Deirdre Logue (born 1964) is a Canadian video artist and arts administrator, based in

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Career

Deirdre Logue studied at the

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(BFA) and

Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in As ...

(MFA). She has been creating film and video work since the 1990s. Her work has been exhibited at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Open Space (Victoria), Neutral Ground (Regina), Oakville Galleries, Beyond/In Western New York 2007 ( Buffalo), the

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and ExiS Film Festival (Seoul). With

Allyson Mitchell Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist, working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Her practice melds feminism and pop culture to trouble contemporary representations of women, sexuality and the body largely through t ...

, Logue is a founding member of the

Feminist Art Gallery Feminist Art Gallery (or FAG) is an art gallery and collective based in Toronto, Ontario, described as a “geographical footprint” co-founded by artists Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue in 2010. History Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue foun ...

, artists in residence at the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; french: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Beve ...

in 2015. An exhibition of Logue and Mitchell's recent work, ''I’m Not Myself At All: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell'' was held at the

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in 2015. Logue was the focus of the 2017 Canadian Artist Spotlight at the

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in Toronto. A retrospective exhibition of her work was organized in 2017 by

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, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Images Festival, Oakville Galleries and Open Space Arts Society. Logue has worked for many years with artist-run organizations in Canada. She was a founding member of the Media City Film Festival (

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) and the Media Arts Network of Ontario. She has served as Executive Director of the Images Festival and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Development Director at

Vtape Vtape is a Canadian artist-run centre located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's largest distributor of video art, and the world's largest distributor of Indigenous and First People's film and video. The organization is run as a not for profit a ...

. Logue has also served on the boards of Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (

CARFAC Canadian Artists' Representation/ (CARFAC) is a non-profit corporation that serves as the national voice of Canada's professional visual artists. The mandate of CARFAC is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate ...

) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.

Works

Logue's work takes the form of single- or multiple-channel video installations, usually featuring the artist as performer. ''Enlightened Nonsense'' (1997-2000) incorporates a number of shorter works looped on multiple channels. Other recent work includes ''Per Se'' (2005), ''Hobbs Obliques'' (2012), ''Crying with Colours'' (2012) and ''Set Upset'' (2017). Her work is distributed by V tape in Toronto.

References

External links

Artist's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Logue, Deirdre 1964 births Living people 20th-century Canadian women artists Artists from Toronto Canadian contemporary artists Canadian multimedia artists Kent State University alumni NSCAD University alumni