Vera Frenkel

Multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel lives and works in Toronto. Her installations, videos, websites and performance works have been seen at documenta IX (Kassel); the Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo); the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Tate Britain; the Venice Biennale, and the Freud Museum (London) among other key venues. Recent exhibitions include ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (EmMedia, Calgary); Vera Frenkel: Cartographie d’une pratique |Mapping a Practice (SBC Gallery, Montréal); Exchange and Evolution (Long Beach Museum of Art, California). In demand as a speaker and visiting artist, Frenkel’s writings have appeared in anthologies such as Penser l’indiscipline (eds. Lynn Hughes, Marie-Josée Lafortune, Concordia University/Optica, 2003) and Museums after Modernism (Eds: Griselda Pollock, Joyce Zemans, Blackwell, 2007), and in publications such as artscanada, Art Monthly, Canadian Art, FUSE, Intermédialités, n.paradoxa and Public. Recipient of honorary doctorates from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Emily Carr University, Vancouver, and of major awards including the Canada Council Molson Prize, the Gershon-Iskowitz Prize, the Bell Canada Award for Video Art, the 2006 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and the 2007 iDMAa (International Digital Media & Arts Association) Award, Vera Frenkel has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: Academies of the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, a rare honour for an artist.