Marina Roy
{{Short description|Canadian visual artist and educator}}
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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{{cite web|last1=University of British Columbia|first1=Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory|url=http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/facultyIntroDisplay.cfm?InstrID=15&FacultyID=2|title=Marina Roy|access-date=2015-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402162949/http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/facultyIntroDisplay.cfm?InstrID=15&FacultyID=2#|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite journal|last1=Tomic|first1=Milena|title=Everyday Every Other Day|journal=Border Crossings|date=2006|volume=25|issue=4|pages=107–08}}
=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.{{cite web|last1=Roy|first1=Marina|title=Sign After the x|url=http://www.signafterthex.net|accessdate=7 March 2015}} She has also collaborated with artist Abbas Akhavan{{cite web|last1=Akhavan|first1=Abbas|title=Abbas Akhavan|url=http://abbasakhavan.com}} 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{{cite journal|last1=Ritter|first1=Kathleen|title=Marina Roy-Abbas Akhavan|journal=Esse|date=2009|issue=65|pages=70}} and Fire/Fire.{{cite book|last1=Muir|first1=Justin|title=Fire/Fire|date=2012|publisher=Malaspina Printmakers Society|location=Vancouver, BC|isbn=9780969299868}}
=Select exhibitions=
- 2018: Leaning Out of Windows, Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University, Vancouver{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecuad.ca/calendar/leaning-out-of-windows-exhibition|title=Leaning Out of Windows {{!}} Step One|last1=Vancouver|first1=520 East 1st Avenue|last2=Canada|first2=BC V5T 0H2|date=2018-01-10|website=Emily Carr University of Art + Design|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2017: Landfall and Departure: Prologue, [http://nanaimogallery.ca Nanaimo Art Gallery]{{Cite web|url=http://nanaimogallery.ca/index.php/exhibitions/archive/2017-exhibition-archive/381-landfall-and-departure-prologue|title=Landfall and Departure: Prologue |website=nanaimogallery.ca|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2017: Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape, [https://kag.bc.ca/ Kamloops Art Gallery]{{Cite web|url=https://kag.bc.ca/?p=0&action=exhibitions&subaction=view&ID=311|title=Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape: From the Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|last=Gallery|first=Kamloops Art|website=Kamloops Art Gallery|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2016: Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia {{Cite web|url=https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/becoming-animal-becoming-landscape-and-joan-balzartwo-exhibitions-from-the-collection/|title=Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape and Joan Balzar: Two exhibitions from the collection|website=Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2016: Your Kingdom to Command, Vancouver Art Gallery (Offsite){{Cite web|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_roy.html|title=Your Kingdom to Command, Vancouver Art Gallery}}
- 2015: The Floating Archipelago, [https://connexionarc.org/ Connexion ARC], Fredericton, NB{{Cite web|url=https://connexionarc.org/2015/06/12/the-floating-archipelago/|title=The Floating Archipelago, an exhibition by Marina Roy|last=ARC|first=Connexion|date=2015-06-12|website=Connexion Artist-Run Centre for Contemporary Art|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2015: Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image, [https://openstudio.ca/ Open Studio], Toronto{{Cite web|url=https://openstudio.ca/exhibition/screen-play/|title=Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image|website=Open Studio|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}
- 2013: Once things are reduced to nothing, Artspeak{{cite web|url=http://artspeak.ca/once-things/|title=Once things are reduced to nothing|last1=Artspeak Gallery}}
- 2012: Fire Fire (in collaboration with Abbas Akhavan), Malaspina Printmakers & Centre A{{cite web|url=http://centrea.org/2012/06/firefire/|title=Fire Fire|last1=Centre A}}
- 2011: What's Pushed out the door, Comes back through the window, (part 2) La Central{{cite web|url=http://www.lacentrale.org/en/programmation/whats-pushed-out-door-comes-back-through-window-part-2|title=What's pushed out the door comes back through the window|last1=La Centrale}}
- 2011: New Work, Contemporary Art Gallery{{cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/marina-roy/|title=CAG - Marina Roy|last1=Contemporary Art Gallery}}
- 2011: Unreal, Vancouver Art Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_unreal.html|title=Unreal|last1=Vancouver Art Gallery}}
- 2009: How soon is now, Vancouver Art Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html|title=How Soon is Now|last1=Vancouver Art Gallery|access-date=2015-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802071451/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html|archive-date=2018-08-02|url-status=dead}}
- 2008: When the Mood Strikes Us, Platform Gallery{{cite news|url=http://platformgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2008_whenthemoodstrikesus.pdf|author=J. Kegan McFadden|title=When the Mood Strikes Us...|work=Platform Gallery}}
- 2008: Neighbours (in collaboration with Abbas Akhavan; curated by Joni Murphy and Kika Thorne), AMS Gallery{{cite news|url=http://www.waapart.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WAAP-good-Broomberg-Chanarin-DOnofrio-McGraw-Roy-web.pdf|date=2020|title=Broomberg & Chanarin, Christine D'Onofrio, Evan McGraw, Marina Roy |work=Wil Aballe Art Projects}}
- 2006-08: Trappings (participant in the public art library project Group Search (Art in the Library), Vancouver Public Library)
- 2006: Beauty and the Beast, Alternator Gallery{{cite news |title=Faculty Display Beauty and the Beast in Art show |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/faculty-display-beauty-beast-art-show/docview/375835092/se-2 |access-date=19 June 2024 |work=Penticton Western News |publisher=Black Press Group Ltd. |date=13 September 2006 |page=A22 |language=en |id={{ProQuest |375835092 }}}}
- 2006: Everyday Every Other Day, Art Gallery of Mississauga
- 2004-06: Roy and McHardy (in collaboration with Natasha McHardy). Or Gallery, Concordia University VAV Gallery
- 2002: Greener Pastures (in collaboration with Abbas Akhavan): Open Space Gallery, Artspeak
=Bibliography=
- Kathleen Ritter, How soon is now, exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Julie Tremble, Marina Roy/Abbas Akhavan: Menagerie, exhibition catalogue, AXENEO7/DAIMON
- Joni Murphy, Better Homes and Gardens, VIVO Media Arts Centre
- J.J. Kegan McFadden, When the Mood Strikes Us..., Platform Gallery
- Lorna Brown, "Marina Roy: Trappings", Vancouver Public Library
- Seamus Kealy, "The King and I," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
- Seamus Kealy, "A Few Notes on an Everyday Exhibition," Blackwood Gallery
- Sydney Hermant, "Roy and McHardy," in d'Or (Goin' Solo), Vancouver: Or Gallery
- Jeremy Todd, "Some errant thoughts" in d'Or: Explorations in Psychic Geography, Vancouver: Or Gallery
=Reviews=
- Claer, José "Menage a trois: entre l'humain, l'animal et l'art,{{cite journal|last1=Claer|first1=José|title=Menage a trois: entre l'humain, l'animal et l'art|journal=Revue Liaison|date=Summer 2009|issue=137|pages=40–41}}"
- Dahle, Sigrid "When the Mood Strikes Us..."{{cite journal|last1=Dahle|first1=Sigrid|title=When the Mood Strikes Us...|date=2009|issue=108|pages=121–122}}
- Milroy, Sarah "Pictures are out—experience is in"{{cite news | date=14 February 2009 | first1=Sarah | last1=Milroy | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/pictures-are-out---experience-is-in/article783355/ | title=Globe & Mail }}
- Witt, Andrew "Contemporary Public Art at Vancouver Library" {{cite web|last1=Witt|first1=Andrew|title=Contemporary Public Art at Vancouver Library|url=http://www.whitehotmagazine.com/index.php?action=articles&wh_article_id=938|website=White Hot Magazine|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
- Tomic, Milena "Everyday Every Other Day"{{cite journal|last1=Tomic|first1=Milena|title=Everyday Every Other Day|journal=Border Crossings|date=2006|volume=25|issue=4|pages=107–108}}
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.
=Select Publications=
- Roy's first book, Sign After the x (with Artspeak Gallery) was published in 2002.{{cite web | first1=Marina | last1=Roy | url=http://marinaroy.ca/sign_after_the_x.html | title=Sign after the x | publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002 |year=2002}}
- Her second book Queuejumping, was published in 2022 with Information Office.{{Cite web |title=Queuejumping |url=https://i-o.cc/books/queuejumping |access-date=May 8, 2024 |website=Information Office Publishing}}
- In Haguenau Forest {{cite book|last1=Dahl|first1=Sigrid|title=in there's something I want to show you|date=2011|publisher=Lives of Dogs|location=Winnipeg}}(short story), in there's something I want to show you
- Holy Shit {{cite journal|last1=Roy|first1=Marina|title=Holy Shit|journal=C Magazine|date=December 2010}} C Magazine, December 2010
Honours
References
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External links
- [http://www.waapart.com/ WAAP ART]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124224/http://www.leftcoastart.ca/ leftcoastart.ca]
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Category:NSCAD University alumni
Category:University of British Columbia alumni
Category:Artists from Quebec City
Category:Artists from Vancouver
Category:Canadian women animators
Category:21st-century Canadian painters