In the pile-up of language, spectacle, and garbage, which constitutes our amnesiac present, one role for art is to create a clearing within this petrified landscape, and, through a reordering all this new and obsolete stuff, through bricolage and play, construct new meanings, new conceptions of reality, shot through with historical memory.
Cross-disciplinary in scope, my artwork investigates the intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology. Many would characterize my overall material sensibilities and aesthetic as grotesque. The work addresses the need for a posthuman/nonhuman perspective, counter to the reigning tendencies toward humancentric hubris. Humour is explored through a corporeal register: humans’ underlying animality and mortality, as well as the absurdity of humanist moral positions vis-à -vis life on this planet.
Marina Roy
Associate Professor
Art History, Visual Art, and Theory
The University of British Columbia
BA, French Literature, Université Laval, 1990
BFA, Visual Art (minor Art History), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1993
MFA, Visual Art, University of British Columbia, 1999
Solo art exhibitions
2017 Dirty Clouds,Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver BC (November-December)
2016 Your Kingdom To Command, Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite Project, Vancouver BC
2015 The Floating Archipelago, Connexion ARC, Fredericton, NB
2013 Once Things Have Been Reduced To Nothing…,Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver BC
2013 Crossing Channels (video installation series): Marina Roy, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria;
2013 What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window, Window (Artspace Building), Winnipeg, MB
2011 Ce qui est jete par la fenetre revient par la porte (partie 2),La Centrale, Montreal QC
2010-11 What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window, Or Gallery Satellite, Berlin, Germany
2004 New Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancvouer, BC, September 2004
1997 26 Manic Types, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS, April-May 1997
1994 Errant,Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS, July-Aug. 1994
1993 Booked Solid,Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, June 1993
Two person exhibitions
2016 Neighbours (with Abbas Akhavan), Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2013 Shell Game(with Natasha McHardy), WAAPART, Vancouver BC
2012 Fire/Fire(with Abbas Akhavan), Centre A Gallery-Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver BC
2012 Fire/Fire(with Abbas Akhavan), Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 Neighbours(with Abbas Akhavan), AMS Gallery, UBC
2009 Menagerie(with Abbas Akhavan), AXENEO7/DAIMON, Gatineau, QC,http://www.bcscene.ca/en/events/eventDetails.asp?eID=420
2008 Neighbours(with Abbas Akhavan), VIVO Media Centre, Vancouver, BC, October– November 2008
2006 The King and I (with Phillip McCrum), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Satellite, Vancouver, BC
2004 Roy and McHardy(in collaboration with Natasha McHardy), Concordia University Gallery, Montreal, QC
2004 Roy and McHardy(in collaboration with Natasha McHardy). Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 —. Struts Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2002 Greener Pastures(in collaboration with Abbas Akhavan): Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
2001 …, Artspeak gallery, Vancouver, BC
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 A Salve of Sorts, Vacation Gallery, NYC (curated by Wil Aballe)
2108 Leaning Out of Windows, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, January-February 2018
2017 What is pressure? What is temperature?Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver
2017 Becoming animal/becoming landscape, Kamloops Art Gallery, January-March 2017
2017 Landfall and Departure: Prologue, Nanaimo Art Gallery, January-March 2017
2017 What you looking at?!,Plaza Projects, February-March 2017
2016 The Best Example Is All Together, Wil Aballe Art Projects, December 2016
2016 More Than Nothing (part 2),Burrard Art Foundation, with artists Kelly Lycan, Lucien Durey, Deboarah Edmeades, Justin Patterson, Natalie Purschwitz
2016 Kitchen Midden(curated by Anne Lowe & Gareth Moore), Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, 2016
2016 Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 Screen Play: Print and the Moving Image, Open Studio, Toronto ON
2015 Aceman Collectionexhibition, Vancouver BC
2014 Unreal,Kamloops Art Gallery, May 2014
2014 Beasts(exhibition curated by Amy Pederson), Mack Sennett Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Full Frontal, curated by Katie Schroeder, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 It’s Fine(Studio Faculty exhibition), AHVA library gallery, UBC, Vancouver BC
2011 Unreal,Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 TEXT|SOUND|TECHNOLOGY|INFORMATION, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2011 AnimaCall, Animation Project 2011, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece
2010 Home Movies: single-channel screenings (Jamelie Hassan, Paul Wong, Nikki S. Lee, and Roy & McHardy), Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2010 Cinema Verite Redux(curated by Shaheen Merali), Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru, India
2010 Cinema Verite Redux(curated by Shaheen Merali), Gallery Sumukha, Chennai, India
2010 Home Sweet Home, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2010 We Want Something From You, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB
2010 No Sex No Life, 304 Days, Vancouver, BC
2010 CUE (artists’ videos),Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 Angels in the Angles, Atsui Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 How Soon Is Now,Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 When the Mood Strikes Us, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, September-October 2008
2008 The Dead, Great Northern Way, Vancouver BC
2008 Interior of Design, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, June-July 2008
2006–8 Trappings (public art library project Group Search (Art in the Library), curated by Lorna Brown, Vancouver Public Library, Downtown Branch. September 2006-March 2008
2006 Everyday Every Other Day, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2006 The End, H Block Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Feb.-March 2006
2005 No Place as Home: New Art From Vancouver, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
2005 No Place as Home: New Art From Vancouver, Galerie AP4-ART, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London, November-December 2003
2003 Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC,
2003 Various Properties,Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vanccouver, BC
1999 Empty Returns(MFA Graduate Exhibition), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Sept. 1999
Public Art Projects
2016 Your Kingdom To Command, Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite Project, Vancouver BC
2016 Ghost Species, Dunlop Art Gallery/Regina Public Library Building, Regina, SK
Film Festivals and Film/Video Screenings
2018 “Sleeper” screened at “From the Archives! VIVO’s 45th Anniversary,” Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC, programmed by Casey Wei
2016 “The Floating Archipelago” screened atCold Cuts Video Festival held in Dawson City, Yukon
2015 “Legend” screened at Fabulous Festival of Fringe Filmin Durham ON, July 2015
2015 “Legend” screened at Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Durham ON July 2015
2014 “Errant” and “Sleeper” screened at Edinburgh Art Festival, Screening, “Vigne”, August 6, 2014 (with works by Stan Douglas, Una Knox, Aaron Carpenter, Kevin Schmidt, Allison Hrabluik, Ovide Cohen, Dan Starling)
2014 “Errant” and “Sleeper” screened at Khoj International Artists Association in New Delhi, India
2013 Mineral Intelligence (video, 10 minutes, 2011, translated/subtitled into French, 2012); Traverse Video (Videos du Canada), Toulouse, France, March 2013
2012 Apartment (2009), Lumen Festival, Staten Island, NY, June 2012
2012 Apartment (animation, 56 minutes, 2009), screened at LUMEN film festival, Staten Island, NY
2012 Mineral Intelligence (video, 10 minutes, 2011), screened at LOSING GROUND Experimental Video shorts from Canada’s West Coast, Embassy of Canada Berlin, Germany
Co-presented by Arsenal — Institute for Film and Video Art
2011 Mineral Intelligence (video, 10 minutes, 2011), screened at VIVO Media Centre’s
Signal and Noise Media Arts Festival, Jun 23, 2011
2011 Sign after the x (interactive website project), 24th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart Germany
2010 Sign after the x, File Sao Paulo: Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sign after the x, 404 Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Sign after the x, 14th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Apartment (animation, 2008), International Streaming Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Sign after the x, Chico Art Net, University of California
Apartment, Green Lantern Gallery (Corpse Performance Space), Chicago IL
Apartment, “Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland”, Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts, Sackville, NB
Sleeper (animation 2004), Entzaubert — Queer DIY film fest, Berlin
Apartment, Big Screen Project, NYC
2009 Sleeper (animation 2004), Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia, Sept. 10–13
Sleeper, Montreal Underground Film Festival, May 2009
Sleeper, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS, April 2009
Apartment (animation, 2008), in Watery Grave, Parlour, Staten Island, June 20–21
Apartment (animation, 2008), Pavilion Projects, Montréal QC
Apartment (animation, 2008), Pavilion Projects, NYC, NY
Apartment, North Island College Theatre, Comox, BC
Apartment, Comox Art Gallery, Comox, BC
Screening of Sleeper — 3rd International Festival of Erotic Animation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 Screening of Boucher and Cacciatore at the Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Screening of Alice and Martha, Gastown Drive-In (organized by Cineworks), Vancouver
Screening of Sleeper, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s Newfoundland
2007 Screening of Alice and Martha, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, NCY
Screening of Alice and Martha, Helen Pitt Gallery
Art Fair
2018 Material, Mexico City
2015 Or Gallery at NADA Miami Beach, Editions
2013 Wil Aballe Art Projects, Toronto Art Fair
Events
2013 Stone reading (video-performance lecture), VIVO Media Centre (organized by Not Sent Letters), Vancouver BC
2013 Queuejumping (video-performance lecture), Red River College (organized by Platform/Mawa), Winnipeg MB
Commissioned artwork
2014 “Emblem: Death Drive”, Risography, edition of 100, December 2014
Limited Edition Artwork commissioned by the Or Gallery for fundraising purposes
Website (interactive net.art)
2010 Sign after the X (an interactive internet site funded by SSHRC): www.signafterthex.net
-Based on a book I published in 2001, the website’s subject is the letter and symbol X, its use in the West, and how it talks about the foreign other. Formally, the website will investigate digital animation, artist maps, voice-overs, electronic music, and visual text.
Published essays about my artwork & curating (magazines, catalogues and brochures)
2018 Meredyth Cole, Profile about my work, Canadian Art
2018 Randy Lee Cutler, “Folding the Longue Durée into Deep Time: Marina Roy’s Entangled Worlds,” Black Flash Magazine, Winter 2018
2016 Vanessa Kwan, Postscript 66: My Mineral (For Derek, Deborah, Aleesa and Marina), Artspeakhttp://artspeak.ca/artspeak-wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/postscript_66_The-Accursed-Share_Proof1.pdf
2014 Randy Lee Cutler, “Lower Stratum,” Open Wide: an Abecedarium for the Great Digestive System, pp. 60–66; pp. 117–119 (e-book)
2014 Cutler, Randy Lee; Murphy, Joni; Pinheiro, Andrea, and Makiko Hara. Abbas Akhavan/Marina Roy, Vancouver, BC: Centre A & Malaspina printmakers, 56 pages,2013
2013 Brown, Lorna & Love, Karen, eds. “Marina Roy: Trappings,” Group Search & Memory Palace: Inside the Library Curatorial Initiatives, Vancouver: Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association, 2013, pp. 13; 42–25
2013 Zeigler, Barbara. “Marina Roy’s Apartment.” IMPACT 7: Intersections and Counterpoints.
2012 Ritter, Kathleen. “The Animated Wolrd of Marina Roy,” Esse (art+options),vol. 76 “The Idea of Painting”, pp. 62–65
2012 Crane, Jennifer. “Host, File, and Activate: The Past Decade of Media Arts in Vancouver,” Crossing Channels: Essays on Contemporary Media Art in British Columbia, Victoria: MediaNet, 2012, pp. 11–29
2010 Shaheen Merali, Cinema Verite Redux,Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru, India, 2010
2010 Irene Pascual, Home Sweet Home, Glogauair, Berlin, 2010
2009 Kathleen Ritter, How soon is now, exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery
2009 Julie Tremble,Marina Roy/Abbas Akhavan: Menagerie, exhibition catalogue, AXENEO7
2008 Joni Murphy, Better Homes and Gardens, Vancouver, BC: VIVO Media Centre, 2008, pp. 30.
2008 J.J. Kegan McFadden, When the Mood Strikes Us…, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2006 Lorna Brown, “Marina Roy: Trappings”, Group Search (Art in the Library), Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2006, pp. 4–5
2006 Portia Priegert, Phillip McCrum, Gary Pearson. Beauty & the Beast,Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2006, 20 pages
2006 Seamus Kealy, “The King and I,” Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2006, 12 pages.
2006 Seamus Kealy, “Everyday Every Other Day,” Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2006, 20p.
2006 Sydney Hermant, “Roy and McHardy,” in d’Or (Goin’ Solo),Vancouver: Or Gallery, 2006, pp.6–9
2004 Jeremy Todd, “Some errant thoughts” in d’Or: Explorations in Psychic Geography, Vancouver: Or Gallery, 2004, pp. 53–54
2004 Jennifer Papararo, “Marina Roy”, Contemporary Art Gallery, September 2004, 6 pages
2002 Amy Pederson, “—“, Struts Art Gallery, November 2002, 4 pages
2002 Jessie Lacayo, Collaboratory: Character, Open Space, July 2002, p. 2
1999 Amy Pederson, “Less than 20%” in Empty Returns, UBC/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1999, pp. 5–10
1996 Murray Johnston, 26 Manic Types, Halifax, NS: Eyelevel Gallery, 1996, 10 pages
1995 Max Henze, Stereotypes. Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, 1995, pp.1–12
1995 Storme Arden, “Digest,” The Food Show, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 1995. pp.9–12
1994 Pamela Pike, “Artists’ Books,” Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, 1994, pp. 3–8
1993 Barbara Lounder, Last to be Done, First to be Seen, Eye Level Gallery, 1993, 60 pages
Exhibition reviews about my artwork (in art magazines, newspapers, online)
2018 Jayne Wilkinson,A Salve of Sorts, Vacation Gallery, NYC (curated by Wil Aballe), Canadian Art, Fall2018
2018 Andrew Witt, Painting and Obstinacy, https://peripheralreview.com/2018/05/09/painting-and-obstinacy/
2018 Karen Moe, “ZONA MACO and The Material Art Fair 2018,” Whitehot Magazine,https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/maco-material-art-fair-2018/3892
2018 April Thompson, “Antimatter, Earthworms, Stardust—and Painting” Canadian Art (online), January 29, 2018, https://canadianart.ca/reviews/marina-roy/
2016 Kevin Griffin, “Tree Stumps In Public Art Work Recall Industrial Logging in Vancouver,” Vancouver Sun, July 22, 2016
2016 Paul Gessell, “Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy, Neighbours”
2016 Joni Low, “The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan,” Momus, Dec. 21, 2016:
http://momus.ca/the-material-undoings-of-kelly-lycan/#attachment_5613
2013 Robin Laurence, “Shell Game subverts the large, the public, and the heroic,” Georgia Straight, http://www.straight.com/arts/385951/shell-game-subverts-large-public-and-heroic
2013 Alex Quicho, “Natasha McHardy & Marina Roy at Wil Aballe Art Projects,” Vancouver is Awesome, http://vancouverisawesome.com/2013/05/23/the-opening-—-natasha-mchardy-marina-roy-at-wil-aballe-art-projects/shellgame-1_sm/
2012 Miguel Burr, “What Burns Never Returns: a review of Fire/Fire”, Decoy Magazine, http://decoymagazine.ca/what-burns-never-returns-firefire/
2012 Amy Fung, Fire/Fire http://postpacificpost.tumblr.com/post/24711034272/fire-fire
2011 Robin Laurence, “VAG’s Unreal taps unconscious mind”, The Georgia Straight, Feb. 1, 2011
2009 José Clear, “Menage a trois: entre l’humain, l’animal et l’art,” Revue Liaison, no. 137, pp. 40–41.
2009 Sigrid Dahle, “When the Mood Strikes Us…”, Border Crossings, #108, pp. 121–122.
2009 Sarah Milroy, ‘Pictures are out—experience is in,” Globe and Mail, February 14, 2009, R1
2009 Kathleen Ritter, “Marina Roy-Abbas Akhavan,” Esse, issue 65, p. 70
2008 Aaron Peck,http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=238
2008 Gabrielle Moser, Interior of Designhttp://gabriellemoser.blogspot.com/2008/06/interior-of-design.html
2007 Andrew Witt, “Contemporary Public Art at Vancouver Library,” White Hot Magazine, Vancouver BC http://whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_articles.cfm?id=938
2006 Milena Tomic, “Everyday Every Other Day,” BorderCrossings#100, pp. 107–108.
2006 Clint Burnham, “Who Did What? The Artist Aren’t Telling,” Vancouver Sun, September 28, 2006, C3
2006 Robin Laurence, “Bad Art Has Brains Behind it,” The Georgia Straight, September 21–28, 2006, p. 56
2004 Kathy Ann Bates, “Roy and McHardy”, http://www.sfu.ca/sca/visart/threesixtyseven/kathyann.htm
2004 Reinhardt Braun, Review of “Roy & McHardy”, Camera Austria #86, Graz, Austria, June 2004, p. 41
2002 Meg Walker, “Come Together”, in Monday Magazine,Issue 28, July 11–17, 2002, Victoria, BC, p. 15
2002 Adrian Chamberlain, “Artists tickle our British fancy”, Times Colonist, Victoria, BC, July 2002, D1
2001 Michael Turner, “Thumb sketches” , Last Call, Belkin Art Gallery, Spring 2001, p. 8
2001 Mary Frances Hill, “Artist uses a ‘novel’ canvas,” Westender, March 15–21, 2001, p. 21
1998 Robin Metcalfe, “Working Papers”, Artsatlantic 60, Spring 1998, pp. 82–83
1997 Liz Bolton, “Marina Roy: 26 Manic Types,” Visual Arts News, Volume 19, NO. 1, 1997, pp. 12–13
1994 Elissa Barnard, “Artist’s Books”,The Chronicle Herald, March 18, 1994, C1
Reviews (curatorial projects)
2016 Sophia Bartholomew,“Aleesa Cohene, Derek Dunlop and Deborah Edmeades: The accursed share (curated by Marina Roy),”Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2-May 21 2016 , C Magazine, Autumn 2016, pp. 57–58
2016 Stephanie Ling, “The Accursed Share at Artspeak,” The Daily Serving, May 10, 2016, http://www.dailyserving.com/2016/05/the-accursed-share-at-artspeak/?platform=hootsuite
2016 Lauren Lavery, “The Affect of Accursedness”, July 7, 2016, https://peripheralreview.com/2016/07/07/137/
Online interview
2012 Jessa Alston-O’Connor, “This Sorrowful World: Artist Marina Roy on Fire/Fire” http://centre-a.posterous.com/this-sorrowful-world-artist-marina-roy-on-fir
Residencies
2010 Canada Council International Residency Program (Paris)
2010 Glogauair Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
2009 Daimon/AXENEO7, Gatineau, QC
Books
2001 Sign after the x.Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak, 2001, 220 pages
2007 Helen’s Cookbook.Edited by Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan. Vancouver, BC: Helen Pitt Gallery, Summer 2007, 86 pages.
*with contributions by Akhavan, Abbas, Lance Blomgren, Bob Blumer, Margot Butler, Randy Lee Cutler, Aleksandra Idzior, Adrienne Lai, Donato Mancini, Phillip McCrum, Natasha McHardy, Kegan McFadden, Erin Moure, Kristina Podesva, Martha Rosler, Marina Roy, Carollee Schneemann, Michael Turner, Riisa Walden and William Wood.
Queue-jumping (upcoming 2019: to be published by Information Office)
This book uses “queuejumping” as a metaphor for human hubris and anthropocentrism, in terms of theories of natural and cultural evolution. It assembles writings on biopolitics, evolution, human-animal distinction, sovereignty and community, nature, the pastoral, prehistoric art, contemporary art, creative writing, quotations, statistics, linguistics and the letter Q. All subjects and headings are organized around that exotized grapheme, Q.
Chapters
2018 “Dusk’s rosy fingers locked in perpetuity,” Powerplant Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 “Beyond the Hedgerow,” Abbas Akhavan, Skira/Third Line
2015 “Response to Question 5: Marina Roy,” Investigations on Artistic Subjectivity, Stockholm: Antrepo AB
2014 “Office Takes, Auditions and Casting Couch by Elizabeth Milton”
Unsuitable as an Institution: Tenacity of Access Gallery 1992–2014
Vancouver: Access Gallery, 2014.
2007 “Adventures in Reading Landscape,” published in Vancouver Art and Economies, Vancouver: Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007, pp.69–94
2007 “Foreward”, “December Dinner Party,” and “Roy & McHardy” in Helen’s Cookbook, (Marina Roy & Abbas Akhavan, editors), Helen Pitt Gallery, pp. 4, 9, 34–37.
Short Story
“In Haguenau Forest” (short story) inthere’s something I want to show you, edited by Sigrid Dahl,
Winnipeg: Lives of Dogs publishers (12 pages) – submitted for publication
Journals
2016 “I am in animal,” esse, arts + opinions, #87, spring-summer 2016, pp. 64–69
2015 “Queuejumping” and “Quaint Cunts” in Creative Verse 2, Winnipeg MB
2010 “Holy Shit (thoughts on gold)”, Toronto: C Magazine, December 2010
2004 “Saddam’s Arms” in Public Magazine, Winter 2004, pp. 56–76
2004 “How To Do Things With Art: Performative Utterances in Photography” in Prefix Photo 9, Spring 2004, pp.33–35
2001 “Corporeal Returns,” Canadian Art Magazine, Toronto, 2001, pp. 58–65 (to my knowledge this essay has been assigned as reading for a few art and art history classes)
Art reviews for magazines
2015 “Kelly Lycan,” Canadian Art, Winter 2015, pp. 144–145
2014 “JORDY HAMILTON A BIT DAFT: SORRY BUT”
Wil Aballe Art Projects June 5 — July 12, 2014
LeftCoastArt, http://leftcoastart.ca
2014 “FAN-LING SUEN THE BROOD”, Access Gallery, March 21 — May 10, 2013, LeftCoastArt, http://leftcoastart.ca
2013 “Sean Alward, A Vertical City Goes Both Ways”, C Magazine, Spring 2013, issue 117, pp. 44–45
2013 “Lise Lemieux”, Border Crossings, Spring 2013, issue 125 (1000 words)
2012 “Nature, Knowledge, and the Knower, an exhibition curated by Mohammad Salemy”, C Magazine,Fall 2012, issue 115, pp. 45–46 (1000 words)
2012 “Nature, Knowledge, and Knower” curated by Mohammad Salemy, C MagazineFall 2012
2005 “As the Hammer Strikes”, Fillipvol.1/issue1, Summer/Fall 2005, pp. 1–2
2003 “A Thousand Miles of Dust and Ashes by Lucy Pullen,” Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2003, p. 138
2003 “Songstress by Althea Thauberger,” Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 2003, p. 100
2001 “These Days,” Last Call, vol. 1/no. 2, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2001, pp. 2–4.
Art Catalogue Essays
2014 Walls and Towers: Works by Gwenessa Lam and Matilda Aslizadeh”
Text commissioned by Skol for exhibition Edge State, Montreal, QC
http://skol.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/roy_marina_angl.pdf
2014 Heather Passmore, “Enlightenment”
Text commissioned by Malaspina Printmakers for Heather Passmore’s exhibition “Enlightenment,” November 2014
1000 words
2013 Marina Roy, “Study for a Glass House” in Abbas Akhavan:Study for a Glass House,Toronto: South Asian Visual Arts Centre, 2013, pp. 2–4
2011 “Mineral Intelligence and the morality of paint”, The Morality of Paint: Erfurt Window: an installation by Robert Tombs, Kingston, ON: Modern Fuel, pp. 3–7 & 17–21 (English w/ German translation)
2004 “Make Money to Buy Candy,” exhibition essay for Christine Donofrio, Strange Agencies, Helen
Pitt Gallery, September 2004. p. 2
2002 “I love you” in Gillian Wearing: A Trilogy(exhibition catalogue), Vancouver: Vancouver Art
Gallery, 2002, pp. 13–16
2002 “on location” in Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Presentation House Gallery, 2002, pp. 76–77
Exhibition Essays
2015 “Tombs Gothic,” in Robert Tombs: Index: Graphic Works 1985–2015, Owen Art Gallery
2012 “Très cher, très honoré et bien-aimé père: Marina Roy on Danh Vo”, Postscript 48, Vancouver: Artspeak
2012 “Office Takes, Auditions, and Casting Couch,” Elizabeth Milton: Auditions, Vancouver: Access Gallery.
2009 “White Hot.” Catalogue essay for Kelly Lycan’s exhibition “White Hot: A White Flea Market”, Gallery TPW, Toronto ON, http://www.gallerytpw.ca/publications/pdf/0905-Klycan.pdf
2009 Invisible Hands, catalogue essay for artist David Clark, 1500 words, Videographe, Montreal, QC
2007 “Why not sneeze?”, exhibition essay for Abbas Akhavan’sVacate, June 2007, p. 1
2004 “Cast downward”, exhibition essay for Jeremy Todd, Xeno Gallery, Jan. 2004, 4 pages
Book reviews about my writing
2006 Vanessa Kwan,“On the horizon (casting shadows): Vancouver art, economies and the pitfalls of success,” Fuse Magazine,29:2, pp. 45–47
2004 Marcel Danesi, “Sign after the x,” University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 73, number 1, Winter 2003/4, p. 87
2003 “Sign after the x,” Canadian Art Magazine Website, Art Books Section, 2003
2002 “Sign after the x,” listed in “Top 100 Books of the Year,” Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2002, D13
2002 Megan Purn, “Sign after the x,” The Stranger/The Portland Mercury, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 2002, p. 23
2002 Anne Borden, “Sign after the x,” The Danforth Reviewwww.danforthreview.com/review/ nonfiction/roy.htm
2002 Gale Zoe Garnett, “This book is x-rated,” The Globe and Mail,Sat. February 2, 2002, D4
2002 Anne Fleming, “Forget Wordplay: This is Letter Play: Eunoia/Sign after the x,” The Georgia Straight,Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2002, vol. 36, no.1780, p. 58
2002 Ron Nurwisah, “Sign after the x,” The Ubyssey, vol. 83, issue 27, Jan. 2002, p. 5
2001 Valerie MacEwen, “The impossibility of a cosmological proof of the existence of x,” Popmatters(website), 2001
2017 The Diviners, painting exhibition curated in collaboration with Philip McCrum, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, UBC, Vancouver (works by Sean Alward, Steven Hubert, Nick Lakowski, Athena Papadoupolos, Ryan Peter, Carolyn Stockbridge, and Tia Whitten
2016 Colonies and Broods, Video screenings of works by Abbas Akhavan, Barry Doupé, and Eleanor Morgan, Dunlop Art Gallery Mediatheque
2016 The Accursed Share(part 2), Cineworks, Video screenings of works by Aleesha Cohene, Deborah Edmeades, and Amanda Christie
2016 The Accursed Share, Artspeak gallery, Vancouver BC
With works by Aleesa Cohene, Derek Dunlop, and Deborah Edmeades
2014 Beside Yourself, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, UBC
With artworks by Elizabeth Zvonar, Elizabeth Milton, Howie Tsui, Erdem Tasdelen, Lyse Lemieux, Kristina Fiedrich, Randy Lee Cutler, Jordy Hamilton, Kelly Lycan, Sean Alward, Lorna Brown, Vanessa Kwan, Christina Dixon & Woojae Kim
2012 Never-Dying Worm, AHVA Library Gallery, group exhibition of artworks by Abbas Akhavan, Raymond Boisjoly, Barry Doupé, Derek Dunlop, Kelly Lycan, Natasha McHardy, Heather Passmore, Ryan Peter, and Fan-Ling Suen)
2008 Persistent Resistance: Feminist Video in Vancouver, VIVO Media Centre, Vancouver BC
(Screenings of Short Videos and Longer Documentaries from Women Video Artists from 1970 to 1985)
Long Video Programme: Women’s Collectives and Documentaries, VIVO Media Centre (curated with Jennifer Fisher and Elizabeth Mackenzie)
2010 VIVA Art Award