Woody Point Festival. NFLD | |
| Shadow Songs, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR | ||
| 2010 | The Monkey and the Mermaid, with musician Christine Fellows, Images Festival. Toronto, ON | |
| 2009 | Reliquary/Reliquaire, with musician Christine Fellows, Le Musée de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg | |
| 2008 | Dark Hand and Lamplight, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, US | |
| Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Cinefamily Silent Theatre, Los Angeles, US | ||
| Shadow Songs, SXSW Festival, Austin, US | ||
| 2007 | Magic Shadows, with musician Christine Fellows. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB | |
| 2006 | Dark Hand and Lamplight, with musician Doug Paisley, 10-date tour across California, US, opening for musician Will Oldham | |
| Shadow Songs, with musician Christine Fellows; 10-date tour across Canada | ||
| A Night with Kramers Ergot, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US | ||
| 2005 | Songs of Childhood. Fonal Festival, Yo-Talo. Tampere, FIN | |
| Fonal Musician Showcase, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, ESP | ||
| With musician Feist, The Olympia Theatre, Paris, FR | ||
| 2004 | Wood Witch Rising and Channeling Grimm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON | |
| Les Festins D’Aden, with musician Feist. Bataclan Theatre, Paris, FR | ||
| With musician Es, 6-date tour across eastern US | ||
| 2002 | Honkitonkioke, Uno-a-Go-Go, Festival of One-Man Bands, The Hideout, Chicago, US | |
| The Tale of the Cats, The Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, US | ||
| All Tomorrow’s Parties, with musician Peaches. UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, US | ||
| 2001 | With musician Peaches, Ost Gut Klub, Berlin, DEU | |
| Selected Publications | ||
| 2022 | Shary Boyle, 15 Things to Do with a Sculpture, Zurich: Nieves. | |
| 2021 | Shary Boyle, Outside the Palace of Me, Art Canada Institute. | |
| 2019 | Holder, Will. Black Sun : F.R DAVID. Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, uh books. | |
| 2018 | Wilmink, Melanie and Nagler, Solomon, eds. Sculpting Cinema. Toronto: Pleasure Dome. | |
| 2017 | Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art. London, UK: PHAIDON. | |
| Earthlings, Calgary: Esker Foundation. | ||
| 2017 Canadian Biennale, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. | ||
| 2016 | Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle. Universal Cobra. Toronto: You’ve Changed Imprints. | |
| Campbell, Nancy. Noise Ghost and Other Stories. Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. | ||
| 2015 | Morineau, Camille and Lucia Persapane, eds. Ceramix: from Rodin to Schütte. Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck Publishers. | |
| Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke, The Illuminations Project. Toronto: Oakville Galleries. | ||
| HB: No 4, Erotica. Montreal: Editions HB | ||
| Caroline Wetherilt, ed. Shine A Light: Canadian Biennial 2014. Ottawa: NGC | ||
| Cachia, Amanda. Loud Silence. La Jolla, California: the gallery@calit2. | ||
| Prim, Kristin, ed. A23. Vol. 1 The Mysticism of the Female. New York City: Issue 01/Press. | ||
| 2013 | Drouin-Brisebois, Josée, ed. Shary Boyle: Music for Silence. Canada Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. | |
| 2012 | Markonish, Denise, ed. Oh, Canada. North Adams: MASS MoCA, Cambridge: MIT Press. | |
| 2010 | Déry, Louise, ed. Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood. Montreal: Galerie de l’UQAM. | |
| Collections | ||
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, CA | ||
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, CA | ||
| Bank of Montreal, Toronto, ON, CA | ||
| Canada Council Art Bank, CA | ||
| Claridge Collection, Montreal, PQ, CA | ||
| Fondation Antoine De Galbert, Paris, FR | ||
| The Gardiner Ceramic Museum, Toronto, ON, CA | ||
| Global Affairs Canada, Visual Art Collection, Paris, FR and New York City, NY, US | ||
| Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON, CA | ||
| Korea Ceramic Foundation, Icheon-si, Republic of SK | ||
| MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, CA | ||
| McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ON, CA | ||
| Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, CA | ||
| Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC, CA | ||
| Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, PQ, CA | ||
| Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal, PQ, CA | ||
| National Bank of Canada, Montreal, PQ, CA | ||
| National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA | ||
| Paisley Museum of Art, Paisley, Scotland, UK | ||
| Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto ON, CA | ||
| The Rooms, St. John’s, NFLD, CA | ||
| Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, CA | ||
| Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB, CA | ||
| Zmuidzinavicius Museum, LT | ||
| Teaching/Workshops | ||
| 2022 | Museum of Fine Arts and Maison Marguerite, Art Hive Lead | |
| Inspirations Studio, Workshop Lead | ||
| 2021 | Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC, Indigenous Youth Artist-in-Residency, Studio Mentor | |
| 2018 | Nanaimo Art Gallery, Code Switching, Workshop Lead | |
| Sexual Assault : The Roadshow, Fists of Resistance, Workshop Lead | ||
| Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC, Barrel-firing workshop, Co-led with Pierre Aupilardjuk | ||
| 2017 | Island Mountain Arts, Toni Onley Artists’ Project, Co-mentor with Joseph M. Sanchez | |
| Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Hand Jive, Icheon, South Korea, Workshop Lead | ||
| 2016 | Medalta Historic Potteries, Esker Foundation/Inuit Art Foundation Residency Mentor | |
| 2015 | Concordia University Art Department, Fall Semester, Guest Professor | |
| 2014 | The Banff Centre, The Universe and Other Systems Residency, Lead Faculty | |
| 2006 | University of Toronto Art Department, Fall Semester, Guest Professor | |
| Published Writing | ||
| 2021 | “Outside the Palace of Me.” Art Canada Institute, Canadian Art Library | |
| “Shuvinai Ashoona: North of Words.” Mapping Worlds catalogue, The Power Plant | ||
| “Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Descent of Lilies.” Uninvited : Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement catalogue. McMichael Canadian Art Collection | ||
| 2019 | “The Speed of Imagination.” Inuit Art Quarterly, The Earth Issue. Fall/Winter 2020 | |
| “Finissage.” The Walrus Magazine, March | ||
| Education, Awards | ||
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design University, ON, CA | |
| 2010 | Hnatyshyn Foundation Award, CA | |
| 2009 | Gershon Iskowitz Prize, CA | |
| 1994 | Diploma of Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art, ON, CA |