Wanda Koop

Wanda Koop

Koop at the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival in 2012

Koop at the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival in 2012
Born 1951
Vancouver, British Columbia
Awards Order of Canada
2006
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
2002
Elected Royal Canadian Academy of Art
2005
Website
www.wandakoop.com/

Wanda Koop, CM is an interdisciplinary painter who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Life

Koop was born on October 5, 1951 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, to Russian-Mennonite parents who had escaped the Russian Revolution.[1] Koop graduated from the Lemoine Fitzgerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1973.[2]

In 2002 Koop was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal,[3] in 2005 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and in 2006 she was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.[4][5]

Koop and her mother were the subjects of the 2007 documentary Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes about their visit to the Ukraine, where Koop's mother was born.[6][7]

Work

While still studying at the Lemoine Fitzgerald School of Art, in 1972, Koop's work was included in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[8] Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Koop was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including the 1985 travelling exhibition Airplanes and the Wall; the 1991 travelling exhibition Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings;[9] and the 1998 exhibit See Everything, See Nothing at The New Gallery.[10] From February 18 to May 15, 2011 her solo exhibition entitled On The Edge Of Experience was shown at the National Gallery of Canada[3] in Ottawa, Ontario.

Koop's work often combines aspects of video, performance, or photography. As Robin Laurence describes in the Spring 2000 issue of Canadian Art, Koop "is interested in expanding the languages of paint and video, integrating them into the complex terms of loss and grief and reclamation." [11]

Community Activism

In addition to her art, Koop is an ardent community activist. In 1998 she founded Art City, a community art centre in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood as a way to bring together contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth.[4][12]

References

  1. ↑ "Wanda Koop". http://canadianart.ca/''. Canadian Art. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Major Exhibition of Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop opens at the National Gallery of Canada". http://www.gallery.ca/''. National Gallery of Canada. February 27, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Wanda Koop". http://ccca.concordia.ca/''. The CCCA Canadian Artist Database. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Order of Canada citation
  6. ↑ Nielsen, Valerie (April 13, 2001). "Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes". CM: Canadian Review of Materials (University of Manitoba). Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes". http://www3.nfb.ca/''. National Film Board. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.gibsongallery.com/artists/wanda-koop/bio
  9. ↑ http://www.galeriedivision.com/toronto/artist/wanda-koop/cv
  10. ↑ Jacobson, Melody, ed. (2000). Silver: 25 Years of Artist-Run Culture, 1975-2000. Calgary: Alberta: New Gallery Press. p. 113. ISBN 9781895284096.
  11. ↑ Laurence, Robin (2000). "Moving Pictures". http://canadianart.ca''. Canadian Art. p. 87. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Art City: About". http://www.artcityinc.com/p/home-page.html''. Art City. Retrieved March 8, 2015.

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