Tanya Mars
Tanya Mars is a performance and video artist based in Toronto, Canada.
| Tanya Mars | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tanya Ann Marshall 1948 Monroe, Michigan, United States of America |
| Known for | Multidisciplinary performance, video art |
| Website | http://tanyamars.com |
Life
Mars was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1948, and has lived in Canada since 1967.[1] She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at Loyola College, Montreal (now incorporated into Concordia University).[2]
Mars currently teaches in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media in the University of Toronto Scarborough.[3]
Work
Mars was a founder and director of Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal, one of Canada's first feminist art collectives. She went on to edit Parallelogramme, an arts journal.[3]
During the 1970s and 1980s, Mars was a member and secretary of the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, a national lobby group for artist-run centres (1976-1989).[4] She is a past president and member of FADO, a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.[4]
Tyranny of Bliss took place in 2004 in Toronto which had audiences travel by car to 14 tableaux representing the seven heavenly virtues and seven deadly sins. [5]
With Johanna Householder, Mars co-edited the 2004 anthology Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women.[6]
Mars' performance work received in-depth treatment in a 2008 critical anthology edited by Paul Couillard.[7]
Videography[8][9]
- The Granny Suites, Part 1: Happy Birthday to You - 2006
- 7 Deadly Sins/ 7 Deadly Virtues - 2004
- Hot! - 1998
- Doom - 1996
- Bronco's Kiss - 1996
- Mz. Frankenstein - 1993
- End of Nature, The - 1991
- PURE HELL - 1990
- Pure Sin - 1990
- Pure Nonsense - 1987
- Pure Sin - 1986
- Pure Virtue - 1985
- 24 Postcards - 1983
- Picnic In The Drift - 1981
Awards
- Mars was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008.
- Mars was awarded "Artist of the Year," Untitled Arts Awards, Toronto in 2005. [10]
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- ↑ Mars, Tanya and Johanna Householder, eds. Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004
- ↑ Couillard, Paul, ed. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc., 2008
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