Shary Boyle

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Shary Boyle
Birth name Shary Boyle
Born (1972-05-26) May 26, 1972
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Field Sculpture, Painting, Performance art
Training Ontario College of Art and Design
Awards Hnatyshyn Foundation Award (2010), Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2009)[1]

Shary Boyle (born c. 1972) is a Canadian artist who works with sculpture, painting, drawing and performance. She lives in Toronto, and is currently represented by Jessica Bradley Art+Projects.[2]

Early life and education

Boyle was born in Scarborough, Ontario, the youngest of five children. Her father worked repairing screen and glass doors. She attended high school at Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts, then went on to post-secondary studies at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1994.[3]

Art career

In 2010, Boyle's solo exhibition Flesh and Blood opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibition was a joint venture between the AGO, Galerie de l’UQAM and the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery. It was curated by Louise Déry.[3][4]

She is the winner of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize.[5] In 2010, she won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.[6]

Boyle also collaborates with musicians, creating "live" drawings, which are animated and projected onstage during their performances. She's worked with the musicians Feist, Peaches, Christine Fellows and Doug Paisley.[7]

Boyle represented Canada at the 2013 Venice Biennale.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.canadianart.ca/artist/shary-boyle/#sthash.4b4bd1wD.dpuf
  2. ↑ Jessica Bradley Inc. "Shary Boyle artist page". Retrieved 3 April 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mark Medley, "Why art star Shary Boyle stays put". National Post, September 11, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Murray Whyte. "Shary Boyle at the AGO: Outsider gets in". Toronto Star, September 11, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Toronto artist Shary Boyle wins $25,000 prize", Canadian Press, October 27, 2009. Reprinted in CTV News. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Toronto's Shary Boyle wins Hnatyshyn award". CBC News, December 2, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Artist Shary Boyle gets 3-city show". CBC News, July 28, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Almost Famous: Shary Boyle steps onto the world stage at the Venice Biennale". The Walrus, July/August 2013.

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