Emily Vey Duke
{{short description|Canadian-born visual artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Emily Vey Duke
| birth_date = 1972
| birth_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| nationality =
| education = University 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 Film and Media Arts at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.{{Cite web|url=http://vpa.syr.edu/faculty-staff/emily-vey-duke|title=Emily Vey Duke {{!}} Faculty & Staff {{!}} Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts|last=Arts|first=Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing|website=Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-date=2017-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312194352/http://vpa.syr.edu/faculty-staff/emily-vey-duke|url-status=dead}}
Career
Prior to her completion of university, in 1995, Duke was in a local Halifax band called Popularity Contest, which played in and around Halifax during the height of Maritime rock scene.https://www.mail-archive.com/sloannet@sloanmusic.com/msg00982.html Duke also released a self-titled, eight-song cassette in 1995.Daydream Records insert (1995)https://i.discogs.com/YvVf1GHgeWRD4h-tpwo72eG1KWUBz-O2Qx8U84uMZFY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:380/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxNjA3/NDktMTQ1OTk3MTQ1/Ni04OTU1LmpwZWc.jpeg
Duke completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After graduating, Duke worked as the artistic director at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax in 2004.{{Cite book |last=Cronin |first=Ray |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/halifax-art-and-artists/ |title=Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-4871-0315-6 |location=Toronto}} She also went on to complete her Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vdb.org/artists/emily-vey-duke|title=Emily Vey Duke {{!}} Video Data Bank|website=www.vdb.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11}}
Duke and Battersby were featured artists at the Images Festival in 2016{{Cite web|url=http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1415&month=n|title=IMAGES FESTIVAL|website=www.imagesfestival.com|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312194025/http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1415&month=n|archive-date=2017-03-12|url-status=dead}} and were nominated for the Sobey Art Award for Aliant New Media Prize in 2005 and the Atlantic Canada Prize 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://canadianart.ca/artists/emily-vey-duke-and-cooper-battersby/|title=Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby - Canadian Art|work=Canadian Art|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en-US}} In 2015, Duke and Battersby won the Grand Prize at the European Media Arts Festival for their video Dear Lorde.
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.{{Cite web|url=http://momus.ca/author/emily-vey-duke/|title=Emily Vey Duke, Author at Momus|website=Momus|date=9 February 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-11}} Her video work is distributed by V-Tape in Toronto, Video Out in Vancouver, Argos in Brussels, and Video Data Bank in Chicago.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cfi-icf.ca/index.php?option=com_cfi&task=showevent&id=130&Itemid=1269|title=Daring Enchantments: The Moving Images of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby - Canadian Film Institute - Institut canadien du film|website=www.cfi-icf.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107201039/http://www.cfi-icf.ca/index.php?option=com_cfi&task=showevent&id=130&Itemid=1269|archive-date=2017-01-07|url-status=dead}}
Duke also works as a writer and has been published in Border Crossings, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Fuse Magazine, and Mix Magazine.
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Category:Canadian video artists
Category:Canadian women video artists
Category:NSCAD University alumni