SHARY BOYLE
Toronto, Canada.



EDUCATION

1994. Diploma Of Fine Arts. Ontario College Of Art and Design, Canada

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

May 2009. Noise Ghost. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

March 2009. Moon Hunter. Fumetto Festival. Lucerne, Switzerland

June 2008. The Clearances. Illingworth Kerr Gallery. Calgary, Alberta

March 2008. The History of Light. Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Lethbridge, Alberta

September 2007. The Clearances. Space Gallery. London, UK

February 2007. Wonderlust. Jessica Bradley Art + Projects. Toronto, Ontario

Januray 2007. Aspects and Excess. Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Waterloo, Ontario

March 2006. Lace Figures. The Power Plant. Toronto, Ontario

November 2004. Witness My Shame. Gallery F52. Montreal, Quebec

June 2004. Companions. Or Gallery. Vancouver, British Columbia

March 2003. Travels to the Realm Between. Katharine Mulherin Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

January 2002. YYZ Artist Run Centre. Toronto, Ontario

September 2001. Lit From Within. VonRot GmbH. Berlin, Germany

Group  

June 2009. Frenz. Fleisher-Ollman Gallery. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

November 2008. Once Upon A Time. ISE Foundation. New York, New York

July 2008. An Enchanted Domain. National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario

May 2008. Pandora’s Box. Dunlop Public Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan

September 2007. The Sobey Art Award. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia

June 2006. Darkness Ascends. Museum of Canadian Contemprary Art. Toronto, Ontario

February 2006. Drawing Restraint. SAW Gallery. Ottawa, Ontario

January 2006. Alternative Girlhood: Diaristic Indulgence and Contemporary Female Artists.
State University of New York Gallery. Brockport, New York

May 2004. Important Canadian Art. ZieherSmith Gallery. New York, New York

March 2004. Republic of Love. The Power Plant. Toronto, Ontario

February 2003. Super Modern World of Beauty. Walter Phillips Gallery. Banff, Alberta

November 2002. Shary Boyle, Gayle Gorman, Suzanne Proulx.
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York

March 2000. Taboos, Titillation’s & Thrills. MSVU Art Gallery. Halifax, Nova Scotia

January 2000. Low-Tech Time Capsules: Book Art for the Millennium.
Sea-Tac Airport Gallery. Seattle, Washington

 

DRAWING PERFORMANCES

December 2008. Dark Hand and Lamplight. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Brooklyn, New York

May 2008. Dark Hand and Lamplight. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, California

May 2008. Dark Hand and Lamplight. Cinefamily Silent Theatre. Los Angeles, California

March 2008. Shadow Songs. SXSW Festival. Austin, Texas

October 2007. Magic Shadows, with musician Christine Fellows. Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Lethbridge, Alberta

October 2006. Dark Hand and Lamplight, with musician Doug Paisley. 10-date tour across California,
by invitation of American musician Will Oldham.

July 2006. Shadow Songs. Live drawing projections in collaboration with Winnipeg musician
Christine Fellows. 10-date tour across Canada.

April 2006. Massive Party. Commissioned feature performance for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s
annual fundraiser. Toronto, Ontario

March 2006. A Night with Kramers Ergot. Live drawing performance in costume with installation.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

November 2005. Songs of Childhood. The Khyber Art Centre. Halifax, Nova Scotia

November 2005. Live drawing projections for Swedish musician Jens Lekman.
The Music Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

June 2005. Live drawing projections for the Fonal Musician Showcase. Sonar Festival, Barcelona,
Spain

February 2005. Live drawing projections, with musician Feist. The Olympia Theatre.
Paris, France

December 2004. 6-date tour across the eastern United States, collaborating with Finnish musician Es,
Black Forest/Black Sea and Fursaxa. Live drawing projections with installations.
             
October 2004. Wood Witch Rising and Channeling Grimm. Live drawing projections.
Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario

October 2004. Live drawing/ animated projections, collaboration with musician Feist.
La Cigale. Theatre. Paris, France

March 2004. Les Festins D’Aden. Live drawing projections, with musician Feist.
Bataclan Theatre. Paris, France

October 2002. In the Beginning. Live animated projections on drawing mural, with audio.
Struts Artist Run Centre. Sackville, New Brunswick

October 2002. Honkitonkioke. Live drawing projections and singing to old-country karioke.
Uno-a-Go-Go Festival of One-Man Bands. The Hideout, Chicago, Illinois

August 2002. The Tale of the Cats. Live animated projections to narrated Italian folk tale.
The Palace Theatre. Los Angeles, California

March 2002. All Tomorrow’s Parties. Live drawing/ animated projections, with musician Peaches.
UCLA. Los Angeles, California

 

ARTICLES

Bryne Mclaughlin. “Shary Boyle: Bat Drama sans Dracula”. Canadian Art Online. March 12, 2009

Sarah Milroy. “New stories for a new age”. The Globe And Mail. November 8, 2008

Robert Enright. “Uneasy Painting”. Border Crossings. September 2007.

William Ganis. “Shary Boyle, Aspects & Excess”. Border Crossings. June 2007

Peter Goddard. “10 To Watch: 2007”. Toronto Star, December 30, 2006

Lorissa Sengara. “Porcelain Dreams and Nightmares”. Canadian Art, Fall 2006

Sandra Firmin. “Shary Boyle, Toronto”. Art Papers, Atlanta, GA. July/August 2006

Cheryl Binning. “Interactive live art accompanies music”. Winnipeg Fress Press, June 8, 2006

David Jager. “Porcelain Pain”. NOW Magazine, April 13-19, 2006

Peter Goddard. “Small is big at surprising show”. Toronto Star, April 13, 2006

Sarah Milroy. “Feminie Grotesque”. The Globe And Mail, April 7, 2006

Laura deCarufel. “Flesh and Lace”. The Look Magazine, Winter 2005

Isa Tousignant. “1,000 Words”. Hour Magazine (Montreal), November 11, 2004

Carl Wilson. “A harmonious duet for both eye and ear”. The Globe and Mail, June 14, 2004

John Bentley Mays. “The Extraordinary, Fantastical, Uncool World of Shary Boyle” Lola Magazine
(Toronto), Summer 2003

 

PUBLICATIONS

Kramers Ergot 7. Buenaventura Press. Los Angeles, US. November 2008

Carte Blanche V.2 Painting. Magenta Foundation. Toronto, Ontario. November 2008

The Believer. McSweeney’s Publishing. San Francisco, US. May 2008

Otherworld Uprising. Conundrum Press. Montreal, Quebec. March 2008

Zoetrope *all-story*. Francis Ford Coppola, AZX Publications. San Francisco, US. Spring 2007

Objects. Die Gestalten. Berlin, Germany. Spring 2007

Kramers Ergot 6. Buenaventura Press. Los Angeles, US. March 2006

Witness My Shame. Conundrum Press. Montreal, Quebec. October 2004

Scheherazade. SoftSkull Press. Brooklyn, US. Fall 2004

Important Canadian Art. ZieherSmith Publications. New York, New York. May 2004

Girls Who Bite Back. Sumach Press. Toronto, Ontario. April 2004

The Story of Jane Doe. Random House of Canada. Toronto, Ontario. Spring 2003

Shary Boyle, Gayle Gorman, Suzanne Proulx. Hallwalls Publications. Buffalo, New York. November 2002

 

COLLECTIONS

Paisley Museum of Art, Scotland

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

The Rooms, St.Johns Newfoundland

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia