Shary Boyle

About

Shary Boyle is a Toronto-based artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture and live “projected light” performance. In 2005 she presented a celebrated art/ music collaboration with Feist at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, researched the origins of European porcelain in eastern Germany, performed “live drawing” for the Sonar Festival in Barcelona and maintained a painting studio in Tampere, Finland. Boyle’s porcelain sculptures have been recently acquired by The National Gallery of Canada, and her work is featured in the Los Angeles drawing anthology Kramer’s Ergot #6, to be published in Spring 2006.

Constantly travelling, she has set up temporary studios across North America and Europe, working and exhibiting in Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Nova Scotia, Vancouver and the Yukon. Shary Boyle has been a Resident Artist at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City Yukon, as well as Struts Artist Run Centre in Sackville, New Brunswick. Boyle also collaborates with musicians, creating "live" drawings which are animated and projected onstage alongside their performance. She has worked with Peaches at the Sonic Youth curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Los Angeles and most recently performed with Feist at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, France. Shary Boyle's work has been published in magazines and books such as The Story of Jane Doe (Random House), The Walrus, The National Post, Starship, Maclean's, Toro Magazine, Saturday Night Magazine, and J&L Books. In 2004 her work will also appear in Girls Who Bite Back (Sumach Press) and Scheherazade (Soft Skull Press).

In Spring 2008 a book on Shary Boyle’s art was published by Conundrum Press, Montreal in association with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery,with an introduction by Art Gallery of Ontario curator Ben Portis and an essay by National Gallery of Canada Curator of Contemporary Art Josée Drouin-Brisebois.