Three Artists Talk: Janice Gurney, Nestor Kruger and Yam Lau
September 18, 2012
Join us this Thursday September 20, 6-8 pm, when the McMaster Museum of Art presents a joint talk by Canadian artists Janice Gurney, Nestor Kruger and Yam Lau who all have works in the Museum’s current exhibition, Conspiracies of Illusion. The artists will be speaking about their photo and moving image-based works in the show as well as their individual artistic practices. This is a free public event.
ARTISTS’ BIOS
Janice Gurney was born in Winnipeg, and currently lives in Toronto. She received her BFA and MVS respectively at the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto, and her PhD from Western University, London, Ontario in 2012. Gurney has been exhibiting since the late 1970s, with solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States. A survey exhibition Sum over Histories, 1994, was organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery, toured to the Power Plant, Toronto; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Glenbow Museum Calgary; and the London Regional Art and Historical Museums (now Museum London). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions internationally, and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, McIntosh Gallery (Western University), University of Toronto, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Museum London, and the Canada Council Art Bank. She is represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto.
Nestor Kruger was born in Montreal, 1965. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and Sheridan College and is based in Toronto. Kruger has been exhibiting since the mid-1990s, with solo exhibitions in Toronto (including the 10th Present Tense solo installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1999), Montreal, Vancouver, Windsor, Ottawa, Texas, and Berlin, and numerous national and international groups exhibitions including Mosai Canada at the Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, 2003; Emotion Eins at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2004; the 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, 2005; and Projections at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, 2007. Kruger’s work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario and DekaBank, Frankfurt. He is an assistant professor in the School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph. He is represented by Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto
Yam Lau was born in Hong Kong. He received his MFA from the University of Alberta, and is now based in Toronto, where he is an associate professor of painting at York University. His most recent works combine video and computer-generated animation. Lau also publishes regularly on art and design, for ETC Montreal, Espace, Montreal and C International, and has exhibited his work widely in Canada, USA, Europe and China. He is a co-founder of the community based art project “Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art” in Beijing, China.
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