Marian Penner Bancroft

Marian Penner Bancroft (born 1947) is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an Associate Professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Life and work

Marian Penner Bancroft was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and currently lives and works in Vancouver.^[1] She studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (Now Ryerson University) in Toronto. National and international exhibitions include those at the Vancouver Art Gallery and at the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. She is represented in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (at the National Gallery of Canada) in Ottawa and the Canada Council Art Bank. In addition to photography, her work has included text, sound, drawing, sculpture and more recently, video. Her current interests are the intersections of the photographic image with history, music and mapping strategies in relation to representations of landscape. Bancroft is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.^[2] She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.

Selected Collections

• The National Gallery of Canada
• Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

Selected Awards

• Mayor's Arts Award (Visual Arts), Vancouver, 2009
• Canada Council Paris Studio Residency Award 2005
• Canada Council Grant to Established Artists 2001, 1996

Selected bibliography

• Laurence, Robin. “Excavating the city’s roots.” Georgia Straight. January 2008.
• Bancroft, Marian Penner, Ed. “UBC in the Sixties: A conversation with Audrey Capel Doray, Gathie Falk, Donald Gustein, Karen Jamieson, Glenn Lewis, Jamie Reid, and Abraham Rogatnick.” Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. 2009.

References

External links

• CCCA Artist Profile for Marian Penner Bancroft
• Vancouver Art in the Sixties: Marian Penner Bancroft interviews Audrey Capel Doray, Gathie Falk, Donald Gutstein, Karen Jamieson, Glenn Lewis, and Abraham Rogatnick