Dyan Marie www.dyanmarie.com dyan@dyanmarie.com EDUCATION Graduate of Ontario College of Art, 1974-1977 TEACHING University of Waterloo, taught digital image making, 2002. University of Guelph, taught advanced sculpture, 1988. Dundas Valley School of Art, taught second year sculpture, 1989. Lectured at Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, University of Guelph, Guelph, Artspeak,Vancouver, Ontario College of Art, Toronto and Ontario College of Art, New York campuses, New York City, and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004         Brilliantly and Everything Else, Wynick Tuck Gallery 2001         "Black Flowers", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1999         "Subjected to Change: Armatures for Standing Up", Wynick/Tuck, Toronto and Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, 99 1997         "Murmurs and Messages", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto                 "Murmurs and Messages", series of 25, photo based, digitally developed images of flowers,                  vines and plants seeded with a collection of single word poems. 1996         "Learning to Count", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 1992         "Push/Pull", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1989         "Mud and Flesh", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1988         "Gap", Or allery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1988         "Lodestone", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1986         "Tropism", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1983         "Swamp/Lust for Life", Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario 1982         "Serpentin", Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art, Toronto 1981         "Barrier", A Sculptural Situation," YYZ Gallery, Toronto Selected Art Interventions: 2004         "Look Out: Look Here: Holly Jones Memorial Project, Dupont/Bloor West Neighbourhood and Dupont Projects, Toronto 2004         Bloor/Dupont West Spring Festival, nine events including "Blind Spot" an exhibition at The Massage Gallery, Toronto 2003         "About Here", artists, architects, landscape architects and community residents develop and exhibit neighbourhood ideas,                 plans and observations, Dupont Projects, Toronto 2002         "Urban Intervention Community and Cultural Ideas Master Plan", Wallace Emerson Community Center,                 Perth Dupont Library and the Portuguese Sporting Club Selected Web-based Projects: www.iamalive.ca - A reminder that you are alive. (move your mouse over the surface of the screen to find the message) www.digin.ca - An urban intervention art project that initiates inclusive community and cultural plans and actions that will contribute to sustaining neighbourhoods that are green, clean, safe and civil by fostering improvements in the areas of their social, environment, cultural, economic and physical make up. www.walkhere.org - A community and public artwork that helps vitalize, green and connect the Dupont West neighbourhood by creating an art-embedded walking system throughout the at-risk community that pulls it together as a place and reconnects the area to the city at large. www.asphaltgardens.com - Photographic work documents accidental gardens that force their willful existence through the cracks and crevasses of decaying urban hardtop surface. www.onthecorner.biz - Imagine that you are a prostitute. www.talkhere.org - A collection of overheard local conversations that introduces a level of suspense and reflects localized thoughts of opportunity, frustration, concern or irritation. www.latesummerroadside.com - An open space to remember colour and change. www.dupontprojects.com - Project and exhibition space with a mandate to include work focused on the exploration, support and advancement of the cultural, urban space as considered through art, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, photography, community and public art. www.lookoutlookhere.info - a community-inclusive photographic project developed in response to the murder of local ten-year-old girl Holly Jones Selected Public Art Commissions: ‘Markham Centre", Short list to create a 16 acre park, 2004 "Garden of Hope", High Park, Toronto, developed as a major garden and artwork in High Park and intended as a place to establish calm, focus and help heal. The garden offers artwork walkways, fountains, and sculptures. Sponsored by Breast Cancer Foundation of Canada, Toronto. "Oshawa General Hospital", Oshawa, "Meadows" Photobased images for the Mother and Child Lobby and Ward. Completed 2001 Royal York Hotel: Digital-bases large-scale images on canvas. Completed 2001 "Parc Downsview Park", International competition for the City of Toronto, winning proposal. As part of the cultural consultant team, Marie proposed six anxiety rescue walkways. 2000 "The Dundas Square, Winning proposal. Architects decommissioned all artworks after winning, 1998 "Oshawa General Hospital", Oshawa, Ontario, 21 patients rooms, corridors and lobby, 1998 "Passageway: Lansdowne/Rideau Underpass", A series of inlaid forms have been inset into the walls and sidewalks of the underpass to offer as a process of making accidental discoveries, 1993 "Swamp:Lust for Life", CN Lands, CN, Temporary Walkway, 1983 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003         "Gelijk het leven is", S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belguim 2001         "Time 2 : Contact", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto 2000         "Physics: Ideas for Public Space", DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto 2000         "Dark Places", Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Curated by Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto 2000         "Montreal/Toronto Art", curated by PADAC, exhibited in Toronto and Montreal 2000         "ArchiTexture", Archive Inc, Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto 2000         "Time", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto 1999         "The Hand", Powerplant Gallery, Toronto Harbourfront, Toronto 1999         "Informal Ideas, 99.9", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto 1998         "The Word", Art Gallery of North York, North York 1998         "Layers", Chicago International Art fair, Chicago, USA 1997         "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque", The Museum Of Contemporary Photography,                  Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France 1997         "List at ARCO", ARCO, Madrid, Spain 1996         "The Electronic City", The Design Center, Toronto 1996         "Ten", Cold City Tenth Anniversary, Mercer Union & Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1996         "List", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto 1995         "Gallery Artist", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto 1995         "Tropism/an earthwork", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1994         "Dreaming of You", Garnet Press, Toronto 1994         "Mediatrics", CBC Building, Toronto 1993         "Cold City Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1993         "Daley, Marie, Yanover", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1993         "Art on the Edge", York Quay Gallery, Toronto 1992         "Daley, Marie, Legarra", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1992         "Parts", Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France and Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain 1992         "Beau", Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa and Canadian Cultural Center, Paris 1991         "Surrounding Identity", The Gallery, Scarborough Campus, University of Toronto 1991          "Artists' Working Research", The Print and Drawing Gallery, Toronto 1990         "Lansdowne/Rideau Public Art Exhibition", City Hall, and CHP Heritage Center, Toronto 1989         "Scaled to the Body", The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough 1989         "Body is a Loaded Word", Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto 1989         "Cold City: New Work Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1989         "Faculty & Student Exhibition", Dundas Valley Art School, Dundas 1989         "13 Works", Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1988         "Little Mysteries", Art Gallery of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta 1988         "International Gallery Invitational", New York, New York 1987         "Temporal Icons", ARC & Mercer Union, Toronto1986 "Quick Draw", Gallery 76, Toronto 1986         "Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto 1985         "18th Sao Paulo Biennial", Sao Paulo, Brazil 1984         "The New City of Sculpture", Mercer Union/YYZ, Toronto 1984         "80/1/2/3/4 Toronto", Mercer Union, Toronto, and traveled to Victoria and Vancouver 1984         "On The Wall", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto 1983         "Chromaliving", Chromazone at Harridges, Toronto 1983         "Locations National - Lust For Life/Swamp", Mercer Union, Toronto; Open Space, Victoria, Off Center Center, Calgary;                 Optica, Montreal; Eye Level Halifax 1983         "Critics' Choice", Art Rental Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1983         "Storefronting", Women's Cultural Building, Toronto 1983         "Ideas in Motion", VAV GAllery, Concordia University, Montreal, 1983         "Chromazone/New Year", Chromazone Gallery, Toronto 1982         "Monumenta", YYZ, Toronto 1982         "New Faces", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto GRANTS/AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS  2002, 2003 Ontario Art Council, Artist in the community 1988, 99 Canada Council, B Grant o 1988, 92 Canada Council, Travel Grant 1984, 85, 86, 87 Canada Council, Short Term Grant 1981, 82, 91, 94 Canada Council, Project Cost Grant 1982, 86, 88, 92 Ontario Arts Council, Project Cost 1980-84, 86, 87, 92 OAC, Material Assistance Grants PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Wynick/Tuck Gallery: Represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto since 1995 – 2004 Dupont Projects: Developed project space to explore urban issues and exhibit related projects 2002 – on-going DIG IN: Diversified Initiative Guide for Improving Neighbourhoods: An urban intervention art project to help at-risk neighbourhoods and a supporting community improvement group - Founding direction 2001 - 2004 ARTATWORK: Founder of multi-disciplinary organization of individuals, studios and companies specializing in development and support of the cultural environment. 1999 - 2002 Whirlwind Lectures: developed a lecture series bringing together corporate and cultural speakers in an attempt to support contemporary arts within a wider context. 1997- 1999 Art and Healing Program for Health Care Institutions: Art and Health Program to integrate art into the hospital environment. Lakeridge Health Corporation, Oshawa. 97 - 2000 Cold City Gallery: Founder of Cold City Gallery, developed a model for a sustainable visual art space that functioned as a commercial co-operative. Cold City operated from 1986 to 1999 supporting and exhibiting many of Canada's contemporary artists. 1986 - 1995. C Magazine: Co-founder, contributing editor and art director for C Magazine. 1984 - 89 BIBLIOGRAPHY Selected Reviews: This Magazine, Dyan Marie’s work Lies in the Junction of Art and Activism, Andre Mayer, Nov/Dec Issue 2004 Toronto Life, Neighbourhoods, Andrea Curtis, May 2004 The Globe and Mail, Dyan Marie, Gary Dault, Jan 24, 2004 The National Post, Graffiti-based activism/Brilliantly and Everything Else, Julia Dault, Jan 8, 2004 The Villager, "DIG IN Neighbourhood" June 2003 The Globe and Mail, " Images to Wander through, if only in the mind", Gillian MacKay, May 12, 2001 The Globe and Mail, "The Yearning ache of growth", Gary Michael Dault, April 14, 2001 The National Post, Getting "Back to the Garden",John Bentley Mays, April 21, 2001 The Globe and Mail, "Dyan Marie and James Lahey at Wynick/Tuck, Gary Micheal Dault, May 8, 1999 The Globe and Mail, "Calm eye in urban storm", Pamela Young, January 2, 1999 The Globe and Mail, "Colour-saturated photography exhibit says it with flowers", Gillian McKay Sept.13, 1997 Parachute Magazine, "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque", Vivicent Lavoie The Globe and Mail, "Artist achieves digital depth", John B Mays, May 29,1996 The Toronto Star, "Sweet Marie", Christopher Hume, May 9, 1996 Globe and Mail, "These Lists Can't Be Missed", John Bently Mays, Feb. 10, 1996 Globe and Mail, "Public Art", John Bently Mays, April 1, 1995 Canadian Art, "Unsuspecting urban", Sarah Milroy, Fall 1993, Volume 10, Number 3 The Toronto Star, "Brovo to city for artsy tunnel", Christopher Hume, Sept. 4, 1993 The Sun, "Open to the Public", Lisa Balford Bowen, August 15, 1993 The Globe and Mail, "Daley, Marie, Lagarra", Kate Taylor, Nov., 1992 The Globe and Mail, "Dyan Marie", Kate Taylor, Feb. 14, 1992 The Globe and Mail, "Two underpasses in Toronto win awards for good design", March 26, 1990 The Globe and Mail, "Seeking a Fresh Take on the Body", Sept. 4, 1989 The Globe and Mail, "Summer Exhibitions", John Bently Mays, July 9, 1988 The Globe and Mail, "Hot stuff at Cold City", John Bently Mays, Feb. 6, 1988 Now Magazine, "Temporal Icons", Jane Perdue, March, 1987 The Globe and Mail, "Gems amid the ruins of Queen St. scene.", John B. Mays, Mar. 14, 1987. Vanguard, "Dyan Marie", Jennifer Oille Sinclair, Feb./March, 1987 The Globe and Mail, "Tropism", John Bently Mays, October 30,1986 The Toronto Star, "Hot and Cold", Christopher Hume, Sept. 5, 1986 The Globe and Mail, "New set of rules", Robert Evertt-Green, Sept. 4,1986 Now Magazine, "Inaugural Exhibition", Jane Perdue, Aug. 21, 1986 Artnews, "Alternatives to the Alternative Gallery", Fall, 1986 C Magazine, "Free at Last, Toronto Painting & Sculpture", Donald Kuspit, Winter 1985 Vanguard, "New City of Sculpture", Goldie Rans, Nov., 1984 The Globe & Mail, "The flowering of a creative discontent", John Bentley Mays, Sat. March 17, 1984 Vanguard, "Chromazone/New Year", Jennifer Oille, May 1983 The Toronto Star, "January doldrums broken by group show", Christopher Hume, Jan. 22,1983 Catalogues and books: "Photography, A cultural History", Mary Warner Marien, 2002 "Dark Places", Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto, 2000 "Subjected To Change", Margaret Dryden, 1999 "Art with Heart", Casey House , 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque", Catherine Bedard and Martha Langfort, 1996 "Decalog, YYZ", Barbara Fisher/YYZ Gallery, 1993 "Beau" Martha Langford, 1992 "Parts", Jeffery Swartz, 1991 "Surrounding Identity", Melanie Zeldman, 1991 "Scaled to the Body", Illi-Marie Tamplin, 1989 "Lodestone", Cold City Gallery, 1988 "Temporal Icons", Jerry McGrath, 1986 "18th Sao Paulo Biennial", Richard Rhodes, 1985 "New City of Sculpture", Bruce Grenville, C Magazine, 1984 "Artists and Their Works", Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984 "Chromaliving", Chromazone, 1983 "Locations/National", Steve Pozel, Mercer Union, 1983 Published Works: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, catalogue essay, "Geoffrey James: Park and Gardens of Oshawa" 200. C Magazine, "Imagining Architecture / Mark Gomes, Karl Blossfeldt and Noel Harding" article, Issue 55, 1997. C Magazine, "Michelle Teran / Roland Pouland," review, Issue 52, 1997. C Magazine, "First Words", artist project, Winter 1994. M5V Magazine, "Push/Pull", artists project, 1991