Kelly Lycan is an installation and photo-based visual artist who lives and works in
Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Life
Lycan studied Photography at
Ryerson University in
Toronto,
Ontario (then Ryerson Polytechnical University), completed her BFA at the
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in
Halifax in 1995, and completed her MFA at the
University of Santa Barbara
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in
California in 1998. As a solo artist she has exhibited at galleries across
Canada and the
United States including
Presentation House Gallery, Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, and
Mercer Union. As a member of the service based artist collective
Instant Coffee, she has exhibited at The America's Society;
Vancouver Art Gallery; Incheon Art Platform, South Korea;
Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; and the
Art Gallery of Ontario.
Artistic practice
Lycan's installation and photo-based practice explores the ways in which images and objects exist in the world, and "the way objects are valued, devalued, and revalued, dependent upon their place of display", Interested in the discrepancies between experience and reproduction, Lycan often re-purposes and re-contextualizes ordinary things, referencing the collections and methods of display found in museums, gift shops, and department stores. For example, for her 2014 exhibition ''Underglow'' at Presentation House Gallery, Lycan recreated the interior of the New York
avant-garde art gallery
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based on photographs taken by founder
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...
in 1906. Her dual employment of photography and sculpture suggests a fluid relationship between the specifics of each medium. Her work has been described as "funny, critical, and ironic all at once."
Selected exhibitions
* ''White Hot'', Gallery TPW, 2009
* ''Bronze Tinfoil Ball,'' OR Gallery, 2011
* ''Autobiography for No One,'' Simon Fraser University Gallery, 2014
* ''Underglow'', Presentation House Gallery, 2014
* ''Ideas and Things'', Kamloops Art Gallery, 2015
* ''Superimposition: Sculpture and Image,'' Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, 2016
* ''More Than Nothing'', Burrard Art Foundation, 2016
Awards
In 2016, Lycan won the
VIVA Award
The VIVA Awards are $15,000 prizes, granted annually to British Columbian mid-career artists chosen for "outstanding achievement and commitment" by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. The awards are presented by the Shadbolt Foundation in co ...
from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, an award given to mid-career BC artists. She was also the recipient of the City of Vancouver Live-Work Studio from 2012 to 2015, a competitive award that offers highly regarded Vancouver-based artists low-cost live-work studios for a period of three years in support of their artistic practice.
References
External links
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Living people
Canadian installation artists
Canadian women artists
Year of birth missing (living people)