Sonya Lacey
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Sonya Lacey (born December 1976) is a New Zealand artist based in Wellington. She works with a range of mediums including performance, video and installation. Her works are in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Early life
Lacey was born in 1976 in Hastings, New Zealand.
Education
Career
Lacey's artistic works demonstrate an interest in forms of communication. Her work has been curated into programmes at institutions including the Singapore Centre for Contemporary Art, the London International Film Festival, and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/exhibitions/dilutions-and-infinitesimals|title=Dilutions and Infinitesimals {{!}} The Physics Room|website=www.physicsroom.org.nz|access-date=29 April 2019}} Together with Sarah Rose, Lacey established the collaborative research project lightreading.{{Cite web|url=http://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residencies/sonya-lacey/|title=Sonya Lacey (New Zealand) —Residencies {{!}} NTU CCA Singapore|website=ntu.ccasingapore.org|access-date=29 April 2019}}
Notable solo exhibitions:
- Making things clear at The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2010.
- Dilutions and Infinitesimals at The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2016. For this show, Lacey produced works using an original typeface, alongside a video installation, with an imagined narrative drawing the two parts of the exhibition together.{{Cite web|url=http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/media/uploads/2017_03/SonyaLaceywriting-2-HW_final_edit.pdf|title=Lead similes: On Sonya Lacey's Dilutions and Infinitesimals|last=Davis|first=Sophie|date=2017}}
- Dilutions: Three short films by Sonya Lacey at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2016. This exhibition presented three of Lacey's short films – Infinitesimals (2016), By Sea (2015), and Newspaper for Vignelli (2010).{{Cite web|url=http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/dilutions-three-short-films-by-sonya-lacey|title=Dilutions: Three short films by Sonya Lacey {{!}} Programme CCA|last=Glasgow|first=C. C. A.|website=www.cca-glasgow.com|language=en|access-date=29 April 2019}}
- Smooth but coarser than yellow at Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.circuit.org.nz/blog/sonya-lacey-smooth-but-coarser-than-yellow-robert-heald-gallery-16217-%E2%80%93-11317|title=Sonya Lacey: Smooth but coarser than yellow (Robert Heald Gallery 16/2/17 – 11/3/17)|date=7 March 2017|website=CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand|language=en|access-date=29 April 2019}}
- Speed Reading at NTU CCA, Singapore, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://ntu.ccasingapore.org/events/sonya-lacey-speed-reading/|title=Sonya Lacey {{!}} Speed ReadingEvents {{!}} NTU CCA Singapore|website=ntu.ccasingapore.org|access-date=29 April 2019}}
- Newspaper for Vignelli at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 2019. This exhibition reflected Lacey's interest in different printing histories across time, and looked to the work of Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and his proposed redesign of The European Journal (c.1978) for inspiration.{{Cite web|url=https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/now/newspaper_for_vignelli|title=Newspaper for Vignelli|date=2019}}
Awards and residencies
- Awarded residency at the Banff Centre, Canada in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitecliffe.ac.nz/news/1108/sonya-lacey-awarded-residency-in-canada/|title=Sonya Lacey Awarded Residency in Canada {{!}} Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design Auckland, NZ|website=www.whitecliffe.ac.nz|access-date=29 April 2019}}
- Awarded residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2017. During this residency, Lacey developed a project titled One divides into two, which derives its title from a Maoist slogan from the 1960s. This project expanded Lacey's investigations into non-western print histories.
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Category:New Zealand women artists
Category:People from Hastings, New Zealand
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