Tanya Mars
Tanya Mars is a performance and video artist based in Toronto, Canada.
life
Mars was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1948, and has lived in Canada since 1967. She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at Loyola College, Montreal (now incorporated into Concordia University).
Work
Mars was a founder and director of Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal, one of Canada's first feminist art collectives. She went on to edit Parallelogramme, a significant arts journal.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Mars was a member and secretary of the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, a national lobby group for artist-run centres (1976-1989).[1] She is a past president and member of FADO, a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.[1]
With Johanna Householder, Mars co-edited the 2004 anthology Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women.[2]
Mars' performance work received in-depth treatment in a 2008 critical anthology edited by Paul Couillard.[3]
Awards
Mars was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008.
References
- 1 2 Mars, Tanya; Householder, Johanna, eds. (2004). Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women. Toronto, ON, Canada: YYZ Books. p. 427. ISBN 0-920397-84-0.
- ↑ Mars, Tanya and Johanna Householder, eds. Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004
- ↑ Couillard, Paul, ed. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc., 2008
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