Vera Frenkel

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Vera Frenkel
Born (1938-11-10) November 10, 1938 (age 85)
Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2005)
Websitewww.verafrenkel.com

Vera Frenkel RCA FRSC (born November 10, 1938) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.[1] Her installations, videotapes, performances and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration, the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience.[2]

Vera Frenkel was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, lived in England during her childhood and resided in Canada for her adult life. Frenkel graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from McGill University in 1959, then pursued further studies in Montreal under Arthur Lismer and Albert Dumouchel.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and internationally since the early 1970s. Her work has been exhibited at

Biennale di Venezia.[4]

Major exhibitions

Frenkel's solo exhibitions include the following: Likely Stories: Text/Image/Sound Works for Video and Installation (

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presented Ways of Telling, an exhibition presenting Frenkel's work from the early 1970s to present, including her more recent works. ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) and The Blue Train (2012–2014). The exhibit was curated by the National Gallery of Canada's Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Jonathan Shaughnessy.[5]

Some examples of Frenkel's group exhibitions include the following: OKanada (

Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988 (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1989);...from the Transit Bar (Documenta IX
, Kassel, Germany, 1992); Shifting Paradigms (Bucharest, 1994); Beyond National Identities (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo, Japan, 1995); and Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012).

Work

In 1974, Frenkel worked with the Bell Canada Teleconferencing Studios to produce the work String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video, the first artwork in Canada to use telecommunications technologies. This was an early work of Internet art.

One of Frenkel's major works, ...from the Transit Bar (1992),[6] is a multi-media installation with a functioning bar and video monitors playing individuals testimonials recounting themes such as exile, translation and cultural migration.[7] It was a collaboration between the National Gallery of Canada and The Power Plant. It was initially exhibited in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, toured Europe in the 1990s and has been most recently re-exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the spring and summer of 2014.[6]

ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) is a videotape about a city cut off from its lake and uses the scaffolding as a metaphor for both aspiration and loss. In the opening lines, its voice over narrative discusses the lake and sets the stage for the piece. According to the artist's website, "This report is about a lake, and about longing. Also about greed, and about ways of bearing witness. I don't know the whole story, one never does." [2]

Awards and honours

Frenkel is recipient of the 1989

Emily Carr Institute (2004),[13] and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[14] and inducted into the Royal Society of Canada Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences in 2006.[15]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Vera Frenkel". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "VeraFrenkel.com".
  3. ^ Cwynar, Kari (12 August 2014). "Vera Frenkel". Frieze (165). Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  4. Daniel Langlois Foundation 2010 [1]
  5. ^ "Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling". Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto Canada. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b "...from the Transit Bar". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Vera Frenkel". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  8. ^ Canada, Employment and Social Development (14 March 2006). "Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Announcement of winners - Canada.ca". www.canada.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  9. ^ "1993 | Vera Frenkel - Gershon Iskowitz Foundation". Gershon Iskowitz Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  10. ^ "Frenkel nets award". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  11. ^ "International Digital Media and Arts Association - Award Winners". idmaa.org. International Digital Media and Arts Association. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Past recipients | the Canada Council for the Arts". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  13. ^ "Hon Degree Recipients". www.ecuad.ca. Emily Carr U. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  15. ^ "Faculty profiles". vaah.ampd.yorku.ca. York U Toronto. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

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