Joyce Wieland

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Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1931 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental film maker and mixed media artist. Born in Toronto in 1931, she first studied art at Toronto's Central Tech School.

After a trip to Europe, which inspired her, she began a job as a film animator and through this met her husband, fellow Canadian artist Michael Snow. She had her first solo show at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1960, which at the time meant she was also the only female artist represented by Canadian contemporary commercial gallery.

In 1963 Wieland and Snow moved to New York but the experience proved to be mixed. She attracted critical recognition of her work but she was also once assaulted and nearly rapped by a mugger. This experience understandably soured her and Snow to the New York art scene and they soon returned to Toronto.

Wieland later divorced Snow and kept a low profile until her death in 1998 from Alzheimer's disease. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.

[edit] Films by Joyce Wieland

Water Sark (1965)
Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)
Dripping Water (1969), (together with Michael Snow)
Cat Food , 1969
Reason Over Passion, 1969, French: «la raison avant la passion», a meditation on the Canada of Pierre Trudeau
Solidarity, 1973
The far shore, 1976
A and B in Ontario, 1984, (together with Hollis Frampton)
Birds at Sunrise, 1986