More about Shary Boyle
SHARY BOYLE
EDUCATION
1994, Diploma Of Fine Arts, Ontario College Of Art and Design, Canada,
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood,Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galerie de L'UQAM, Montreal (2011); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2011)
2009 Moon Hunter. Fumetto Festival. Lucerne, Switzerland
Noise Ghost. Justina M. Barnicke. Toronto
The Cave, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
2008 The Clearances, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
The History of Light, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2007 The Clearances, Space Gallery, London
Wonderlust, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Aspects and Excess, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2006 Lace Figures, The Power Plant, Toronto Ontario
2004 Witness My Shame, Gallery F52 Montreal
Companions, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2003 Travels to the Realm Between, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
2002 YYZ Artist Run Centre, Toronto
2001 The Omitted Tales, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
Lit From Within, VonRot GmbH, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Breaking Boundaries, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
2009 Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
“Le sort probable de l’homme qui avait avalé le fantôme,” Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Ghost Noise (Shary Boyle and Shuvinai Ashoona), Justina Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
2008 Once Upon A Time, ISE Foundation, New York
An Enchanted Domain, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Pandora’s Box, Dunlop Public Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
2007 The Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2006 Darkness Ascends, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto
Drawing Restraint, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Alternative Girlhood: Diaristic Indulgence and Contemporary Female Artists, State University of New York Gallery, Brockport, New York
2004 Important Canadian Art, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York
Republic of Love, The Power Plant, Toronto
2003 Super Modern World of Beauty, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
2002 Shary Boyle, Gayle Gorman, Suzanne Proulx, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2000 Taboos, Titillation’s & Thrills, Mount St. Vincent University Fine Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Low-Tech Time Capsules: Book Art for the Millennium, Sea-Tac Airport Gallery, Seattle, Washington
DRAWING PERFORMANCES
2008 Dark Hand and Lamplight, Next Wave Festival ’08, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
Dark Hand and Lamplight, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Dark Hand and Lamplight, Cinefamily Silent Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Shadow Songs, South by Soutwest Festival, Austin, Texas
2007 Magic Shadows, with musician Christine Fellows. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
2006 Dark Hand and Lamplight, with musician Doug Paisley, 10-date tour across California by invitation of American musician Will Oldham.
Shadow Songs, Live drawing projections in collaboration with Winnipeg musician Christine Fellows; 10-date tour across Canada.
Massive Party, Commissioned feature performance for the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
A Night with Kramers Ergot, Live drawing performance in costume with installation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2005 Songs of Childhood, The Khyber Art Centre, Halifax
Live drawing projections for Swedish musician Jens Lekman. The Music Gallery, Toronto
Live drawing projections for the Fonal Musician Showcase. Sonar Festival, Barcelona
Live drawing projections, with musician Feist, The Olympia Theatre, Paris
2004 6-date tour across the eastern United States, collaborating with Finnish musician Es. Black Forest/Black Sea and Fursaxa, Live drawing projections with installation.
Wood Witch Rising and Channeling Grimm, Live drawing projections. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Live drawing/ animated projections, collaboration with musician Feist. La Cigale Theatre, Paris
Les Festins D’Aden, Live drawing projections, with musician Feist. Bataclan Theatre, Paris
2002 In the Beginning, Live animated projections on drawing mural, with audio. Struts Artist Run Centre, Sackville, New Brunswick
Honkitonkioke, Live drawing projections and singing to old-country karaoke.
Uno-a-Go-Go, Festival of One-Man Bands, The Hideout, Chicago, Illinois
The Tale of the Cats, Live animated projections to narrated Italian folk tale. The Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, California
All Tomorrow’s Parties, Live drawing/ animated projections, with musician Peaches. UCLA, Los Angeles, California
ARTICLES
2008 Sarah Milroy, “New stories for a new age”, The Globe And Mail, November 8
2007 Robert Enright, “Uneasy Painting”, Border Crossings. September.
William Ganis, “Shary Boyle, Aspects & Excess”, Border Crossings. June.
2006 Peter Goddard, “10 To Watch: 2007”, Toronto Star, December 30.
Lorissa Sengara, “Porcelain Dreams and Nightmares”, Canadian Art, Fall.
Sandra Firmin, “Shary Boyle, Toronto”, Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, July/August.
Cheryl Binning, “Interactive live art accompanies music”, Winnipeg Fress Press, June 8.
David Jager, “Porcelain Pain”, NOW Magazine, April 13-19.
Peter Goddard, “Small is big at surprising show”, Toronto Star, April 13.
Sarah Milroy, “Feminie Grotesque”, The Globe And Mail, April 7,
2005 Laura deCarufel, “Flesh and Lace”, The Look Magazine, Winter.
2004 Isa Tousignant, “1,000 Words”, Hour Magazine (Montreal), November 11.
Carl Wilson, “A harmonious duet for both eye and ear”, The Globe and Mail, June 14,
2003 John Bentley Mays, “The Extraordinary, Fantastical, Uncool World of Shary Boyle” Lola Magazine (Toronto), Summer.
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Kramers Ergot 7, Buenaventura Press, Los Angeles.
Carte Blanche V, 2 Painting, Magenta Foundation, Toronto.
The Believer, McSweeney’s Publishing, San Francisco. May.
Otherworld Uprising, Conundrum Press, Montreal.
2007 Zoetrope *all-story*, Francis Ford Coppola, AZX Publications, San Francisco.
Objects, Die Gestalten, Berlin, Germany, Spring.
2006 Kramers Ergot 6, Buenaventura Press, Los Angeles.
2004 Witness My Shame, Conundrum Press, Montreal.
Scheherazade, SoftSkull Press, Brooklyn.
Important Canadian Art, ZieherSmith Publications, New York.
Girls Who Bite Back, Sumach Press, Toronto.
2003 Shary Boyle, Gayle Gorman, Suzanne Proulx, Hallwalls Publications, Buffalo, New York. 2002 The Story of Jane Doe, Random House of Canada, Toronto.
COLLECTIONS
Paisley Museum of Art, Scotland
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
The Rooms, St,Johns Newfoundland
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia
The Gardiner Museum, Toronto
AWARDS
2010 Hnatyshyn Foundation Award
2009 The Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)
2007 Canada Council International Studios
2004 Chalmers Foundation Award
2003 Ontario Arts Council
2001 Canada Council for the Arts
2000 K,M, Hunter Artist Award