Shary Boyle
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Shary Boyle is a Canadian artist who works with sculpture, painting, drawing and performance. She lives in Toronto
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, 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.
. 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.
She is the winner of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. In 2010, she won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.
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
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Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
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Early life and education
Boyle was born in Scarborough, OntarioScarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...
, 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.
Art career
In 2010, her solo exhibition Flesh and Blood opened at the Art Gallery of OntarioArt Gallery of Ontario
Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...
. 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.
She is the winner of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. In 2010, she won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award.
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
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
, Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-History:Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.In 1993, she formed her first group,...
and Doug Paisley
Doug Paisley
Doug Paisley is a Canadian alternative country artist with record label No Quarter Records. He was born in Toronto. Paisley's "What About Us?" was featured in Mojo magazine as part of a complimentary CD entitled New Harvest. Paisley has previously toured with Bonnie Prince Billy under the name Dark...
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