Wanda Koop

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

Wanda Koop CM OM RCA is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a community activist, and founded Art City, a free community art centre for inner city youth in Winnipeg (1998).[1]

Life

Koop was born on November 5, 1951, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to German-speaking Mennonite parents from Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine.[2]

She graduated from the Lemoine FitzGerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1973.[3]

In 2002, Koop was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. In 2005, she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2006, she was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. In 2016, she received the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.[4][5][6][7]

Koop and her mother were the subjects of the 2007 documentary Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes, about their visit to Russia, where Koop's mother was born.[8][9]

Work

While still studying at the University of Manitoba School of Art, in 1972, Koop's work was included in an exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[10] Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Koop was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including the 1985 travelling exhibition Airplanes and the Wall; the 1991 travelling exhibition Wanda Koop: Recent Paintings;[11] and the 1998 exhibit See Everything, See Nothing at The New Gallery.[12] From February 18 to May 15, 2011, her solo exhibition entitled On the Edge of Experience was shown at the National Gallery of Canada[4] in Ottawa, Ontario.

Koop's work often combines aspects of video, performance, or photography. As Robin Laurence describes in the Spring 2000 issue of Canadian Art, Koop "is interested in expanding the languages of paint and video, integrating them into the complex terms of loss and grief and reclamation."[13]

Her Barcode Face series created a new Canadian landscape. Koop revisited the series in 2021, as it was included in the group exhibition A Thought Sublime at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City.[14] In 2022, her exhibition View From Here was one of the shows which accompanied the opening of the new Inuit art building at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[15] Also in 2022, her exhibition Wanda Koop: Lightworks was shown at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.[16] In 2024, she showed a new body of work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in her first monographic exhibition in Quebec titled Wanda Koop: Who Owns the Moon.[1]

Community activism

In addition to her art, Koop is an ardent community activist. In 1998 she founded Art City, a community art centre in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood as a way to bring together contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth.[5][17]

Selected awards and honours

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Exhibitions". www.wbam.qc.ca. MMFA. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop". canadianart.ca. Canadian Art. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Major Exhibition of Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop opens at the National Gallery of Canada". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. February 27, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop". ccca.concordia.ca. The CCCA Canadian Artist Database. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Template:OCC
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Canada Council for the Arts - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts". archive.ggavma.canadacouncil.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nielsen, Valerie (April 13, 2001). "Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes". CM: Canadian Review of Materials. University of Manitoba. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop: In Her Eyes". www3.nfb.ca. National Film Board. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop - Michael Gibson Gallery".
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Division Gallery Toronto – Wanda Koop – CV".
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jacobson, Melody, ed. (2000). Silver: 25 Years of Artist-Run Culture, 1975-2000. Calgary: Alberta: New Gallery Press. p. 113. ISBN 9781895284096.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Laurence, Robin (2000). "Moving Pictures" (PDF). canadianart.ca. Canadian Art. p. 87. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Thought Sublime". www.artforum.com. Artforum magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop: View From Here". www.wag.ca. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop: Lightworks". mcmichael.com. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Art City: About". artcityinc.com. Art City. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  18. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Queen Elizabeth Medals". www.gg.ca. Governor General of Canada. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  19. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop". ccca.concordia.ca. CCCA Art Data base. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wanda Koop". archive.gg.ca. Government of Canada. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GG Awards archives". www.youtube.com. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Wanda_Koop&oldid=1874734"